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MM 'mW; im M ; . '{A:..-* far, VOL. XIX, NO. 21. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1892. WHOLE NUMBER 904. 13 IN AND AROUND PROS. IROUS DARLINGTON. n of News Person.-1 anj OtV , of Interest to Our Many Readers. •olored fair company will (loral fair on August 5. notice of au umbrella advertised in this issue. Sheriff carried a colored i the Lunatic Asylum last E. Bell of Alabama, is g his daughter, Mrs F. j more. Morgan and children, of; ville, arc visiting the fami- Ir. Frank Fegucs. irty of young people had j enjoyable picnic at the al spring on Friday. . H. L. Coker and her; .ter. Miss Mary Coker, of; y Hill, aro visiting iela-! in town. try Brown, the new bar ! takes an announcement in tsue in regard to his es- 1 hment. t Charleston, Sumter and tern Railroad now has able rates in force to North- nd Eastern c.ties. i meeting of the Young s Christian Association on ay afternoon next will be led to a song service. e State Executive Commit- f the Democratic party lias led to hold the campaign ing for Darlington on 1- . i sses Lize and Caroline npson a n d Mr. Hugh S. I npson, Jr., of New York, visiting relatives in Dar- tou. r. Geo. M. McCown gave a fhtful fish dinner to a uum of his friends, in the grove! • his residence, on Wednes- of last week. r ork is progressing on the j ©'brick stores on the west j of the Square. Two of n are Mr. J. H. Early’s and other Mr. W. C. Byrd’s. n Wednesday of last week Robert Coker, a pupil of the j die schools, killed a jointed ko on the Academy green. | > snake when killed b.oke 3 several pieces. in important notice is pub- »ed in this issue in regard to annual meeting of the Dar- gton Building and Loan As-! lation, which will be held on idnesc^ay evening next. Dr. W. J. Garner, whom we intkmed as having received ;ently a severe cut upon the nd while dissecting, has fully mvered from the wound and is w pursuing his studies in 1 >me, Italy. The ice cream festival given i Friday night last for the nefit of the Young Men s iristian Association was quite success for it afforded a pleas •abie evening to many and a >od sum was realized. At a meeting on Friday night ' the Rogers Division, No 3, nifonn Rank. Knights of Py- nas. G. H. McKee was elected ir Knight Captain; W. E. ames, Sir Knight Lieutenant; C, A. Parrott, Sir Knight Her- Id. • Rev. E. C. Dargan, D. D., ormerly of Darlington and now astor of the Citadel Square iaptist Church in Charleston. ias been elected to a professor- hip in the theological seminery it Louisville and has accepted ihe position. Hon. W. R. Spooner, the Premier of the Royal’Society of □ood Fellows, will not payDar- liugtou the extended visit that he promised, but it is expected that he will be present at the meeting of the Good Fellows this evening. Mr. J. L. Edwards, who has for sometime past had charge of the wholesale grocery depart ment of Messrs J. L. Coker & Co’s store at Hartsville, has re- t irned to Darlington, having been elected secretary of the factory, vice J. T. Bristow, de ceased. In accordance with the pre vious notice Rev. J. F. Jacobs conducted the services in >he Presbyterian Church on Sun day. Rev. W. R. Mkinson, D. D., president of the South Caro lina College for Women, in Col umbia, will fill this pulpit on Sunday next. YOU CAN GET YOUR MONEY. , The Clerk of the Court has Received the Checks for the Pensioners of Darlington County The C lei k of the Court has re- t oeived the checks for pensioners andthev mavs'cuiet 1 eirmoney by calling on him. 'I he check- aggregate thirteen hundred and rtf tv-seven dollars. The amount j for each pensi< m r is twenty three dolhtis, this being the whole amount that each pen siot.er will r< ceive for this year. | There are fifty-nine pensioners it this county. The following i is ti e list: Pole!t Dampier, W. H. H. Miller. Robert Harrell, R. A j How ell, Benjamin Outlaw. D j D. Bone Thos. Poison, J. R Hunter, M. L. Melton, Maria Flowers, M. S. Jacobs, Eliza jbeth King, Caroline McDonald, ;E.S.Davis, Ann Amerson, H. M. Peebles, J. J. Mozingo, IS. Y. Scarborougti, Malinda Gainey, N. S H. Privett, Dor cus Pate, Hannah Goodson, Nancv Liindv, Amelia Ander son. E. A. Wilson. II try Fil ls. Patience Hagood, barah A. Cook, M. F. Byrd.T. B Wither spoon, W. J. Dew. E. A. Bostick, Margaret Hill, M. E. Braddock, M. A. E. Lev\ is, E. J. Tyner, M. E Bozeman. E. G. Hoole, Orphia Bozeman. Martha Hai- rell. C. A. Hill, busan Reddick, Margaret Cooper, Louisa Mor rell, E. 1). Elmore, D. J. Har ris, Mary Williamson. Susannah Best, AdalineKelly, Anna Dam- pier, Mira A. Severance, Mar garet A. Christmas. J. J. Red