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frM m •■f '*h* ffzL-mp , :• gm, - IflUS. iSm II EX BY T. THOMrSOX, EDITOR.* SEPT. 12, 1SW. •a®*; The Correspondents of Tin-: Darlington News throughout the Cou ity, are particularly requested to bi'nr in mind that we greatly desire to have from them, ns often, os possible, (the oftener the better) the Local Events of their sections. We want the news every week, if it is only a line. Editorial Notes. Dr. H. II. Tucker, uu eminent Ha|>- ttot divine, died b* Atliinta last liou- day. . •During the part six roojsthr Kixtv- t'wx wurderr have been conunttted in Wast ViBgin a,. Detwecn-one-fourth anil one-third of the eotton that ha* been received r.t Oharlestou is packed in cut ton bng- Kti»K. Two miUs in Koutli Carolina are now nugiufHcturjng cotton liatrging namely,'ttie Newberry and the Paco- let Mifto. Wliile work was being done on the JetttCP - near Jitcksoiivifle* Fla., a can of dynamite exploded, kilting two men and wounding several. * ' < • . ta One hnndred hales of cotton parked in cotton covering were bought at Klaekville, S. (J., by Col. Mike Brown, 6a Thursday last. A Orand Army Post, of Newark, N. J., to being entertained and txanquettod Jn Virginia by the George E. Pickett Ciuup of Conicdorate V’eten n u . The Bouth Dakota Democrats, in ednVieiition aseetubled on Thursday at Jlnrou,' nominated a full Btate ticket add adopted a platform endorsing free trade. Dynamite exploded in a cartridge factory at Antwerp, Belgium, on Fri day last. About two hundred persons ivftrc kilted and a large part of the city WAs conAtmed by the flames. W. D. Merrimah, who shot and in stantly killed A. G. Douglas, in Ches terfield County on May 0, was con victed of murder on Monday. Both parties were white. John Ij. Bullivan, the famous pugil ist, has announced himself as a candi- * ditto for the Democratic nomination for Congress, at the next election, from one of the Boston districts. W. K. Lente, a prominent railroad and real estate man, formerly of New York, bnt who, of late had invented and lost an immense fortune in Flor ida industries,.^committed suicide at Seville, Fla., on Neptember 4. The Pennsylvania Democracy met in convention at Harrisburg on Sep tember 4. A large number of the delegates were young men. The plat form strongly endorsed tariff reform and home rule. Jack the Kipper, the Whitechapel {London) murderer, seems to have re vived. Another woman has lieen murdered In Whitechapel and the body, which was horribly mutilated, was" found on the streets Tuesday morning. Judge Wallace has refused to allow W. B. aieetxe, who recently killed one Clark on the streets of Columbia, to give bail and has remanded the pris oner to jail. W. D. Kelly, of Colum bia, who is charged with murder, was also denied bail by Judge Wallace. The Washington correspondent of compensation which Mr. King base ball affray at the New York Star f.™.. t„, i r " 1 ' J ^ *'- ■ ferson Davis was ca at the close of the war a line English- made rifle was found in his i>o*ee**inu. It was presented to him by a British blockade rnnnerfor his personal pro tection while he was living in the ex ecutive mansion at Uichmond, and it is said that he used to practice with it at odd times until he became quite an expert shot. After the capture the j News and Courier, we nave not rifle wa j sent to Washington and I nal- a wor(1 to gay The correspond- ly found its way into the Ordnance j * 1 pv i* ,~ The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 8Ji2,87l» bales, of which 404,671) bales are American, against t>18,1i)t) and 496.MO bales respectively last year. Receipts for the past week at all interior towns 83,950 hales. Ue- beipta from plantations (W,4'J2 bales. - Stove Brodie, a New York crank • went over the centre of N iagara Falls on Saturday. He was picked up a . short distance below the whirlpool ’ . without having received 1 , serious in- jhries. He perfornmd this dangerous feat in an iiidia rubber suit. The celebration of. the annirersarv ..df' the defence of Baltimore during the “* Gfeift “ ■ - Museum, where it was labelled *Jeff Davis's rifle,' and exhibited with many other relies of the late Rebellion. When the Ordnance Museum was broken up some weeks since, this his torical gun was sent to the Hpringflebl Arsenal. I understand there is a mbvement on foot to have it returned to this city and placed in the National Museum." A WORD TO THE FRIENDS OF THE NEWS. The Darlinotom News goes to its readers to-day in a com pletely new dress from “top to toe.” This week closes the third year of The News under its present management, and during that time it has been our sole endeavor to supply the peo ple of Darlington County with an enterprising newspaper, de voted to the promotion of their temporal interests ; to givA them all the important news of the day, and, at the same time, to conduct the journal in such a manner that its weekly visits might be looked forwardtO wftlh pleasure alike by “ycung men and maidens, old men and children.” How far we have* succeeded in our endeavor, is left for the pub lic to