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DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892. WHOLE NUMBER 892 VOL. XIX, NO. .9 LOCAL LH'OMCS. HIS MONEY STOLEN. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Persons I and Oth erwise, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Court will convene on Monday next. The American Legion of Hon or meets to-night (Thursday). Dr. W. J. Garner left on Rat urday last for his trip to Eu rope. Mr. G. K. King has returned from a brief visit to Flat Rock, N. C. We call attention to an ad vertisement in this issue for two good timber men. Doss Wingate, an old and re spected colored man and a good carpenter in his time, died on Saturday night. The ra nfall on Saturday night was very heavy, causing a great and sudden rise in Black and Swift Creeks. Miss Ella Davis, of Camden has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Dargan. She returned home on Monday. Miss, tfu ith Hodges, who h s been visiting Mrs. J. H. San ders, returned to her home in Sumter on Monday. A special meeting of the Jovann Sub-Alliance will be held on Saturday, March 5. All members are requested to at tend. The Darlington Building and Loan Association meets this (Thursday) evening at 8o’clock The regular notice is published elsewhere. Mr. Harry C. Winston, of North Dakota, and Mrs. Kate Thomas, of Laurinburg, N. C are in town on a visit to their sister, Mrs. T. W. Norment. We publish in another column a call for a meeting of the County Democratic Executive Committee to be held .in Dar lington on s; 1 day in March. The following is the subject for the meeting of the Y. M. C A. on Sunday afternoon next : “Petition denied, but prayer answered,” II Corinthians, XII, l-IO. Dr. A. T. Baird has moved his office from over Messrs Ed wards, Norment & Co’s store to the former offices of Dr. W. J. Garner, over Dr. Boyd's drug store. A FATAL ACCIDENT. DROWNED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO cross lynches;river. The Sad End of Mr. Charles Weatherly, a Resident of Stokes Bridge.— Particulars Concerning the Accident. Stokes Bridge, over Lynche’s A North Carolina Farmer Meets With Bad Luck, in Darlington —A Victim of Robbery. Mr. G. W. Ward, a farmer from Randolph County, North Carolina, reported to the au thorities on Tuesday that he had been . robbed on the previous' night of a sum of money amount ing to between sixtv five and * j seventy dollars, which was all R iver > was ^) e 8cene °f a 8a( the money he had. He tells the and fatal accident on Saturday following story of the robbery : night, when Mr. Charles Weath- He arrived in Darlington on er i y lost hj8 ] ife by drowning. Sdl^nTho^inTo'S ST ‘’-"K ‘»° lina in his covered wagon. The which occurred about a month purpose of his visit to Darling- ago, Stokes Bridge was washed tor. was to sell his produce. On awav and since that time a Monday night he secured lodg- plank cause waY, laid upon the ing at the residence of Mr. G. r . ... .. , r , Rogers, a mile or so from town. P ier8 °f the old bridge, has fur- He slept that night in a room in nished the only means for cross- the second story. Access to the ing the river at that point. The room was had by & flight , causeway is only the width of steps on the outside of the house . ( and the door opening on these one P lanl£ - steps he did not lock on going Gn Saturday afternoon, four to bed. He had two bags con- men, Messrs Perry W. McKen- taining gold and silver, and one zie) R u f u8 Mixon, Bruce Wood- of these was in each of his pants* | ham and charle8 Weatherly, PROF. BOLTON S LECTURES. Enjoyable Entertainments Promised the People of Darlington.— Newspaper Criticisms. Prof. Bolton, who is to appear at the Darlington Guards Armo ry on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1st and 2nd, now has his reserved seat tickets on sale at Edwards, Norment & C >'s without extra charge, that is 50 cts for adults, pupils of the Graded School and children un der 12 years of age, half price. Read what some of the leading newspapers of America have to say about the character of Prof. Bolton’s entertainments : Every part of Chickering Hall was crowded yesterday after noon when Mr. Charles E Bol ton, of Cleveland, Ohio, lectur ed on “The Lands of the Mid night Sun,” under the auspices of theTeacheas’ Association of the City of New York. His style is such as to fix the atten tion of any audience, and ap plause was hearty and frequent. The sixty odd dissolving views THE COUNTY NEWS. Mr. J. J. Forman, while at work at the electric light plant one night of last week, had