University of South Carolina Libraries
atliniiftfn ?fctm YOL. XXI, NO. 9. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 995. LOCAL LACONICS. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. The Governor has appointed Mr. R. L. Dargan a notary pub lic. f^Good cotton brought in Dar lington yesterday from 61 to 7 cents. I Miss Bessie King, of* Ebe- nezer, is visiting the» family of Capt. John Floyd. The Brockenton place between the Pee Dee River and Low- ther’s Lake is advertised for rent. Mr. R. L. Bonnoitt has remov ed to the residence on Pearl Street adjoining Mr. C. S. Mc Cullough's. The State Board of Control has reached no conclusion in the question of a dispensary at Dovesville. Miss Lillie Covington and Miss Ora Thomas, of Laurin- burg, N. C., are visiting Mrs. T. W. Norment. A special meeting of the Dar lington Building and Loan As sociation will be held to-mor row (Friday) night. J. H. Holloway, colored, ex postmaster of Marion, is em ployed in the postoffice in place of Mr. J. H. Schmid. Mr. J. E. Norment will leave to-day for the North to purchase the spring and summer stock for Messrs Norment & Co. The next regular meeting of the Darlington County Colored Teachers’ Association will be held on the second Saturday in March at 11.30 o’clock. Mrs. H. C. Rast fell from the steps of her residence a few days since, sustaining severe and -painful injuries. The fall was caused by her slipping on the ice. During the session of court at Bennettsville last week a negro appeared for trial without an attorney,so the presiding Judge (A.drich) appointed ex Judge Hudson to defend him. Miss Maggie Jones, the pop ular and efficient milliner, who will soon open an establishment in Darlington on her own ac count, is in Baltimore purchas ing a stylish and fine line of new millinery. Mr. Griffin, the North Caro lina horse drover who has been here for several weeks, has re turned home. During his stay he sold between twenty-five and thirty head of horses, all for cash. This speaks pretty well for the hard times. Does advertising pay? The question will be settled beyond doubt if you ask Baird, the fur niture man, about the remark able sales of the new spring beds, which he has been adver tising in The News for sale at $5 a piece. You should buy one while you have the advantage of this low price. We wish to return thanks to Mr. John E. Boyd for an invi tation to attend the commence ment exercises of the Medical College of South < arolina, in Charleston, on the 15 instant, when Mr. Boyd will be made d full-fledged il M. D ” We note also that Mr. T. E. Imwle* of this county, will graduate at the same time. Darlington was wrapped in snow on Sunday. It began to fall Saturday afternoon and la ter in the night changed to sleet, which in turn changed to rain by Sunday afternoon. The snow fall was about five inches. With the coming of Monday morning the sun shown brightly and the temperature became much warmer. Since then the snow has been melting rapidly. Florence was threatened with a dispensary riot on Friday night. Spies attempted to seize some liquor at the depot but the owners of the property, armed with guns, refused to let them have it. The spies stood by while the men marched off with the jugs on their shoulders. An angry crowd had gathered and a not was only averted by the spies not insisting upon taking the liquor. Florence seemed too hot for them, so the spies took refuge in Darl'ngton that nigh',. In consequence of* the affair Governor Tillman will with hold Florence’s portion of the dispensary profits. THE LAMAR DISPENSARY. The Octopus Again Shows its Head in the Little Village. The advocates of a dispensary at Lamar are certainly making great efforts to secure a State bar. Not satisfied with the de cision of the County Commis sioners that the town govern ment is defunct because of the failure to hold an election for town officers at the proper time, they have had the old town council to call an election for intendent and council to be held on March 15. The election was first called for Monday and the following ticket was placed in the field by the dispensary people: For In tendent, R. F. Willeford, for Wardens, J. H. Taylor, M. V. DuBose, W. P. Lane and J. H. Hancock. But upon the post ponement of the election this ticket was withdrawn. Who will be elected on March 15 re mains to be seen. After the