Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fhr larliunton Jlfirs. HENRY T. THOMPSON, Editor. THURSDAY, FEB. 1!», 1891. of $148 in New York City. The condition of the Jews in Russia continues to grow worse. ] The severity of the laws against the poor, helpless race has been redoubled. It is said that the TO Ml COBRESPOMlim EI'X , ^‘ e their insurrection in 1864, a!- mi i . r though the treatment of the The correspondents oT The latte f ghoek^ the who i e world Daklington Nk.ws through, ut at the time. Senator-elect John Gordan | neous or not, none will fail to recently had his pockets picked admire the courage of the man. Those who disagree with him will join those who hold views similar to his in admiring Mr. Cleveland’s action. He knew that defeat won hi perhaps fol low his tariff message, but he believed tariff reform to be right and he “had rather be right than be President.” So with the silver question. Though he know his stand would possi bly weaken him in the South and West, where he must get his strength to receive the Pres idential nomination next year, he came boldlv out for what he the County are particularly requested to bear in mind that we greatly desire to have from them as often as possible, (the oftener the better), the local events of their respective sec- 1 body the faults and frailties of con( . civ( . (110 b e righpregardless lions. .We want the ne\vs t,H ' deceased friend or neighbor ^ ^ consequences, everv week, if it is only a line. ,ue l ‘ 1 ^; ' n< ahl .^ ' n n< 1 As a politician Mr. Cleveland WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. Man is prone to praise the dead. Amid the first gloom that accompanies the depastuie of the breath of life from the md expression is given only to Eilitonnl . Votes. A train was wrecked near Asheville. North Carolina, Mon day night and four persons w.*re killed. Mr. James S. Richardson, the great cotton planter, denies that he is engaged to Miss Win nie Davis. Judge Wilson Lewis, of Pine- ville, Kentucky, was killed last week by bis son, whom be had pat under arrest. The boilerof a.worsted factory in (Quebec, Canada, exploded on Friday last and over twenty persons were killed. John Bannister, white, was tried at the Anderson Court last week for killing lijs brother and w is convicted of manslaughter. Alabama is enacting a law that will give the generous sum of $125,000 annually to ex-Con- federate veterans and their wid ow's. Ninety-eight ballots been taken in the Illinois Leg islature for United States Sena tor, and, "as vet, theriT is no election A bill has passed the United States Senate appropriating s.50.000 fo • aft equestrian statue of Gen. Francis Marion in Col umbia. Jay Gould's daughter, Nellie, is said to have made up her mind not to marry. This is doubtless sad news to many an impecuni ous suitor. ,1. B. Williams, the man who kil'ed Major W. A. Williams in Greenville last week. has been captured in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The Columbia Canal has been sold to a Northern syndicate for $200,000. The purchasers agree to complete the work and t<> in vest $L l,IM b ,M, o in factories with' in three years. •Another woman was found murdered in the White Chapel district of London on Friday morning. There is no clue to the murderer and the crime is supposed to be the work of “Jack, tlic Ripper.” Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, who was Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Filmore, died in Staunton, Virginia, on Friday, in the 84th year of his age. The house at Appomattox, Virginia, in which Lee surren dered to Grant has been sold to a Northern company, which pro poses to move it to Niagara Falls and there make it a museum for war relics. George J. Gibson. Secretary of the Whiskey Trust, was ar rested in Chicago last the charge of forming a plot to blow up a brewery in that city, in which one hundred and fifty men are employed. David I). Porter, admiral of the United States Navy, died in Washington on Friduy in the 78th year of his age. With the exception of Farragut he was the most distinguished Federal naval officer who took p:irt in the Civil War. The Clerk of the Coloiado State Senate is Miss Anna W. Kelly, a young and very pretty woman. She reads rapidl' - ss If Siie such the virtues of the man who was one of us. , Death closes in ob livion his weaknesses and pre serves for memory tin* sweet recollection of noble impulses and generous deeds. It is not until time lias elapsed that cor rect estimate can 1 e put upon the dead. The songs of unlim ited