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IK ••tty" - uxliwcfim VOL. XXII, NO. 12. DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,050. B IN SOOTH CAROLINA Ourrflnt News for the Week Throughout the Palmetto. RESULTS OF THE REGISTRATION LAW. ProailMBt y.gro». of th. St«t« Ban fl gan a MoT.aa.nl te Tbm th« Act. Othar Stata Maws Coadaasad la ikort Paragraphs Columbia, S. C., March 16.—Yaater- day the tea days’ special registration allowed nader the constitutional con vention act expired and the result has been, from the many barriers thrown In the way of expeditious registration, that only about 10,000 negro voters have been able to secure registration certifleates. Yesterday retiring negro Congressman Q. W. Murray and Revs. R. f. Hart and W. D. Chappelle, the two latter representing the colored preachers ministerial union, appeared at the executive office and presented to Governor Evans a paper stating that on account of the law 100,000 of their colcr had desired, but had been unable to register and ask ing in the name of these “wronged and injured persons’’ that he convene the legislature In extraordinary session to provide means whereby these more than a hundred thousand citizens may qualify themselves to exercise their constitutional rights. Governor Evans told them be would consider the matter. Last night the negro clergy issued an REPUBLICANS WILL CONTROL. Complexion of Ih. Seosto—Bntl.r, of North Carolina. With tho Mnjorltr. Washington, March The disap pearance of eighteen Senators will make an entire change in the appear ance on the aenate floor when that body meets again. Instead of the majority of the desks being on the democratic side they now appear on the republican side and in this connection it is inter esting to know that at the request of Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro lina, bis district has been placed on the republican side. Mr. Bntler is a pop ulist elected by a fusionist legislature that at the same time gave the short term to Mr. Pritchard, republican. The fact that Mr. Bntler has asked to be seated on the republican side is taken as an indication that he will act with the republicans in matters pertaining to organization and such other ques tions as are not inconsistent with bis views on pecnlia subjects. Senator Ransom, whom he succeeds, prophe sied that Mr. Bntler would at all times be found acting in harmony with the party in the senate that waa antagon istic to the democrats. INDUSTRIAL CONDITION SOUTH. all In Textile Manafrtcturtnx sod In Branebe. It U Vrrv Enconraxlax. Chattanooga, Tenn., March JO.—The Tradesman's report from all over the south says: The condition of textile manufactaring In all its branches lx very encouraging. A good many mills are filled with orders for tome month, to come, and renewals of plants, and establish ment of new ones are reported from many sec tions. In Iron mnnufacturing. more nctlvity Is manifested, but price, are still very low. Coal mining operators are working on full time and report a steady demand. Southern lumbar manufacturers are looking forward to an so- IT IS SIMPLY A RUSE WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED. The Running Up of Values in the Cotton MarkeL SO SAYS COMMISSIONER HECTOR LA5E. It to Only a Device to Indoce Farmers to Plant More of the White Staple Than Intended — He Warn* Them of the Conspiracy. A 4i.„ ; tire spring business, with firmer prices than address setting spart the last Sunday haT( . ^ ^ kaown j urin(! the past yMr in March to be utilized in raising funds , Among important new industries established to immediately test the constitutional- or Incorporated during the week the Trmdes- ity of the state registration laws in ths federal courts. ATLANTIC BASEBALL LEAGUE. Tbs ClUes of the Propowd Organlx.tlon Arv Enthusiastic. Columbia, 8. C, March 19.