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VOL XVIII. NG 24. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11. 1891. WHOLE NO 855 LOCAL ITEMS. The Stnt,* pensions will not be paid until after June 1U. The time for pay meat of town taxes expiied yesterday. Sheriff Carson, of Sumter, was in town on business on Tuesday. Du. W. J. Alexander, of Co lumbia. has been in town this week on a visit to friends. Wk are indebted to Miss Beu lah Wilson, of High Hill for a basket of beautiful peaches. Miss Minnie Morris, of Mc Clellan ville. Berkeley Countv, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W J Early. Quite a number of young la dies and gentlemen from this place attended the commence ment,exercises of the Sumter Institute this week. Mr. H. H. Huggins, formerly of Darlington but now a prosper ous architect and civil engineer in Roanoke, Virginia, is on a brief visit to his old home. Mu. Robert Keith Dargan and Mr. J. M. Clements, who were both quite sick, are improving. Mr. B. 0. Bristow who was also very is sick is now convales cing. Messrs. M. Johnson, of Marion, and W. M Buck, of Bucksville, Horry County, paid a visit to Darlington last week and were the guestsof Mr. S. A. Woods. The Darlington Guards are drilling every Tuesday and Fri- day preparatory to their Che- raw trip. For the present the drills will be held at 7 15 in the evening. The old two-story frame building, on the corner at “Loafers' Bridge”, the property of Mr. A. Nachman, is being torn down. Mr. Nachman pro poses to erect a store on the site. The members of Swift Creek Alliance, No 191, are requested to meet at the usual place on Saturday next, the 13th. inst. The election of officers and other important business will be tran sacted. Thn congregation of the col ored Methodist Church at this place celebrated the twenty- fifth anniversary of its estab lishment on Sunday. Special services were held anti the Church was handsomely decor ated. Mk. George H. Edwards has resigned the position of Teller in the Bank of Darlington in order to devote his entire time to the Darlington Brick and Iron Works, a new industry es tablished at this place. Mr. J. Witherspoon Evans has been elected Teller of the Bank and has accepted the position. Those who contemplate tak ing a. trip off during the warm weather would do well, before deciding where to go, to consult the “summer resort” column of the News and Courier, which is unusually full this season, and contains advertisements of the leading watering-places in tin eastern section of the United States. The lovers of base ball are looking forward to next Tues day and Wednesday, the Kith {Mid 17th insts., with many au- itmpationa of pleasure, for on .thiQHc days the great games be- iweea the Darlington club and the John L. Davids, of Charles ton, will be played at the Dar lington park. Some excitement was caused on the Square Sunday afternoon by Policeman Board striking \Vash Harris, colored, over the head with his club. Harris was drunk and attacked Mr. Board who wa* trying to arrest him A sevens but not dangerous •cut was inflicted on Harris’ head with the club. Dr. W. J. Garner bandaged up the wound. At the last meeting of the directors of the Hartsville Rail road, held on Tuesday, June 2, the board of directors presented Maj J. L. Coker with a very handsome silver service in recog nition of his good work while President, the office from which he has retired in consequence of the recent sale of the road to the Atlantic Coast Line. The passenger depot of the Charleston, Sumter and North ern Railroad, which is now in .the course of erection, promises ftu be a very handsome building. 'Tbiere will lie two comfortable 'wa;ij»ng rooms, a large and com- imodiogs baggage room, the tick ed office jmd two private offices, the last lor the use of the depot agent. The dimensions of the building will be 21 x 62. Mr. Ben Hill, who lives fix tb* lower part of the town, has a very motherly little pullet. A few days ago one of his hens hatched eight chickens and on the next day the hen died leav ing the little chickens mother less. One of his pullets, which is very small and very voung, with the instinct of an old hen has taken the little chickens under her wing and is caring /or them like a true mother. On last Thursday four car loads of steel rails passed through Darlington on the C S. & N. Railroad to he used in lay ing the track between here and Benuettsville. (In every Wednesday the down freight on the C. 8! &: N. Railroad has a passenger coach attached to it for the accom modation of travellers. This train leaves Darlington at 7.38 A. M. A few days since while Mr? i. H. Parrott was driving honiej a large hawk pounced down up on him and savagely attacked : him In order