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arliitgtat ♦ YOL. XIX, NO. 13. DARUNGTON, S. €., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1892. WHOLE NUMBER 89G. IlM'll LICIIMCS. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS. PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Persons I and Oth erwise, of Interest to Our Many Readers. The American Legion of Hon or meets to-nignt (Thursday.) Darlington Building and Loan Association *106618 to-morrow (Friday) night. Mr. A. A. Gandy has a notice in this issue in regard to pas turing cattle. Miss Alma McCown has re turned home from a visit to friends in Sumter. The subject for the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday afternoon next is, “The Whe Man on C mpanionships.” The Douglas Lodge, No. 3, Knights of Pythias (.colored) will hold a celebration in Macedonia Baptist Church on Sunday next. Mr. J. H. Early advertises six car loads of rough and dressed lumber for sale cheaply. Read his advertisement. The County Board of Equal ization will meet in the Auditor’s office on April 11 to determine and adjust all grievances that the tax-payers may have. A postoffice has been estab lished at Syracuse a station on the C. S. & N. Railroad between Darlington and Lamar. Mr. A. R. Garner is the postmaster. The special collection taken up in the Methodist Church on Sunday morning last, for the benefit of the Russian famine sufferers, amounted to $50.58. Mr. John D. Baird, wno re cently removed to Roanoke. Va., is in town. He is representing the Fidelity Mutual Life Insur ant e Company of Philadelphia. A number of very young people in Darlington have or ganized a reading club, which meets once a week. The ages of all the members are under fifteen years. Mr. J. H. Early has erected a tent in the rear of the lot where Mrs. A. D. Gibson's store for merly stood. He will use this tent as a workshop for his tin business. Among the new advertisers in this issue are Dr. J. A. Boyd and Messrs Woods & Milling Their anouncements impart valuable information and should be read carefully. Rev. J. B. Wilson, presiding elder of Florence district, con ducted the services in the Meth odist Church on Sunday night He also addressed the Epworih League on Monday night. We have been requested by Mr. J. W. Davis, president of the Antioch Democratic Club, to state that a meeting of that club will be held at Cold water school house, Saturday, April 9, at 3 p. m. Miss Effie Ellis, of Florence has been engaged as the salaried organist at the Methodist Church. She was in charge of tne organ on Sunday. The choir will be reorganized at an early day. Owing to unavoidable circum stances Messrs. Edwards, Nor- ment & Co. have postponed their annual spring opening until Tuesday next, when they will b3 glad to have all their friends and customers call. It is high time for the proper authorities to fix the bridge over Swift Creek leading to Doner- aile. It has been in a bad con dition for some time and we fail to see why the repairing of it should be longer delayed. Dr. A. T. Baird’s family will return to Darlington on Friday of next week, when the Doctor will remove to Dr. J. C. Will- cox’s house on Woods street, in East Darlington, the house formerly used as the postoffice. Mr. A. Nachman purchased the frame building formerly used as the New \ork Cheap Store and has removed it to the lot on Pearl Street adjoining the stand occupied by S. S. Dreher. It will be used as a store in its new location. It should be borne in mind that according to the recent Act of the Legislature every man in Darlington County who does not secure a new registration '•ertificate will be disqualified from voting. One’s oldcertificae will do him absolutely no good A notice of the dissolution of copartnership heretofore exist ing between S. Marco and I Lewenthal, undertheflrm name of S. Marco & Lewenthal, is S ublished in another column [r. Lewenthal will in the fu ture conduct business by him self. 1 The cold snap lapt week brought us as severe weather as we have had this winter There was a very slight fall of snow on Fridav. On Saturday morning Mr. George McCown’s mill pond was entirely frozen over, the first time this has been the case in several years. THE BOARD OF TRADE. Matters of Importance Acted upon at a Special Meeting.