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VOL. XXIII, NO. 30. DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896. WHOLE NUMBER 1,120 LOCAL matters in and around the town OF DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. \V, S. Andrews has been let out of jail on bond. The McKinley shirt front is one of the latest novelties. Miss Bessie Ervin went to Columbia last Tuesday morn ing. Th' 1 colored Baptist church is undergoing some necessary re pairs. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Macfar- lan and children have gone to Saluda. The Rev. R. W. Lide left for Port Royal last Tuesday to visit a friend. Mr. C. D. Evans spent last Sunday with his mother at So ciety Hill. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tilling- hast, of Sumter, are visiting in Darlington. Dr. W. J. Garner is announc ed as a candidate for the Legis lature this week. Mr. Frank Parrott has been sticking type for a few days in The News office. our young people a picnic tomorrow The State Campaigners will speak at Oats today. Messrs. T. E. Sligh and Junius Parrott spent Sunday in Flor ence. Several of will attend at Garner’s Mill. Quite a crowd of bicyclists from here will attend the races in Florence today. Mr. W. G. last Tuesday where he went to purchase the outfit for his repair shop, which he will soon open up in the old Lewis shop near the Electric Light station. Mr. Dickson R. 1. CHARLES AGAIN. HE WRITES ANOTHER LONG AR TICLE TO THE MESSENGER. In Which He Makes Some Very Severe Charges Against Messrs. Parrott and Lawrence. I have been the subject of a very unseemly and unprovoked Dickson spent | attack by these two young men in Charleston | in your last issue, {tnd I think it is due to myself and to the peo ple whose offical servant I am in a small way, to justify myself. I had taken occasion to criticse will make a specialty of repair- the action of the Grand Jury in ing icyc es. entirely respectful language, at- A Colored man called “Preach- tributing no criminality or in- f la n Mond »y tentional misconduct to any of afternoon by Chief Dargan for Lu . . . . raising an order on one of the them ’ buteipre8sly Btatm S that stores in town. The order was I a Grand Jury from the nature written for 20 cents, but the two) of the case must leave a great many subjects of inquiry entire- Mr. Henry M. Smith adver tises a ginning outfit for sale in The News this week. Mr. Edward Coker returned froinSaluda last Saturday after a stay of a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Robert James and baby are spending some time at Pawley’s Island. Rev. Wilmot S. Holmes, of Florence, preached in the Epis copal church last Sunday night. Mr. Brasington, of the firm of Brasington and Eason, has gone on a trip to Bennettsville, Wadesboro and other lowns. There is a vacancy for Dar lington county at the Citadel Academy. See the advertise ment in this issue of The News. The Misses Livingston and Miss Lipsocmb arrived in Dar lington from Bennettsville Tuesday morning to visit Mrs. Frank Pegues. Mr. W. D. Sligh left last Sat urday for Columbia for a short visit. Before returning to Dar lington he will spend sometime in North Carolina. The Rev. Mr. Easterling, of Marlboro, preached in the Bap tist church last Sunday morn ing. He also conducted union services that night. Mr. Herbert Pegues, who is in the employ of the Coast Line at Tarboro, N. C., spent last Sunday in town with his broth er Mr. Frank Pegues. The platform of the Chicago convention is again published in The Mews this week in order that all may become perfectly familiar with the different planks. A cabbage with twenty six distinct heads on the same stalk was on exhibition in town Sat urday. It was raised in the garden of Mr. Richard Moody, in the Riverdale section. Some of the campaign speak ers passed through here Monday night on their way to Hartsville from which place they drove to Chesterfield to attend the campaign meeting there. Mr. P. C. Pleasant, represent- - ing the Richmond Tobacconist, paid The News office a call last Friday. Mr. Pleasant is taking a trip through the tobac co raising section of this State in the interest of his paper. Sydnor & Treadway, of the Darlington Tobacco Warehouse, announce in their advertisement this week that their warehouse will be open for business Tues day, August 11, for the sale of tobacco, and every day thereaf ter. Coggeshall & Co. have moved their office from the middle of their store to the rear end. The change adds very much to the appearance and attractiveness of the store and will also be convenient in the arrangement oi their large stock. The Editor of The News thanks Mr. Ralph McLendon, of Cypress, this county, for an invitation to attend the anni versary exercises of the Cal houn literary society of Clem- son College to be held Thursday, Aug. (jth at 8 o’clock p. m. bad been changed to a four. “Preacher” was locked up in the guard house. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carr have taken board at Mrs. Wil lis’ Mr. Carr travels for the Beck & Hardware Co. of Atlanta, Ga., and will make Darlington his headquarters for the present Mr. and Mrs. Carr’s friends welcome them to Darlington and hope that a taste of our fine artesian water may induce tljem to make Darlington their home. The Planters Warehouse, Smoot and Walden proprieters, announce in their advertise ment this week that their ware house will be epen for the sale of tobacco August 11th next, Mr Walden is a warehouseman of ten years experience and promises to do all in his power to see that the planters gets the best prices tot their tobacco. Mr. Smoot is well known to the planters in this section, having been one of the proprietors of the Planters Warehouse since its organization. An advertisement of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse at Hartsville will be seen in this issue of The News. The Harts ville people have certainly shown commendable enterprise in building a tobacco ware ly to the Foreman and the com mittees and I went on to say that I thought the Foreman and the committee on official bonds had done me ap injustice and had been prejudiced by some means or other against my bond. In making this statement I took. the view that the members of a grand jury are public officers and as such as much subject to reason able and respectful criticism as any other officers. I then called attention to our peculiar law for preparing the annual list of jurors in which the Clerk, Treasurer and Audi tor are constituted a board of jury commissioners and requir ed to select from the inhabitants of the county a list of such as they may think well qualified as jurors, provided they take 'at least one name from every 20 voters on such list. (Section 2375 Revised Statutes, Vol. i.) Now this law was made im mediately after 1876 to fill our peculiar condition at that time and it was thought necessary to vest almost absolute power in the jury commissioners. My argument was that, in house for themselves and The preparing that annual list, if Editor of The News hopes to I majority of the Board of Jury see enough business for all the Commissioners expected to have Darlington and a case of inquiry before the Hartsville. The building of the Grand Jury that fact would na- warehouse at Hartsville will I turally influence their judgment havft th« tp.nrlflncv to increase I in selecting men favorabl to their views and interest. have the tendency to increase tobacco planting in the county and it is highly probable that Darlington and Hartsville will not conflict with each other to any extent in the warehouse business. Wear Cheraw knit socks. think this is a fair deduction and one that has always been recognized by law. It is no re flection on any jury to say that is scarcely necessary to say a word. He enjoys a character and reputation throughout the county at present of such a na ture that nothing he could say would reflect on the moral character of the humblest ne- ^ He is a very competent officer and a man of some natural smartness, and could be a high- y useful citizen were it not for his moral defects. He cannot be relied upon in any emergency and the people have found out that fact at last. Very few would accept his statement on any subject as true unless strongly corroborated by other circumstances. I dislike to ap- )ly harsh epithets to any one, even the most contemptible,and as the people of Darlington county now know Lawrence as well as I do and he is powerless to do any one any harm, I dis miss him under the charitable injunction “Speak good of the dead.” Such an inexcusable attack as these two young men make on me, if emanating from persons of some character and manli ness,might stir sufficient indig- natbn to induce me to appeal to another mode of redress. It would indeed be inexcusa ble to resort to harsh measures with two such lovely cherubs, pampered on three or more Ti COUNTY mi. ITEMS FROM SEVERAL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY CORRESPONDETS. SOCIETY HILL. Miss J. A. Coker and brother, Mr. Daniel Coker, of’Hartsville, were sojourners in our city Sunday. • Mr. Frank J. Byrd, of Me chanicsville, paid friends and relatives here a flying visit the first of the week. Hot weather and hard times and the coming campaign are frequently discussed.—rather interesting topics eh? Miss Carrie Hart, of Florence, and Miss Hannah Byrd, of Riverdale, are visiting the fam ily of Mr. T. H. Coker. Miss Mabel Dove, one of Dovesville’s attractive young ladies, spent a portion of last week in town with friends. Miss Agnes McLane, a young lady very popular and well known in this section and a resident of Cheraw, is visiting in company with her brother, Mr. Willie McLean, the family of Mr. W C. Wilson. Mr. Henry Womack, book keeper for Messrs. W. A. Car- OYI r. C. F. DuBose, visit med to who at this place, lumbia. We (till have sick. Among a great man; them Dr. W. Harris, but we hope to the Doctor up soon again. 