Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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&ltf Jarlhujton Jeirs. h^h* W. Kennedy and! 'S IT A STEP BACKWARD? Kennedy. President The Columbia Slate says: ; and Cashier of the spnn|pi (jar» “The readers of the 8UUe in the Pee ! den Bank, of Philadelphia,have j Deew- tion, it i* hoped, will no lontrer , been arrested and will be tried he forced to wait until the even nsr to Thorsday, May 28, 1891 for swindling ^^ej^heirmomliik' HENRY T. THOMPSON. - • Editor. “ of the Atlantic Coast Line, who "“c; , i Tim HopKatt one of the fhoin. iu ,l, e city yesterday, was queried ad HU (1 OUT pages. Jim Corbett, one Of the t ham H | K , u t the mueli talked-of early morn *•*-■*• An official who was a galaxy of brilliant young scholars and preachers, /md a- mong the foremost of them all we count our honored brother, G. B. Moore, whose graceful pen and ripe scholarship have so well EDITORIAL NOTES. pion pugilists of this country, train, and he stated that it had Tn n rnilroid wreck nenr Bor- and Peter Jackson, the Colored been positively d cid. d to put the m a ranroaa w recK near cor . ■ f Australia had a train on. and that it would more than den, Texas, on Thursday one wVo„;j,en on IlkelyWve Columbia at «:50 oyiock, man was killed and seven others pri«s fight at San Francisco on couneetioni* If this is so injured l Thursday night. The fight ex- the .VaU can also make all cornice ' cited great interest all over the ! lions and greet the I’ee Dee wet ion The largest libraiy in the United States. The two men every morning." world is the Imperial, of Paris, fought hard and were so evenly The above jiaragraph would which contains over 2,000,000 volumes. Evaporated apples: W. & H. one GREAT IS OUR DICTATOR ! The closing scene Hon. James G. Blaine has greatly improved from his re cent attack of the gout and his recovery is now certain. Jacksonville, Florida, was Siu? 2t M Z! '7 77-r ir‘ total loss of property is about Dr. Griffin havi |40(),000. Everything around the scenes of the recent disastrous strike in Pennsylvania has quieted down and the miners are work ing away as hard as ever. Society Hill Amateurs. [Reported for Thk JlKWS.] The first public performance of our minstrel troupe, “The Stars.” came off Friday night, matched that at the end of the afford us genuine pleasure, did the 22nd inst., at St. David s sixty-first round the fight was it nftt rKirtpn .i the return of an Academy and was a very credit- brought to a close with neither, ... able success. The audience was tne victor. evil from which we fondly hoped amused and entertainfd __________ we had been released forever, for two hours by the comic Is the new train to take the place , songs and laughable jokes, some of which were in the form of were much en- . except, perhaps, . , or is it to be put on in addition those who “came within range.” n usk ^ the latter? The receipt of The first scene was a full the city papers a few hours after < 'horus,‘ - Razors flying in the Patronize Home industries. The Darlington ijinniug. Milling, Fertilizer and Wandiouw Company are turning out the —■ • i y T 1 T ▼ ' ^ ’ r (5CT -**> , ~ ^ g . a*4kWwU .1.w... aLLwkvtU, groun<l from best, wmud com. and ah- Miluttily free from iwi u 1 tv rat ion. They pro|ioee to sell it as low as pure goods can be sold. Buyers, ask your mer chant for Darlington Mi al and take no other; it is always fresh and always reliable. Merchants, patronize your Ik me mill and give yiur customers the lust meal to la- had. besides save writing, exchange on bills, and haul ing. Dive us your orders. Tlie Darlington IT Alia ■ Slav 21-tf n U., F h 1 ■ wk , of the one leaving here in the ’ 1 ' w ‘ rt of the asv- . t . , ■ , , meal hits, and been enact- morn,n « an,i returning at night, joyed b y al!, , w a a ■ -- Ls mg to resign at the request of Gov. Tillman, he has been summarily removed, and one of the assistant physicians has been placed in charge of the institution. In i the meantime, Gov. Tillman is air,” which was well rendered their publicatio.i every morning by the entire troupe A solo . will be a great convenience, but “There is a light in the window it will prove anything hut an for me,” followed and then an- unmixed