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THE SEA CABLE WAR. CYRUS W. FIELD’S BATTLES FOR THE OCEAN WIRE. fThlrteen Team of HU Prime Expended In tlie Knterprliie—Half the World Scoffed and tbe Other Half Doubted, Vet He Won. lOopyrlght, 1888, by American Press Anaoria lion. Book rights reserved.) HE thank*of the ) A ni e r i c a n con grewi have been jealotiHly reserved for great captains who on land or sen win l>attle* that deaerve the highest recogni tion the republic can bestow, but when the Thirtj- ninth congress niaile an exception tn the case of citizen Cyrus W. Field, for ‘Vstahlinhing telegraphic communications by means of the Atlantic cable traversing midocean and connecting the Old World with the New,” the approval of the people at large was as hearty as the vote in both senate and house had t>een unanimous in passing the act. Men and women who were children then now recall the cable celebra tion as tbe ttrst great event in memory, and gray haired folk have not forgotten the years of dazzling expectation and of hopts* blasted ami deferred between the inception and the achievement of that wonderful undertaking. The first news dispatch by the »ucceasful cable told of the end of the Austro- Prussian war of 1800, and between tbe lines might l>e read the announcement that the warfare of the cable was also ended. After thirteen years of struggle the Atlantic tele graph w-jis a fact. What triumphs of science or ‘•miracles of art” in tbe history of civilization have called forth greater display of human energy, endurance and courage limn this same battle of the cable?' Admitting the correctness of the conclu sions of the able deep sea explorer, Lieut. Maury, that there was a plateau stretching between Newfoundland and Iceland espe cially adaptnl to the purpose of holding and protecting submarine cables, there arose at that date the questions whether a win* could Ik* constructed long enough to span 1,000 miles, and, if so, a ship large enough to carry it and lay it; and would ever the treacherous sea prove calm enough and smooth enough to admit of the laying of a cable a mile and a half to two miles down in the deep, and aliove all would men sensible enough to control so much gold as would la* required for the scheme la? in spired with faith to put their hands into their I Mink vaults and foot the bills l 1 And if the cable could !>e laid would the eleclric current work? Field had accumulated a competence for thos4* simple days and was enjoying i: when the idea of u cable came to him in IHTiH. lie then enlisted Peter Cooper, Mo.se* Taylor. Marshall O. Kotierts and Chandler White in the enterprise, secured tbecluir ter of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph company, and with a capital of ♦l,r*U0,0O(J went to work. A tele graph line and a road were huilt through 400 miles of Newfoundland wilderness, over mountain and gorge, through swamps and across rivers, around deep inlets and over rocky headlands, a task that alone de nmnded genius that could handle an army. Then came the laying of a cable across the Culf of St. Lawrence, the loss of a cable ui a gale at tbe first attempt, the completion of a line and road 140 miles long acros« Cape Breton island, a year’s delay in muk Ing and laying a second cable through the gulf, the whole at a cost of a round million of dollars, all out of the coders of half a dozen men. Mr. Field then went to England to ask financial aid. his estimates ca*T.ng for £9ft0, (XH). To the inquiry, “But suppose you don’t succeed—suppose you make the at tempt and fail-your cable is lost in tiie sea—then what will you do?” Mr. Field quickly replied, “Charge it to profit and loss, and go to work to lay another.” To show that he in-ant business, Mr. Field paid down £88,(XX) for eighty-eight *han*s of the stock subscrilKMl in his own name. The English government granted aid in the use of ships, and £14,(XX) annual subsidy for a term of years, and Mr. Field returned to ask similar grants from his home government. After the American eagle had aired his feathers in lengthy de bate the bill passed, and the lightning "promoter” went to England again. It was then I8.7L The United Staten loaned the steam war frigate Niagara, and England the warship Agamemnon to lay the cable, and the work began on the Irish coast Aug. 5, each vessel hearing coiled within her sides 1,H(X) miles of wire. The Niagara began, and after paying out miles of wire, half of it in water two milts deep, the cable parted. The machinery for paying out was unsuit able. and the Meet returned to England to hear on all sides the cynical comment, ”1 told yon so.” Not at all discouraged, Mr. CYKUS W. FIELD. I From an old portrait.] Field went to work to prepare 600 miles more of cable for another trial. He soon nailed for home anti was