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LOO. COUKT enco. . Middling 81" ITIClvdS. si'ssiou at Fl< cotton is bringing Tui’ Racket Stoie is enlarging its “railroad cash system” by iucre ising the line itself as well as the number of ‘/stations” thereon. The mass meeting of the Dar lington County Alliance, in the interest of the County . Ware- | house, will he held in the Court A brick pavement is being House to-morrow at eleven laid in front of Mr. J. M. James’. Capt. R. A. Brand, ofSumier, was in town this week. The Supreme Court has re fused to grant a new trial in the case °f the State vs. Jos. W. James. The defendant cannot be resentenced until the March mjttee was appointed to draft a term or the ( ourt for this Conn- constitution for a general league, ty. 1 he Court has also refused 5 r a n c h o s of which will A Society With A Worthy Object. At the last General Confer ence of the Methodist Church, South, held in St. Louis, a com- a new- trial in the case of Merri- man, the white man who was convicted of murder in Chester field County. Saturdak is the last day for the payment of State andeovntv taxes. A telephone line between Darlington and Florence is being talked of. The Experimental Station. As was mentioned in the last r a n c n o s be established at every church. The committee has completed its task and leagues are being rapidly organized throughout the country. The name given to the organization is the “Ep- worth League”—a name taken issue of The News, Hon. James fr°ni the “Epworth parsonage” E. Tindal, Secretary of State, j hi England, where John Wesley fay as raised. The objects of the o’clock Col. W. R. Davie, of Chester, who wrote so many admirable letters against Tillman in the News and Courier, during the recent campaign, was on a visit ^ t to Darlington last week. paid a visit to the Darlington , . „ h . Experimental • Station with a league are three fold, viz: first, i* ,• 11 leecnt meeting of the v j ew making arrangements to provide special services for wlio lias Darlington Guards Mr. Henry for the sale of the property in the young folks, second, to do me past 1. Ihompson was elected Cap- pursuance to a recent act of the charitable work, third, to pro- tain, in place of Col. E. K. Mel-1 Legislature. He publishes an' mote systematic study of the ^ r - advertisement in these columns Scriptures and the study and P°* that lie will sell at public sale j circulation of the literature of , on Salesday in March all the ! the M. E. Church, South. A lo- sition. Dr. W. A. Player, been quite sick for week,'is better. An important meeting of the .V' 1 ' vil0 could n °t serve. Darlington Guards will be held Phmnpson has accepted the next Monday night. Messrs. Moorhead, Cox &Co. have erected a hadsome sign in front of their store. Gen. W. E. James and Col. E. R. Mclver have gone to George town on a hunting excursion. Dr. J. S. Garner, who has D^. W. J. Garner will leave 1 property, real and personal, be-1 e&l branch of the league was morrow for New York Citv. longing to the Station. The organized at the Methodist course sa lc will take place on theprem-! Chu/ch on Sundaj - last im.medi- 9 e y e ises. The minimum price at ately after tlie morning service. to where he will take a short in the diseases of the ear, nose and throat at the New York Post Graduate Medical Colleire. A Supply of rails will be re- been suffering from an attack of ceived in Darlington within the sickness, is on the streets again. Col. E. R. Mclver has been elected a director of the new Straightout paper in Columbia Mr. A. Ames Hewlett, of the Charleston, Suiffter & Northern Railroad, was in town this week. Three shares of the stock of the Darlington Building and Loan Association for sale; apply at this office. Mr. T. S. Joye has commenc ed work on his residence on Broad Street, adjoining Mr. M. C. Alexander’s. . Dr. W. J. Garner is adding a wareroom of corrugated iron to the rear to of his store, now oc cupied by Dr. Boyd. At the last meeting of the Building and Loan Association all the money on hand was lent [structcd is a veritable ^ work to Mr. Geo. H. Edwards. next few days and tlie work of laying the track on the C. S. & N. R. R. each way from Dar lington will commence imme