dick, Lucy Ann Poison, Han nah Powers, Harmon Jones, William J. Windham, Sallie H. Huggins, W. D. Baskins. —• Fifty more Wheeler tte Wilson No 9 and improved New Homes will be sold on easy terms and given in exchange for old ma chines for the next few days at Blackwell Bros. Go to McCall & Burch for your spring suits, they have the best stock in town. AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY. The colored men, Willie Wil liams, Charley Williams and Dave Smith, who were arrested for breaking into Mr. J. B. Mul- drow’s store, were given a pre liminary hearing by Trial Jus tice Sanders, on Thursday. Willie Williams confessed that he was engaged in the burglary and implicated the others. He was remanded to jail to await trial and the others were releas ed for want of sufficient evi dence against them. For Ambitious Young Men and Women to Secure Good Education. The annual competitive ex amination for Peabody Scholar ships from South Carolina in the Nashville Normal College will be held in Columbia on Wednesday. July 20, at 10 A. M. Seven sholarships will be awarded This affords an ex cellent opportunity for ambi tious young men and women to obtain u good education, for tV scholarships are open to both sexes. A Peabody Scholarship is worth $100 a year and the stu dent's railroad fare from his or her home to Nashville and re turn, and is good for two years. The college year consists of eight months beginning on the first Wednesday in October and closing on the last Wednesday in May, and sholarship students receive from the Resident of the College $25 on the last days of October, December, February and April. Particulars concerning the examination can be had by ap plication to the School Commis sioner of Darlington county or to the State Superintendent of Education, at Columbia. Pratt’s food for poultry, cat tle, horses and hogs at Edwards, Norment & Co. THE REMORSELESS REAPLR. Claims as His Own a Most Estimable Lady. Mrs. Eliza Wilds died on Thursday, in Springville, where she was residing. She had been sick only a few days. Mrs. Wilds was the daughter of the late Dr. R. L. Hart, of Darling ton, and was the relict of Mr. R. A. Wilds who died last fall. She was about thirty-seven years old and leaves three chil dren, the oldest of whom is about fifteen years of age. Her remains were interred at Lo wth- er's Hill Cemetery, near the Pee Dee River, on Friday. She was buried by the side of her husband who preceded her to the grave by only a few short months. The following gentle men acted as pall-bearers: Messrs J. M. Licfe, E. P. Lido, W. S. Hatched, E. J. C. Byrd, W. D. Fountain, F. M. Collins. Mrs. Wilds was a most estima ble lady and her death brings sorrow to her large circle of friends. The Racket Store. Mr. J. J. Sheppard, proprietor of the “Racket", has just re turned from New York with a very large and varied stock of spring and summer goods. He intends to let the people of this community know of all the good things he lias brought them at cTieap prices and he will, therefore, make an an nouncement in the next issue of Thb News. Those who are wise will look out f. r themselves by looking out for his announce ment. They should “read mark, learn and inwardly di gest”* DARLINGTON THE SCENE OF A VENDETTA. ! The Moores and the Woodhams have a Shooting Scrape—The Three Woodham* Wounded, but not Seriously. For sometime past there has been bad feeling between Mr. A. E. Woodham's family and Mi. Wesley Moore’s. This feel ing arose from a dispute about ' land. Mr. Moore claims by right of purchase a certain tract of land, which is occupied by Mrs. J. E. Shirley, a sister I of Mr. Woodharn, and she re fuses to vacate. The families are related, Mr. Moore being Mr. Woodham’s uncle. They live near each other in the Ash- | land neighborhood. The t hoot lug occurred on j Thursday last and in order to i give an impai tial account of the i affair we give our readers the statements made to a represen- tativeof Ths News by each side. Mr S. F. Moore, who gives the statement of his side, is a son of Mr. Wesley Moore. He was not present at the shooting, but lie furnishes the statementgiven him by his sister, Miss Beulah Moore,“who was an eyewitness. Mr. A. E. Woodham himself furnishes the statement for his side. Mr. S. F. Moore’s statement is as follows: On Thursday afternoon about sunset Messrs A. E. Woodham, bis son, Bruce Woodham, and A. T. Harris drove past the resi- ; dence of Mr. Wesley Moore, about one mile below Ashland on the Chesterfield road, sing ing and hallooing. After they had passed on and gotten about j a quarter of a mile away, Mr. A. E. Woodham returned to