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VOL. XIX, NO. 33. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892. Li MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Persons I and Oth erwise, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Miss Lilah Kelly has returned home from North Carolina. M.ss Anna Rogers has return ed from a visit to Hartsville. . Miss Ella Rose, of Florence, is visiting friends in Darlington. Mr. J. H. Early advertises a lot of guage shingles for sale. Miss Lita Lucas, of Society Hill, is visiting Mrs. A. T. Baird. Mr. L. W. Joye and family, of Sumter, are visiting Mr. T. S. Joye. Mrs. J. J. Ward and Miss Clara Ward have returned from Saluda. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Trem- holm, of Charleston, are in town on a visit. A prohibition rally and picnic were held at Flinn’s Crossroads yesterday. Misses Annie and Meta Wil liamson returned last week from Pawley's Island Miss Bertha Stevenson, of Ai ken, is visiting the family of Mrs. B. C. Law. Mr. Caleb Barrett, of Bishop- ville, is in town. He is building the tobacc > warehouse. Posts are being erected for the chain fence that will enclose the park on the Square. Mr. James B. Baker, of Me- Clellanville, S. C., is on a visit to his sister, Mrs. J. O. A. Moore. Ed Sanders and Charlie Fort, both colored, will open a restau rant in the rearof M. C. Alexan der’s store. Messrs Woods & Woods have removed their entire stock to their new store on the east side of the Square. Misses Mollie and Lizzie Pinkston, of Wadesborro N. C., are visiting friends and relatives in Darlington. Mr. Edward Early, of Col umbia county, New York, is visiting his son, Mr. B. A. Ear ly, at Early’s Crossroads. Mr. J. E. Norment left on Monday for New York to pur chase the fall and winter stock for Edwards, Nor nent & Co. A very enjoyable sociable was given by the young people at the residence of Mrs. E. M. Er vin on Wednesday night of last week. Mr. A. A. Gandy advertises for sale in this issue a lot of choice seed rye, which he has placed in Messrs McCall & Burch’s store. Mr. D. W. Waters has return ed to Hartsville from his sum mer vacation a n d is getting ready to buy cotton at that place again this year. A brick pavement is being placed in front of Messrs Moore- head Cox & Co’s store and also one in front of Messrs Ward & Nachman’s n sw storj. Miss R. M. Smith, of Key West, Fla., an evangelist, de livered addresses in the Mace donia Baptist Church on Thurs day and Friday nights. Miss Ormond, the telegraph operator, is in North Carolina on a brief vacation. During her absence Mr. K. D. Bristow has charge of the telegraph office. Messrs W. L. Oates & Co will open their restaurant next week in the Allen building on Pearl Street. They promise the peo ple a first class establishment. The subject for the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday afternoon next is, “Something worth having and how to get it.” James I, 5-8; Proverbs III, 5-6. The buildings of Mr. J. H. Early and Mr. W. C. Byrd on the west side of the Square are very nearly completed. The fronts are being placed in posi tion. Services will be held in St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on Sunday night next, beginning at 8.30 o’clock. They wiM be conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. A. Guerry. A movement is on foot to erect a telephone system in Dar lington. The idea is to connect the depots, the factory and the other industries in the suburbs with the business portion of the town. The upper story of Mr. J. M. James’ building, on the west side of the Square, is being fit ted up for a restaurant, which will be conducted by Mr. Mar tin Hanly, the well known and popular caterer. Mr. E. E. Lunn left on Mon day for the North to purchase the fall and winter stock for Messrs Brunson, Lunn & Co’s store. Mr. Claude Milling also left on Monday on a similar mission for Messrs Woods & Millings shoe store. THE PRIMARY ELECTION. An Official Anouncement from the County Democratic Executive Committee. Editor Darlington Xews: Please publish in your next issue the following precincts for the various townships, and managers for each, as appoirit- ed by the County Democratic Executive Committee for the primary election to be held Tuesday, August -'loth I8H2. Antioch, at Cold water school hous; W. H Moore, J. 8. Haw kins, R. M. Gandy. Cypress, at Cypress P. O. ; J. W. DuBose, E. O. Parham, O. S. Huggins. Darlington, at Darlington ; Robt. Dickinson, J. M. Waddill, J. B. White. Hartsville, at Hartsville; E. R. Moore, W. S. McIntosh, Leonce Vaughn. High Hill, at the residence of the late J N. Garner ; W. A. Dowling, J. B. Gray, Jas. M. Woodward. Leavensworth, at Leavens- worth ; J. B. Kirven, J. C. Wil