VOL. XXII, NO. 48 DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1895 WHOLE NUMBER 1,086 LOCH LACIIMCS. MATTERS in and around the TOWN OF DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Mr. Carl W Hill is clerking at the Book Store. Mr. Walter J. Parrott return ed on Saturday from a visit to the Exposition. E 0. Woods, Etq., has gone to Columbia to attend the ses sion of the United States Court. Mr. J. E. McCutchen, of Rockey Point, N. C., is on a visit to relatives in Darlington. Union services were conduct ed at the Baptist Church on Sunday night by the Rev. D. M. Fulton. Thanksgiving Day will be universally observed here to day by the closing of all places of business. Two men with bag pipes and a monkey passed through town last week, much to the delight of the "small boy.” The congregation of the Bap tist Church will give their pas tor, the Rev. R. W. Lide, a “pounding” tonight. The Rev. R. W. Lide is still S uite sick. Services were con- ucted at the Baptist Church on Sunday by the Rev. T. Hart well Edwards. At a special meeting of the members of the Baptist Church on Sunday last, it was decided to invite the regular annual Baptist State Convention to meet herein 1896. Cheraw has a broom factory in successful operation. Why can’t Dai lington start such an enterprise? It would require very little capital, and would certainly realize handsome div idends. Mr. J. D. Baird carried to Atlanta on Tuesday, and will arrange for their distribution there, the pamphlets containing the trade review gotten up to advertise the Town and County of Darlington. London Roper, a colored man who worked at Mrs. E. A. Spinks’ boarding house, fell speechless while at work on Thursday last, and uied, with out having once regained con sciousness, on Saturday after noon. There will be services in the Baptist Church at 11.30 o’clock this morning for all denomina tions. A collection will be tak en up, and will be equally di vided among the Baptist, Pres byterian and Methodist Orphan ages of this State. Mr. L. R. Ives, of Florence, has established a branch of his candy making business here, at the stsud next to the market ne w occupied by C. S. McCul lough, formerly by H. J. La- Motte, wbere the best home made candy can be bought at a low price. ' It if. said that the crowd at the Exposition is simply enor mous—this week in particular— that nothing like it has ever be fore been known in the history of this country, and that one who has not seen it cannot be gin to form any conception of what it is like. By special request, Rev. D. M. Fulton preached at the Bap tist Church on Sunday night a sermon which he had preached before in his own church. The text was "Righteousness exalt- eth a nation, but sin is a re proach to any people.” There was a large congregation out to hear him.* Messrs. Sligh & Rucker have on sale black socks, warranted fast colors, the product of the Cheraw Knitting Mills, which they are selling at 121 cents a pair—a bargain for the price. Darlington ought to have a knitting mill, too. There is no earthly reason, as far as we can see, why we could not have one. It would certainly pay. In response to the petition sent to the Post Office Depart ment by a number of our busi ness men, mails were put on the Sunday drains to and from Darlington on Sunday last. There was, for some reason, considerable delay in opening the mail after it got here on Sunday morning—an inconven ience which we suppose will not be likely to occur after the new system has had time to get into perfect working order. Mr. Hairston raffled off his fine horse on Tuesday. It was won by Mr. Loy Wadford, who clerks for Blackwell Bros. There was another rise in cotton during the week, and at the close of the market yester day it was bringing 8 cents. The Agnes Wallace Villa Company will render "The World Against Her” at the Opera House next Saturday night. The Ladies’ Mission Society of tho Presbyterian Church will hold an important meeting at the Church on the second Sun day in December, at 4 o’clock. P. M. Mr. W. D. Coggeshall adver tises in this issue that he will pay a liberal reward for the re covery of the buggy and har ness that were stolen from him on the night of the 18th inst. Farmers in this vicinity are planting oats, notwithstanding the heavy loss in this crop last season. Let the grain crop be larger if possible than it was last year, that is the only way to live. The Baptist State Convention is now in session at Greenville. A good many are in attendance from this County. Among the number are Rev. J. W. Perry, Rev. N. N. Burton, Rev. C. W. Dowell, anu Prof. A. P. Taylor. Gen, Gordon in Darlington. The Act of A Fiend. A colored woman named Ma ria Hopkins was placed in jail on Monday under a charge of administering concentrated lye to the little son of Mr. 8. Wolf ram, two and a half years old. Mrs. Wolfram was away from home, and when she returned, she found the little one'suffer ing the most intense agony. Somebody evidently forced it to take the lye, as the vessel con taining it was on a shelf high out of the child's reach: besides, the mouth was burnt only on one side, as if the lye had been forced down its throat with a spoon. Maria Hopkins was in the employ of Mr. Wolfram as a cook. She had not given sat isfaction, and had been told that she had to leave. The poor little child, when asked who it was that hurt it, cried out plain tively “Maria”, and pointed directly at the woman, who was standing by. It is difficult to conceive that such fiendish cruelty can exist in the world. Doctors Norment and Lanneau, who v.ere called in to attend the child, say that it will be several days before they will be able to tell what the result of its injuries will be, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfram have the heart felt sympathy of the entire com munity in their great dis tress, and all hope that their little one may be spared to them. Messrs. D. F. McCullough, A. F Northcutt, P. J. Boatwright, B. B. Forman, A. A. Gandy, W. G. Dickson, G. W. Douglas, H. M. Smith, E. R. Cox, J. O. Mul- drow, C. 8. McCullough, Jr., D. Wikcover, E. Vaughan, R. L. Lide, Lide Nettles, II. F. Spinks, L. I. Parrott, Charlton Law, W. 8. King, H. Hennig, R. E. An drews, Marion Hart, Jno Dou glas, J. H. Early, 8. Marco, A. F. Mixon, J. D. Baird, A. C. Coggeshall, T. C. Jeffords, P. 8. Wilds, J. 8. White, E. B. Dar- gan, J. E. Bass, Jr., Archie Dargan, R. L. Dargan, J. R. Coggeshall, II. Appelt. T. C. Jeffords, Jr., W. J. Rogers, J. W. Hickerson, Emmet Howie, D. W. Harrington, Lawton Dew, Maynard Lawton, J. A. DuBose, John Lunne>, P. T. Warr, Louis J. Bristow, Walter Abbott, F. H. King, Mrs. A. C. Spain, Mrs. J. L. Hodges, Mrs. J. M. Josey, Mrs. M. Manne, Mr. and Mrs. J A. Hearon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. J 8. Burch, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McCall, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Haynsworth, Miss Mamie Huggins, Miss Bertie Wardlaw, Miss May McCall, Miss Rosa McCall, Miss Daisy McCall, Miss Marion Nettles, Miss Mag gie Burch, Miss Clara Ward, Miss Blackwell, Miss Falls, Miss Withers. 1,000 bushels of county raised seed red rust proof oats. Mc Cullough & Cooley. The proposed visit of Gen. John B. Gordon to Darlington on Dec. 27 for the purpose of delivering his celebrated lecture in the Darlington Guards Arm ory is being much discussed just now, and the prospects are that a rousing house will great this gallant Confederate Gen eral, who not only enjoys the distinction of being a United States Senator, but who is a typ ical Southern orator of "the old school” style. More will be said about his visit here in our next issue. "Bucking Against Uncls 8am." The Grand Jury of the Unit ed States Court, which is now in session at Columbia, have found a true bill against J. Mur ray Clements, charged with “taking, opening and embezz ling letters which had been in the postofflee.’’ As will here membered, Clements is said to have enquired at the Florence postofflee for letters addressed to Eugene Wilson, by means of which letters he was enabled to locate and seize certain contra band liquors that had been ship ped to Wilson. Dead Letters. Letters addressed to the fol lowing persons remain uncalled for at the Darlington postofflee, and are advertised as “dead” for the week ending Nov. 25th: Messrs. Sam Prince, J. R. Riv ers, W. M. Slaughter, General Jackson, W. T. Fields, B. Green, John Granger, Rev. B. F. Gan dy, H. F. Hinds, W. R. John son, W. M. Kersey, H. M. Lan ier, R. J. Smith, Tom William son; Mrs Janie McLare, Mrs. Julia James, Misses Catherine Ginis, Ellen Dudley, Ida Gilles pie, Ella , Silver Lacuss, B. Rags. As you read the news, do not forget the many bargains now offered by us; Blackwell Bros. Darlington at the Exposition, The South Carolina exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition has been awarded one of the gold medals. Bronze medals were given for Darlington’s tobacco barn, as well as the exhibits entered by the Darlington Tobacco Compa ny and by Mr. C. Mooney. So Darlington carried off honors in every-direction that ^njr effort was made for them. It is great ly to be regretted that the Dar lington Guards could not have entered the parade in Atlanta today. That would have been one of the best advertisements the community could possibly have had. They might not be quite as pretty to look at as our novel glass tobacco barn, but they would have been seen by a great many more people. Their marching would have compared favorably with that of any of the State’s fifteen hundred sol diers that are to march through the streets of Atlanta today, anu would have been certain to attract a degree of attention and comment that would have reflected credit upon the Town and County of Darlington. We sell the best red rust-proof oats; Blackwell Bros. - Horte Flesh Going Cheap. Messrs. McCullough & Cooley had another horse sale here on Saturday last. About twenty fine horses were sold at remark ably low prices The purchaser of each horse was presented with a ticket, and at the con elusion of the sale these ♦ickets were all put into a hat and one was drawn out by a boy. The man whose ticket was drawn out waj to get a free trip to the Exposition. Mr. W. K. Bell, of Hartsville, was the lucky man, and was presented with a suffl cient amount of cash to defray a trip to Atlanta ny Messrs. Mc Cullough & Cooley This firm will have a sale of twenty-five horses at Cheraw to morrow (Friday), and one at Florence on Saturday. Messrs. W. D. Coggeshall & Co., the other Darlington firm which has been dealing extensively in horse flesh this fall, had a sale at Cheraw on Saturday last, which was well attended. The next sale that is to take place here will be on Monday next, Dec. 2, and it will be the last of the