Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i fi —Ml — i Wli 79*11* m W **** •■ -W-tW r" ■■ '%• w«« rm*' • —— MJ——M—BM—————i P— • ' ^ TV'rv ,«| A SALE” AT CARROLL & BYERS has been so successful and has left us with so little of the goods advertised we have decided to offer what we have left at the same great reduction until Saturday, August 4th. See circular for prices. - - 804-6 LIMESTONE STREET. CARROLL & BYERS. GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA. RAVENNA NEWS. Locals and Personals from that Pros perous Section. Ravenna, Aug. 1.—Misses Vennie Pettit and Lona Green have returned home from a pleasant visit to Whit ney where they visited relatives and friends. Mr. B. G. Clary of Gaffney spent last Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. B. G. L. Pettit. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bonner and familv, of Paeolet. visited here last Sunday, the guests of Mrs. Bonner’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. L. Pettit. Mr. J. C. Brown, one of our popular merchants, has been confined to his bed for several days with typhoid fever. His condition is about the same as it has been for several days at this writing. We hope Mr. Brown will soon be well again. Mr. H. D. Mathis, one of our mike- everything-at-home farmers, carried wheat to the roller mill at Gaffney last Thursday. Mr. L. D. Bonner carried a load of wh-^at to Spartanburg last Saturday. He returned home late Saturday re joicing because he had home raised flour. Messrs. W. A. and J. D. Kitchens, of Spartanburg, spent last Tuesday and Wednesday here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Lillie Mae Goforth, one of our popular young ladies, has gone t Gaffney where she has accepted <i position as saleslady with Mr. .1. C. Ratliff at the Battery. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Mathis spent last Sabbath at White Plains the guests of Mr. and Mrs. \\ . H. Croc Lit and family. Sunday being a “big” dav at El- bethel Ravenna had the following gents to witness the exercises: Messrs. J. B., J. W. and M. W. Brown. T. E. Burgess, J. M. Green, Charles and C. 1>. Pettit. Each one , reports a nice time. ) * The patrons of the Goucher pub lic school met last Thursday morn ing and elect’d Miss Addie Brown teacher for the ensuing year. We are glad Miss Addie has been elected at Goucher, for now she will be here to attend to her Barac.a class which could not be without its instructive teacher. There was a meeting here Thurs day evening but as all the patrons were absent no election was held. Mr Bryant Power is still about in his same condition. He can s’ t up in a chair and says he wants to attend th'-> political meeting August 7th. W e are all expecting a big time here August 7th. We hope all the candidates will have nice speeches prepared and that all of them will visit us. as we will try and give them a good crowd that will cheer them, even more than they deserve. Since our last letter was posted, Mr. J. C. Hollis, candidate for clerk of court, has visited us. One thing noticeable about a cindidat \ he will speak and shake hands with all dike. Candidate Hollis has made friends here bv his personal visit ahead of the political meeting. All we correspondents must give Mr. DeCamp room for the political meeting reports, for The Ledger will have a regular reporter to take all down that is worth printing. Today was the day Tor all inter ested in the graveyard at Goucher, to have met and cleaned off the graves of the dead, but owing to the continuous rain I suppose it will be postponed. Miss Ha Mathis, one of our popular young ladies, left Monday for a month's visit to relatives and friends above Gaffney. Mr. G. A. Bonner, of Paeolet. spent last Sunday here fisiting relatives and friends. Mr. Felix Lipscomb, candidate for supervisor, seems to be gaining votes everv day. but no doubt Mr. Wm. Phil lips. our present supervisor, will be remembered at the polls, as he has done more for our section than any supervisor yet elected. “Gen. Green - ’ says that he now has his troops ready for the final battle and we believe “Green” has it whip ped since his breastworks are every where visible. C. REAL LORD DOUGLAS THIS TIME. GRINDAL GOSSIP. V « Police Officers at Portland, Me., De tain the Man by Request. Portland. Me.. Aug. 1.