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the largest circulation of Any Nowspapor In tho Fifth Congraaalonal District af S. C. Ledger Wl GUARANTEB THE RKUABlLlTa •f Every ASyrUaar Whe Uses Em Coiumna af This Papar. CVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE SEMI-WEEKLY--PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND PEIDAY. BEET ADVERTININN MEDIUM. A Nawapapar In AN tflMt tha Wart Impllaa asst Davatat ta tha Bast Interest of the Paopls af Charekaa County. ESTABLISHED FEB. It. ISM. OAPFNEY. ». C* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1907. •1410 A YEAR. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WiLKINSVILLE, ✓ MOVEMENTS OF “HE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items af that Section. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. rode on to their respective homes. Next morning Sam feeling thirsty thought he would return to town a little earlier than was his custom. | and, Samson like on his way turned • aside to see about the carcass of the ; lion—the bottle—when he found that ' it was gone—Jack- had been there j and got the honey from the carcass, i EV ENT8 IN GAFFNEY AND CHER- Another Id a different part of the I county«told about being called as a i OKEE. juror in a magistrates court, and he | and another juror meeting a friend who told them where they could find a bottle of “cider royal” he had hid out in a fence corner near vhe road they were to travel, and they could ibunt it up and help themselves which i they did and hOAv it totally unfitted Wilkinsville, Oct. 4.—It may be , each of them to discharge their du- imaginatlon on our part, but we ties that day in court, think we see a gradual improvement Another said that during the bar- in the editorial columns of this paper, room regime he had been a frequenter While it has always been good i to the place and had not only formed enough for us, we think the the drink habit but some ve.y un* “Ola Man’’ is improving, but edlura,' savory acquaintances, and by this he like other mortals, are by no means | was induced to renounce the depraved “perfection perfected”—we don’t' and uncalled for practice. Wlhen the mean that by any means. We can tide of prohibition began to rise, he see mistakes even in our own writ-1 and one of his former “chums” agreed ings as well as in others after they to join in and work for a better state appear in print. Usually we throw of affairs. This action somewhat dis- j in working out the public roads, the blame on the typesetter which concerted one of their old associates ; may or may not be an injustice to ! who ridiculed the idea of such “sots” ! O n Thanksgiving pay the cooper him. Here, for instance, is part of working to put prohibition on foot. ! Literary Society of Limestone CHlege an editorial which appeared in last, then but now, since It has lost that | present a play, to which many Tuesday’s issue of this paper to which “Well” said he, “We did at one j people are looking forward, we cal! attention: + time drink but it was not a disgrace! Th frf d f M , Montez “The most ardent supporter of the 1 degree of respectability we have „ Jj “ h * t o hear that dispensary must now admit that the joined forces with the respectable)® ^ to leave Chlcora College situation in Gaffney is greatly im ;element and are working to save youi Q _. , . anfforin® tmm tvnholri proved since voting out the dispen- fellows from ruin.” ! at home 8uffer,n S from sary. Formerly, we mean before Messrs. Leslie Blackwell and Iever ‘ THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, THE LETTER WRITER. ITEMS OF INTERST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Recent Happenings | n and Around Happnlngs AH Over the State Taken th(> City and Other Events Gather j from Our Exchanges and Tersely ed by tha Local New* Editor. i ..Told to Ledger Readfir*. Ernest Duff left Friday for Co- Sun Pickett, a negro, of Columbia lumbia to take a position with the shot Wess Harris, another negro Sab Coco-Cola Bottling place. Works of that urday night about 9:30 o’clock. The difficulty that led up to