met at the dock with the news that his private fortune hjid been nearly swamped in the financial panic of that year. By personal solicitation of Mr. Field l>otli governments again loaned ships, and in June. 18f»8, the Niagara and Agamemnon, with a fleet of consorts, ren dexroused in midocean to begin paying out from the center. Although it was mid summer the Agamemnon was nearly wreck nd in a gale. Before starting again to lay the writhing monster it wits agreed that in case it parted when less than 100 miles were out, the ships would turn al>out, splice and begin again over 100 they would abandon the attempt and return to F.nglaml. At forty miles it parted and whs spliced. At 200, when all wu* running smoothly, she broke and back to England the expedition went. The chairman of the hoard of director* of the Atlantic Telegraph company, which was then operating the scheme, said briefly. “Sell the cable,” and remained away from the meeting. The vice chairman resigned, but Mr. Field prevailed on th< faithful ones to make one more attempt, for the ihipa were at hand, the cable ready, and there was a chan (re. Only a chance, but sue -«s» rode in on that one chance and on A ug. S, 1858, the cable was completed. On the 16th messages passed between Queen Vic toria and President Buchanan, and on Sept. I, the very day of the celebration of the event in the city of New York, came the •tartling announcement that the Atlantic cable was dead. The current positively re fused to work. Then came a reaction in the public mind. Extravagant laudation gave way to de nunciation and derision. Was the cable a gigantic humbug, a hoax, or another John Law “bubble?” More moderate critics asked if the telegraph plateau was not for all a myth and the submerged cable prob ably knawed in two by abrasion on the jagged peaks of submarine mountains? The motive* of Mr. Field and his cosulja- tor* were severely criticised, and enemies asserted that the alleged dispatches by cable were forgeries. Yet Mr. Field bent every energy toward a renewal of the scheme. In 1861 the United States was involved in an expen- alttkOiish ftnUfluKthui » came, nan a loan or war neot in prospect that pnt an end to dreams. An incident >f the war, however, helped to renew in .erest in a cable on liotli side* of the ocean, for when England was about to declare hostilities with this country on account of .he Trent affair it was freely avowed that i telegraph across the Atlantic would have warded off the crisis by transmitting i word of explanation in “nick o’ time.” After five years of agitation, or in 1864, £600,000 new capital was subscribed, a new ■able and new machinery were ordered and t.he mammoth steamship Great Eastern was bought and placed at the service of the company to lay the cable. In July, all was ready for another start, and paying out began on the Irish coast. After two breaks in the current, which were cor reeled by picking up many miles of wire and splicing in new sections, the Great Eastern completed two-thirds of her jour ney, and suddenly tbe cable broke and dipped off into the sea. Mr Field stood watching the straining yible the moment of the calamity and when it was over walked into the saloon where the gentlemen of the expedition were at lunch, and for the first time in the history of the struggles hi* lips quivered and his cheeks were blanched. Instantly the great ship put al>oiit and shortly stood «outh of the line paid out. Grapnels were thrown, and after raking the ocean bed two miles deep a whole afternoon and night, the irons caught in some object un mistakably lying prone on the bottom. It was hoisted 7(X) fathoms, or one-third the iepth. when the machinery gave way and Again all was over Nine days and nights THE OBKAT EASTERN. [Length,680 feet; breadth, feet.] .hey raked to recover it again and three limes they caught it, but no rope could be found strong enough to haul the monster an board. When the results of all the experiments were summed up it was decided to go ahead just once more; a new company was formed with £600,000capital, Field putting in £10,000 of his waning funds. On Friday, July 13, 1880, the Great Eastern again set sail and all went well. Dispatches reporting the progress of the war then going on in Germany were re ceived daily through the payed out portion and the coil on shipboard, and posted up m deck alongside the record of the Great Eastern’s marvelous tail, and on the 27th the American end of the cable landed in the harbor of Heart’s Content. Just as the surplus coU was cut for a final anchor age of the shore end, a message came through from I»ndon congratulating tb # ‘ cable layers upon the completion of the work. Separated from those cordial sci tences by only a dash was the eight word Announcement, “Treaty of peace signed between Prussia and Austria.” Geokuk L. Kilmer. A SONG OK THE CABLE. Come, listen all unto my bou£; It is no silly fable; Tis all al»out the mighty cord They call the Atlantic cable. Bold Cyrus Field, he said, says he, "1 have i pretty notion That 1 can run a telegraph Across the Atlantic ocean.