—Instead of having in custody an American big amist known as “I»rd Douglas." wanted by the authorities of many States, as was at first suposed. the Portland police, it is thought, have detained I/>rd Sholto Douglas, third son of the late Marquis of Queens- berry. Several days ago a Portland detec tive was requested by the police of Asheville. N. C , to arrest a man who rented a cottdge on the shore of Se- bago Lake in May. The officers went to the lake yesterday and detained a man known at the lake resorts as S. G. Douglas. The Asheville police were notified of the detention of the man. but the local authorities sus pected from the first that a mistake had been made and they refrained from making public the occurrence. The suspect regarded the arrest humorously and told the offleer who called on him that he was I»rd Sholto George Douglas. With him were two persons who. he said, were Lady Douglas «nd their son. So con vincing was his story that the local police notified the Asheville officers today that in their opinion the man was what he claimed to be and they advised them to order his release. A firm of bankers In Portland stated today that the man detained at Sebago la really Lord Sholto Douglas. Local News and Personals by “Annie Laurie." Grindal. July 30.—It rains and rains. Garden have “run away.” We are supplying the table, cow and pigs out of ours. Mrs. S. A. Hames has returned from a weeks visit at Union. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hames spent Sunday in Paeolet with Mrs. Hames’ mother. Messrs. Munroe and J. R. Kirby and James Worthy and sister. Miss Lou, attended childrens’ day at Mes- mopotamia Saturday. Our school teacher, Mr. Thomas Chalk, returned to his home at Ra venna Friday afternoon. Mr. Chalk has seventy-two or three scholars on the roll now. We are Indebted to Master Mitchel Garner for two nice watermelons. Watermelon patches are almost a failure in this section this season. Mr. N. G. Littlejohn speaking of t' e negroes ordering so much whis- ! ey reminds us of an incident that ac.-Hi red here not long ago. A neigh boring colored friend taken on too nntc'i “booze” and returned home in a perfect religious frenzy and an nounced to his family that he was going to tly straight to heaven. How ever. he didn’t want to leave his spouse behind so taking her by the iiand he fell upon his knees and prayed and prayed that she be allow ed to accoT.nany him. But sprue how the wings felled to grow and they are both today i:;.habitants of this terres trial fall. Lay down the olough and the hoe, Pick up the fiddle and the bow. There’s no more work for the Poor old farmer. For the rain doth pour. Nowadays we hear a great deal from the pulpit about sinful pride. Well somehow I feel that God loves just as well, and I know that I’m in a better mood to love him when 1 am well groomed and neatly attired, as he does when my head is frowzy and 1 am statternlv dressed. Miss Lillie Dixon, of Greenville, visited Miss Maggie Moss Sunday. Mr. Henry McCullough, of Star Farm, has gone to Cherokee Falls to work. The Grindal schools and Gowdys- ville ball team met at Gowdysville Saturday and engaged in a lively combat. The result was 8 to 3 in favor of Gowdysville. Recently in thanking a friend for a personal compliment we recebvd this reply: “I believe in saying the good tilings while one yet is alive and not waiting till they are dead." What a good old world thid would be if we were all so charitably dis* posed. Annie Laurie. SALUDA PRISONER BREAKS JAIL. Neqro in Chains Succeeds in Gettinq Out of Cell. Saluda, July 31.—Clarence Brooks, the negro who wa s lodged In jail here two or three weeks ago charged with breaking into the store of Mr. John Howard at Ridge Springs, made his escape early Friday morning and up to the present has not been captured. A few days ago he almost got away and the sheriff not only replaced him in one of the steel cells, but also lock ed him therein with a chain. Friday night he succeeded in open ing a link in the chain, and by some means twisted the lock off the steel cell and then broke the lock on the rear door of the jail building and made bis escane. About daybreak he stopped at a house two miles from here and in quired the way to Ridge Springs. The party of whom the inquiry was made started to show him the road when lie noticed a chain on the negro. When he neared the escaped prisoner he ran. Thinking he was a convict escaped from the gang, the party came to Saluda and reported to the sheriff. Investigation showed that Brooks was gone. Sheriff Sample spent all of Satur day search of him and at one time was close to him, but Brooks took to the swamp and eluded the officer. WIFE WANTS TO SEE MARCUS. Asks Governor to Postpone Execution of Her Husband. Columbia, Aug. 1.—Governor Hey ward last night received a telegram from the wife of Marcus in Cincinnati begging that the execution in* post poned until she could see her hus band. Though touched by the evi dence of the woman’s fidelity. Gov. Heyward was unable to grant the re quest. The telegram follows: Cincinnati. Ohio. August 1. Governor of South Carolina: In God’s name, governor, postpone my poor husband’s execution till I can come and bid him farewell. Just succeeded in obtaining fare to Char leston Be merciful and wire consent immediately. Mrs. Lizzie Marcus. Gov. Heyward at once wired Mrs. Marcus that he regretted he could not stay the execution. A dispatch to The State last night from Cincinnati stated that the wo man was frantic because she could not see Marcus before he is hanged. It seems that the deserted wife did not have the monev to go to Charleston when she first heard of her husband’s plight and now she has not time to reach there before tomorrow, the day when he dies on the gallows for the murder of another woman. The fidelity of woman is a storv old as the world. Marcus Destroys the Will. Charleston, Aug. 1.