son, J. W. Fergusou, Lisbon, at Lamar, E. L. Gray, D. A. Gray, T. F. Wilson. Lydia, at Lydia ; J. B. Par ker, C. Rineheart, O D. Lee. Mechanicsville, atMechanics- ville ; S. B. Gandy, J. I. King, H. McHodge. Palmetto, at Palmetto ; J. W. Byrd, D. W. Davis, T. H. Ed wards. Philadelphia, at the McCall House; W. J. Carter, H. A. Dowling, S. Vaughn. Society Hill, at Society Hill; Frank Gandy, L. M. Crosswell, J. Lide Wilson. Stokes Bridge, at Ashland; J. N. Moore. W. W. Folsom, J. H. Pate. Swift Crerk, at Early’s cross roads ; B. L. Bass, J. j' Parrott, Sr., J. K. Parrott. The Polls will open at 8 o’clock A. M. and will close at 4 o’clock P. M. J. N. Parkott, Chairman. Walter Vaughn, . Secretary. "A SOLDIER’S SECRET.” Capt. King's Latest and Best Story to Appear in These Columns. With our issue of September 1 we shall begin the publication of a new serial which we know will be the best story ever pub lished in The News. With our next issue we bring “Mrs., Gainsborough's Diamonds” to a close. It is a capital story like the others we have published which have made this depart ment of our paper such a suc cess. We feel that our readers are expecting to find something extraordinarily good inouruext serial. On this account we havej selected the best story that could be obtained, “A Soldier’s Se cret” by Capt. Chas. King, U. S. A. This is a very famous! author and the story is a vivid | pat-trayal of army life on the Wes'ern frontier and is the most excellent of all of Capt. King's excellent works. It is a roman ce thrilling in its interest from beginning to end; the best story of the day. Our readers should remember the date of the open ing chapter, September 1. SHOOTING AT CARTSVILLE, One White Man Wou-ded Another With a Shot Gun. There was a shooting scrape in Cartersville on Thursday. The participants were Mr. Stephen Lane and Mr. J. S. Scaffe. Both men are well known here, Mr. Lane being a resilient of this county and Mr. Scaffe of Florence county, both living near Cartersville. Scaffe emptied the contents of a shot gun into Mr Lane, Inflictingai serious wound which was at first thought to be mortal. The most recent reports, however, state that the wounded man will get well. The immediate i cause of the trouble was poli tics, but bad blood has existed j between the two men for some time. \ few years ago they had a personal difficulty. WATCHMAKING ESTABLISHMENT. I A Citizen of Massachusetts to Locate in Darlington. Mr., Joseph Walter, of Wal tham, Mass., is in town pros-j pecting with a viewtoengaging in the watchmaking business at this place. He is a brother of Mr. S. Wolkovisky, who will shortly open the new Hotel, the Cleveland House, having had his surname changed to Walter. He has had considera ble experience in journalism, having acted as correspondent for several large Northern pa pers. IMPROVING PEARL STREET. Mr. Marco's Frame Building to be Moved a Few Feet. Mr. M. Marco’s frame build ing on the corner of the Square and Pearl Street will in a few days be moved back on a line with the rest of the buildings on the north side of Pearl Street, thus making that sec tion of the street uniform in width. 0111 BOVMl. THE TOBACCO MARKET SOUTH CAROLINA. FOR A Visitor Writes that Darlington is Destined to Become One of the Greatest Tobacco Markets of the World. [■‘Tobacco Curcr" in Soutlieru Tobac co Jurnal.] Dear Sir :—I thought periiaps a few words from this section might prove interesting to your readers as I presume all of them arc more or less interested in the growth of tobacco, in whatever section it may come from. Having been in this section some time and having the op portunity of seeing a large num ber of farmers, most of them at their homes and having exper ience in raising tobacco in other sections, I am prepared to say that this section is soon destin ed to become the greatest to bacco growing country in the world. 'Ihere is no use for croakers to say that tobacco grown here is inferior to that grown in other sections To bacco produced here contains an abundance of body and sub stance and plenty of that pe culiar texture and flavor that has given tobacco in other pla ces a world wide reputation In the crops here we find splendid wrappers and fillers, first class cutters and strips and excellent smokers, and in fact “you can pay your money and fame your choice ” Farmers in this country are just realizing the fact that there is more money in raising tobac co than any other crop, and consequently the crop is largely increased every year. There will be about three million pounds made in this part of the State this year, making an in crease of about two million pounds over last year’s yield The enterprising citizens of Darlington are determined to have a first class tobacco mark et, and they are now building a large warehouse and will also build leaf houses, etc. I under stand that the house has been rented by competent warehouse men, and I do not doubt, honor ing the spirit of the people as I do, that Darlington is destined to become one of the great to bacco markets of the world. This country undoubtedly of- ers great inducements to young men. It is a grand country, great in its present state of prosperity and great in its pos sibilities. If there are any who doubt what we say let them come and see for themselves and they will exclaim as the one of old, “The half has not be< n t >ld.” Darlington, S. C., July 23,’92. THE BUNGLING BURGLARS. Another Arrest.