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ITailmpn i 5I1.NHY T. THOMPSON Rt»IT<»K. THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1880. The Baptiut State Convention meet in Florence on the tVth of ven'ber. It Ims been decided to inereu.w the capital stock of the Bank of Florence to $50,000. Hon. Samuel J. Randall is danger ously sick and it is rejairtcd that his physician has no hope of li is recovery. It has been decided to locate the warehouse of the Farmers’ Exchange of Georgia at Atlanta. The New Orleans Presbytery, which was in session Inst week, jiasstMl reso lution,opposing a union of the Presby terian Church, North and South. Astell, the great trotter, was sold at Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday for $105,000. This is the highest price ever paid for a horse. The famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which Rev. T. Dewitt Talmago is pastor, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday. Connecticutt voted on a prohibition amendment to its constitution on Monday of last week. The majority against the amendment is over 87,000 ' Tne Republicans are making stren uous efforts in Montana to throw out enough votes cast at the recent elec tion to give tbe legislature of the State to their pai ty. Two tenement houses were com- S letely destroyed and a third badly amaged by fire at Florence on Mon day. The property belonged to the estate of the late Lieut W. T. Howard. Two cotton compresses and 4000 bales of cotton were consumed by fire on Wednesday of last week at Savan nah. The loss was almut $3110,000 ) wlpeh was fully covered by insurance. Mrs. Hearon, whom it was rumored had been sentenced to death by the King of Corea for preaching Christian ity, writes to .the Boston Traveler a complete denial of the rumor. A Sub-Alliance of Korshaw County has endorsed Major James R. Magili, Presidentof theCounty Alliance, for the nomination for the State Senate at the approaching primary. Mr. W. R. Hines, of Florence, who * was injured recently by the falling of A heavy piece of timber upon him, is rapidly improving and has been pro nounced out of danger. The second trial of W. D. Kelly< white, for killing George Bateman, colored, in Columbia last winter, end ed on Friday with the acquittal of the accused, (tf.it nee# have in etj CMlilHWwKI. reur .■ ft .-i iiutl • >■ ser.1 y.-arv rtud been discharged. ’.! KichnrdMm, with verat t>*h(-r*, was convicted of burning efriheof Sheriff Cole’s property in January, INS’?. The Shcrifl rccommeude*] kb pardon to the Board of Directors of tire Peniten- tiry. TO THE Bt’Sl.NESS MEN OF DAR- LINOTOX. We desire to inform our many friends and patrons throughout the County that we have recent ly associated with us Mr. A. S. his?' wyeV. v/hieh. pe>'hiU>s. cali tor not if e. H> says ’’Col. E<1- vrafds was right, when he told me that it is cheaper to pay it than to tight it. He was posted, and knew full well that they had the ‘dead wood’ on us.” This seems to imply that there was a deliberate purpose, and some collusion, to take away the people's rights. This is a very injurious reflection against the whole delegation. We had only one conference, I believe, and one of the members I think was absent, And if anybody ‘‘camp- Besides th<‘ fundamental issue as an amendment to the Supply of democracy, as expressed in j bill, from the Senate, the last primary nominations, a leading week of the session, and, I was article in the Farmers’ creed j informed, taken up out of its or- was a better education and bet- j der so as to insure its considerr.- ter training in agriculture. This j tion and passage. I was not article l espoused with all my neglecting, but attending to im- Mclver, of Alabama. Mr. Me Iver, is a brother of Col. E.R. Me- jobbyhigthe matter*" (a ed in Columbia” for the purpose about The carpet manufacturers are con sidering the advisability of forming a trust. Should it be formed it is said that the trust will control from 75 to 85 per cent, of the whole production of carpets. On Thursday of last week Edwin Scott shot and instantly killed Tom Pearson at Manning, S. C. * Both parties are colored. This is the first homicide that lias ever occurred in that town. It is said that Tammany Society of fored to make ex-President Cleveland its candidate for Congress from the 9th New York District, to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Hon- 8. 