his left foot very badly burned. The injury is painful, but not serious. pockets. The remainder of his, , . . , money, about |10, was in green- crossed over this causeway and backs and these were in a pock- paid a visit to Mr. Simon Kel- et-book in an inside pocket to ly, who lives in Sumter County, his coat. When he awoke next ab out a mile on the other side morning he found that his bags 0 f the river. The party started of money and his pocket book to return home that night, reach were gone. He was absolutely ing the river about nine o’clock, penniless. Some one had enter The night was very dark and, as ed his room during the night the party had to cross over on and taken all he had. i the narrow plank in single file, Mr. Ward left for his home Mr. McKenzie went ahead, and yesterday and in the meantime the others followed. Its support the authorities are trying to dis- suddenly giving away, the cover the robber or robbers. plank fell into the river and Mr. r_ - . x 0 „ McKenzie went with it. Mr. Horse radish, West & Honour Woo dham had cautioned the - T T men against crossing the river New line of pretty goods suit- . uul h! f d hurri( , d away to get a able for early spring just re j- ht g ut M e88r8 Mixon and ceived at Brunson Lunn & Co s. Weatherly continued on their THE fair company. course and, not knowing, on ac count of the great darkness, . what caused Mr. McKenzie to Its Early Dissolution Probable.—An Ef fal j j n the r j ver) a dvanced to fort to be Made to Sell the tbe 8 p ot> buti a8 the plank had Company's Property. disappeared, there was nothing In accordance with the an- to catch their foot-fall and both nouncement made in the last is-, were thrown preceptantly^ into sue of The Nkws, a meeting of, the water. Messrs McKenzie the stockholders of the Darling- 1 and Mixon succeeded in reach- ton Agricultural and Mechani- ing shore, but Mr. Weatherly cal Fair Company was held in was drowned. Diligent search t ie Court House on Tuesday, has been made for the body, but The officers and the board of so far it has been unavailing, d rectors for last year were re- Mr. Weatherly was a resident elected. It was decided that no 1 of Stokes Bridge township and fall fair be held this year and a was about thirty years old. He floral fair will be held this sum- was an industrious farmer and mer only in the event that the his host of friends in the wes- property of the company can I tern section of the County re- not be sold before that time, gret exceedingly his sad and un- The directors were instructed to timely end. His wife and two dispose of the company’s prop- children survf^ him. erty, if it can be done advanta geously, and, of course,if the sale ' is made before the summer even j the floral fair will not be held. The company is one of the old j est of its kind in the State and its proba by which it was illustrated were artistic, and the coloring was charming.—New York Tribune. St. John’s M. E. Church was crowded to hear Mr. C. E. Bol ton on “Re-unitedGermany and Heroic Louise.” The lecture was most carefully piepared, and illustrations superb. The audience many times applauded. —Brooklyn Times. The Detroit Opera House was crowded. The Pictures are ar tistic, and the intellectual por tion of the entertainment is un questionably brilliant.—Detroit Free Press. There was a large and delight ed audience present. The lec ture was interesting, well de livered, and a good substitute for a trip across the waters.— Louisville Courier Journal. The Four Napoleon’s was fre quently interrupted with cheers, and it was with universal regret the audience received their dis missal.—News and Courier. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing And Saying.—A Brief Resume of the Week. CYPRESS. We hear of some farmers who are ready to plant corn. We had the heaviest rainfall on Saturday night that we l ave had this year. Messrs. A. B. DuBose and C. L. Stuckey are planting largely in Irish potatoes for Northern markets. The seine company expects to place its seine in Lynche’s River this week and we hope soon to be enjoying an abundance of fish. A fight occurred at this place one night of last week between two negroes. It was a regular “knock down and drag out” affair. Neither one was hurt, however, and we suppose it was because they beat each other on the head. An error occurred in my last letter in regard to fertilizers. Whether it was my mistake or a mistake of The News, I do not know. We will not use fertilizers as much this year as last and some farmers will not use any. A gentleman has informed me that a member