determine. In accordance with immemo rial custom, we have adhered to the idea of expecting the majori ty of payments for subscription to be made d,uring the fall. Thus it happens that the subscri ber who does not owe us just now for a year or for a fraction thereof is decidedly an excep tion. Of course everybody un derstands that conducting a newspaper involves expense, and the recent com plete changes we have made make this expense unusually great. There is nothing therefore which would, just at this time, impress us more thoroughly with the fact that the efforts we have been making were duly appre ciated than to have all subscri bers who are in arrears, wheth er for a long dr for a short time, come forward promptly and reimburse us for the money we have invested in their behalf during the past year. “He gives twice who gives quickly.” preyent his conscience from from Wadesboro, who had troubling him in after years been struck on the head while about the misery and distress ho acting as umpire in Darlington, lias raiwod 1 was dead, and offering to send a ' ,, i full account. A reply was sent As to the course pursued by The ^ f o j] 0WS . “Yes, but be careful of your fartH." The News and Courier also sent a telegram to a gentleman in Darlington, (who had com- i plained of the previous publica tion and had promised that a correct account of the affair would be sent,) in substance as follows : “Manihall is dead. North Carolina account will be published to-morrow. If vour account not yet sent, telegraph it." To that dispatch a reply was received, beginning with the word “confidential,” which, of course, indicated that it was not for publication. It contained, besides other matter, thefollow- ' second war with ‘Gfc tft Britain was commenced'in that city on Monday | Wie day being taken up frith a grand * ‘'•parade and trade diRp.nv, which was r . , f xeviewpd<by.l. > re#UL-iit Harrison. The festivities will continuutfov.Mix days. ' The State of deorgia has !>eon in (treat excitement over a promised duel between W. W. Patterson and W. A. Huff, both members of the State leg islature. The vigilance of the law ha* so far, however, prevented the duel from taking place, as Huff has been : arrested and placed under a ♦10,000 and. Extraordinarily high tideR and winds were reported on Mon- m&ny sea ports Jn the North intic StateR. Thh damage was Particularly groat at some (K>ints. In New York city the tide wan higher than It has been in tvyenty-live years and the piers and streets in the lower part of tlm city wore overflowed. The great labor strike still continues in London, though some of the em ployers have agreed to the demands of the lain ms for an increase of wages and have thus enabled a portion of the strikers to return to wprk. Much excitement has been cAused by the •trike and it is thought that it will have great influence In ehangup social conditions of England. General Wnnamaker is still in a quandary w hat to do about at Newberry, S. 0. remembered that he np- a very offensive uegro post- the white to boycott Wanamaker's ‘"the negro is com- auamaker to with- eommtosion for fear of business. NEWS GATHERING RUN MAD. So many incorrect accounts of the unfortunate difficulty which occurred here recently over a game of base-ball have crept into the newspapers that it would be impossible for us to attempt to correct them even if we desired to do so. The whole subject is of such a distressing nature, however, that we shrink from a newspaper controversy concerning it. But we cannot refrain from making one or two passing comments on the con duct of the press. To begin with, we cannot find it in our heart to place too much blame upon King, the professional newsgatherer at Charlotte, who first sent out the report of Mr. Marshall's death, for there is a power much greater than this King, one much nearer to the people of Darlington, and one from whom they naturally ex pected more consideration, which, in our judgment, is far more responsible for the circu lation of the false statement than King himself. We have no doubt that the latter heard that Marshall was dead, a re port which has been daily cu^ ; rent on the streets here and at every town in Ibis section of the State lover since the unfor tunajte affair happened. Being but V'jpenny-a- Liner,and in fluenced by the laudable desire to make aU he #ould, lid under took to send, over the country everything he could gather about the death and bqrial of Mr. Marshall. So generally was the information spread, and so nu>reliant* difficult is it to overtake it with a contradiction, that all of the Northern papers have recorded Marshall’s death, and the large 1 ence with them is published in another .column, and without making a single comment, we leave our readers to draw their own conclusions. We cannot refrain, however from referring to the following item which ap pears In -the Charleston corres pondence of the Columbia Reg ister, under date of Sept 5., (Thursday.) “H'b a ratlior nerimis subject to joke about, but an entiuuda&tic ba£eball crank unit! to-day that it was a curious incident that Bouth Carolina, which wan about the last State to catch the baseball fever, should Imre achieved the distinction (?) of being the first State to kill an umpire. Of course he j a luded to the recent fatal and deplora ble accident at Darlington, in which voung Mai shall was killed by young bargiiii.’’ • In order that the above jokelct may Yxi properly appreciated, Wit Would inform our readers that the : ame gentleman who corresponds for the Columbia Register" in Charleston is regu larly employed there as a local reporter fon the News and Cour ier. When he penned the above lines, the .telegram from the editor of TweDahlingtonNews denying that Mr. Marshall was dead had been • lying in The News and Courier office some forty-eight* hours. The burden of proof, therefore, rests with him to show that when he sent his letter to the Register, he did not know of the existence of our telegram. But how will he ac count for the fact that, the next day, when The News and Cour ier corrected the false statement concerning Marshall’s death, ho sent another letter to the Colum bia Register in which ho failed to say anything further about the matter at all ? In the ab- sceuce of proof to the contrary, therefore, we are reluctantly forced to the conclusion that if the Register and the people of Columbia depended upon this correspondent for their informa tion they would still believe that Mr. Marshall is dead. Our “brother of the quill” at Wadesboro gave an account cf the affair, which, in view of all the distressing circumstances, was as temperate as could be ex pected. In common with all the good people of his community, his evident intention is to arouse as little hard feeling over the deplorable affair as is consistent with his duty. We would call attention, however, to the closing paragraph in his article, which is as follows: “It Is believed by a great many that Dargan was instigated by others to pursue the course h*r did. The fol lowing extract from a letter received this morning from a citizen of Dar lington lends color to this theory: ‘Possibly the unfortunate occurrence hapn of Ds ^ ^ Darlington, 1 stating that Mr. Marshall r sayc: “When Jef-! f' “. " “* v ” *“** "" telegraphed to this paper, stat- i was dead appeared in your sec- .aptured in Georgia j rcc eiv«I for Jus enterprise ^will j nj ,T hat Marshall, tho young j <md edition of Wednesday last and again in your first edition of Thursday. Before publish ing it yon telegraphed me on Tuesday afternoon that Mar shall was dead, and that if wo wished to make any statement for publication we must send it down immediately. Notwith standing the fact that we knew from a dozen or more telegrams and letters which had been re ceived here during that day from the family and friends of Mar shall that he was improving, as soon as I receiveibyour telegram I wired to two different parties at Wadesboro, both of whom confirmed my belief, and I at once telegraphed you, in the most positive terms I could com mand, that the report which you had received from Charlotte was false. By the word “coutidetiaT , in my dispatch was meant, (as you well knew from a letter which I had previously sent you,) that you must not publish my name in connection with the denial, as I did not propose to appear in print at all in regard to the matter, since the father of young Dargan and myself are members of the same law firm. You will observe, too, that if its confidential nature prevented you from giving publicity to its contents at the time, the same objection to your publishing it this morning would - still prevail. If you doubted the truth of my statement, you could easily have verified it by communicating witli the Wadesboro 'office be fore the publication of your second edition of Wednesday ; or, by taking theslightest trouble to enquire, you could at least have established the falsity of the report from Charlotte before your first edition of Thursday appeared; when, twenty-four hours having intervened, the ru mor was deliberately putdishec a second time. Your Charlotte correspondent informed you that the best legal talent in this State had been employed to defenc Emile Dargan. Did it not oc cur to you that if this was true it was passing strange that my law firm had heard nothing o* it? For a long period I acted as your correspondent at this place and since the severance of that relation, I have always sent you special reports when the occa sion required it. From time to time I have taken the liberty of making suggestions as to the policy of your paper iu regard to this county, and for many years past I have been consid ered the staunch friend and ally of the News and Courier. The slightest reflection would have convinced you, therefore, that I would not have telegraphed you so positively without good rea son. .Yet you preferred to be lieve the report of your Char lotte correspondent, one whom every newspaper man in the State knows to be grossly inac curate in his statements. , No further proof is necessary, how ever, of tho manner in which you yourself regard him than the reply which you sent him when lie asked whether you de sired a fall report of the affair, “Yes, but be careful of your facts.” In the absence of proof to the contrary, therefore, I can not be regarded as extreme when I state my conclusion that you made your desire to obtain all the facts subservient to your eagerness to keep up with your contemporaries in the publica tion of a sensational report ;and this, too,'without regard to the terrible mental distress which you were inflicting. Mr. Marshall may die ; wounds on the head are always serious. He has been constantly improv ing, however, and the physician attending him expressed the be lief about the.