8. Cox, but that the offer was de clined. A street ear at Cincinnati is carried up an inclined plane by means of a cable. On Tuesday the cable broke and the car rushed down at a fearful rate and on reaching the bottom wiu» -completely wrecked. Five passengers were killed and four wounded. Major Charles McGregor shot and instantly killed Mr. J. M. Cody at Warrenton, Georgia, on Saturday. The killing appears to have been de liberate. Both parties were promi nent men of Georgia. Excitement over the killing runs high. A man while working on a telegraph Iver of this County, and is a first class printer and an accomplish ed newspaper man of many years experience. While such a man will be found of invaluable as sistance in each and every branch of the newspaper busi ness, Mr. Mclver will devote his special attention, for the pres ent, to the job printing depart ment. As wo possess all the necessary appliances for such work, we are in position to guar antee that, with the important acquisition of Mr. Mclver to our force, we will be able to supply the very best class of work at Charleston prices. It has often been said that Darlington could support a first-class job printing office. A fair opportunity of testing the accuracy of the as sertion is now offered, and to that end, the hearty co-opera tion and patro age of the busi ness men of Darlington is re spectfully solicited. THE NINE I’KENT It ANNUAL COUN TY FAIR Bear in mind the time select ed for our County fall fair! It v, r ill be held on October 1st and November 2nd and 3rd. Who ever should be so unfortunate as to forget these dates, will lose an opportunity to spend three days of pleasure and profit. The attractions for this year are well chosen and numerous, the usual inviting inducements having been supplemented by addition al and novel features. To the Darlington Agricultur al and Mechanical Society are due the thanks and congratula tions of the entire County for their determination to have a fair that will not only redound to the credit of old Darlington, but will also place our resources and industries before the world in such a manner that untold benefits will accrue therefrom. It is earnestly hoped that the >eople will show their apprecia tion of the efforts of the Society :>y giving the fair a full attend ance. There is no better way to lelp the good work. which I know nothing), there was certainly no outside pres sure on the delegation. When I made the remark referred to, I did not think of the difficulties of testing the question ; for it has always been my habit to pay whatever taxes are levied against me without resistance. But the insinuation is that I, with knowledge, planned to block the people, while he went about investigating the way to protect them. And when he dis covered the impediment his wrath was. intensely kindled he says when he learned ihat the one mill had been im posed he was “indignant;” but when he learned that thqfe was ‘practically no remedy” his “in dignation ivas unbounded.” The want of the “poor consolation of decent resistance” to th:s im position was, to his mind, evi- lently the most grievous part of the wrong. I shall not differ with him in this;for it does seem ;o be a hardship that the State should deprive her citizens of a practical remedy in these ques ions of Taxes, which are the most sensitive subjects of legis lation. It is questionable wheth er even the exigencies of taxa tion justifies this unparallelec legislation of compelling one ho denies an obligation to first ] pay the debt, and then turn round and sue for it back again, at his own expense. If his lib erties are not indeed lost, nor his rights taken away, his rem edies are very seriously impair ed. It becomes an important ques tion, therefore, as to the proper location of responsibility for such legislation, which infrin ges upon the “liberties and the manhood” of the people. It does not lie at my door, whatever else may be my fault or mistake. For the only remedy provided for resistance to unjust and ob noxious taxation was embodied in an Act of the Legislature ap proved in Februaay 1882, when Mr. Beasley was one of the Rep resentatives from Darlington. The bill came before the House on nine different days, was thor oughly considered and discuss ed, passed and approved. Mr. Beasley was present, and an ac tive member, and yet the Jour nal is wanting in any evidence that he ever spoke against, talk ed against, or voted against, or in anyway opposed the bill or any of its provisions. He him self, therefore, is responsible foj; of in?c wire in New York on Friday, got in an