praise in the shadow of death are sung U> the most dis tinguished citizen as well as to the humble neighbor. But a distinguished soldier passed away on Saturday after noon last, for whom no of praise will be sung South and especially South Car olina. William Tecumseh Sher man died on that day, at Ijis home in New York City, in the seventy-second ye;ir of his age. Twenty-six years have passed since he mdde his march through South Carolina, but the memory have j of his tofclk still lingers in our hearts with the sting of just in dignation. From the time he passed the Savannah River on his memorable march until he crossed the North Carolina line, the torch was his only weapon and thishe used against defence less women and children.. His "march was marked by a cloud oftunoke by d-iV and a pillar of fire by night.” Town after town was destroyed and the women and children (for they were the enemy) sought refuge as best they could from the savage hand of the. incendiary. The home was laid waste and nothing hut the chimney was left to mark the spot where merry hearts laid gathered round the hcarthst me. Many of these chimneys now stand, like lonely sentinels, as monuments to the “glorious” military achievements of Wil liam Tecumseh Sherman in South Carolina. Even to this day one may start from a poinj on the Savannah River near the city of Savannah and. taking the remains of the burned hous es as guide posts, fo low Sher man’s route thro igh this State to the point where he crossed into North Carolina just above Cheraw. We are glad to say, however,. that, with the push and progress that now charac terizes South Carolina, all the waste places will be built up in a short time and there will he no ruins left to remind us of his week on I work. Had the life of Gen. Sherman been spared him but three days* longer, until last Tuesday, Feb ruary 17, he would have lived to see the twenty-sixth anniver sary of the crowning act of his life, the sack and destruction of the beautiful city of Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. But his soul has passed into im mortality and we can only trust that there will it be dealt gent le with. does not rank very high, but as clearly and with correctn accent and prnminci.itio:>. is the first woman to hoi I a position. Mr. C. M. Men!!, of Chotlc ton, while a small Loy, U.iily eight years ago. swallowed n pin. At different times during his life he has suffV i! v. itlr sc vere sore throat and a fo v week: ago. while Coughhig. tie "OUgiieii up the pin. An immense roek, Wei CLEVELAND ON SILVER. In these days of the time serv ing _ " ' ian it is refreshing to tiud a man in public life who has positive convictions and will express them cost him what it may. That Grover.Cleveland is such a man the American people have had more than one opportunity to be convinced. ;mug Several years ago his famous a man, a patriot and a statesman he is classed among the foremost. We do not believe, however, that Cleveland's position on the silver question can prevent his nomination or election. It \Vill undoubtedly strengthen him in New York and the East and the South is wedded to her idol. The “Democrats in the Western States, such as Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, love him too much for his tanff views to throw him overboard on account of the po sition he has taken on silver. ). I,U a| is • The extreme West wants free ' n coinage and wants it badly, but that is the only section of the country where the feeling is so strongly in favor of it that the great Democatic leader will be thrust aside for his honesty. THE COLUMBIA CENTENNIAL. Columbia will have a big centennial in May and every man, woman, and child, resi dent of the city, is enthusiastic* about it. The great canal will be completed in that month and it is an appropriate idea that the centennial year of Columbia (for in 17'sl the Legislature met in that city for the lirst time) should bo celebrated at the time whi'n the whole city will be re j doing over the completion of the canal, from which the people expect, and they will ex- pei t mu in vain, to derive so much wealth and prosperity. And a happy selection, too, was made when o 1 d Wade Hampton, the battle scarred h to, was invited to deliver the centennial orati#n. No better s'lection could have been made. But tliero is another fea ture of more direct interest to the people of Darlington County. T h o committee in charge of the celebration have decided to erect arches on Main Street, to represent the counties of the State, and to invite the citizens