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* the DARLINGTON NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1886. Port Offlco Hours. Open from.... 8.80 A. M. U 2P. M. ojenfrom 8.80 P. 1L t« 7 P. M Down Moil Cloe«»-ot. • ••••M *•••••••■ lo.ao a: m Up Moil Close* ot • •••••••• •• ••#••••••4. 30 P. M HarUviUe, Lydia, Clydo and Stoke*' Bridya Mail Imtm erery Monday. Wadoe*- d*y and Friday at 6 A. M. BLANCH 0. LAW, April. 29, 1888. Poitmlstren- LOC-A.3J ITEMS. Mb. W. F. Eably is at borne on a abort visit from Washington. Col and Mrs. B. W. Edwards bave returned Irom their snmmer trip. D. D. MoColl, Esq., ex-Solicitor of this circuit, was iu town yester day. Democratic voters of Darling ton Township will read notice of olnb meeting on the 21at of July. ON July 26, the fee on post office money orders not exceeding five dollars will be reduced from eight to five cents. The Columbia Register office is prepared to do all kinds ot job printing, book and binding work. . Send for prices. It is reported that recent floods have damaged or rendered impassa ble every bridge over Lynches River. If you are going to establish a cotton gin, read the advertisement ofJ. O. Byrd, who has a complete outfit for sale at a reduced price. Mb. B K. Brockington, recently in merchandise in Florence, will leave with his family next week for Texas, where he will go into the mercantile business. Mb. T. Walters Norment, now with Daniel Miller & Co., Baltimore, is out on bis first trip as a drum mer and was in town this week with an extensive line of dry goods and notions. Mb. J.D. Hill, of Putnam, Flor ida, is on a visit to his relatives in Timmonfeville. He has followed oot his did profession, teaching, com bined with planting an orange grove. Mb. C. B. Cbaio, representing the New York Life Irsurance Com pany, has located for the present in Darlington. He publishes his license from the Comptroller Gen eral as required by law. Mb. C. G. W. Humphries, has onr thanks for a basket of apples. We would enjoy a basket of nice pears very much, and often wonder to ourself if any one knows what has become of Mr H. E. Jones. Messrs J. N. Garner, W. P. Cole, F E. Norment, G. O. Bacot, J. H Mason, J. H. Schmid and H. M. Smith left Saturday night on an excursion to Washington. Some ot them will extend the trip further North. Mb. S. H. Zimmbbman and fam ily leave our county this week for the growing town of McCoII, in Marlboro’, where he will take charge, as principal, of a new High School established there. Darling-^ ton loses one of the best teachers* she has ever had. Mb. H. A. Hymes, a recent grad uate of the S. C. College, has been appointed an assistant teacher in the Graded Schools in Columbia. This is a well deserved compliment to Mr. Hymes and Darlington, and . as one of our former scholars we extend our congratulations, in that he has taken the high scholastic stand that we expected of him. Knox Livingston, Esq., of Marl boro’, as referee, Messrs. Junius Evans and J. M Johnson of Mar ion, W. A. Brunson of Florence. R. W. Boyd, E. K. Dargan, W. F. Dargan, Geo. W. Brown, and J. J. Ward of Darlington, as counsel, with Mr. L I. Parrott as stenogra pher, have been engaged for sever al days in the case of Salinas ft Sou vs. B. C. Pawley and others. Thb hard-working editor in chief Of the Centenary, Rev. A. W. Moore, dropped in on us Tuesday morning. We immediately gave him our best chair, handed him our tobacco and a box of matches, and gave him a welcome He was on his way to Society Hill and beyond. He is more enthusiastic than ever on the subject of the Centenary, and has succession of editors already ar ranged until the year 1961. Look out for the hand bills giv ing schedule of an excursion from Wadesboro’ to Charleston, arriving in Charleston at 0 o’clock Thursday morning, August 5. The tare from Darlington will be only 12.75 for the round trip; $2.50 from Florence. Rates for points above will be given in circulars. One of the profession al games of base