Mr. Moore’s house and asked who | had done the hallooing Mr. Moore’s daughter Miss Beulah, approached Mr. Woodham and asked him to leave. He said to her: “I have nothing against | you, but I will kill old man Wess Moore before the sun rises.” Nhe took hold of his horse and finally persuaded him I to go away. When Mr. Woodham loft he | went to the house of his son, Bruce, about six hundred yards from Mr. Moore’s house. In a i few minutes he returned driving up in front of Mr. Moore's house. In the buggy with him were Bruce and Iris younger son, George. They renew ed the cursing and i some party or parties fired from within Mr. Moore’s house. Two doubled barrelled shot guns were used and three shots were fired almost simultaneously. The guns were loaded with bird shot. All of the Woodhams were wounded but none danger ously. Ed Woodham wasshot in the face and left arm, about ;i dozen shot lodging in his face, but his wounds are slight. Bruce was shot in the head and face, principally in the head. George's wound is perhaps, the severest; he was shot in the i face, arm and side. The Wood hams left immediately after the tiring and said that they would ; return and kill Wesley Moore, but this they did not do. This is precisely the statement j given by Mr. S. F. Moore. When questioned by a repre sentative of The News as tS who fired the shots, from with in his father's house, he replied that he did not know, that he had not been told. He further | added that he thought Mr. I George Woodham had aecom- . panted his father and brother to i the scene of the trouble merely | for the purpose of preventing a difficulty. He thought that Ed and Bruce were under the influ- j ence wine, but that George was perfectly sober. He seem- ! ed todesiretoexhonerate George : from any blame in the matter, j Mr. A. E. Woodham makes the following statement con cerning the affair: He, together with his son, Bruce, and Mr. A. T. Harris, went across Lynches’s Riveron business. They had taken a little wine to drink. They pass ed, on the way to Bruce Wood- ham’s house, by Mr. Wesley Moore’s. They did nothing to give offence to Mr. Moore. Mr. Harris may have been singing; he is almost always singing. They w^nt on to Bruce’s house and Bruce and Harris got out of the buggy. They heard halloo ing up at Mr. Moore’s house and he (A. E. Woodham) went back there alone. i He found Mr. Wesley Moore in the road in front of his yard. He asked who did the hollooing and Mr. Moore replied that he did it and turned and went to wards t v, e house. He then went back to Bruce’s house and, on hearing some more hallooing up at Moore’s, he and Bruce pro ceeded to return there. While on the way his younger son, I George, jumped into the buggy and tried to get them to turn back, but they went on and reached the corner of Mr. Moore’s yard fence. Here, at the solicitation of George, they were in the act of turning their buggy to go back home, when a shot was fired at them from the piazza. The load took effect in ! all of them. Nona of them had even as yet i gotten out of the buggy, but after the shot was fired George jumped out and endeavored to turn the horse towards home. Two more shots were then fired from the piazza and both of them took effect also. Some of the shot hit the horse. Before the firing commenced George asked Moore not to shoot, saying that he could get his father to go away. Mr. Smith, a minister who stays at Mr. Moore’s, told Mr. Moore not to shoot and that he would get Mr. Woodham away. Mr. Woodham says that, on account of some obstructions to the view, he could not see who was on the piazza and conse quently could not say who did the shooting, but that there were parties present at the time who could say who had done it. He said that George states that he saw both Weslev Moore and his son, L. A. Moore, shoot. Mr Woodham alsg added that none of his party had any weap ons whatever. On yesterday Mr. Ed. Wood ham and Bruce came to Dar lington and'were placed under a peace bond. The Moore’s will also be placed under bond. On Tpesdav Governor Tillman telegraphed Sheriff Cole to place all the parties under bond, but this the Sheriff intended doing anyhow and the parties to the trouble seem willing to give bond. FOR PROHIBITION The improved No 9 or the light running New Home well cared for will last you for years; found only at Blackwell Bros. » » —■ — Buv the Ferris delicious hams from Edwards, Norment & Co. A REJOINDER. Mr. W. C. Wilson Replies to Mr. Wad- dill’s Letter. Editor Darlington News: The impression may be creat ed in the minds of some from Mr. J. M. Waddill’s article, in your last issue, that iuthemeet- ing