to get rid of his formidable antagonist Mr. Par- ! rott had to kill it with his whip, i The News and Courier of Monday says: “Mrs. Lawrence i M. Keitt and Miss Anna Keitt, of Soutli Carolina, together with \ a party of Maryland friends, i sailed for Europe on the 1st of j June, on the Arizona, of the Guion Line, to be absent until October.” The following gentlemen compose the Darlington base ball team: Dr. W. J. Garner, j Messrs. E. B. Dargan, J. W. j James, B. Haynsworth, D. Wit- cover, C. Sanders, B. Hutchin son, B. F. Williamson, R. L. Bonnoitt, F. E. and J. B. Floyd. From this team will be picked the nine which is to play the Davids, of Charleston, on Tues day and Wednesday of next week. Tickets for these games will be on sale at Bristow’s book store. When you want anything in gents' furnishing goods go to McCall & Burch’s, they make a specialty of that line of goods. Death of Capt. D. G. DuBose. Capt. I). G. DuBose died at his residence near Cartersville | yesterday. He had been in bad | In alth for some time, but his | last sickness w a s brief. He! was about fifty-four years old. Besides his wife nine children survive him, among whom is Mr. C. W. DuBose, of Darling ton. His remains will be inter red in the family burying ground at Bishopvilleto-day. Capt Du Bose was well known through out this section and the news of his death will carry genuine sor row to the hearts of the many friends of himself and his fam ily. He was for many years Trial Justice at Cypress a n d was also, for a long time, S u- perintendent of t h e Sunday school at Cypress Church. He was a good citizen and w a s highly respected by all w h o knew him. Our creamery butter is of ex cellent flavor, give it a trial; West & Honour. Summer Rates. For the benefit of those who wish to spend the summer months at some pleasant resort the Atlantic Coast Line system has arranged round trip tickets at reduced rates from Darling ton to the most popular places in this section of the country. The tickets were put on sale on June 1 and will continue to be sold until September 30. They are good to return until October 31. Below is given the rates to the various points: Asheville, $11.75; All Healing, $10.40; Car olina Beach, $7.10; Shelby, fvja Wadesboro) $8.05; Spartanburg, (via Columbia) $9.30; Waynes- ville, N. C., (via Columbia) $12.45; White Sulphur, (via Richmond) $23.95; W rightsville, $7.10; Staunton, Va., (via Rich mond) $21.20; Greenville, (via Columbia) $10.95; Henderson- j ville, (via Columbia) $10.05; Flat Rock, $10.95; Morganton, N. C., (via Salisbury) $11.90; Walhalla, S. C., (via Columbia) $11.65, An Enormous Enterprise. A declaration lias been filed with the Secretary of State for the organization of the Darling ton Phosphate Works. The ; capital stock is $70,000, and the j directors are W. J. Alexander, J. J. Ward, G. W. Dargan, C. S. McCullough and E. O. Woods. Dr Alexander will probably be president of the company. All grades of fertilizers will be manufactured, and for that pur pose what is known as “acid chambers” will have tobeereot- j ed at an enormous outlay. The ; enterprise will not conflict at all ! with the cotton seed oil com pany now in operation here; in fact, the two will work together. Ground will be broken for the new company’s works, which will he located near the Darling ton Ginning and Milling Com pany’s buildings, on July 1st. j When they are once put in oper ation, they will have to be run * night and day every day in the year, and will furnish employ ment for at least a hundred : hands. Ten thousand tons of fertilizers will be manufacted per annum. Mrs. R. W. Parker is desirous i of disposing of her spring and summer stock of millinery in order to make room for her fall and winter goods and is there fore selling at at greatly re duced prices. The Work of the Flames. About eleven o’clock Friday night the alarm of fire called the citizens of Darlington to the premises of W. F. Dargan, Esq., on Cashua Street, where an out building was found enveloped in flames. The building was of wood and contained two rooms which were used ns servants’ quarters and ironing room. The house could not be saved and was entirely consumed, but the citizens by dint of hard work prevented the tire from spread ing. Mr. Dargan’s loss was about one hundred dollars. Coals of fire had been left in the chimney of one of the rooms and it is supposed that the heavy storm which swept over the town shortly before the alarm J was given blew some of these | coals out of the chimney upon some inflammable substance in the room, setting it on fire and j causing the house to be burned, i Try the egg custard, 40c; { West & Honour. “The Glorious Fourth.” The people of Cheraw have| always devoted a good deal of attention to