—John Melton Given a Preliminary Hearing. On Wednesday of last week the authorities captured anoth er person supposed to be a mem ber of the gang that recently committed so many burglaries in Darlington. He is a negro boy, named Brunson. He was captured in Florence. On Mon day previous the police attempt ed to arrest him in Darlington, but he took leg bail and escap ed. Among those held for the bur glaries is a little colored boy, named Willie Mclver. He was arrested first and it was mainly through his confession that the others were imprisoned. On Thursday last John Melton, one of the white men arrested, was given a preliminary hearing be fore Judge Dargan. At the trial Willie Mclver told his story. The Judge bound Melton over to the higher Court on a bond of |200. He has not given the bond, so he is still in jail. — ; « ♦»- MARRIED IN FLORIDA. A Former Resident of Darlington Joins the Benedicts. The following, for which we return thanks, has been receiv ed : “Mr and Mrs. W. J. Allen announce the marriage of their daughter, Cornelia C. Pickett to Mr. James T. Parnell, Wednes day, August 10, 1892, Tampa, Fla.” Mr. Parnell is a Darling ton boy. He is well remember ed here as the former agent at the A. C. L. depot and his many friends in Darlington wish him a long and happy married life and in this The News heartily joins. THE HORSE ISSUE AGAIN Stock Raiser Sends In his Reply to Jim Pug. The following communication was handed us last week, but was not published for want of space: Editor Darlington Xews: Allow me to say, Mr. Jim Pug, that I will try to make figures satisfactory and that I did not mean to put a different con struction on them. I want Mr. Pug to give me the information that I have asked for so much. It was not my purpose to ans wer questions, but I just want ed light and information from friend Pug as to how to raise a first class colt for $50. He has not yet given the in formation, but on the contrary he just put Stock Raiser in that great Western pipe and smoked him through all the hot weath er, sized him up and found him not to be perfection. I hope that friend Pug is now satisfied and will turn his fire and smoke on the subject under discussion and answer the five questions asked him. He will greatly oblige us by sending the receipt for making salid and letting us know which is the more difficult, to raise a colt for $5() or to sell him for$50 after he is raised. Stock Raiser knows if his part of the county succeeds it must be able to com pete in prices and, if he cannot do it himself, he will form a joint stock company that will, I for we are bound to succeed and 1 have our plans laid to produce a colt at the lowest possible cost. If Mr. Pug wants to know what these plans are we will 1 give them to him, and not do as the Western Judge did, wait for the defendant to die before he would render a decision. I will answer Mr. Pug’s three questions: 1. One fourth of 36 is 9. 2. If i of an acre cost $1,000 one acre will cost $1,332. 3. The Darlington News, of June 30, 1892. I stated before that I presumed it was a typo graphical error. I hope these answers are satis factory for they are correct from my point of view. Stock Raiser. A LETTER OF CORRECTION. The Recent Tillman Caucus Was Not an Alliance Caucus. Editor Darlington News: , The issue of your paper August 4th contained the following. “The Alliance held a conference ’ atFlinn’sCrossroadson Monday. Ninety four delegates were pres- | ent. There were several candi dates for each place, and the following were chosen as the ‘Alliance’ or Tillman candi dates.” As president of the County Alliance of Darlington county, the above, so far as the Alliance is concerned is news to me. Would you object to giv ing Alliancemen your authority for the above ? So far as the Allian e is concerned it is not necessary for me as its county president to*deny the correct ness of such announcements, but in as much as many enemies stand ready to assist in the fun eral obsequies of the Alliance and might conclude the state ments unchallenged and not j denied establishes the truthful