ball will be played on that date, and this exenrsion will give base bailers a chance to nee professionals. To others the attractions in Charleston are too numerous to mention, and are well worth a visit. Miss Thompson will close the first session of her dancing school ou Monday next. At night e soiree will be given her pupils, to which parents of the pupils and ladies are invited. Gentlemen admitted for 50 cents each. Soiree commences at 8.30 o’clock. Miss Thompson will organiae another claaa, and all wbo with to join areaakod to make application on Friday or Saturday o! tbia week. Miss Thomparnbas ebowu herself a capable, pains-tak ing and thorough dancing teacher and deserves the atme liberal pa tronage she has received during V WW V « -V a MW **• -• - «. •*. 7- ( , : 'V .os?* .jliffy, '’w jff Since Friday last, some sections of onr comity have been visited with contional heavy rams. At Hartsville, Saturday evening the rain was accompanied by some bail and a heavy wind storm, blowing down large, oaks and doing much damage to corn, in Mars Bluft on Friday one of the heaviest raini of the season fell. Below I£beuezer, for weeks there has been fain after ra j n - At Lydia and at Darlington rain is needed. The crops report are bad In some sections mapy acres bave been overrun with grass. The corn crop is above the average and about made; cotton is small, much of it in bad order and at pre sent does not promise one-balf a crop. We consider any man fortunate who takes a good agricultural jour nal. In fact we do not believe that a man can farm snccessfally with- oat the assistance of an agricultur al paper. In speaking about agri- culturals we waut to call '.be atten tion of onr farmers to the Cotton Plant. It ia a beautifully printed 8 page, 40 eoluma journal, teeming each issue with rioh information for our farmers, and only oosts six ty cents a year. We hope all onr subscribers wbo do not not take this paper will send ior a sample copy. The July uumber is to band and is brim full of good, wholesome matter. Each number is worth ten times a year’ssnbscription. Address the Cotton Plant, Marion, 3. O. CARTERSVILLE. —Clinton Johnson, son cf G. G. Johnson, died at this place on Sat urday last —Lynches River has been very fu'l recently. The boat which hauls turpentine, &c., down the river, turned over a few days since, bat no one was drowned. —On Saturday next, 17th inst., the Gartersville Democratic Club will meet to elect delegates to the County Couventiou. A full atteud- ance is desired. Meeting at 31 o’clock P. M. —The crops are looking a little better than a week ago, bat cotton is still very small for tbe time of year. We hope, however, with fa vorable seasons that we will gather three-fourths of a crop. EBENEZER. —Farmers are looking blue and when one hears it thuuder, tbe shade deepens. —One ot onr neighbors wbo has several acres in Gnba tobacco pointed oat a stalk about three feet high, tbe leaves near the bottom measuring 13 x 22 inches. —Soar apples and the plnmp worms that inhabit them when pounded into pulp, the expressed juice after fermentation is known around here as hard cider, and the mau wbo sells it for 30 cents per gallon is getting bald headed fast. —Rain almost continuously since tbe 20th of May, as a consequence grass has been on a boom, crops are very poor, bad stands in cotton and small weed, nothing like an average crop will be made, corn prosjiect equally discouraging, fer tilizers so far seem to be a dead loss to farmers. —We heartily endorse what tbe News, Marlboro 1 Democrat and Centennary says regarding Hon. W. C. Coker as being the proper man for onr next Governor. Darlington for many years prior to the election of Hon. G. W. Dargan to Con gress. has somewhat occupied a hack seat among her sister counties when honorable positions weresbar; ed out. No doubt her exceeding ly great modesty was the main cause of her being so* long left ont m tbe cold. Now that the tide has turned, we must take it at tbe