of e:i<'li county to ap propriately decorate the arch representing their County. The plain is a good one, and should it be carried into effect, the people of Darlington County should see to it that their arch be as handsomely decorated as any during that season of fes tivity. “The Greatest Thing in the World.” Prof. Drummond's famous address on "Love: the Supreme Gift,” sometimes called ‘‘The Greatest Thing in the World,” which lias had a wonderfully large sale at .'to cents a copy, and has undoubtedly done a great deal of good,, is now pub lished by Aldeu, unabridged, in large Pica type, for ihree cents! It ought, now, to circulate by the million. The same 'sli er issues Drummond's “Natural Law in the Spiritual World," in large type, line “half seal” binding, for 95 cents, plus post age, 10 cents. These are two items characteristic of the 192- page Catalogue, which is sent free on request, by the publish er. John B. Ai.hkn, 999 Pearl Street, New York. ut least two hundred pounds, . .... . fell from the Duquesue heights < tar,ff me8S! * 0 to ( on = re88 evidence of his manliness and the stand he theu took, though defeat threatened him, is the stand now taken by the Demo- j cratic party throughout the United States. Last week Mr. near Pittsburg. Pennsylvania and crushed into a passengei train a few days sii c . One la dy was killed and another lady and two young men were badly hurt. ncTelKints' of Williston, South ( arolina,* Cleveland was invited to no supplied for $1.05 a year, bought from a fakir, Bill Park- present at.a meeting of the Re ... ... er, last week, a bar of gilded form Club of New York’ CiK, woL C !l r re ,o!(l !v which was held for the purpose Parker was a bar of pure gold. I , . . . „ The priee paid for it was $5,ooo. protesting against the bill Parker ran off after obtaining now pending in Congress, pro- the money, but was captured in viding'for the free coinage of Atlanta. silver. ’ In writing Iris regrets The Kansas House of Repre-' fir his inability to attend the sentatives lias passed, without meeting, he dodged not the is- an opposing vote, a bill remov- ", ,i, ing the political disability from 8 ,e as tluJ * K,hUcu ? 1 wcn!l ‘ 1 h:m ‘ all persons, residing in that done, but placed himself square- State, who served in the Con- ly on record in opposition to the federacy. The constitution now f rt v coinage of silver. The let- debarsCi n eJerate soldiers from “An Unc-'m-ron Political Fool.” {firreiiville News ] Th ■ New York Sun speaks of the Charleston World a - s “an uncommon politic il fool.” The World says this Ps sarcasm, but we do not think that is the right word. The exprassion is de- scriptiv presses u blunt <ui' of a fact and hrtpolite and im ■ more as a peculiarly unadorneds statement CONSTINE’S LOST CHARM. Mlued It In Atlanta anil Mtul II K.-rvcd to Ilim in a Se.U,t« Itoetaurunt. II. L. Conatinc, of New Orleans, I.v, who lias been in Seattle for several days, tells a story liiut would rival in its improbability the tales of the “Ara bian Nights.” Mr. Constine, however, declares that his story is true, and says that ho is willing to swear to it. ' When 1 was in Atlanta, Ua., some time ago,” said. Mr. Constine, "I was invited by a friend. Mr. John Sawyer, to visit a peach cannery in which he was employed. After I had completed my tour of the eanVery 4 missed a very valuable charm that I had Is'cn wear ing on my watch chain. The 1 vs was a sad one to me, inasmuch as the charm was a gift from a dead sister. I offered a liberal reward for the rfturn of the charm, which I supposed 1 had dropped somewhere about the cannery, but all to no purpose, as 1 never heard from it. "I had returned home and had given up all hope* of recovering the charm Alxnit two months ago I conceived the Idea of visiting the Pacific coast, and ar-1 ranging my business in short order, started at once for the west. • "I arrived in Seattle and was visit ing friends who live near Yesler a venue. One day I was down town and stepi>ed into a restaurant for lunch. “After eating a hearty lunch 1 called for some peaches and cream. 1 started to cat the [leaches, and was hi the act of cutting one of them'with a spoon, when the spoon struck s nne hard sub stance which appeared to !