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Darlington HENRI T. THOMPSON, Elitor. THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1889. Editorial Notes. is very Judge J. B. Kershaw Orangeburg, S. C. ill at One Slgmond Odenheimer claimed that, as he had been the first to dis cover, after patient labor, that cotton could be substituted for jute in the manufacture of bagging, he should have a patent and the sole right to manufacture cotton bagging. The patent authorities at Washington did rot look at the matter in the same ight, however, and refused to encour age monopoly. So the patent was not given. John W. Dwight, of Pennsylvania, owns in North Dakota a farm nearlv as large as the State oi Rhode Island. The bakery of Gustav Gross, of Philadelphia, caught fire on Monday and six persons were burned to death. On Monday there was a tremendous fall in the stock exchange of New York and a genujne panic was narrowly es caped. At a negro dance in Greenville Coun ty, on Thursday night of last week, Perry Abraham, colored, shot and killed Thad Sheffield also colored. The German bark, Germai^a, was wrecked off the coast of New Jersey last week and ten sailors were drowned. The citizens of Florence have deci ded to petition the Legislature to in corporate that place as a city. Accor ding to its charter Florence is now on ly a town. It is now estimated that the amount of damage done by the fire at Lynn, Massachusetts, mention of which was made in last week’s issue, is $1,000,000 instead of $10,000,000 as first reported. The guarantee of New York to sub scribe $6,000,000 to the World’s Fair fund, should th© fair b© held in that city, was completed on Saturday, the total amount subscribed being $5,028,- 942. R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Vete rans, of Richmond, Virginia, has sent u letter to Jefferson Davis sympathi zing with him in his sickness. Mr. | Davis still contlm es quite sick and is ft unable to take nourishment. During the night of November 29, Mr. Isaac J. Wiison, of Wedgefleld, Sumter County, shot a burglar whom he found under his bed. The thief in the Sumver died a few days later jail. While the Collector of the Commer cial National Bank, of Cleveland Ohio, was counting $2,800 in the gei oral'office of the German America Bank, of the same ci y, on Saturday, a thief snatched up $2,000 of it and es caped. Mr. W. P. Pollock, of Cheraw, who in now a student at the State tJnlver- sity, won the appointment to Wesi, Point from the Fifth Congressional District at a competitive examination which was held in Rock Hill on Fri day. The city of Boston was visited by i most terri’c fire on Thanksgiving Day. It was the largest fire that has occurred in that city since the great fire of 1872. It is estimated that $4,- 000,000 worth of property was de stroyed. Rev. W. H. MUburn, the blind preacher, who for many years has been the Chaplain of the National Ho> se of Representatives, was re elected to that position on Monday Mr. Milburn is a Democrat, but enough Republicans voted for him to elect • him. . Fire again visited Florence on Wednesday of last week when the boarding house owned and occupied by Mrs. Clifton was found to be in flames. The inside of the building was badly burned with much of its contents. It is thought that the fire was the act of an incendiary. It is sftid’that New York and Eng lish capitalists have undertaken to > buy up all the heavy cotton duck mills of this country and to consolidate them under the control of one great coporatior. A capital of $15,000,000 to $16,000,000 is required to consum mate this “trust.” At the caucus of the Republican Congressmen held in Washington on Saturday Hon. Thomas B. 1 Maine, was, on the second ballot, nom inated for Speaker of the present Congress and on Monday he was elect ed to that position. Ex-Speaker Car lisle received the complimentary votes of the Democratic members. of Gen. John B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia, spoke to an immense ajj^i ence in Chicago on Saturday. The assemblage had gathered in the inter est of a monument to the Confederate dead in Chicago. The old veteran was given a mos: hearty welcome by those who were once his foes. The sum raised for the monument was quite large. A building in Minneapolis, Minneso ta, occupied by the Tribune, was de stroyed by fire on Sunday. Five nud probably more lives were lost. The building was eight stories high and was a veritable death trap. Persons caught in the building made most frantic efforts to escape, some making fatal leaps from the upper stories to the ground. The scene was most heart rending. Last week forty-eight laborers Gregg’s phosphate mines refused continue work. They are foreigners and claim that they were persuaded to leave New York to work in the phosphate mines by false promises and false representations. The stri kers became so riotous that they had to be imprisoned in the Colleton jail They have since been .released how ever. F. J. Muller, of