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EDITOR.*
SEPT. 12, 1SW.
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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. * ' <
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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
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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
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Which are made rich and more varied this season than ever.
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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,
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