o^ the Democratic Club at this place on the 9th of April, the conservatives were unfair in the treatment of theTillman- ites. The fact is everything was conducted in the fairest and most open manner possible. It is true that opr ballots were all prepared before the meeting and also the ballots of the Till- manites. It is also true that a conservative secretary was elect ed, which was natural and pro per as the conservatives had a two thirds majority, and be cause no nomination for the position was made by the other side. To say that we turned out their Tillmanite secretary, was not exactly true, for this was a meeting for the re-organi zation of the Club, and there was no secretary until this meeting elected him. The form er secretary, a Tillmanite, said before the meeting that he would not accept the position if elected. As to the proposition made by Mr. Edward Evans to divide the delegation, I would like to ask why it was not done two years ago when they man aged to elect their delegates by a majority of four ? Our dele gates were elected by a major ity of thirty on the 9th of April There was no "gag” applied by the majority shutting off debate on Mr. Waddill’s resol ution instructing delegates to vote for “free silver”. Mr. Waddill supported his resol ution by a speech and was fol lowed by Mr. Burn on the same side. No other remarks being offered Mr. Waddill’sresolution was promptly defeated. The incorrectness of Mr. Waddill's claim that there would have been a tie vote had all of his side attended the meet ing, will be shown later. We have heard of an individ ual named Jack who would not eat bis supper. Perhaps the same reasons which actuated Jack govern Mr. Waddill’s actions with references to the offices. W. C. Wilson. Society Hill, 8. C. May 1C,’92. Straw hats, straw hats, straw hats at McCall & Burch’s. Alpaca coats and vests and other thin goods to suit you. Blackwell Bros. Armour’s canned goods are now in season and on hand at Edwards, Norment & Co. A STATE CONVENTION OF ANTI LIQUOR MEN. The Probitioniits Will Make a Fight Againat Whiskey Through the Regular Democracy. For sometime a call for a State Convention of Prohibitionists has been circula ted throughout South Carolina for signatures. The purpose of the convention is for the adoption of the “best plan for presenting the (prohibition) question to the people at the coming election through the regular Democratic organiza tion.” The call hasheen signed by nearly three hundred per sons, among whom many are very prominent citizens. The convention will be held in Col umbia on Thursday of next week, the 26 inst. The following is the text of the call : “ flGtereci.s, the traffic in in toxicating beverages is one of the most prolific causes of deg- redation and ruin to the indi vidual, poverty and wretched ness to the home, disorder, pauperism and crime to the com mon wealth and an enormous financial drain upon our alrea dy impoverished people ; and whereas the agitation of last winter in the General Assembly has placed the issue squarely before the Democratic party in South Carolina ; “Therefore, wo the under signed, at the urgent solicita tion of a large number of the people, invite all Democratic voters favoring the prohibition of the liquor traffic to meet in Columbia, Thursday, May 26, at 6 o’clock P. M., in the Hall of the House of Representatives, there to form and adopt the best plan for presenting the question to the people at the coming election through the regular Democratic organiza tion.” Mr. Nettles Appears for the Prohibition ists. Col. C. S. Nettles, of Darling ton appeared before the State Executive Committee of the Democratic party, in Columbia on Tuesday, on behalf of the Prohibitionists. The News and Courier says Col Nettles “asked the committee to allow separate ooxes to he placed at each pre cinct at the primary, at which voters could vote for the pro hibition or license. The only question the Prohibitionists would be asked would be wheth er they would carry out the will of the majority of the voters. “Mr. Nettles proposes in this way to take the matter out of the Gubernatorial contest, and if possible to secure control of the Legislature. Mr. Nettles states that only two members opposed the plan and that was through a misunderstanding. The committee decided it had no right to prepare such a box without authority, and if the Convention to-morrow authoriz ed such a box it would he ar ranged.” The finest line of pickles, plain, mixed and sweet at Ed- wa r ds, Norment & Co. You can buy a nice straw hat at a bargain from Blackwell Bros. DIED. On Wednesday, May 11, 1892, Joseph Edward, son of