diately. Rev. J. G. Law will conduct services in the Presbyterian Church at Cheraw on Sunday and. in consequence of his ab sence, there will be no services I efforts to in the Presbyterian Church at this place on that day. which the bidding must begin Phe following officers were for the real estate will he an-' elected: President, \V. A. Par- nounced at the sale. The ad- rot; First Vice President, Dr. vertisement, to which the atten-i W- B. McGirt: Second Vice tion of our readers is called, President, Dr. W. J. Garner; gives in full the inventory of | Third Vice President, Olias. J. the property to be sold and also Epps; Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia the terms of the sale. ; Dolby; Treasurer, Miss Jennie —«•»— Rust. Such an organization A Difficult Operation Performed. fCdll HOt blit do good and it will ' i be well for the community at large for the league to be eu- A short time ago the little three-year-old son of Mr. George \V. Hill, of Leavensworth, while playing with some corn, put a grain in his mouth and in his swallow it the corn was lodged in the boy’s wind pipe. For twelve days the grain, The gin house of Messrs, which was of full size, remained Wilfcox & Co?, on their place in the little sufferer’s throat, in- about four miles south of town, I terfering with his breathing and j was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night of last week, i The entire contents was burned. I The loss is about $1,000. Mr. C. Alexander is fixing up tracheotomy, that is, the wind- i his old quai telS 011 1 cai i Stl eet rdnA w.m cut nnt^n nn*J ILa orrjiin ( threatening to put an end to the young life. Dr. J. C was summoned, who assist* Dr. A. T. Baird, performed an I operation known in surgery as „ , . , pipe was cut open and the grain on a fine scale. 1 lie new bar of corn was taken out. After the counter which he is having con of The jury box was filled this week, Mr. T. P. King, the Jury Commissioner, having received his commission on Monday. A tenant house on the place of Mr. J. Flinn Parrott, in Swift Creek, was destroyed by fire one night a short time since. art, and promises to be about Hie handsomest affair of the kind ever seen in this town. Mr. Chapman Pate, a resident of Stokes Bridge, who is well known throughout the county, died on last Monday morning in i the 03rd year of his ago. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Savanna Chapel on Th’VLiterary Society, known Tuesyay. Elder John S. DuBose as the “Moonshiners” held a officiating. ' meeting last Friday evening at the Residence of Mrs. B. F The Ladies Ait the* Episcopal Chapel will be reorganized on ‘next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the residence of Mr. Henry T. Thompson. All who wish to connect themselves with the so- for ll le purpose “W illiamson. Mr. MuC. Willis has sold to Misses L. M. and M. F. Lide, the brick store on Pearle Street, now occupied by Messrs West & Jlonour as a groesry store. A colored emigrant agent was in town last week making efforts to induce some of the Darlington colored people to emigrate to Kansas. * Commencing with next Sun day communion services will hereafter be held at the Mcthb- d i s t Church every Sunday morning. Bennetisville will hold a special election oii February o to decide whether the town will subscribe to the capital stock of the C. S. & N. Railroad. Messrs H. H. Newton and S. W, G. Shipp, the latter former ly of Cheraw, have formed a copartnernip for the practice of law at Bannettsville. Bessie Blount, the little daughter of Mr. H. L. Blount, of the Factory, died mi Thursday morningof last week—the morn- entire load took effect in the ing of her fourth birthday. side of a handsome St. Bernard rr i - , e *i „ n u j?