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utlin ■.%2n VOL. XXIII, NO. 32. DARLINGTON, S. U., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896. | WHOLE i-W* ' matters in and around the town OF DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersefy Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Mr. M. J. Outlaw is havintf a new roof put on his stable. Whiskey constable Newman has been transfered to Sumter. The Rev. R. W. Llde return ed from Port Royal last Satur day. Miss Louise Dallas, of Char leston, is visiting Mrs. W. C. Byrd. Rev. E. C. Bailey, of Tim- monsville, spent last Monday in town. Misrcs Kate and Virgina Wil liamson left for Hendersonville last Monday. Miss Eloise Duffie, of Colum bia. is visiting her sister Mrs. D. M. Fulton. Mr. Malcolm C. Woods is clerking for Woods & Milling for a short time. The premium list for tne next State Fair has been received at The News office. After a month’s vacation, Mr. Howard Norment has gone back to Sligh & Rucker. Miss. Nell Harden, of Che- raw, has been spending a few days with Mrs. J. L. Michie. The Republicans will hold a McKinley and Hobart ratifi cation meeting next Saturday. The A. C. Line has reduced its summer rates to Greenville, Spartanburg and Glenn Springs. Mrs. L. R. Brazell, of Flor ence, is spending a week with friends and relatives in Darling ton. The Rev. T. Hartwell Ed wards will conduct services at the Baptist Church next Sun day. Some of those new State con stitutions still on hand at The Darungton News office at five cents a copy. Mr. J. P. Hodges, of Marlboro, spent last Sunday in Darlinglon with his brother Mr. Hodges of the Enterprise Hotel. W ANTED—A first class dry goods salesman with good reeom niendations. Apply at Thk Daro- 1 NOTON > KWS office. The county executive com mittee met in town last Monday and settled satisfactorily one or two matters in dispute. Welling & Bonnoitt are build ing a two story warehouse, (sides to be covered with iron,) in the rear of their store. The Union meeting was held at the Methodist church last Sunday night. Rev. D. M. Ful ton preaching the sermon. Mr. James D. Gillespie, who has been making tobacco flues in Lake City for several months, lias returned to Darlington. Messrs. C. S. McCullough and C. W. Milling went to Pawley’s Island last Saturday to enjoy surf bathing for a few days. Mr. Howard Norment, who has been spending about ten days-at Pawley’s Island, re turned home last Monday uignt. < )ur merchants are getting in lots of goods daily and will be ready for the trade as soon as cotton and tobacco begin to come in. Mr. B. A. Early, of Early’s Cross Roads, advertises fine Jersey cows and calvts for sale. See his advertisement in anoth er column. Miss Claudia Durant, of Mar ion, who has been spending some time with the family of Mr. E. P. Lide, returned home last Tuesday. The Misses Livingston and Miss Lipscomb, wlio have been visiting Mrs. Frank Pegues the past week, returned to their homes last Saturday. Messrs. W. F. Dargan and E. O. Woods went to Charleston last week to appear before Judge Simonton again in the railroad bond matter. Mr. Henry M, Smith return ed home last Saturday night, after having enjoyed the surf bathing and sea breezes at Paw ley’s Island for about a week. Baird Bros, advertise pianos and organs &c. Mr. Augus Gainey, a musician,is now with them and he can play on your instrument for you as well as repair it. Miss Helen Mclver, of Char leston, is visiting her aunt Mrs. Dr. Griffin. Prof. Patterson Wardlaw, formerly superintendent of the Darlington graded school, was in town last Friday. Mr. Jno. A. Hutchinson is the first to bring sweet potatoes to town for sale. They were bought by Dean Bros. Mrs. R. H. Hodges and two children, Miss Georgia and Mas ter John, of Bennettsville are visiting at the Enterprise Ho tel. Mrs. T. E Sligh and Miss Shuford have returned from a visit to Summerton. Miss Shu ford has also taken her place again as cashier at Sligh & Rucker’s. Solicitor Johnson went up the Hartsville road last Monday night to attend the Ashland campaign meeting. He and Mr. Sellers keep on each others trail all the time. Go and get your registration certificate this week. The books are open ^rom nine a. m. until three p. m. Don’t neglect it now and complain later that you are not registered. At the hearing before Magis trate Warr, the evidence against Carolina Rosser fur kill ing his wife and child was found to be insufficient and he was accordingly discharged. The Coast Line advertises an excursion to be run to Ashe ville from Darlington, Bennetts ville, Cheraw and other points ; n this section, on August 14— tickets good to return until Au gust 31. If you want to vote at the primary election on the 25th of August, be sure that your name is enrolled on your club list five days previous to the day of election. Don’t put it off too long, but attend to it at once. Remember that the ladies of the Presbyterian church will serve dinner for 25 cents at the cotton shed on the day for the great tobacco break. They will have all kinds of good things to eat and cool things to drink for the hungry and thirsty. The Opera House corner is lively now every morning and afternoon witn strains of music from the rehearsals that are in progress for the presentation of “Pauline” on the 20th of Au gust. Mr. Tillinghast seems to believe in plenty of work and the indications are that the Opera will be unusually good for amateurs. The regular business meeting of