*' Then all the people laughed, and said They'd like to see him do It: He might get half seas over, but He uever could get through it. To carry out his foolish plan He never would be able; He might as well go hang himself With his Atlantic cable. But Cyrus was a valiant man, A fellow of decision. And heeded not their mocking words. Their laughter and derision. Twice did his bravest efforts fail. And yet his mind was stable; He w-a’n’t the man to break his heart Because he broke his cable. “Once more, my gallant boys,’’ bo cried; "Three , mes!''-you know the fable; (“I’ll make it thirty,” muttered he, “But what 1*11 lay this cable!'') —John (J. Saxe. MR. FIELD'S DESCRIPTION OF A THRILLING SCENE IN MIDOCEAN. But our work was not over. After landiug the cable safely at Newfoundland we had an other task, to return to midocean and recover hat lost in the expedition of last year (UXii). rids achievement has perha{>s excited more surprise than the other. Many even now “do not understand it.'* and every day 1 am asked. “How was it done?*’ Well, it does seem ruthci liilk-ult to fish for a Jewel at t he bottom of the >cean 2% miles deep. But It is notno very difll- rult when you know how. Once, on the 17th of August, we got the ruble up and had it iu full sight for live minutes-a hr slimy monster, fresh from (lie ooze of the 'M ean's bed—but our men begun to cheer so wiloly that it seemed to bo fright cued, and suddenly broke away and went down into the sea. This accident kept us at work two weeks longer, but finally, on the last night of August, we caught it. We hud cast the grapnel tairly limes. It was a little before midnight on Friday that we hooked the cable, and it was a litlh: ■ifter midnight Sunday morning when we go it on board. • • • All who were allowed to approach crowded forward tit see it. vet not a word was apollMg ottlj the voices of the officers in command were heard giv ing orders. All felt as if life and deutl. hang on the issue. It was only when it wa' brought over flu* bow and on to the deck that men dared to breathe. Bv*fl UfeOB the) hardly believed their eyes. Some crept ^twan. it to feel of it to be sure it w as there. T HE ARIZONA KICKER. j ouc oi *on* we *naii pronaniy ati) Dim ana pay all the expetiM* of * first class funeral To the PuoKEufiloN.—Several theatrical troops which hit this town last fall aeg lectod to leave complimentary ticket* at The Kicker office. We made it as warm us possible for them, and none of them took in enough cash to pay the hill posting. We now desire to announce that we own i the only hall where a show can be given. As tnayoi. we have the granting or refu* • ing of licenses. A* editor of The Kicker, we can make it very pleasant or very lone ly for any troop which refuse* to come down. We state this matter very plainly IjecHiiHe we want it plainly understood. After the mayor (which is ourself) has grunted a license, advance agents idiouid cull upon the editor of The Kicker (which is ourself again), und leave ut least six tickets. He cun then cull upon the owner of Kicker hull (which i* ourself some more) and urruiige terms, date, etc. In this way everything can l*e arranged to the mutual satisfaction of all parties. Explanatory.—Reader* »vi!l miss one of our most attractive departments this week -that headed “Cowboy Gapers.” Mr. loiiu K. Bangs, late of New York city. wa» the accomplished editor of that department on a salary of four dollars a week and found. lao't week he borrowed our mule for a ride into the country ami he hasn't re turned yet. The mule was scut back, but Mr. Bungs still tarries. It seems that tome of Colonel IxHig’s cowlxiys caught him. and mg liking his free and easy style with the pen they pulled him up toa limb. Being very busy with other matters, they let him hang too long and were obliged to bury him. Mr. Bangs was a fluent writer and will lie sadly missed. We had intended to raise him to next week, and also to lend oim a white shirt and introduce him into siciety. We expect a Boston man on to take hi* place next week, and the depart itient will Is? made even more interesting, if possible.—M. Quad in New’ York World. Kymputhetic Inquiry. A peasant woman, all iu tears, accosted the doctor as he was coining out of the house of a patient to whom he had been uiininnited iu great haste. “Oh. sir. can you tell me whether poor Muihimu will ever get well again?” “Yes. yes; don’t alarm yourself.” “Ah! that’s better;” ami. with a sigh of relief, she continued, “You see, doctor, 1 ,ent him yesterday fifteen francs without Diking a receipt.”