—The lo cal promoters of the South Atlantic baseball league who issued the call for the meeting to be held in Augusta on the 25th Inst., to form the league are pleased with the way the cities through out the proposed circuit are taking up the new league idea and are confident that the league will be formed. Augus ta, Savannah, Macon, and Columbus, are enthusiastic over the lookouL as is Brunswick, Ga., and a delegate will be present from each of these cities. Jack sonville will also have a representative and it is safe to say that the Florida city will be inclnded in the make-up of the league. Nothing has been heard from Charlotte, bnt when the meeting takes place it is safe to predict that a delegate from that city will be on hand to look after her interests At present it looks as if the circuit will be Char lotte, Columbia, Angnsta, Charleston, Savannah, Macon. Columbus and Jack- son villa man reports a sugar refinery at New Orleans Ls. costing f&OOOfi: agricultural implement works at Brenham. Tex., with fltXl OUU capital; a 1100.000 construction company nt Danville. Vs. mads (10.000 diatlUery nt LontsvIUe. Ky. A manufacturing company with 160 000 capi tal has been chartered at Austin, Tex.: a match factory rapitaltxed at tfiOKO at Vicksburg, Mias.: a doom irrigation and land company at Tulls. Tex., and a 126 000 woodenwar. factory at Savannah. Os GEN. HARRISON IMPROVING. RETURNED TO THE OWNER. The Seine d Schooner ( arolina. at thnrlea- toa. Is Given Liberty. Chaih.kbton, S. C, March 16.—United States District Judge Brawley yester day decided the admiralty ease arising ont of the seizure by the State consta bles of the schooner Carolina, which arriv'd here on October 26th. with a cargo of contraband whiskey. The suit was brought by the owner to recover possession, and the court directed that he be given possession. The court finds that section 38 of the dispensary law, tinder which the schooner was seised, is nnconstitlonal and void, in so far as it applies to this case. PALMETTO FARMER SHOT DEAD. Captain Julias Killed by Another Farmer and n Neigh lK>r. Chabumton, S. C-, March 16.-—Cap tain Julius M. Rhett, a gentleman farmer of Montmorenci, near Aiken, 8. C., was killed yesterday by Mr. Marion Toole- The two men's farms adjoined and there had lieen bad blood between them for years, bnt the imme diate cause of the quarrel was a drain, which belonged to Rhett and which Toole obstructed. Rhett directed his foreman to remove the obstruction and therefore Toole shot him dead. So Far Recovered ns to bo Ablo to Sit Cp, Bat Not to Work. Indianapolis, Ind.. March 18.—Ex- President Harrison has so far recover ed as to sit op. His improvement has been steady ever since his daughter and his grandchildren arrived at his house. Yesterday was the birthday of baby McKee, and, during his enfor ced idleness, the General made exten sive preparations for the event A host of children from the neighborhood were present. Gen. Harrison is not yet allowed to work by bis physicians, and the big will case at Richmond is pro ceeding withont him. Atlanta. March 15 —Hon. Hector D. Lane, commissioner of agriculture of Alabama and president of the Ameri can Cotton Growers Protective associa tion addresses today a communication to the cotton growers of the south in which he warns them against what he calls the stragetic movement being made by cotton manipulators to delude them into the suicidal act of planting again a large crop of cotton. He says that uneasiness has been felt in Liverpool for some time concerning a probably decreased acreage and had this menace not existed cotton would have been even lower than it has been, and now as the end of the season is at hand and the staple is substantially ont of the hands of the farmer, these gen tlemen whohave represented the “bear’’ element so many months while cotton was moving in large volumes, now re sort to this ruse of running values up simply as a device to induce farmers to plant more cotton than intended. He warns the farmers that the rise in cotton of the last few days is fleti- cions and that it is the product of a conspiracv to systematically rob the producer of his legitimate gains "Let the People Beware " Continuing he says: “Let the peo ple beware. It is a bait to catch those who will bite. There is no legitimate reason shown for this sudden rise in cotton values. The production has ex ceeded the most sanguine expectations; Russia has placed s virtually prohibi tive duty on American cotton, so we can no longer sell her 500,000 bales” He says that those who are actually engaged in the work of producing cot ton are not earning twelve cents a day for their labor the year round “and what is to be the fate of this man when his cotton goes down one The next international medical con gress occurs in Moscow in 1897. Fifty rabid dogs are said to be at large near McClenny. Fla Baron Fata, the Italian Ambassador, has returned to Washington. The Harvard-Princeton debate will be held March 27 instead of March 22. A fish and game protective association has been formed at Saratoga, N. Y. Another anti-trnst distillery will be bnilt at Terre Haute, Ind., or Pekin, nia The smallpox scare has produced an order for compulsory vaccination at Helena, Ark. Western railroads are hauling seed grain free to destitute farming com munities The Yale facnlty deny rumors of ad ditional cases of varioloid among the students. Major Martin is eating a bird a day for forty days at Raleigh, N. C., so far successfully.. DAMAGING TO NEW ORLEANS. The Labor Trouble* Have Bud Effort l'poo tho Commerce of the Creorent City. Nxw Orleans, La, March 16.