0* account of so much rain, our public roads and bridges are to a very bad condition. The County Supervisor could find something to do now to oc cupy a part of his time if he would come around and see a bout them. Mrs Bailie Huggins died last Saturday afternoon at six o,- clock and was interred at Mt. Cion church Sunday afternoon. She leases two sons and one daughter and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. We extend our sincere sympthy to the bSreaved family. 'We notice that some corres pondents are boasting of the crops in their sections, and, while we dislike to boast, wo will venture the assertion that Cypress ean'show up as fine, if not the finest, crops of any sec tion of Datiington county. If these scribes do not believe it, they can come around and see and be convinced that we are correct. terms of office holding until, rigan & Son, returned home like spoiled children, they have }«»t week from Virginia where become to consider these offices their personal and private prop- ty and to resent any inquiry with their affairs with the vul gar and indecent epithete of the gutter. I might slap their fa ces with impunity, but tar the present I propose to hold them to that mode of accounting that they least desire. Mr. Lawrence says I am a “fool,” a “knave,” a “liar,” a “populist” and a “frequenter of the dispensary” because I charge that he has given no of ficial bond for present term of office. Now if on the stump he fails to sustain his position in this particular what condition will he be in? He ought to know whether he gave bond or not and there is no room to plead mistake. It will not do for him to make the excuse that he gave a bond for a former term for every child would khow that that was not a bond for the present term. Likewise Mr. Albert Parrott who so glibly charges me with “want of veracity” might ex plain on the stump why it was that at the primary election in 1892 he saw fit to commit a fraud on the people by having a false ticket printed at The Dar Make your leaf tobacco crop absolutely safe by insuring it. Mrs. Lucy M. Norment. hand in making it up. Such has always been the spirit of the law. But Mr. Parrott says I am wanting in veracity” when I impottant Notice To Democrat*. I state that a majority of the A meeting of the Darlington Board can make up the fist. If Democratic club for Darlington so, the Supreme Court of South township is called to meet in Carolina is “wanting in veraci- the Court House at Darlington I ty” when it states that identical on Monday 24th inst. at 4.301 position m the case State vs. p. m. for the purpose of organiz- Merriman 34 S. C. page 16. But ing and getting up club list as as it is not presumable that the the club failed to have a meet- Supreme Court is wanting in ing when last called for want | veracity, does it not lead to the no person in any way interested lington News office in exact im- in its finding shall have any itation of the Register type and \ j • :a. a £ inlr and haaHa/1 <( Til 1 man t.ip.lrAt.” of a quorum. A full attendance j of members of the club is earn estly solicited. J. J. Ward, V. P. of Darlington D. C. inevitable conclusion (accord ing to Mr. Parrott’s boyish log ic) that Mr. Parrott is “wanting in veracity?” But Mr. Parrott says there are Twine for hanging tobacco at other things in my article not Edwards & Co’s. ^ true. That other thing is the The'x Raya. assertion that his office bond is „ , T m r, i , utterly defective and I will add Prof- J- T. Coleman, of the h aB always been since the death Citadel Academy, will deliver a jj r j q. ^ju cox 12 months lecture m the Opera House Fri-1 (Section 511 Revised Sta- day evening the 24 on electrici- tuteB vo i j ) And that notwith- ty and Roentgeji s rajrs. Prof. 8tan< jj n g h e is the custodian of Coleman has a magnificent set j ar<fe am0 unt8 due to minors, of apparatus, enabling every | w id 0 ws and creditors. one to see clear through boards.” Such an exhibition will be a rare treat for those who attend and all should avail themfelyes of this opportunity. Admission 25 cents, reserved seats 10 cents extra. 