>o imbedded i in llie heart of one of the peaches. I worked the substance out with my spoon and held it up t o I he light. My surprise can be Ix-tt -r imagined than described when I found that I held in my hand my missing charm, which I had long ago given up for lost. “The story is a ytrauge one," con cluded Mr. Constine, "and I should hardly be willing to believe it myself if told to me by a stranger, but neverthe less every word of it is strictly true. The only way 1 can account for the mysterious disappearance and r covery of the jewel is that it hecame disen gaged from the chain when I w;is watching the performance of a new coring and paring machine in winch 1 was much interested while I wax visit ing the cannery in Atlanta, and it fell in among the peaches without my no ticing it." The charm, which Mr. Constine showed the reporter, was a gold cross, with a small diamond set in either end and a larger one in life center, and was of very unique design. The story is a strange one. but was told In a concise and straightforward manner that ar gued well for its veracity.—Seattle 1 ’tess. , Tlio True story of Don Juan. Don Juan was a real character -Don Juan de Maraua was his name—and the house where he lived may still be seen behind the Clmrch of All Saint.-, in Seville, the building itself being the property of the Monti,jo family, to which family the [Impress llugetiie bo longs. 'The house 1ms a balcony and large window, half Mauresquc, half (iothic, by which it may be distln gutshed from its neighbors. And. next, the true story of the final incident is quite different from the stage story. Don Juan was returning late at night through the city when he met a funeral cortege with singing friars and torches and dirges. He stopped a priest and asked whoso it was. He was told Don Juan’s. Fascinated he „ fol lowed the procession and entered the church. The ceremony was conducted with extraordinary solemnity; but at the last moment Don Juan, lifting the 1 eolHn lid, recognized himself. Next morning they found him wandering about the chproii, half demented. He was nursed through a long illness, lived a better life, and died leaving all his wealth to the Hospicio do la Caiidad, which he had founde 1 at Seville.—Lon don News. Something on Egg*. Kggsare generally considered health fill if properly prepared by the cook. Whether it is worth an net of legisia tion to classify them, as they do in London, is very hard to tell. There they have “new. laid eggs" or "first rate eggs,” “fresh eggs"or “moderately good eggs," and “eggs." It is very positive that “eggs" of the third class cannot be too far gone, for nature has generously adapted the unmistakable olfactory method which will cause even the most hungry mortal to retire from their obnoxious presence. The best way to cook eggs is to bring water to the boiling |s>int. drop in as many as you wish, remove the pot from the fire and allow it to stand for five minutes. When the eggs are removed they will be found to be thoroughly cooked, and in a very digestible manner.—Halls Journal. * Clilll ‘Ian One Aruied Vessel. The only armed vessel Chili has built since the war with Peru is the i Captain Prat, a fine second class armor clad of 0.900 tons displacement, 328 feet long, 00 2-9 feet beam and 21 5 0 feet draught. The battery is four 10 1-2 inch breech loading rifles and eight 4.7 inch rapid fire guns. The water line belt is twelve inches thick amidships. The estimated speed is nineteen knots'.—New York Herald A Libera! Preposition. To tl;i' suliserib'er who pays ns $2.89 cents in ca* h. we will give acomph te set of Dickens’ novols- twolvo volute's pamphlet forini. ami will send Thk DauiJncton News, the Weekly .Yet/-* mid ' mu ter and the Southern Culti t'dfo,’*, each for one year. Thk Newsand the Dickens' works will he supplied for $1.50. This paper, the Cnltirafor and the Xcics mid (’mirier will be sent to any address for $2.90 per an num, while Thh> News together with either one of them will he thq right to vote or hold office ter has created much excitement and this hill is expected to rc- die country. move these restrictions. I Whether his views he Hop dess [tone.--Iic--“Mav 1 hepof” She "Y'e*, if you will promise never to refer to the erro-1 matter again,’’—Xi/e. In the fall of 12(15 the English parlia ment passed an act by which the price of bread was brought to a marked or standard.uniformity; adulteration was made an offense, punishable by a line and by prison, and very often by a severe and prolonged confinement in the ignominiovs nillorv. A Missouri farluer “aet a trap op the edgoof a pond for a muskrat. A goose got its font in it, and then an eagle drop |>ed down and seized the goose and couldn't carry her away. The man was near by, of course, and all he had to do was to grab the eagle and run him into a coop and sell him for $25. — Detroit Free Press. M. Viclle, prominent