flood —toot our own born a little, let the people throughout the State know that W. C Coker is appreciated at home; not only does he look every inch a Governor but as such will be the right man in tbe right place Jnst now after so many disastrous years to our iarming interest, and possibly political divisions among our people, it will require sucb a level bead as be has to pilot the old Ship of State iuto a haven of tran quil prosperi'y.. However let ns be quiet about it, for fear Grover Cleveland might learn of bis worth and pack him off to Persia or some other foreign Coart to look after Uncle Sam’s inteiest before he gets South Carolina out of the low grounds of sorrow.—[We omit yonr nomination as yon forgot tbe $5 William. That is the price this season.—Eo.] LYDIA. —Have you found Skillettsville yeti —Crops are beginning to look fine. —That’s a fine piece of corn of Dr. Galloway’s, —Mrs. E. T. Hodges is visiting relatives at Edgefield. —The grass crop ia mighty and still prevails to a considerable ex tent, and although onr farmers de clare that it grows a root at both ends this year, they are confident that with a few day’s more of good weather they will make grass scarce, and as difficult to find as Skilletts- vilte. —Mr. M. Marco left here for Bal timore on July 3, in response to a telegram from bis wife, informing him of the sadden illness of one of his children. Mr Marco has bad considerable sickness in his family daring this year, in which he has the cordial sympathy of onr. com- inanity. r A*.** *• 'S- > •*** i fS* ■\0. iJWW —Mrs. W. L. Galloway left here for Glenn Springs on July 9th, and will partake of the healthful, life- giving waters that abound iu that vieinity. —“Independence day” was < , ele brated here on the 5th. in old time patriotic style. The booming ot guns, the snap of the cracker, and tbe roar of tbe rocket and Roman candle, as they made their beanti- fnl flight skywards all helped to make things lively. We regret that the custom of celebrating the 4tb of Juiy has become obsolete, and in one of the “thirteen original States” too, but hope to see it revived. Americans should never forget the natal day of their country. —“Lydia No. 1,” the locomotive that made a few tri weekly trips on the T. ft L. R. R., has been remov ed from its station at Oats, wbere it has been accumulating rust and interest for nearly a year, and will be put in thorough working order, after which its “toot” will be beard along the line of a more successful road in another portion of this State. We regret that our enter prise has collapsed, especially when we had every reason to believe that it would have been a paying invest ment, and of inestimable value to our farmers. —Well, Mr. Editor, iu response to tbe call of yonr Gross Roads reporter to come ont and assist him in knocking ont Ebenezer, we have shied onr hat into the arena and will endeavor to keep yonr readers posted ou the doings in this local* ity. Cross Roads asks whether we bave “been getting married V Well, “we should smile!" Bat not lately, Gross Roads, as, happily there is a Statute against bigamy. We must plead “press of business” as an excuse for our seeming neglect to “report” from Lydia We have been running a “Fashion Col- ntnn” in a periodical, and besides this, have been engaged upon “A Treatise ou the Cure of Botsalso upon an essay, “What shall we do with the Mugwumps!” You can readily see that with all ot the above coupled with the painful (T) duty of cutting off coupons from our “Governmeuts,” our labors bave been arduous. However, we have scanned the columns of the News regularly and am compelled in all fairness to admit that Eoenezer has been doing nobly. We suggest to Gross Roads to pool our issues, and it Ebenezer will contiune to confine himself to cold facts, we will en deavor to make him tired. Miss Green. MARRIED. At the reeidence of the bride’s mother, Darlington, S. C., Thurs day, July 8,1886, by the Rev. Jno. O. Willson, of Trinity M. E. Church, Charleston, S