of the Legisla ture told him that several of the Legislators, during the last ses sion, asked Tillman how they should vote on various questions. Judging from Tillman’s recent utterances, we should think that he wishes all of the Legis lators to act in the same man- Mr. Edwin Lucas, formerly of Hartsville, but more recent ly assistant cashier of the Na tional Bank at Spartanburg, has been elected cashier of the Greenville Savings Bank. The seven cases of F. W. Wagener & Co. vs T. E. Howie, et al., ctmmonly known as the ‘ Grange cases” have been set for trial for Thursday of the se cond week of Court, the 10th proximo The people of the County are making their tax returns very slowly. They should bear in mind that this is a very impor tant ma’ter and that a penalty of fifty per cent, is attached for failure in making the returns. Rev.W. A. Guerry was unable to keep his appointment at St Matthew’s Episcopal Church Sunday night last. He will, however, conduct services in the Church on Sunday after noon next, at 4 o’clock. R. T. Harllee, the well known baiber, has purchased the entire interest in the Enterprise Hotel barber-shop. There will here after be three barbers in the establishment and the price for shaving regular customers will be 10 cents. The Lenten season will begin on Wednesday of next week “Ash Wednesday.” The sea son is observed throughout the world by the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal Churches. Ei ter comes this year on April 17. The heavy rains of Saturday night have again put the ap proaches to the bridge across Swift Creek, leading to Doner- aile, in a bad fix. The county side was recently repaired and is now all right. It is the town side that is in bad condition and the bridge itself, on the town side, needs repair. “A stitch every one will regret ble dissolution at an early day. In the past the fairs have done much good to the County and have afforded many occasions for pleasure, but of late years the company has been steadily been losing money and, of course, unefer the circumstances, the company can not continue its work. Oatmeal, 5 cts lb., W. & H. A few sizes in corsets closing out at a bargain. McCall & Burch. Cocoa, broma and chocolate, West & Honour. ., ♦ ♦ — “A FORTUNATE FIND." A Colored Man Discovers a Wash-out on the C. & D. Railroad.—Possibil ity of an Accidenl Averted. On Sundav night, something after seven o’clock, Nimrod Fleming, colored, discovered a large wash out on the track of the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, at a point just above town and a short distance be yond Swift Creek trestle. With commendable thoughtfulness ner. The roads are badly in need of repair. We do not know what the County Commissioners are doing, for some of the roads in this section have not been worked in a year. Some of the bridges are broken and have been so for about two months. Come around, Messrs. Commis sioners, at least once a year and inspect the roads. Perhaps, though, as this is a “reform” year, “it is right, so long as it is right.” Choice Rio Coffee, 20 cts lb., West & Honour. TIMMONSVILLE. Dr. J. F. Culpeper is visiting in Florida. Dr. C. Kollock, of Cheraw, was in town, on Monday, on a THE PURIM BALL. The Hebrews of Darlington Will Cele brate the Festival with a Masquer ade. The ancient Jewish festival, “Purim”, will be celebrated in Darlington this year with un usual eclat Invitations have been issued for the fourth an nual “Purim Ball”, which will be held in the opera house Mon day evening, March 14. The ball will be a masquerade. Un usual interest is taken in the affair and the Hebrews of Dar lington are determined to make it a grand success. The following gentlemen com pose the committees : Arrange ment Committee, Messrs ANach-. man, E. Rotholz, S. Tombacher, S. Mamie, D. Witcover; Re ception Committee, Messrs S. Lewenthal, S. Tombacher, H. Hennig ; Invitation Committee, Messrs A. Nachman, C. Alex ander, S. Lewenthal. S. Kal- mus, B. Marco ; Floor Mana ger, Mr. C. Alexander; Assist- a it Floor Manager, Mr. B. Mar co. THE JAIL BIRDS. List of the Prisoners now in Jail Await ieg Trial at the Approaching Term of Court. The following is a list of pris oners, together with the offen ces with which they are charg ed, who are now in jail await ing trial at the spring term of Court which meets on Monday next: Oran Lide, misdemeanor; Henry McQueen, horsestealing; Elmore Davis, forgery; Dock Robinson, larceny; Sam Jack- son, petit larceny.CalvinEman uel, assault and battery; Rich ard Moody (white), murder; John Moody (white), murder; Charles Jackson, malicious