C. S. and Dora N. Nettles, aged nine mouths. On Monday, May 16, 1892, Sheppard Dozier, son of S. D. and S. E. Jordan, aged one year and eight months. On Wednesday, May 18, 1892, Murchison, son of W. B. and Maggie McOirt, aged one ytear and six months. GOOD BALL PLAYING. Two Darlington Boys Distinguishing Themselves on the Base Ball Dia mond. ssrs J. B. and F. E. Floyd, two Darlington boys, are dis tinguishing themselves on the base ball diamond. They are pitcher and catcher respective ly for the club of the Univer sity of North Carolina. On Tuesday of last week this team played a game with the Univer sity of Virginia, at Richmond, and, although the team was de feated by a score of 5 to 2, the pitching of Mr. J. B. Floyd was most highly praised. He struck out fifteen men while the pitch er for the other side only struck out three. Three base hits were made off him while six were made off the opposition pitcher. Mr. F. E. Floyd also played a good game. The Richmond Dispatch, speaking of Mr. J. B Floyd’s pitching, says: “They [the Vir ginia boys] had a hard time hit ting Floyd, the Carolina pitch er. His curves were as decept ive as a Lunenburg partridge and flew over the plate untouch ed by fifteen of the boys in blue. His in-and-out-curves and his downshoots were puzzlers of the first water, and his speed was terrific. He is an unusually strong pitcher, and had he been properly held the score might have been different. It was often apparent that he was slow ing up in order to save the catcher.” Why keep your old machine when you can trade it for the improved No 9 or light running New Home at Blackwell Broe. ■THE AMBER PEE DEE." A Correspondent Writes Glowingly of the Robbin’s Neck Neighborhood. Editor Darfington News: Some weeks ago occasion de manded the writer’s presence in the eastern part of the county, near the valley of the Great Pee Dee. Our starting point was on the C., S. & N. railroad, and af ter a travel of about 21 hliles found ourselves at our destina tion. The roadbed or channel of this artery of inter-state com merce is in much better condi tion than formerly and travel along it more satisfactory. Part of our wanderings in the valhy of the amber Pee Dee, that, like a huge yellow serpent at this point of its course and progress makes many a fantastic Toop- twist and bend, so it seems when it got to this point it seemed uncertain of its mind ami kept doubling about like one de mented. Part of this valley of the Pee Dee washes the planta tion of Mr. A. A. Gandy, who has an extensive farm in these parts. During our stay in that quarter the writer was the guest of Mr. Gandy and his noble lady. Mr. Gandy is certanly a model farmer to say the least of it. and everything upon his plantation down to the minutest detail runs like clockwork. Mr. Gandy scorns the idea of ever making less than a hale of cotton to the acre for every acre of land planted. In fact the talent for farming seems as natural to the Gandys as breathing or that of drinking water. Mr. Gandy has an apparatus under a shed on his plantation near his dwell ing house whose purpose and and operations will he a sur prise and revelation,' 1 to many farmers. It consists of a cylin der that is operated by a crank; a slow fire is built under the cylinder and as it slowly re volves, moved by the crank,the contents are evenly and harmo niously roasted. It is similar in design and construction to a circular roaster of pinders It is intended to roast cotton seed that Mr. Gandy says is an ex cellent and economical food for swine. In fact, the flavor of roasted cotton seed is similar to that of the kernel of a parched pinder Mr. Gandy is a great believer in ensilage as food for stock that is nutricious and economi cal and he has a large stock farm of which ensilage is the staple food for the stock and many sec tions and masses of flesh we see here often in the butchers’ stalls around town have been evolved by the chemistry of that ensil age. On left hand side of the road from Mr. Gandy’s to Robbin’s Neck on the C., S. & N. railroad is a dam built long ago to keep down the encroachments of the ambitious Pee Dee, but some- times at high water mark it runs a little over the rim of the dam and when it does overflow at such a tilde it flows in a per fect air line till it strikes the channel of the Pee Dee again several miles off, for here the river makes a perfect loop, hence its name—Robhin’s Neck. To follow the channel of the neck round would make it ten miles, yet to go across the diam eter of the loop would bo only two miles. Whenever this over flow occurs at this point the C., S. & N railroad track is sub merged