—William A Marcus, to be hanged Friday for the murder of Maggie Marcus on Sulli van's Island, will probably die intes tate. The will which he made al>out a week ago has been destroyed by him on account of the developments of the past few days, showing him to have been a bigamist as well as a murderer. He had willed the-cottage and property of the murdered woman to the Star Gospel Mission "n- 1 his in terest in the estate of his mother, who died on March 26, just three w eks before he committed the hor- rible crime, to his sister, Mrs. Mary ! Gross, .of New Richmond. Ohio. The existence of the family in Cincinnati put a different status to the case. Maggie Stone was not his lawful wife, although the poor woman never kn w ; it. and he cannot therefore inherit her property, and his family being next of kin to himself he cannot bequeath his interest in his mother’s estate to his sister. The law. therefore, disposes of the property and a will of the pris oner not being necessary he decided to destroy it. Marcus was shaved today, being first handcuffed In his cell. The bar ber used a safety razor, as additional means of security of the prisoner. Arrany ments are all complete and the prisoner is still of a steadv nerve, although probably a little weaker than he hag been. Freaks of the Weather in Olden TimCs. The letter printed below is sent to The News and Courier by Mr. Wil liam D. Sullivan, of Tumbling Shoals, Laurens county. Mr. Sullivan is one of tb' fine old patriots and gentlemen of the up-country. The events which he so graphically describes are of uncommon interest to the younger generation. The fol lowing is his letter: “Did you ever see such had weath er?" "Ain’t it the coldest weather you ever saw?” Such questions put us old people to thinking. I guess the cold Saturday in February. 1832, heats this spell of February, 1905. “Cousin Mac" said he rode from old Pendleton to his father’s. 45 miles, on that Saturday, and when he got off his horse the icicles were hanging to h 5 horse’s nose as long as his hand. Well. Mac must have been cold proof! "Uncle Johnny” said that he was called to attend court at Laurens on that Saturday and when he was dis missed he went to Osborne’s tavern and got a bottle of whiskey and put it in his overcoat pocket and mounted his fleet little mare for the Knob. About half wav home he got so cold that he pulled out his bottle for a drink, hut could not uncork it. Then he galloped most of the eight miles home, rode up to the door and called for his wife to help him off the horse —he was so stiff that he could not get down. Which of the two tales will you believe—the man that rode forty-five miles, or the one that rode eight miles? The falling of the stars was in No vember, 1835. Last week in a conversation with “Uncle Hense” ho said: “Father sent me and sister Bettie before day light to invite in our neighbors to a cotton picking, as we wished to get out a hale to send to old Hamburg bv otic of the neighbor’s Wogans. As we went along I had not noticed any thing wrong in the heavens. We first called at Billy Quarles’s, and found the doors open and a bi«r cur dog on the top of the table. Then on to Stephen and Ira Potter’s, and found no one at home; then to Joshua Franks's, where we found all the above named families collected in ti e vard. and a big black negro call ed Ive leading in prayer. I waited until he closed and told my business. Uncle Billy Quarles thundered out: Go home and tell your father that this is no time for cotton picking, don’t you see the stars are falling and the world is coming to an end?” You may he sure I was badly scar- ed and lit out for home with the news. I did not stop and look for foot logs at the creek, hut Bettie and I went right through the water end on home, two of the most fright ened children you ever saw. The cold June came in about this date, when our men cut wheat all day with woolen coats on. The dry year was in 1845. It did not rain from March until Septem ber. We had 100 acres in corn. We did not gather the first ear of com. The little stuff got about knee high. We cut it down and put it up like corn to do us next year and some to sell. The late snow and freeze was the 3rd Sunday In April. 1849. Wfceat was in the boot, corn was ploughed over. Everything of the crop kind was killed to the ground, turned brown and looked like fire had been over the crops. The big freshet was in August. 