tres pass; Casie Caston, assault and battery; Willie Jones, burglary and larceny. Jos. W. James will be resentenced at this Court and Lewis Williams a- waits his execution on April 2(i. LET US HAVE AN ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A SUDDEN DEATH. The Unexpected Demise of e Young Hartsville Physician. Dr. J. E. Gaddy, who practicing Spring suits made to ordet, fit guaranteed, at McCall & Burch’s. Fancy West. & evaporated Honour. apples, A SOCIETY EVENT. The American Legion of Honor Will Entertain the Friends of the Order To-morrow Evening. A public meeting of the American Legion of Honor will be held in the hall of that so ciety to morrow (Friday) even ing at 8.30 o’clock. All mem bers of the order are expected to attend and to bring all their friends with them. Speeches will be made by Hon. Geo. W. Dargan, E. Keith Dargan, F.sq., and other members. As the council wish to enjoy a social gathering with their friends, they will have a string band in attendance, and any of the fair lady friends of the order, who may wish to dance in one of the finest halls for that purpose in this section of the State, will have an opportunity to do so in the course of the evening. Al together the entertainment promises to be very enjoyable. Jelly, 10 cts lb., W. & H. Buy improved tobacco flues of J.C. White All orders prompt ly filled. DEATH OF MR. ELI M’GILLr has medicine at Hartsville for something over a year, died suddenly at his res idence at that place about mid night on Friday. Dr. Gaddy was a young man of sound, ro bust health aud none associated death with him. He had eaten heartily at supper and subse quently he complained greatly of nausea. He and his wife were alone, but neither con sidered the sickness serious He was sitting in a chair and he suddenly fell over dead. It is supposed that he broke a blood vessel. The deceased was a young physician of promise. He came originally from North Carolina, near Wadesboro. His remains were carried there on Friday for interment He leaves no children to give solace to the young widow in her grief. . ■■ ■— « Encourage home enterprise by patronizing The Darlington News job office. McCall & Burch’s is the place to buy Shoes. A BREAK FOR LIBERTY. in time saves nine. The February examinations at the State University are just over and the following students from Darlington County receiv ed “honorable mention Sen ior class, E. F. Wilson, Distin guished ; A. M. Coker, proficient; Junior, W. Griffin, proficient; Sophomore, E. C Coker, W. C. proficient. he hastened to the residence of professional visit. Mr. Frank Pegues, the agent of the road at this place, and made a report of the matter to him. Mr. Pegues immediately tele graphed to Florence for a wreck ing train, which came up very shortly and the broken place was repaired. The wash-out was caused by the heavy rain on Saturday night. The idea of what might have happened if the wash out had not been discovered is appalling. The down passenger train pass es Darlington before day and, if the discovery had not been made, the Monday morning’s train may have dashed through the darkness into the wash-out, carrying death and destruction with it. Butter beans, red and white beans, West & Honour. THE SUMTER MINSTRELS. An Old Resident of the Timmonsville Neighborhood. Mr. Eli McGill, a much re spected farmer of the Timmons vill» section, died at his home on Saturday night. He was not sick long, having received severe stroke of paralysis which brought on a speedy death. He was about sixtj’-five years old. He leaves a wife, four sons Hart w and three daughters. Of the him. sons, Messrs 8. H. McGill and E. E. McGill are well known in Darlington, both having lived here within the last few years. Jim Green and Adger Holloway, both Colored, Escape from the Guard House.—Green Recaptured. There has been another es cape from the guard house. On Saturday night Jim Green and Adger Holloway, both colored, were locked up. Green was placed in a cell and Holloway was allowed the freedom of the corridor. Sometime during the night both made the.r escape by cutting a hole through the w.dl at identically the same spot where a similar hole was cut by several prisoners who escaped about two months ago As Green was locked up in cell, Holloway must have let him out in some way. Green was captured early Sunday morning and put back in the f uard house. Holloway has not een caught. Later, Green was sent to jail for thirty days for drawing a knife on Policeman rhen the latter recaptured Amateurs from our Sister Town Give a Performance at the