and passenger and freight traffic is completely blocked till the waters subside. In this same region of Robbin’s Neck was shown us what is known as General Williams’ walk. This is the spot of ground as it was shown us where General Dave Williams, an ante helium wealthy planter, who owned all or nearly all the plantations along Robbin’s Neck, was standing superinten ding his farming operations when a special messenger brought him the news, before the days of railroads and tele graphs, that he had been nomi nated by the convention in Co lumbia for Governor. Mr. Gandy is not only a suc cessful farmer but a sportsman. He showed me a wonderful fowling piece he possessed. It was a gun of an amphibious na ture that at will and pleasure could be converted into a shot gun or rifle. Mr. Gandy gave me some very interesting point ers in the natural history of the deer, that noblest of all game, but the details of it might not be new or ot interest to the gen eral reader, and I will bring this article, already long enough without further expansion, to a close. Ex. THE COUNTY NEWS. Buy the easy wearing Rey nolds shoe to last you 12 months; found only at Blackwell Bros. McCall & Burch are headquar ters for clothing, shoes, hats and gents furnishing goods. The entire living population of the globe, 1,400,000,(XX) peo ple, divided into families of live persons each, could be located in Texas, each family with a house on a half acre lot, and there would still^remain 70,000,000 vacant family lota. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing And Saying.—A Brief Resume of the Week. UNA. Mrs. Croswell is yet very sick. Mr. W. K. Witherspoon is right sick. The bridge across Sparrow Swamp at this place is badly in need of repair. Misses Flore Cooper and Lou Dunlap, of Sumter County, have been visiting in this communi ty. Mrs. W. H. Croswell and her two children, Harry and Gussie, met with what might have been a serious accident, while return ing from the ice cream festival on Friday night last. The mule became frightened and ran against a stump, throwing them precipitantly to the ground. None of them, however, were seriously hurt. Miss Juliet Haskins, the young lady from Virginia who has been teaching the Howie school, will leave for her home this week. Miss Haskins is quite an accomplished teacher and h»s made many friends. She leaves with the best wishes of the people for her future. We hope that she may come among us again. The ice cream festival, given on Friday night at the parson age, was a complete success. All present, so far as we can learn, enjoyed the evening im mensely. The affair was got ten up, as was mentioned in our last letter to Tiik News, by the ladies entirely. Twenty-three dollars and thirty-seven cents was taken in and of this amount about nineteen dollars is clear profit. We had besides the fes tival a performance, all the participators in which did well and we wish to speak especially of the good presentations of Misses Clara Crosswell and Ju liet Haskins. The latter, as Widow Bedot, was capital. Buy your shoes from McCall & Burch. DOVESVILLE. Mrs. G. A. Norman and in fant daughter returned to Wal- hallaon Tuesday. Hamilton E. Gee, S. D., for merly of this place recently from the University of Mary land, is visiting our town and doing some very handsome work in dentistry. A good deal of the Cotton crop had to he replanted and chopping is now rapidly pro gressing. Farmers and gar dens are suffering for rain and it is too hot to talk politics. Apropos of the Indian mound craze we respectfully rise to re mark that we, too, nave a veri table mound in this vicinity, situated somewhere in an old field on the west bank of Smith’s mill pond. It has never been opened or explored that we know of, but presume it would be found very rich in relics, as fine specimens of broken bottles, English corks and empty sar dine cans have been discovered in large quantities on the sur face. The Sunday-school picnic at Black Creek on Saturday last was in every respect a very en joyable success. There were scores of happy children pres ent with a sufficient number of older heads to preserve the or der befitting the occasion. A superabundance of good and E alatable vituals of various inds greatly added to the pleas ure of the occasion. It was certainly one meeting in this boisterous campaign year when the Tillmanites and Antis blend ed in perfect peace and harmony, attributable in part, no doubt, to the excellent dinner served and the innumerable gallons of ice-cold lemonade dispensed in his irresistible style by Bro. J. C. C. Gandy. PHILADELPHIA. The dry weather is injuring the oat