ns an inventor of smokeless powder, by means of a 1 delicate process of registration finds that the pressures at the moment of burning the powder do not shed them selves uniformly over the gun through out its length, hut that n wave of pressure starts at the seat of the pow der and transmits itself. Potato growing experiments in France show that tile crop from whole seed is about 7IK) weight per acre more than that from cut se.d. allowing for. the difference in weight between the two sorts. One of the best known reliefs for asthma, and at the same time a sure one. is to soak blotting pa[>or in strong saltpetre water and bum it in the room i at night 1 Th© Term “John flail.** Everybody know* that a “Johnny Dull" is an Englishman, but bow few of us know how the term first came to be applied to subjects of the British sovereigns. According to the story of it* origin, Dr. John Dull was the first Grosliam professor of music, l>e«ides being organist and composer to her majesty. Queen Elizabeth. John, like all true Englishmen, traveled for im provement, and having heard of a famous musician at St. Omers, France, resolved to [dace hims-lf under him as ’ a novice. But circumstances soon con vineed the master that his talents were inferior to those of his scholar, who, by the way, had not let the Frenchman know his name. Finally one day the musician thought to give John a gen uinc surprise by rendering a piece in forty parts, taking good care to let the pupil know that he defied ail the world to add another [sirt to his composiiion. Dull requested to lie left alone for a few minutes with the additional indu'g- once of a |>e:i and ink. In n very short time he had added forty parts more to the song! The master went into costa- •ics when he saw what his pupil had done, declaring that the musical world had had more added it that day than it ever had before in the history of the world, winding up by informing the scholar that he must be one of two personages, either the devil or John Dull, the Englishman —a remark which has ever since been proverbial in llrit- ain. St. Louis Republic. One Way to Atti:»< t Customers. An Italian who conducts a coufee tionery stand in Park 11 >w 1ms adopted a novel idea to force custom. He leaves a silver half dollar lying upon the glass cose in which his wares are inclosed. Naturally every one who comes along looks at th<? half dollar, and as a consequence has his attention called to the goods beneath the glass. Occasionally some well meaning indi vidual, thinking such a reckless expos ure of money unintentional and due to carelossnuft, will pause, call the atten tion of the Italian, and point to the coin. The Italian pretends to mixun derstand the reason he is called. “Half a |K>undear'mols. did yon say?" he inquires blandly, ns he picks up the half dollar and puts it in his packet. “ Er-or-a-yes." the victim repliesabout nine times out of ten Why he docs so reply it would be difficult to say, except on the theory that his good sense wilts beneath the supreme blandness of (he Italian. —New York Tribune. How :i Nickel Cun llo MuGe to fiiow. Some time ago the Ladies' Aid society agreed to invest a nickel in some kind of article, and sell it at a profit and re i invest it in something else, and so on, ; to speculate on this capital for two weeks and see how much each one (ould make. One lady on the same evening of the meeting bought a cab bage with her nickel. She carried it home and sold half of it to her neigh bor for a nickid. Siie invested that in vinegar and pickled the remaining half and sold the pickle for 25 cents. Siie then bought 20 cents worth of cloth and a spool of thread and made it up into three aprons, which she sold for •I.*) cents each, and took the 75 cents and bought molasses, and gave a candy pulling to the children, making them - pay 10 cents a plate for the candy. The molasses made twenty-one plates of candy, so she made £2.10 on the nickle in two weeks' time. How money will grow if properly used! - Heading Tele gram. Why It I* Calltal “North” River.