Opera House. The minstrel company of the Fourth Regiment Band, of SumJ ter, gave a performance in the Darlington opera house on Mon day night. There is undoubted ly fine musical talent in the troupe and the exhibition of it was good and was greatly en- oyeu. The singing of Messrs tollman, Moise and Alphonse elicited much applause. The audience was disappointed, how ever, in the acting, for it was not as good as is usual with amateurs. The performance closed with a “colored swell picnic, song and dance,” which was the best feature of the act ing. There was a large audience in attendance. Mrs. Julia Traxler is attend ing the convention of the W. C. T. U. in Columbia. Mr. Theo. Kuker returned last week to his old home. He will move his family to Asheville shortly. Mr Thos. Leehorn left us last week for his home in Tennessee, after selling two droves of stock in this neighborhood. Mr. David McLendon, one of our merchants, has begun the erection of a neat residence on the place where he now resides Mr. Wm. McLaughlin and Miss Nellie Price were married at the Methodist parsonage last Sunday evening uy Rev. W. B. Duncan. There will not be one fourth as much guano delivered at this depot this season as last. The farmers do not see how they can pay for guano with 6 cts. cotton. A State Convention Called for March 24 to Nominate a Full Ticket Sub ject to the Democratic Convention. To the Democrats of South Carolina : We ask you to consider with out prejudice what we say to you, and to let your judgment be governed by an intelligent regard for your own interest and directed by your love and res pect for the State and her peo ple. We are not trying to stir your passions by general accusations which we cannot prove, or to excite vain hopes by extrava gant promises impossible to ful fill. We do not wish to undo any good that has been accom plished or to reverse any policy which the majority of our fellow Democrats favor. We ask you to join us in an honest, united, determined effort to remove the dangers confront ing our people, the evils under which they suffer. We must restore peace and good feeling among ourselves, that wo may stand and work together and give that mutual help and cor- dial co-operation necessary for the well-being of any communi ty. We can do nothing while we are divided into hostile fac tions and neighbors are separa ted by political distrust and dis cord. We submit that the course of the present State administration tends inevitably to continued irration, division and danger. In the campaign of 1K90 the public was deceived with promi ses of reforms which have not been kept. All of those who ex pressed their distrust of these promises were then violently denounced. Even such of these as, despite the bitterness with which they were assailed, ac cepted aud supported the will of the majority of their fellow- Democrats, have been treated as enemies, and the present in dications are that this proscrip tion is to be continued and ex tended. Recent public declara tions by those high in authority assure us that those who were from the first friends and follow ers of the head of our State ad ministration, but who went with him only so Jar as their con sciences would allow, and then resisted or opposed his purposes are likewise to be put under ban. Representatives of the people have been slandered, re i-- d and der i de d as “drift because they could not every township of every county of the State. We call on all Democrats who are willing to act with us on the pledges and for the purpose above announced, to assemble in mass meeting at their respective court houses on such days as they may see fit, and elect delegates to a conven tion to be held at Columbia the fourth Thursday in March, 1892; which convention shall be au thorized to name a State ticket to be submitted to the Democratic voters and the State Democratic convention called to nominate a State tick et for the Democratic party. We ask that each county elect to the convention hereby called as many delegates as it is en titled by the rules of the party to send to State conventions. We are moving for the peace, strength and prosperity of the State we love, and for the hap piness, freedom and safety of the people we honor. We in vite every Democrat to help this work for South Carolina and South Carolinians, for the prin ciples of Democracy and the party representing those princi ples. Edward McCrady, Jr., J. C. Maxwell. M. D. Wade Hampton, James F. Hart, John C. Sheppard, E. B. Murray, Johnson Hagood, William Munro, James L. Orr, M. P. Howell, D. F. Bradley, J. W. Summers, A. B. Williams. FOR