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ft Darlington jlfros. HENRY T. THOMPSON. ^ WADDY THOMPSON, i In the meanwhile the people will await with interest the out come in the matter. Editors. THE NEW REGISTRATION LAW. Judging Thursday, Feb. 25,1892. LET US COME TOGETHER. In another column appears a call for a State Convention of Democrats to be held in Colum bia on March 24. It is signed by thirteen leading, conserva tive Democrats, whose very names ensure honesty of pur pose and will inspire confi dence in the hearts of those who place the welfare of South Carolina and the unity of the Democratic party above any personal or partisan interests. The convention is called for the purpose of nominating a full State ticket to be submitted to the regular State Democratic- Convention. All Democrats, regardless of past differences, who desire the restoration of harmony in the party and the nomination of a safe ticket that will ably administer the affairs of State, are cordially invited to participate in the selection of delegates from the several coun ties and they will receive a hearty welcome. The fight will be made within the party. The characters of the gentlemen who issued the call are above suspicion. They announce that they will abide by the result of the regular State Convention and their word is sufficient. Those of the sign ers who were old enough served the State well in the hours of trial between ’61 an ’05 and all of them did their duty in ’70 as they will do again in '02. They appreciate the gravi.y of tin- dangers of the present hour and call upon all good Democrats to help them in their efforts to save the State from the disaster and trouble that will surely arise should the division in the ranks of the white men continue. While the call is written in the kindest spirit, it ispronounc ed against the renomination of Tillman. It shows clearly tha* he is not the man to reunite the people. The calm, dispassionate, dignified arraingment of Till man and the clear exposition of his inconsistences, his broken pledges and his practices that are dangerous to the best interests of the State carry force and can not but make the Governor wince under the lashing. On the other hand it is not the purpose that an extremist on the “Straightout" side be put in nomination. The object to the convention is to bring the two wings of the party together and it is, therefore, safe to say that an able, but conservative, man will be nominated; one that the “Tillmanite” and “Anti- Tillmanite” can consistently and conscientiously support. The question that now con fronts every man is, -“What shall I do?” The duty of every good Democrat and loyal son of Carolina is plain. For the sake of peace, prosperity and every thing that harmony among people will give, the true citi zens in both factions should come together by meeting iialf way and concentrating their strength upon a man that wilt inspire confidence and enthus iasm in the cause. Victory will be ensured and our troubles will then be over. Thk News has earnestly ad vocated the convention for sometime past and, putting its trust in the people, it hopes that through this means a speedy solution of all our troubles will be found. ANOTHER LAW SUIT. Governor Tillman is in dan ger of getting in another law suit, sometime ago, Mr. J. W Alexander, of North Carolina, purchi sed from the State theAg- riculturcl building in Columbia He paid the cash portion requir ed and gave a mortgage ou tin property for the remainder o' the p> rchase money. Later Mr. Alexander offered “revenue bo id scrips,” of the validity of which there is doubt, to pay off the mortgage. Tin Governor immediately declared th« whole sale null and void and refused to turn the property- over to Mr. Alexander. The lat- terclaims,through his attorneys, that he only offered the bond scrip to test its validity. The money on the mortgage is not I ue and as he paid the cash por tion required he claims owner ship of the building and has no tified Governor Tillman that he will be held personally responsi ble in the Courts for his action pei from the slowness, ed in the flame. The loi with which the white people of probably $200,(X)0. The insane asylum at Jack- son, Miss, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday of last week. The building was set on fire by one pait- ; of »he lunatics and he alone of the six hundred inmates perish- oss is, Otherwise we afe for Tillman- the colonels and the generals. 