—One of the evil effects the labor distur bance is having on the commerce of this city was shown yesterday when it was rumored that when the steamship Niagara finishes n nloading, she will not remain at this port to take on her cargo of cotton, but will go to Galves ton for iL Upon investigation the re port was affirmed, and the labor tronb- les were cited as the cause. ATHENS OIL COMPANY CLOSING Receiver Appointed for the Purpose of Closing Cp Their Business. Atlanta, March 20.—John N. Booth was appointed temporary receiver of the Athens Oil and Fertilizer company yesterday. The assets are $56,000 and the liabilities *40,000. There is no chare of insolvency and the petition simply asks for the appointment of a recriver to wind np the company’s af- fsirx. Thu Decrease In Fertilizer Sale*. Raleigh, N. C., March 20.—The re port of the state agricultural depart ment yesterday shows that while for the season ending March 18th last year, the receipts from sales of fertilizer tags were <11,000, this season to same date they are only *18,000, thus show- ing a remarkable failing off in ferti liser sales this season. WILL SHORTEN ITS SCHEDULE. Thu New York and Florlds Special Over the Plant System and A. C. Line. Savannah, Ga, March 30.— The New York and Florida special over the Plant system and Atlantic Coast Line will shorten its schedule going north two hours after this week, leaving or one and a half cents this fall?” Nor is it at all improbable when we recog nize the condition that confronts us for I invite consideration of the fact that we had a most phenotninal season for picking onr crop this last season and its classification was higher than ever known. Hardly any grading less than low middling, which averaged leas than five cents.” “I invoke," he concludes, “the most earnest attention of cotton growers to this nefarious scheme and address yon this letter as the caveat that you may not be deluded by this wolf in sheep's clothing, or in other words, this ‘bear’ in 'bull's' clothing.” BAKER SHORT IN HIS CASH. A Raleigh. North Carolina. Boy Goea Wrong In Baltimore, Baltimore, Md., March20.—John W. Baker, cashier for the Lubrolciue Oil company, is said to be short in bis ac counts to the amount of about a thous and dollars, end the management is looking for him. Baker came here from Raleigh, N. C. When it was as certained some weeks ago that his ac counts were not correct, Baker was dismissed. He was furnished with transportation to Raleigh and with his wife left for that plspe. It is claimed that other discrepancies have been found and the company baa decided to proaecnte him. THOS. DIXON’S NEW CHURCH. A Terre Haute, Ind., girl, thirteen years old, has been arrested for syste matic barn burning. The annual meeting of the Anti-trust distilling company was held at Terre j Haute. Ind., Tuesday. T. V. Powderly has formed a law partnership with District Attorney Jones at Scranton. Pa. The Vermont state board of health has ordered a quarantine on all cattle bronght into the state. Marquis Imperial!, the secretary of the Italian legation, will leave shortly for Europe, to remain several months. Edgar T. Paul, the millionaire real es tate dealer, was arrested at Chicago for obtaining money under false pretenses. Manuel Amalgro, the Argentine min ister’s bookkeeper charged with embez zlement, was released at Washington j Tuesday. It is announced that a successor to Ward McAllister has been found in the person of J. V. L. Pmyn. of New York j City and Albany. It Is denied that either ex-Congress man Williams or Josiah Quincy is to be the democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetta. Nelson Harris was fined $170 at West Appomattox, Vo., last week for living with a colored woman, by whom he had several children. Official returns of imports into Franca for January and February