ness of such statements, I do pronounce the assertions so far as the Alliance of this county is concerned untrue and without foundation. I would be oblig ed if you publish this. W. H. Lawrence, Pres. D. C. F. Alliance. Darlington S. C., 16 Aug. ’92. A FINE INSTITUTION. The Sumter Female Institute a Model School. The Sumter Female Institute whose advertisement is appearing in The News, has always held .a very high posi- t tion among the educational in- stitutions of the State. This is 1 not surprising when it is re i memberJd that this institute has always afforded its students the very best advantages. A good thing was done when H. Frank Wilson, Esq , of the Sumter bar, was recenly elected President. Mr. Wilson is a man of fine ability, great cul ture and finished education. He will make ihe institute even a greater success than it has been in the past and parents can find no better place to send 4 their daughters for educational training. THE CAMPAIGN MEETING A WRITING SCHOOL. Prof. E. M. Bean Will Teach Penman ship. Prof. E. M. Bean is in Dar lington. The lightning system of penmanship is taught by him in eight lessons. He is very highly recommended. He com mences his writing school to day. There will be two classes, one meeting at St. John’s Acad emy at 4.30 P. M., and the other in the Court House at 8.30 P. M. Candidates for Congress and Solicitor Will Address the People. As was stated in our last is sue, there will be another cam paign meeting in Darlington, on the Academy green on Satur day next. The candidates for Congress and Solicitor will ad dress the people. The last cam paign meeting was so orderly that it was a credit to the town and State and we hope the same decorous conduct will prevail at the meeting on Saturday, j Let all who wish to hear the speaking come, but let every- I thing pass off nicely and quietly. HERB MORE Fill MR. EVANS AGAIN EXCORIATES MR. McLAURIN. Perhaps we Will Soon Know What Mc- Laurin Promised Evans.—The Charge of Bad Faith Reiterated. To the Editor of the News and Courier: The Register in commenting upon my communi cation in your paper of the 8th inst, in which 1 accuse J. L. Mc- Laurin of bad faith and double dealings with me, (and which charge I take this opportunity to repeat,) accuses me of going into a “Ring organ” to air my “imaginary grievances” a n d playing into the hands of the enemies of the people, when I sent the same communication through the same mail to the Register and it was not pub lished Now I would like to ask my many friends throughout the State if this is fair play ? And then again, the editor of the Register headlines a communi cation in defence of McLaurin, from one of his friends, “Sland er Refuted.” Now let Mr. Mc Laurin say whether I have slandered him or not, and I will publish.what passed between us. and let the public be the judge. The only way that 1 can account for the conduct of the Register is that Mr. Mc Laurin has had so much to do with the editorial matter of that paper of late that this article of mine did not suit his fastidious taste, and was therefore sup pressed. If Mr. McLaurin is not guilty of the charges which I prefer against him, why is it that I'e told me at Florence on the 1st inst that the reason that he did not speak to me at the State Alliance meeting was that he was ashamed to face me? Why is it that the editor of thei?cf/is- ter expressed to me the deepest regrets for the part that he had played in booming McLaurin, and tell me that he was persuad ed into it? W. D. Evans, Bennettsville, August 13. ** • -*• * - — THE ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT. All Ihe Property to be Sold by an Or der of Court. The property of the Darling ton Light, Water and Power Company will be sold. The dy namos, wires and all the ap pointments of the electric light works, the tank, piping and all other appurtenances of the water works will be placed un- ! tier the autioner’s hammer. In fact everything from the small- I est article to the building and real estate will be sold. Since the removal of the en gine an I boiler the electric li^ht plant has been idie and useless and the affairs of the company have been placed in the hands of the receiver, W. F. Dargan, Esq. In order to meet the obli gations of the company the re- j ceiver petitioned the court for an order of sale, which was granted by Judge Hudson. The sale will take place on next sale-day, the first Monday in September. The receiver will sell at public auction all the per sonal property and the Sheriff will sell at public outcry the real estate, which, of course, in cludes the building. Advertise ments concerning the sale, and describing the property to be sold, will be found in another column. A notice also appears in an other column