—A Regular Meeting to be Held To- Morrow Night. A special meeting of the Dar lington Board of Trade was held on Friday night last. Themeet- ing was a very important one and was largely attended. Many matters of importance and some of vital interest to the town were considered. The of Darlington County, who are | time for the expirations of their g j c j. - in sympathy wit h thejcall forthe ^Having be^n engag Mr. J. R. King’s new resi- matter of unjust freight discrim- State Convention by Wade made ed the com p anv a s the editor dence is nearly completed At- Hampton and others, was held until my farm duties required wa,s in the Court House on Monday, my whole attention, and the While the meeting was not as suspension^ the publication of iuations on the part of the lantic Coast Line System discussed. Several instances were furnished to show how ” *‘“c " t ’ the'paper following immediate this corporation discriminated ' ar K e as R should have been, l j ierea £ ter j deem a against Darlington, oneof which those who were present came to those who have paid for their we take for example, namely, for the transaction o lusiness subscriptions to make this state- presto the freight on corn shipped from , , an(1 ment. Correspondence concern-1 Greshai Wilmington to Darlington is 171 an “ u th ® y did it quickly and ^ can be had cents per one hundred pounds, without any friction. It is a w j tb j) r j ^ Cole, Secretary while the freight on the same noteworthy fact that the majori-: 0 f t h e c oln p an y. shipped to Bennettsville, which ty of those present were far-i * E. L. Gray. is thirty miles further the same gome re p re8entinK remote i Lamar, S. C„ Mch 22, ’92. shipped to Bennettsville, which ’ ”, j — is thirty miles further than Dar pacts of the County. Hie no- Breakfast Java has the fin st lington is from Wihniugton, is ti e given forthe meeting waK fl aV or of any roasted coffee on very short, and to this was the market Try it. Edwards, doubtless due in a great mens- Norment & Co. ^ ure the fact that the meeting two men shot. was not more largely attended., appointed There were about one hundred By the Accidental Discharge of a Shot- the Postal persons present, and, as the j ru" in regard DEMOCRATS OF DARUNGTON MEET IN CONFERENCE. A Full Delegation Elected to the State Convention to be Held in Colum bia To-day—Proceedings of the Mass Meeting. . The meeting of the Democrats THE LAMAR BULLETIN. Communication in Regard to that Journal from Its Former Editor. To The Public: I wish to state to those who THE COUNTY NEWS. TIMMONSVILLE. Mr. J. W. Westbury, an old FROM ALL SECTIONS OUR CORRESPONDENTS. have paid their subscriptions to What Our Neighbor, Are Doing And the Lamar Bulletin that the Say,ng.-A Bnef Resume of the Bulletin Company contemplates Week resuming the publication of the una. paper at an early day and the Mrg j H Hicks is 8ti n qu i te ! citizen, died Sunday night after as told BY a long and severe illness. Mr. F. C. Lechner has already planted several acres in water- AN THE WORLD S FUR. ADDRESS CONCERNING IT IS SUED TO THE PEOPLE. melons for the Northern mar ket. Mrs. W. G. Reynolds, who has been visiting relatives in North Carolina, returned home 'on Monday I Mrs. D. H. Traxler and her J daughter, Miss Helen, have , , _ . , 1 gone on a mouth's visit to the Mr. C. B. Rhodes, Jr., wishes •■] ja u<l a f Flowers”. Mr. Trax- that all persons communicating jg r w jjj follow shortly, with him will please address r „, ^. .,, him at Stokes Bridge. The Timmonsvilie .Ws . I changed hands last week and it On the second Sunday in the j g | 10 .> e( i that under the new month Rev. Geo. T. 1 The State Board of Managers Urge the Importance of Having South Caro lina well Represented a* the Fair—A Letter Worthy of Consideration. Office of South Carolina ] State Board of Manauers I World’s Columbian Expo- | SITION. Columbia, S. C., Mar. 1G, ’92. To the People of South Carolina: As a result of the call from the Columbia Board of Trade for a World’s Fair convention, the work of securing an exhibit for GENERAL NEWS. Items of Interest From All Over The World. A lady and a boy. both resi dents of Vicksburg Miss., have recently been made blind by severe attacks of the grip. The boy may recover his sight, but the lady’s case is considered hopeless. J. J. Corbett has accepted the challenge for a fight from John L.Sullivan, thechampion pulgil- ist of the world. Thev will fight for a purse of $25,000 in New Or leans on September 7. Each man has put up a forfeit of $2,500 to guarantee his appearance in the ring. The Richmond Terminal and the Richmond & Danville Rail road Companies, which are . . management it will be issued sham preached a missionary mon . promptly, sermon from the text, “go , . . ... unto all the world and preach Some of our prominent citi- the Gospel to every livi ea zens attended the mass meeting tion ’’Here is a port.j his m Florence yesterday, winch „|.