season by Messrs. McCullough & Cooley. This firm has sold several lots of good horses here this fall, but they advertise that this will be the finest lot of ani male that they have yet had. Mr. Cooley is now in the West buying the stock, which will consist of forty-eight horses and twenty-two mules. Don’t fail to attend this sale, as it will positively be the last one that will take place at McCullough & Cooley’s the present season. * Ho, For Tho Exposition! For several weeks past, the Darlington Guards have been trying to arrange to go to the Exposition for "Carolina Day”. They had chartered a sleeping- car, which they were to stay in the whole time they were there, and the trip, if it had been car ried out, would have been an ideal one in every respect. It was not to be, however. It was ascertained on Saturday that a sufficient number of men in uni form could not be gotten togeth er to go, so that the trip had, with great reluctance, to be abandoned. The Captain of the Company had been in telegraph ic communication with the rail road authorities for nearly a week endeavoring to induce them to make a special rate of four dollars from Darlington to Atlanta and return for “South Carolina Day”, and sent a man to Wilmington on Friday to ex plain the whole situation to them. Finally, on Saturday, word came that the rate asked for had been agreed to, and that the tickets would be put on sale Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and would be good to re turn on until Sunday next. The rate was granted alike to the military and citizens. While the former were prevented from availing themselves of it, crowds of the latter did so on both Tuesday and Wednesday. The exodus to Atlanta during ’the past few days has been so great that it has been impos sible for us to obtain 'the names of all the Darlington people who went. Here are some of them: The annual holiday opening at the book store will take place on Dec. 6, and a cordial invita tion to attend is extended to all. The cold wave is coming! Don’t forget that you can get the best overcoat for the money from us; Blackwell Bros. A "Bamboozled” Legislature. [Columbia Cor., News and Courier.] Mr. Evans thought the section was for the protection of our own ports as against other ports Some of the railroads are not being run in the interest of our ports. As a member of the rail road commission he would like for some foundation to be built. He said that last year an Act was reconsidered whereby the Charleston, Sumter and North ern Road was gobbled up by the Atlantic Coast Line and it was done by the lobbyists. The members were told that one road could handle business cheaper than two roads. • The two roads were combined by a special extension for the Atlan tic Coast Line to gobble up the Charleston, Sumter and North ern and now neither rat^s nor service are any better, and per haps worse. Mr. Evans was satisfied the article could do no harm to provide that there should be no discrimination in rates. Does your old sewing mach ine run heavy? Buy the light- ruuning "New Home” from us; Blackwell Bros. The C. & O. Railroad. [The btate, Nov. 22 J Florencb, Nov. 21 —The an nual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Cheraw and Darling ton Railroad company was held here this day, Maj. J. J. Lucas, of Society Hill, acting as chair man, and Col. Warreu G. El liott, of Wilmington, as secret ary. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Maj. C. 8. Gadsden, Charleston; vice pre sident, H. Walters, Wilming ton; board of direotors: B. F. Newcomer, Baltimore; W. G. Elliott, Wilmington: J. F. Di vine, Wilmington; Capt. H D. Malloy, Cheraw; W. A. Car- rigan, Society Hill; Maj. J. J. Lucas, Society Hill: W. C. Cok er, Darlington; J. C. Marshall, Wadesboro. Mr John H. Mc- Iver, who has served this com pany for 42 years, as its secre tary and treasurer, resigned his position and was succeeded by Mr. Olney, of Charleston. Mr. Mclver’s long and faithful ser vice was fittingly recognized by the board of directors, demon strating the fact that all cor porations are not soulless. A dividend of $1.50 per share was declared, payable on Dec. 10, which gave general satisfaction to holders of the stock. The Cheraw and Darlington Rail road company has acquired by purchase the road from Darling ton to Gibson’s station via Ben- nettsville, and the Hartsville road which should increase the value of its stock. Buy a new machine from us or trade your old one; Black- well Bros. Convention Echoes, [News and Courier.] Columbia, November 24.— There is such a thing as getting enough of even the best of things. The Constitutional Convention for a long time was of the greatest attractiveness to many of the members, and, as Col. Talbert would charge, many let their “automatic mouths run just to hear them go.” There was a time when well rounded and rhetorical speeches were the delight of the members aud visitors, and when an hour’s speech was quite the fashion. Things have changed wonderfully since then. Ten- minute speeches are now the maximum, and the members are even anxious at times to divide the minutes. The mem bers, now that they have been forced to make short speeches and explanations, seem to have developed the faculty of getting at the marrow of a matter with facility. It looks very much as if members have been seized with "genera! weariness” cou pled with a desire to get home; many