Birmingham, Ala' bam a, has discovered a weed which he claims can be made a substitute for jute. The plant grows so luxuriously and has suen a fine fibre and is so ea sily and cheaply decorticated that it ..4 could be grown at a profit in oompeti * tion with the cheap jute of India. Mr. Muller thinks that his discovery will i rcvolutioni '.e the whole matter of cov \ erlng for cotton. It is proposed tot-ear down the rest dence in Richmond occupied by Jef ferson Davis while President of the Southern Confederacy and erect school building on the site thereof. The proposition, however, has broug! out the almost unanimous oppositn ‘ POOR PAY, POOR PREACH.” The economic idea seems to lave seized hold of our worthy : Representatives as vigorously this year as ever, and in their eagerness to carry out such “reforms” as will, in their judg ment, commend them to their constituents, they advocate any measure which may lop off a few dollars here or a few there, totally unmindful of the fact that this may not constitute real “economy” after all. The peo ple of the State desire and de mand that the strictest economy be practised in the appropria tion of the public funds; but they expect their law-makers to exercise such judgment as will ensure the most efficient public service at the most reasonable cost to the State. Of course, it is a conceded fact that there are hundreds of men who would at tempt to discharge the duties of the most responsible official po sition at the remuneration of $1 a day, and it is needless to say that this remuneration would be ample for the services they would render. But this is not the class of men whom the peo ple of the State wish to place iu public office. For the proper discharge of the duties required of them, the servants of the State should possess the very highest qualifications, and there is no truer adage in. existence than the homely one of “poor pay, poor preach.” The salaries of our State offi cere and their assistants are small enough now, in all con science ; a fact that is so thor oughly realized that we cannot doubt that our Senators wil fully appreciate it when the House Bill to “cut” salaries reaches them, and that they wil dispose of it summalily, as they did with a similar measure which came to them from the lower House at the last session. By th way, it is a fact which has been frequently commented upon but which is none the less pecu liar, that, in their eagerness for passing measures of j retrench ment, it has never occurred to our Representatives to diminish aught of their per diem of $5 The remuneration which they receive for their services princely compared with that to which they are seeking to “cut’ those who are employed in the State department. To the credit of the Representatives from Darlington County be it said, their vote is recorded against the Bill, and we trust that they will always discriminate thus wisely between measures of false economy and those which are in the line of true reform. er at the earliest possible mo ment. Cannot our new Board of Trade take it under advise ment at their meeting to-mor row night ? SHALL WE HAVE A STANDARD TIME? Now that the new town bell las been erected, we respect fully submit for the considera tion of the Town Council the advisability of having it sound ed every day at twelve o’clock in order that we may be provid ed with a standard time. This could be arranged without diffi culty, as every day at noon the correct time is received from Washington by the telegraph office here, and since this is the exact hour when the night force of our municipal constabulary is relieved by the day force, the proper signal could be given the relief, and the correct standard time to our citizens, by one of the retiring policemen, who could be directed by the Coun cil to ring the bell on receiving a signal to that effect from the telegraph office. By all means let us have a standard time. Until we have, Darling ton will never be anything more than a village. a more efficient system of work- ng the public roads (introduced >y Mr. J. E. Nettles); To pro- libit trusts and punish persons connected therewith; to incor- jorate the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of South Carolina. roll Ladies’and gents’ chains, warranted 5 years, Willcox & Co’s, drug store. plate at A Large Line w mm General merchandise* ! the Estate of the late D. D will present them properly and all persons indebted to tate will please make Immediate pay. I ment to LULA D. EVANS W Adm’x. Nov. 28, ’89—8t ht on of tlie people of Richmond to the dis mantling of the White House of the Confederacy and it is said that this opposition wilt compel the abandon ment of the idea. The execution of W. W. Harvey at Guelph, Ontario, on Friday, which witnessed by his wife and two was a terr.ble piece of The weight which lifted mot heavy enough and high enough to give id to break the oon- and his struggles he was slowly frightful. To hanging, the rgling in the was being outside WHERE