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VOL. XX, NO. 48. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893. WHOLE NUMBER 980. LOCAL LACOAICS. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. of A Column of New*, Tersely Told, Interest to Our Many Reader*. The regular meeting of the Knights of Pythias win be held on Tuesday night. Dr. W. J. Qarner has been elected vice-president of the South Carolina Club for this circuit. The President has issued a proclamation designatingThurs- day, November 30, as Thanks giving Day. Ur. J. C. Garrison, who has been a State constable since the dispensary law went into effect, has resigned. The Court of Common Pleas is still in session. It is engaged in the trial of no cases of public interest, however. Anyone wishing to rent a good two-horse farm should read Mr. E. C. Lide’s advertise ment in this issue. Mr. S. Manne’s grocery store on Pearl street has been closed by a chattel mortgage held by the Bank of Darlington. There has been no material change in the cotton market for several days. Middling cotton brought 71 cents in Darlington yesterday. A german, which promises to be largely attended and a very enjoyable affair, will be given in the Guards armory to-mor row (Friday) evening. A new street has been opened, extending in rather an indirect line from Pearl street, near Loafers’ Bridge, to New street, near Mr. W. A. Parrott’s resi dence. Dr. A. T. Baird has abandon ed the idea of building, as was announced in a recent issue, and has purchased the residence of Mr. J. A. Bearon in east Darlington. The Sumter Freeman, in a re cent issue says: “A rumor is afloat that the Charleston, Sum ter & Northern Railroad is about to go under control of the fa mous Plant System”. Rev. R. W. Barnwell, the new rector of the Florence and Dar lington Episcopal Churches will conduct his first services in the church at this place on Sunday evening next, beginning at 8 o’clock. Governor Tillman has appoint ed Mr. W. F. Wilkes, who lives in the lower part of this county near Timmonsville, a member of the board of control in the place of Mr. Geo. Just Brown, resigned. The annual races of the Flor ence Driving Association are now in progress and several of Darlington’s best horses are among the participants. The Darlington Driving Association expects to hold its first regular races next month. At a meeting on Friday of the creditors of Capt. E. W. Can non, of Hartsville, who recent ly made an assignment, Mr. C. K. Rogers was made "Creditors’ and Messrs E. K. Dar- T. Thompson and T. H. BAPTIST NOTES. Delegate* Elected to Welch Neck A*- sociation—Visiting Clergymen, The annual convention of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church is now in session at Mt. E1 o n Church in this county. The fol lowing delegates were elected on Sunday last to represent the Darlington Baptist Church: Rev. John Stout, Messrs W. C. Coker, J. P. Coleman, D. M. Smoot, F. C. Luke, A. A. Gandy, Louis J. Bristow. Several distinguished Baptist divines stopped over in Darling ton on Sunday, en route to at tend the convention. Rev.Char les Manley, president of Furman University, Rev. J. L. Vass, superintendent of the Connie Maxwell Orphanage, and Rev. A. J. 8. Thomas, editor of the Baptist Church. Mr. Vass preached in the Baptist Church m the morning and Mr. Manley in the evening and Messrs Vass and Thomas made addresses to the Sunday School. At the church conference on Sunday, when delegates were elected to the association, the pastor of the Church was in structed by a unanimous vote to invite the next State Baptist convention to meet in Darling ton. A word to the wives is suffi cient. Dry Goods. Norment & Co. A QUEER HABIT. A Sumter Mule that “Ju*t Took On To" a Colored Man. The mules of Sumter county must have a very queer habit or else a colored man, who was arrested here on Thursday last on the charge of stealing one of those animals, belied the char acter of the one he took. Mr. J. P. Kilgore, of Bishopville, recently had a mule stolen from him and on Thursday Isaac Mack, colored, was arrested in Darlington for having the ani mal in his possession When uestioned about the matter ack denied that he had stolen the mule and said that it had met him on the road and “just took on to him”. Mr. Kilgore who came over for his mule, thought, however, that Mack had better tell the Court about the queer "taking on” habit that the mule has and "just took on to him” (Mack) and carried him back to Sumter. Agent n, H ipain “Creditors’ Committee”. Mr. J. A. Mclnnes, of Charles ton, will locate in Darlington for the purpose of conducting a first-class blacksmithv. Mi will make a specialty of shoeing fine horses and doing work in the higher branches of the busi ness. He has had many years of experience and comes to Dar lington highly recommended The people of Sumter will give a grand ball on the 39th Inst., the occasion being the opening of the opening or