"Carolina Spartan" Issue: April 9, 1884 Did you ever use the celebrated "Ivory Soap?" If not, call at Ligon's Drug Store and get a cake and you will never want to be without it again. As a toilet soap this is as good as many of the kinds for which you have to pay three times the price of the "Ivory". Mr. C.Q. FIKE has lately visited Laurens, Newberry, and Abbeville counties. He says the small grain crops are excellent, and about Martin's Depot and Ninety Six, they are the best he ever saw. It is said that in some sections of the county cows are taking distemper or some disease that causes great pain and death. Mr. J.C. EDGE says a half pint of soft tar will cure this disease. A half pint of castor oil four or five hours after the tar, should be given. This will cure unless the disease is far advanced. Albert JACKSON has returned from Florida, where he has been spending the winter. Lula HODGE, who was Lula BOGAN, attempted to burn Mrs. WEBBER's house last Wednesday. She set fire to it once or twice, but it was extinguished before doing any harm. She was arrested and placed in jail. Dr. Geo. W. HEINTISH visited her Monday and pronounces her insane. That is the only reasonable explanation of her conduct. Mr. James R. TOLLESON of Atlanta was recently married to Miss GABLE of Marrietta. A thousand congratulations go out from Spartanburg to the young couple. The friends of Mrs. W.J. HARDIN, of Rutherfordton, were pleased to see her in town last Monday. She is always welcome to her native county and to Spartanburg. "Carolina Spartan" Issue: April 16, 1884 Major A.H. KIRBY was thrown from his buggy Sunday and severely hurt. The shafts became detached and caused the accident. Mr. S.G. LANFORD has found some rock containing pyrites on his land and there may be gold in it. Who knows but that a gold mine may yet be found on the Tyger hills? Mr. and Mrs. J.W. CARLISLE went to Bennetsville last week to visit their daughter, Mrs. BREEDEN. Rev. J.S. BURNETT, of Asheville, is visiting his son and old friends here. W.F. McARTHUR, Miss Mary LYNN and Miss Mattie TATE, of Gaffney's went down to Charleston to attend the Floral Fair this week. The following lawyers left for the Supreme Court in Columbia Monday: E.H. BOBO, D.R. DUNCAN, C.P. SANDERS, and Charles P. WOFFORD. Tuesday, J.S.R. THOMSON, R.K. CARSON, and Stanyarne WILSON went down. William FOWLER and F.A. SUMNER, left Sunday afternoon for New York. Miss Lily CARLISLE, of Chester, reached our town Monday on a visit to relatives. "Carolina Spartan" Issue: April 23, 1884 Four thousand emigrants arrived at New York from Europe last Saturday, of whom 2,500 were from Germany. The grand jury at Charleston found a true bill against C.O. KIMBRELL of this county, for making out fraudulent claims for services while acting as deputy marshal. The gold mines of Spartanburg and Union Counties are receiving increased attention. The West Mine for which the company lately paid $10,000, now employs about twenty hands. The hill side is loosed up with picks and then sluiced. Sometimes blasting is resorted to. The rock is crushed in a mill, and the result is very satisfactory to the proprietors. Not far from this is the famous Thompson mine which has been worked for years and in some places to the depth of 100 feet. Dr. N. SEYMOUR and Mr. Edward McDOWELL, of Spartanburg, have bonded and leased this mine, and will begin work at once. One vein, six inches wide, gives a penny weight of gold to the panful of four pounds, or say about $350 to the ton. Besides some veins in this mine which promise well, there is quite a number of acres that "pan out" gold in quantities sufficient to pay handsomely. The lessees of this mine have much experience in mining matters and they see much to encourage them in this enterprise. The right of circumcision was preformed Monday evening, the subject being an infant of Mr. STEINBERG. Rabbi Trager of Columbia, officiated. Jasper JONES, colored, working for Col. H.D. FLOYD in town, was bitten in the hand by a strange dog last Thursday. The dog met him in the road and snapped him and went right on his way. The 8th of April about 8 or 10 inches were broken from the shaft of a buggy standing in the Palmetto Livery Stable yard, near the Post Office. Mr. Whitner WILLIAMS, who accidentally broke this, has left money at the Spartan Office to pay for the same. The owner of the buggy will please call. Miss Alice WALKER returned from Boston Saturday evening being advised by her physician to stop her studies and return to her home. Messrs. W.P. IRWIN and A.L. WHITE left Saturday evening on a visit to the blue grass regions of Kentucky. Govenor B.F. CUE? Of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mr. A.W. HOWARD of Yankton, Dakota, were at the Windsor House Monday. They are looking for large bodies of land with a view of bringing a colony of several families in this direction. They left for Tryon on Monday's train. Colonel Joseph WALKER has been confined to his room for a week with rheumatism. He is improving and hopes to be out in a few days. We publish on the first page from the "News and Courier", "Dear Kate". The writer of this sad and thrilling incident is a Spartanburg woman, and the noble heroine belongs to our county. This is a true story, every word of it, and it ought to inspire young women to good thoughts and noble deeds. A colored man, calling himself Joseph PRICE, came to the Campton neighborhood about two years ago and has been teaching school and working on farms. He was an active agreeable fellow, wrote a good hand, and was generally like by white and black. Not long ago he told something that led to a correspondence with the superintendent of the North Carolina Penitentiary. This led to the arrest of PRICE under his true name, Benjamin EDWARDS, who was convicted and sent to the penitentiary, Oct. 4, 1880, and who ran away from the Western North Carolina Road Jan. 26 1882. He was sentenced to eight years. Last Thursday Frank Camp carried him through to Raleigh. FEMALES ON HORSEBACK Some one has expressed the opinion in writing that a pretty woman, gracefully riding a fine horse, was one of the prettiest visions that ever dazzled a man's eyes. . . .Now, this may all be true, but for a girl who is a poor rider, "at best" and dressed in an unbecoming habit to attempt to go at full gallop through the streets, with her feet bouncing our from the horse and the habit cutting up all sorts of capers and her arms looking as though ther were loosely hinged on - well this is not a sight to be admired by man or woman. . . .The old fashioned trot or gallop at break neck speed was not to be thought of, unless a woman was going for a doctor or acting as a courier in war times. As I watch from my window some of our young ladies enjoying the health giving exercise of horseback riding, these old things, read long ago, rise up in memory, and the impression I would like to make on the girls who ride horseback, is that they should not sacrifice all sense of beauty and grace to a desire to go capering through the streets like a Comanche maiden. Signed: An Old Woman free post Lisa