the celebration of the Fourth of July, but it is their purpose this year even to eclipse anything they have ever done before. As the day falls on Saturday its observance will be held the day before, July 3rd, and a special train will be run up the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, returning the same night. A grand military dis-1 play is to be one of the features! of the occasion, after which there is to be a competitive drill; open to all the companies of the i Fourth Regiment, and a hand some prize will be awarded to j the winning company. The j Darlington Guards will accept; the invitation extended them by j their Cheraw friends, and will i do all in their power tocarry off j the honors of the occasion. Al- ! together it is to be a fine celebra tion of “the glorious Fourth,” i and our boys are looking for-1 ward to it with great pleasure, j The Rutledge Guards. The amateurs of Darlington showed that they can do some line acting when they rendered On the military comedy, the Rut- o’clock one of the most terrific ledge Guards, at the Opera House hail storms that has ever passed Thursday night for the benefit j through this section of the of the Darlington Guards. The country, visited the lower part play itself was splendid and of Darlington and the uper por- local talent had a fine opportu-1 tion of Florence Counties. It nity to show what could he is impossible to give an idea of done in the line of amateur act-, the fierceness of the storm. 1 he ing. This opportunity was cloud came from the northeast taken advantage of and the per and passed over in a southwest- formance, according to the erly direction. It was about, general opinion of those who six miles wide. The hail fell composed the audience, was the thick and fast and in some best amateur entertainment of places was about two feet deep, its kind ever given in Darling- Some of the hail was as large as ton. The living statuary, rep- turkey eggs. It remained on resenting “The Summons”, the ground for several days, ‘•Justice” and the “Reign of!seemingly unaffected by the Peace”, was beautiful. In this sun. and it could he picked up young ladies and gentfemen of by the basket full. Pigs and the town, formed the statue! chickens were killed and fences Court Proceedings. Court convened or. Monday, Judge James Aldrich presiding. The only case tried that day was the State vs. Fred McNeil and Bristow Neil, two very small colored boys, who were charged with breaking into the residence of Mr. Isaac T. Hill, in Phila delphia township, in the day time and stealing articles there from. Fred McNeil plead guilty, but Bristow Neal plead not guilty. The latter was there fore put upon trial and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The J udge sentenced each of the boys to a year in the penitentia ry. The following eases were continued until the next term of court: John W. Floyd, for the killing of W. Calvin Rhodes; Tim Brown, colored, for ma liciously and negligently setting tire to grass and letting the same get out; Lucien H. Gilmore, for assault and battery (shooting a colored man named Anthony Lide). The case against Wil liam Privett for shooting Will Jackson was nol prossed on the payment of costs. On Tuesday the court was oc cupied the entire day with the case against William Thomas colored, alias William Kelly, for murder. On April 9 he kill ed his step-father Rata Thomas in Swift Creek township and a full account of the killing was given in The News at the time. The State put up eight witness and the defense none. T h e jury, after being out nearly an hour, brought in a verdict of not guilty. K. Keith Dargan, Esq., represented thedefendant. The case against Dandy John son, colored, for burglary was continued. The criminal court adjourned sine die on Tuesday afternoon, and a short session of the court of common pleas was held, but this court also adjourned sine die yesterday afternoon. Buy your shoes from McCall & Burch, the leading shoe house in Darlington. We have just received a nice lot of ladies’ sum mer slippers. River work 8. & was A Penitentiary Sensation. On Monday of last week a gang of convicts passed through Darungtou on their way to the penitentiary at Columbia. They came from the Pee Dee ; where they had been at on the road bed of the C. N. Railroad. Mention made of this in the last issue of The News. On Tuesday the convicts reached Sumter where they hud to wait for the night train to carry them to Columbia. , Dr. S. C. Baker, the Sumter correspondent of the State, saw them there and wrote an ac count of their condition to his paper. He stated that they had not had anything to eat since they ete supper in Darlington the evening before, that their | clothes,were filthy and in many leases