delight if it be obtained 1 ot ^ e r* ‘' fake me hack to home and mother.” After these came A fight occurred between looking around for his perma- at f| ie co8 t °ur being plunged jokes and comic songs, which Since the recent disastrous fire from which he sufTered so severely W. • O w..a. Za. WU > u. has purchased tlie stock of Dr. W. J. (iaruer. and has leased the latter’s desirable business stand on the West side of the Public vM|uare for a term of years. Here hislrienusand patrons wiil tind him in the futn-e provide 1 as heretofore with a large and select asM'.tiuclit of British and Portuguese troops in South Africa on the 12th inst again into the barbarous system must be heard to be appreciated, of railroad schedules which pre- Next was the “Dixie scene”: in vailed in this section years ago. this the audience was treated to To have to spend 'thirty-six a K eninue ne h ,r ? ,lorK ‘ e and the nent successor. There has been in which seven Portuguese were nothing in the Governor s con- killed and twenty wounded. ! duct of the case to cause us to Eugene Shirley, a merchant change the view we expressed C,irtain dro PP e ' 1 amid an uproar of Fort Lawn. Chester County, at the beginning of the inquisi- ^ ur * ' t "° nl « ht , s an 1 a t day 1 in of laughter, was murdered on Friday by a! tj on e ff e ct that our ruler ^ bar lesion or Columbia oecause I hen came “bports on a lark lunatic named Thaddeus Me- s ,. ( >kimr to disnossess Dr “ue happens to have an hour's giving the thrilling experience Fad den. Both parties were business there, is a crying evil! a »‘ a »'. n the ha f lds f r,,b ' white and were br others-in-1 Grlflfln of h,s oftlce for the pur '| w hi,h we , a,-nedlu entreat the' ben - Thls P lece * howe<1 » ood law. . isise of filling it with one after w “ ,ch earnestly entreat Xtie ;iCtinK The next was “I think ~ , , i.i K own he irt He now has radroad authorities not to sub-; j n which the acting reflect- Caterpillars have become so ' , , o t t ject us to again. ed credit on tliose who took part thick in Minnesota that they ; every department of tha State! | in it. And hist but not least prevent trains from moving, government completely under no third PARTY FOR the south. ! came the very amusing play. I bi8 control, and we hope he is Representatives of the Farm- "P’® mischievous nigger", sat snea. ers Alliance, white and colored, phe audience was fullv repaid Dr. t.riffin s answer to the the Knights of Labor, and other and b ojie "The Stars” will favor charges against him were most g j m jj a r organizations, met in the community with another DRUGS. MEDICINES. TOILET ARTICLES. FANCY ARTICLES, &.C., &C.- DoYouWisfeTo Be Boss of Your Own GIN HOUSE? Then buy the Thomas Sleaai Press AND Seed Cotlon Elevator. It is the most perfect system in nse, unloadiiiK cotton from wagons, clean- iiifranc! delivering it into gins or stalls. Cotton does not put through fan. and press requires no pulleys or belts. It saves time and money. Talbott A'- Sou's Engines and Boilers — Stationary and Port aide. "Old Dominion” Corn Mills $125 lo S-J00. Talbott’s Saw .Mills, Jm- prove l Friction and Hope Feed, $200 to $600. Lninmas find Van Win nie Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses. We offer saw mill men and ginners j the most complete outfits iu the Stale and at bottom prices. Y. C BJLDHAM, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, S. C. FirTlie Talliott Engines are the Best. store, find it is wonderful wliat a dollar will do in this heavy stock of GOODS, G ROCK HIES, CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, FURNISHING GOODS, NOTIONS, &C.