the new armory of the Sumier Light Infantry. An invitation to attend has been extended to the people of Darlington through Mr. R. L. Dargan. The C., 8. l & N. Ra :, road will give excur- ! sion ra’ s. The exhibition of chrysanthe- (iums which Mrs. C. S. McCul- [>ugh made at her residence on Friday last was quite a success, large number of her friends lied during the day to inspect tie exhibit and no better evi- ence of the beauty of the flow- i can be bad than the expres- i of Admiration elicited from who saw them. The News turns thanks to Mrs. McCul- ih for a large box of very isome specimens of this 1 flower. Mrs. S. J. Nettles desires to rent three rooms in her resi dence. FELL IN A WELL. The Drowning of a Little Colored Boy in Mechanictville. Ramie Ervin, the eleven-year old son of William Ervin, col ored. met his death at his home in the Mechanicsville section, on Sunday afternoon, by falling in a well. He was drawing a bucket of water when the chain broke and he was thrown in headforemost. There w as about six feet of water in the well and the little fellow was drowned Nothing was known of the af fair until the boy was missed and it was not until the next day that his body was taken from the well. The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict in ac cordance with the above facts. THE PROTEST IN THE DARLINGTON POSTOFFICE MATTER NOW READY. Worsted patterns in ginghams new and stylish. Norment & Co. A BARN DESTROYED. Fire Inflict* a Severe Lot* Upon Mr- J. T. Suggs Mr. J. T. Suggs, who lives in Philadelphia township, lost his barn by fire on Thursday night The building was a very large structure. He als6 lost by the fire two hundred and fifty bush els of corn, a lot of fodder and peas apd all of his farming im plements. There was no insur ance on the property and Mr. Suggs’s loss is, therefore, very heavy. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin. To arrive—two striking nov elties in kid gloves. Norment & Co. MARRIED. At the residence of the bride, in Darlington, 8. C., Tuesday, November 14, 1893 by Rev. John Kershaw, of Symter, Augustus Henry Hayden, Jr., M. D.,of Charleston, 8. C., and Mary Sparks, daughter of the late A. C. Spain, Esq., of Darlington, 8. C. Practically Unanimously Signed by the Business Men of the Town—A Political Rumor. The Darlington postoffice mat ter still occupies the attention of our people. The protest of the business men of Darlington against the Appointment of Mr. J. M. Waddill, which has been practically unanimously signed, is now ready, together with other papers necessary to the case, to be submitted to the au thorities at Washington. Mr. Waddill has also prepared a petition. The protest will be forwarded to Washington as soon as the Postmaster General, who has been communicated with, signifies his wishes as to how and when it shall be pre sented. The following, which appear ed in the Sunday News, we pub lish for what it is worth. The rumor referred to was not brought back from Washington by the committee, as the inter view incorrectly states, but orig inated in South Carolina and is very commonly believed in Darlington and elsewhere in the State. A Charleston business man who has recently returned from a trip to the Pee Dee section re- pjrts an unusual awakening of interest in national politics in Darlington, where, as has been published in the News and Cour ier, a cousin of Congressman McLaurin, J. M. Waddill, has been appointed postmaster. As a matter of fact, the News and Courier carried the first inform ation of t h e appointment to Darlington, and the news fell like a bomb-shell on the unsus pecting community. The gentle man referred to says that the people of Darlington blame Sen ator Butler for this appoint ment, and, whether justly or unjustly, are bitter as gall against him. They have great hope of a revocation of the ap pointment since the commis sion, through the intervention of a committee of business men who hurried immediately to Washington, has been "held up’ for investigation. This com mittee has, it seems, picked up some political straws at t b e National Capital, and are pre dieting the direction of the wind. "Senator Butler's course for the last few months, said he, has been a puzzle to more as tute men than myself, but these gentlemen think they have un ravelled a skein that has a so lution of the problem at one end. They are inclined to be lieve that our senior Senator has given up the race for the Senate, and will gracefully sur render his seat to Governor Till man, making no fight for it, and we may assume that he is laughing in his sleeve at the threats which are being made of the desertion of his friends from his standard. He does not wish their support for the Sen ate, for he has other fish to fry. In short it is the belie': now prev - alent that Senator Butler would like to be "Governor Butler” and will enter the arena for the Democratic nomination with the support of the new