election the new council will order a special elec tion on the question of dispen sary or no dispensary. If the dispensaryites win the day, the question will then be car ried to the County and State Boards of Control. The senti ment of the people of the town ship is overwhelmingly against having a dispensary at Lamar and it is not probable that the Boards of Control will override the wishes of so many persons, even should the voters of the town decide for a State bar. March 6 will be the time to buy jewelry at your own price. The entire stock of J. H. Mason will be sold at auction com mencing on that date. HE IS THE SAME AT HOME. The Popularity of a Young Darlington- ian Located Abroad. The following is clipped from a paper published at Franklin- ton, N. C., where one of our fellow townsmen has been buy ing cotton. The article was written upon his leaving that town for Abbeville, S. C., where he is now located. “Mr. Robert E. James came in our midst Nov. 1st, 1893, in the interest of Messrs. Ed. H. Lee & Company, of Raleigh. Mr. James by his kind and gentlemanly conduct, soon won for himself the friendship of his associate cotton buyers and not a farmer was ever heard to speak of him but in the highest terms. He won many warm friends amongst our young peo ple, and his many kind acts will ever remain green in their re membrance. His excellent so prano voice will be missed in our church music. In fact, we all miss him. Our people want Mqpsrs. Lee & Co., to be repre sented in our market, and hope that they can see it to their in terest to return Mr. James.” For cotton, corn, tobacco or any other crop use Bradley’s sea fowl ammoinated fertilizer, found only at Blackwell Bros’. A NEW INDUSTRY. An Iron Foundry Will Probably be Es tablished Here. Messrs James R. Harrell and C. W. Johns of Bennettsville, will probably remove to Dar lington shortly for the purpose of establishing an iron foundry here. These gentlemen have had large experience in the business and their industry will fill a long felt want in Darling ton. If they should decide to come our people will give them a hearty welcome. It is pro- F iosed to locate the plant on the ine of the C., S. & N. Railroad, near the junction with the C. & D. Bradley’s Wood and bone fer tilizer made in Baltimore is the best on the market; for sale by Blackwell Bros. FIRE AT LAMAR. The Store and Barn of Mr. Jacob Spears Fall Victim to the Flames. A severe fire visited Lamar early yesterday morning before day. The store of Mr. Jacob Spears and its large stock of i general merchandise were de stroyed. The flames spread to his barn, which was in close proximity, and it was also burn ed to the ground and its entire contents consumed. It is not known how the fire originated, nor l*ave we been able to ascer- | tain the loss incurred though it i is thought that it is covered by j insurance. A HEAVY DOCKET. FOR THE CRIMINAL COURT WHICH WILL CONVENE ON MONDAY. two Cases for Murder and One for Arson—The Liquor Question also to Come Up. As stated in our last issue the Court of General Sessions for Darlington county will convene on Monday next. Judge James Aldrich presiding. The criminal docket is qyite heavy and several of the cases are of considerable interest. The most important are TWO MURDER CASES in which all parties concerned are white. Judge B. Reynolds, James Reynolds and Roland Windham will be tried for the killing of Cephus Pipkin in the Lamar section in December last and F. Merton Kelly, son of Mr. Shelton Kelly, for killing Ho mer King in Kellytown in Nov ember. Kelly and King were young men of about the same age and it is claimed that the killing was accidental. Kelly will be tried upon the unusual charge of “murder by mishap.” ANOTHER CAPITAL CRIME. Besides the murder cases there’is another case in which the punishment in the event of conviction will be hanging. Peter Jordan, colored, will be tried for arson. He is accused of burning the barn of Mr. J. N. Suggs in the Philadelphia section last summer. As the barn destroyed was located within 200 yards of a dwell ing house, Jordan will have to answer the charge of a capital crime. THE LIQUOR QUESTION will also have a place in the court’s proceedings. The cases against J. M. James and Henry Appelt for selling intoxicating liquors contrary to the dispen sary law will come up for a hearing. It is not probable, however, that