—Observateur. Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by un East India mis sionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Con sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, | Asthma and all Throatand Lung Affections, also a positive and | radical cure of Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, af ter having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this mo tive and a desire to relieve hu man suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it. this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and usintr. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Noyes, 820 Powers’ Block, Rochester, X. Y. j-# Qf-<)wing to a daily iurn-asing trade, we have found it necewary to buy almost an entirely ileiu Jrtcrdt jof (Soods from to end. We have bargains in the Dry Goods Department, such at; it would have been impossible to get tirri of the reason. | We also find our Wholesale Grocery Department on the increase. We sold out 700 Bushels of O-A-GTS **. a very short time and have another large lot. Thanking the public for their liberal patronage and assuring them that we ■hall do ail in our i>ower to merit a continuance, We are respectfully, E 8TKY Pianos and Ester Organs arc nude ujwn honor, sold upon merit, and are known the world over. The Estey Organs have been manufactured for forty live vears and ful y deserve tbe praise accorded by all who purchase them. They are constructed to meet all requirements for parlor, ehyrrfb lodge or school. They can be purchased on easy terms of the KILLOUOH MUSIC COMPANY. ' C AKPEXTEB Organs are first class In every respect. Solid walnut cases neat in design. Varied comliinations to suit all classes of music. 1 he r,. P. Carpenter oiupany, Manufacturers, factory at Butt eboro, \ ermont, have bad many years of experience Jf'?- e I c 1 t ,nccSir cmfPAN^ warrant all organs for eight years. THE KI LEO DO H M US IC < OMPAA buy in large quantitie* and Hell them whob wile or retail at kv* tec prices, quality considered. Write for catalogue and price lift. _ mum It PlANOSv Larcest Producing Plano Pactortss IN THE WORLD. ct* tnoss CZLtERAYCD PIANO* fcwfor* purchasing al—whsrc. Manufactured b, IE W El G LA IB PIANO CO., BOSTON, MACS. THE KILLOUCH MUSIC CO., PLORCNCK, S. C. Sonera! Representatives. I3BUNS«N, LIMN •& €& - Remember the place—North side Public Square, in the Hewitt Block. Tl»e On«r»UA Duties of Mayor anil ICUItoi Coutlilitril. w K’VR Got to Do It. —We understand that some of tbe bop* feel a bit sore at id breauae a* mayor of till* town we are try ing to dignify the office by wearing white *hirt* and exchanging long legged lx*n> for laced shoe*. We replaced the Hawdiist spittoon* in our room iu the town hall with regular crockery affair*, and Hank Steif fer, Joe Glynn and others are going around Maying that we’ve no further usi foi the crowd. While we wish it distinctly understood that a* a man we don’t feel aliove any ol the boy*, as mayor of a hustling western town certain thing* are expected of us and nmat be carried out. We’ve got to keej our hair cut, use passably good grammai and present a decent appearance to stran gers. No one need be surprised if we are not at the next dog fight, or if we issue an order that our oiliciul room is not head quarters for the gang. We exi>ected the boys would feel hurt, but we believe out policy will win their approval in the end. Over at The Kicker office any one who visit* ns as the editor can spit all over the fixture* and elevate their feet clear to the ceiling, but when we are in the mayor’ll office we shall insist on all callers using the regular spittoons and at least keeping theit heels off our desk. Strangers are dropping in every day. and we want them to see « difference between our office and the bar rooms around town. He Still Tires Us.—The last straw that broke tbe camel’* back iu the ease of mu contemporary down the *tre«« was when we were elected mayor by an overwhelm ing majority. He never could forgive u* for being the fir*t to introduce a (wiper cut ter and red cardboard and genuine print er’» ink into this section, and wben we ex posed the act uai figure* of 1;in 2,000 circu lation (432) he tried to *hoot us. But our election was the finishing blow. During the campaign he charged us publicly with being a thief, a bigamist, a slanderer, a swindler, an as&aMsin, a convict, an incen diary, a liar, a bunko man, a murderer. He also managed somehow to raise the •uni of seven dollars in cash and wager it agaitiHt our election. Discharges all fell to the ground, and he lost his cash money We were warned that he meant to shoot u*, but knowing that be couldn't hit Pike’s peak with a shotgun, we haven’t worried any. I^ast evening, as we *at iu our sanc tum writing the ml hot editorial on the Chilian question to be found ou the second page, our esteemed contemporary came up the alley and shot at us six times through the window. Actual measurement prove that we were only eight feet from him. and yet hi* beat shot only cut the buckle ofl our vurt back. We beard him crying.»