*time that you had him dead that he would recover. Notwithstanding this you re ported him dead and described his funeral, and that too in the very face of a most positive do mg - “We learn from most authoritative source at Wadesboro that Marshall is not dead, but iqueh better. The News and Courier had re ceived and had published on Wednesday morning a dispatch from Charlotte saying that Mar shall was improving, and the Darlington telegram not stat ing when the information con tained in it was received, it was reasonable to suppose that the news of the death of Marshall was the later intelligence. At any rate the King’s News Bur eau had plenty of time to verify its facts after the caution from this office, and when about 10 o’clock Wednesday night the King’s Bureau special announc ing the death and burial of Mar shall was received, nodoubtof its truth was entertained. Last night, however, a dis patch was received from Dar lington denying the truth of the King’s News Bureau story. An effort was at once made to get news direct from Wadesboro, and that failing, from Charlotte, Chester, Monroe and Darlington. From Darlington it was stated that constant communication was kept up with Wadesboro and that at:) P. M. Marshall was not dead, but was better than he was the day before. The following dispatch w T as received at 12 o’clock last night: “I got my iufcnnalion from the couduetor and potoeugera who came in on the train by Wadesboro, also wired for further particulars, bnt re- wived no reply. The operator here told me it was a fact that Marshall died Monday night, as he had heard it‘over the wires.’ “I have nothing more from Wades boro. 1 tried every possible means to pet a dispatch from Wadesboro Tuesday, and failing sent you special on the strength of half a dozen peo ple who came by W’adesboro Monday night. Marshall's death was general ly common ted on on the streets of Charlotte Tuesday. “C. F. King,” [It is needless to say that Mr. King entirely fails to justify his positive assertion of the death and burial of Marshall.—Editor The News and Courier.) the would never have happened, had it not been for some of Darlington's hot headed men, who would rather for it to be that wav than for thff Ixivb of Darlington to get the whipping they were getting.’ ” Can anyone inform us what “citizen of Darlington” it was who wrote this letter ? r, a prominent cot- ^jority of them, will A was arrested warrant issued on 7. ft. Hogan, a farmer ‘declares that for samples be- COL TERRJSLL’S ADDRESS- Through an error it was stat ed in The News last week that Col. Terrell, the National Lec turer of the Farmers’ Alliance, was to speak here at the Fair Grounds on the 10th, and it was feared that this would cause a great many to edme to Darling ton with tho expectation of hearing him on that day. The error having been quickly dis covered, however, was as promptly corrected by word of mouth, so that, in the end, there were only, one or t\Yo who came to Town unflcr n misapprehen sion in regard to the matter, WhMe we greatly regret the mis take! it was; of epurse, una voidable. We would take advantage of this opportunity to urge upon our readers again the import ance of attending on the 19th inst (Thursday of next week,) when Col. Terrill will deliver his address at the Fair Grounds. As I has been said, he is a most at- never ’ tractive speaker and an enjoya- On reading the above in The News and Courier on Friday morning last, the editor of The Darlington News at once sent themby telegraph a lengthy com munication, which they declined to publish. As an act of justice to all tho parties concerned, we therefore publish in full as fol lows : Editor of The News and Courier: Ever since the deplorable af fair in which Mr. Win. Mar shall of Wadesboro was so sc-, verely wounded by young Emile Dargan. at this place, it has been my desire to send you a full and complete account of it. The friends of Dargan advised me not to do this, however, as owing to my intimate business relations with his father, it might appear as if the article were inspired ; and they argued that, for this reason, it should be ’left to some disinterested party to make all corrections and explanations. After The News nial of the rumor which had *wn3i know any better. It is safe to say th^t owing to the promi nence of Congressman Dargan, and to the fact that the man in- being jured was a base ball umpire, b€en **-ere was not a State or Tofrito- in the Union which the false did not