crop very much in this section. What has become of the Lydia correspondent? We wonder if a storm or tornado has swept him away. Misses Janie Privett and Le- tha Davis, of Stokes Bridge, were the guests of Mr. C. W. Stewart a few Sundays ago. Mr. C. H. Decker had a very narrow escape from a serious accident recently. He had been riding a mule and as he was alighting the animal made a dash and Mr. Decker’s foot be came fastened in the stirrup. The mule ran some two hund red yards dragging Mr. Decker along by the foot. There is no telling what would have been the consequences had not the girth broken and released Mr. Decker from the perilous situ ation. The only result was that he was badly bruised. ROBBINS NECK. Mr, John S. McCall, who has been sick for sometime, is now able to be out. A force of hands is now at work on the bridge across the Great Pee Deo putting the draw in position. Mr. W. A. Edwards, general manager of the brick and iron works, has returned and work is being pushed. Our farmers have quite a var iety of crops this year and they seem bent on making something to eat and chew. Rev. C. L. Dowell preached a very able and interesting ser mon at the Welsh Neck Church last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Drake, of North Carolina, an expert in tobacco raising and burning is with Mr. J. S. Mc Call and will take care of his crop of tobacco this season. The time for fishing expired on the 15th and our friends must find another pastime. The dry weather gave our farmers a little time and the crowd that frequented the river was the largest we ever saw during any one season. Every class has hail its day and gone and Sam bo is now master of the situa tion and must fight the buffalo gnat and mosquito alone. OATS. The farmers’ hearts have been gladdened by the recent show ers. The Epworth League meets at Wesley Chapel every Saturday afternoon. The society has a good membership, and the ex ercises are quite interesting. Mr. H. A. Moore, formerly of this place, hut now of Sumter, has been on a visit here recently. Mr. Moore is connected with railroad work in Sumter coun ty- Lydia Lodge, No272 Independ ent Order of Good Templars, which was organized by Col. T. B. Demaree last month, seems to he in a flourishing condition. New memders aro constantly being initiated. The Lodge meets in the afternoon of the first and third Saturdays. At the last meeting Mr. B. B. King and Miss Sammy Dewitt were elected delegates to the meeting of the District Lodge at Lake City on June the 9th. We hope that interest in this good work will continue to grow and that the great cause of temperance will be greatly promoted in our midst. HIGH HILL. “M. D’s.” report business dull. Miss Ada Purvis is visiting Miss Snow Ward. A small party enjoyed a fish fry at Muldrow’s mill last Sat urday. The recent showers have greatly improved gardens and had stan.Is of cotton. Mrs. Dr. Hoston, of Lancaster accompanied by her daughter, Miss Florine, is visiting her daughter Mrs. Kelly. One of our most enterprising young men is erecting for him self a very neat little cottage. We anxiously await the result. The Death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawhorn last Sunday night carrying away in its cold embrace their darling baby. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community. CYPRESS. ‘ Mr. Willie Oats, of Oats, was in town on Sunday. Miss FlorieCooper, of Sumter, is visiting Miss Janie Parham. Mr. J. W. DuBose, one of the delegates to the State conven tion, left on Tuesday. Rev. J. E. Rushton preached at the Methodist Church on Sunday to a large congregation and preached a very fine ser mon. We do not yet hear of an j candidates, but we have a num ber of insuranceagentsout here. If they could insure some of our old office seekers getting and office they would do a goiS busi ness. Protection and Prices. [Philadelphia Record.] The New York Tribune, in a labored article, essays to show that protective duties do not in crease prices; yet sugar has been selling at from 31 to 41 cents per pound at retail since the re peal of the tax on raw sugar. Against this sweetly flowing argument the ingenious defend ers of protection labor in vain. Some of them, indeed, flinging consistency to the winds, ar« joining in the cry for the repeal of the protective duty of 5-10 of a cent per pound on refined sugar in order to prevent the sugar trust from ad ling 5 10 of a cent per pound to its profits. That day when it can bo successfully established that the way to cheapen things is to tax them McKinley should be canonized; but first this sugar difficulty will have to bo cleared up. g*i