electric light wire and war killed. Death must have been inetantaneous. His face wae burned off, hiti body “siz zled” in mid air and his blood poured over the people on the sidewalk. The scene was most horrible. A steamer loaded with cotton caught fire at Augusta lar>t week. Cot ton covered bales showed proof against the fire much better than the Jute. The Augusta Chronicle in speaking of the fire said that “flames which fed on the open inflammable jute bales seemed to skip the closely woven cotton wrap entirely.” The Bouton Commercial Bulletin, which, by the way, is not trustworthy authority, says that, as the lease of the bagging mills throughout the country to the American Manufactur ing Company, which now runs the trust, will expire on January 1st, a large number of the mills will uot be again leased to the trust but will thereafter run independently. An explanation of the profusion of colonels in Kentucky is to be found in part in the Governor's privilege to ap point colonels on his staff, ad libitum. Governor Blackburn api>ointed sixty in Louisville alone, with proportion- able numbers for the back counties. It Is believed that no Governor of Kentunky ever had his entire staff to gether at one time. There is no pub lic hall in Kentucky big enough to hold it. Col. Benj. Terrell says that the bagyitag victory simply means the saving of three or four millions of dollars to the Alliance men. In his opinion, if the war had not been waged, the price of jute bagging would have gone up to fifteen cents. To a reporter for the Charleston News and Courier Mr. and Mrs. Terrell both expressed themselves as delighted with their trip to 8outh Carolina. ♦‘Never before” said he, “have I seen such open-hearted and kind people.” As already mentioned, <’ol. Terrell has gone to Kansas to deliver a series of Alliance lectures. The News and Courier of the 9th lost says: “The Governor has commu ted to imprisonment to date the sen tence of Madison Richardson, colored, who was convicted at the March term, 1878, for Darlington County, of arson, and sentenced by Judge Aid rich to Imprisonment for life in the Peniten tiary. The commutation was recom- ~1 to the Penitentiary board, for i that his condueT has been oaifonalr S'***.** __1H nment. RMutrh l eleven j strength, and an Agricultural College was the central purpose. The records of the Senate show that at every session I presented or advocated a bill for the es tablishment of such a college. In 18871 stood before the Senate, and called for the ayes and nos on my bill, and only four votes were recorded in its favor. And the next morning it was taunt ingly noticed in the newspapers as “The death of Tillmanism.” Principles and well-formed pur poses never die. It came up again last winter, and the peo ple know the result. This very matter of an Exper imental Station was initiated by the friends of the Agricultural College movement, with the hope of its becoming a nucleus for the college. I advocated its location at Darlington because I believed it would some day be of inestimable value to my con stituency. It was my purpose to draw the . college to Darling- tjon, if possible ; and I yet be lieve that an educational insti tution may be connected with it, which will pay us a hundred times over the amount we invest in it. I was wnrkiuif for the Darlington f perative duties that had to be performed by oua of the com mittees on which I had been placed. Part of the last week there were but three or four of that committee present for duty, the othtrs having gone home. If there he fault, the fault is in our short sessions, or crowding too much in a limited time. I tried while in Columbia to do my duty, and my whole duty, both to my county and the State; and was never abseAt from my seat in the House one hour with out it was on public business necessitating my absence, and was at my post, among the few who were present, when the gav el of the Speaker fell about the gray of early morning on Mon day, the 24th day of December. J. E. Nettles. Quarterly Statement — OF THE — TOWN OF DARLINGTON, - FOR - Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1889. Vienna Bakery ! nr OPENED THIS WEEK, will furnish every day fresh baked BREAD ASD CAKES, In all the new and unproved styles. Tarty and Wedding Cakes will be made on Short Police. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. The ladies are respectfully invited to give me a call, and a liberal share of their patronage is solicited. KARL HOFFMAN. September 26, 1889—Cm Fruit, Fruit! Fancy Family Groceries, AT September 26, 1880—6m B.nl. TOU H... H... T..J II £1 11/ lllllim ly as I knev? fectly conscl ing right, a the interests I believe, th I believe th toned or mot in any coun of Darlingto self-humilia sume that tl “moral ohlij liberty itsel right to imp expression < farmers on rom the n laken in fill ing. Mr Netiles Editor* Dar I was no read in the The News J. W. Beat very free, manner in * “Deals daii and apostn liberty in q I would [ ‘ in reply if * in a false li manifest ii Criticism those who vants, and Mr. Beasle self to the rather if b facts, and by his ow and had n< fence if no$ neglected Columbia. ‘•A Farmer” On the Oil Trnst Editor Darlington News : Permit me, through your pa per, to make a few suggestions to my brother farmers which I think deserve their serious con sideration. We have for some time been on the war-path against the “Jute Bagging . Trust,” over which we have gained a signal victory. The results of this vic tory will be shown in the future well being of all dependent upon agriculture for a living. But there is another “Trust” as dangerous and, from a local point of view, more hurtful to us than the “bagging trust.” I refer to the “Cotton Seed Oil Trust. ” It is evident from their course at this place that an at tempt is being made, by running up the price of cotton seed, to break down an infant factory at this place—gotten up and estab lished by the capital and energy energetic citi- I am not interested in the fac tory here to the amount of one dime, holding no stock in it, but look at the matter simply from the stand point of an humble “Farmer.” Bloominir Bishopville. Editor Darlington News : Your of Prof. Woodson is bound to eventuate in untold good to the rising generation. ! If your correspondent is ever , permitted to go that way again you will hear more fully from Ocnola. ‘‘Well Done, Allioneer Since writing our article of navW rTX nd v?Hit r r n S ' la8t week advi «W all who had f cotton seed to dispose of to sell i - City” of Bishopville, caught only a glimpse of the place and learned just a little of its mani fest progress during the last five years. Then it boasted its “big oak,” its cross roads, a few stores, a church and private boarding house ; now, in passing around, you find churches—Presbyter- rian, Methodist and Baptist, a school oAa high order, a dispos it to the home mills instead of to those who Are connected with the “Cotton Seed Oil Trust,” the information reaches us that a resolution embodying the same j suggestion had been passed al ready by the Farmers’ Alliance, of Darlington County. of a few of our hotel (The Pheenix) than which there ; Sunday followed by is none more elegant in all east- gales the next day. PHILADELPHIA —Beautiful showers fell on autumnal ern South Carolina, stores in abundance, ginning and milling establishments, livery stables, zens. If our seed be forced up | railroads, real and prospective, to such a price as to preclude ’ and, last but not least, a spicy, the possibility of manufacturing breezy, lively newspaper, edited them at a profit, of course the by one who pushes a facile pen. „:n L— _:n u_ j .-j mau y strikingly familiar faces among the business men r; THE STATE FAIR. The State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, assisted by the merchants and business or ganizations of Columbia, is strenuously working to make a success of the approaching State Fair, which opens at Columbia, on Monday, November 11th, auc continues until Friday, Novem ber 15th. Such efforts can not but gain for the Society a con summation of their most san guine hopes. We are told that “the exhibition for the present year promises to far surpass in magnitude and interest any of those that have preceded it” anc we are fult ready to give cre dence to the statement, for the reports, so far published, of the many attractions to be had at the fair will justify us in the prediction that all who attem will feel amply repaid for the against^ the expense and trouble incurred by them in order to bo present. ATTENTION, JURORS ! The fall term of the Court for Darlingtoii will convene on Mon day next, October 21st. “Mil ler’s Almanac,” the recognized authority on such subjects, states that Monday, October 28th, is the day ; The Darling ton News and The News and Courier, both of whom evident ly consulted that authority, en dorsed “Miller’serror.” We wish therefore to impress upon all having business with the Court that Monday next