- m dog which was standing near, a 1 he bridge of tlie C. S. & N. magnificent animal and a great pet Of the fami almost instanth' couraged and sustained. And the young people, for whose 1 i benefit the league was brought |into existance. will find much; j in the work, that is to be donej by the association, that will be |of profit to tl.e.n. The Graded Scuodl Tax. Iii accordance with the notice L * Wilcox 1 P rev i<> u 8ly given, tlie tax-payers ssisfed bv of this Graded School District Ari.ip.i ! assembled in the Court House on Tuesday tp vote on the ques tion of the amount of the tax to be levied for the support of the schools next year. The meeting was well attended. Mr. G. W. Brown was called to the chair, 1 and Mr. H. T. Thompson was, requested to act as secretary. Mr. R. W. Boyd, chairman of the board of trustees, in an ex cellent argument, made a state ment of the workings of the ] schools and the manner in which the money raised in the past A New Drue: Store. | ia( j |j een expended. Mr. E. K. Mr. John O. Muldrow, who Dargan, chairman of tlie finance for some years was employed in j committee, followed ^ him, Dr. Boyd’s drug store and more i an d announced that the board recently held the position of would need a levy of only 31 Society of p rescr iption clerk for Dr. \V. J. mills next year instead of the 5 ' ' Garner, will launch into the' iniHa which had been asked for drug business on his own ae- l as t year. Mr. C. B. Edwards, count. The store will be opened ! the treasurer of the board, then for business early in February j showed what were the neces- in Dr. Lunney’s building on, sary expenses of the several Pearle Street, formerly used for schools, and that the sum ap SWIFT CREEK. —Mr. Albert Harrell’s school is still in a flourishing condition. —Everybody is now now busy hauling guano and tlie roads are in a bad condition. —We think that if our ex cellent Board of County Com missioners should travel over the road that leads from Lee’s Cross-roads to Darlington, they would exclaim: “We do not see how you people get along this road at all!” —Mr. Timothy Galloway will lecture on the first Sunday in February at 2 i\ m. at the point where the Society Hill road crosses Swift Creek. HilWbject will be “the Bible and the signs of the times.” All who wish to hoar him should attend. Mixed nuts, 20cts lb; West & Honour. CARTERSVILLE. —Messrs J. A. and L. L. Rose lost their saw mill by tire recent ly, no insurance, loss $1500. —The public schools in Car- tersville Township have closed after a one month session; no funds. — Guano! guano! tlie farm ers evidently intend to use large quantities of it, and hope for a good crop and aprospei- ous year. —Mrs. Johnie Horn, who has been very ill, is now getting better. Her mother. Mrs Slur- man, of Culpepper, Va., is here with her. -Geo, Kirkland, colored, was found dead in Mr. S. Lane's cotton field recently. A jury of Highest decided that he died from natural causes. Mr. J. J. Shepard, proprietor of the Racket store, desires to inform his customers that ho has on hand a large lot of rem nants of worsteds and satines whi di lie is soiling off at half price. Peach ‘s, 20 ami 25cts a can: West <!t Honour. GREEN PLAINS. —There are several cases of the grip in this ncighboilu od, 1 bu{ none of them are sorirtus. —Messrs. Willie Bowman ami James Sumner, of Robeson County, North Carolina, arc on a visit to relatives at Green Plains. —Mr. S. P. McNair, of Wil mington, was here last week cn business He was looking well and his friends were glad to see him. (!ur section was visited l>y a heavy rain and wind Wednes day night of last week. Rain again fell on Saturday and the soil is very wet. —Our school did not open last Monday according to the an j nouncement, on account of the- teacher failing to appear. We| are solely in need of a good | teacher and will gladly corres pond with any one desiring the position. Address the Postmas ter at Green Plains. New dates and prunes; West A Honour. Five lb pails West & Honour. jelly, OOets; windpipe was sewed up the wound healed rapidly and the, boy is now as well as ever. The operation is very delicate and difficult and frequently results; in death, but the doctors skil-1 fully brought their patient | through. ciety are requested to attend the the postoffice. This stand,'how- pVopriated annually to the Mayo meeting. •- ever, will ohly be temporary, As it has been found desirable f ' ir ^ e stor '’ wil1 1k ‘ 'removed to for several reasons-to have the the Square as soon as a good Episcopal Chap *1 consecrated on ^ anc ^ car ) untamed. I he Inis a Sunday instead of in the week, incss will be conducted by Mr. when tiie Bishop makes ids Muldrow under the firm name annual