the shooting wag about a woman. Pickett escaped. A few days ago while crossing the Blue Ridge railway tracks, near Steg- nall’s crossing, in Oconee county, The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. N. Folger will be glad to know that Mrs. Folger Is steadily Improv ing. . . . . . , Preston Brown, a negro man, driving The county chaingang nas bee a lnu j p an(1 wa g 0n was nin over an( j moved over near Blacksburg where lnstantl Wlled bv traln No 8 east . they will be engaged for some time A solid box car of cotton was des troyed by fire at Manning Saturday on the Aicolu railroad while in tran sit. Forty-two bales were burned. The Aicolu railroad will have to stand the loss, ns the shipper had de- livered the cotton, it having already been sold. J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general of South Carolina, informed Zach Me- There were four additions by let- 0h ®«> The State’s Washington cor- ter to the Midway church on Sunday respondent Saturday that he was ^ - _ _ — — _ . _ —. __ — , last. The congregation will soon preparations to push the rail- fluence of whiskey, especially on Sat- 1 unwell with inflammatory rheuma- , have a new church edifice in which to j roa d merger suit, in South Carolina urday afternoon; now it is a very tism. She is doing very well. 'worship. and tliat wou,d fry 10 Ket the gen- rare thing to see anyone drunk on our Capt. J. T. Moorehead was among ! | ^al assembly to pass a hill this win- streets; and the records in the police i the lower Cherokeeans who was at! The Rev. Ernest G. Ross is losing ter allowing him or $40.0i)n court will show that the number of Gaffney last Wednesday. out as a tyer of nuptial knots. He It will take this much, he thinks, tc cases of ‘drunk and disorderly’ have i Mrs. James W. Smarr and Miss only married one couple last week ; pay the expenses of the suits, decreased more than 100 per cent.” | Sudie Inman went to Gaffney last while his neighbor, Rev. G. P. Ham-! M T “Bud,” you must have got your Monday and returned Tuesday. i rick, married two couples. I ™ r - James Henry Rice. Jr., State arithmetic a little mixed up in your James Edwards, one of our pro calculation. How can you reduce a gressive colored farmers of lower number more than 100 per cent? One , Cherokee, is doing some building on hundred per cent is all there is of a hs place—the Cook place which he number when you apply the rule of bought some years ago mean before the dispensary was voted out, it was Charley Foster went ’possum hunting a common sight to see persons reel-, last night. ing on the sidewalks under the in- Miss Minnie Fowler is still quite ! secretary of the Auuubon -.hh,.. ij Mr. R. A. Ware, who lives just out- spent several days last week in l>au- side of the corporate limits of Gaff- rens and succeeded in interesting n ney, made fifty-six bushels of corn number of citizens in the society's ^ ^ ^ on 5-8 of an acre and did not employ work. Mr . John W. Watts, a sue- reduction, but if you wish to increase The farmers of Western York are Williamson plan, either. cessful farmer, who is prominently it 100, 200 or 500 per cent, the jyay ' selling a lot of cotton seed to the Dr Hamrick sava tnat the work on w,t l h th * State Fa,r a * ao ‘ Is open. This is one of the exceptions | Wilkinsville oil mill. Wagons are i^ atloll > has been recommended to to “the good rule” which won’t work i running continually hauling them, both ways. You ought to have al-! Mr. W- R- Walker says a small lowed the “drunk and disorderly” i farmer can raise stock as well as a the Merrimac Mills <= making very the p.vomor ft,, appointment as cam. satisfactory progress; that the mills warden f0 the , „ 0 „, . bra,,c l' °f ‘"o National Audubon so- eases a living chance and said that|large one bet on a smaller seale. ot ,“ d m S hoSs nearmf completion 1 C,rt5 ' wl11 be la<»r. *hey have be«i reduced 99 per cent— course. He say s almost any one can, s v Henrv Wvatt 90 vonra mi qpe case against one hundred as raise a few beeves to sell each year. It is reported that several young attprjdlucvtoth^etLrn U# v « ^pfetofore. That would have done and get good money fo r them. j couples In Gaffney are to be married fathc _ if,,* better. Viewing Gaffney (and the Mr. A. N. Wood, of Gaffney, says, soon. We will not mention names i h _i 0 n ,|i n J, .. whole of Cherokee county so far as 'he wants to se e the time come when ibecause Darby says that by reason of L the^in Thr. entfro we know It) from a prohibition stand cotton will be sold every month in'that fact he is somewhat handicap- ! ’ tl _ s v p .,^ ® iH' point- we are led to the conclusion the 7 ear. This will Insure prosperous ped in his search for a life partner. IJnX ^Lh that if one who knew.it only during! times fo r the farming class. It’s! . m a the barroom and dispensary regimes ! about that way now. i A large number of the people of j 1 --.J • Ce a ? d would return to It now he would think ; The Western markets quote corn i.9 a ®? ey *SL kear , 0 ^ vmiti., undergoing an operation. iradise. ,much another year. . Ot»r f^nd and neighbor, Mr. James Mr. Sam Strain has raised four G. Gan- 4-, has got a new kind of rat j two-horse wagon loads of “goobers” poison—soak match heads in sweet —we mean vines and all. milk and make dough with the milk | Mrs. J. L. S. had the misfortune to and meal or flour and put it where cut her hand on a piece of glass one they can get it. It will do the work day this week. She has now to work of calling down the buzzards, as wit*, only one hand—and the left the manipulator of the dose must en- havd at that dure the scent of the dead rodents. A citizen of this county tells a good The boys took a fox hunt down in .Joke on a former citizen of this coun- the fork Tuesday night. They got t y who Dow lives in a different State. | success, and speaks well for the "high up a race but Reynard, after so long ,It is this: While on their way to the 'musical standards of Limestone, a time, took refuge in a hole in the , Jamestown exposition a few weeks | There was a large attendance In spite ground on the Moore place and es- * ago as the train pulled up to a station of the fact that other attractions of caped. We are told that one of the i somewhere In Virginia, this man was j a meritorious character were in Gaff- huntsmen run a pole eighteen feet standing on thTe platform and called ! ney the same night, long Into the hole but couldn’t touch ; to a crowd of boys standing there ! the bottom of it. The next race they | and said; “Hello boys, can a fellow' The Crescent Cafe conducted by get up In that section they will stop (get anything to drink?” “Oh, yes,” W. O. Johnson, is now open for busi- the hole and continue the fun or catch replied a tow-headed urchin in the ne3B - Every one who knows “Billie” W. B- Mahan, formerly of this city, but recently of Greensboro, N. C., died at bis sister’s home near Greens boro, about three weeks ago. Mr. Mahan was with the Virginia Life In surance Company, and was well known in Gaffney. The faculty concert at Limestone College last Friday night was a great the fox. "Uncle Jay” Spears said once he would like to teach his son Ben that was possible to raise corn on upland One day this week Will Smarr, who tie fellow, “we wouldn’t think of let-! a reasonable price was hauling cotton seed for the Wil- ting you have less than a oairet. • klnsville oil mill played a trick on J. L. S Leslie Blackwell. It was this way: When Will’s team struck a steep hill clean up Your Premises. Matthew W. Goodlett, one of th* leading harness merchants of Green ville, and a prominent citizen, drop ped dead In his store in that city Sat urday afternoon, acute Indigestion being the cause. Mr- Goodlett had been a sufferer from this trouble for sev eral years, but his death was very sudden and came as a great shock to his family and friends. He was 57 years of age and Is survived by a large family. He had been engaged In business in this city for many years and wag well known through- aout the county. The Southern’s railway’s special train with 120 European spinners aboard arrived In Greenville at 4:80 o’clock Saturday. The visitors were Country Club, where an Informal