is the day for its assembling. The Kxpenmt utal Station Tax. Editor Darlington News : When I wrote my explanatory article in reference to this mat ter, I said I did not propose any controversy on the subject, and I did not then expect to write another word about it. But the provision, to the extent of I can his vote and his influence. He how Mr. must, therefore, now either injustice cease to apologize tor the “rural Station ta delegates,” or abandon r.ll claim there is n< as special guardian of the peo- I always r pie’s liberties. ^ tion to sec Mr. Beasley says, we had too Station in many lawyers last winter “and be a volun they ruined us.” This reminds of public s me of an occurrence when Lee’s cure toon army was in the State of Penn- conceived sylvania. The Confederate sol- institutior diers were strictly forbidden to unable to forage or in any way to abuse the peopl the rights of private property or pressiono! intrude upon the rights of citi- part to be zens. One day some of the sol- less autho diers went to the house of a thrif- the same ty old Dutchman for water. He while in ( was complaining bitterly of the was imp: boys, when he was asked if he reflection had suffered at their hands. “O, my cony yes,” was the reply, “They have known in ruined me, they have ruined session of me!” “Ah, what terrible things was oppi have you suffered at their had apnd hands ?” Pointing to an apple- intention tree he said, “why they broke a But Mr. graft off that tree that cost me that I nej fifty cents.” ing in thi This is an uniust insinuation the matte other Representa- House, lives. For vigilance, astuteness, the neces manliness and intelligence we arose out recognize them as our peers. If Enrolling^ two lawyers, out of a delegation I was a of five, and one of them on one who has side and the other on the other legislature can very well untter- side of a question, can min the stand the situation. The duty people with one stroke of the of that committee is to take the pen, how mauy heads must fall Bills with all their amendments, to repair the injury ! If I have after they have passed their consented to sacrifice myself three readings in the two houses, “not for his (my) friends, but for and compare them with the en- those whom he (I) would have rolled Act, to see that they are to be his imy) friends,” as is correctly enrolled, and all the alleged, then j ought to be sac- amendments are properly incor- rificed. If one in public posi- porated. This committee has tion can resort ‘ the trickery of nothing to do the first part of turning his back upon the friends the session, but during the last who placed him there, for the part, and especially the last purpose of gaining influence week, they have a great deal, with others, let him stand as a and all of their work t j do. Dur- truckling politician, writhing ing the last week the House was between the upper and the neth- in session all day and until about er mill-stone. But let the re- midnight, and the Enrolling cord speak, and say whether 11 committee had to do its work.'u have been true to the issues ' done at all, during the business which were the occasion of my session of the House. All the being placed in the position Acts had to pass through their mill here will be closed, and what then ? Our seed will go down to last year’s prices and our meal will be put as high as we can be made to pay. I think it our duty to foster and encour age the factory here as a matter of self interest. If it breaks down we are again at the mercy of the mills at a distance. A ton of seed sent to Columbia will cost in freight $2.60. A ton of meal shipped from that place to Darlington will cost the same. It will cost no more to manufac ture at Darlington than Colum bia and it then stands to reason that our meal can be sold and will be sold for less money than we have been forced to pay in past years if the mill here con tinues to run. Every effort will be made to crush out this dangerous rival, by the Oil Trust, backed, as it is, by almost unlimited capital. The intentions of this Trust are of Bishopville ipakes one think that, may be so, some emigra tion agent has been putting in some good work, secretly decoy ing many of Darlington’s best citizens away—the Galloways, the Hearons, the Jacksons, the Kilgores, the Kellys, the Mc Leans, the McCaskills, the Mc- Lures. the Parrotts. the Prices, the Pates, the Thomases, and the others too tedious / to men tion. If any such work, as inti mated above, is being done, it