directing all credi tors of the company to establish their claims with W. F. Dar gan, Esq , on or before Septem ber 15, that the same may be presented to the Court for pay ment out of the proceeds of the sale in the order of their legal priorities. NOT THE RIGHT MAN. The Columbia Authorities Thought They had Primus Gainey, but Were Mistaken. Last week Chief of Police Radcliffe of Columbia notified Sheriff Cole that he had in cus tody a man, calling himself William Walker, whom he be lieved to be Primus Gainey, the negro who killed Mr. S. P* Wil son, a merchant at Society Hill, in December last. It will be re membered that Gainey fled to parts unknown immediately after committing the murder. The Sheriff went to Columbia on Friday, taking with him Mr. Tom Garrison, who knowing Gai.ley well could identify him. The description of the man given by Chief Radcliffe ans wered Gainey’s description very well, but when the Sheriff and Mr. Garrison saw the man they found that he was not Gainey. So the slayer of Mr. Wilson is still eluding the law. Cholera is spreading rapidly in Russia. It has reached St. Petersburg, the capital, and is moving westward. ANOTHER INCENDIARISM. Mr. E. H. Carter Again Visited by a Fire Fiend Who this Time Burns his Residence. Two weeksago Deputy Sheriff E. H. Carter had the barn on his place in Swift Creek destroyed by fire. It was undoubtedly tht work of in incendiary, as kero sene oil had been poured on tin building and fire put to it. Tin residence was set on fire in tin same manner, but Mr. Cartel- succeeded in saving it. An ac count of this fire was given in The News at the time. Mr. Carter has suffered an other loss. On Friday night his residence was burned. Just a few days before he had remov ed his family into town, leaving at his house a young man, Mr. Joe Rhodes. On the night in question Mr. Rhodes was away attending a protracted meeting in the neighborhood. No one was left at the house and while the premises were thus deserted the house was destroyed. It was burned about nine o’clock. This burning must have also been the work of an incendiary, probably the same person who burned the barn. Air.Car ter had no insurance on his barn, but had $700 on his resi dence. ANOTHER TOBACCO FIRE. Mr. J. J. Ward’s Barn Near Timmons- ville Destroyed. On Saturday morning a to bacco barn, belonging to Mr. J. J. Ward and situated near Tim- monsville, wasdestroyed by fire. A lot of tobacco the property of Mr. R. S. Hatchell, which was in the barn at the time, was also destroyed. There was $100 insurance on the barn and the same amount on the tobacco. WHOLE NUMBER 916. THE COMTY SEWS. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Doings in Dovesville- Smith's Mill Reconstructed and a Wonderful Mineral Spring Discovered. Mr. J. T. Sumner is again quite ill. Misses Mamie and Nina Dove have returned home from Char leston. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. W. De- Lorme, of Sumter, are visiting relatives here. Aliss Louise Davis, of Dar lington, has been spending sometime with friends here. Mrs. L. T. Carroll and child ren, of Ninety Six, and Mrs. B. K. DeLorme, three children and sister, Miss Clem China, of 1 Sumter, are visiting relatives and friends in town. ! Mr. J. C. Calhoun, a first class millwright and a staunch Shep- pardite, is putting the finishing touches on Smith's mill, which, under h i s skilful supervision has been thoroughly reconstruct ed from mudsill to comb and will be ready in a short time for ginning, grinding and sawing. The foundation is substantially built of brick and cement while | the superstructure is a large ! two story frame building ac commodating a grist mill and gin with a saw mill attached. While excavating the foundat- tion Mr. Calhoun discovered a mineral spring, the miraculous I power of whose waters is des tined to become famous, as it is a well authenticated fat t tl at a a goat who freely imbibed them has been converted into a sheep. sixteen hours. This is said to be the fastest run from San Francisco to New York ever made. In August, 1891, a spe cial train made the run of 2,850 miles from Vancouver to New York, carrying the Japanese mails, in about four days and twelve hours. But in June, 11876, a special train, sent to car- i ry the Jarrett & Palmer Thea trical Company and a special edition of the’ Baltimore Sun, made the run from Jersey City in eighty-three hours, thirty- nine minutes and sixteen se conds. That was the fastest time ever made across the con tinent. The train made no stop from Jersey City to Pittsburg, i only slowing up at Harrisburg | to receive the bags containing the special edition of the ~ GENERAL NEWS. Items of Interest From All Over The World. CYPRESS. ! Mr. Boyd McKenzie, of Cokes- bury, is