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ite garlinfitec |^u's. HENRY T. THOMPSON.) WADDY THOMPSON, \ Editor*. Thursday, Oct. 6, 1892. ORE AT SHOE CITY. 0fTTINC mmetmino HISTORY OF LYNN AND ITS SHOE- MAKING INDUSTRY And , A r.* Hint* for TM.. Wh. G „ hered Fron , 0ur El , c h a n*e», Are HuikIim; Work. . Tbi*re b »rd!y a l»rg® eat^blishm^nt Put ,n Paragraphs, of »ny bind. wh. thrr it a newspiiKr Charleston’s Gain Week nil! ! offlce. a ui«iiu!*< tory or « t.H<le wtab- commwlce t hia year On Oetcher rh. M..ueh««a.c.i.», w... rt«n^ l„b.n«,t that ban not .pphcatmn* con- ^ wjl , 0 , 06f . on November, tn the itusiiiese of .Meking footwrisr btaiitly from yoang men who want H Karly >• I6*9-A City Keuuwu.<l Something tu do. It U ot'Ull (UMIlful to THE REPUBLICAN CORPSE. The old dry bones of the Re publican corpse were given a considerable shaking up last week, but the efforts to restore life to the party that has been dead in this State for sixteen years wore unavailing. The State Convention of the party met in Columbia on Thursday. Every county in the State was represented. There was but a very small sprinkling of white men in the Convention ; the rest were negroes varying in color from the bright mahogony to the ebony hue. The Conven tion was in a wrangle from the beginning to thoclose and every body seemed to be engaged in having “a monkey and a par rot t time.’’ There had been considerable apprehension among some of our white people as to the re sult o/this Convention. They feared that a State ticket would be nominated and that trou’ le would ensue. The division among the Democrats during their recent campaign was giv en as the reason why the Repub licans might nominate a State ticket. This fear was never shared in by The News for we knew that, if the Republicans counted on division among the Democrats after the primary, they were reckoning without their hosts. The conditions are just as we predicted ; the prima ry settled our differences and Democracy now presents an un broken front to the enemy. ^ The Republicans very wisely refrained from nominating a State ticket. Though some members of the Convention fav ored such action, the majority were frightened off by the uni ted Democracy. A Presidential electoral ticket was nominated. This is a mere form and the nominees are willing to be knocked out in November to es tablish thereby a claim on feder al “pap,” should Harrison be re-elected. Republicanism is dead in this State. Its ghost appears every two years, as it did last week, but it vanishes immediate!v up on the sight of the solid Dem ocratic phalanx. So will it al ways do as long as the Demo crats are united, but once we di vide breath will come to the ghost and life will return to the corpse. The monster will then grapple us and crush us to the earth as it di 1 from ’08 to ’70. The moral is, stick to Democra cy. We should avoid the Third party as we do Republicanism, for the former will only give aid to the latter. OUR TOBACCO MARKET. The sales at the tobacco ware house were continued on Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday of last week. A large amount of tobacco was sold and good prices were brought. The sales will continue during the season. The warehouse will be open every day until the close of the season, next April. Buyers of the weed have located in Dar lington and will remain here until the season ends. Darlington is destined to be come a great tobacco market. The town is central!^ located and is in easy and direct access for the tobacco fields of Flor ence, Sumter, Marlboro and Chesterfield 'counties. Our warehouse is one of the best in the coun.ri and the “piize house” affords unusually fine advantages. This is for the use of the buyer. After he pur chases the tobacco he stores it in the prize house, until he is ready to ship it or otherwisedis- pose of it. Mr. D. A. Bodenhamer, the auctioneer and majiager, is an old hand at the tobacco business and th* warehouse, under his direction, will doubtless be con ducted with great success. Dar lington offers superior advan tagos as a tobacco market and, now that our farmers have be come fully aroused to the fact that great money is to be had in the cultivation of the weed, aild ‘ othor cjrcuuistance8 too there is no reason why this im- ! Strong for