so ragged, as to make their appearance indecent, that they were nearly all barefooted and that itch had broken out among them and that the poor prison ers had to depend on the charity of the people of Sumter for food. He also said that one of the convicts had died while they were on the tramp from the Pee ;Dee River to Darlington and was improperly buried; that since Col. Talbert had taken charge of the penitentiary their had been a great deal of sick ness among these convicts from want of proper attention. To all these charges Col. Tal bert made a general denial and had published a statement from Capt. Wheeler, who had charge of the prisoners, together with a statement from the other g uards attending them, that Dr. baker’s report of the convicts’ ' condition was untrue. Dr. Baker then produced a number of affidavits from per sons in Sumter substantiating his story of the horrible con- Mition of the poor creatures. He further stated that much of his information was obtained from Capt. Wheeler himself, who asked that his name be not mentioned in the matter. In the meantime the good people of the State are interested in the outcome of the matter. Corn also is looking well. Mr. H. B. Stuck v has a piece that is very fine indeed. Pea planting is about over. —On the night of the 4th inst. Mr. Peter Barefoot had the sad misfortune of having his house charging him with robbing the strides towards development, company of $1,550 last March. When first arrested Gardner was thought by many to be the wrong man, but since then all necessary evidence has been found to prove him guilty. He is now in Chesterfield jail await ing trial at the next term of Court. Gardner is the man who had the company's nionov in charge when he claimed to have been robbed by two negroes ano a white man. He claims to have given the money to the thi*ee robbers, but the detectives who worked the case up have sufficient evidence to convict him of the robbery. You will find fruit jars Edwards, Norment & Co’s. at GREEN PLAINS. —We hear of considerable sickness and Dr. Parker is kept busy. With some grass and the burned. The tire originated in 0 at crop the farmer has his the kitchen and was caused by hands full just now. a defective flue. All of the dining room utensils were lost, hut most of the house furniture was saved by the daring efforts of the neighbors. This is a se rious loss to Mr. Barefoot, but Mr. H. B. Stuckey is the heav iest loser as heowned the house. The house will he rebuilt at an early day. ASHLAND. - Mr. J. J. Smith has the field of cotton in this section. —On the 31st ult. Mr. George Go to McCall & Burch's and get you a nice straw hat. HIGH H!LL. —We hear complaints of thei early peaches rottening very badly in this section. —A good many from this community attended the union —Quite a run-a-way scare oc- meeting at Cartersville last —Savanna Chapel has organ- curred on Mr. E. Byrd’s place week. i ized a branch Sunday school at recently. While the hands Kelleytown school house with! were at work in the field, a ' | over eighty pupils. | colored man drove up in a road -After a brief illness Mrs. c ft drawn by an ox. Mr Byrd's Bethany Walters died on the 5th P lo , w a n , mal8 bechmefnghtened inst. She was interred at Lib- Lyles and Miss Maggie Douglas were united in marriage by Trial Justice J. A. Smith. —The whortleberries have be gun to ripen and some of the pickers report having seen a bear track, but the report has not frightened us much. —With sugar cheap and plenty of berries, apples and peaches we hope to be able to tide over the hard times and be none the worse. —We were not at the Child- host ren’s Day exercises at Bethle hem, hut from what we can learn it was quite a pleasant af fair. We trust that the child ren may live to enjoy many more occasions like this. LAMAR. —The workmen have com menced operations on a dwelling for Mr. J. Main Street. W. Kobortson on A Terri f fic Hail Storm. Friday night about ten Nice breakfast dish, hominy flake; West & Honour. groupings. Mr. Geo. A. Sawin, of Washington, directed the groupings and the beautiful ef fect was the best testimonial of his taste and appreciation of art. The performance was to have been repeated on Friday night, but several causes were beaten down. Panes of glass were broken and the hail even penetrated the roofs of houses making such large holes as to cause the roofs to leak. The damage to the crops was terrific. Some of the vegitation was literally torn to pieces and made it impossible. A the stalks of corn and cotton young lady from Columbia, who ( were broken into small bits. In is visiting friends in Darlington, fact the tobacco, corn and small kindly entertained the audience grain crops arc almost totally with music between