S. Burch to Lizzie G., daughter of the late M. A. Hug gins ; all of Darlington. Business Notices. Re-anion 6th Regiment, A re union of tbe Survivors of Company E. 6th S. C. V., Infantry, and of Company O, 9th S. C. V., Infantry, will be held at Hartsville, 8. C., on Thursday, July 29tb, 1886. It is important to have a full at tendance, as a history of these Companies is m preparation, and so far as completed, will be laid before the meeting for action. Qen. John Bratton has been invited to de liver an address on that oocasion. H. E. C. FOUNTAIN. Sec. Surv’a. Association. Sumter Watchman please copy. July 8, ’86. 1 J M TURNIP SEED. Fresh crop Landreth’s seed. Just received. Lowest prices ever known at J . II. Schmid’s REUNION. The annnal reunion of the Survi vors Association, “Pee Dee Artil lery,” will be held at the Darling ton Fair Grounds, July 21st. A full attendance desired. J. E. PETTIGREW, Pres. W. A. Brunson, Sec’ty. ATTENTION MINISTERS! Call at J. H. Schmid’s and ex amine a fine Library of minister’s books, together with many others, some as old as 250 years: will be sold reasonable. S. B. Tolar Evaporated Apples, French Prunes and fresh Canary seed, at G. O. Mertz. may20 The best wagon for tbe money is tbe $30 Carolina Wagon, at C. Mooney. Summer Specialties! ERTICEABLK b ID 0 0 -A-ISTD MOSQUITO NETS, JELLY TUMBLERS, pORSE NETS, WINDOW SHADES, FANS, t - w FRUIT JARS, FLY FANS, LAP ROBES, PARASOLS, LACE CURTAINS, FURNISHING GOODS A Specialty. SUMMER DRESS GOODS. CLOTHING, HATS. &C., AT AND BELOW COST. FASHIONABLE MILLINERY GOODS, ALWAYS ON HAND. -.A.T- SIGN OF BIG BOOT ! Jane 10, 1886. 3m Hi? ISM, AT c. THE BOSS TIE DARLINGTON JEWELRY STORE OF JAMES H. MASON, County Democratic Convention A Convention of the Democratic Party of Darlington County will be held ia tbe County Court Route on Wednesday, July 28th, intlant, at 10 o’clock, A. M., sharp, tor the following purnoeea: 1. To elect ten delegates to the State O (invention. 2. To fleet ten delegatee to the Congret- ■ional Convention 8. To elect a County Chairm an and a County Executive Oenmittee—each club nomioattng it* own Executive Committee man 4. To eontider and determine whether nomination* *hall be made by tbe Conven* tioa or Primary ty*tem. 6. To traoeaot such other baain*** a* it may deem proper. Tbaatvernl club* ahall be entitled to representation in aaid Convention a* fol low! : One delegate at large for oaob elub and oat additional delegate for every twenty- Sve (26) enrolled members, and eUo aa additional delegate for every fractional part of twenty-five exceeding (16) fifteen. Each slab it charged with the duty of electing delegate* pursuant to tbia notioa. By order of tbe Conaty Demooretio Ex ecutive Committee. QEO. W. BROWN. Chairmen. J. L. EDWARDS, Bao’ly July «, ’86 iM WnlRIUMYTjE M). NICKLE WATCHES. 5 50, 6 50, 10.00 to 1G.00. SILVER WATCHES. $10, $12, 814. to $25. GOLD WATCHES, $35, $40, $50, to 860. Second-Hand Watches at Half Price. SILVER OPEN FACE, $5, $5.50,- $6, to $8. SILVER DOUBLE CASE, $5.50, $6,7.50, to $14. CLOCKS 1 DAY STRIKE, $3.50, $4.50, $5 to 87. 8 DAY STRIKE, $6, $6 50, 87, $8, to $14. E iwards & Norment. * Jane 24, 1886. The Best WAGON In the State for the Price —IS AT— JOHN SISKRON’S F* O T O H. Tr Call on him before purchasing and examine his Stock of 7l niture, Wagons, Buggies and Harness. a o if f i isr e. Cheap Wood Coffins and fine Wood Caskets, and MetaKa Bap- ial Cases always ou haad. February 18. 1886 ly .A. 1ST 13 J El w e; Xj n Chains and Charms, I3ST .A.XjXj STYLES. Which Will Be Bold At City Prices, ' CALL AND SI FOii James H. Mason, PEARL. STREET, July 8, 1886 7 m rum, at c. Mfi use Dr. SALMON'S HOC CHOLERA SPECIPICI v* CHICKEN POWDER.—SHEEP POWDER. 5ATTLE POWDER.—CONDITION POWDER. PREVENT A CURE HOQ CHOLERA. I DESTROY A PREVENT HOG LICE A WORMS. WE CAN < CURE CATTLE MURRAIN,TEXAS FEVER, A«. CURE CHICKEN CHOLERA A GAPES. . I CURE SHEEP ROT, TAPE WORM. Ac. 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