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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY OtfE PAID IN ADVANCE. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY- ‘ ' • WE GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY V •f Every Advertiaer Who — Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper V All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Beet Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. — GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1905. 91.00 A YEAR. THE MASTERS WORK IN HEATHERN CHINA. MANY BELIEVING AND ING BAPTISM. ACCEPT Rev. Crocekr Writes and Hopefully of His Among the Heathen. Chinkiang. China, Sept Interestingly Good Work I • H, promised you The Ledger. .ter about our work here. Perhaps now is a good time to give you a line or two as I have several things to speak of. First I will tell you that I had the privilige of baptizing twelve last Sunday morning in the baptistry in the chapel. Four of them were women, eight of them men. One wo man was about fifty years old, and another was sixty-two. We have now four stations in the country, viz: Gu Yung, Chao Gia Wa, Dung Chang Gia and Shih San Ton, the first be- j ing a city with a wall, and the othei I places in the country. At each of! these places we have Christians, and ! are having at two of them regular services, and at the other two occa-J sional services. The city is about! thirty mi!'s»a vay. and the other pla-] ces between ufteen and thirty each. lings of heathen prayers. She would not eat meat, and was trying to ac cumulate merit. She ruled her daugh- ters-in-law with a high hand, and was given to furious bursts of passion. She learned of Jesus “the only way,’’ and now she is a changed woman, and a look of her face shows the peace she has in her heart. Her son said she was very greatly improved in the matter of the bursts of passion. Does it pay? I could mention doz ens of cases, where the life has shown forth the change. But those things mentioned are manly in this world. What will it be when these who are being saved shall gather above, and shall strike hands in the joy of heaven and in the presence of Him who is and was and is to be. Does it pay? If these individual cases could be multiplied indefinitely, then there would be “peace on earth good will to men.” W. E. Crocker. THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF EVENTS INTEREST OF PASSING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. C010NEI STRAIN ON HIS IRAVELS a good at Ab- HE WRITES OF WHAT HE SEES AND HEARS. the school house last night to audience. He also preached ! ingdon Creek yesterday. I Mr. Clough Reynolds is lying very low with fever. He has been in bed ! about three weeks. With good weather and health i this and next week farmers will have the principal part of their cotton gathered out of the field. J. L. S. . THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN BLACKSBURG BREVITIES. Iron <..1 We rent a chap* (city) sUtion, an school there vith boys, taught by a At one have a at 1 the Gu Yung have a hoy s about eighteen Christian tt icher. of the count^ \ stations we little chapel, where regular services are held, and where the^j have a small day school. The work has grown rapidly out in that sec tion, and now we have about *hirty ! Christians in all belonging out therw. There are ni my enquirers, and some new sections are opening up in that region. Five years ago when I went out that way, at one place 1 was al most mobbed and had a narrow es cape. There was not a single Chris tian in the whole region that I knew about, though later 1 found two men who had once been Presbyterians, in a village not far from Chinkiang, on the roadto Gu Yung (Dung Chang Gia). Gradually, by the blessing of God, the work has grown, till now we have from that region a young man who is studying for the ministry, a young man who is one of the most intelligent and hopeful young men I have seen in China. I have had him acting as pastor of the Chinkiang church during his summer vmeption under my supervision, and he has done splendid work. There are two more young men from there who are studying for the work of evangelists, and they are young men of some considerable promise. The wife of one of them is also studying with her husband. We have had rather a re markable family conversion out there, and the old lady I baptized last Sunday is the old mother. She has been a devotee for thirty years, but now she has given up her idols, and has given her heart to Jesus, and it was with joy that I received her into the baptismal water last Sunday, and she seems so happy. 