* In went away after emptying hi* revolver. Poor old man! We pity him and yet lit umkei tu UrwL tad some (Ur when we ore I’our flenerulftltip. Ms•nma—Why don’t you want to go to virs. Grimes on an errand for me? Small Boy—Swipaey Bangs an his gang ivvs near there, and if they catch me they’ll ick me. Mamma—Well, I’ll dram you up nicely md give you a Sunday school l>ook lc arry, and they’ll think you are going t uhe mission school gospel meeting. Small Boy—No! Then they’d kill me.— Good New*. On* Iu a Thousand. v <a <1 “Miss Smitherson is the girl for me.” “Why? She’s homely enough!” “Maybe. But she wear* a small bonnet to the theater and a large Gainsborough 11 church. That shows she is thoughtful. life. Costs Lots of Money. I Special Correspondence. 1 Chicago, Jan. 25.—It takes money and plenty of it to prepare for a world’s fair Patriotism is all very well iu its way as m matter of sentiment, and the Columbian exposition is a patriotic undertaking, but patriotism alone will not rear immenst structures, provide bread and butter ant. something in addition for thousands o employees and workmen, and pay big rem and immense printing bills, while Mi« small army of commissioners that hav. traversed and are still traversing tin countries of ancient and modern Euro|» and of South America would very <jtiick!> be brought to a halt if supplies were with drawn and they were expected to secur. transportation and hotel accommodation on the plea that they were Americans en gaged iu a work of |>atriotisin. And yei but few people can have any concept ion ol the amount of cold cash that hits to U* put out week after week and mouth after month to grease the wheels, as it were, ol the preliminaries of this vast enterprise. The outlay that is involved in pcepuring for the opening of the gates of Jackson park in May will reach a total that woiilit have appalled the late Prince Alliert when his brain originated the ideas that ctilmi uated in the Crystal Palace exhibition in London of 185i. What merchant prince, for instance, even did his branches, houses or ramification- extend over the civilized gloi**, could «l< business enough to enable him to pay om nearly 800,000 in a single month in tin shape of salaries for IKK) superintendent* clerks, bookkeepers, janitors, watchmen etc., for his central office alone? Yet that was the force and that the amount of tin pay roll made up iu the big Rand Me Nally building for the month of Deceinl>er Is there a ten times millionaire or even an absolute monarch living who woulu employ 104 landscape artists to beaut if) and decorate his grounds and pay then. <'15,000 in a single month for doing it. Tin World’s fair directorate did it. How man) enterprises have ever been projected that would call into requisition the skilleo training of seventy-eight draftsmen at » monthly salary of 10,000 or the unskilled services of 160 watchmen. Fancy one*tenth of a million dollars dis bursed simply to interest foreign uatioin in the project ; of over a tenth of a miilinii buried in the ground, as it were, in t in shape of dredging, filling and excavating of $-14,000 for temporary sheds t. t must be torn down so that the grand pauoraim. may not be marred on opening day; of ai. appropriation of $50,000 to raise the bridge* tnd widen the channel so that the grant; procession of flotillas on the day of dedi cation next fall may lie a success; of #75 000 expended in furnishing news to tin papers of all nations. And these are but . few of thousands of items. TwomilSiot and a half of dollars had been paid out o the World’s fair treasury up to New Year day, and the monthly drain must coutiui for sixteen months before the ehinkle silver half dollars in the cash l»oxe* of th ticket sellers give* token that the tide turned. HlCXKY M. HUXT. Answer This Question. Why do so innn v pe* pie wf mu around us seem to prefer to suffer nnd be made miserable by Indigestion, f^onstipation. Dizziness, Loss of Appetite. Coming up of the Food, Yellow ISkin. w hen for 7Nc we will sell them Shiloh's Vitalizer. guar anteed to cure them. Sold bv Dr. J. A. Boyd. .. —.— De Hunter—“I say. old hoy. 1 't’s po down to Hot Scotch b.iy duck hunting.” De Snorter ‘I haven’t an}- fjun.” De Hun ter—“That doesn’t matter. There are never any ducks there ”—Xew York Weekly. — The fossil remains of a ti^c r have been found in the tertiary rocks in Kansas. 1 Asker—‘‘So Bi>rf?ins has been presented with twins, eh?” Tas ker—‘‘He lias, fora fact.” Ask er'—‘‘Must have been surprised, wasn’t he ?” Tasker—“Awful ly so. He looked at them a moment and then exclaimed. ‘1 ■an hardly believe my own cen sus !’ ”—Yonker’s Gazette. Aalana and Broken-Down Constitution j Wavckoss, Ga. )r. W. H. Whitehead: Dear Sir—At your request 1 vill state my case. Some years !£o I ceutracted malaria in it.' nost violent form while living it Newark, N. J. I consulted various physicians and took •lamberless preparations recom- nended as “sure cures,” hut it >tuck to me like a brother—or nore like a mother-in-law. 1 Anally came South, and while here tried new remedies, said to ilways cure malaria, and it still -duck to me, and you know the broken-down condition I was in when I came to your P. P. P Prickly Ash, Poke Hoot and Potassium), and 1 improved rap idly, and am to day in as good health as I ever was—in fact better. As a remedy fer a brok ondown constitution it has m •qual. Yours, etc., T. P. Cottle. “I often wonder,” he said at they stood in the yellowness of I a moonlit night, “what my last words will be.” And not a ves tige of sarcastic intent lurked in I her mind as she answered.” So do I, George. I th ill so love to I hear them.”— Washington Star. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs Michael Curtain. Plain field, 111., makes the statement that she caught cold, whi<-h settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by herfamil} physician, hut grew worse. Hi told her she was a hopeless vie tim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Hti diuggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself bene fited from first dose. She con tinued its use and after taking ten bottles, found herself sound and well, now does her own housework and is as well as she ever was —Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Willcox & Co's Drug Store, large bottles 50c. und $1.00. Bit ggaeS) Huvreyft) Phteltms, Road Wagons antes*, Saddles, ilridies, •i e, Lap Collars, Hobes, Cura’)-Combs, Harness #il, Leather. Whips, ete., e:c W EAVER Oricine are sold the worlil over »pd ure noted for their pure tone, handsome de»i«n and finish. Prompt and easy action. Maufac- tured by Weaver Oigau and Piano Company, \ork, 1 enn.* THE KiLLOUGH MUSIC CC1PM, AGENTS, IF OREIvCE, S. C- The Killough Music Company Send irreetintr, and are happy to announce budiuess .acreasinu. territory ex tending, new branches and agencies being established. We can help to make home happy if you will try us. We want to send you complete catalogues and full information free. Bi six. ss Krr,K ; Buy direct; Sell diiect; One price; Lowest price; Assume freights; Warrant all goods Hold; Have satisfied customers or none. NOTE OUR SPECIALTIES. PIANOS—Behr Bros.. Decker Bros. I ORGANS—Estey, Carpenter, \V enver, Estey, New England. ; Farrand & Votey, KiinbuU. For any kinds of musical goods apply to us. Address T HE KILLOUGH MUSIC CowiPANY, FLORENCE, 8. C. N. B. When in ± iorence call at our store in new hotel huiiuiug. VOUR SNIP WILL COit The newspaper supplies the broad, swift channel of pub licity which enters the port of prosperity, and when you float your boats upon it you are sure of quick returus. Advertising in dull times is an anchor cast to windward. We sell g od innclih.e made I1ARNK.SS complete, with Collar and Haines, for $6.00. We can furnish any style of HANDMADE IIAhNESS, from the cheapest single buggy harness to the finest coach har ness; also one and two-horse wag m harness. Special attention is called to our “Young Men’s ’ Buggies at $65.00. N. L. Harrell & Co. SHORTHAND Thprouph, Prnetical Instruction. Oraduntcsas sisted to positions. Catalogue free. Write to SmunWlONBiimCOLLE&S, LOUISVILLE, KY. I.4U C Altov Binks—“I don’t like to com plain about trifles, Mrs. Jingle, bat my hashjappeais to consist largely of fragments of deal- board. Mrs. Jingle (the landla dy)—“Well, what kind of board do you expect for five dollars a week—polished mahogany ?”— Wasp. Happy Hooslers, Wm. Timmons, Postmaster of Idaville, Ind., writes: “Electric Bitters has done more for me than all other medicines com bined, for that bad feeling aris ing trom Kidney and Liver trouble.” John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place, says; “Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like a new man.” J. W. Gardner, hardware merchant, sametown. says; Electric Bitters is just the thing for a man who is all run down and don't care whether iie lives or dies; he found new -strength, good appetite and felt just like he had a new lease on life. Only 50c. a bottle, at Willcox & Go's Drug Store. He—“I am rather in favor of the English mode of spelling.” She—“Ye-es?” He—“Yes. in deed. The ‘parlor’ for in Uai ce Having u in it mak^s all int;! difference in the world.”