becomes The News, voicing the sentiment of Darlington, to say very emphaticallv. Stop it! “Tote fair !” Time and space forbid more than mere mention of the amount of business done by the town annually. It is ciaimed that last season when there was no boom of Bishopville 10,000 bales of cotton were shipped hence. made manifest by the difference i Now high hopes are entertained in the prices paid at Darlington of doubling that number. Firms and at other points. I have been informed that $2 less is paid at Timmonsville for seed than at Darlington, though the former is nearly 20 miles nearer Colum bia than the latter. Whv is this? Then i would say, if the farm er sells his seed, let him go to the home mill even at a small sacrifice, for we will he abund antly repaid in the future for any loss we may sustain now. heretofore doing a 5,000 dollar business annually will assure you that 30,000 dollars are mini mum figures now. and that they don’t take any gasometers in theirs, at that. The outlook, as far as religi ous matters are concerned, is bright and pleasant. Under the administration of the logical the scholarly Williams and the persuasive Shuford, the churches - . , . seem to be pulling I o legitimate competition no one steadily on the up-grade, can object, but combined capi- The educational interest, too, tal against private enterprise is is receiving that degreeof atten- a very different thing. tion which, under the leadership Cholera in swine is quite revalent, and spreading rapid- y with great fatality. Many have lost their entire herd. —From the secondary affects of that fatal disease, diphtheria, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lloyd died last Wednes day morning. . —“Old Sam” the family horse of Mr. Wm. P. DuBose died last week of the diseaae known in veterinary medicine as “Slee py Staggers.” —In this section the outlook for the poor farmer is very dis couraging. In many instances the yield of cotton will pot ex ceed half a crop, and the “hor ny handed sons of toil” will reap little for their labors this season. CLYDE. —Mrs. Sallie King is very sick. —The health of our communi ty is uot very good at present. Frost has come and late planted cotton will open now. —Mr. D. D. Johnson is very ill at present but we hope that he will soon be up again. —Mr. J. A. Parnell of our midst is very feeble with rheu matism. HART8Y1LLE. —The health of our communi ty is very good at present. —Mr. W. M. King lost his gin house by fire on the 9th. The loss is about $500. No insur ance. —The cotton crop in this sec tion will no doubt be shorter than it has been in a number of years. —Prayer meeting is held at the Methodist Church every Wednesday night at 8.30. one year. No UenA xaxen WCTupB or property. Apply to LAUD A WOODS, Att’ys, Darlington, 8. C. Oct. 8, ’89—6m. THE ILMES2 - OF - Red Rust there are some apparent reflec tions in the article of Mr. ley. Beaa- tKWS < ig placed in the position Acts had to pass which I now occupy. It was hands, and oe reported because I espoused the Farmers’ they could be ratified cause, and brooked the severest ‘ of many whom I had a right to suppose were my that 1 was taken were the issues? up. the two houses, and the Legislature could not adjourn until that work was completed. It is to be remembered that this was not a bill in the House,but came over, Proof IS - BY - Oats IMmgb, luM & k f Darlington, S. C. September 86,1889—tf. B. Ki I n " e wil Jsu 31, , >.»iw r U, tis un IsrsolJ. '89. Fiortncs, ?. C. Notice. App'ic-iiion will he mvle in ibn General Adcii.bly of this Suit) at ils n<-xt I'Mi.iou lo anieixl ih» Chs'ler of Tbe IJarisvill* H. K. Co , so as lo bUiborisa ib* extension of AND CGTtOJ m OK the rouii. Aug 29. ’89 J L. COKER. E W CAMiOM. C. J. WOODRUFF, J. J. LAWTON. J. L. G'OKEK. JR. Dirceiars l. 'J fire mmm agent. Darlington, S. C. Represents m me of the best Com panics on the Con ineat. Office in tbe Bank of Darlicgton. Tbe most tboiough (satisfaction guaranteed. . May 30,’88-6m mill os cheapest general puri»o«oa - want** Tbe best and the market for . Li is tiie thing tbe plan •* r We guarantee it to make 6 busM* cf good table meal per boor, » grind GO bushels of cottoqrew* F* boar. We aril it nnder a fol>*T£ antee, and if it dftea not e “ sstisfact'Oii-to purchaser, the no sale. Address for t**®*; **’ BROWN McJALLUM, Mineral Marion County* o* Sep. 5, ’89-2a^ For Sale- A valuable house lot conj of Darling lently located in the Town ton. For partlculare, JP^oaN 19, ’89-tf. SSP-