11 p SirIiot) Pft.TT*n+.t. ^ Haskellism never.” say this for Federals as well as ^' -OABiiup JTtni Ubb, Testimony reported in short-hand and type-written transeript of same furniRhed at reasonable rates. Good Spelling, Correct Punctuation and Neat Work Guaranteed. Jan. 8-1it. E, W. Cannon, anti, northern Confederates; that no wan can XUDSWriter, ut— claim honor over the private— ... „ ... , 5 ’ . i „ . i HCOfflce with Nettles & Nettles.^] There is a change, againtt the the man who snatches up the . 4fc ,n rs-ruco r-noviwr' governor; cause, “unfulfilled flag when his dead comrade has solicited. promises and charges that have dropped it.” not been sustained. His doing ,h. County are -oglatoring, we I Three n,e„ were terribly burn- i ™ are led to believe that they do j a s^l foundry in Idts- RtrenKth 150 it was a very! Mr. W. F. Early’»;House in Sprlngviils not fully appreciate the import- showe rof red - hot steeL falling 8668 j Destroyed by Fire, ance of the matter. It should upon them. Two of them were ”° an y Yesterday afternoon, about be remembered that an Act was fatally burned and there is but i 0 ' 1 , , ett a 5.30 o’clock, the house belong- passed at the last session of the .light hope for the recovery of ^ ^ iU * Legislature providing for a re-; t,ie t ' urd - j are now against him. “Nary ■ W1 vision of the registration lists j On Saturday Ed Coy, colored, one” who opposed him is now t _ n rr,.- was burned alive at a stake in I for him. “We ought to begin for Darlington County. Th^ | Texarkana) Ark ., in the pregen - j to look up a man who has not Act provided that all the 0l u | ce G f 6,000 people. A few days ; been prominent as a straightout, registration records should be previous he committed an as-j one who can meet Tillman on wiped out and the registering | sault upon a lady of that neigh-! the stump and show him upas Hhonl.l be he min afresh Every-! b<,rho0(i - The outraged woman | the grandest fraud of the 19th should be begun arresn. r,\ery | lif thl , t | lflt ,| lllrllf , () him to I cent ury.” A Card. H. J. Lamotte, late manager of the Darlington Plaining Mill, may be foond at his shop next to the Enter prise Hotel, on Main Street, or at his , I lit the fire that Iburned him to body must have a new regis | j^th tration ticket, therefore, in order; ^ two of the Dem to vote. An old certificate will ocra tj c party of Louisiana have be of no more service to a man agreed to come together. The two State tickets will be sub initted to a primary o* Demo cratic voters and each side pro mises to abide by the result. The ticket defeated at the pri mary will withdraw from the field. STATE NEWS. And than a Confederate ten dollar bill. A voter who does not pro cure for himself a new regis tration ticket will be disfran chised. A registration certificate is like many other things, in that when one wants it he wants it badly The importance, there fore, of registering should be readily apparent to every one. In fact there is no excuse for a man failing to register, for in e /ery issue of The News there j Christian Temperance aopears a notice from the Su-1 u n j en W as held in Columbia last pervisor of Registration, giving week. the dates on which he will be The Bishopville postoffice, at the several places in the! which has been closed for the house j green grocery on Pearl Street, by all insur- who may need a lirnt ela.is eontractor, or who may want carpenter work dene promptly and satisfactorily. Feb. 4-4t. Gathered From Our Exchanges Put in Paragraphs. Fourteen convicts have been leased to work in the Florence 1 Tobacco Factory. The State Convention of the in County for the purpose of istering voters. reg- NEW RULES FOH THE PRIMARY. The State and this paper do | not agree fully in their views rega-rimg the convention called for Maich 24. The Stpte thinks that ibe An i-Ti.bnaniles are making too many concessions, while The News thinks these concessions should be made for the sake of a compromise. The News agrees with the State that the following de mand should be made by the Anti-Tillmanites. We quote the words of the State : “Let each faction nominate its ticket. Let there he a direct