poor human nature. Ill for Its Patriotism and Wealth. The history of the city of Lynn and that of its shoe industry are, chronoloK- Irally *I>caki!ig. almost identical. The shoe industry originated in Lynn in 1(135, two years before the terse man date was promulgated by the general court Nov. 18, 1637 ‘Saugust is called Lin." Lynn was originally a pretty large town. Its bounds were “at CbarlHatown line, Reading pond. Ipswich river. fi»- lem and Nahaut." A few men termini cord winders (cord- wainers) in the Plymouth charter were sent over and laid the foundations of the shoe business. Shoemaking has taken a front rank among the useful arts The pilgrim fa thers recognized this, and on the third voyage of the Mayflower the governor and deputy of the New England com pany sent over (1028)Thoma» Heard and "Isack" Hickman, who were to receive •their dyett and housi room at the charge of the com pan ie." Rickman went back Thomas Beard remained. He was the first shoemaker in New Eng land The first w hite men known to have settled in Lynn (16211) were Edmund In galls, a brewer, anil bis brother. Francis Ingalls, a tanner. There was plenty of raw material. Cattle had been intro duced by Edward Winslow (1624), and there were over 800 head, “besides horses, sheep and goats" brought over in the next six years There were deer and moose in plenty, and indeed buck skin was the principal wear of the early colonists. Francis Ingalls built his tan nery on what is now Burrill street, on •Hnmfry's brook.* now a part of Swampscott. This no donbt gave an impetus to the shoe industry The Burrill tannery was established in 1636, and stood for almost 200 years. The Burrills were called the •Royal family of Lynn." John Burrrll was for twenty-one years a member and ten years speaker of the house of repre sentatives of Massachasetts. The first Lynn shoemaker was Philip Kertland. Little is known of him save that he came here from Bucking- batnsliire, England, in 1633, and made shoes for Boston, Salem and Lynn peo ple. Thence commenced the remarkable growth. In 1643 we find the first iron works in America established in the town. These industries thrived until 1750. About that time an artistic jib comaker from London came to town and another impulse was given the in dustry This man became famous, Lynn made a good record in the Revolution. Meetings were called in 1773, and the “tea" and otiier taxes de nounced. A company of women, emu lating the Boston Tea party, went to the shops and destroyed all the tea in the town. John Mansfield and Eben- ezer Burrill, representing the shoe and leather trade at that time, were mem ber* of a provincial congress which con vened at Salem in 1774 to choose a •committee of safety." Four Lynn men fell at Bunker Hill. The trade revived after this war, though there was but little money. As early as 1783 Lynn asked that a protective tariff be imposed. It was at this time that Ebenezer Breed, a native of the town, used his wealth and his in fluence to improve the trade. After him came the Johnson family, which accom plished much toward the building np of the town. Then cam^ the Breed family hardly less well known. From 1800 to 1810 West Lynn, under the inspiration of Ebenezer Breed, soon became a maunfacturing mart, probably tho most flourishing of any in the state Farming became of secondary impor tance. Large factories were built The famous Salem and Bostou turnpike was then completed (1803) and an imposing hotel constructed. The population of Lyun increased at this period more than ever before—from 2,837 in 1800 to 4,087 in 1810. Ebenezer's son, Isaiah, inherited the •pirit of hi* father. He was progressive and above all philanthropic. At the time when schools were few and edneatiou difficult to obtain he built a school house onto his home, and for thirty yuars maintained, at a large expense, the best school in town. Workmen's “mutual benefit" associa tions were organised in 1814, and in the same year we find the Lynn Mechanic*' bank incorporated with a capital of 1150,000. Tn 1832 the first directory of Lynn was published. In it was a list of shoe man ufacturers. There were sixty. Of morocco manufacturers there were six. and in a footnote it is stated that “their yearly business amounts to a little more than |80,000." A few years later