1 feel that it is worth all the cost of coming to China to see one such saved. She came thirty miles, over a rough road, and spent a week study ing the Bible, and she came on pur pose to bo baptized. Another wo man. who is not very strong, a wid ow, about fifty, came riding on a don key, about fifteen miles. One of the members brought in his wife, about twenty-five miles. This man’s broth er was also baptized. There were two from Chinkiang among those bap tized. one being employed in a busi ness house on the street, and anoth er is a barber. Five years ago there were about thirty odd memebrs of this church. Now we have about ninety, or nearly that number. It has been my privilige to baptize over six ty Chinese since I came to Chinkiang. I believe God has blessed us here, and we are looking forward to better things In the future. Our constant effort is to keep the church to a high standard, for a pure church is worth far more than a clnirch with large numbers. Sometimes we are deceiv ed in those whoift we receive, but it is not always so. Now I want to say a word as to the question about whether missions pay. There is one member here who has a store down on the street. His name is Wu. Mr. Wu was an opium smoker, and was guilty of doing many other bad things. He became a Chris tian, and now he lives a good moral life, closes his shop on Sunday, at tends church regularly, and last Sun day his ife was baptized. Does It pay? A. young man who was of good family, iving in Gu Yung, whose father was a scholar, and who him self was a graduate, and a man of brilliant mind, was running with the “young bloods,” beginning to take opium, and doing many kinds of evil. He heard the gospel of Jesus, and got a Bible, and his life was changed. Personals and Locals from the City Across the Broad. Blacksburg. Oct. 10.—Mr. Arthur Whitesides, of Smyrna, was in town Friday. Mr. Edward Blalock and Mr. Hill, of Spartanburg, spent Sunday in town. Mr. J. B. Shiver, of Rock Hill, has accepted a position as 'machinest in the Whittaker cotton mill and will make this his future home. Mrs. Idella Bridges and her fathei, .Mr. Rippy, spent Sunday at Paran. Mrs. J. B. Shiver and Mrs. C. A. Stewart spent Friday in Rock Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hord. of Gaff ney, spent a few days in town last week with Mrs. J. B. Blalock. Miss Catheleen McBrayer, a mem ber of the faculty of the Blacksburg high school, spent a few days last week in Shelby with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Pollock, of York- ville, spent Sunday in town with Mr. Pollock’s parents. Mr. Paul Turnage and bis sister, Miss Pearle, of Piedmont Spring* were in town Saturday. Mrs. D. Albert, of Rock Hill, spent one day last week in town with her father. Mr. M. F. Duncan. Mrs. Martha Moore is visiting Mrs. Albert in Rock Hill. Dr. Tom Whitesides spent Friday in Hickory Grove on business. Mr. and Mrs. Ligon returned home Friday after spending a few days in Yorkville with Mr. Ligon’s parents. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. In a row Friday afternoon near the forest beyond Buffalo, in Union coun ty, Dave Smith instantly killed Ben Burrell by striking him across the back of the neck with a stick. Both are negroes about 18 years old. The gavel which was used in the historic Wallace House in the days of ’7G was presented Wednesday to the Tirarod Library in Columbia. The speech of presentation was made by Gen. Leroy F. Youmans. The gavel was given by Capt. W. A. Courtenay. The coroner’s jury in the McDowell murder case in Camden, rendered a verdict that the death was caused by an unknown party. The sheriff is working on a clue which may lead to a solution of the mystery, but be does not say what it is. McDowll was a witness in the Gillis murder case but was killed on the evening of the trial in which Gillis was acquitted. George W. Murray, colored, a for mer member of Congress, was Wed nesday sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary for forgery. Murray, who is reported to be quite wealthy, was charged with forging the name of an old negro on certain notes for land. At the time of his arrest Murry was released on $”,000 bond, which it is thought will he for feited. A Visit to the King’s Creek Section— Real Estate Deals in Blacksburg— Other Interesting Items. Wilkinsville, Oct. 14.—In traveling Why Vote Out Dispensary? The following is the appeal which was issued by a committee in Darling ton county several weeks before the .election on the dispensary: “Why vote out the dispensary? 1. Because the sale and use of whiskey provokes crime. It has been observ ed that those towns and communities most adjacent to dispensaries are th£ greatest sufferers from the commis sion of crime within their border. It is estimated that three-fourths of the crime with which the courts have to deal is the result of whiskey. After the dispensary had been voted out or Cherokee county for only six months, the clerk of court said that cases at tributed to drink had decreAsed sev enty-five per cent. The expenses of our courts, which falls on tax pay ers, is largely due to the liquor traffic. Labor Is demoralized, and its produc tive power decreased as a result of drink. 