primary for State officers, as well as all others. Let eacli faction have equal representa tion on the hoards of managers of the primary election. Let all Democrats he allowed to vote according to the rules in force in this State for fourteen years, taking only the oath exacted during that time—that the voter is a Democrat, and has not vq- ted before in such election. Let each faction pledge itself that— these conditions faithfully ob served, a fair election held and honest returns made—it will abide the result, and make no opposition at the general elec tion.” past two years, will he reopened shortly. The Pee Dee Index, published at Marion, has been sold to the Alliance and it will hereafter he conducted in the interest of Till man. Mr. Colin C. Manning, a young lawyer of Sumter and a son of ex-Governor Manning, recently married the daughter of M. W Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. The mar riage took place in Italy. Of tiie three young men se lected from Yale University to participate in the great debate between Harvard and Yale, one is Mr. Thornwell Mullally of this State and another is Mr. J. J. Chamberlain, a son of ex- Governor D. H. Chamberlain and also a native of South Car olina. Suit has been brought by Mrs. Mary Maxwell against the Greenville Fertilizer Company for $10,000 damages Mrs. Maxwell owns a beautiful place near the factory, and she alleges that the gas and vapors and smells from the factory are per nicious to vegetable and animal life, and that her property has been rendered unfit for comfort able and healthy habitation. She asks, also, that the nuis ance he abated. A number of the railroads have joined the hanks in fight ing the increased assessments made by the Comptroller Gener al. On Saturday the railroads offered to pay their taxes at the rate of the original assessment, hut of course in every case the County Treasurer refused to take the money. The loss of so much railroad and bank taxes' will make a big hole in the treasury. Then, too, the State will probably get into law suits with the railroads and will lose the suits as it did in the hank cases. THE PRELIMINARY POLL. The Replies Sent the Greenville "News' from Darlington in Regard to Tillman's Present Strength. We made mention in our last issue of the preliminary poll made recently by the Greenville News, to ascertain whether Till man had gained or lost in popu larity. 'Hie opinions of ten rep resentative men in each County were asked for. In each case five were “Tillmanites” and five were “Antis.” The News pub lished the replies in full. The following are the answers re ceived from Darlington County: Tillman man in Southwestern part— Thinks Tiilman is as strong as ever : voting strength 300 ; un der question 6 ; “The man thoroughly identified with the movement has not yet shown himself. Therefore Tillman is yet strong ” Has no personal knowledge of changes either way. “1 know of men who do not admire Tillman as a man. but they admire the measure!- he represents. Tillman ma> have made some mistakes, hi t they have not materially injur ed the country. The people be lieve his motives are pure. The opposition has fought him in the wrong spirit. The masses of the people are better posted on politics than is supposed by some people.” W. A. Dowling, Tillman man, central part— Not very much change ; some what against Tillman ; cause, “inconsistencies, such as accept ing free passes and opposing certain sections of the sub-treas ury planvoting strength of club 150; “none decidedly,’ against Tillman who were for No changes the other “Ninety five per cent, of the Democrats in this town ship were for Tillman and will support him again if he is nomi nated. Though viewing from Tillman man in East Darling ton, at Dovesville— Doesn’t think the governor as strong as he was ; people seem to he at sea ; doesn’t think they are thinking much of politics; believes Tillman an extremist and the people want and would vote for a more conservative man ; has heard a few who op posed the governor say they hi - lieved he is an honest man ; “I think the sentiment is for a broad conservative man that would have the interest of the | State and people at heart; one that would do unto others as he would others do to him ” Tillman man in northeastern part— Very little change; there