1852, which ruined all the corn crops on the streams and washed away all the bridges. The Sherman freshet, of February, 1865, was next in size, but lacked three feet of being as high. The big 18-inch snow was in Janu ary. 1856. which stayed o n the hill sides until April. The big sleet was In February, 1857. All night It went on Just like guns shfcotlng. All the roads were blocked with falling limbs and trees, and had to he cleared before any travel could go over them. The Charleston earthquake was Au gust 31, 1886, when there were more promises made of reformation than was ever made In one night before In South Carolina. A BOON TO TRUCKERS. Wilminqton Ice Company Makes Con tract With Armour Lines. Wilmington, N. C., Aug 1.—The In dependent Ice company today renewed its contract with the Armour Car Lines, of Chicago, for the refriger ator service in the trucking belt of eastern Carolina. The contract is understood to be for a term of vears and requires the Independent Ice company to build a plant an ’ storage house at Chadbourn. the center of the berry industry in the W., C. & A. sec tion. from which so many complaints have recently come. It is announced that an ice plant of seventy tons ca pacity will he built at Chadboyrn at once by the Independent Ice company, at a cost of $75,000. The building of the plant there will fore”' dispose of anv complaints from that section as to the re-icing of cars in that territo ry. The factory, according to the contract, is to he completed and run ning by January. 1907. WILLIAM BRIGGS BADLY HURT. •ubtcrlb* for Tho Lodgor; $1 a yoar. Cauqht in Belt at Jonesville Yarn Mill and Skull Fractured. Jonesville. July 30.—William Briggs, aged fifteen, had his head caught in a carding machine at the yarn mill of the Jonesville Manufacturing Co. here this morning about 9 o'clock, and is now in a desperate condition. His skull was fractured, his scalp broken in several places. his body bruised, though he was not taken off his feet. How his head got caught in the ma chine. which is worked by pulleys, or how long he had he- there n''* known, for when discovered he was unconscious and still remains so. Bi.t slight hopes are entertained for his recovery. About two years ago young Briggs had a brother killed in the Paeolet Mills by being caught in the shaftir- and dashed to death. Gives Orphans an Outing. Mr. D. C. Phillips returned from Columbia Wednesday with his two wards. William and Mildred Hill, who he brings to the city to spend a while with their grandmother, Mrs. Scott Hill. A Columbia paper has the fol lowing to say of Mr. Phillips’ visit to that city: Mr. Phillips, of Gaffney, was here yesterday in order to get two of the little ones at Epworth for a few weeks’ outing. These little ones, the Hill children, have a sorrowful histo ry. Their father was killed in an ex plosion in an iron mine near Knox ville. In the train bringing Mr. Hill’s body hack to Gaffney were Mr. Hill’s father and sister and his wife and four children. All of the partv were killed in the wreck’ near Newport. Tenn., in which sixty-two people lost their lives. Eight new graves were made in the Limestone cemetery at Gaffney, for it was thought that, the entire party had been killed outright, hut the little boy of four and the lit tle Kiri of nine recovered conscious ness after a lingering illness and a'-e now about well again. They were paid damages bv the Southern rail way company, hut, as usual, the law yers’ fees and other “expenses” ate deeply into the damages. Cotton Crop off 25 Per Cent. Columbia, Aug. 1.—According to fig- uivs compiled by Secretary B. F. Tay lor. of the South Carolina branch of the Inter-State Seed Crushers’ Asso ciation. this State has suffered more than any other in its cotton crop. The falling off is twenty-one per cent, as compared with last year. Mr. yavlor’s conclusions are reached from detailed r<M>orts he has received from all the Southern States. All show increases except Georgia. North Carolina and South Carolina. The Georgia decrease is sixteen per cent., and the North Carolina decrease eleven per cent. Thes*» States show increase: Aakan- sas 29. Mississippi 28, Louisiana 14, Texas 16. President Smith, of the cotton association, says the cron in this State this year will he the small est In ten vears. Webster’s Retainers. Eld ward M. Nason, superintendent of buildings for the State of New Hamoshire, tells the followin' 1 ’ anec dote of Daniel Webster, says the Bos ton Herald: One dav a man cat$e to Webster’s office and consulted him in regard to a prospective law suit. At the close of thp conference he paid the attor ney a retainer of $100 to look after the matter. After returning to his place of business he found that hi# partner had already settled the suit, obtaining the sum