visitation on Feb. li),he Muldrow & Co., the special cient cimditioii, will probably be asked by the partner being Mr. G. A. Norman, * Rev. Mr. Guerrv to return early " alhalla, S. C. Mr. Mul- in the spring named. A declaration for a charter for the MaiuvfactuPlng, Mer chandise and Commission Com pany of Darlington was fil ed in the office of the Secretary of State on Wednesday of last week. The incorporators are; E. M. Williamson, Lucas Mc Intosh and 8. B. Gaudy. Gen. W. E. James was clean ing and.loading his shot gun on Saturday afternoon, when it accidental! vdischarged,and tlie drow has been many years in the drug business and is recog nized in Darlington as an effi School was not a dollar in ex cess of the amount to which it was entitled. Mr. J. E. Nettles then addressed • the meeting, advocating the wiaintenance of the schools in their present clli- and moving asked for by the board be granted. A geneia! discussion of the question then ensued. Owing to misappre hensions which prevailed in re- Railroad over the Pee Dee River has been inspected by the civil engineers and turned over to the railroad authorities. cient and careful pharmacist gard to several matters, there and we feel sure that, in going was at first a considerable show into business for himself, he of opposition to Mr. Nettles’ will have a successful future. , motion, but the questions asked by Messrs C. K. Rogers, A. o i r . . t- . Weinberg and others were so Satisfactorily answered by Mr. The following transfers of Edwards, that when a vote was real estate were recorded in.the taken not a single voice was Auditors office for the week ^jsed in opposition to the levy mding Saturday^ January ‘23: 0 f'.3i mills. On motion of Mr. C. Alexander it was resolved that an itemized statement of the 1 receipts and expenditures of the board be published annually, immediately before the tax-pay- ers meeting in January. Mr. J E. Nettles was then elected a member of the board of trustees j to fill the vacancy created by the death of Col. B W. Ed- en M. Marco to B. R. Gatlin, (141 acres in Cypress township for $1000; Bettie J. A. Huggins et. al. to T. J. Price 8acres in Ly dia township for $720: G. W. Stith to Mrs. Alberta E. ReVille one lot in the town of Lamar. killing him f or ^]50; John McSwpen to Win ■ J. Wadford 55 acres in Lisbon Mr. D. M. Campbell, who has townsip for $550; W. P. Cole, 8. j been canvassing the County in p. C. 1#i,John McSween 75 acres wards, after which the meeting the interest of W. M. Breeden's in Philadelphia for $078; W. C. adjourned. „ . , Champion Stalk Cutter, an-: Coker et. al. Executors of L M. — —- rant, which ho recently purchas- uounces in this issue that he Coker to J. M. Josey 800 7-10 Messrs McCall & Burch are tid, ami will be ready to0 busi- w jjj ^ave a cutter on exhibition acres in Philadelphia township now offering special bargains ness the latter part of this week. j n Darlington on Salesdav and for $4,400; W. A. Parrott C. C. in remnats of ladies dress Mr. W. Witcover.has taken, 'charge of Mr. Webb's restau- wiii -pav them. the ladies to visit large MMufcg McCall & Burch have will attend promptly to all or- j P• to Mary E. Mclver 04 acres | goods, ginghams, calicos etc. It received a new machine for ders given him. He ^jso wish- in Darlington township for $2, clamping buttons on shoes. The!eg to sell the right for making 350; W. A. Parrott, C. C. I. to buttons 1 can be clamped 1 on in or selling Hie cutter. James Doughen 24 acres in Dar- five minutes bv use of this m a , 1 . , , Hngton township for $355; Elias machine The Sumter correspondent of KeHv to R S. Kelly 2fi8 acres in The Columbia Record « a ys:-HartsviHe township for $800 ; S. Rev. Francis R. Beattie, I). “The northern extension of the e. Kelly to R. 8. Kelly 268 m ■,I)., of the Columbia Theological C. 8. &. N. railroad has boon * Seminary, will preach in the | completed thirteen miles nortli Presbyterian Church at this of Sumter, and it was inspected place on the Third Sunday in by the railroad commissioners February. yesterday and accepted by them, m o i * »The road has established a The station at Andrew's and one at ° f n^n^i Wilson’s. The trestle across »' 9.' Black river is completed. The o>f