show 602,- *15,000 francs against 809.535,000 francs for the corresponding period of 1894. The Boston city treasurer refuses to allow Curtis A Motley to withdraw their bid for the city loan at a price which the latter claim was s clerical error. Superintendent White, of the railway mail service at Portland, Me., has or dered that postal clerks shall have free transportation only over their regular routes. William Thompson has been sent to jail at Cleveland, O., for burning boys with acid and sending them out to beg, under something like the Italian padrone system. Baron Hirsch has sent some three or four thousand Russians to the Argen tine Republic, and he hopes to hare a Jewish community there of 100,000 within ten years. The Frebch industry of icing milk is an original departure in tinned com modities. The milk is frozen and placed in block form in tins and hermetically sealed. Queen Victoria, accompanied by Prin cess Beatrice, started yesterday for Portsmouth en route for Nice from Windsor. Empress Frederick will oc cupy Buckingham Palace. Claude Milling, LOCAL AGENT FOR Gents’ ClothinG Veritable bargains now offered. LATEST STYLE, FINEST QUALITY, MOST PERFECT FIT. , FULL LINE OF SAMPLES. Examine them and be convinced. SPRING GOODS! SSIW. B. McGIRM.D.S.,9?* Offers his professional services to P' , , the people of Darlington and vicinity. Office over the store of Edwards & Co. Jan 19. If yon want bargains in Heat, Flour, Sugar 'wU T ▲ ▲ WWI ac., GIVE US A CALL.^ Wl flour Can’t lie Seat at $3A0 per barrel. The VERY BEST Molasses ONLY 20 CENTS. We want your trade, and AATTST H-A.VE IT Yours for bargains. BENNET & HOLT. is packed with NEW He Will Share the Aeademj of Mule With Rev. T. DeWItt Talmas*. Nxw York, March 20.—Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has secured the Academy of Mnsic for hia "People’s Church.” Services will be held there every Sun day morning, beginning April 7, and Mr. Dixon will have sv-ociated with him a Congregational minister. The church will be patterned after Henry Ward Beecher’s old church, half of the - deacons being women. In time Rev. Mr. Dixon hopes to bnild up a popular Jacksonville at 12:55 in the afternoon . *hnrch have clergymen of several and arriving at New York at 5:33 the denomination* as assistants, next afternoon. ROAD HARD TO DISPOSE OF. The Choraw Knitting Mills Cheraw, March 17.—A commission fora charter has been issued to the Cheraw Knitting mills, of this place. The commission announces the capital stock of the company is to be *10,000 and the shares are to be of *100 each. The corporator* sre H. W. Finlayson, A. D. Evans and H. P. Duval. Th# Camden Prexs Brlrk ( ompanv. Camdkk, March 18.—A charter has been issued to the Camden Press Brick company of this place. The capital stock of the company is *40,000 and the directors elected are F. M. Zemp, W. B. Glenn, J. J. Goodale. C. M. Trainer and E. C. Zemp. He DUpenenrj et York. York ville, March IT.—An election on the question of dispensary or no dis pensary was held here yesterday with tho following result' For dispensary 98, no dispensary 176, majority against dispensary 66. The Gaorgls Southern and Florida Hard . to Dismiss From Costodj. Macon, Ga. March 26.—The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad seems hard to dispose of. Several weeks ago. it was put on the block and no sale made and yesterday was put np again. *3.780,dbo. but Ti~ip<«»>offi cf »w York City Official*. Now Yore. March 20.—The police boar^ yesterday suspended Inspector McLaughlin, Captains Siebert. Dono hue. Murphy. Price and Patrolman Schill from duty, and directed the superintendent to assign other officers ' to the command of the precincts which the suspended captains were in charge of. and also to the detective bureau. The npset price was there were no bids Commissioner Hardeman next annonnoed that under the terms of the decree, the property would again be offered on the first Tuesday in April, at which time, tho upset prioa is fixed at as non ran Corn at s Fualoa LeffU'.alarew Raleigh. N. C., March 20.—All the bills sre not yet in for the expenses of at public' sale j the legislature. So far as received they GEORGIA COTTON GROWERS. A Slate Association sad Of- No Woman Buffras* In Novs Seotln. Halifax. N. S.. March 16.