|„ or mi ment • 1 ia> id was held to elect delegates to .. Southern Railway Company that it costs a dollar to r a the State Convention to be held ^8 elected by the convention and its total ca pit 7 a ii za ti 0 n has dollar to the heathen an.i iP I in Columbia to-day. have systematically mapped out j been increased to $350,000,000. South Carolina at the World’s! operated under one system, were Columbian Exposition has been reorganized last week. The inaugurated. The Board of Man-1 » ew company will be called the 1 Smit.rmrn Ruilturnv l.nmnanv 14 cents, a difference in favor of Bennettsville of 31 cents or 25 per cent. The matter was re ferred to the committee on rail roads. A committee was to again confer with Telegraph Company -rfc persons present, vr l- ~ townpeoplewereintheminior- to that company establishing an : u'' c office in Darlington. Offices of | ty> can nt d Le said that th the company have already been meeting was a “town affair, established in Cheraw and Ben- ()n the whole the meeting was nettsville and a line could easily more successful than even its be extended to this place. We would then have the benefit of most sanguine competitive telegraphic ser-; for. vices. Dr. H. J. Lee and Mr. T. J. An invitation was extended to; Price were in turn nominated Col. E. R. Mclverto address the Board at its meeting to-morrow night on the importance of hav ing South Carolina represented j JV 1 ’ J at the World’s Fair and the best 1 e 1 Bennettsville, March 20.- fore some good people am posed to foreign missions. Hie claim is without foundation. Southern Baptists are at little or no cost for the work other than that of collecting the money and paying the secretaries. We can buy foreign exchange at par, and sometimes at a dis count, so that it costs nothing ie^.bout 5 o clock yesterday even- more than the home expenses to npng, Master Laurin Covington, , ( ] ace our m oney in the hands ; a clerk in J. P. Campbell s store,, () £ ^j ie m j 88 jonarie8. A large ; in attempting to move a shot- t ^ be rea j cog t incurred is even its g Un> which had been deposited ( ij re ctly chargeable to ;the ne- friends hoped in the store, accidentally struck n,] ec t 0 f duty oy pastorsandpeo- the hammer against the count- 1 - . c • -- - methods to be pursued in ob taining for the State a proper exhibit at the great exposition. The meeting to-morrow night will be the regular meeting aud the consideration of matters of great importance, which were left unfinished at the special neeting on Friday night, will be resumed. If you want a juicy and deli cately flavored ham, go to Ed wards, Norment & Co.’s and ask for a Ferris pig. — - • •— -»• Pine-apples, Edam and cream cheese, West & Honour. er, discharging the gun, the load passing through the large plate glass in front of the store, for chairman of the meeting striking Robert Jackson, a resi- but both gentlemen declined. : dent of the county, and Oscar Mr. Henry T. Thompson was j Matthews, a young man from nominated and elected. Florence," who were standing Dr. J.C. Willcox was elected near the store on the sidewalk, secretary. The call for the Mr Jackson was shot in the meeting, which was published left side of the face and neck in the last issue of The News, land Mr. Matthews in the face. A NEW SERIAL. “A Cast for Fortune,” by Christian Reid, will be Commenced in the Next Issue. With this issue the serial sto ry, “His Second Campaign” is Drought to a close. Tins story is one of Maurice Thompson’s best and during the period that it was published in The News our readers were furnished a pleasant and interesting story. It found great favor among our mentis ana many complementa ry criticisms were passed upon it. We have determined to con tinue this plan of giving our subscribers a bright, interesting and refined serial and in our next issue will appear the open ing chapters of the beautiful story, entitled “A Cast for For tune.” This story is new and is from the pen of Christian Reid, who is by far the most was read. Gen. W. E. James mov d i that a committee of five be ap- j pointed by the chair to nomi nate eight delegates to the State Convention. Dr. J. C. Willcox ! moved to amend so as to au thorize the committee to also nominate four alternates. Gen. James accepted the amend ment and the motion as amend ed was adopted. The following committee was appointed : j Gen. W. E. James, Dr. M. G. Lee, Messrs J. N. Suggs, A. B. Dove an E. T. Coker. The committ e retired and, after a short interval returned Drs. David. Easterling and Jor don dressed the wounds, which, while painful, are not danger ous. Choice creamery