the acts, j destroyed in the district over Her piano playing was excel- which the storm passed. The lent and the audience appre- fruit was beaten off the trees ciated the young lady's kindness and large holes were made in verv much ploughed ground where the very muen^ i ^^ ^ heaviest _ Cotton Boneless pig's feetat Edwards, Norment & Co's in 316 cans. Clar- and suffered severely, but not as much so as in the case of the other crops. Dr. Pearson's Services. • Among those whose crops suf- The revival services of Rev. | fered the most are Messrs. D. M. R. G. Pearson were begun on Smoot, W. L. James, J. H. Sunday morning last at the j Burch, O. H. and F H. Ed- Baptist Church and are still in wards, R. H. Rogers, E. r . Lide, progress. The congregations J. Smoot, R. E. \\ ilds, (Jus- are verv large and seem to he tave Hoffmeyer, W. M. Ha^ns- very much interested in the wor th>J- B. Douglass, Joe Me- work. The sermons show that Bryde, S. J. McCown, R. B. and Dr. Pearson is undoubtedly a R. M. Nettles, Sam McBryde, J. man of talent and he speaks Hll ■■■■■■■■I with the force and earnestness ence ^uioot, Mrs Irueluck which holds far more influence many others. on an audience than the high : flights of oratory so common to Preserves, assorted flavor, the public speakers of our day. |20c ft; West & Honour. He is plain spoken and devoted to his work His earnestness Prescntment of the Grand Jury, does not fail to have its impress upon his hearers though there The Grand Jury made the is nothing in his preaching of following presentment to the the sensational character for he Court on Monday: appeals to the reason of his au- To the Honorable James Aldrich, dience. While he says what he j Presiding Judye: thinks there is a neatness and Having disposed of all bills simplicity in the manner in submitted for consideration and which he scores his points. The continued the committee, ap- frieuds of religion in Darlington pointed at the March term, for trust that his work will abound un examination of the financial in good, genuine and permanent affairs of the county, the Grand good. ! Jury take great pleasure in ex- Two services are held each day pressing the highest apprecia- at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. The tion of the rulings of your Honor, morning services are an hour by which such prompt attention long and are devoted to the 1 from all interested is secured in study of the Bible. At the re- the proceedings of the Court, quest of the local committee J. N. Parrott, Foreman, having the meetings in charge, June 8, 1891. which request was sanctioned by Dr. Pearson, a large number Fulton market beef, choice, of the stores are closed every in this week; West & Honour. day from 11 to 12 o’clock to en- —-— able the business men to attend the morning services. When you want a good cigar go to Edwards, Norment & Co’s and get the May Kirby. Don’t forget that Mrs. R. W. Parker is selling off her spring and summer stock of millinery at greatly reduced prices. She wants to dispose of it all before the fall trade sets in. A Private Sanitarium. [News and Courier June 11.] Dr. Griffin, whose recent re moval by Governor Tillman from the position of superintend ent of the State Lunatic Asylum attracted so much attention, ar rived in the city yesterday morning from Columbia. Dr. Griffin will remain in the city until Wednesday, when he will sail on the steamer Iroquois for New York. He will remain in New York for about six weeks. Dr. Griffin, when asked why he did not test the authority of the Governor in the Courts, said: “Although I was advised to claim my constitutional rights and refuse to give up my posi tion unless impeached before the Senate, I preferred to sur render my rights rather than go into a tedious litigation before the Courts for an office I would have resigned even had 1 been fully vindicated by the Senate. 1 have never been accustomed to lighting for an office, and certainly did not care so much for the office as to enter into a lawsuit. 1 have every assurance, from letters and otherwise from people in all parts of the State, that they have every con fidence in me. I was tired of the position after having been there for over thirteen years. The Asylum is a poor place in which to rear a family of child ren. and 1 had every intention of resigning my position. 