is some dissatisfaction against the legislators ; voting strength of precinct 130 ; thinks the gov ernor could carry it against any other man; has no personal knowledge of changes either way; “Governor Tillman has made some mistakes, but not more than others have done. I heard one of his opponents say he was a better governor than Governor Richardson was. The neople expected too much of Tillman. I think he has done better than the representatives have. If we could get a stron ger man thoroughly identified with the farmers’ movement would like to do so.” Anti, in northeastern part— There is some disappointment; the change, if any, is against the governor ; voting strengih about 100; would nearly all o for Tillman against any man ; knows of no changes; “I am not in politics; seldom talk about them, never with a Till- manite; hut my impression is that Tillman.succeeded so well in stirring up the feeling, in this county at least, of poor against rich, labor vs. capital, and had blood generally, that although he has disappointed many of his followers the lines are still sharply drawn, and few, if any, are changing' their faith.” across Swift Creek on the old road to Society Hill, was totally destroyed by fire. The was valued at 1,200 and ance will nearly cover the loss. Mr. T. G. Meacham occupied the house and most of his furni ture was destroyed. His prop erty was also insured. Mr. N. D. Gandy had some furniture stored in the house and it was burned. It is not known how the fire originated, as no one specialty, was in the house at the time. i In addition to lnv other DARLINGTON cotton market I am now prepared __ PAPER HANGING, etc. For the Week Ending Wednesday, Feb ruary 24. PETER BOWLES TYOES flint-class House and 8igu Painting; Kaisoniine "Work a He solicits 1 Darlington. work, to do the patronage of Good Middling, 6i Middling, 6 Strict Low Middling, 5i Low Middling, 55 THE STOCK MARKET. The Value of the Stock Invested n Dar lington's Business Enterprises. The following quotations of local Stocks will be changed at times so as to meet the fluctuations in the mar ket. The blank spaces in the column marked "offered at" indicate that there is none of that class of stock now offered for sale : Par Value. Dar. Land Imp. Co... 100 Bank of Darlington.. 100 Dar. Mfg. Co 100 Dar Phosphate l o.... J00 D. G., M , F.&W. I o. 1.0 People’s Hank S.l Knights’ Bldg. Asso.. 3.1 Dar. Planing Mill... 1,000 Enterprise Hotel Co. 35 Dar. Driving Asso ... 100 Dar. B- & L Asso 40 Dar. Light,\V& P Co. 50 Pee Dee Comp Co.... 50 Dar Brick & 1 Wks...| 100 Cl’ Land Imp Co.. . 100 D Ag & Mech F Co... 10 Car Fibre Co,(Hville)l,000 Offered at 175 135 100 100 100 35 35 1,000 33 55 45 50 BANK OF DARLINGTON, DARLINGTON, S. C., Capital, — — $100,000. Subplds and Undivi ded Profits, — $45,973.80 DIRECTORS: W.C. Coker. J. L. I’oker, R. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward, E. R. Mclver, A Nachman, Bright Williamson. Transacts a General Banking Business. Final Notice. GENERAL news. Items of Interest From All Over The World.’ Fire destroyed one million dollars worth of property in New Orleans on Wednesday of last week. The Farmers Industrial Con vention met in St. Louis on Monday. Over twelve hundred delegates were in attendance. Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, author of the fa mous “Blair educational bill”, has announced himself a candi date for the Republican nomina tion for President. The vessel Tamberlane was wrecked off the Sandwich Is lands on the 2 ult There were thirty-eight men on hoard and of these the captain and fifteen others were drowned. The Wilson Short Cut, a branch of the Atlantic Coast Line, lias been completed and the distance from New York to Charleston, Columbia and Flor ida is thus shortened sixty miles. Col. J. B. Simpson president of the Fourth National Bank of Dallas, Texas, has absconded with nearly, $300,000 of other people’s money. Simpson was regarded as one of the most solid men of the town. Many of Blaine’s friends be lieve that he will accept the Presidential nomination if it he unanimously tendered him, and the Blaine Club of Chicago ha^ decided to make every honor able attempt to secure his nomi nation. A few days since a constable, named Bert Hard, attempted to arrest Walter Austin, a negro, at Arcadia, Florida, and