they will be tried in the Circuit Court. The de fendants were arrested under the first dispensary law which placed the trial of such cases in the jurisdiction of that Court, but the new law provides that they be tried by a trial jus tice. It is probable, therefore, that the Circuit Court will re mand these liquor cases to Trial Justice Floyd, from whence they came, for trial or else they will be dropped altogether. ' OTHER CASES. Among the other cases that will come up for trial we may mention as of interest to the public the following: J. 8. Mc- Creight, two cases for breach of trust; G. C. C. Taylor fordis posing of property under a lien; J. N. Kelly for the same offence; Will O’Nails and C. 8. O’Nails for burglary and larceny. All of these parties are white and are well known throughout the county. THE JAIL BIRDS. All of the defendants men tioned above are out on bond except the two O’Nails and Pe ter Jordan, who are in jail to gether with the following who are likewise awaiting trial: Quincy Harrison, assault and battery, John Lewis, swindling; Simon Scott, assault and bat tery, all colored. In addition to these there are in jail Henry Wilson, col ored, who was convicted at the last term of court of assault and battery and was arrested subse quent to his trial, a sealed sen tence having been lodged against him, and John Dukes, John Williams, Hardy Morris and Harrison Gordon, the colored Lamar incendiaries, who were sentenced to ten years imprison ment in the penitentiary, but in whose behalf an appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court. table seed. In addition to your allotment I placed 2,000 extra papers of seed to your credit and, in order to furnish this ex tra allotment to each Member, took more than one million pa K rs from the Secretary’s quota. this connection I would state that the Department has been quite liberal in sending seed to your section. The different so cieties, notably the Red Cross, have made application for a supply of seeds and the Secre tary has in each instance grant ed the requests. I regret that I am unable to furnish you with any more seed but the demand upon the De partment is so great that it will be impossible to do so. Respectfully yours, D. MacCuaiq, Chief Clerk. Hard times prices on Domes tic sewing paachines; $45 the former price $25 the present price; $20 saved on each ma chine. McCall & Burch. DARLINGTON-SUMTER. An Auspicious Event of Interest to the Two Counties. ■ [Sumter Cor. News and Courier.] On Wednesday, February 14, Hymen dethroned good old St. Valentine, and taking posses sion of the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Wilson, wit nessed the marriage of Mr. R. L. Kervin, of Darlington, and Miss Florida Wilson. The bride was attired in a light silk, with ribbon trim mings, and carried a bouquet of violets and bridal wreath, and had in attendance the following couples: Miss Minnie Atkins, of Mayes- ville, and Mr. Clifton Dinkins, of Sumter; Miss Judith Hodges, of Darlington, and Mr A. E. Brown, of Camden; Miss May Joye, of Sumter, and Mr. James King, of Darlington; Miss Caro Cooper, of Mayesville, and Mr. Willie LaCoste, of St. Charles; Miss Inez Cooper, of St. Charles, and Mr. Robert Delgar, of Sum ter; Miss Theo. Gregg, of Sum ter, and Mr. John Kirven, of Darlington; Miss Sallie E. La Coste, of Charleston, and Mr. Moultrie Hudson, of St. Charles; Miss Anna LaCoste, of St. Char les, and Mr. Stonewell Odom, of Dovesville; Miss Evie Wilson, of Sumter, and Mr. Luke Kir ven, or Darlington; Miss Maud Kirven, of Darlington, and Mr. Paul Wilson, of St. Charles; Miss Lois Wilson, of St. Charles, and Mr. Tom Kirven, of Me- chanicsville. The entire stock of watches, jewelry and clocks of J. H. Ma son will be sold at auction, com mencing on March 6, at his store on Pearl Street. GOVERNMENT SEED. A Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Agriculture! Department At the request of Congress man McLaurin we publish the following letter: Dkpartxbst of Agriculture, OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK. Washington, D. C., Feb. 21,1894, Honorable John L. McLaurin, House of Representatives, Dear Sir: In reply to your let ter of the 16th instant, address ed to the Secretary, I regret to inform, you that I am unable to comply with your request for 2,000 additional papers of vege- PASSING COUNTERFEIT. Considerable