STARVING RUSSIANS. The Episcopalians of South Carolina Called Upon for Assistance. Charleston, Feb’y 13, 1892. To the Clergy ami Laity of the Diocese of South Carolina— My Dear Brethren: May 1 ask your attention to the circular letter, accompanying this note, from the Russian famine relief committee. It will speak for itself, and I write only to ask that we do something to carry out its benevolent suggestions. I propose that in all our church es throughout the diocese an offering be made for poor, fam ine-stricken Russia, and that the day be the first Sunday in . - , , , , • i i Lent, being March 6, 1892, and proached and derided as that the offerings on that day wood, because they co from our churches be sent tothe mall things think and act with Rev. E. Capers, D. D„ Columbia, the Governor, and dared to vote South Carolina, who will act as according to their judgments treasurer, and forward in due We are «P e f nl y . 1 , . nf o rra «J, th aJ time to the proper authorities 811-011 !? efforts will be i a the sums given. If the day fix- secure at the coming election ed upon for the above offerings the choice of a Legislature more does not suit some of our con-, obedient to the Governor s de- gregations let some other .lay be ^ 8 substituted. I remain, my dear brethren, most faithfully your Bishop, to his will than the last. A circuit judge has been re buked in an official message be- W. B. W. Howe. FAMOUS RACE RIDER. Colored Boy from Columbia has Phenominon Luck. [The State.] Fresh supply of Queen syrup just in. West & Honour. DEATH’S WORK. Job work of all kinds, from a visiting card to a 20 X 40 pos ter, executed at The Darling ton News office with neatness and dispatch. CLYDE. Mr. E. F. Outlaw, of Sumter Caunty, is visiting friends in Kelly town. Owing to the heavy rain fall on Saturday night Black Creek is now on a considerable boom. Miss Nena Outlaw, of Kelly- town, is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. D. W. Smith, in Darling ton. The cotton area in this section will be greatly reduced this year and the supporters of Tillman will be much less than at the last election. We want another man. cause his decision on the bench idid not accord with the wishes and opinions of the executive. | The Legislature elects tne judi- 1 ciary. Control of the one means the control of both and the cen- 1 tralization of all the powers of making, expounding and execu- bas hands of one man. l ne present management of party, apparently in full city. He has fitted up her | sympathy witlr the purposes and apartments in the most luxur ious style. Tony was once a last interesting circumstances, taken up his abode for the win- ter with his aged mother in the | our luxur- demands'of the Governor, with his help, has incorporated into sStTere bufTw^ he^raws 008 $10,000 and perquisites, and is ma ^ „f ti„, ‘Cnnls of Creation ” difficult for the majority of the one of the Lor l ; uf C ^° r ^ e Democratic voters to withstand each season. 5«s o?? chum^ [Ue po ? r o, ,h^ con- here open their eyes with won- trolled by a m no „. der when he passes with all his gorgeous display of style. Pine Island Fertilizer. Evening dress shins and white lawn bows at McCall & Burch’s A Citizen of Florence County, Well Known in Darlington. Passes Away Mr. W. E. Hazeldon died at his residence, near Mars Bluff, Florence County, on Friday last, aged fifty-six years. His death was very sudden, as he was confined to his bed only one day. He leaves a'wife and four children. Mr. Hazeldon was a farmer and a highly re spected man. He was well known in Darlington, having married a sister of Mr. J. A. White, who was for many years foreman of The Darlington News. His remains were in terred in the Mizpah Baptist Churchyard, near Mars Bluff, on Sunday afternoon. ^ The catalogue of books in the Baptist Sunday School library, printed in pamphlet form at The Darlington News office last week, is a model piece of work of its kind. The tendency of all these acts ! and methods is toward further j and deeper divisions and con- 5 tinued strife among us. The signs of the times warn us that ! unless there is a change we may [From one who has perfected theCuie have to choose between slavish of Tobacco and has done more to 8U bmission to a dangerous and [ini;’ 1 ^ To^o e than" Um whole degrading despotism or a bit. world.] | tc r > desperate and ruinous strug- Office of Modern Tobacco Barn gle among ourselves Company, High Point, N. C„ 1 T° avoid these dangers to tonuarv 15 1892 i restore peace and harmony to The Quinnipiac Company.