the latter shot him through the heart with a Winchester rifle. The negro was soon afterwards | captured and lynched. The New York State Demo cratic Convention met in Al bany on Monday. The cut and dried programme was fully! him. carried out. Hill delegates were way. elected to the National Conven tion. The anti-Hill faction will hold a convention soon. They claim that they will carry to the National Con j the present, I think there will vention a protest against the j be an effort to nominate some . . Hul delegation signed by over .other man if it will be seen that | w ho endured the cold, and stood 200,000 New York Democrats, they can get another good man. > n the sleet and rain to guard ij WILL file ray final account us Ad R imnigtrator of the Estate of J M Rhodes, deceased, on the 30th of March next and apply to the Judge of Probate of Darlington County for let ters Dismissory FR RHODES, Feb3 -4t Administrator Savings Depai tment. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at rate of 5 per cent, per annum from date of deposit—payable quar terly on the first day of Janu ary, April, July and October. For further information ap ply at the Bank. Accounts in both Depart ments solicited and will he given careful attention. BRIGHT WILLIAMSON, President. L. E. WILLIAMSON, Cashier. Dec. 31—tf THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. He Has no Apology for the Part He Took in the War. Washington, Feb. 19.—The Washington ex-Confederate As sociation met at Union Hall to night, the president, Maj. E. W. Anderson, presiding. Rep resentatives John M. Allen, of Mississippi, andClifton Brecken- ridge of Arkansas, Senator Berry of Arkansas and Col. Dickinson of New York made addresses. Mr. Allen, in ad dressing the meeting, said: “I am not an old Confederate: I am one of the youngest alive at most. In fact, I was asked to come here to meet old Con federates and make a little talk. I don't mind talking, and it is a pleasure to meet you. I will not pursue the regular order I usually do in speaking to ex- Confederates. It is customary to devote most of a speech to ex plaining why the war was fought. What I take pride in is how we fought. I never stopped to think why I went in. I had no grievance, no negroes to lose, but when the Northern ers came down and started af ter us, I found a disposition a- mong my people to resist, and went with them. “I don’t know that I can im prove very much on a little speech I made in Congress on this subject. Of course you have all read it. I take some little pride in referring to that speech. It was made on the pension hill. That tells the story briefly of how we fought. So far as I am concerned, 1 would not swap the record of having been a private Confeder ate soldier for any pension the Government might give. I don't fear that someone will suspi ct me of having fought well; I have no apology to make for the little part I took in that war. If they want to write me down as a traitor, then I am one of the traitors who followed Lee. No man who ever walked God's green earth was possess ed of nobler attributes than Robnt E. Lee; no man ever had more of the attributes of true grealness. What better vindica tion could we have than that we marched in the columns of Stonewell Jackson? “Some men make a great racket about such meetings as this. These men don't rise to the dignity of my contempt; they cannot make me mad; lie s got to be a man of more dignity to make me mad. These meet ings mean nothing to harm any one. We take great pride in them, and no power on earth can rob us of that pride. “As I am a representative of that class, I want to say a word about the private soldier. No one will detract from the officers of the wai*but they double and treble their pay over the man to BU]>erinteud our timber 1 Talbott & Sons, ~ TN, 7 Timber Men Wanted. w e want two xooil.eiierKetii: men camps four miles above Casbua Ferry on l’e.‘ Dee River. We | ay (join, sa'ary anil furnish gooil board to the rifjht men. References required. Ail dress. CHAS MARTHINSON, Agt, Drake's P. O., Marlboro Co. 8. 0. Feb 35—3t. Democratic Executive Commit tee. The Democratic Executive Commit tee of Darlington County will please meet at Darlington, C. H., on salesilay in March. J. W. BEASLEY, ( hairmau. Feb 35—It. The Darlington Building and Loan Association. 