Spurious Money in Cir culation in Darlington. * For sometime past considera ble counterfeit money has been going the rounds of the town. It has become so common that the merchants were put on their guard and the matter was re ported to the police authorities who immediately began an in vestigation. In one day alone (Saturday last) the Chief ran upon seven counterfeits of sil ver dollars and has also found several of minor'denominations. Suspicion attached to a certain party, but, before sufficient evi dence could be obtained that he was the one circulating the spu rious money, he left town. The police are after him, however, and hope to catch him. It is probable that a good many of these counterfeits are still in circulation and people should be on the watch-out as the imita tion is so good that it is difficult to distinguish the false coin from the genuine. THE REMORSELESS REAPER. The Sudden Death of a Resident of Darlington. Mr. W. N. Beck died at his residence on North Main Street on Friday morning. He was a native of this county and son of the late Rev. Wm. Beck. About ten years ago he remov ed to Wadesboro, N. C., and continued to reside there until December just past, when he returned to his old home. His .death was sudden, he having been sick only about a week. His remains were interred in the Lewis burying ground in Swift Creek on Friday, Rev. N. |N. Burton conducting the fu neral services. Mr. Beck was forty-one years old and he left a wife and three children. A BAD WRECK. NINE FREIGHT CARS SMASHED IN TO SMALL PIECES. A Defective Rail Causes an Accident on the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. A bad wreck occurred on the Cheraw and Darlington Rail road on Tuesday morning. A defective rail threw nine cars of the northbound freight off the track at a point in the cut between the station at Palmetto and the t/estle over High Hill creek. Fortunately neither the engine nor the passenger loach left the track, for had such been the case serious loss of life might have resulted. As it was nobody was hurt. The derailed cars were piled pell mell one upon another and were smash ed to piedes making a complde wreck. The Hartsville train which was waiting at the Darlington station for the freight was sent to the scene of the accident and returned soon after with the passengers and mail from the wrecked train. Relief was ob tained from Florence and the track was cleared of the debris and repaired in time for the northbound passenger to pass on Tuesday night only three hours behind schedule time. Barring the fact that there was no loss of life nor injury to person, the wreck was the worst that has occurred in this section in many a year. It is impossi ble to describe in limited space the picture presented after the accident. The ruined cars were piled together in great confusion and the track was torn up for about two hundred yards. For tunately the freight consisted of guano, cotton seed meal, corn and other like commodities, for consequently not much damage was done to it. The loss to the railroad company is about $2,000. During the day many people visited the scene of the wreck. FROM THE FAR WEST. A Letter of Inquiry About Our Famous Dispensary Law. The following letter has been received from Dr. Ed. H. Mc Bride, a former Chesterfield boy who is now a prominent physi cian of Springfield, Mo.: Editor Darlington Newv: It is my intention to pay your State a visit in a short time; in order to visit back at my oid home among the boys. It has always beeu my cus tom to take with me on such trips a little demijohn of eight or ten-year-old Robertson coun ty, Tennessee, whiskey to have in case of sickness, and to di vide with the bo) s who, I know, hardly ever get a real good old article. I even doubt if the no torious “Palmetto brand” could hold a candle to my nine-and-a- half-year-old Robertson. Be that as it may, I write to ask if it is a fact that I would be in danger of arrest and incarcera tion should I be found with a demijohn concealed about my person or in my hand ? In the free Democratic air of our great Commonwealth men and women are allowed to eat and drink what they please and to breathe all the pure oxygen they can find in our Ozark Mountains so rich in lead, iron, zinc and coal. I have recently seen in the Globe-Democrat, of St. Louis, articles wired from Charleston and