luncheon was served. The special sttftll ti_V *' of land sold by the’ clerk ofx^drt.yes- loformal addresses were made at the terday. In the case of Crocker vs. i dub. His excellency. Gov. Ansel, was Reynolds, a tract of flfty-onfr. acres ! the speaker. He welcomed the There were only tworglMH tracts- jd* a * 7:40 for Atlanta. A number of trouble, threw off his cotton poke, clean up their premises, especially rolled up bis sleeves, pushed back his the yards and sidewalks In front of hat and started to Will’s assistance, the residences. It will not cost much Old Mr. Mickle, who was on the to do this and we hope every property wagon with Will, saw the trick Will owner will act on the suggestion, intended to play on I^ss and he roll- One of the best advertisements for a cotton producer and the spinner. He declared, however, in a tactful way Mr. Joseph Coyle, one of Chero- J that the American producer had made kee’s good citizens, died at bis homeiup his mind that cotton was worth a few miles froop Gaffney ^efiterday. fl5 cents a pound and was determined Mr. Coyle has f|Br ni long, time been a to get the price. This statement was Oil o nl frro f- w* O c? Ttrfil 1 o a ♦Tio ed off the wagon and took hold of one town is clean yards and sidewalks.!?;;? 0 ^ maS^ of the hind wheels When T^ss got Gaffney has the reputation abroad of | e ®® ctB ,°J 1 ^ hlch manufacturers present. near enough to take hold of the other being a progreslve, wideawake 1 ° t f . a la If. e . 0f v,i^Li!! 8 committee. * nferenr* ^ wheel Will gave the word and the business town and we would regrei S° es out to the family in their bereave- Committees fo r Conference. W mules walked off with the load leav- it if the strangers who visit us on the , menr - • » ®, ®* ecu “ ve committee of the * in- Less standing alone. Txess says occasions above referred to should go D . „ „ . , .. . . i; llf0I “ Street M- E- church met last If he ever finds Will in trouble again away and tell that the yards and j Ur 1* u ®i T 1168 ^ night and appointed the fol- h ean get out the best wav he can. sidewalks are a disgrace. a rni J ma ? ag f ma ?t of agricultural lowing working committees for the At Gaffney one day this week we - - ^P art ™® nt # at Wa ^^ 0H ’ 1 wiu ad -,;5nnual conference which-meets here f met some of ou r old friends and by List of Unclaimed Letters I 27t h t° December 2nd: the way had a kind of a remlniscen- The following Is the list of un- ^ t&e court house. Commltte on homes—Ward 1, L. G. Him PH Q»*a ramalmf *%ar Prof. Quinn is a hog and corn export, Potter, J. D. Buice and D. J. Holt; tall experience meeting. The liquor claimed letters remaining in the u «v s a “ a cor ? ,, p r \’ ^O'-ier, j. d. Buice and D. J. Holt; business and the wonderful changes Gaffney postoffice for week ending ivL ch m ans hog and hominy and Ward 2, G..W. Speer, J. P. Shuford - - — - --- r 0,1 he will doubtless be able to impart and Dr. W. A. Fort; Ward 3. A. N. Wood and J. V. Sarratt; Ward 4. L. Baker, R. M. Gaffney and T. H. I some valuable information to the which have come over Cherokee October 8th, 1907 county and the town of Gaffney slnre Miss Emma Adams, Mrs. Fannie O. „ the voting out of the dispensary was Beatty, Padgett Brown, Mrs. Lois ? rm ® r8 - tnerefore urge upon all the subject of conversation. Brown, Miss Jessie Byars, Mrs. N. L. One told how two prominent men Byars. Mrs. Mariah Curry. Miss Lolar th _ pfT - nrtR Mr s r, of the town many years am pled**! Conely, Mlaa Maggie Cooper, Mlaa cheroliM Mr Qutoi Sties the farmers who can do so to come to tlejohn; Ward 5, W. S. Hall and R. Gaffney on that day. It was through C. Littlejohn; Ward 6, Dr. J. F. Gar- themselves to reform and quit drink-. Ethel Cooksey, B. Q. Cherry, S. A 4 Instead of giving their full names M. Viola Foat<*. Mrs. A . g-ioyd, ln / B n n Vi n ‘ * „ e will just call one Sam and the Mrs. Conle U-iwler. Mls s Annie Gal-, th e fact°that a laree^mimber^J^aid »iher Jack. They were riding out ley, Mrs. I, V. Humphries, Sophia ' ^ aJe overgrown wRn weedl on--evening above town to spend the HumphVles, Annie Humphries, Miss