1 >he regular monthly meeting will be held at the office of E. Keith Dargan Esq, on 8. Main St. this evening, ut 8 o’clock. Dues re ceived by the undersigned at his office tiuring the day and at the meeting, and after the close of the same, the penalty will surely attach on all un paid Dues TAKE NOTICE FINALLY. C. K. ROGERS, Secty and Treas. Ft b 25—It. THAT THE FMS Ii they consult their own inter ests, should guard against pur chasing low-grade fertilizers, with which Darlington County is now being flooded. Exam ine analyses carefully when you buy, or you may be pay ing for what you don't get. MANUFACTURERS OF Engines, Boilers, Cotton Seed OIL MACHINERY And all kinds of Tobacco Ma chinery, Corn and Wheat Mills, Turbine Water-Wheels, Saw Mills with rope feed or belt and variable friction feed, improved dogs and set works and timber guages, graduated to sixteenth of an inch, $200 to $300; Brick Machinery and Wood-Working Machinery a specialty. Planing Machines $200 and upwards. Drying Kilns for brick and lum her; every yard should have one. Plans and drawings for con struction furnished. We sell the highest grade of machinery and at low prices. <X Akullurm, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, S. C Hari Tiss & Scarce MoMy ave I¥o Terror§ for Us! Isn’t it Funny? that the doughty old 50-per-centers have been forced to cut their protits and follow The l ittle Bevii Fish down in prices ? Well, we will give them another slide. Best French Satinets worth 20 cts. per yard cut to 10 cts. Fruit a d I arker 4-4 Bleach sold at 12* cts., our price 8*0. Standard brands of Ginghams 6i in l8*c per yard. Best heavy Homespun Cheeks only 5c. per ya-d. It is use! ss to m -n'ion Our Shoe Department, as we a e the acknowledged leaders of honest Shoes at a lo»V price. We would respectfully call the attention of the trade to th fact that we have added A LINK OK GROCERIES and are determined to name the lowest of 1 w prices on them. We give a few prices to show which way the wind is bh wing: Standard A, Granulated Sugar, 201bsfor$L Best Bio Coffee, 20c per pou id. Also the cheaper g ale. Be t High Grade Patent F'lour at $6.25 per barrel. Space forbids more quotations, but if you will onlyconsult your own interests you w ill be sure to call on Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM. V/illcox’s Old Drug Store. Clothing. Clothing. For the next GO davs we will sell our en- •> tire t)3k of Mm’s, Youths’ and Boys’ STOVES, STOVES, STOVES flUW. B. McGIRT, D. D. S„* Offers his professional services to the people of Darlinutmi nml vicinity. Offlee over the store of Edwards, Nor- ment & Co. Jan 19,'90—ly A Pointer on Stationery. Buy your Books and Billet Deaux Materials of B.O. BRIS TOW. Pen Pointers are his specialty, and everything in the line of Stationery Books can be supplied at bottom prices. HOUSE FURNISHINC POODS. TIN WARE, HARDWARE, PUMPS, PIPING AND FITTINGS, OF EVERY DESCRIP TION. Tin and Hate Roofing and Front 1 a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed on all wort Give us a call and you will surely be pleased. J. G. WHITE. Corner Public Squareand Main Street J. G. McCall’s Old Stand. April 16-lyr the The B.st is the Cheapest. Domestic’’ Sawing Machine Im provements for 1891. Two machines in one; chain stitch; lock stitch; “Domestic" looper. Ask the agent to show it to you. You will see its great value at oiuv. Thk Wondkr ok tiik Aok! First in the field with new ideas; hisrh arm; bent wood woik; convertible stitch sewing machine The "DOMESTIC" can be ilben at the store of McCall & Burch, or at the residence of J. G. McCall. and | Mrs. J. G. McCall, rock! 1 Agent for Darlington County. Clothing HT COST, To make room for our Spring Stock. Call early and get ] BIGBAMGAINS. jove t sms, DARLINGTON, S.C. Also a few Ps Ingrain Carpeting at Cost. SHORTHAND Thorough, r- i" -tictici. CiraHv.-t*?# Hinted to ivositonu. C^vaIo'mi-fruc. Write to 3mNnr;&.vri3wms collet LOUISVILLE, KY. STTIT-A BLE IFOIR, EHRLY SPRING. of We have just opened up a New Line Dili Goods and Notions suitable for Early Spring. Our stock of Shoes. Hats and. Hardware has also been replenished.* We carry at all times a Large Stock of STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES at wholesale and retail. Respectfully, BRUNSON, LUNN & CO. ss.: 'a&i’i