are bent upon getting through in time to go to Atlan ta, and the “steering commit tee” has helped materially in expediting the work of the body. In fact many things h»ve con spired to rush the work, and the members are quite willing to go through the strain of a ten-hour session if they can only see the prospect of returning to their business and families. The “steers,” as they are po pularly known, are getting more acceptable, and the fact that they have saved much time seems to counteract much of the feeling against them which was showi at the outset. The mi nority has entered its final pro test against the curtailment of debate, and now matters are moving along without that ele ment of friction. The ambition of the Conven tion now seems to be to get through with the various arti cles by Tuesday night, aud if need be to return here the next week and receive the report of the committee on order, style and revision and ratify the Con stitution. Thesteeringcommit- tee promise that this can be done and the members are hop ing that the promise will be ful filled. Every article of the new Con stitution has been practically agreed upon, none of the articles remaining for the second read ing, and those that have not been finally agreed upon and ordered to be enrolled are on the calendar for a third reading, which is the final consideration. The calendar shows ttiat there are for the third reading the articles on finance and taxation, education, legislative depart ment and judicial department. The other matters that are to be considered are of somewhat minor importance, being pro positions for the creation of special new counties, the pay ment of Court expenses by the State, the creation of a sinking fund to pay county back indebt edness, and provisions for the publications and operations of the new Constitution. No one now expects any big fight on any of the unfinished business, for the general rule is that whatever fights are made are on the second reading, and it is exceptional when changes are made on the third reading. For instance, in the article on corporations, which was con sidered yesterday, there were very few changes of any conse quence and those with reference to street car lines and the sur render of the common law lia bility on freight by contract were the only material changes. The general opinion is that there will be more litigation re sulting from the article on cor porations than almost any other that has been adopted. Some seem to think the provisions of this article drastic, others that it is purely legislative. Others that it has undertaken too much, while the members of the com mittee contend that such of the report as is legislative is for the common good of the people and may as well be fixed in the Con stitution, so as to avoid changes by the Legislature. The article on education, which seems to be growing in popularity, will be considered tomorrow, and the expectation is that the contest will be on ihe sections relative to the high er educational institutions and the use of the dispensary profits for the schools. The likelihood is that a mandatory provision, with a maximum amount of the taxes to be used for the colleges will be offered. The present provision leaves it discretionary to continue any of the State’s colleges, and members think that if the Legislature be re stricted in the amount of money to be appropriated, the manda tory provision will prevail. Some of the members continue to oppose the use of the dispen sary profits for the schools, but have not yet made any fight against such use of the profits, and have a decided majority against them. The intention is to have the dispensary profits go towards blotting out the sup plemental tax, and with a good dispensary account the only Constitutional tax that would be imposed would be the three mill tax and the poll tax, as the three mill lax, the poll tax and the dispensary profits would make up the three dollars that is Constitutionally provided for each pupil. There are some of the members who continue to think that the people do not want more than a two mill tax and do not want to make even that Constitutional. There may be some contention as to wheth er all of the dispensary profits should go directly to the school fund or whether the municipal ities should derive their revenue as they now do. The fairness of giving the city its share of the profits seems to be generally acknowledged. The legislative committee re port seemed to have abounded in snags, and the homestead matter perhaps consumed more time in debate than any one question that was considered by the Convention. A month ago the article seemed to have been agreed upon, but the very pro vision that failed to get through at that time was passed this week, thereby, it is thought, making the homestead more of a protection than at first, the essential points of the provision being “no waiver, mortgage oi other lien shall be permitted to defeat the exemption in lands after the homestead has been claimed.” The only fear about this provision is that it will cut off the base of credit of the very class of people it is expected to assist. preme Judge were fixed at eight and the Circuit Judges at four years. The prohibition against allowing Judges to charge as to the facts is regarded by the legal fraternity as being very good. The bill of rights was adopt ed about as reported, and per haps