the Epworth League could not be held last Sunday after noon, but will take place the first Sunday in September when officers will be elected. The re ligious meeting, however, was held Sunday evening when the Rev. R. A. Child gave a very interesting talk on the subject of the lesson. The Farmers Warehouse at Hartsville will open for the sale of tobacco August 18th, a week after vhe day appointed for the Darlington warehouses. Hav ing the opening days fixed so far apart the one will not con flict with the other. Remem ber the day, the 18th of August, for the Hartsville warehouse and if you forget it refer to the advertisement in the News. Eleven applicants stood the examination on Thursday last for the scholarships in Win- throp College. The law allows to each county as many of these scholarships as it has members in the lower house of the Gen eral Assembly. Miss Annie A. Perry, of Hartsvilie, Miss A. L. Witherspoon, of Dovesvllle, and Mise Ervin Watford, of Oats, led in the examination for the Darlington scholarships A Thief Caught. Buck Pugh, a colored boy who had just tiuished a term of six years in the penitentiary, broke iuto J. O. Muldrow’s drug store last Thursday night and stole about $10. One of the dollar bills which he stole had been mended by Mr. Muldrow, and the latter being familiar with the appearance of the bill, it was traced by Chief Dargan to Sligh & Rucker’s store where it had been spent. Mr. Sligh got the clerk, who took the money in, to spot the person who paid it to him, and in this way, the thief was captured. Harvest your pea vines with McCormick mowers and hay rakes. Welling & Bonnoitt Agents. The Lamar and Hartsville Campaign Meetings. [Reported for Thk Nkwb.| The first county campaign meeting was held at Lamar on the 29th ultimo. The meeting was held in a schoolhouse and was opened with prayer, by Senator John 8. Dubose, who prayed that the meeting might passed off harmoniously with out bickering and with wisdom. There were about 175 people in the building and on the grounds. The day was intensely not and the audience was quit® passive under its influence and showed little enthusiasm. The candi dates for sheriff were first call ed upon to speak. Messrs. Munn, Scarborough, and Lee Bass simply made announce ments of their candidacy. Mr. Rosier Kelly was not present. Ex-Sheriff Cole gave a history ot what he considered fine de tective work while he was sher iff. When the auditors had a turn, Mr. Lawrence said he had.no speech to make, but rested on his past record. Mr. Mozingosaid he was competent to fill the office, and so did Mr Walter Vaughan. Of candi dates for Supervisor Mr. Fields made quite a humorous speech that .took well with the audi ence. Mr. King, present County Supervisor, gave a statement as to how the roads had been worked under his management, as well as the present condition of the county finances. Several verbal criticisms were made to him of his management of the public roads. The other candi dates merely stated that they were runhing. Mr. J. N. Par rott and J. O. A. Moore were the only candidates for Clerk of Court, who made talks. Mr. Parrott’s was a characteristic one. Mr. Moore took high grounds and made a very ear nest plea for Reform principles, for electing only Reformers to office. Mr Fuller Howie made a statement that he was run ning for Treasurer. Capt. Woodham, present incumbent to hold off that calf, probably alluding to his competitor, Mr. Howie, and let him suck the public tit two years longer. Of the candidates for the legis- We have an unusually large stock Of LADIES* OXFORD TIES in all the latest styles that we are selling very cheap to close out. Also a large line of Misses’ and children’s oxfords at just a little above cost. DARLINGTON SHOE STORE, WOODS k MILLING, Proprietors. lature only three speeches were made. Mr. G. W. Brown said he was not out there to make a speech, had none prepared, that he belonged to a profession that required speacing almost all the time, he was not running fh favor of any faction and would not represent any if be got in the Legislature, the more he studied free silver the more con-i vinced he was it was right. Mr. J. B. Floyd started out on most too elevated a scale, he spoke of the magic wand of re form sweeping from the moun tains to the seaboard, but he got keyed up most too high and when he let himself down he be came rather common plaje. Dr. W. J. Garner read an electric and scholarly speech from manuscript, that took well with the audience, it touched upon the live financial questions of the day. Anyone who has heard Mr. Henry Burn speak in the Constitutional Conven tion can tell wha; kind of speech he made when he announced himself a candidate for Super intendent of Education. He said in answer to a question that he and himself and alli ance did more than any other institutions to create a senti ment favorable to Jree kilver in this State. Mr. Alonso Parrott said he saw in a dream or vis ion a voice calling and a hand beckoning to him to come out for Superintendent of Educa tion. Mr. J. M. Johnson made a speech in behalf of his own candidacy. His subject was on improvement. He spoke of an improvement in every branch of business, Jury system, Trial Justice system, improvement in farms, education. He did not take any sides. The Solicitor’s office is a delicate one, rotation in office therefore did not apply to it, it any body was put in So licitor’s office over him he ought to be an improvement on him; if he