© I overheard Ohauncey M. Do pew, at the Fifth Avenue hotel the other even ing. explaining to some friends from the country the difference between the North and the Fast river. “Probably not one New Yorker in a thousand can account frtrthe fact that we have an Fast an 1 a North river instead of an Fast and a West river. The explana tion is found in the fact that the Hud son was originally called the North river to distinguish it from the Dela ware, which was familiarly known as the ‘South river' among the early col onists. While the latter has become obsolete as a designation, the former is still in current use, although there is no use for it. It is just as easy to say ‘Hudson’ as ‘North,’ and it is certainly more charming to both eye and ear.” —New York Star. The Highest Chimney. The highest smokestack in the world is said to be in Glasgow, Scotland. It belongs to Tennant & Co.'s chemical works, and is 4(i() feetMiigh. The tall est chimney in England is, or was, in Liverpool, in the London road. We do not know its height, but it was on this chimney that the bricklayer was caught when the scaffolds were taken down. At the suggestion of his wife he unraveled his stockings and let the thread down. To the end she tied first a silk thread, then a thin cord, then a light and lastly a heavy rope, which he tied to the iron bar-built into the chim ney, and so let himself down.—New York Sun. Sundown Doctors. “One has to go no farther away than Washington," remarked a woman re cently, “to come upon something un accustomed. I was curious when 1 heard a sundown doctor mentioned during a visit there last month till 1 found out what ho was. Young phy sicians it seems frequently add to the income of their first months of practice by service in some one of the de partments. During the day they arc clerks, but after 4 o’clock, at sundown, they become physicians; hence the des ignation.”—Her Point of View in Now York Times. Final Notice. N tice is hereby given that the un dersigned will tile ids return as Ad ministrator dc bonis non of the Estate of Darius Gandy in the office of Pro bate Judge for Darlington Fount)’ on the 21st day of Marcli next, and apply for Lctt , 'rs Dlsmissory. W. A. CAKRIGAN, Moorhead, Ccfx & Co., Having purchased the stock and bjsiness of Feb. 17, 1891. Administrator. sheriffs sale. The Enterprise Grocery, Will continue to epuduct it at he old Hfnnd at the southeast corner ol the Public Squar q Darlington, S C. « The Stock of SHOES and 11 A'! S, for the purpose ol dispos ing of it iin.i ed Intel ,\\ill be sold out a*, cost, and, in noire instances, even below cost. Ms ths lias for MRU! W. L. King vs. J. F. Mar.in and T. A. Clark, late copartners trading as Martin A Clark. Execution Against Property. By virtue of the above Execution to me directed 1 will sell at the mil! of Martin A: Vlark, defendants, in Darlington County, on tire first Mon day in March next or the Ti esday thereafter the follow ng personal property, to-wit: Sixty-two pieces o' (umber, 7x10 and 2 i feet long; eighty- 1 six pi ces of lumber. 3x9 amt 10 feet long; one lot weatherlioar.Iing: one lot mixed lumber; one hit lumber, piled. levied on as the property of defendants to satisfy this execution. Terms of sale, Cash. W. P. COLE, S. D. C. February 14, 1891. HARTSYILLE FiRE INSURANCE COMPANY GIN HOUSES,. STORES, DWELLINGS, BARNS, And all insurable property plae -d at lowest adequate rates of premium in the Largest Comp.tnies. Any information cheerfully given. Call and sec us. t t rnFFP ( v rn J, ]_• LUiiLIi Cv oUq HARTSYILLE, S. C. Feb. 10 ()m People’s Bank OF- We now have a delivery wagon, and w If deliver good.*, free ’of charge, to our custom rs who reside within the town littiil« As in the past, it specialty will he made of Fre^h Family Groceries, .it thu LOWEST Market Prices. A car load of fine flour ai 1 another ol Molasses just arrived J n. 8-oin. EARLY SPRING FLOWERS! \ EHs, Normt Si Cs. Have Received Fresh Invoices of Spring Jlvy (Goods! Darlington. 5 iier e('iit Interest paid on1i>ncdepos-j£. lU , m(l scf t | lc TU'UWSt its from day of de posit. Saving is {ho Roadlo Wealih, E. KEITH DAUGAN, President. W. A. CAURIGAN, Vice President. H. L. CH ARLES, Ca-hicr. Attention, Darlington Guards ! Attend au important meet in”: of your company at the armory Friday evening next, February 20, at 8:30 o'clock. ' Hv order of the (’antain. • S. S. BFKCH, First Sergeant. Restaurant. 1 have purchased of Mr. Geo \\ <-l>!> his well known restaurant and hope Ta sust ain in the future the reputation : the business enjoyed in the past and solicit a continuance of the pat oimge : so generously given my predecessor. Fresh oysters received every day. 1 will pay the highest pines for raw furs of coons, otters, minx, foxes, wild eats.etc. W W1TCOVKIL J Feb. 12-4t. Styles. DWARDS, NORMEHT & CO. Li A *. 