2. Voting out the dispensary will add to the material prosperity of the country. As well expect to grow ricli by burning ten dollor bills in the fire as to advance the material pros perity of a community by spending money for whiskey. Where prohi biting laws exist, is found the great est prosperity. The money that is now spent at the dispensary will be saved or spent for useful products, and will thus stimulate the legitimate lines of industries and increase tax able values. What more prosperous town than Greenwood? and Green wood has never permitted a dispen sary to be established. Some imagine that a great profit comes from the dispensary for the education of the youth of the land. As a fact the children of Darlington received less than sixty cents per capita last year: not enough to keep them in a pay school for ten days. Who would not be willing to forget this advantage to remove this curse from among us? And even if there should be a small increase in taxation, the tax payers will be better able to meet this in crease as the money now spent for whiskey will then go into the legiti mate lines of business. 3. We believe that without the dispensary the blind tigers will be more easily controlled. They now thrive under the shadow of the State institution and it is generally be lieved that many draw their supplies from it. 4. In view of the scandals grow ing out of the recent investigations of the dispensary, we deem its removal absolutely necessary to restore the fruit and preserve the integrity of our : State government. 5. In removing the dispensary the weak, the poor, and the illiterate, will In the court of general sessions in Charleston Thursday Judge Prince read to the grand jury an anonymous letter which he had received, alleging graft against the magistrates. The letter stated that the magistrates charged excessive sums for the issue of warrants, release of prisoners and also, that causes were illegally ahd improperly compromised. Judge Prince charged the jury especially on the subject, strongly urging that the mat ter be fully .investigated. He said that the charges were serious and if proven should result in the removal of the officials. A dispatch from Union says: A genuine mathematical marvel recent ly discovered here is an eighteen- year-old negro day laborer named Hill. He is rather tall, slightly built, jet black and has been to school but little. He stammers considerably, and appears half crazy on every sub ject except • mathematics. The rapi dity and accuracy with which he solves the most difficult problems is as tonishing. As an example, he was Wednesday asked if a man were twenty-eight years old on Sept. 1. How many minutes had he lived. After thirty second’s mental effort he gave the correct reply, though the figures were up in the millions. Many other calculations were promptly and cor rectly made. over the country we find that the .farmers are practically a unit in re gard to holding their cotton for ten cents and upwards. They, many of them will be compelled they propose to sell it to will hold it back until the object of the farmers is accomplished. We visited the Grassy Pond section this week. This is one of the most delightful sections of the county for farming, and the farmers as a whole are the most independent—Why, many of them, have enough old corn to car ry them far in the winter, if not for a good part of next. vear. We spent last Wednesday night with Mr. Janies B. Burgess, of near Grassy Pond. Mr. Burgess has a fine little farm and makes hominy his first thought and cotton a surplus. Mr. Guy Bonner was there and offered him ten cents for his cot ton, but he refused it. Cotton then on the general market was about 9 :; 4 cents. Mr. Burgess has done much for himself in buying and improving lands in that section. He was our neighbor for many vears and is one of the county’s best workers. Mrs. Burgess we are sorry to find is in poor health. She has a stomach trouble which gives her a good deal of pain at times, though she is able to attend to her domestic affairs. Mr. R. Govan Black is also doing well—better we think than almost any man of his chance in the county. family of industrious, gentlemanly boys who in a business like their home a mo- Gaffney, Oct. 11.—The Cotton Grow ers Convention at Gaffney last Mon day was all its most enthusiastic ad vocates could have expected of it. Everybody was well pleased with the speakers and speeches and much good will doubtless come of it. It | was an ideal schooling for farmers 1 an.] we are satisfied many or most of them will bear us out in this asser tion. We heard a score or more of the farmers say they were going to to sell, but j stick out for 11 cents cotton, and the men who | if they are fooled with they would demand even more than that. Miss Inez Sarratt and Mr. Louis Wood, of Gaffney, the first young lady and man to head our list of subscribers for the Reminiscenses of the Civil war by Gen. John B. Gor don under the new regime by which we have undertaken to sell 100 copies fcf the book in Cherokee county with in the next thirty days. The reduc tion in the price insures the success of the undertaking. We don’t in- ten! to fail if honest efforts will , .ail his hog and , anything. We took Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. The Gate City Guards of Greens boro, have decided to go to Raleigh on October 19th, to form a part of President Roosevelt’s guard upon the occasion of his visit to the State Fair. I The trip is voluntary on the part of j the members of Greensboro’s military ! organization, who will pay their own ! expenses. V Mrs. Mattie Fowle Myatt, of Ra- leigh, sues for divorce from her hus band, Mr. Walter Myatt, a widely known farmer of Jonhston county. She is a daughter of tne late Gover nor Fowle, a granddaughter of the , Chief Justice Richmond M. Pearson, ! now minister to Persia. Her first husband was Mr. David B. Avery, a j very prominent business man of Ra- 1 leigh. He has a large intelligent and conduct their affairs method that tnakes dinner las; Sabbath with our good friend. Mr. Ed. H. DeCamp. and family who were very kind to us and made us feel perfectly at home with them. Mr. DeCamp lias a splen did wife and three beautiful little girls of which he is very fond. We attended services Sabbath and Sabbatl night at the Presbyterian church and spent the night with Rev. Mr. Boozer and family. Monday night we stayed with that excellent man and gentleman W. G. Austell, who with his family did all they cou'd for our comfort and hap piness. We were glad t.o meet the vener able Jesse J. Mabry in town on Mon day. He came with Mr. Dick Foster to attend the farmers meeting at the court house. He is eighty-eight years old. From all parts of the county wo met men last Monday in town who are engaged or interested in farming. They come to boost the cotton move ment and contribute their mite (might) to the success of Die farmers’ cause. DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Mrs. He is now, as I said above, acting as j be most largely helped. pastor here doing a splendid work, and before all men living a gooi, honest, upright life, and using his utmost efforts to lead others to do the same thing. He is a hard and In telligent student, and Is only about twenty-six years old. He can tell any Incident or story of. the Bible, anu find any passage referred to, as well or better tin n I can, and I have had the Bible all my life. He Is devoui and humble. I thank God for such a man. Again I ask, does It pay? An old lady was traveling wearily the hard road to heathen worship try ing to find salvation, she spent much money and time on idols, and had daily burning of Incense, and mumb- G. By the removal of the dispen sary, the moral and religious inter ests of the community will be ad vanced. We consider this so evident to all right thinking people that ar gument on this point is unnecessary. We appeal to the voters of Dar lington county to go to the polls on the tenth of October and cast their votes against the dispensary. Arthur Kendrick Dead After Two Weeks Illness. Mrs. Arthur Kendrick died yester- day afternoon about one o’clock at her home on Frederick street, after an illness of two weeks. . Mrs. Kendrick was formerly Miss Edna Foster, of Union, and had been married nearly two years. She was about twenty-five years of agev a member of the First Baptist church of this city, and a most estimable young woman in every particular. The funeral will be conducted to day from the First Baptist church and the remains interred in Oakland cemetery. The bereaved young husband has the sympathy of the entire city in ai-; great sorrow. del one. Miss Sue, his only daughter, aged about fourteen years, is his aouse keeper. For a girl to be rais ed without a mother she is an ex emplary young lady. Govan has a fine lot of hogs to kill. He has two now that will not fall far under 400 pounds each. His children have a| To a stranger and new comer to | cit >' penchant for reading good books and j our county, we remarked last Mon. it tells on their constitution and gen-1 day that he was in the presence of eral appearance both at home and a type of Cherokee county men repre- abroad. j senting the several interests and in- Mrs. John Bently, another of our i dustries of the county. State and na- lower Cherokee neighbors, is living in i tion and his reply was he had never that section and Is doing well. Mrs. i seen a better type of manhood and Bently told the writer that he could better behavCl audience of the kind, let The Ledger readers know that she j “See what prohibition has done for had a white cotton • patch, and so she j your county,” he remarked with some has. : emphasis. We can count not less than half a 1 Last Tuesday we took in the town j dozen families who moved from this t generally and attended services at! night, where Rev. Mr. Liston is con ducting a series of meetings. We j spent the night with Mr. J. D. Jones; and family whose hospitality we en joyed to the utmost. The venerable! Mr. John W. Jones Is one of the old-' est men in the town or county. His | memory is still clear on many *hings and incidents pertaining to the early j nart of the last century. He is now eighty-seven years of age. He