thiMown*'!)muertVfor'tho read will soon be completed to and’improvement Company to very successt 2? im wUhiHr. n J eS ten the"™?! Charle.ton ; Su m .er&North- { „„ve,l *> hie ,. s miles trom Sumter, as me roan ern Railroad the right of wav home near M bed is now ready for the rails, thromrh Darlimrton County ex- Mr. Robert Hartsville township for $1)00; W- K. Pelzer to W. C. Stokes 100 acres in Hartsville township for $715; Queeney V. King 'to Wm. C. Stokes 40acres i i Harts ville township for $200; W. S. Shurnake to W. C. Stokes 30 acres in Hartsville township for $220; The Cantral Carolina Land or selling Hie cutter. JASPER. —Our school still has a attendance—forty pupils. —The oat crop is looking very well notwithstanding the re peated frosts. —The young people of our community enjoyed last Friday night by uniting in the exer cises of the Scotc4i ramble and the cotillon. -Mr. F urman Goodson, a very successful planter, lias re- uewly purchased . Mrs. C. A. Lewis*. bed is now ready for the rails, through Darlington County ex- Mr. Robert Coker has rented j Mr. E.B. Ragsd ile, o£ Winns-;cept through corporation limits the lands formerly occupied by boro attornev for Prof. Bell, 1 for$10 and other considerations; Mr. Goodson and winch are the present school commissioner. Jho. W. Woodham to M. Marco owned by Mr. Lewis Coker, and Mr. E. Keith Dargan, of 1370 acres in Stokes Bridge town- —One of our friends near Lake for Mr. ship for $3,000; McC. Willis to Swanin has a hog that uses its , rs of en his office on the Tillmanite and house in the town^ of Dar- joyment. On Mr. Toler will open a grocery ticket) have decided upon to-day .lington for $4,004;- J. E. Black- finding the si establishment in the building (Thursday) for arguing the case man to B. A. Earley one lot open, the animal stepped in and recently occupied by Mr. W. H. l)efdre the Supreme Court. Jhe and liouse in Swift Creek for ate the lard. Again, one night Talley as a cotton office and in question of right is purely a! $500. while the family was asleep, the .which Mr. J. C. White formerly constitutional one, and upon an —w — hog entered the shed rooqi had his tin ue year day The new postmaster, J. G. Gatlin, has notified Mrs. Law that he will take charge of the postoffice on Saturday. It is stated that his son, Mr. ^ ra ( Darlington, attorney for Mr. ship for $3,000; McC. Willis to Swamp has a hog that Gatlin, will be the assistant p eUi £ w / who was Elected to L. M. and M. F. Lide, one lot own discretion in matte, postmaster. this office on the Tillmanite and house in the town^ o^f Dar- j 0 yment. On one occasion, on smoke house door C. White formerly constitutional one, and upon an HPHB re. Mr. Talley j agreed statement of facts the at- : Ground sage, spice, pepper, got on a bed, where it ; West& | its peaceful slumbers'ui 1 hereafter at Mr.! torneys will appear before the i an( i gi n g e r, lOcts a can j Supreme Court to have it settled. | Honour. i morning. JOVAMN. —Mrs. W. S. King lias been very ill, but is now somewhat improved. —Messrs Campbell and King have returned from the West with a large drove of very fine mules. Parties wanting mules would do well to call on them. —The New Bethel congrega tion is very much pleased with the new preachers, Revs. W. L. Wait and C. H. Clyde. —Mr. T. W. Nettles is very sick, but under the skilful'treat- ment of Dr. Lucas we hope to see him out again soon. —Mi. J. T. Vann, Sr., is erecting a saw mill in this vacinity. This makes eleven mills whose whistles can be heard atJovann What section can beat this ? ... .... PHILADELPHIA. —Miss Beulah Dowling re turned to Williamston Female College this week. —Mrs. C. R. King and Dr. J. P. Parrott attended the poultry show in Charleston last week and were well pleased. - Mrs. Lesley Harrell, of Lit tle Rock, Arkansas, a native of this county, is visiting Misses Alice and Sue King and others at this place. —Some rascal robbed Mr. Zack Norwood’s potato bank one night lagt week. We have also heard of several hen roosts be ing robbed recently. —Some of our farmers are shipping their cotton to Charles ton and Wilmington because they find it pays them to do it. —There is a general scarcity of labor in the way of field hands in this section with