Mr. John B. Alley long a leading citizen of the town, W gan the manufacture of shoes, establish ing a house which was afterward re spected throughout the country. The Eastern railroad extended a branch to the city in 1838. The wholesale shoe trade had now in creased in proportion, and, as might be expected, did much for the trade in general. In 1850 Lynn was incorporated a city. The population was 18,613. mayor was George Hood, who, like most of the inhabitants, had been a shoe maker, and whose industry was re warded by success both in business and political life. Shortly after the breaking ont of the war of the rebellion there came the ap plication of steam and the multiplica tion of auxiliary machines. At the present time everything except cutting the uppers is carried on by machinery and steam power. Lynn was the first shoe town in which machinery for shoe- making was introduced.—Boston Jour nal. M. F. Tighe, private secretary i see the hopeless look upon the appli- i cants' faces Ss they turn away disap- _ . ■. pointed, and the scene becomes the Senator Irby, 18 writing a more painful when it is reflected that liistorv of the “Reform Move* many of them doubtless have capacity ‘ nient in South Car jlina.” for reinmieratire work, and would faithfully attend to it if they had the chance. The truth is that the world is slow to take any man entirely on trust. The greatest singers, the greatest painters, the greatest writers have bad to con vince the world that it had nee.1 of them | A was run ovpr and before it waa willing to give them a ' . . _ .. ,-,1 i subsistence. So true is thia that it killed by a tram on the baric - might almost he laid down as an axiom ton, Sumter and Niorthern Kail- of succesi that it i» only to be won by a road, near Elliott's, Sumter hard struggle. It takes the attrition of ' county, last week, poverty to bring out what is brightest The colored people of Sumter j county are now holding their annual fair. There are a num ber of exhibits from other coun ties. in a man. It may be a hardship, but it seems to be a law of the social economy, and 1 icing a law it must have justice and compensation in it somewhere. The question cf “ getting a position" resolve* itself into two grand essential:! — first, proficiency of some sort, which •lands for dollars and cents in tho world's market ( lace, and, next, tact to demonstrate *his proficiency in a way to attract the world’s attention. It is a mistake to depend on “in fluence” to get work in a legitimate call ing; influence belongs more prcqierly to the domain of politics. As a rule, too, it is a mistake to ask or to expect em ployment on the ground of charity—not that charity and business are incom patible, but that each should stand on its own bottom. The liest recommenda tion is a sample of your work; that, with a frank address and neatness of apjiear- ance—for “tile apparel oft proclaims the man"—may often prove the “open sesame" to success. While it is good to Have a due nppre elation of one's, abilities, it is not good to bo too exacting as to the field foi their display. Tho distance between the foot of a ladder and the top is but a short span to him who has within him self the power of rising. The writer heard of a yonng man who. being in needy circumstances, went bravely to work at the first thing al hand—trench digging for a contractor. Iftat was his first opjKirtunity. One day his employer—not a well educated man —needed some one to keep a time roll of the men. - The young man volunteered The contractor took a fancy to him. The commencement d»v of ; this year’s State Fair has lieen : postponed from November 7 to Novemlier 14, on aecount of the j general election occurring on! November 8. The Sumter Advance has been sold to 8. A. Nettles of the Man- niner Times. The paper will be Tillmanite in politics and its name will be changed to the Sumter Herald. , The notorious Paris Simpkins, of Edgefield, has been nomina ted bv the Republicans of the Second district for Congress in opposition to W. J. Talbert, the Democratic nominee. • The handsome morrtiment. erected to the memory of the Confederate dead of Greenville, was unveiled in thateitvon Tiiesi day of last weeV. A very large erowd witnessed the eeremonv. Ex-.Tudve Cothran was the ora tor of the dav. k Josiah