1 have no regret in giving up the office. As was well known to my friends I intended to resign as soon as possible.” Dr. Griffin has not yet posi tively decided upon his future plans. He said that he now had under serious consideration the establishment of a private sanitarium for the treatment of nervous diseases and mild in sanity. There are a number of people afflicted in this manner, who, he thinks, would go to a private sanitarium. There is no such institution at present anywhere in the South, and there is every reason to expect a good patronage should the sanitarium be located in Col umbia, or some other central and convenient point. Dr. Griffin will return to South Carolina in about six weeks. - He Robbed Himself. It will be remembered that some months ago notices of a large reward, offered for the capture of parties who stole $1,560 from the messenger of the Brewer Mining Company of | Chesterfield County, were post ed in Darlington and other towns of the State. The notices even gave descriptions of the robbers. It now appears that the messenger himself stole the money as will be shown by the following which appeared in the Cheraw correspondence of the News and Courier under date of June 5: i “James Gardner, a white em ployee of the Brewer Mining ‘Company, of this county, has i been arrested under a warrant —Sunshine has followed rain and our farmers are kept quite i busy. Most of them garnered their oats the past week. —Crops in general are just booming, so is Gen. Green, but our industrious farmers manage to keep him under control. McCall & Burch are still offer-1 ing big inducements to cash buyers from their bargain and remnant counter. GLYDE. —Mr. J. A. Parnell is quite sick with the grip. —Mr. Jesse John is very fee ble with the rheumatism. —Mrs. Sallie King, who has been quite sick for some time, is better. —On Friday night last we had a heavy rain and some hail. The crops in Kelleytown were badly injured. —Some of our farmers are —Since the schedule on having a hard light with the B. <fe N. R. R. has been grass, so they will have to quit changed so as to give more time fishing for a while. jin Darlington the travel from 'this point has extended from McCall & Burch have just re- Cartersville below here to Cy- ceived a new lot of wash dress press above, goods; it will pay you to exam- and one of the horses ran away. The animal was somewhat hurt, but not seriously so. erty Hill Church on the follow-, ing day, in the presence of a _ large concourse of sympathizing Ask for our '^arique mixture relatives and friends. Brnoking tob acco; Edwards, Nor ment & Co. MT. ELON. —A Mason <S: Hamlin organ has been ordered for the church at this place. -The farmers are all • —The farmers are an very is said to bl , S y harvesting oats and fight- i crop there jn „ ra89 _ of the latter we —Davis Burress, a colored j man near this place, is have the finest cotton cr^,, j ra is in the community. lia v e an abundance. —Our Town Council have —Miss Lou Dunlap, who came posted their ordinances and ; here ^ Novem b e r to take the erected a cozy little cottage in position of governess in Mr. J. a desirable part of town where; c Bell’s family, spent last week offenders against the public i n this community and is going peace may reflect over the past to Limestone to spend the sum- and- meditate on the future. mer Read and be wise. ' | —The Baptist Church at this t" 6 place has secured the services | of Rev. George F. Gresham. ine our line before buying. JASPER. — We hope to get rain very 1 soon. The lands in our com munity are dry and showers would be beneficial. —The present outlook for cotton is bright. Corn and other vegetation are not un usually fine, but we think they will come up to the average of the past few years. —Mr. W. J. Windham lost a horse on May 31. It is supposed that green oats killed it. Mr. Windham turned his mules and horse into the oats and they ate too much, green oats not being very healthy. —Mr. G. D. Norris unfortu nately got into a difficulty with a negro a few days ago. The negro struck Mr. Norris on the head, felling him to the ground and intending, it seems, to kill him. The negro struck him a second time and then ran away. He has not been seen since. Mr. Norris is now doing very well. Our j sweet Norment & Co. Mr. Gresham will begin his work in July. His family will come here a month or so later. —The Angel of Death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. 1 E. fresh and i Kelly on the 26th. of May and Edwards, j took from them their twin ba bies, Lewis and Louise, aged six months and fD e days. There j was only forty minutes between their deaths. They were buried in the same grave. The scene at the funeral was very sad, ire having fine growing hut the Lord had called them to crackers arrive every week; DOVESVILLE. —Mrs, J. C. Dove is visiting relatives and friends in Sumter. —We weather and the young king is , na ke up his jewels. We ex- rapidly assuming proper form ten j our sympathies to the be- and m a k i n g offers to he ,-eaved parents. crowned. —We avail ourselves of this opportunity to return thanks for an invitation to attendjchil- drens day at Bethlehem. We