^r We will sell them, one and all, as low as any living man dare sell honest goods. r Luck is Looking for You in the Shape of BARGAINS at masses of grease, over the wheels slip like so butter. which much A new society for the Irish- Americans, to be known as the National Federation of America, has been organized in New York for the purpose of raising funds to assist the cause of home rule in Ireland. An unknown white man shot two colored men in the streets of Knoxville, Tennessee, on Sunday, and then went into the country, robbed two white men and shot another white person. He has not yet been captured. The Hill Shoe Company, of Memphis, Tennessee, failed on immediatelv conclusive, and the moderation which he exercised under the convention at Cincinnati last entertainment before long. 1 he , , • , , programme of Friday night's , , , week > and organized a third ‘ win b ' KratmtouB insults heaped upon * hlch be stvM tbe| SnTt Hamvdl and tov,^ him is worthy of the highest -People’s Party of the United | ville and we bespeak for the praise. Even to the last hiS| States „ The conV e n tion was troupe a full house at both conduct was marked by that very large( a ma j or i t _ v of the P laces ’ J. E. S. courtesy with which every gen-. StQtnc represented. A; tleman should trout the C'hief ■ i ° i *. i j i Well, let s tiro to woman snuuiu irrai mtr platform was adopted, and a ^ rwc ort.i Executive of the State, and he a- , *: . ;Norment A (os and ! national executive committee quietly submitted to the order appointed The enthusiasm was for his removal, though it is by of those May Edwards, get some Kirby cigars. mostlv from the Northwest, and ! no means certain that the Gov- jt doeg not appear that the A1 ., ernor had the authority to take Hallce men of the South took Dr. Griffin’s Movements. [The State.] men ot the south took j Dr. P. E Griffin, the former Thursday and immediately such action. To the people of | muc h interest in the convention i superintendent of the State Lu- thereafter \V. v . Hill, the pro- Darlington County, who have f t „u; i 1)s natic Asylum who was so sum- prietor. committed suicide He known h j ra from his birth and T tact which it anoms us [nari) d J eposed by the Governor was a nephew of United States Knowa n,n i 1 iro “ 018 u,rin ; anu pleasure to note, for there is but >, week will remove his fam- Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin. have loved and respected him Que way t0 rc >g ard Die third j]y to Darlington in a few days. Over five hundred people have ^ or b * s 8terbn K qualities, his par ty movemeat; it is an enemy! He is as yet undecided what he recently been poisoned more or conduct needs no vindication; j 0 j rue Democracy which, in lessseriouslvinPittsburg, Penn- but it must he gratifying for tbe g out h is onlv a svnonvm sylvania. from eating smoked him to feel, on the eve of his re- for the supremacy of the white SrKSk two” men wlm had' tirement to priva ‘ e * ife ' that th * | man. Governor Tillman, who eaten the sturgeon died in fior-i un J us f f rea f ,n ent he has received jg a member of the Alliance, is j turn when his investigations are rible agony. at the hands of our dictator has outspoken in his opposition to! concluded and will probably A well-known Providence, ra ' sed U P a bo8 f friends for j be third party movement, and Rhode Island, clergyman, he- him throughout the length and j 8 to he most heartily eoinmend- breadth of South Carolina. j ed f or the stand he has taken in regard to it SHORT-SIGHTED CHARLESTON. lieving that other things than charity should begin at home, made his wife’s low-necked dresses the subject of recent ex hortations. She became so in dignant that she has sued for a divorce. will do in the future, but as soon as his family is settled in Dar lington he is going on to Phila- d -Iphia to investigate some specialist subjects. He wiil re settle iu Charleston and open business as a specialist on ner vous diseases. No man is bet ter qualified than Dr. Griffiu, and he deserves unbounded suc cess. nr a continuance of tbe libera patronage which bah been accorded him in the past ia respectfully solicit ed. Jan. 15-tf. WALL PAPER! Messrs. DEWEY & WELtlHG announce to the people of Darlington and surrounding counties that thev will open on or about May 25th the Largest and finest stock of IJ all Papers, 11 i n d o w Shades, Corn ire. Mould ings, Picture Frames, Stained Glass, and 1 n terior Decora Cons generally, ever offered to a South Carolina pub lic. at the stand lately occupied as a book store on the north side of the Public Square, where we will be pleased to have you call and examine our stock. We are also prepared to HANG PAPER. FRESCO, and PAINT INTERIORRS OR EXTERIORS in an v style demanded. We can also supply you with all kinds of ARTISTS’ MATER AL. As we have a first class Upholsterer we