SHALL THE NEW DEPOT BE BUILT? As w$s announced by The Darlington News last week, the directors of the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad have decid ed to give Darlington a hand some new depot, and Messrs. Walters and Divine, the commit tee who have the matter in charge, will visit this place at an early day for the purpose of conferring with opr citizens in regard to any change of loca tion which may be desired, and all the other details of the work. Owing to the frequent obstruc tion of the Timmonsville road by freight trains, it has been suggested that in erecting the new building a slight alteration of the site would be advantage ous. The sum appropriated by the directors is, we are inform ed, sufficiently large to erect a fine building, and it can even be built of brick if, after investiga tion, it should be deemed expedi ent to do so. It is for the con sideration of these matters that Messrs. Walters and Divine are to visit Darlington. It is highly important that when they ar rive our needs should be present ed to them in the most forcible light, and that our citizens shall have agreed upon just what re commendations and suggestions it would be best to make. For these reasons it is important that a meeting be held for con sideration of this important mat- Work of the General Assembly. The Legislature has now been in session for about ten days and evidences of its work are beginning to appear. Judge Mclver was re-electec a Justice of the Supreme Cour; on Friday and W. H. Wallace was re-elected at the same time Judge of the Seventh Circuit The three Railroad Commission ers will be elected to-day (Thurs day.) Governor Bonham, it is thought, will be re-elected with out opposition, Mr. Jervey, the { iresent Commissioner from the ower part of the State, will be opposed by Maj. W. A. Boyle of Summerville, while Mr. R M. Cleveland, of Greenville, am Mr. N. B. Dial, of Laurens, wil enter the lists against Col. D. P. Duncan, the present representa tive of the up-country on the Commission. On Friday last Messrs. Can non, Nettles and Clements vot ed against the Bill providing for a reduction of the salaries of the State officers and their clerks. On Saturday, the ques tion came up again, and the two former still cast their votes in opposition to it; Mr. Clements was absent, and did not vote. The Bill passed its second read ing in the House, however, by a vote of 56 to 38. It provides for a reduction of the Governor’s salary from $3,500 to $3,000, and a 1 other salaries in the Execu tive Department are to be cut in proportion, except those of the State Treasurer and his assist ants, which are to remain un changed. A Bill to compel all municipal corporations to issue no liquor licen >8 for less than $500 pass ed its second reading in the House. Mr. Nettles spoke in fa vor of the Bill. Mr. Cannon voted against it; Mr. Clements was absent, and did not vote When the Bill came up for a third reading on Monday, it was massed, after a lengthy debate, by a vote of 57 to 46, Mr. Net tles again voting for it and Mr. Cannon against it. A Bill to abolish the Railroad Commis sion was defeated. The following bills have been introduced, and are now under consideration : Requiring all railroad companies in the State to furnish separate coaches for white and colored people, with equal accommodations for equal rates of passage; To prohibit the employment of children under 14 years in manufactories, or any *other business enterprise re quiring the use of machinery of any kind; To incorporate the Carolina Southern Railroad Company, authorizing W. HT Lyles, James Woodrow, W. G. Childs, W. A. Clark, J. S. Mul ler, Andrew Crawford, L. D. Childs, John T. Sloan, Jr., and WUie Jones to build a railroad through the counties of Chester field, Darlington, Marlboro, Sumter and other counties, to the Savannah River; To amend the chapter of the Hartsville Railroad Company ; To provide for an election, by the people, of a Commissioner of roads, bridges and ferries, who togeth er with the County Auditor and Clerk of the Court, shall consti tute a Board of Finance in each county, which shall have juris diction in all matters relating to taxes and disbursements of county moneys; Providing for marriage licenses to be issued by the Clerk of the Court upon payment of a fee of fifty cents, and prescribing, under penalties, that the person performing a marriage ceremony H|ake a re turn of the fact to the Clerk of the Court, who, in turn, is obliged to put it upon permanent record ; To change the northern boundary of Florence County ; To regulate the compensation of the Auditors of Darlington and Marlboro Counties; To tfrovide Shall Cheraw be Left Oat? Cheraw Correspondent of the Ches terfiela Advertiser.] Something more than an ex hibit of the industries of the State was going on in Columbia Fair week. Magnates of the Eutawville Railroad, which is certainly to be built, were in consultation there, and were waited on by a committee from Darlington, and