b r i ar ® and th S at a e^netUft 1t»ew yntght when all at once the subject MiMh* Ivins, Alice Julia, Miss Laura • ' Dd - a - com P etent of a reformation came up and they Kirby,’ T,. L. Lindsey, Mrs. Bernice mutually agreed to quit drinking. ( Lamry, Mis B Alder Moore. Jo Med- Sa^n had the bottle of liquor, and to ley, Martin Parker, Cathan Fowls, prove the sincerity of his pledge. Rev. Boyce, Preacher, Jim Potts. J. threw It away, (first looking out for A. Ra*/, Miss Eler Robens, Walter a soft place where he thought there j Strother, John ganders. J. R. Sherrill, was little danger of the bottle being j John 'Thomas. Slome Trlnner, Miss broken, and. at the same time looking Allle (tueen. (2). Miss Emma Wilson, *t the surroundings Bo that he would MIr 8 Vlaggie Wilson, Mrs. Bacey Wll- rett and J. C. Jefferies. It Is urgently requested that people ing and how sacredly they kept their ; Davidson, Mary Dawkins, Mrs. Min- to Gaffney - i of the respective wards communicate pledgee to each other. nle Davis, Fred Edwards Mrs Marv mv ** a xp. . w l>h this committee and render all P U* s to tten ocner. i-. 1!. . rr * a «awaras, Mrs. wary The attention of^ those who pwn , assistance possible, thus lightening the work of the committee. Reception committee—Rev. S. B. Harper, Rev. T. B. Owen. Rev. J. B. Wilson, c. W- Hames, G. W. Speer, W. 9. Halli Jr., Dr. J. T. Darwin. W. C. McArthur, T. B- Butler and Lowery Walker. Committee on arrangements—L. Baker, A. N. Wood, L. G. Potter, E. H. Gaines, Dr. J. F. Garrettv Dr. B. R. Brown and J. C. Otts. Committee on transportation—HL M. Johnson. Boyd Hames. J. J. Darby, R. A. Jones, w. F. Smith and W. F. McArthur. Committee on assignment—Rev. 0. B. Harper, Rev. J. B. Wilson and Rev. T. B. Owen. not be mistaken In cane he ever wish- «d to Identify the exact spot.) Jack, too, was taking In the situation with the same object In view. They each son. Call for advertised letters, cent duo on each. A. R. N. Folger, p. If. One has been employed by the authorities whose duty It is to look after the part of the cemetery which Is not owned by private parties. He Is paid a very small sum for this work and will be glad to clean the lots of persons owning them for 50 cents per lot. It is to be hoped that all persons own ing lots will have them attended to and cleaned off at once as several conventions will shortly convene in our town and local pride should be a sufficient Incentive for us to make the very best showing that we ean. A Little Crippled Girl who Writes Many Letters. (By Rev. J. G- Stevenson.) Naples is a wonderful city, and nothing in it is more wonderful than its children. Toward evening, espe cially, they gather in Its narrower streets and play whilst mother, who is sitting in the road there, gets the younger children ready for bed, and father, on a chair near mother, smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper. As you drive by in a little carriage the playing children are clustered togeth er like a shifting ant heap, and it seems quite certain that some of them must be run over. But when the horse’s nose touches them they part for a moment, and then before you can look back the ant heap has come together again and the children •ire shouting, and playing, and push ing. and .having a good time once again. Yet I saw one little girl in Naples who did not look as though she played much. She was not at all old but she had a big w-hite face and she was hump-backed. There she sat on a chair on the pavement in a crowded part of the city, and in front of her was a rather large white table. On the table were envelopes and note- paper. and I wondered why she was sitting thus in the open street. But as I watched and wondered a very old woman came along and sat down in a chair on the other side of the table. Then she said something to the little girl, who reached out for a sheet of notepaper. and as the old wo man continued talking she began to write fast. She wrote for five or six minutes. Then she addressed an en velope and put what she had written inside it and gave it to the old wo man. who handed her