can repair your furniture, lay car pets, &:<•.. at very reasonable rates Competent workmen sent to any part of the country. As we sell tsinrily for Cash we cun give you astonishing ly low prices M.iv 21-Sm. Misses A. £ J. FOUNTAIN have just opened their supply of Cs-t't, ~ T * , npY |T ’ kw a ▲ a A w v AW W to which they invite the atten tion of the ladies of the town and county. The assortment has teen selected with great care, and the customers of the firm will find much to interest them. Special Agentsfcr Buttenck's Patterns. March 26-2m ERNEST A. S'!ITU Is prepared to make photographs of ycurself, ycur residence, your tahy, or your whole family. A ^ N ^ Wfc A Vt <k ▲ a* W a Don’t Delay! You may live to regret it. Studio over Boyd's Drug Store. April 2-tf The Charleston AYir* and a military encampment. Courier of Monday says: I There is a movement on foot The opening of the Charleston, j to have an encampment of the Fourth Regiment of militia at Barbarism in Marion Count/. [Pee Dee Index.] At Tarry town, New York, on Sumter and .N!rrthcrnlb«dloDar: j Fourth Regiment of militia atia:^ Tuesday of last week, a gang of Ungton and Bennettsville ha» given to _ . . siuiiey uooayear, iveiiv thirl v Ifnlinns wnrlrinir on a ,h ® merchants of Charleston anew Darlington during the first week yea in a renty Good- Fuc- thirty Italians working on a the merchant* or charleston a new ^..ugzuuuur.ng u, C uim wee* j year. Frank Ford, Hayle - - - & and golden field. The roa*l traverses m August, and it the citizens of kett and John Cook, all white. ^Id on^iVwhich*the Chaiiert^n wer the community should view the ll ' ln ^ iu the I'abernacle section , i above Nichols, went to the house oe | „ „„i 1 man named (jarv The Killough Music Company. Only Chartered Musie Company in the State. We are jobbers and retailers not dealers who buy from jobbers. We want good agents an.I good customers throughout South and North Carolina to confer wi li us before arranging else where. Our prices arc low, terms reasonable, and quality of goods among the best that are manufactured. Note our spe ialties: PIANOS—BehrBn.s.. Ives & Pond, j ORGANS — Kstey. Carpenter. Weaver, Kstey. New England. | Furrajid i Votey. Kimball. Full live octave organ only $29: seven aud one-third <H tave piano only ? 198. We ship from factory direct, allowing fifteen days test, assume all freight charges in final settlement Book and stool free. One price strictly, aud we publi.-h the price. Send at once for catalogue and pricelist. Sjiecial dis count to Churches. Ministers. Schools and Music Teachers. We also seli all kinds of Sheet Music and Music Books. Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Harmonicas, Strings, Brass Baud Instruments, which we buy direct from tlie manufacturers an ■ inqiorters. Send for our special sheet music cat alogue. to THE KILLOUGH MUSIC COMPANY, Florence S. C. N. B —F. C. Lighte is our only authorized tuner and repairer We guaran tee his work. Mav28—tf BUGIuWBU BEDS’. Welling & Bonnoitt. IIUIIIWIBE, CITLERY, fiOS Mil KiRHTLTHU, -imUlEYTS. j^-grorLl« Toic UcCormick Mowers, Hinder sand Hay flakes, SialSaday Wind Hills, Hnanson liar .Slides, Law’s liiock Hames, liavies’ Side Harrows, Iron Age Han •ows. Carry a full supply ot Pumps aud Pipe for driv en wells, Rubber aud Leather USeiling and Ma chine Hits. N. SS. Kxtra Pieces for HcCormick Machb es kept in stock. y A JP 7 ';\P pf % railroad, were blown dynamite explosion. up i Tw< of them were killed and the chants have up to this time not had a pro ject with favor steps will ue r , othorw vv,.ro nil wmiorio.i nrwi very giKsl opportunity for business. , * . ot a colored man named omtrs were an wounded anu . taken at once to consummate it. The new line ought to, and no doubt will, work in the ir en-st Of Charles- The advent of several hundred ton. By hauling eotioa to this port it secures it* longest haul. There is no strangers during the dullest! reason why morttrf the cotton of Dar- week of the year would bl . a hngton, Marlboro anu the adjoining Jones and called him out to assist in atteudimr a sick horse. When he went out he was beset by all five of the men aud terri bly beaten. He went into his counties Which has heretofore gone to great thing for