at this place visiting At a negro dance near Nash ville on Saturday a negro killed two white men. John Drew, a young white boy, was killed on Thursday by a negro in Emanuel county, Ga. The murder was most cold blood ed. The drought in Texas has come to an end. The corn crop in that State has turned out to be the largest and best ever made. A building in the course of construction at Ogden, N. J., collapsed on Friday. Two men were killed and eleven injured, four fatally. R. L. Rashberry killed N. Simmons in Talladega, Ala., last week and then killed him self. Rashberry had been em ployed by Simmons but had been discharged. A white man named Hicks killed a negro named Jones in Greenville, Ala., last week. The trouble grew out of politics. The white man was for Kolb and the negro for Jones. Aliss Lizzie Borden has been arrested for the murder of her father and mother in Falls Riv er, Mass, last week. The de tails of the horrible double mur der were published in our last issue. Three white men and a negro ha^ been arrested for killing a negro at Jesup a few weeksago. The arrests have caused great excitement and an unsuccessful attempt was made to rescue the prisoners. The natives and Arabs on the Congo River, in Africa, have risen against the whites. They have killed a very large num ber and seem determined to drive all white men from Cen tral Africa. There is a big strike in pro gress among the switchmen on the Erie and Lehgh Valley Railroad in New York. The strikers are very riotous. They have burnt buildings and cars, □lobbed other trainmen and blockaded trains. The British Parliament which met last week passed a vote of “no confidence” in the ministry. In accordance with the aucient custom the ministry, which is Conservative, resigned. A Li beral ministry will be formed with Gladstone as premier in place of Lord Salisbury. The miners, who gave so much trouble in Tennessee last year on account of convicts being employed in the mines, are again on the war path. On Sunday they carried four hun dred convict miners back to the penitentiary. They will not let them work in the mines. Ex citement is great and trouble is feared. The Governor of Tennessee last week commuted the sen- tenceofCol. H. Clay King to life imprisonment in the penitenti ary. He was to have been hanged on Friday last for the murder of D. H. Poston. Both the murderer and the murdered man were prominent citizen. The people of the State are very indignant at the action of the Governor. friends and relatives. A D. Slater, one of our largest colored farmers, is 1 liuilding a fine dwelling on his plantation. We are having too much dry ’ weather to suit crops and they will begin to suffer soon if we do not get a shower. Mr. C. B Pate and family i have gone to Mt. Airy, N. C. Air. E. O. Parham, Mrs. Mattie Kelly and Mrs. Clair Croswell have gone to Asheville. Pulling fodder is the order of the day. Cotton picking will soon commence and our far mers hope to get more than 5 cents per pound for their crop. Air. Walter J. DuBose has built a new gin house and Air. J. W. DuBose has erected a cot ton house. So you see our lit tle village continues to grow and we hope yet to get up a boom. Geo, W. Williams, colored, who farms on a lar^e scale has the first open cotton boll in this section. He brought two well opened bolls to this correspond ent on the 6 inst. and he ex pects to commence picking the fleecy staple in a few days. Hurry, Williams, and bring the first bale to market. STOKES BRIDGE. Aliss Ollie Alozingo, who has been at Cypress attending the protracted meeting, has return ed home. On last Tuesday our com munity was saddened by the death of Mrs. A. E. Skinner. She was sick only one week with typhoid fever. At the next regular meeting of the Hebron Lodge of Good Templars, ice cream, lemonade and cake will be served to the members. Every one should be | present. While the watermelon crop has not been good, yet some fine melons have been raised in this section. Air. J. W. Gatlin cut one that supplied eleven persons with all they could eat. e special edition of the Sun, whicn had been sent on a spe cial train from Baltimore to Harrisburg STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, And Put in Paragraphs. The State campaign will end at Laurens on Saturday. A colored boy was killed by lightning on Edisto Island a few days since. Seven negroes were drowned in Charleston harbor last week by the upsetting of a boat. On Wednesday of last week Green Rice was accidentiaily shot and killed by Aaron Hum phries at Union. Both were col ored. i A negro named Vince Talley was run over and killed by a Itrain near Seneca, on Thursday night. He was asleep on the ! track. An unknown, well dressed white boy, aged about ten years, was