offered the sum of 1100,000 to pass Cheraw by in the building of this road, now expected to come here, and con nect with the Palmetto Rail road, making a direct line through to Richmond, and while our citizens sit idly down and say, oh the road must be built here, for Cheraw is on the direct line ! and have not even confer ence with those in authority who have the ordering of the building of this road, Darlington is wide awake and full of action. Now the question is will the roac be run in a direct course, if, by divulging slightly in order to reach Darlington $100,000 can be secured ? And furthermore if these magnates will run the road to go on to Monroe, N. C. instead of connecting at Ham let by the Pa ietto R. R. $100, 000 (one hr c* ed thousand dol lars^ additional will be pledgee by Darlington. These figures proving stem facts, have their weight, and doesn’t it seem pos sible, nay probable that Cheraw will be passed by ? Then where will her manufacturing pros pects -e ? This certainly is her ..ut ire if her business men arouse themselves in tLne, but should this railroad, which will place her on the direct line north, south, east and west pass her by, alas! alas ! she w'll have no fu ture, for even her present terri tory for trade will be directed elsewhere, there w :i l no longer be any induce nc for manu facturers to come, who are look ing to VvTds this p 1 ce as eligi ble for the building of factories, and in a few years, where all should be prosperity, only a fu neral knell will sound on the air, for alas, the beautiful old town will be—dead ! Citizens shake off the lethargy which proceeds sure death to prosperity, and awake to the emergencies of the case while there is yet time. Send a committee to confer with those who have the building of this road, keep it to its intended straight course and make of Cheraw what its situation de mands, a manufacturing center. We are not making these state ments simply for something to write, but we know the truth of what we have written, and if something is not done, and speedily done to prevent it, the statements will be fatally true! Make It Fireproof [News and Courier.] The destruction by fire of the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion Building at Darlington for tunately does not involve a se rious pecuniary loss to the State, but the recurrance of such an accident should be made impos sible. The usefulness of the sta tions will depend largely, of course, on the preservation of their products, records, etc., and these should not be subject to the risk of storage in a building constructed of kindling wood. The cost of a brick building at Darlington would not have been very much more than that of the one that has been destroyed, and it probably would have been standing now, with its contents safe and sou: I within it. The frame build.'ng has disappeared in smoke, and ?there is nothing to show for it but ashes and an insurance policy. Its successor should be constructed of more stable materials and with a view to restricting an outbreak of fire in any part to the room in which it originates. Cluett’s lw\ Shirts, FOR SALE BY WOODS & WOODS. Auditor's Appointments. AUDITOR’S OFFICE. ) Darlington, 8. C., Nov. 26,1889. j I Tbia offloe wm be open from Janu ary 1st, to February 20th, 1890, for the P Q ^e <>f iisttog tor taxation Peraon- ^ Property And Poll* of the Countv of Darlington, for fiscal commencing JSSSW"*' “" d All male person* between the aoe* of 21 and 50 year*, are deemed taxable Poll*, unless from any cause they are The firm has a complete assortipent of 19 '9 Which are made rich and more varied this season than ever. 131*"ST Q-OODS .AJ&TD SHOES, in endless va-iety. this office at the time of making their returns that they reside in said School District and the amount of both Real and Personal property subject to the special levy as authorized by the Lee- islature. T* " Jewellry of every description, all first-class goods, at Wrllcox & Go’s, drug store. MARRIED. At the residence of the bride’s father, November 27, 1889, by the Rev. ’'arion Dar- gan, John S. Buwi and Inez, daughter of J. Gregg McCall. Desirable Lot for Sale. F/o.iting on Darlington, 8. the Academy Green, C., contains about 5 acres, 600 feet front. 2 buildings on the lot, part of the MoCaJl Homestead. Mttll WARI> * W00D ^V a t M ' For Root. Two comfortable offices, situated down-stairs, on the Public Square. Apply to DARGAN ft THOMPSON. Nov. 28, ’89 Valuable Farm For Sale or Rent. Apply to, DARGAN ft THOMPSON, Attorneys at Lew, Hot.