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■■ Dft*LY TIMES. VOL. III. FLORENCE. 8. C.. THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 19, 1897. No. 302. IN PERSONAL VEIN. SOME ARE OUR OWN PEOPLE AND SOME ARE NOT. They Come and go and do Many Thing* and it Give* ub PleaBure to Uear of Their Movements. Mr. Albert Muldrow left this morniug tor a trip to Mariou. Mr. aad Mrs. W. J. Brown re turned from Red Springs last eve ning. Soliciting Agent Gulley, of the A C. L., was in the city this morning. Mrs. R. Ti Kate have visit to Raleigh. Mr. Webb, accepted a the Jacobi Mrs. Ei yesterj of Mil Miss their from Wilmington and has taken EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. charge of the original pack - age agency of Mr. Geo. Stackley. Purvi* ib id«ntitie<i a* the Man who Kied at Sight of a Train. Mr. W. E. Herring left this Evidence seems to be accumula- morniug for Eutawville to take t iug against Purvis, and, judging charge of the branch store that f ro i n the fact that he was wringing Wm m Mr. J. F. Stackley has established there. Mr. S. D. Rogers went over into Marion county yesterday to visit his mother Mrs. Stephen Bvrd, who is quite sick. Mrs. Rogers left this morning to assist in nursing her. Dr. James Evans and his sou, Tom, are in Nashville, Teuu. Dr. Evans is in attendance upon the meeting of the National Board of Health now in session in that city. Dr. Evans is the only mem ber of this body from South Car olina. Iton, has clerk at city as Dr. Marion mother BJ spent called to id his Mr. Marios ville is a vii his father, Mr. and Mrs left, this morniug for Wilmington and ths sea shore. Mr. F. O. Withers, representative of the State, was in town this travelling Columbia morning. Messrs. Simons, Jno. W. Wil liamson and Harry Evans of Dar lington were in the city last night. Mrs. G. B. Graves, who has been on a visit to the Misses Ja cobi, left for Augusta last evening. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Arrington returned to the city this morning after a pleasant visit to Rocky Mount. Mr. W. E. Whilden, one of the night operators at the depot, is quite sick and Mr. Wm. Clayton is filling his place. Dr. W. I. Brown left for Man ning this morning to visit his brother before returning to bis home in Anniston, Ala. Mr. Walter Steele, who has besn filling the place of Mr. B. W. Ar rington, as ticket agent, will leave to-night for a visit to Kingstree. Mr. Geo. Jordan has returned The Hay Crop. (Krotn tUeClavelauil Leader.) The hay crop of the* United States is worth more than any gpiet^ther ©rop except corn. It often amounts to more than 45,000,000 j him Tor tons. In many years the crop has thein to g o u p been worth $400,000 or upward. tell O110 of the bovs to give them It is grown in a great number of oue> States, and all classes of farmers. T ' he mu i a tto then asked Mr. are interested in the yield of the (j ra( idy if he had heard anything ha ,y n field8 - • of the shooting affair near Dunn f* 1 ® 1 the hay crop of g atur( i a y ujght. He replied that 1897 is likely to prove the largest had, and from a number of grown in the entire history of the United States is, therefore, an item of immense importance. It means another Idhg step toward general prosperity and a deadly blow dealt the luckless calamity howlers of the Bryanites. Like the big yield of wheat and the discovery of new Green- of oMillan a trip to wet when seen by Mr. Graddy, he must have been the man chased by the hounds. In connection with the crime Wednesday’s Fay etteville Observer says: “Sheriff Pope, of Harnett, will arrive this afternoon and to-night he will carry Ed. Purvis, the sus pected murderer of flagman Black- well, and Meara, the principal State’s witness, to Dunn, where I the preliminary trial will probably ! be held to-morrow. Some very damaging evidence ! has just developed against Purvis- It is as uear as possible as fol- ; lows: Sunday afternoon, Mr. J. L. Graddy was on his farm, near the A. C. L. Bridge, which crosses the Cape Fear, when two tramps, one a bright mulatto and the other black, approached him and asked a watermelon. He told to his house and questions the fellow asked, he be came suspicious of him, especially as the man was wringing wot, evi dently having recently swam the river. Mr. Graddy had jast directed the men to his house, when a train was seen coming towards them and and rich gold fields, it is good ineu t a ]{i ug opposite di- fortune for the American people and the world, but ruin for politi cians whose hopes are founded on hard times and discontent- All persons desiring pdars for eating or preserving will please leave orders at Geo. Stackley’s. 4t. D. A. J. Hoole. Johnson’s Chill and Fever - Tonic Cures Fever Jn One Day. rections. (This was thetraiu with i the posse and blood hounds from Florence which had been searching for the murderer.) Mr. Graddy hastened into town and notified the authorities that he had seen what he suspected was i the murderer of flagman Black- well. A number of men were im mediately sent in search, hut the men could not be found. This morniug Mr. Graddy went in to the jail, to see if the man held there was the same one he had seen. As he approached the big cage in which the cells are, the prisonera were bunched in the corridor, and Mr. Graddy peeping through the steel bars, at once picked out Purvis as the man with whom he had talked Sunday after- Boon. He is positive of the iden tification.” Old Newspapers for sale. BEGUN AND ENDED. The 1'uunty Sunday School AnsoclRtlnn Has Completed nu luiereKtliiK two Ihtyti Session. On Tuesday night the Florence County 1 liter-denominational Sun day School Association convened at Ebeuezer Baptist Church. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Walter 1. Herbert of Flor ence. His remarks were earnest and forceful, interesting and in structive, and the congregation, a large one, was much pleased On Wednesday morning the as sociation organized for business. Hon. J. E. Pettigrew of Ebeuezer church cordially welcomed the delegates in a neat speech. J. P- McNeill, Esq-, responded. Dr. F. P. Covington was elected president, and then t e associa tion began its work. Several in teresting discussions were had. Speaking on “Music ill the Sunday School,” Rev. J. I. Ayres, delight ed his audience. Mr. Ayres is a cultured musician, and he dealt forcibly with the class of music generally used in Sunday schools and urged the importance of this subject in connection with Sunday school work. Rev. Walter I. Herbert opened the discussion upon “The advan tages of inter-denominational work,” and a short time was spent upon this subject of mutual in terest. The morning session was closed by Mr. J.C. Scott of Charleston, who delivered a splendid address on Bible study, lie treated the subject in an entertaining way, and those who heard him cannot but be helped. Last night an address was deliv ered by Mr. Jno. J. Dargauof Dar lington. This morning the association en tered upon its closing session. The exercises, as on yesterday, were full of interest and of value. At the dinner hour a final adjournment was had. I.OBt. One night latch key with several small keys on ring, finder will be rewarded by returning same to W. C. Atkinson, Florence, 8. C. Aug.l6d3t. ■ — — .1 . Ice Cream Soda at' Lake’s Corn er Drug Store General Insurance Agency OK SANBORN CHASE, Fire, Life & Accident loguntnee. Surety Bonds Issued. rhM« v LOREISCB. A ■SS*B ""j! mm 1 MtfMMMBN