run over and killed by a j train near Midway on Wednes day night of last week. A white man, named L. D. Taylor, an employee on the C. S. & N. Railroad, was shot and killed in the town of Bennetts ville on the 8 inst by a negro, named Henry Bradford. Quite a sensation was caused in a trial justice court in Col- 1 umbia last week when a young lady, the defendant in the case | on trial, slapped the face of a j prominent Columbia lawyer who was the plaintiff’s attorney. Soudanese Troop* in Hattie. I w as told a delightful story of one re cent action in which the Soudanese troop* took a prominent part. The en emy was under cover not far off, but the firing line of blacks were blazing Zway at him as fast as they could open and close their rifles. In vain their of ficers tried to stop them. The waste of ammunition threatened to become ex tremely serious, and their commanding officer, a Scotchman who had seen many | fights with them, losing his temper, rode up and down behind the line cursing ; them with every abusive epithet in a | fairly adequate vocabulary of Arabic in- j vective, but entirely without effect At last one of them happened to turn and discovered the beloved bey in evidently 1 a very excited state of mind. He at | once rose, ran back to him, and patting ' him reassuringly on the boot he said: “Don’t be frightened, bey. It’s all right. We're here. We’ll take care of you!” The Scotch bey, however, was equal to the occasion. He rode out through the line, and walked his horse up and down in front of the rifles. “Now,” he ! said, "if you must tire, fire at me!” After this it is not surprising to read in dispatches that this officer Isis twice re cently had his horse shot under him.— Contemporary Review. CLYDE. We are having fine weather for gathering fodder. Mr. AV. E. Johnson, who has been sick about three weeks, is better. Mr. J. C. Jowers, of the Un ion section, was in our neighbor hood on Saturday. AI r s . D. D. Johnson was thrown from a buggy a few days ago and her arm was fractured. Rev. E. M. Merritt preached an interesting sermon at New Alarket on Sunday from Reve lations II, 4 and 5. A new road has been cut through the swamp. The cor - t r act for building the bridge 1 will be given out to-day. RAPID TRANSIT. Fastest Time on Record Between San Francisco and New York, The special train conveying twenty millions of dollars from San FranciscotoNewYork arriv ed in the latter city on Tuesday, after a remarkably fast run. The time was one hundred and twelve hours, or four days and Jay Gould'a Book. Occasionally some person knocks at the door of Jay Gould’s office in Uie Western Union building with a copy of “The History of Delaware County, New York, by Jay Gould,” to sell. An im pression exists in the minds of many people that Mr. Gould is desirous of suppressing this publication as com- pletely as possible, and that he will pay almost any price to get possession of the few stray copies that are left. Resi dents of Delaware county are authority for the statement that several years ago an agent of Mr. Gould’s scoured that county for these books and bought near ly all of them at fancy prices. When ever a copy of this particular history of Delaware county is displayed in that county at the present day the older resi dents will advise the owner, "Jist you take thet down ter New York, an Jay Gould'U give yer thirty or forty dollars fer it.” It is certain that nobody in Mr. Gould's office ever heard of his paying any such price for one of those books. And nobody is able to explain why Mr. Gould should want to suppress the pub lication, unless it is that he thinks there is too much sentiment in it for a man of his present reputation. — New York Times. The Unreasoning Crowd. Speaking of the queer things to be seen on the streets, it is really astonishing how instinctively one person imitates an other. A man with a passion for psy chical research has been proving this by some experiments which are, to say the least of it, original. Going along about dusk the other night in advance of a small party of folk, he suddenly turned out into the muddy street, as if avoiding something in front. Unqueetioningly every person behind did the same thing in spite of the mire. It isn’t likely that they felt the full humorous force of the incident in quite the way he did, however, when they saw him face about and walk calmly back in the beaten path. The sheep went to all the trouble of jumping over a bar of dust, to be sure, bnt it would really seem worth while if human beings could think a little more independently and for themselves. The truth of it is, it is just this blind unreasoning herding to gether that leads to half the accidents and panic* which are cropping op on all (idea.—Boston Transcript.