—After a lively debate the women suffrage meas ure was defeated in the bousa of assem bly last night by a vote jf 91 to U. Organised lUarteA. Atlanta, March 19. — The Georgia Cotton Growers association was organ ized here yesterday. W. A. Broughton was elected president and J. Lindsey Johnson secretary. An address was is sued urging the farmers to spend noth ing that la not absolutely necessary. The use of home made fertilizers is urged as is the reduction of the cotton f t nr*+.0 The Darlington Building and Loan Association. rpHE Regular Monthly Meeting of iiy i ill 1 the office of E. Keith Dargan, Esq., on Monday, the 25th. inst., at 12 o’clock M. Dues received by undersigned at his office until 10 o'clock A. M.. and at the meeting. CHA8. K. ROGERS, Secy, and Treas. DON’T WAIT THE lUTEiL LIFE IKSDEIIEE COMPANY OF NEW YORK RICHARD A. MCCURDY PRESlOfiNT. STATEMENT For th* yttr ending December *1 1891 Income $S1<2*.1«* 82 11,897,70* If 648,020,8*9 94 Disbursements If you want Korol 1*4 for Prosdxai t'rvm all etkor Mirre* NEW and Desirable - In Pelley-boldora: Fort loinix by Death - . ***’*?*“*1 w “ fcodowmesU, lHtl4oa4*A«. e.lofi.jef 14 Fft all other eeeoaaU • • »,«»»,**4 1» 6*0,878,801 26 Assets rslt?d Statra Bosds ssd stkrr Heotrllios • First lies Losss os Bold ssd Msrtyire - - •, * Losss os Stocks ssd Bosds Best Estalo - Cask la Basks ssd Trait Csss- ysslos - - • • Accru.d Istorest, Deferred Pre- 68*.670,ew *7 7I.S*».41o *2 11,1*9,100 00 21,991,763 66 6,455,198 •> <.615,645 97 62*4,*<8,781 ** Beeerve for Pol Wet ted ether l.lskllltlee, Cosiposy’u Ntsa- ,, dard, Americas 4 per ceat._182.10*.45*J4 - - 622,520,327 82 gsrplss . For a Cold to Sun into Brom chitis or Pneumonia. font up *73.604, while the total cost of the legislature was *65,976. Some of the clerks are yet here. Two clerks | are indexing tUo journals and these • have assistants. Check it at Once WITH AYER’S . Cherry PectoraL lasaraace ssd Amities sasamed sad reaewed lassrasce sad Assiltletll farm December 41 1804 4750,290,677 97 855,207,778 42 Iirream la Tstsl laosae - ** Iscresos la Premlsw Ucews *•**8’?** Jj Iscress# Is Assets - - - ** larresse la gsrplss - - - 4,579,718 91 Iscresss of Isssrsace ssd Asssttiea Is Fore* - - 51,*2*,«*9 9« I hxvo carefully examined the foregoing State ment and find the tame to be correct Chazlbs A. Pullsk Auditor Flfem the Surplus a dividend will he apportioned All tlM Schools WUI H* Closed. Berlin. March 15.-The i’rnssian government has ordered that oil schools be closed on April 11, Bit marclrt birth day. Special prayers will be offered in ail the evangelical churches for Bis marck on Sunday March 31. Anniston ripe Worker* Resume. Anniston, Ala., March 16.—The Her cules Pipe foundry, recently purchased bj Edmund L. and Alfred L. Tyler, Jr., has started up after an Idleness of some eighteen months Between eighty end a hundred men are employed now and this number will be increased to 300 as rapidly as business will iustify. Erastas Wlmaa G«U a New Trial* Nxw York, March 16.—The general 1 term of the supreme court reversed the judgment of the lower court in the case j of Erastus Wimsn, and has granted j him a new triaL Insurgent* In Cobra Depreesed. Madrid, March 90.—Official advices from Havana state that the insur- genta in Cobre are much depressed Pittsburg has raised the *50.000 neces sary to carry through the next Knights Templar conclave. “Early in the Winter, I took a ° severe cold which developed into 0 an obstiiicte, hacking cough, o very painful to endure and ° troubling me day ami night, for nine wews, in spite of numerous 0 remedies. Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral being recommended me, I _ egan to take iL and insid: of 24 0 hours, I was relieved of the o tickling in my throat Before I ® finished the bottle, my cough ^ was nearly gone. I cannot speak « too highly of its excellence. — J Mrs. £ jfoecn, Eaton, Ohio. J Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral] Received Highest Awards J AT THE WORLt’C FAI« < aaoooeeoOACaooeoooooooo ROBERT A. ORANNISS Vx* Pwe-oxsT Waltss R. Gnxsrr* Isaac F. Llotd Fkkdkkic Cxohwsu. General Manager sd Vice-President Euoxt McCuxtock u-d. vaa. Actuary F. H. HYATT, General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C, GOODS, ^ Gall at oar store. SLIGH WsHtel N INDUSTRIOUS AND EFFICIENT young man who has nad six years’ experience rs a clerk in Darling ton, desires to obtain a position here by Aug 1 in some general merchan dise, hardware, clothing or shoe store. He can furnish very best testimonials. For further information, apply at this office. .