Spartanburg al leging that the constabulary of the State were trying to “hold up” free white citizens by com pelling them .to open the combi nations of their private safes. I have seen it stated that the Gov ernor has been quoted as having said, referring to certain defects in the whiskey law, “I will see to it that the Legislature passes such and such a law at the next session.” So I have concluded that the Governor of South Ca rolina was in some way endow ed with supreme and autocratic powers not possessed by Gover nors of other States; and hence, I request that you will ask his Excellency, in the event of its being a violation of the law for me to bring along a little Rob ertson county for myself and j friends, with whom I am going | to take a camp out at the fishery on Pee Dee, if he will not sus pend the law in my case and give me a written permit to bring along a fine harmless ar ticle nine and a half years old. I expect to stop at Columbia, and I am sure that if His Excel lency would join me in a glass of my niue-and-a-half-year-old Robertson county that hereafter the “Palmetto brand” would not be in much depiand at the State House Begging pardon for taking so much of your time and assuring you of the sincerity of my re quest, which is the outcome of newspaper articles relating to the once grand old Palmetto State’s whiskey law and the dreadful and terrific constabu lary, I am, Yours truly, Ed. H. McBride. P. S.—The very name of State constabulary carries terror to my heart. I wore a red-shirt in South Carolina during the mem orable campaigns of ’76 and ’78 and once or twice collided with the State dragoons of Moses & Co. See ! E. H. McB. Springfield, Mo., 19 Feb., ’94. [Section 25 of the dispensary law, which sets forth how contraband li quors may be seized, has the follow ing proviso: “That liquors purchased outside the State, owned and convey ed a* personal baggage, shall be ex empt from seizure when the quantity does not exceed one gallon.” So the Doctor can bring to South Carolina from his home in the far West one gallon of his tine old Tennessee whis key, without becoming liable to search and seizure by Tillman's con stabulary which he seems to hold in such great fear. When the gallon is exhausted he and “the boys” will have to driuk “oBlcial booze," if they must have liquor and do not care to violate the law.—Editor The News.] TOE BLOODED STOCK A SPY'S DESPIUABLE ACT. In Seeking for Contraband Liquor ha Searches a Lady's Trunk. Darlington witnessed one of the most despicable results of the spy system on Fri day morning, when State Constable J. I. King—spy is a better name for him—broke open and searched a lady’s trunk at the C. & D. depot. The facts are these : On the night before Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Young, an aged and respectable coupleof Richland county, came to Darlington to visit relatives. They left their trunk over night in the depot. In the morning King broke it open despite the protests of the by-slanders and searched among the lady’s ward robe for contraband liquor, which he failed to find and which he must have known would not be there. Such inde cency has caused a storm of in dignation and if it be repeated trouble may follow. THE MERRY DANCE. A Happy Event for the Young Peo ple on Tuesday Evening. A very pleasant dance was iven in Hewitt’s hall on Tues- ay evening, the following la dies and gentlemen attending: Dr. and Mrs. B. H. Payne, Nashville, Tenn., Capt. and Mrs. John Floyd, Miss Bertha Herbert, Miss Maud Herbert, Miss Annie Talbot, Miss Mar ian Talbot, of Florence, Miss Aurora Floyd, Miss Leola Brown, Miss Nettie Williams, Miss Mamie Floyd, Miss Meddie Brown, Miss Minnie Nash, Miss Louise Floyd, Miss Fannie Caldwell; Messrs A. B. Butler, P. J. Morgan, Robt.'Loughlin, J. W. Hatchell, George Moigan, E. C. Bass, of Florence, J. B. Floyd, F. E. Floyd, J. H. King, T. J. Brown, G. D. Williams, J. L. Williams, A. B. Floyd, W. E. Caldwell, R. L. Botfhoitt, G. C. Dean, A. B. Hutchinson. DIED IN COLUMBIA. An Elderly Lady, a Native of DaHinp ton County. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says in his letter of Saturday: “Mrs. Francis Thompson, mother of Mrs. C. A. Calvo, Jr. died yes terday morning at 3 o’clock. Mrs. Thompson before her mar riage was Miss Dalrymple, of Lydia, Darlington county, S. O., and for many years lived in Chester, S. C., where after the death of her husband she car ried on a small business to sup port her four children. She was in her 72d year. Mrs. Thomp son was fully aware of her ap proaching dissolution, beic conscious to the last, and m the approach of death unflinch ingly and without a murmur. ▲ ! good woman, a*devoted mother, has gone to a better world.” Captain Ricornus — Excuse i me, but won’t you have a bit of this delicious overshoe ? Miss Nannie Goat—No, thank you. I never chew gum.—Puc/c. THAT MAY NOW BE SEEN AT DAR LINGTON'S PARK. Th« Pedigree of Some of the Fine Horse*—Darlington as a Great Stock Centre. During the past week the track at the park of the Dar lington Driving Association has presented a lively appearance. Since the arrival on February 17, of the carload of blooded horses from the Blue Grass of Kentuc ky, (mention of which was made in the last issue of The News) a new impetus has .been given to the horse interests of this region, and that the horse men and people generally ap preciate the fact has been prov ed by the great number of specta tors daily coming and going at park. The track has been con verted into a veritable show ring, and the expressions of ad miration from the by-standers, as each superb animal is brought out for inspection, shows that it is not necessary to be a Kentuckian in order to be able to tell a good horse when yoy see one. Fine style at once attracts at tention, coupled with the supe rior form and finish of the mod ern trotter. The high, intelli gent head, beautifully arched neck, large, kindly eyes, the clean, smooth limbs, the elastic step, easy and frictionless gait, all tell that the study of the breeding problem of the trotting family, for the past half-centu ry has not been in vain. The hard times of the present year have had their effects upon every industry, but have proved a boon to the trotting horse in • terests not only of Darlington but to the State of South Caro lina and even beyond its limits. But a short time ago a man would have thought himself fortunate, indeed, if he could have obtained a half-brother to Nancy Hanks alone for $10,000, but now we have such a horse and sixteen others here at Dar lington, all young, all standard, all sound, all showing speed; all inheriting speed, and the fright to transmit that speed. Great wonders on the turf may be ac complished with such material. The prize is within our grasp; the “tide” has come “which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” In vie w of the fact that the lot of blooded horses that strived here last week are the best ever brought to the State, the pedi grees of some of them will be of interest to our readers, but be fore giving them it may be well to state that the horses are rap idly recovering from the effects ot their long and tedious trip, which used some of them very badly; considering the fact that many of them are so young and have never been shipped before they came through exceedingly well. The little ten-month-old brother to C. C. 2.161, the baby trotter, that has already gone a full mile to a bicycle sulky in three minutes, is looking as bright as when he roamed the blue-grass meadows. The beautiful bay stallion, Count Medium, is attracting much attention, and well he may, for, besides being a half- brother to the great turf queen, Nancv Hanks, 2.04, on his sire’s side, ne acquired a most valuaj ble blood strain through his dam, the good mare Candytuft, by Ethan Allen, Jr., 473, the sire of Tuna, 2.181; Archbishop, 2.191; he is also a full brother to Daniel Lambert. Ethan Allen, Jr., 473, is by Ethan Allen, 43, son of Black Hawk, 5, by Sher man Morgan, all of which are found in the pedigrees of our itest turf performers. Count ium’s second dam is Omega (dam of Harbinger, sire of Von Helmont, 2.191, and 30 others better than 2.30) by Hambleton- ian, 10; third dam, Dairy Maid, by American Star, 14; fourth dam by Belfounder. Another stallion that, for roy al breeding and promise, cannot be surpassed anywhere is the bay colt Red Dick, by Red Wilkes out of Beauty by Dicta tor. This fine fellow, if horses had cousins, might with pride and honesty calf Nancy Hanks cousin Nancy, because Dictator was the sire of the dams of both; and both Nancy and Red Dick can with pleasure remember their old grand-sire Dictator’s brother Dexter, 2.171, who first {Continued on ith page.)