Darlington, a nd house after receiving the heat! vTith theproper*Indo^nents^beiuz^k there is uo reason wh - v the P lan j ^ aad - after securing the some of them will die. A man named F. L. Hunter, of Houston, Texas, has seven wives living. On Sunday he and his seventh wife met the sixth wife coming out of church and both opened fire upon her. to come to Charleston.” tiroposed should not be brought door, began to lament his mis- A^hcem^whHrtecTtohS! The view8 expressed by the j to a successful issue. What say , fortunt3 ln loud £ n ' aiis - In loud fere received a severe wound. Hews and Courier are exactly the enterprising spirits of the Clayton Lloyd, a desperate correct, and no effort was spared town? white convict, was shot and i f° impress them upon the bust- J —— • killed by a guard while he was ness men of Charleston at the R ev. G. e. Moore. trying to escape from the Pratt time that Darlington subscribed The “Kind Words Publication admlt ^ ace K * hat they might help Mines, in Alabama, on May 19. Warder who had convicts and the the shooting hav< 'Izmail ^ -Are Leading in Low Prices on 00 X & 00oa I>l ‘ V ( ' 00( 1 s ’ ladies’ Dress Goods, Fans, 1 tones he proclaimed to the sur- | rounding community that his back was broken. This was overheard by his late assailants, who returned and demanded fiacon, Corn, 3IoEa$ges. Coffee, Floor, Meal, §ugar, Tobaeco, &c. Parasols, t mbrellas. Shoes, Gloves, Handkerchiefs and Hosiery, in endless variety. (Gents' Futnushiuij (Goods. first degree. . ... i.u • to /i vi furniture there was in the room, the arguments in their power tojthe services of Kcv^. B. Moore,; His il)fant was crying on a bed * £ T \ 1 ’ . • 1 XU.-- 1 ii X CZ. XJ L VV 140 V, 1 » JUil vix cl well. An explosion of gas occurred induce the capitalists of that . Dar, mSt°n. tor preparing and th attempted t o shoot it. the Pratt Mines, near Bir- cily to 8ubscri he to the enter- F Hr'accentance of^' ‘ They fired o(l t ,ist ° l8 111 the mgham, Alabama, on Friday b without avail Vs ^ ? ct cP tance « a j house and terrorized all of the m mingham, , and ten convicts and one free! P ri8e man who were working in the our contemporary says, “there mines were killed. Many of is no reason why most of the professorship in Furman Uni-| in After doing about all versity will necessarily compel that th could do - - Mr. Moore to sever his connec- they left. What their motive was is un- thosewho went to the assist-J cotton of Darlington, Marlboro | t ^ 8 ^ known, Jones swore out a war ance of the unfortunate men , . . ^ and the adioinimr counties ^ t 18 Ult: r a »t before trial justice Sellers were brought out of the mines ana 1 * ne au J ainin K counties -Kind \V ords Teacher” for June ard denutv sheriff Braswell ar- in an unconscious condition. should not, with proper induce-[speaks thus of him: rested them last week Thev The general assembly of the ment8 ’ ^ made to come to Northern Presbyterian Church Charleston"; un'ess it he that met in convention last week at the luke-warmness which her Detroit, Michigan. The meeting fiusiness men displaced towards of the general assembly of the . ...... Southern Presbyterian Ghurch the enterprise in its incipience should cause us to fail to realize that “the new line ought to work in the interest of Charles ton.” AN EXAMPLE FOR THE LADIES OF DARLINGTON. Southern Presbyterian Church was held also last week at Bir mingham, Alabama. Rev. H. C. DuBose was elected modera tor at the general assembly of the latter church. Severe thunder storms visited several sections of tiie State on Sunday and Monday of last week. A colored woman was struck by lightning in Beaufort seem determined not to enter in- and was killed and a colored . man met with a similar fate at|*°^^ e ®arlv closing movement St. Matthew’s. A turpentine this year, and we fear that noth- still was destroyed by lightning ing will be done for the relief at Kershaw at a loss of >2,500. 