know we would, as before, have enjoyed it very much, but un fortunately, while pursuing in vestigations in apiculture our phiz came in contact with the sharp end of an apis mellifica EBENEZER. —The oat crop was never bet ter. —Children's Day will be ob served at Pisgah M. E. Church on Sunday. —The young people of our town are speaking of organiz ing a lawn tennis club soon. —There have been several whereby it was so swollen that j and disfigured that we were too marriages in this section since modest to exhibit it in public. our i as t letter and some more —We have had wind and are looked for in the near fu- thunder storms for five consecu- ture. tive night with scarcely rain —The young folks have re enough to lay the dust. On turned home from school, Miss- Friday night we had one of the es Gertrude Langston, Annie most terrible and awfully grand an d Mamie Hepburn from All too late to manure exhibitions of electric pyrotech- Healing and Mr. J. H. King j nics we have ever witnessed. Our f rom Wofford. We are glad to It is not your corn yet and our fish scrap is the thing to put on it; Ed- town was completely canopied have them home again. wards, Norment & Co. PHILADELPHIA. ner jby a dense and angry cloud . - | from which there was a contin- —A terrific hail storm passed uous flash of sheet and forked through this section last Friday lightning for about two hours, n'ght- No pen can describe it. Misses Alma and Vista Gar- \V e are informed that there was In some places the crops were are visiting friends in Tim- considerable hail with heavy totally destroyed. not a green j wind, prostrating trees, in the suffer- 1 neighborhood of Mr. A. A. rheu- j dandy. monsville. —Mr. G. B. Isgett is ing considerably with matism. —Messrs Race are doing wed in and their Decker tine business. The oat crop is the hand of Death on the 3rd. inst. Its remains were interred Saturday morning foi at Wesley Chapel cemetery. Citv , North Carolina, wl leaf on the corn and cotton be ing left. Turkeys, chickens and pigs were killed and the hail ^ beat through roofs. This corre spondent visited the plantation Lime juice is a healthy sum- j of Mr. Sam McBride on Sunday turpen- mer drink: in pint bottles at afternoon and saw a drift of Edwards, Norment & Co's. hail that would fill a wagon. . * Some of the hail was as large t • ... • - m a very; i c 1 as an hen’s egg, even after hav- fair condition and is being timmonsville. , i„g been exposed to the sun for housed rapidly. | —The infant son of Mr. ami over ^ wo d a yg. One who did —Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Lloyd M rs - H. L. Morris died last Iri- not experience the severity of were bereft of their little one by day evening after a brief illness. Hie storm can hardly appreciate Miss Lizzie Ragsdale left | it- for Tryon j - —• • Jigi*0 she' Rev. W. L. Waite officiating at will spendlhe summer, the funeral services. i „ .... 1 —Small grain is being gath- —The writer had the pleasure ere j Corn and cotton are in of attending a bee hunt recent- g00(i condition though the latter ly. The bees became very much { g yet sma n owing to late stands, vexed and made a vicious ons-j laught on Mr. T. W. McIntosh —Mr G. M. Morris has re- the captain of the attacking turned home school at, party. He fought valliantly Winston, North Carolina; also j for a short time and then turn- Miss Ethel Morris, his sister, ed and fled. His troops cover- w h° has been attending the fe-; ed his retreat in good order, male college at Salem, North j Tiafon The captain has not been seen I Carolina. ! isiszen since. j —^ few days ago what was phiin facts about the Kabo supposed to be a mad dog visited corset. You can’t break the Butter and cheese kept cool in the home of Mr. Janies Purvis | a refrigerator at Edwards, Nor ment, Co’s. bega ! boys about the yard. Mr. Pur- OAlS ' vis thinking the dog mad got! ( . .i., ... . The infant child of Mr. J. his gun and shot the dog which lets that s another thing that n the home of Mr. bones-for one thing. If you r-1 in the Peniel neighborhood and, s , began to chase one of his Httle j do, within a year, you II have your money back. Soft eye- i T. Parker is very sick —Miss Mary Harrell is spend ing a few days in Florence vis iting friends. The weather was most fa- belonged to one of his neighbors, can’t be had with other cor- a Mr. Anderson. (,n Sunday sets< ^ n( j h ear how it’s sold: Mr. Purvis and the Anderson brothers met at Peniel Church if you re not satisfied, after when they had some hot words a few weeks’ wear, you can which led to blowk. In the en- vorable for cotton last week, counter Mr. Purvis was badly consequently it made rapid | bruised up by the Andersons. i leturn it and get your money. Edwards, Norment & Co.