re members attending camp meeting on the very ground on which the city of The first snow of the season is re- ported to have fallen in the Reems Creek section of Bumcombe county Wednesday night. A party of Ashe- | viiie fox hunters who spent the night i on the Craggy range in that section, are authority for the statement that I the snow flakes fell at intervals dur ing the night and that there was a , formation of ice Thursday morning. At one time during Wednesday night snow fell in sufficient quantity to be noticeable on the ground. Calvin Simmons, a negro who lived on the Dowd place southwest of Char- lotte, was shot and killed by Dave j Alexander, one of Mr. John Sloan’s hands Thursday night, about 12 o’clock, at Moore’s church, in Berry- hill township, where the colored peo ple were having an entertainment. The ball entered from the back and caused instantaneous death. No par ticulars of the affiilr could he obtain ed. The negro who did the shooting j escaped and Sheriff Wallace was I summoned. At 1 o'clock next morn- j ing the officers and a posse left the to hunt for the slaver. part of Cherokee county to the upper section of it. who have done well for themselves. These are Govan Black, Goodman Pridmore, James Burgess, Sr., James Burgess. Jr., .las. Sparks, Gjorge Elmore, Thomas Patrick. They are all settled around Grassy Pond and are among its best citizens. There are others we can’t just now recall thenam es of; but they are doing well. Land in that seciion thirty years ago which was considered about • Mr. S. T. Cherry.one of the most prominent men in Edgecombe county, was accidentally killed on his planta tion near Rocky Mountain, late Tues day afternoon. The circumstances which caused his death are singular. Mr. Cherry had gone out into the woods and secreted himself for the purpose of finding out who. he thought, was hunting unlawfully on his land. Dempsey Weaver, a ten ant, was doing the hunting. Seeing a small portion of his victim’s form moving behind the bushes, he mis took it for a souirrel and shot, kill ing Mr. Cherry instantly. The hor rible accident is greatly deplored, and much sympathy is expressed for all concerned. is now worth $15 to $25 can’t be bought even per for Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney postofflee for week ending October IGth, 1905: Miss Tency Alums, J. A. Bonner, | community in the Sherard Boheler. Ed. Bratcher, Mrs. j son, Clyde, who is J. P. Blanton. Miss Eula Byars, Et nest Cauble, J. Claner, W. M. Davis; Mrs. Allie Erwin, Vess Gist, Miss Swicnsineus, Eddie Harris, Rob Hol loway. W. P. Hamil, Miss Gelline Hill, Annie John, Miss Mary Lawson, Fre- rnan Kirby, Miss Alice Martin, B. B. McKee, Sindie Phillips. G. I. Reid, G. M. Byars, Miss Adline Smith. Wm. Talley. A. P. Thompson, Rast Tate, John Worthey. Lum Whitesides. Please call for advertised letters. One cent due on each. A. R. N. Folger, Postmaster. Girls, if you want red lips, laughing eyes, sweet breath and good looks use Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. The ereatest beautifier known. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Gaffney Drug Co. Subscribe for The Ledger; 91 a year. Letter to S. L. Cutting. Dear Sir: Do you know the cause of short-measure and whitewash in paint? The same as the cause of poverty: folks are kept poor by trying to get their monev’s-worth. Price per gallon. They look at the price per gallon: not at the size of the can; and not at what’s in it. Kept poor by trying to get their monev’s-worth. Not you, but they. You know it of them. There Is one safe name in print; Devoe. Yours truly F W Devoe & Co 129 P. S. R. M. Wilkins Harwdare Co. sell our paint. worthless acre and that. Rev. Mr. Liston, of Alabama, who has been spending several days and preaching in Gaffney, came down yes terday to visit and get acquainted with the Salem people who expect to have him for their pastor next year. He will preach here this after noon and tomorrow. Yesterday we had the pleasure not only of congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Whisonant on their relation ship. but of eating some of the w« ti ding cake. Sam J. Strain is now on the road working for -> Danville, Va.. tobacco firm. Dr. Sam Foster was in this section yesterday buying up cattle for the Union market and selling sewing machines. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Inman and fami- l ,r have the sympathies of this entire affliction of their very sick with fe ver just now. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Whisonant were at Salem yesterday. While in Gaffney one day last week we had the pleasure of visiting the traditional Dogwood spring spoken of by Horseshoe Robinson. It is lo cated in the suburbs of the city not far from where Mr. Dick Thomson once lived and near the road leading to the home of Mr. W. G. Austell. There Is no doubt but that it is the identical place where the capture and perhaps the death of Horseshoe and his companions was planned to take place during the Revolutionary strug gle. Gaffney is truly an historic town or rather surrounded with his toric places and events. Any one who thinks that the vot ing out of the dispensary has been of no consequence to <he morale of our people ought to have attended the cotton growers convention there last Monday. Mr. Alfred Bettis, who is now re presenting the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cherokee county, was in this section yesterday. Messrs. J. D. Jones, Wm. Webstar and Ed. H» DeCamp. of Gaffney, at tended preaching at Salem yesterday. To Miss Mattie Estes, we. us and family are indebted for » lot of nice home raised apples. Rev. W. D. Hammett preached at j Gaffney now stands. Yearly the officers and non commissioned officers of the militia were required by law to meet i for a week or ten days drilling in j :he manual of arms and other duties ! pertaining to the military service. Mr. Jones tells of many of the rough and tumble exploits of the bullies who frequented these gatherings and often made trouble for the militia and more for themselves. At one time he was forced to bayonet an obstrepe rous bully who defied arrest by the guard of which he (Mr. Jones) was one. Mr. Boyce Whisonant, of Wilkins- viilo and Miss Lula Smith, of Hick ory Grove, were married last Sabbath. We congratulate Boyce on the re sult (X ills conquest and hope for him and his young wife long and happy lives. Mrs. Whisonant is the daughter ot our good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ah Smith, of Hickory Grove, and Chero kee county will be only too glad to add her name to its long list of beau tiful and worthy womanhood. J. L. S. At Blacksburg Opera House. A singularly effective m^lojruma containing many novel features is promised in the coming production of Holden Bros, great sensational scenic play. Denver Express, which will be at the opera house at Blacks burg Thursday, October 19th. Tin- train scene is most effective, the dis tant rumble and whistle, the increas ing volume of sound as the train ap proaches rises to a clash and din that leaves the beholder to wonder how it is done as the engine dashes past with hell clanging, whistle shrieking and is gone as rapidly as a real 4b mile an hour train. This is, however, only one of the strongest sensational scones of the play. The attack of the emigrant train by a band of Indins in the first act and the fight for life I In the last are both features seldom i seen in melodrama, while the funny pranks of Tommy Tucker, and the quaint doings of Old Hi Garvey arm his wife, furnish a comedy element equal to the average farce comedy. Prices; 25, 35 and 50. As the result of a quarrel over do mestic affairs, Robert Gibbs, colored, of Elizabeth City, shot his wife Thursday night with intent to kill. He came very near succeeding, if he really has not done so, as she is now lying at. the point of death and there is little hope of her recovery. Gibbs fired five shots at her, at close range, all taking effect but one. He used a 38-calibre revolver. They had not lived together for some time, and Thursday night about lb o'clock acci dentally met on the street, where i they began the quarrel and without warning drew his pistol and began firing. Gibbs then made hi- escape. Ho was not pursued, but the police are on the lookout for him. With his mind befuddled by drink an 1 thoughts of desperation filling ; his being, T.A.McCraw, an upholster er, of Wilmington. Thursday morning about 10:3b o'clock shot Mrs. Mary A. Wright, liis mother-in-law, who lie 1 about an hour later. The crime is a horrible one brought on by a dis- ; torted state of mind, as the murderer | intended also to kill his wife and then shoot himself. Letters were found on his person when arrested to his moth- I er. sisters and relatives and to the public, explaining his actions. He ! accused his wife of infidelity and his mother-in-law with having infiuenc- ed her to evil. He attributed this in- ' fl uence to the Christian science ele ment of Wilmington. McCraw was about fifty years of age, his wife bf~ ing somewhat younger. His mother- in-law was G2 years of age, arrested while standing porch of his home. on Ho was the front “Get the Habit" NELSON’S. go to Subscribe for The Ledger $1.00 a year. Mr. Liston at Salem. Rev. R. T. Liston preached at Sa lem Saturday and Sunday. The con gregation Sunday was large and rep resentative. While at Salem Mr. Liston was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sill E'-tes and Col. and Mrs. J. L. Strain. Mr. Liston speaks very pleas antly of the treatment he received at the hands of the good people of Sa lem. He returned to the city Sunday and preached at the Presbyterian church. He will hold services at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning and evening. It makes no difference how long you have been sick. If you are troubled with Indigestion, constipation, liver and kidney troubles. Hollister’s Ropky Mountain Tea will make you well. 35 cents. Gaffney Drug Co. Subscribe for The Ledger, Si CO a year. %