'y' m) © unit o l For Sale. Being desirous of erecting a liand- s nne brick store on our lot west of the postoffiee, we offer tor sale the wood en building on il now occupied by Hayneswor h A Boyd's furniture store. WELLING & BONNOlTT. Uemeinber we sell nothing hut the highest grades of Fertilizers. Our Meal is made from sound seed ; and it is bright and of the highest grade. Our Special Brands, “Darlington Ammoniated” and “Pee l)ee Ammoniated,” are the best g >ods on the market for the price. We sell no acid that •is not up to the standard, and that is not guaranteed 18 per cent., . and'by analysis of the Alabama State Chemist this season runs even to 10. Our Kaini.t is Imported German. Kainit, It is to the interest of every one to be careful, as there are some who are Inly ing a low grade of goods at low prices while thinking that they are getting standard goods for their money. For Sale, €. & § A pair of wagon mules. Apply to PAUL WHIPPLE, Feb. '-4t Kiverdalc, S. C. CHAS. ('. WILSON'. H. H. HI GUINS. WILSQH & HUGGINS, YlIROUUTIEOTS, j Plans, Working Drawings, Details’, Specifications, Estimates and Bills of Material. Terms reasonable. Correspondence solicited.. | t9t 8rd. Avk., S. W., Roaxokk, Va., J Jan. 15 tf. rapping the (Juration. A game called “popping the ques tion" Is played with cards, half of them red and the otlierhalf white. The two players must be <ij opposite sexes, the lady taking the white cants and the gentleman the red. Each red card lias a projHasnl of marriage of some sort upon it. while each white card is in scribed with some reply. The gentle m.nn draws first, hands the lady a card from his pile, and she responds with one from her pile, the question and the answer being road together. For ex ample. his card rends; “I love you. Will you marry met Say yes and 1 gain a treasure Say no and you lose one." The answer, likewise taken at ran dom. may read, "1 would rather wed a kangaroo than such a popinjay as you." The next proposal may obtain a more favorable answer, such as, “Oh, s:r. this is so -so sudden that I hardly I now what to say." And so the game roes until tlie cards are all clhansted. 'i his oport is highly recommended for introduction to bathful lovers.—Ex change. Since the recent disastrous fire from which he suffered so severely ! Dr. John A. Boyd j lias purchased the stock of i r. \V. J. Garner, and has leased the latter’s I desirable business stand on the West I side of the Public Square fora tenn ! of years- Here his friendsaud patr< ns j wiil find him iu the futu e provide 1 I is heretofore w ith a large and select ass i tment of I DLUGS, MED CINES, TOiLET ARTICLE. 0 -, FANCY ARTICLES, &C„ &C. [ pjf A continuance of the libera patronage which has been accorded him in the past is respectfully solicit ed. Jan. 15-tf. President and Treasurer, Daringtoa Milling Company. NOTICE TO INSURE!IIS, .Get The Best Insurance 'For The Least Monet. THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO., ol Liverpool, England, is the f rgest Fire Company in the world. THE zF.TNA, of Hartford, Connecticut, is the largest of all the American Fire Companies. THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, of Philadelphia, i« ♦ he second largest of atl American Fire Combanies. I HE HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York city, is the third larg cst of all American Fire Companies. THE HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut, is the fourth largest of all the American Fire Compan eh. All of the above companies, and several others, represented iu the agency F. IE. ' , , Darlir gton, S. G. September 11, 1890. MRY \ I I i Has purchased the very desirable ! place of business on Pearle Street ; known as The Welsh Store, and has stocked i* witli a choice line of GROCERIES, LIQUORS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. tSTThe patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. IT;" Nothing but first-class articles 1 sold, tfnd perfec ta'irfaction guaran teed. Or Chqiee Family Groceries a . -R. L. DARGAN, DEALER IN Books, Stationery, Toys, Fancy Articles, &c., Having recovered from his recent misforture by lire, Inn opened a large N< Stock in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. A. Boyd on the .North side of the Public Square. fchcol Books at Hew York Prices, All the newest novels and novels and magazines in stock. The choisest li ic of stationery that the Northern markets afford. Darlington Real Estate and Insurance Bureau. H. M. SMITH, Manager Real Estate Pepaitmejit. B. O. BRISTOW, Manager Insusauce Department. Specialty. Jan. 8-tf« Special attention paid to the buying and selling of real estate, collectio rents, tire, life, accident, plate glass insurance, Ac. The strictest attention will lie paid to all business entrusted to us.