0 f j be tired clerks unless the la- At Spartanburg a Holiness tent . i .u was blown down. dies of the community take the . , . matter in hand. On Monday n«r, a girl living near Sandy Iil8t the lad,e8 of Co,u ml>ia held Hook. Kenti cky, was kidnapped a meeting at the Baptist Church, by two brothers, named Willcox, and appointed committees to who wished to marry her. She obtain the signatures of all the refused to niarrv either one and , they kept her'hid away. s« lad, ‘‘ 8m thatc,t y t0 a P ledjfethat brutal was their treatment of l h e y w «uld not make any pur- her that she died soon after she chases after 0 p. m., from the 1st was rescued by friends. Her of June untilthe 1st of Septem- brother and the young man to ^ Win not the ]adies of Dar . whom she was engaged then ... . „ j caught the Willcox men and, lin Kton emulate the good exam- killed them. j P^ e which has been set them ? . < ^re given a preliminary hear- : of South Carolina, who has been j j aaJ ^ bound over to firex^ ,or ,l,eir o "l ing the quarter now closing, has j * >w K e ' approved himself to our readers! * ~ **" as a scholarly, studious, practi- 1 The i' Sor, ,he T yP e - cal, orthodox and efficient ex- About twenty-five women, pjsitor. Born at Amherst Court savs Mr. Charles J. Dumar in nouse, Virginia, April 1st 1854,; The Ladies’ Home Journal. 1 he took his degree of Master of | now have pleasant, lucrative! Arts at Richmond College, and ! employment on daily newspa has been regarded as one of the j pers in New York, as “distribut- i j most scholarly men ever sent j ors”—that is, they are employ- j . out from that excellent insti- ed during the day, at the same : The merchants of Darlington A full graduate of the rate paid for night work, to I Southern Baptist Theological j distribute type for compositors ! Seminary, in 1883, he was thor-( who thus prefer to reduce their ! oughly grounded in Theology, working hours. The “lady dis-! and has, for the eight years tributor” is comparatively a re sume thatdate, had charge of our cent innovation, hut all think church at Darlington, S. C. He that she is a most agreeable one. has been an able and popular Her earnings depend upon the preacher, and a working pastor, amount of work she receives, while, at the same time, he has but will average about fifty been a systematic and laborious cents for every hour employed Cigars, They also have a complete stock of HARDWARE, consist-1 ing ot Flipper and Dixie Plows and Costings for snn p, Piow Stocks Shove: Plows Sweeps, Cultivators. Lots, R:.k(S, Shovels. Pitch Forks, and various other articles too .nic.cr- HANI)S OME SPRING SUITS, al OHS f, nr id ion. made in the Yery latest style. You will save money by inspecting their stock of DRY | GOOD.., SHOES, &C., before buying. HATS a? your own price. Remember the place—southeast corner Public Square, Darlington, S. C. Straw Hats! Straw Hats! M. G. ALEXANDER HAS REMOVED From the store on the Public Square to the corner Pearl ami Grove Streets, which has been fitted up very handsomely. It is an old home made new. The usual full stock of GROCERIES. WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS can lx- found there. A LARGE LOT OF SHINGLES ON HAND FOR SALE. LaiK'- Quantities id Goods are ii. iiig received duly and the ntHiiv ens- nim-rs of tats w< II km wu c-tahlishim lit ihronyi-oiu * Dai; jngtou Comm .in giiantuteed UiMi a e.intiituaiice ot their |uitroiiage will mean lor thein "The lost Gixelit for the Is-asi .Money.” ijAf[PETS, HOGS and MATTING, in all styiES AND AT ALL PRICES. student, constantly adding to his store of knowledge. He has recently accepted the Chair of English in Furman University; and we predict for him a bnl- I have known some women to thus earn twenty dollars per) week, from about 10 A. M., un-i til 5 P. M. These positions,! however, tiro in the main great- liant career as a Professor, as he ly prized and eagerlv sought af- j will bring rare qualifications to, ter by women. While there is i the discharge ot his new duties, no reason why men should not ■ and his studious habits will en- perform this work under the sure constant growth on his same circumstances, it has by part. Southern Baptists have tacit consent become the undis- heeu blessed in later years with j puted privilege of women. H> (Do H.imTO £ (oils tUcv, ytntiou tx ^ -A-3ST3D ilewDStknlcr. Anything in the Stationery, Musical or Nov elty lane to be had at the JiavUufltou SScioh i-j'tovc, B. O. BRISTOV2, - _ - Proprietor. BS^A full line of the Choicest Vi XIIDCEHIES on hand at all seasons. # mem.