a half-penny md went on her way. As she went I began to understand. The old wo man although she was. of course, quit*- grown up. could not write; and the litt 1 ** hump-backed girl made a living l,y writing letters for such peo ple at a halfpenny a time, jt was all very strange and a little sad; but I —onId not help being pleased that a Jtt(le girl was able so to nelp old peo ple. It was a little sad because I felt sorry that anywhere in the world there should he old people who can not w-rite. of course, such old people are very Ignorant, but no one must blame them. When they are little their fathers and mothers did not send them to school, and so tney never had a chance to learn. Did you ever think that mother and father send ypu to school because they u»ve you? Is that not a funny Idea? When you have that headache at a quarter to nine and tell mother about It, she sometimes says she knows that head ache too well and you had better be off to school and say no more about it- and those of you who are at board ing-school feel sadder and sadder the last few days of your holiday and think it almost cruel of mother to send you back to school on the first day of the term. Yet how would you like to grow up as ignorant as that poor old woman In Naples, and- so b< unable to wrlto your own Fetters? Of course, you would not like this at all; and when you grow up you will be able to read and to write and to do lots of other things Just because mother and father love you enough to send you to school. I dare say that If mother only thought of herself sh*- would always keep you at home; hut she thinks of yon. and because she wants you to be a little scholar, to school you have to go. Then, also, do you noj^ think that some children at least might work a little harder? It Is wonderful how soon boys and girls who are never tired In the playground get tired In the class-room. Do not be any more like them than you can help. Whether it Is sums, or spell ing. French, or music, whilst you are at your lessons Just work as hard as ever you can. Then when you grow up you wll he a much better ser vant of Jesus Christ, because there is so much that you know. The more we know, the more use our Elder Brother can always make of us.— j Lodon Christian World. BEST OF PROOF That Hyomei Will Cure Ml Form* of Catarrhal Diseases. I Testimonials could be printed by the thousands, many of them from Gaffney and nearby towns, that Hy omei Is an absolute cure for all catar rhal troubles, but the best proof of Its unusual curative powers is the guarantee That the Gaffney Drug Co. give with every outfit that they sell, “Money back If Hyomei does not do all that is claimed for It.” Hyomei Is not a secret remedy. Its formula Is given freely by physicians who want to know what they use when they prescribe Hyomei. It Is guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Law by serial No. 1418. Bv breathing Hyomei. the healing medication goes directly to every nook and corner of the air passages where the catarrhal germs may lurk, and disinfects and heals. To be con vinced of this you have only to give It a trial, remembering that If it does not cure, the Gaffney Drug Co. will refund your money. The complete Hyomei outfit costs but $1.00, and In most oases Is suf ficient to cure the disease, making It not on’y a scientific treatment bnt one that Is highly economical. Get an outfit today fro’m the GafPner Drug Co. If you have any catarrh. THROUGHOUT THE TMHEEl STATE. RECENT EVENTS OP NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. Item* of Interest Concerning Our Neighbor* In th« Old North State Clipped from Our Exchange*. Mr. John C- Correll, who has had charge of the Southern express office in Concord for the past several yean, has tendered his resignation, to take effect at once. Dr. and Mds. Rowland, who have been on trial at Raleigh for the mur der of Mrs. Rowland’s first husband, C. R. Strain, by poisoning, were ao- quitted. The trial consumed all of last week. Ernest Duvall, of Portsmouth, Vs* baggage-master of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, fell