made friends on the other side of the fence. "This, he says, does not seem improbable in the light of much that has transpired and the op- position developed'in the reform ranks to those gentlemen who have been prominently mention ed as probable recipients of this honor from their party. How ever, the end of the story is not yet. “Our senior Senator is not be lieved to have relinquished his claim on Senatorial honors. It is a nice thing to be Governor of such a State as South Caro lina, and to have one’s portrait in the gallery of famous men who have held this exalted posi tion; it is indeed a nice thing, but two or three years is enough and it is a still nicer thing to be a. United States Senator, so we may imagine our Senator-Gov- ernor again- seeking honors af ter severakyears of much glory and much harder work, again the candidate for Senatorial honors, when the term of the Hon. John Laurens Manning Irby expires. "Now, continued he, you newspaper men are on the look out for such jumps of the cat and you may keep your eyes open on this matter and should you conclude that there is any probability of the truth of those conjectures let the eager and expectant public know. In the meantime you may publicly state that the city of Darlington is practically in a state of fer ment over the appointment of Waddill as postmaster. It was all that I heard in the store and the curbing The business on _ men are determined to leave no stone unturned to keep Waddill out of the postoffice”. With reference to Mr. Wad- dill’s politics we publish the fol lowing letter from his brother to the News and Courier. To the Editor of The News and Courier: I beg that you publish this card in the interest of justice. I am not desirous to appear in print, but John M. Waddill, of Darlington, is being made to suffer for my acts, and I thing it right that the public should know the facts as they have been. I was appointed by Governor D. H. Chamberlain in 1876 as sheriff of Marlboro county to fill an unexpired term. I ran on the Republican ticket in 1876 and was defeated. Since then I have had nothing to do with politics and have been merchan dising in this county and town I exercise my right as a citizen to vote for whom I please and have voted three times for Cleveland John M. Waddill has alwavs been a Democrat and voted the Democratic ticket. He was railroad and express agent at Society Hill for years, and dis charged his duties with great satisfaction to the patrons of the companies. At that time the moneys to move the cotton crop of Marlboro county came through his office, and no doubt the citizens of this county who had dealings with him would bear cheerful testimony to his business capacity and affable dealings. He being of recent years before the public has caused the mistake of putting him in my shoes. Very respectfully, Geo. M. Waddill. Bennettsville, Nov. 10, ’93. Mr. Waddill has not always voted for Democracv, for he ad mits himself that, while he did not vote the Republican ticket in 1876, he did not vote for Hampton, who that year re deemed the State from the ne groes. A VERY SAD DEATH. A Lady, but a Short Time a Wile, Pass es Away. Mrs. Fannie Lee, the wife of Mr. G. O. Lee, a young mer chant and citizen of Lydia, died on Monday. She was the daughter of Mr. John Bell, of Kershaw county. She was only about twenty-three years old and had not been married more than a year. The union, so hap pily begun and so soon and so abruptly severed, makes the death particularly sad and draws the sympathies of everybody to the young husband in his be reavement. Three of the very best papers of their kind in the country, the Weekly News and Courier and the Southern Cultivator, and The Darlington News will all be sent to any address for one year for $2.45. 4t An Editor’s Opinion. H“We have'looked somewhat into the merits of the fourteen different typewriting machines on exhibition. «Jt is very inter- teresting to see the various ex perts manipulate the keys of their particular make, each claiming superior features. It seemed to us for the one great duty required of a typewriting device by all business men, viz, to knock out from twenty-five to one hundred letters per day, there is nothing yet built that can stand the racket equal to a Caligraph. We see no advan tage in the fancy work that some of the others claim to do.” —The Irrigator, DeLand, Fla., September, 1893. * THE com NEWS. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Chronicles from Clyde—Religious Meetings in Progress—Teach ers and Schools. Mr. D. D. Johnson has been quite unwell for a few days. We have almost finished gathering our short cotton crop. If nothing happens some of our boys will raise enough pork. We are glad to have the Hartsville boys visit our sec tion. Rev. J. A. White preached an excellent sermon at New Mar ket, on Sunday, taking his text from Romans VIII, 16. Some of our farmers are sow ing wheat this year. They say they will try to raise their own hogs and hominy next year. The session of Morman School began on Monday of last week with Mr. Geo. Wright as teach er. He is a good man for the place. Miss Cornelia Laramore, of Marion county, took charge of the public school at Clyde on Monday. She is as good a teach er as can be found. We are informed that Mr. R. E. Parnell, who moved to Sum ter county last year, will return to this section. We will give Bob a hearty welcome. Our Pond Hollow friends are having a good deal of preach ing just now. Mr. H. T. Jones is carrying on a Baptist meet ing and Messrs Grantham and Smith an Advent meeting. The members of both of these de nominations wish to organize churches in Pond Hollow. FOR THE NEXT HARTSVILLE. Mr. W. K. Bell is preparing to erect a residence near Mr. H. Lide Law’s. Miss Bannie Bryant, of the Leavensworth section, is visit ing in town. The session of the free school at Damascus began on Monday, November 13. Miss Maud Carraway, from near Jovann, is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. W. W. Stognall. Mr. E. D. Wright and^amily, who went to Spartanburg about a year ago to reside, have re turned to their old home to live. Hartsville should organize a fire company of some descrip tion. We have nothing of the kind here now and fire is as likely to burn Hartsville as any- other town. Whoop this mat ter up, Messenger! Mr. F. C. Hyman, the popular cotton buyer of Sprunt & Son, has been transferred from Harts- yille and Mr. W. B. Stephens has taken his place. Mr. Ste- hens has purchased cotton here ore and he has many friends in Hartsville who welcome him back. RIVERDALE. people went to week to attend The Darlington News office makes a s rg ji of fi: ob ne job work of all Idnds, particu larly of wedding and ball invi tations. The character of the work is identical with that to be obtained in Charleston or Columbia and the prices are guaranteed to be the same thqt prevail there. Some of our Columbia last the State Fair. Miss Hannah Byrd has re turned to All Healing, N. C., to ursue her studies in Jonee’s minary. The Angel of Death invaded the home of Mr. W. W. Isgett, on Tuesday of last week, and carried off in his embrace little Belle. The bereaved family have our heartfelt symoathy. VI m m Wk Dms Mi Utfirlotil. We have a few nice dress pat terns left that we will sell out very cheap; former price $1, now $80 cents. A good many remnants—just enough to make a nice dress for a child—at bar gain prices. STOP! —Before purchasing and see the LARGEST MOST COMPLETE CHEAPEST Also Fall and Winter Stock of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, HOTIONS. Cloak Department. Cloaks for ladies and children; newest styles and lowest prices. In these goods we will make you special prices. Eigi! Rugs! Rigs! Smyrna, 18 by 30 inches, at $1.25. Smyrna, 20 by 54 inches, at $2. Smyrna, 26 by 54 inches, at $2.50. Smyrna, 30 by 60 inches, at $3.50. Smyrna, 36 by 72 inches, at $4.50. A few velvet rugs left: 27 63 at $2.75; 36 b) 72 at $5. If you will come in and see these goods you will observe at once that they are very cheap. Now is the time if you want to see whatyou can do with a dollar. We are going to sell them. by TRUNKS AND- VALISES. GROCERIES. I II11M In NOTHING! To examine our stock. You Will SaTe BY DOING 80. 3> in. A lot of new Dry Norment & Co. Goods just Resisted Arrest William Meetze, of Columbia, secured the privilege of selling light drinks at the State Fair last week, but Governor Till man, claiming thtft he sold strong drinks, ordered his arrest Meetze, however, rtdusecTto be arrested without a warrant, so the Governor, taking a number of constables with him, went to Meetze’s stand and insisted on his being arrested. Meetze said he would go on a warrant but cursed and swore that he would kill the first man who crossed his counter to attempt to arrest him without a warrant. He de fied the whole crowd and he was not arrested. The next day a warrant was served on him and he submitted to arrest and gave bond. Meetze in the last election was a red hot follower of Tillman. Judging from the way we are we are selling this line we must have the nicest lot in town. This year we are making a special run on $10, $12.50 and $15 suits, and they are beauties for that price. All we want you to do is to come in and try them on and SOO How Nicely They Fit 1 Hat Department. Another lot of Tourist and Youmans’s hats jusc in—newest styles and shapes. Collars, Cuffs, Gloves and Neck wear in abundance. Shoe Department. Everybody knows the reputa tion we have in this line, so it is not much use fo say anything else except that we are still giv ing our customers the best shoe for the money we can get. Pricss lew Ijttlii Eirt Mu! Cambric Dress Linings . Standard Prints, very best . Standard Dress Ging hams Finest fancy Dress Ging hams Double-widihWoolCash- meres 36-inch Worsteds, all shades DRESS GOODS & TRIMMINGS, DRY GOODS * NOTIONS,