butter, West & Honour. A REPRESENSIBLE PRACTICE. the i The Firing of Shotguns Within Corpoy-ate Limits of the Town Now that the season for robins ! h a s come, people are killing ; these birds with shotguns iu- ! side the corporate limits of the town. This reprehensible prac- ple. In certain States in 1889 it cost 15 cents on the dollar to place the money in the hands of the missionaries, but 5 3-10 cents of this was^aid to agents for collecting. South Carolina had no agent and was saved this expense and the cost of sending to its destination the money collected in this State was 9 7-10 6ents on the dollar. Out of every dollar collected by South Carolina Baptists, 9 7-10 cents went for expenses and 90 3-10 cents went to missions. Thus the work is conducted more cheaply than one’s private business, for in the mercantile business, for example, it usually takes 10 per cent of sales to pay expenses. As the force now employed in the mission work could "attend to a much larger business the more we give the smaller the cost and it is there fore, our fault that it costs as much as it does to send the Gos pel to the heathen. pme iting the following nomina- f* 06 becoming much too com- tions : Delegates, Dr. H. J. Lee, mon an d the authorities should Messrs J. T. Roigers. J F. Wil son, Henry T. Thompson, J. E. Nettles, T. J Price, J. J. Law- ton and Gen. W. E. James ; Alternates, Messrs W. A. Carri- gan, W. F. Dargan and J C. Clements. The gentlemen were then unanimously elected dele gates and alternates. Mr. F. E. Norment stated that the meeting should adopt iev olutions looking to a direct State primary and moved that a com mittee of five be appointed to draft suitable resolutions advo cating the direct primary. Mr. J. E. Nettlesopposed the motion, stating that he thought that this was a matter that the State Convention and not the Co nty mass meeting should act upon. _, He f ivored the delegates going popular authoress of the South, to Columbia uninstructed. Dr. Her works, such as “Bonny H. J. Lee and Mr. J. J. Ward Kate” and the “Land of the agreed with Mr. Nettles. Mr. oky ” have received universal Norment then withdrew his mo- commendation and “A Cast for tion. The meeting, having ac- Fortune” will undoubtedly take complish d the purpose for the same high place in American which it was called, then ad- literature. Watch the opening journed. chapters in our next issue, they The State Convention will be will give the reader a foretaste he’d in Columbi i to day put a stop to it. The fireing of shotguns in a thickly set- 11 e d community is dangerous and should not be tolerated. Be sides the danger to the inhabi- t nts of the town, it furnishes a constant cause for horses to take fright. Huyler’s cocoa, W. & H. OBITUARY. Alexander P. Gray was born July 12, 1814 and died February 8, 1892. He married, on Janua ry 9, 1839, Mary M. Rogers, who preceded him to the better land. of what is to follow. Fresh lime and lemon juice at Edwards, Nor uent & Co.’s. New prunes, West & Honour. ANOTHER RESPITE. The Governor Grants a Lease of Life to Lewis Williams Until June 10, the Day for James' Execu tion. It will be remembered that several weeks ago it was stated The News that an effort would be made to have the Gov ernor give a re'pite to Lewis Williams to June 10, the day set apart for the execution of Joseph W. James. The effort was made and proved success ful, for on Wednesday of last the Governor granted the re quest, and, consequently, Wil liams, who was to have been hanged on April 26, will not be executed until June 10, when he and James will be hanged to gether, unless the Governor again interferes, and nearly evety County in the State will be represented by full delegations. A new lot of water sets, berry sets, celery jars, water bottles, rose bowls" and a full line of oth er glassware and crockery, in eluding a complete stock of Mad- dock’s white grarite ware, just received at Edwards, Norment & Co.’s. Mixed chow-chow and sweet pickles, West & Honour. THE KILLOUGH MUSIC COMPANY Fancy evaporated apples, & Honour. West An Anonymou* Communication. A correspondent writes to The News nominating Judge J. B. Kershaw for Governor. The letter would have been pub lished in full but for the fact that no signature is attached to it. We can not break the rule of all newspapers in regard to anonymous communications, The Annual Meeting of the Stockhold er!.—A Good Showing Made. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Killough Music Co., was held on Thurs day, the 10th inst, and the fol lowing Directors were elected Smilie A. Gregg, Ino. P. Coffin, J. B. Killough. C. M. Covington, W. J. Brown, P. A. Willcox and R. C. Commander. A very sat isfactory report of the affairs and gains of the Company were shown and a vote of thanks was made to the old Board of Direc tors and officers for their suc cessful management of the Com pany for its fiscal year. Imme diately after the above meeting adjourned the new Board met and elected the following offi cers : J. B. Killough, president and general manager; Smilie A. Gregg, vice president; A. R. Wilkins secretary aud treasurer; P, A. Willcox attorney, The deceased united with the Swift Creek Baptist Church in early life and afterwards moved his membership to the High Hill Baptist Church, in which con nection he lived a faithful and consistent life, always ready to help in anything that would ad vance his Master’s cause. His influence was felt for good. He was a friend to the poor, visi ting them and looking after their wants. He was a man of great piety and a lovable spirit tilled his soul. He had a kind word and a warm grasp of the hand for everyone with whom he came in cor tact and it was not strange that he was loved and respected by all who knew him. I never heard him speak evil of any one. He was Deacon of the Church for upwards of forty years. The church has sustain ed a loss ; the community has been bereft of a true friend and his children of a faithful father and wise counsellor. He leaves six children, three sons and three daughters, and a host of friends who mourn the loss. We mourn, hut we do not mourn as those who have no hope. Farewell Brother, by the grace of God, we will meet you on the other shore. Friend. GREEN PLAINS. Considerable corn has been planted in this neighborhood. We are enjoying fine weather and the farmers are too busy to talk politics. Our school is still in a flourish ing condition. Its session will be continued until April 1. The small grain is improving very fast and the acreage is much above the average. Our public highways are in a wretched condition and the bridges are even worse. Unless they are improved we will soon have to quit the roads and take to the woods. A mad dog recently caused a considerable stir in this neigh borhood. He was killed by Mr. John Gainey or one of his sons. It is said that he bit several oth er dogs before he was killed. HIGH HILL. Miss Daisie Stuckey is attend ing school at Lamar. Misses Inoe Wilson and Car rie Gee are visiting relatives at Lin wood. We think if an effort was made to organize a temperance society at this place it would meet with success and perhaps much good would be accomplish ed. Mrs. W, T. Sing has returned to Florence, which place she will leave in a few days to join her husband in Brunswick, Ga. We wish them much happiness in their new home. This seems to be a very desira ble location for saw mills. We have two in our midst in stone’s throw of ei ch other; one belongs to Messrs Dargan & Wilds and the other to Messrs Jeffords & Potter. The small grain crop in this section is looking fine and our farmers are beginning to plant corn and make preparation for their cotton planting. We have not heard yet how the Irish potato crop is doing, which several of our farmers planted as a venture a month ago. RIVERDALE. Some of our farmers have planted corn but some are wait ing for the blighting atmosphere to moderate. Mr. Willie Abbott and Miss Alethea Isgett, of this place, were married on the 16 inst. We wish them a long and hap py life. The second Quarterly Confer ence for Hartsville Circuit was held at New Chapel on the 19 and 20 inst. Rev. J. B. Wil son, our esteemed Presiding Elder, delivered excellent ser mons on both days. DOVESVILLE. We are having some beauti ful days now, after two or three weeks of rain. It is stated that Mr. L. M. Crosswell has the finest garden in this neighborhood. The grip has had a firm hold on several persons in this place, but the victims are better now. Mr. Willie Sumner, Mr. Odom, and Mr. Tommie Sumner gave us some delightful music one night recently. Wethankthem very much and would be glad if they could serenade oftener than they do. Pine Island Fertilizer. [From one who has perfected the cure of tobacco and has done more to revolutionize the curing and handling of tobacco than the whole world.] Office of Modern Tobacco Barn Company, High Point, N. C., January 15, 1892. The Quinnipiac Company.