-1 our party and people, we call on Gentlemen :-l expect to grow all Democrats who ^shtose- a crop of thirty acres of Tobac-jcurea conservative, safe.effi- co at Tifton, Ga., this year and cient State government, repre- - - 1 —*—~ a solid and commanding the RIVERDALE. Miss Leila Moody is very ill. We hope she will speedily re cover. Mrs. T. H. Cook has been visiting relatives and friends in Marion. Messrs. Warr and Blackman will shortly remove their saw mill to Springville, near Mr. E. J. Lide’s place. Maple syrup, West & Honour. have male up my mind to use I senting a solid Democracy at first-class to gained from among them HI Nash County, N. C., A. J. Hes- tes of N. C., and F. M. Rogers, Jr., of Florence, S. C., who are among the very best and most successful tobacco growers in these tobacco States. Yours truly, W. H. Snow. For prices and further par ticulars concerning this fertili zer. apply to Woods & Woods, to Pine Island Fertilizer.” 11 home _ have a good opinion of it as a good-will and confidence of the g obacco fertilizer, world at larare, to give us the many sources,! active help of their influence R. H. Ricks of and votes. We pledge ourselves and those who think and act with us to THE FUN COMMENCED. The Political’Pot in Sumter has Already Commenced to Boil.—A Personal Controversy. [News ami Courier.] Sumter, February 17.—The public are very much interested in a controversy begun in the Freeman yesterday between Railroad Commissioner Thomas and Col. J. J. Dargan, editor of the Freeman. The Freeman is of the opinion that Tillman does not deserve the confidence and support of the Alliance, inasmuch as he is not in sympathy with its de ni a n d s—without considering other reasons—but wants a good and true man, as an Alli ance man—for it believes that Alliance doctrines are good Democratic doctrines—nomi nated and elected Governor; a man who will not use the Alli ance votes to boost himself into office and then turn his back on the Order and its demands as Tillman has done; a man who is in full accord with the aims and purposes of the Alli ance and who on account of his character and ability will do the Alliance credit. For this opposition to Tillman Mr. Thomas publishes a letter in the Freeman standing up for Tillman and his claims; and severely criticising and condem ning the Freeman for the stand it has taken, and makes a rath er strong personal attack on Col. Dargan, the editor, whom he accuses of inconsistency, in fidelity to the Order and “lack of that stability which inspires confidence in Governor Till man.” Mr. Thomas also ac cuses Col. Dargan of infidelity for accepting pay as the district lecturer of the Alliance and then trying to kick out of Alliance harness and doing all he can to disorganize both the Democracy and tlie Alliance. Mr. Thomas’s criticism and attack on Col. Dargan lose much of their weight and force with the people, many of whom believe that the animus of the attack lies in the fact that Mr. Thomas last year asked Col. Dargan to recommend him for appointment to the office of rail road commissioner and he ref us) ed. Col. Dargan replies to the ar ticle of Mr. Thomas in a three- column article, in which he de nies the allegations of Mr. Thomas and reiterates his pre vious doctrines. He then goes on to show that he is more fully in accord with the Alliance de mands, while Thomas and Till man speak of the sub-treasury scheme as “the sub-treasury foolishness.” He then refers to Mr. Thomas as a “pap-suck- er” and accounts for his stick ing so closely to Tillman, for it is by Tillman’s favor that he draws a salary of $2,100 a year. This is the status of the con troversy at present, and there is much in Col. Dargan’s article that, it is believed, will bring orth a reply from Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas is an acrimonious writer, and further develop ments are looked for with the keenest interest. The “fun” of the campaign has already begun in Sumter Co abide faithfully the decision of the State Democratic conven tion, to make this fight for good government, the freedom of legislation, the independence of the judiciary and the liberty of the people within the party lines: but to make it earnestly, cour ageously and persistently in bounty. The Color Question. The courts in Iowa have de cided that a proprietor of a re staurant has the right to refuse to serve a colored person in his restaurant. The courts hold that the restaurant business is a private one like a grocery or dry goods store, and differs from an inn, and the proprietor may sell or not to anyone as he pleases.