wa ges unusually high. Some far mers have not secured their hands yet. We think that one of the main causes in the short age in labor on the farm is that the C., S. <& N. Railroad is tak ing many of them away to work on it. — MT. ELON. —Little Otis Hicks is suffer ing with catarrh. —Mr. Chapel Pate, of Stokes Bridge, is very sick. —Tom Bryant, colored, who was shot while coon hunting some time ago, is now able to sit up. . —Owing to the recqnt rise in the price of cotton, several bales were marketed from this sec tion during the past week. —The farmers are hauling fertilizers in preparation for another crop. They are haul ing almost entirely from Harts ville. —Rev. W. P. Smith, of Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, preached to a la.’ge congre gation on the afternoon of Sun day, the 18th. inst. —There seems to be consider able building and repairing go ing on in this neighborhood. Among the tenant houses re- : cently erected, we notice those of Messrs. R. M. Josey, T. J. Mand B. A. Howell. Mr. Lloyd has made some ad- to his dwelling and has small barn and stables is premises. OATS. —Work lias commenced on Mr. B. T. Kea’s residence. —Mr. Frank Miller, formerly of this place but now of Man- i ning. is here on a visit. —Our farmers are beginning preparations for another crop 1 in real earnest. —Mr. J. M. Harrell killed four! hogs last week, 10 months old, 1 weighing in the aggregate 8'.»!i lbs. " —Air. W. L. Oats returned! last Saturday from Florida, ac companied by Mr. It. L. Black- more. —The grip! The grip! Every-1 body has the grip ami Dr. liar-1 reli, our accomplished physician i is kept unusually busy. —There is no session of the \ school this week, on account of illness of Prof. Jones, who i hope will speedily recover. —We call the attention of the proper authorities to the public road leading from Wesley Chap-1 el, near the bridge, as it is al most impassible for foot pas- 1 sengers. —Dr. W. R. Register left for' ; Sumter last week, wheredie will conduct a drug business in eo- partnership will* Mr. W. H. Gil liland. —The public school session at Union Academy for this year will last three months, the longest time in the history of I the school. —Air. Nellie Clements, of ■ Florence, has made arrange ments to attend Union Academy during* the remainder of the i session. —The ladies of Wesley Chapel have organized a Woman’s Missionary Society which meets at the parsonage on the first Friday in each month. The following are the officers: ATrs W. L Wait, President; Aliss Lou AliMer, Secretary ; Aliss Alary Harrell, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. L. AL Jones, Treasurer. Everybody in the community is earnestly solicited to attend. A Favor Asked. [Cheraw Reporter.] Any persons who have in their possession copies of the Parlhui- ton Herald will confer a great kindness if they will either de liver in person or mail same to A. G. Roilock at Cheraw, 8. C., or W. D. Woods at Darlington, i C. The tile of the Herald was consumed in the fire and it desired to make the file as i early complete as possible i.;ain by getting possession of is many numbers of the paper is possible. Pltate Take Notice. [Cheraw IteporL-r- ] All the subscribers of the Darlinjton tleruld will confer a great favor on the editor. Air. W. D. Woods, if they will in- sorm him by word or letter, as nearly as possible, when they began taking the paper and how much, if any, they have paid on same. If subscribers will com ply with this request at once they will greatly facilitate the work of writing up the sub scription books again. Hampton in Eighteen and Ninety-Two. The Greenville News, in a most admirable article on the political situation in South Car olina, urges that Gen. Hampton should be an active candidate for Governor next year, and says: “He ought to take the stump as df candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor, look the white Democrats of this State in the face and put his case before them for judg ment. They ought to be given the opportunity to say whether South Carolina repudiates her old and faithful servant with their approval; whether a gal lant soldier and tried leader is to be tried ami condemned in the secret caucus of a faction without