—In dianapolis Journal. W- F. DARGAN, Attorney at Law, Darlington, - - - S. C- Office over Blackwell Bros, store a. W. BOYD. GEO, w. BROWN BOYD & BROWN- attorneys and Counselors at taw Office in brick building south of the Bank of Darlington. DARLING TOA C. R , S 0. ei.OMU PEKSONAL ATTENTION To ALL BUSINESS. House Established 1870- W M. JONES. J. J. WARD. K. O. WOODS. WARD & WOODS. attorneys & Counselors ul Law, DARLING t ON, S. V. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts Special a tention paid to all matters pertaining to the buying, selling, rent ing or leasing of real estate. Any partv having business in this line would do well to cal! ou the firm, who have control of some of the most de sirable property in .he town and county. J. K. NKTTLE8. C. 8. NKTTLKS. Netties & Nettles, Attorneys & ( ounselors at Law, llHi-liiiKton i. II.. *■ I - Will practice in all the State and Fed eral Courts. Prompt personal at tention given to the collection of Claims. a. W. DAROAX. H. T. THOMPSON. DARGAN & THOMPSON. Attorneys at Law, Office, Hewitt building (up stairs) north side of the Public Square. Darlington, S. V’ T II M'AIY Attorney 11 aw. prlijygtojY, v. ii., a. c- D. Will practice in Circuit Courts and Supreme Court of South Carolina Prompt attention given to all busi- ;e-s, and special attention given col- Itc.iou*. Shiloh’s Consumption Cure. This is beyond question the most successful Gough Medi cine we have ever sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst eases of Cough, Croupaud Bren chitis, while its wonderful sue cess in the cure of Consumption is without a parallel in tile his tory of medicine Since itsiiist discovery it has been sold on a i guarantee, a test which no other I*. BisllOp Parrott, medicine can stun 1. If you have a cough we earnestly ask Stenographer and Typewriter, JONES, LEE it CO., COTTON FACTORS, Norfolk, Va. Liberal advances made on consign rnents. Correspondence and Shipments So licited. Refer to The Norfolk National Bank and Citizens’ Bank, of Norfolk, Va. Tobacco Growers Attention. nrtOBAC O growers in South Caro M lina and those contemplating en gaging in the culture of the staph would do well to call on or address R. H. ROGERS. Darlington, s. C.; or J A. i HITCHER, Holloway. Person i o.. N. C. Jan. 21—8t ANTED—Hides of all kinds ex W W eept cow hides. The very high est market price will lie paid for fox mink, otter, deer and sheep hides at WITCOVER’S RESTAURANT, tf Main St., Darlington, S. C. Building Lots For Sale. T HIRTY or forty building lots in Darlington, nearer to the busi ness part nnd more eligibly situated than any others in the town, will be sold to approved purchasers on easy terms. B. C. NORMKNT. Jan. 14—6m m\l B. McGIRT, D. D. Offers his professional rervhM to the people of Darlington nnd vicinit,. Office over the store of Edwards, Nor ment & Co. Jan 19, ’90—ly you to tty it. Price 10c., 50c. and $1. If your lung., are sore, chest, or back lame, use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Sold bv Dr. J. A. Boyd. Bulfinch- wonderful —“Miss Srniiax has a memory.” Wooden tar Office with Nettles & Nettles. LEGAL AND OTHER COPYING SOLICITED. Testimony reported In short hand and type written transcript of same furnished at reasonable rates. Good Spelling. Correct Punctuation and Neat W< r\ Quaranteed. Jan. 8-lyr. Mortgagees Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Darlington Count u. T3y virtue of the power vested in us by and under a chattel mort gage executed to us by Enoch Alford of date January 28th. 1891, duly re corded, we will sell at Darlington Court House. County and State afore said, »t public auction, iu front of the Court House door, during the Ieg.il hours of sale, on Monday, the8th daj of February next, the following per sonal property, lo-wit: One Sorrel Horse. D. G. CRENSHAW & CO. Jan 21. Mortgagees. The Best is the Cheapest. The “Domestic” Sewing Machine Im provements for 1891. NOTICE TO IXSUKUHS, jet The Best Insurance For The Least IIonel THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO., oi Liverpool England, is the 1 ;rgest Fire Company in the world. THE iETNA, of Hartford, Connecticut, is the largest of all the American Fire Companies. THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, of Philadelph.a is the second largest of all American Fire Combanies. 