off a 35-foot trestle near Weldon and is In a hospital at Raleigh with a broken arm and sprain ed hack. The accident occurred while be was on a trip over pan of the A. C. L-, the S- A. L. having been sent that way on account of a wreck near Weldon. At the State fair grounds the Wake county agricultural exhibit ie being i put in place. The total value of the prizes for the best county exhibit is i $275,000, of which $200 comes from the State Agricultural Department, and that county Is going to try very hard to be again a winner. It had a notably fine exhibit last year but this will be more extensive and even higher in quality. State Veterinarian Tait Butler has returned from a trip to Yadkin and Halifax counties to investigate sup posed cases of glanders in hoihes. He found n 0 cases in Yadkin but 'several on one farm in Halifax. The horses infected with this terrible dis ease are isolated, and tests are being made. While Dr. Butler was on this trip he inspected a herd of cattle at Greensboro and made tests for tuber culosis. • Pasenger train No. 82, ran into a shifting engine Sunday morning on the outskirts of South Rocky Mount at 2:20 o’clock and Engineer George Boney, on the passenger train was killed instantly. His fireman was badly injured. The train crew on the shifter Jumped. Both engines were demolished and the mail coach was broken Into shreds. Five mall clerks were slightly wounded. The baggage and one pease iger car were demol ished. No passengers \vei e injured. Saturday afternoon Mr. John Stew art. of Salisbury, arrived in Thomas- ville and closed the store of 3. R. Goodman, a Jewish clothing chant. He is appointed receiver, pending the hearing for the creditors 1 In the District Court of the United State for that district of an action adjudging Goodman a bankrupt, rfls liabilities are estimated at $5,000, with estimated assets between $3,000 and $4,000. The business will be ad judicated as quickly as possible. A Jury at Durham after being “hung” all of Friday night in the railroad damage suit of E. E. Camppell against the North Caro lina Railroad and t»e Southern re turned a verdict Saturday morning. The suit was for $7,500 ana me jury gave a verdict of $2,050. The road gave notice of appeal to the higher court. This suit was on account of Mr. Camppell’s getting hurt by a run away horse. He was unloading wood so he claims, when an engine on the Southern’road frightened his horse. He claims that the engineer saw his perilous condition and yet -sounded his whistle, this only adding to his danger. The horse ran off and the plaintiff was thrown out and hi? leg was broken in the fall. The criminal term of Superior Court cloaed at Newhern Saturday The docket consisted of 150 cases, most of them being Indictments for selling liquor without license. Judge Lyon has been very expeditious in clear ing the docket, and there are but few cases continued to the next term of court. One of the Important cases was the State v«. J. M- Arnold for at tempted criminal assault. The de fendant was found guilty and sen tenced to five years in the peniten tiary. Arnold bad able counsel and a strong effort was made ♦<■* set aside the verdict, but it was usuccessful. Most of the blind tiger cases were those of negroes and the majority of them were sent to the roaii* on four mouth terms. —Be at our store Saturday. 12th Inst., with 50 Octagon Soap wrapper* and receive one of those 230 Berry Seta free for nothing. Gaffney Drug Company. Oct. g 2t. Subscribe for Th* Lotfgsr. 91 • year. Try Again. Gaffney. S. C.. Oct. 4. 1807. Dear little boys and girls. I admire your pluck *n working at the problem given by me in The Ledger. I have eight or ten answers but none cor rect. Thlo la the aum: How many day* had I lived at aeventy-nlne years six months and sixteen day*, count ing 865 days to the year and thirty days to the month. Now for the nle* present. Try and try again. W R Lipscomb. P. fl.—Address all answers to B. H. DeCamp. -Saturday exactly a* 12 o’clock Gaffney Drug Companv Oct. | 2t. —The Gaffney Drug Co hill line typewriter aupplles. Oct. 8 tf.