— Gentlemen :—I expect to grow a crop of thirty acres of Tobacco at Tifton, Ga., this year and have made up my mind to use “Pine Island Fertilizer.” I have a good opinion of it as a first-class tobacco fertilizer, gained from many sources, among them R. H Ricks of Nash County, N. C., A. J. Hes ter 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 partic ulars concerning this fertilizer. Apply to Woods & Woods. Mch 10—3t. the success of the undertaking, but appreciate its magnitude and 1 the State work, dividing it into fp be g t ea mer Indiana, which sub, county, and township com- i e ft Philadelphia on February mittees. They are sanguine of 22 for Russia with a cargo of 1 flour and provisions for the re lief of the famine stricken suf- w . , ....ferersin that country, arrived the difficulties which they will at Libau> u ug8 i a) on Wednes- have to encounter, and feel their : day of last week. The arrival inability to carry forward the'of the vessel was hailed with work without the hearty support preat joy by the officials and in- f ... , ., o. ^ , i habitants of that city, of the citizens of the State at large. By a combination of! t 0n ? ni « ht ^ l a8 t week an at- , ” , , . , . : tempt was made to blow up bar- forces great undertakings as-, rackg in Parig occupied by na- sume minimum proportions, and tional troops. Dynamite was Cases Dismissed. Adam Jackson, colored, and his grandmother, Hester Mc Daniel, who were recently ar rested on the charge of burning the storehouse of Mr. H. Lide Law, at Hartsville, were given a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Sanders on Satur day and that official dismissed the cases against both parties. LEAVENSWORTH. THEY CARED NOT FOR MEN. Singular Infatuation of Two Girls for One Another. Memphis, March 7.—Another case of unnatural love, similar to the infatuation of Alice Mit chell for F’reda Ward, has been discovered in this city. Addit, Phillips and Minnie Hubbard are each seventeen years of age. On Sunday the two girls dis appeared and were not found for three days. Miss Phillips, on her return home, said she and Minnie had been together. She told her mother that she loved Minnie and would rather be dead than separated from her. She further said she cared difficulties that seem insur mountable when approached with a determination to over come them disappear with mira culous rapidity. F’eeling that every citizen of South Carolina should take a pride in the State’s exhibit we appeal to you to aid us in this work. Do not think that you can be of no service, and there-1 were fore fail to do your part, but, be it great or small, do what you can to swell the grand aggregate to such colossal proportions that all may be proud of the display. Money is the main thing need ed to insure success, and if every one who can and will give only one dollar we will have no lack. But if you do not feel that you can contribute money, you may have some rare picture some mechanical device, some piece of your own handiwork, some relic of colonial times, some rare specimen of mineral, or some specimen of the taxidermist’s art, all of which will be received with thanks by the committee, and will be properly listed and returned to you when the Expo sition is over. You can also aid by your words of cheer and encouragement. If you cannot praise the efforts of those who are working with purely disinterested motives, do not cripple their efforts and dampen their ardor by adverse criticisms and attempt to throw coli water upon the undertaking by saying it cannot be done. It can be done if every one would do all in their power to aid in the work. Other States are doing the same thing and shall we sit contentedly down and see South Carolina, who in days past has been a leader, relegated to the rear because her sons and daugh ters failed to bestir themselves ? Shall she be made a reproach and a by-word amongst her fair sisters, the Original Thirteen ? We trow not. Her actions in the past are a guarantee that she will not be left behind in the matter of the World’s Colum bian Exposition. The State board is doing all in its power for the success of the undertaking, and we appeal for aid to your pockets, your pride and your ingenuity. Help us and thereby yourselves.. By order of the State Board of Managers. Fred. A. Sale, Secretary. used and it is supposed that An archist did the work. The at tempt was unsuccessful, but has caused great consternation in Paris, for a number of outrages such as this have lately been at tempted in that city by Anarch ists. v On Friday night Mrs. Mel rose, her son and two daughters, poisoned at their home in Nashville. Tenn., by drink ing coffee that had arsenic in it. The two daughters died next morning and the mother and and son were for a while ex tremely ill. Another son who did not drink any of the coffee has been arrested on the charge of having poisoned the