1 ’ I HE HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York city, is the third lanr eet of all American Fire Companies THE HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut, is the fourth largest of all the ! American Fire Compan es. All of the aliove companies, and several others, represented in tbe agency if 1 - e. JNroRjycEErT September 11, .890 ^ Ul » t0C - S ' ! - Satisfaction. When a man says he is Satisfied, he means a great deal. One of the policy-holders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Mr Charles A. Edwards, of New York, who, in 1871, took a twenty-year Tontine noliev with the Equitable for $10,000, writes usfollows: “1 am extremely we/I gatXaJd with this result,obtaining more in excess of allthe VremhlZ^f hare paid, in addition to haring enjoy, a the protection vf my policy durinn the twenty y,a,s it has been in force l am loath to part with such an old friend as this policy has been to me, but in doing so, l do not propose to vart company with the Equitable haring applied for another To,dial policy the benefits under which 1 also hope to obtain during my lifetime ” ‘ “ Another, Mr NathanielWilson, of Washington, writes in relation to noliev No 99,813 as follows: “/took out a Tontine policy in your Cc.mvanv for tooilrn The policy has been settled to my satisfaction, than- since ITkenVut toices of the same kind for because lam satisfied that the Tontine plan is to be preferred to any of which I hare knowledge." r online plan is to if these statements were from the widows cir executors of id lev-holders wbo had died, they would be significant, or. if they were from po icy-holde™ who were satisfied with the r assurance because it furnished projection and J^tye them sufficient peace of mind to offset the burden of the continuing annual premiums on their policies, they would lie no more than reascnablei ssertkin. But this satisfaction is something more than this: It is the gratification of men who have, over and above tlie protection from the assurance KKAL zkd on a profitable investment T hey have reason to be sat isli, d. For t went j years they have been building up their business nnd accumulating b.rtndL-T! meanwhile their families and estates have been protected inrninJ ./ !■ ’ * which would have come, if through some acride t thGy T.f.liort ,,^?. d , ,SUK er But these dangers have now been passed, ami what i? mre ^,V n m";, 1 t " t r & -ay, “He hare paid out a great deal of money in premiums but ,re hare el joyed the protection of our assurance, and are satisfied ihnt , l J l lTe been wet, spent; we hare nothing more' to expect, andTaVtdhZ fuiZrVn ask. They might say this, and be content, but they are iibh. tof.v^ j more than this, thus: "We are more than satisfied because inadd i Z protection given for all these years, our Tontine rmlicie* t ?, th , e good INVESTMENTS, as is proved by the fact that the Eouitnbl ’ i" ,> u [ ltiol,e ah that we have paid, with interest adiled ” 1 Gable has returned Think of it! A return of the total amount expended in premiums, with compound interest at from 8 to 5 per centum per annum added thereto. GEO. HENRY McKEE, Darlington, S. C., SPECIAL AGENT, STOVES, STOVES, STOVES —“Why, what a proof has sho fnw her ata ^upp'er'hfst m'“in Lee’s Pfeparssl Agricultural Lime.! & d she not only reminded me For Gotten, Corn, Peanuts, Oats, \ uoout our b< ing engaged la t Wheat, (Mover, etc. The best Ferti- I summer, but gave me a numb, r U*er for Compost results-equal to the .i.„ >> />„ j „ /. Best Fertilizer on the Market. Fori ol the details. —Loston Lour- ,] e b V GKO a mavd ter. I Two machines in one; chain stitch; lock stitch; “Domestic” looper. A'k the agent to show it to you. You will see its great value at one ■. Thk Wondkr up thk Aoul First in the field witn uvwr ideas; high arm bent wood woik; convei tihlc stitch sewing machine The “DOMESTIC” can be the store of McCall & Btireh residence of J. G. McCall. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS TIN WARE, HARDWARE, PUMPS, PIPING AND FITTINGS, OF EVERY DESCRIP TION. Tin and Slate Roofing and Fronts <1 specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed on all work Give us a call and you will surely be pleased. J J. 0. WHITE. Corner Public Square and Main Street' J. G. McCall's Old Stand. April 16-lyr seen at or at the Mrs. J. G. McCall, Agent, at A. Weinburgs, Pearl Agent for Darlington Coumy. A Stationery Run. We are having a big Ktation- eiy run, and yet there is noth ing stationary about it This seeming paradox, is a plain fact, and is due to our affixing very low prices to very high grade goods. PETER BOWIE In addition to my other x B. O. BRISTOW J P ^He V -L ^ VV .^W^-iicite the patron, Patronize Home Industrie; The Darlington Ginning, Mil Fertilizer nnd Warehouse Comi are turning out the Finest Meal soiutely f free Gom' uTmTaTiolT’ propose to sd! it as low ns puree uni lie sold. Buyers, ask your hant for Darlington Meal and rei,’.)i tr ’ .j* always fresh and al reliable. Merchants, patronize h me mill and give your eusto the best meal to bo bad bes’des writing exchange on bfiis, ttn(1 j ing. Give us your orders. The Darlingtoi G., M, F. & W. I May 21-tf Pinal [lull: IV ot u c mierir eb r K,v,,i ' tn «w« estate of 11) ( If 1 '\y of County, and w,,). ?,,, jOth ‘q milr a ; y '‘ eU ' tor letters Feh. 21. I>. M. SMOOT J. A. SMOOT’ R H. ROGER! Exec