MeSween, who killed Policeman Meggs in Florence during the summer, was con victed of manslaughter last week. The pirv reeommended the prisoner to the rrerev of the ennrt and he was sentenced to found him increasingly useful, and the ! ,. .. , . yofltig man is now well up the ladder, three years in the county jail. It is another requisite of the success-! T . . , ful worker that .iV skall be in love with | . ,R reported that typhoid fev- his work. If he is a mechanic, he will fir ra Km>f in a portion of take pride in his tools; if he is a book-1 Marion county. There have keeper, he will plume himself on the merits of his pen and on the neatnest Breadcrumbs in Iloquefort Cheeiie. The demand for Roquefort cheese has become so great that trickery now plays a part in the ripening process. The peasants have learned that “time is money," and they have fonml that bread- cromlis mixed with theenrd cause those green streaks of moldiness which de note that the cheese is fit for the mar ket, to apiiear much more readily than was formerly the case, when It was left to do the best it could for itself with the aid of a subterranean atmosphere. This is not exactly cheating; it is coui- portant industry ^irove a bonanza and county. should to the cheesemaking breadcrumbs are fonnd to lie a cheap substitute for time, ami it is said that those who have taken to beer brewing in this region have fonnd that liox, which here is the commonest of shrulw, is a cheap substitute for hops, armed ; The notion that brass pins are stuck into and forwardness of lift accounts. Julian Hawthorne counts among the pleasures of authorship the satisfaction got from good writing .materials. As the late Colonel Forney uuye said to a youthful member of the staff. “A man must work eon amore to have his work worth any thing." A young lady who wished a place as typewriter got it in a common sense way. She wrote out a half dozen ‘•re plies." so to spepk, brief, businesslike and respectful, setting forth her experi ence, qualifications and ideas as to {my, putting her figures rather above the market rate. Next morning there were four advertisements for typewriters. She promptly mailed her four replies di rectly at the main poetofflee, inclining a two cent stamp in each. One of the four shots brought down her bird. That evening her position came to her by mail. It is not true that tho world is a lietter market for muscles than for brains. The difficulty is that brain natter, whatever its native brightness, is practically worthless wkthou*, training and experi ence. For one play produced by a man ager a thousand are rejected. The ac cepted om may In inferior in many re spects to many a rejected one, may have less talent in it, but it is from a trained head and it suit, the manager’s want, and that is enough. It is so with story writing—with hesdwork of every kind. Suitability is the quality that gives it pe cuniary value. Men and women who. with certain brilliant qualities, fail to realize this truth often fancy that tho conditions of success are hard and limited. Yet theatrical managers, magazine pub lishers and many others are subject to the very same law themselves. They in turn are employees of the public. They iimst suit it, or it will turn elsewhere for what it wants. Finally, it is not necessary that a want should be proclaimed in order to exist. Soinetinpes it may be anticipated. Home- times It may even lie created. Whoever can create a want for his wares or his work is on the way to masterful success. Philadelphia Ledger. K een recently twentv-five cases in the village of Sellers and eight have proven fatal. Sev eral persons have died of the fever at Latta, a neighboring town. Attention Mechanics! All persons in need of babbitt ineta can purchase it cheap at th« I)a.\ lingtox News officer June 12, ’80—tf FOR SALE A Second-hand Sewing Machine; in excellent condition. Apply at The Darlington News Office. W HEN you are In the city don’t fail to call at the Enterprise Hotel Barber Shop It Is the only first-class shop in the city. Fashionable hair cuts, first- class shaves and the M Mai Egg Shp. Fdur polite Barbers always on hand to wait on you. -- Hixon 4 Harllee, Proprietors. L’n ler Enterprise Hotel, South side Public Square. The Bank of Darlington, ST^TEIMIEIISrT At the ctoeeof business. September30, 1882, in conformity with an Act of the General Aseemhly. ASSETS. Loans and Discounts $202,517 05 Stocks 5,000 00 Real Estate 4,500 00 Safe, Furniture, 4c 1.100 00 Demand IxianH... 