demanded,jyithout an attorney. He thought $100 was altogether too muc*- for an office fee, so he dispatched his clerk to look af ter the subject. “Mr. Webster," said the youijg man, "my employer thinks you should re turn a part of your retainer. That case has been settled." "Young man," said the lawyer, “yon go back and tell your employer that a retainer is something to be re tained.” • Sure on One Point. “Out late last night? What time did the clock say when you got in?" “I do not remember what the clock said, but I will never forget what my wife said!" A woman worries until she gets wrinkles, then worrle- because she lias them. If she takes Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tw* she would have neither. Bright, smilin'* face follows Its use. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Gaffney Drug Co. He Was Patient. (Cleveland Leader.) Bishop Ellison Capers in an address at Columbia, S. C.. praised the virtue of patience. “We may have industry,” he said, “sobriety, ambition—all the vi lues that make for success, yet without patience we will accomplish nothing. “A young man was overheard on a street corner the other night re proaching a young girl. That young man was patient. He had so highly developed this excellent quality that I shall not be surprised some day to see him a millionaire, a college pre sident or even a bishop. "The young man said as tho young girl drew near him on the corner: “ ‘What a time you have ke]}t me waiting.’ “The girl tossed her head. “ ‘It’s only 7 o’clock,’ she said, ‘and I didn’t promise to he here until a quarter of.’ “The young man smiled a calm and patient smile. “ ‘Ah. yes,’ he said, ‘but you have mistaken the day. I have been wait ing for you since last evening. Turned the Tables. A statesman, in an argument, had turned the tables rather neatly on his opponent. Senator Dolliver. in con gratulation. said: “You remind me of a Fort Dodge doctor, Dr. X. This gentleman once had a grave dug for a patient, sup nosed to he dying who afterwards re covered. and over tills error of judg ment the doctor was joked for many years. “Once he attended, in consultation with three confreres, another natient. This patient really died. After the death. - the physicians discussed the case together, one of them said: “ ‘Since quick burial is necessary, we might inter the body temporarily. I understand that our brother here has a vacant grave on hand.’ “Dr. X smiled. “Yes,’ he said, “I believe I am the only physician present whose graves are not all filled.” She Was Left. Miss Oldham awoke in the middle of the night and found a burglar ran sacking her trunk. She did not scream; but, looking him square in the eye, sh e pointed to the door and said: “Leave me .at once, sir!” “Oh. that’s all right madam,” said the burglar as he hacked toward the door. “I had no intention of taking you.” Observation. A n observant man in all his inter course with society and the world constantly and unperceived marks* on every person and thing the figure ex pressive of its valuo and. therefore, on meeting that person or thing, knows instantly v hat kind and de gree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience.— John Foster. Obedience. Every duty, even the least duty, in volves the whole principle of obedi ence. And little duties make the will dutiful—that is. supple and prompt to obey. Little obediences lead into <r reat. The daily round of duty is full of probation and of discipline. It trains the will, heart and conscience. —Women’s Life. A Biography j n a Nutshell. Born, welcomed, caressed, cried, fed. grew, amused, reared, studied, examined, graduated, in UWe. loved, engaged, married, quarreled, recon ciled. suffered, deserted, taken ill, died, mourned, buried and forgotten. A Sweet Dream Ended. Ethel—Bobby Jones died very sud denly, I hear. I suppose his widow is inconsolable? Edith—Yes. poor dear. She was looking forward so happily to divorce proceedings and alimony.— New York Press. To Beautify Your Complexion nt TXX DAYS, USB MADINOLA L ^ THE UNEQUALED BEAUTIFIER. 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Campbell and J. C. Bates) or as L. U. Campbell and J. C. Bates, same will be promptly set- tLi on presentation to the under signed. L. U. Campbell. DON’T FORGET I you can be cured of Cancr, Tu- 1 I mor or Chronic Old Sores. Ten I I thousand cases treated. It Is the I I surest cure on earth. Delay la I I fatal. How to be cured? Just I I write I I D. B. GLADDEN. Grover. N. C. I DR. W. K. GUNTER, IJ K IM 'r 1 M T* Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crow- and bridge w’ork a specialty. WILLIAM S. HALL, JR., Attorney at Law, Office over The Battery. Gaffney, t. C. Prompt attention given to all busineoe. DR. J. F. GARRETT. DENTIST. Moved to new office over Freder'e ♦ a*t Front, of the Battery. 'Phono In Office and Raeldoneo.