was swapped off for any one else boot should be given. Mr. Sellers of Dillon, Marion coun ty, Mr. Johneon’s opponent, made a speech in reply in which he said everybody beleived in rotation in office, except fellows who were in offlee. He thought he was competent to fill the office and would institute cer tain reforms if he got in. He made several witty remarks. His speech was well received. It was hard at Lamar to tell toward whom among the can didates the sentiment was most favorably. There was some applause, but it was hard to tell whether it was at humorous re marks or real preference for the candidates. Such was the state of feeling at the Hartsville meeting held last Sat urday, but in other respects the Hartsville meeting was alto gether different from the one at Lamar. The meeting were hold in a gigantic unfinished tobacco warehouse. There was present about 200 people. The audience was a restless one and they seemed in no humor fer being quiet or for the speaking. Vol leys of questions were fired at almost eve.*y candidate and some of them got badly rattled undef them. There was at times such a hubbub and buzz ing you could neither hear the questions nor the answers and in consequence all the speeches fell fiat as dish water, though they were up to the same stan dard as at Lamar. Mr. J. B. Floyd made a better speech than he did at Lamar. Mr. H. C. Burns a much better. Mr. Burns collapsed in his speech in this line, whether it was the terrible day or the rest lessness of the audience, makes no difference. This meeting in other respects was similar and on the same order as that at Lamar, and any other details would be uninteresting, unless everything said and done were given. ' A Treat For Music Lovers. Editor, Darlington News: Please inform the members of the Darlington Guards and the public generally through, the columns of your paper that a comic opera entitled “Pifiline” is to be given for the benefit of the company at the opera house some time during the present month. this opera is by Danks, one of the most renouned of all the great composers, and con tains some beautiful music. The services of all the best musical talent in town have been enlisted in the cause, and the oast and chorus composed of some thirty voices in all, are being carefully trained in their work by Mr. J. W. Tillinghast, a most accomplished musician, who prepared the Sumter amateurs for their “Pinifore” E erformance, and who has been ere long enough to prove to our people that he is a thorough master of his profession. Un der the circumstances, there fore, we feel justified in mak ing the prediction that the ren dition of the opera will prove a success in every particular—a success to which every member and friend of the company is asked to contribute to the best of his ability. Henry T. Thompson. A Pioneer Leaf Dealer. The first leaf factory built in South Carolina by a leaf dealer was that erected last year by Mr. John Coleman, of Darling ton. Mr. Coleman has been buying of the Darlington mar ket ever since its beginning, and ho has met with the success that always comes to one who is well-grounded in his business, who is full of get up-and-get and who is throughly reliable. No. one is better posted on South Carolina tobacco than he, and no one is in position to fill orders|more satisfactorily. There is no better tobacco market in the State than Darlington, as is generally known. The choicest of South Carolina stock is to be obtained there, and Mr. Cole man is the man to get it for his customers. Open np correspon dence with him.—SoufAem To bacco Journal can *FtH COGGE8HAL|*8 SLEDGE Are constantly at worlf Hammering prices down. look us if you Wish bargains in first class goods. Come right along we will take care of you. Yes we you anything in the SUPPITY Lf N1ET*t Lowes1 Out* targe stock of Dry Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Umbrellas, Buggy Robes, Whips, &c. will be coming in daily and everything Must Go At The Very Lowest Prices. Quick sales |and si • ' V * Is our motto. We are new in this business and will give great bargains to get our goods introduced. Every Family Must Have ^nettling From Our Store, If we have to almost give it to them. WHY NOT RIDE A WHEEL? Coggeshau can give you one from $15 to $60. CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER Samples to select from. Pit guarenteed—$10 for a $25 suit mt Yes we can give you the best bargains in ever saw. ALL NEW STOCK- y<m. MJT HrfTS We have the Latest Styles at v< for a pair pants when you can low prices. Don’t pay good at 2.90: $2.75. (Pants from 45 cts to 3.7$), $5.00 suits at suits for 4.00; Men’s Suits from ii.45 to 10.00, Come and see for yourselves. % WE DONT LET ANYONE UNDERSELL US IN THE GROCERY LINE. Nor do we allow any one to carry a better stock than we do. Whats better than CREAM I FLOUR HAMS and LIGGETTS RANGY & IES. 1 We represent the best] line, buy low and •f Everything Gi That little boy must have a Nice Pocket Knife, the little girt wants a nice Pair of Sidecoxnbs mama must have a nice Set of China and papa Would like a good , ^ Carving Set. We have all ttese at big bargains. Car Load Sagging and r E%m Just in and bought to sell, MUST GO TOO. See us before you buy. save you money. Cotton sheets and sacks for picking M I’,,, r WA Htfbb Old Stock and High prices are want pleased customers; “Tetley’s Tea” is the best on the market—Deans Bros. Repairs for McCormick mow-!] ers kept in stock by Welling &.) Bonnoitt. ! '-X