0.715 12 Due by Banks... .48,820 47 Cash 12,400 7— 68,005 16 Total Assets $281,123 11 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $100,000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 50,8*4 27 Dividends unpaid 50 (X) Deposits 08,810 60 He-Discoun.s. 31,010 24 Total Liabilities $281,123 11 Personally appeared before me L. E. Willie ex'll*. Cashier, who on oath says the foregoing statement is true and correct to the licit of his knowledge and belief. L E. WILLIAMSON, Cashier. Sworn to before me this 3rd day of October, 1802. [L.s ] HENRY T THOMPSON, Notary Public, S. C. Attest: W. C. COKER, R. W. BOYD. J. J. WARD, . Directors ST^VTIEIMIIEIsrT OK THK CONDITION OK - THE - People’s Bank of Darlington sp. 3( Act of At the close of 1892, in accordance with the General Assembly. ASSETS. Loans and Discounts $213,310.23 Stocks 6,080.00 Safe, Furniture, 4c 005.50 Due from Banks $17,037 11 ( ash 22,510.72- 30,556.83 Expenses and taxes paid .. 3,605 30 "$264,546703 LIABILITIES. Capita! Stock (laid up $100,000.00 Deposits 61,388.40 Due other Banks 1.487 06 Dividends unpaid 107.25 Undivided Profits and Sur plus 25,037 35 Re-Discounts 76,435.89 • ~ $264,546.06 Personally appeared before me, H. L. Charles, Cashier, of the People’s Bank of Darlington, S. ('., who on oath says, that the atnive Statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief H. L. CHARLES, Cashier. Sworn to before me this Oct. 4, 1802. [L. S.j GEO. ONSLOW, Notary Public, 8. C. Correct: JOHN SISKRON, B. A. EARLY, J- Directors. E. KEITH DARGAN, Woods&Woods \m - - 57 - -1892 Fifty-seven years ago the business which now bears our name was established, and through seasons of adversity, as well as through seasons of prosperity, we have moved steadily on, and the season of 1892 finds us occupying the handsome NEW BUILDING Does Lightning Sour the Milk? It is a well known fact that milk is especially apt to sour during the preva- ; Recently erected lence of a thunderstorm, and from this it has been surmised that the electric discharge held some mysterious sway over the lacteal fluid. An Italian ex perimenter, one Professor G. Tolomei, has been making trials of various sorts, the object being to throw some light on The first ’ electric influence over milk molecules. In his first experience he passed aq elec tric discharge frt in a Holtz machine be tween two balls of platinum hanging two inches apart in a bottle containing a quart of fresh n ilk; secondly, by send- | iiig a current between two strips of platinum at the bottom of a V tube filled with the same fluid; thirdly, by subjecting milk in a test tube to the ac tion of a strong battery current through a silk covered copper wire wound spi rally around the tube. In each one of these experiments, which were as thorough as any lover of science could wish, it was proved that acidulation of the milk was delayed in- \ stead of hastened, as had been expected. Three equal portions of milk from the same milking thus treated began to grow acid on the seventh, the ninth and | the sixth days, respectively, while other i portions of it which had not been treated with electricity was rankly acid on the ! evening of the third day. Having thus | disproved the popular theory of lightning ! being the direct cause of the acidifica tion of milk. Professor Tolomei tried ozone and found therein the mystic , agent of milk souring. In his second trial of ozone he bronght the surface of a quantity of milk close to the two balls of the machine used, and the fluid al- most instantly became acid in conse quence. Here at last a mystery that has puz zled professors and {leasants alike has been made plain.—St. Louis Republic. for us on tho east side of the Public Square, which is filled from cellar to ceiling with a stock of Merchandise, choice aijd entirely new. In no one of his semi annual purchasing tounr North has our Buyer labored so long and cautiously as dur ing the 15 days recently spent in Philadelphia and New York, every hour of which time was devoted to a selection of the goods which you are cordially invited to inspect. g:DEPARTMENTS:8 1. Dress Goods & Notions. 