the most important provis ion is that by which Judges cannot send prisoners to the Penitentiary without jury trials, as has been done iu the con tempt proceedings that have been brought about by the dis pensary system. The section as to lynching, if carried out as it ought to be, will certainly have the tendency of minimizing lynchings. Not only is the sheriff to be removed under the provisions upon a true bill being found, but the taxpayers are made to feel the effects of lynchings by being liable for damages to the family of the man lynched. There is much of future good in the sec tion, and tnere certainly seemed to be every disposition to do . everything possible to strength en the anti lynching law. The general article on county governments and the creation of new counties was passed as it stood on its second reading, and now the only remaining difference of opinion on this line seems to be as to the ordinance to create Seabrook County, or rather to make w.y for its sub sequent creation. It is likely that Rock Hill will try and ride in on this wave, but there has already developed considerable opposition to the Seabrook County proposition. The pro gramme is for it to come up to morrow. The salary matter has been talked about as much, perhaps, as anything that has been done. The members are naturally very much interested in the increased pay that has been given, and the refusals to take out the ex tra pay will be few and far be tween. The expectation is that the Convention will cost between $55,000 and $60,000. Bagging and ties at Blackwell Bros.’ In the last moments of the consideration of the article, Mr. McMahan’s provision as to for eign land ownership and Dr. Doyle’s protection of small es tates were adopted without much question. No matter where the race problem has presented itself during the progress of the Con vention, it has been the occasion of much debate, and the repre sentatives of both races seem bent upon keeping them as dis tinct as possible. The discus sion on the question of miscege nation showed a great deal of the feeling that prevails here and in other Southern communities on the race problem. The provision of the section recognizing divorces granted in other States, where the mar riage actually occurred in other States, and one of the contracf- ing parties was not a citizen of this State, was passed more from the sentimental effect of the letter read by Senator Till man than because the Conven tion wished to recognize any form of divorce. It was the peculiar circumstances that have been brought about in communities, and which ap pealed directly to the members, that induced the favorable con sideration of the provision. The article on the judiciary department seems to be gener ally satisfactory. There is noth ing radical %bout it and very few changes are made. Per haps theraost important change is the provision under which county Courts, with limited jurisdiction, may be organized, upon the vote of the people of each county through the Legis lature. There was a decided feeling in the Convention for and against these Courts, and it seemed that ihe only thing to do was to effect a compro mise and leave the establish ment of the Courts td the Legis lature, only after the people voted for them, and then the hard fight was on limiting their jurisdiction and powers. The opinion is that the pro vision for four Supreme Court justices, with eight year terms, j and the privilege of calling the | Circuit Judge to sit en banc is one that will give more force to the Court’s decisions on import ant matters. Although there was a decided sentiment in fa vor of the election of Judges by the people, the advoeates of the present system of elections pre vailed, and the terms of the Su* On the day of the “holiday opening” at the book store, the hours from two to five will be especially for the children. A handsome doll and a gun will be given away to the two who draw lucky numbers. Clothing of all sizes and at all prices; Blackwell Bros. County raised oeed oats and seed rye for sale; Bright Wil liamson. Does vour boy need a suit, pair of shoes, or a hat? If so, send him to us; Blackwell Bros. If the hair is falling out, or turning gray, requiring a stimu lant with nourishing and color ing food, Hall’s Vegetable Sici lian Hair Renewer is just the specific. Administrator’s Sale. A ll of the goods and chat- tels of the late T. A. Gan dy at his store at Society Hill, 8. C., on Dec. 12, 1895, consist ing of a stock of general mer chandise, one combination safe in good order, a lot of livestock, one carriage, two wagons and some farm tools. Terms of sale, cash. H. M. SMITH. Administrator. N2*-St Creditors’ Notice. A ll persons having claims against the estate of the late N. P. Garner are requested to present them, duly proved, to the undersigned, to whom also all persons who may be in debted to said estate will make payment. J. F. GARNER, W. P. DuBOSE, Administrators. N»tt Stolen! Stolen I A s White Chapel body, open * buggy, made by the T. T. Haydock Co., Cincinnati, O., pa : nted black, trimmings, green leather, tan corded combination, Thomas coil and Brewster springs, drop bent axle. Stolen from back lot of Coggeshall & Co.; also, black leather, breast strap harness, with white reins; also riding saddle with red blanket, and one leather horse collar. A liberal reward will be paid for their return to W. D. COGGESHALL.