their sanction; whether such a man as Hampton is to be punished for refusing to use the cheap arts and dodges of schem ing politicians and begging and bulldozing and hustling for votes; whether they propose to endorse the action of a man elected to he Governor for the whole people in using the offi cial power and influence en trusted to him by the people to advance men who have been his special friends and backers, political and otherwise, and punish men who had done no W e I wrong, but who opposed him.” —Airs. Sallie Lloyd, wife of Alt. Henry Lloyd, Sr., died at! her residence on last Thursday, the. 22nd of January, and was buried at Wesley Chapel cemetery on the following day. A large concourse of relatives and friends gathered at the cemetery to pay their last re spects to this most estimable i lady. The funeral services were | conducted by Rev. W. L. Wait. She was a member of the Metho-' (list Church and had professed | 1 the Christian faith since child hood. She will he greatly miss ed. The husband and five ! children, besides many relatives and friends, to mourn the loss which to her is eternal gain. She has entered into the reali zation of a Christian hope. :ii§SS«S-A,« A Child Diss From Drinking Whiskey [Columbia Register.] Abbeville, Jan. 19.’—The tragic! death of a little boy nine years ‘old, which occurred last Satur ; day has shocked this commu nity. The unfortunate lad was a son of W. S. Wilson who lives about two miles from town. The j story is that the deceased and his cousin about the same age, found a half filled flask of whis key, and drank its contents. Being missed about the house search was made for them—they I were found lying in a stupor.! *An emetic was administered and j saved the life of one of the children but without effect on the other. The father of the dead bqy. is a man of strict ^oberiety. > , Two Horrible Accidents. [Pee Dee Index.] Last Thursday afternoon the ten year old son of Air. Wesley Stackhouse was caught by a shaft at Air. W. H. Breeden’s gin at Campbell’s Bridge and instantly killed. The gin was running and the little fellow wms putting his foot on the shaft used for driving the gin which is not far above the ground. The shafting caught him and in an instant, almost, he was killed. His body was fearfully muti lated. The bones in his leg were broken until they were nothing but splinters. A horrible accident occurred at Mr. J. R. Merritt’s steam mill at Cade's about nine miles from Scranton last Thursday. The engineer at the mill fired up the engine, but the safety valve got out of order which prevented the steam from blowing off when it had reached the limited capacity. This caused the steam to get too high which burst the boiler with terrific- force instantly killing Bernard Devine, one of the 'mill hands. He was terribly mangled. A Letter from the Far West. Editor Darlinqton Sews: Your paper has been such » welcome visitor to my far away AVestern home that I cannot well do without it. I am one of Darlington’s boys; was born near Lydia and was a Confed erate Volunteer in Company A, 14th South Carolina Regiment. 1 have been a resident of this State twenty-two years Air. H. E. Hagood, formerly of Darlington, who killed Dr. Waldon, of this (Lonoke) coun ty, on the 27th of December, 1889, was tried and acquitted on the 15th of this month. His many friends around Oats, Lyd ia and Cypress will be glad to hear of his acquittal. The kil ling was in self defence and was so found by the jury. The Hon. W. D. Simpson, once the Lieutenant Colonel of the 14th South Carolina Regi ment, had many comrades in Arkansas who were grieved to learn of his death and mourn the loss to the old Palmetto State of so distinguished a son. The prices of our county pro duce are : corn 75cts. a bushel; meat 3}cts. a pound; eggs 15cts. a dozen, and butter 2i>cts. a und. Labor is scarce and igh out here and mud is plen tiful. Young man if you are making a living in Darlington I advise you to remain where you are,” for, though this is a good country, you can do perhaps as well at home, I am doing very well out here ami, consequently, do not regret my move. W. B. Howell. Austin, Arkansas, Jan. 17, 1891. po hit [Florence Messenger.] Miss Maud Reynolds, daughter