2. Ladies’, Men’s and Children's Shoes. 3. Gents’ FurnishingGoods 4., Ladies' Furnishing Goods. 5 Men’s & Boys’Clothing. O. Cloaks and Jackets. t. m\m ami ii(in mmm 8. Groceries, Crockery and Glassware. Each of the above departments is com plete in every detail. Woods & Woods. ■ - r 8 », ^ T ISl'&N Florence Opera U 2 Performances Main sui Night Deshon Opera Go. Saturday Matinee: ERMINIEl Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting of the Board of County ikiiuinisniooers lor Darling, ton county will he held on Thursday the 10th of November next. AH person* holding bills, accounts or demands of any kind against th. county which have not been presenfi ed to the Board of County Comral*. tloners It special meetings held dur- ing the year, are required to deposit the same with the I’lerk of the Board on or before the first day of Novem ber next. HENRY E. P SANDERS Clerk of Board Darlington October 5th 1892.—3t Saturday Night: -FOR Prices, 75c, 5Qc & 25c. ® SPEGWlx VfiflliN,® Leaving Hartsville, calling at Darlington, arriving in Florence in ample time to witness the performance and returning same night. ft M Me SOI PLAIN PACTS WORTH RHAHC! With the short crop and low prices how are the people to supply tiflir many wailts? Our answer is, Buy where your dollar will bring you the most. Friendship and small favors in the past were all very well, but this year every dol lar must no double bUTY if possible. We claim o be the place to buy, and ask your considera tion of the following— WE BUY STRICTLY FOR CASH and discount every bill, thus buying fifteen to twen’y per cent, cheaper than our competitor who buys on four montlu time. We are willing to give our customers this diffirence. We have just returned from Ne\v York with the most com plete stock of i — Sr; Sttis, Uis, Sluts, Isis ssi that we have ever th iwn here. No Seconds, Misfits, Off Colors, or Job Lots from auction, but all elegant' and reliable goods. Remember, don’t buy a dollar’s worth until you see our stock All we ask is a fair and square comparison of our goods. T1 nuking you for your past liberal patronage, we invite you to call and see us. Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM Willcox's Old Drug Store. - 18 NOW A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware Store. Also a full line of igricilliiril lafleotgls, Etgigtus’ Sijjlitt, Miitry, Stm ATSTD TUtfWAHE, And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Tinuing, Roofing & Flamming .a. s^Biai.AJL.nr. BAKED MS mi Mil! 27 Loaves for $1.00. Rye Bread, 13 loaves fo ‘$1,00. o Delivered at yrnir very doors, if desire it. Patronize Home Industry! Mrs. R Schmid tf. you Of New York Has just opened a store in Mr. J. H. Early's building, with a new stock of General Merchandise, Gents' Fine Furnishing Goods, Cloth ing, Dry Goods, Shoes, Gro ceries, Etc., AT LOWEST PRICES Residents of the town and its vicin ity are cordially invited to call and in spect the same. Sep 15—3in. a> Misses A. & JL Fountain, Desire to announce to their friends and customers that they have just opened their stlfck of Fall ail Fine Ilk; 1 Which they have selected with their usual care, with a view to securing the •. cry Latest Styles in that department. HT A continuation of their past patronage is solicited, and no effort will be spared to please their custom ers. Sep 22—3m MW.B. McGIRl'U. 0. S., Offers his professional »tn vices to the people of Darlington and vicinity. Office over the store of Edwards, Nor- ment 4 Co. Jan IP,’00—ly GIN HOUSES! Insure your Gin Houses with F. E. NORMENT, Agent, - WHO Offers Best Companies and Cheapest Rates.' Aug 25—2m. Sibsm' & I not - FIRE - Insurance Agents, Represent some of the strongest companies in the world, such as THE HOME of Npw York, and THE HARTFORD of Hartford, Conn. :o: General Agents for THE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company Of New York, For the Counties of Darlington, Sumter and Marion. Prompt personal attention given to all business entrusted to them. -t> June 9—lyr For Sale. W HEAT and Rye on sale at Me- t all 4 Burch s. The Rye it North Carolina grown. Price of each $1,35 a bushel. A. A. GANDY. Sept. 29—2t. Call on C. MOONEY rum m m im of all kinds. All orders filled promptly, and sat faction guaranteed. Aug 35—6m