25,000 lbs bacon, 5,000 lbs lard to arnye Monday; Deans Bros. I have called attention to this defect in the law and abuse with no intention to reflect on the Grand Jury or the Foreman or the committee, but to reiterate the assertion that when they go into the matter-of examination of official bonds they are oblig ed from the nature of the case to depend on the information of the Clerk and Auditor as to the status of persons, and if they de ink and headed “Tillman ticket and otherwise in exact imita tion of that ticket, except that his own name was inserted for Clerk in the place of the nom inee of that party. He might O on to explain the difference tween getting $3000 to $4000 a year that way and of “obtain ing goods under false pretenses” or what the State vulgarly calls larceny. He might also explain to the boys of his Sunday School which method a young man of delicate organism and refined aspirations might be excused in adopting to get out of the vul garity of farm life. And these are the two young men that constitute, exofficio, a majority of the Board of Jury Commissioners and annually prepare the jury list with liberty to reject from that list 19 in every 20 of the legal voters of the county because they are not in their judgment “persons of good moral character.” I have lived all my life nearly here in Darlington county among the people where I was born and I have never before been charged that I know of with “want of veracity” or any dishonor. , I have in the course of a long and large practice of law handled without bond an immense sum in the Aggregate le’s money and Mr. L. J. Bristow Laaves Darlington. Mr. Louis J. Bristow, who | pend too much upon this infor- has been foreman for some time of The News office, left Darlington on the 21st for Washington, Ga., where he has accepted a position on the Georgia Reporter of that town Mr. Bristow is one of the most ination as friends are apt to do with friends, their confidence is liable sometimes to be abused. And I have complained that it has been abused in this case or appears to be and the Grand Jury have been prejudiced accomodating and pains taking against my bond by false in printers the editor of The N*ws formation and likewise have f « i I /visai*InnlrA/ has ever known and deserves to succeed wherever he goes. The Georgia Reporter will have a valuable young man wee. overlooked glaring defects in the bonds of the two officers or these defects have been kept on its | from their knowledge. As to Mr. Lawrence’s letter it of other never have I been charged with misappropriating or losing a dollar of it. It now remains for these two young men at this late day of my lire, to make the first charge against me of dishonorable con duct. It remains for me to demand that they make good that charge or by their silence remain selt- confessed • blackguards in the slime of their own infamy and the contempt of their fellow cit izens of botn factions. R. K. Charles. July 13, 1896. Yeast cake at Deans Bros.’ he has been recuperating in and around his native home. We are glad to see you back Mr. Womack. Dr. R. A. Trippett purchased a bicycle some time ago and now ranks among the best wheelmen of our city. Others are contemplating purchasing wheels. The next thing is a race track. I expect a suitable tract of land for the purpose could be procured with little expense, in or outside of our level town limits. x Capt. W. A. Carrig'A’s ar tesian well is’ now being bored on his plantation over the river. Mr. Willie Btogner was given the contract. Mr. Stogner has been engaged at this work in Hartsville and seems to have given the citizens there satis faction. He is a resident of our town and any persons desir ing wells bored will do well to see him, for he is a competent machinest and generally pleases his patrons. ^ ^ ^ If you borrow flour from your neighbors return cream, for sale by Coggeshall & Co. CARTERSVILLE. We think some of the happiest people in our country now are the colored people who put in and take out our barns of tobac co. Their conversation is of course carried on in their own dialect, full of jokes and hu mor, and of such a nature as not to be offensive to cultivated ears. Give the devil his due and the negro a chance; treat him as a human being. Don’t thrust 10 cents meat down his throat, but let him have it and then you can control his' bor. The regents of Spain seem to be making a poor out suppress ing the rebellion in Cuba. Al- phonso, though only eight yean old, seems to be getting along even better than the infant ruler of South Carolina. Perhaps, siuce the regent of South Caro lina failed in his presidential as pirations, and showed ;the six teen thousand people in the au ditorium that he was the biggest jackass in the show, he may re turn to South Carolina andgroom Johnny over for the campaign aud tell him how to get out oi' that $49,000 bond steal. There was a serious affray at the usually quiet town of I tersville, on Saturday night last, between Frank Mims, white, and-Hase Daniels, color ed. Mims came totown drunk^qd got into a boxing bee with Dan iels. The latter proved too much for Mims aud knocked him out. Mims then drew his knife and cut Daniels’ $rm severely. Daniels then knocked Mims down with a stick, fracturing his skull, and Mims then sat down on the railroad track which was near by. It being dark, some one