family. corn. DARLINGTON COTTON MARKET F or the Week Ending March 23. Wednesday Good Middling, 5i Middling, 51 Strict Low Middling, 5! Low Middling, 4i nothing for the society of men, The farmers are busy planting i and that Minnie was the only person she could marry, and , „ • | this she intended to do as soon One can hear the bells ringing ag 8be ggpyred some money Miss Phillips is a fine looking girl, and has been carefully edu cated. It was agreed to-day between the parents of the two on each side of the creek, call ing the sleeply hands to work. Mrs. M. D. Byrd has returned home from a brief visit to friends and relatives at Bennettsville. On the 16th inst. Miss Carrie Byrd, of Antioch, and J. A. Spears, of Bennettsville, were married at the residence of the bride’s father, Rev. F. M. Sat- terwhite; officiating Mr. J. E. Kervin has the best oats in this section. Mr. Kervin has been attending to the grist mill for the last few days as Mr. STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, And Put in Paragraphs. On Tuesday night of last week Lawrence Toomer a well known citizen of Charleston committed suicide in Summerville. A negro cabin in Laurens County was destroyed by tire last week and two negro chil dren that were in it were burn ed to death. Mrs. Annie M. Pratt, wife of Rev. R. N. Pratt, pastor of the Baptist Church at Bennettsville, died at her home in that town on the 14 inst. James O’Rouke, awhite man was most foully murdered Fri day night at his residence seven miles from Charleston. Some one shot him from the outside of his house through the win dow. The murderer is un known. John Arrington, a young white man who was stealing a ride on a train in Williamsburg County, on Friday night, at tempted to jump off near Cade’s in that County and was thrown upon his head. His skull was crushed, causing his death. Bishop Jones, a negro preach er, was shot dead in his pulpit at Allendale on Friday night last. He had just concluded a prayer and was in the act of rising in the pulpit, when he was shot by a negro who fired through a window. Jones was considered a bad negro. girls to separate them, when Miss Phillips heard result of the council she overcome with grief. and the was Wife Murderer Lynched. John W. Bright, charged with wife murder, was lynched at Forsyth, Mass., last week. He was having his preliminary hearing when he was seized by Tedder has been quite "sick, but a mob and put to death. A we are glad to say that the lat-, deputy sheriff who tried to save ter is able to be about again. 1 him was shot dead. Her Son John. (Youth’s Companion.) E’ew men have ever combined sternness and inflexibility of purpose with tenderness of heart to such an extraordinary degree as Stonewall Jackson. Of his kindness, his widow re lates this pleasing example, in her newly published biography of her husband: Near the close of his most ar duous campaigns an old woman called at his headquarters, and to the amusement of the young staff-officers, said she had come to see her son John, who was with “Jackson’s Company.” She was much surprised that they could not tell her where John was, for he had been with Jackson’s Company” in all the battles. Her persistency finally chang ed the young men’s amusement to annoyance ; but when Gen- eneral Jackson came in and heard her simple story, he lis tened with as much politeness as if she had been a grand lady, and after gently reproving the young officers for laughing at her, he ordered that every com pany in his corps should be searched for John, who was at last found, to the inexpressible delight of hia loving old mother. Mr. Butler B. DuBose was killed from ambush Saturday night on the public road near Manning. The coroner’s jury brought in a verdict that the de ceased was killed by Mr. J. Car- son Stukes. Mr. Stukes is said to be a quiet, peaceable citizen and one of the best men in Clar endon County. Rev. Charles R. Willeford, a prominent Baptist preacher of Union County, has been charg ed with forgery. His present whereabouts is "unknown. His family propose to make good all his irregularities. It is claimed that if he has done wrong it is due to his mind hav ing been affected by ill health. Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the Liver be inac tive, you have a Bilious Look, if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys be affected you have a Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bitters m the great alterative and Tonic acts directly on these vital or- ans. Cures Pimples,Blotches, oils and gives a go*d complex ion. Sold at Willcox & Co’s Drugstore, 50c. per bottle.