ble occasion is promised. The Darlington Tragedy. (From The New* and Courier.) On Kii Wednesday afternoon News Bureau at Char- and Courier had published the account of the death of Mar shall, however, your determina tion to report what you pleased became so evident, that all the friends of Mr. Dargan agreed to let vou have it your own way, and not to undertake to thwart you; notwithstanding the fact that through yodt instrumen tality the reputation of young Dargan was being injured throughout the whole State, and that you were wantonly adding a hundred fold to the anguish of those already distressed' be yond the power of expression. You, will understand, therefore, that my object in addressing you now is not to defend young Dar gan, but to answer the statement which you make in your issue of this morning in regard to the telegram which I sent you deny ing that Marshall was dead. ' I cannot refrain, however, from saying, ia passing, that the original report of the difficulty as sent you by your Charlotte correspondent was correct only in so much as it stated that Dar gan had struck Marshall off the head with a bat. In all other respects it was absolutely and N.C., which had furnished unqualifiedly false, a stateme; and with the, fished an\ HPPMPt lent h l ean easily substantiate I w* »ii •'«! ■ J* «t. reached you. Henry T. Thompson .Editor, The Darlington News. Clueit’s LiHEf( Shirts, FOR SALE BY WOODS & WOODS. The firms has a complete assortment of *9 ’ ; wL Which are made rich and more varied this season than ever. IXR-Sr GOODS AJNTD SHOES, in endless va iety. Men's, An unusually large assortment of loulhs', and (Boys’ Clothing, in the very latest styles. AN ENORMOUS STOCK OF GROCERIES. Call and inspect the of which the firm will make a specialty in the future. 0 LITE XT’S GOULAmS, September 12, 1889. A, WEINBERG, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Northwest Corner ok ORANGE STREET and tho PUBLIC SQUARE, DARLINGTON, S. C. - A FULL LINE OF GROCERIES AT THE LOWEST PRICES. - Men’s and Boys’ Clothing in large variety, BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, LADIES’ ;DRESS GOODS, FANCY GOOD8 &o., &C., &C., Call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. The highest market price paid for Furs. September 12, 1889 Notice Is berehr giT<*n pursuant to Sretion 1417 of llie Ornrral Stslules (lint tin- Euluw- filleIUilrn.nl Company will spp'y to the Gem-rut Assembly of ihe Sta:e of South Carolina st i's next ensuing Ser-ion to amend its Charier by changing ill najne lo lbat of the Charleston, Sucuior and Che raw Ruilroa-1 Company and to authoriss it *o construct a line to and through the Town of Sumter end thenc- by any c*n- fenient route lo or ne r the Town of Cberaw. Aug. 8, ’89.—3m. Notice of Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that an app liea- lion will b made by the undersigned, lo tbi General Assembly of the Slate of South Carolina, at it* next session, for a ebarter for the incorporation of a railroad com pany lo eonstruct and operate a line of railroad from some joint in Marlboro Couniy nr Chesterfield County, at or near ihe North Curol'ina line, through the Counties of Darliagteu and S-jm'er, and thereon to tome point en the Savannah ibver. W. II. LYLES. JAMES WOODROff, W. A. CLARK. W G. CHILDS, J. S. MULLER, aud oilers. August 10, 1889. Ftac U Em J. B. KII,LOUGH Las moved fo the Marco Building, on Dargan Street, end bos la Mock Pianos and Organ, 8be«t Mudc and muiieal Merchandise, lie ie prepared to duplicate any offer made, be- wg backed up by ecros of the best miieie houtes lo Ihe eonotfr. He is now pre pared to tune and repair rinnoe and Or- gaaa Joseph Leieeb is bis workman and boo eervod kit lime in a msnnfeetoiy of Organ*, tall nr writs In J , Uraw-r l>, Florence, 8, C. *’ I* nvlertsld. i f 8t. Farmers, Attention I 1 have a large supply of Rod Rust Proof Oats for sale. Hivini been rsi ing these oats for fifteen years, 1 guarantee satislae- lion and will fill all order* sent me. Sam ples may be bad at Tits Darmxoiox News tffioc. J. C LAMP LEY, Society Hill, 8. C. Aug. 15, ’80-7t Selling Out Gents’ Low Quarter Suoes and Straw Hats at prime ooat. J G. McCALL. July 4, ’89-tf THE CORN MILL AND The bfitt and clirapeHt mill on Ihe market for j eueral pitrpoae-b li is the thing the plan er wanta. We Kuaranteo it to make 6 buehela of good table meal per hour, or to giiml GO busht'l* of uotton *et»d per hour. We mHI it uncter u full guar antee, ami if it doea uot give entire »atibfact:o:i to purchaser, there is uo sale. Adilrew* for terma. &o, BUOWN McgALLUM, % ..Mineral ftptlitgR, i Srp. 5, ’80- C. MOONEY, Dealer ia ALL STYLES ©F BURIAL CASKETS. — and —r % -A- Ij A.3R.C3-E A SSORTNENT —- OF TEE . HI!! FURNITURE KOW ON THR ' American Market. Aug. 22, ’89 Ijf R. N. NIXON k CO, T©NS®RIAL ARTISTS. Hair Cot • 25 cent*. Shove • 15 “ Shampooing 25 M Next door to Bank of Darlington, Aug 22, ’Sa-j-H’.l m Horse The alien! Ion of tho oalled lo tho fact that 11 • oslioehor-es, all rot My shop to bolow my be rood, aud sntiafooiion is "ft, 18 to hereby nronarv d Ihajmil- fo alt ILL