else struck Mims on the head, fracturing his skull in another place. Dr. G. G. Palmer has no hopes of Mims’ recovery^. For the credit of Cartersville, we will say no in toxicants are sold here. PAtMETTO. is all the go now. Watsmelons have been cat short in this section by the heavy rains. We are very sorry to- report that Mr. Caleb Boone is in very bad health, but we hope that he will speedily recover. I be present Mr. and Mrs. L. B, Gardner, q£ Association of this section, day with Mrs Riverdale sectioa. a very pleasant time and good crops. The picnic at Mr. Arthur Humphries’ fish pond on the 18th inst. was a great success, although the day was very un favorable. A large crowd at tended and all seemed to enjoy themselves to the fitileet extent. A plenty of good music was The survivors’ Pee Dee Light at the DarUagtou Spring July 21st was order at 11 a. m. by R. B. Hepburn. Ti .the old boys who the ravages of time aud the four years’ campaign led by Lea and Jackson from sixty-one to sixty- five, answered to roll oalL The election of offloers for the ensueing year, waa: R. M. Rogers. President; Simon Mc Lendon. Vice President; Biihu Muldrow, Secretary. Col. James Asmstroqg and General W. E. James, of the old bloody Eighth Sooth Caro lina Regiment, and Dr. Hohnea, a gallant survivor of Gen. Kil by Smith’s Western braves, were present as guests of the Association. Comrades Mul drow, McLendon, Rediok, T. A. Moore, Pettigrew and w. E. James entertained tike associa tion with pleasant memories of their recent visit to the reunion at Richmond, Va. A committee was appointed to work towards erecting a monument at Richmond to the Confederate women. ▲ poem by Mrs. R. M. Rogers was read and many were the reminiscences of the days when the now gray bearded veterans were gaflan roliolting boys. Col. Jimmie Armstrong, who is always amusing and witty on such oocassicas, entertained the comrades with a few re marks which were of course greatly enjoyed. On motion Col. Armstrong was invited Bo resent at all of the reunions to bo held t last 9<m: | hereafter. Slskron, of Resolved: That we appoint a They report memorial committee or ial committees, whom duty it shall be to propers tributes to the memories of deceased com rades—such committees to be appointed by the president, < for each one of our rades. As usual, on them occasions, a most enjoyable day was pass ed, and another pleasant re* TBs Dar lington Guard*' with a furnished by the two string onion was added to the long list bands, for the danosm. A game winch have been held by the of base ball was played between Survivor’s Association of the the Lake Swamp and the Hall | Pee Dee Light Artillery, teams, the Lake Swpmp team carried off the laurels. Mr. Humphries deserves groat cred it. We were very Barry you, bJi.SSyho«I 0». «f Uk> .tow ,tao« to but sincerely hope 7<>u come ^ Anrayof the promises to give anothir soon, and guarantees the pubic a bet- w . arc ,. 9 * W V 9 ter time, as every thing will be I arranged more convtBientiy I “ere, and they go away then. _ SPRINGVILLE. Fruit is scarce in tikis section. The health of this section is very good at present. Tobacco growers am very busy curing the leaf. Crops have been dainBgsd very much by the recent heavy rains. impressed with the eat th«>t well known Sometimes in addition to words, valuable testimonials of regards are forth coming. This was the cam a few days Capt. Thompson surprised by re _ Charleston, a package, which contained a beautiful work of art, in the ahape of a wreath of On last Thursday afteraeoa, lightning struck five of Mr. H. L. Garland’s hogs. Miss Carrie Sheriil, of Doves- ville, is visiting her sister Mrs. W. O. Tedder at Floyds. Most of the farmers ami of the G. on either side of a ] below. At the abbreviations. So. Oa. This wreath is placed on aJ ground of blue, which In out in bold relief all the beauty design. The wreutik m of through laying by cotton—ooese made entirely rest for the boys now until they I which flowers i have to pull fodder. *mhliTrrI giving The protracted meeting clos-1 artistic beauty, which it ed at Bla<*Chmk onthe 17th *» hard to describe in ooU type, to." Si toSTwS. . tato. toton, “D” fc "Q” -• many conversions made Bod f^®*** 1 *® “•$•» souls brought unto Christ. Bep- ?°P 0, ?£“^ e “ * tiara will be administered to] them Sunday, 2«th inst. 16 to I—1 ft “Tetley’s Tea” is equal' to le ft* ordinary ti Deans Bcos.’ agents. HIGH HU-L. Miss Hattie Hill, of Eliott, is vwitiatf friends amd relatives iv this section. Tobacco is looking fine, there is some oomplaning about the rain interfering with curing. We were glad to have Bessie Rhodes and Blackman in our midst last Tuesday. Mr. H. T. Stuckey is the first to ship tobaooo from this tion, but it is likely that will be some to follow iu a few days. While a i* Mt. M about the ties of ^ which went down te the d