**. D “ lW °“’ 9 - a Men’s, An unusually large assortment of loulhs*, and ffloys* Clothing. in the very 1 atest styles. AN ENORMOUS STOCK OF GROCERIES. Call and inspect the of which the firm will make a specialty in the future. Taxpayers are earnest! yre- quested to note any and all transfers, I changes, or irregularities in Real es tate when making returns. Call at tention of Assessor to any excessive valuation that should be reduced, noting same on return. The intelli gent co-operation of all taxpayers is | necessary and desired to aid me in taking up a correct record, i, Penalty of Fifty per cent. Is lev ied against all who fail to re turns within the time prescribed by I law. I will attend in person or by depu- y the various Precincts on days men- I tioued. Swift Creek, Tuesday, Janhary 28. Lydia, Wednesday, January 29. Stokes Bridge, Thursday, Jau. 80. Hartsville, Friday, January 81. Antioch, Saturday, February. 1. Society Hill, Tuesday and Wednes- ! day, February 4 and 5. Leavensworth, Thursday, Feb’ry 6. Mechanicsville, Friday, February 7. Palmetto, Saturday, February 8. Philadelphia, Monday, February 10. Lisbon, Tuesday and Wednesday, | February, 11. and 12. Cypress, Thursday, February 13. High Hill, Friday, February 14. W. H. LAWRENCE, Auditor D. C. Nov. 28, ’89. OLTJETT’S XiI^BUSr COLLARS, 9 SHOES, - — SI^ESOA.IXjiT^ September 12, 1889. I Notice. . After this date, all persons fishing, I hunting or trapping on my lands, without permission, will be vigorous ly prosecuted. PAUL WHIPPLE. Oct. 2, 1889. Burial lots I For sale by the Grove Hill Cemetery Co. | Jso. Siskron, C. B. Edwards, President. Secretary. Nov. 28-tf. Great Slaughter — IN - A Handsomely PRICE ^ BOUND BOOK FOR 85 CENTS. JUST THINK OF IT I The price of the large line of bound books, neatly printed, on| good paper, which we have been selling heretofore for 49 cts. each, has been reduced to 35 cents. If such a book could have been bought fifty years ago for $1.50, it would have astonished our fore-fathers. Everybody exclaims, “Why how can a book like that be made for 35 cents?” Well, they are not only made but are actually on sale in Darlington at | that price t This stock, which includes over a hundred varieties, has been brought out with a special view to the holiday season | and the Christmas trade. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY l SUCH A PRESENT WOULD BE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR HUSBAND, BROTHER, SWEETHEART OR FRIEND. A full assortment of the poets at 35 cents each, including Arnold, Robt. Browning, Dry ant, Bums, Byron, Campbell, Coleridge, Dante, Eliot, Goethe, Goldsmith, Hugo, Homer, Hood, Ingelow, Keats, Kingsley, Lowell, Longfellow, Meredith, Milton, Moore, Mulock, Proctor, Poe, Pope, Rosetti, Shelley, Schiller, Scott, Shakespeare, Tasso, Thomson, Tupper, Virgil, Whittier, Willis, Tennyson, Halleck. - OF - WATCHES - FOR A - Few Weeks. English Bull-Eye Watches, $2.50 Long Wind Waterbury Watches, 2.50 Short Wind “ Watches, 4.00 Double Case Silverine Watches, 6.50 Open Case “ Watches, 8.75 Open Case Imported Watches, 9.75 D. C. Silver Waltham Watches, 12.50 D. C. Silver Keystone Watches, 12.50 O .A. Xj Xj AND ^ SEE ^ THEM, - AT - MASON'S Jewelry Store. Nov. 28, 1889. Amang the prise wetis «e the teltowing: Adam Bede, ASsop’s Fables, Allen Quatennain, Arabian Nights, Bacon’s Essays, Bamaby Rudge, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Brown’s Bible Dictionary, East Lynn, Don Quixote, John Halifax, Ivanhoe, Felix Holt, Middlemarch r Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, Pickwick, She, Zanoni, Emerson’s Essays, Daniel Deronda, Gulliver’s Travels, Handy Andy, Macaulay’s Essays, Mill on the Floss, Brown’s Concordance, Children of the Abbey, Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lady Audley’s Secret, King Solomon’s Mines, Vicar of Wakefield* Sanford and Merton, Poe’s Tales, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Brown, Shadow of Sin, Pilgrim’s Progress, Scottish Chiefs, Uarda, Wooed and Married. Greditor's Notice. All persons having claims against | the estate of Mrs. C. E. Hymes, de ceased, will present them properly. B roved, and all persons Indebted to se said estate will made payment 1 forthwith to. C. ALEXANDER, Adm’r, Nov. 19, *89—8t. Estate Sale. ^pursuant to an order of' the .Probate ^ Judge of Darlington County, I vill sell, at or near the residence of the , late S. M. Harrell, on Tuesday, the 10th day of December. 1889, all the person al property that belonged to the -said Harrell at the time, of his death and that contained in the Inventory of hi* estate, consisting of stock, farming im plements, cotton seed, corn, fodder, wagons, and one six horse engine witn 50 saw gin, cotton press and Artores. ftc. Directly after said sale I will sell at the same place certain P < ‘ rB £ 11 ~ property belonging to Mr*. 8. M- Har rell, consisting of furniture and a pn ano. Sale to commence at 10 o eloex A. M. Terms cash. Engine, gin and press be seen at at J. 0. Clements place. N. L. Harrbll, |P Adm’r 8. -V. Harrell. Nov. 28-2t. Everything You Want in the Stationary Line, O-AJCT 2X1 20T7GKBCT -A.T THIS DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. UaH for Sale. Four Hundred Acres, more orleM, situate two miles northeast of the Town of Dsurlington, between the ten of Black and Mill Creeks, known aa the lands of the late E. B. Bran son, Sr. Address. J. BOYD BRUNSON. Man Bluff, »• u ' Wn* m