of Mr. E. C. Reynolds, of La mar, who is visiting relatives in Florence, accidentally swallow ed a brass pin on Monday last, and it lodged in Iter throat, causing her much pain and con siderable alarm. Dr R. B. R. C. AVallace succeeded on Wednesday afternoon in ex tracting the pin, after consider able effort, relieving the young lady of great bodily painas well as mental anxiety. Going to Darlington. [Cheraw R p irter. Jan. 21.] Air. W. W. Coker, of the Re porter office, will leave to-mor row for Darlington, where he goes to do the mechanical work on the Darlington Herald. Air. Coker has been employed in the Reporter office for more than three years, and we are sorry to lose him, but the Herald is more in need of his services just now than the Reporter. During Air. Coker's stay in Cheraw he has made many warm friends who will regret his departure. -»•«-—«•#-• Killed F A Bite. [Orangeburg Enterprise.] St. Matthews, Jan. 19.—Quite a sensation was created here to day over the death of Nimble Brown, a prosperous colored farmer. It appears that some time ago Brown got into a fuss with a “blue gum” negro named Tom Simmons, and in the fight which followed Brown was bit ten on the finger by Simmons. In a little while the bitten finger began to swell, got worse, and it was not long before gangrene had set in. On Sunday Brown died. Physicians say that Brown’s deatli was caused by the bite, and that the bite of a ‘blue gum” negro in nearly every case proves fatal. The negroes here are all wild over the death of Brown, and, with the accustomed superstition peculiar to that race, imagine all manner of strange things. A negro with a “blue gum” is a terror to them. Simmons has been turned over to Trial Justice Paulling for commitment on the charge of murder. Stokes Strikes Back. To the Editor of the News and Courier; I see an article in your issue of yesterday by Col. Keitt which you term a rejoinder.. He makes no pretence to an swering my argument. Through three columns he labors without introducing a single new idea, without .doing the one thing needful—adducing proofs. He weakly argues that the Alliance erected itself into a sep arate political party—for his position means that if it means anything—when every reading layman, even, knows that the Third Party idea was* utterly routed at Ocala, in spite of some extremists like Col. Keitt. Eif- ery member who lias the min utes of the last State meeting knows that no political issue was made further than was nec essary to protect our demands in C o n g r e s s—precise}g the ground 1 occupi d throughout. It may as well be understood that the Alliance in South Car olina, by deliberate policy of its A own, is not a separate party, and so long as I have the honor to stand at the helm no extremist shall turn her upon that track, while the existing policy, State and national, stands, without a struggle. Those whose political connec tions are so feasible as to admit of their running the entire gamut of party creeds in a decade naturally find no diffi culty in accepting any third party movement. But those of us who are accustomed only- to the common way of sticking to our political faith through a lifetime can only look on at such acrobatic performances and wonder! It is a matter of regret that there are not offices enough to go round so that the public might be spared the public dressing of old sores. But so it is—two into one “won’t go,” and some must live content with “a shadow” and some ia discontest with much less. Yours, waiting for proofs of • treason, J. Wm. Stokes. President South Carolina State Alliance. Orangeburg, January 13. MARRIED. On Wednesday, January 21, 1891, at the Baptist parsonage, Darlington S. C. by Rev. G. B. Aloore, Minnie E. Byrd of High Hill, and T. E. Purvis, of Meehan icsville. On Wednesday, January 21, 1891, at the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. John Stout, Mary Winters, daughter of Alaj. J. G. Winters, to Lau rence E. Carrigan, all of Society Hill. On Wednesday, January 21. 1891, at the residence of Mr. J. S. Jeffords, in Florence County, by Rev. T. H. Edwards. Gussie AfcKeller, daughter of Mr. W. H. McKeller of Abbeville Coun ty, and L. F. Wallace, of Mars Bluff, Florence County. § \