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§ht Darlington |jta. HENRY T. THOMPSON, j WADDY THOMPSON, 1 ■ Editors. Thursday, Jan. 26, 1893. involve amounts exceeding 112,000 and, as we understand it, these must be heard in the United States Supreme Court before the matter is settled. The fight is not yet ended and the alleged victory for the State turns out to be a drawn battle. DOVESVILLE. Messrs Parris and Crosswell having withdrawn from the race for postmaster at this place M'ss Abbelle McCallman and Mr. T. S. Williamson are now the only competitors for the small but much coveted office. Judge L. M. Crosswell has received his commission as Trial Justice, has rented a place in town, moved in and is now rea dy to hold the scales of justice equally poised before the eyes of the suspected culprit and his accusers. The old folk say that a cold winter is a sure indication of a bountiful crop year. If that be true we will surely be in clover next harvest time, for every thing that could freeze has been frozen hard for weeks. We believe that even prohibition has been “snowed under” so deep that July’s sun will not be hot enough to thaw it out. Well it’s only “Childs” play anyway. Successive snows and sleet have combined to make five weeks of the severest weather we have ever experienced in this locality. W ith this excep tion the holidays, we presume, were enjoyed by all as usual. We having been confined to a sick bed missed it all, but we were the happy recipients of some appiopriate presents from known and unknown friends and wish to avail ourselves of the opportunity to assure the donors that their kindness is not only appreciated now but will ever linger in our memory, like the fragrance of sweet flow ers that still cling to the frag ments of the vase that misfor tune has crushed. TRAINS AT DOUBLE S°EED. Two Miles a Minute the Limit Fixed by This Inventor. [Washington Post.] Nothing can better illustrate the versatility of the modern newspaper reporter than the an nouncement which is made to day of a series of railroad in ventions, upon which patents have been obtained by Mr. F. U. Adams, a well-known Chi cago newspaper man well known in Washington. He ascertained,, Vnat ’nigh speetb^’wereThipossible with the claimed tbaL»«TlP r e' railin K construction of cars and proceeded to evolve a sys tem to overcome, or at least to minimize the retarding inlluen ce of the atmosphere, and now presents a series of inventions which, in the opinion of some of the best railroad men in the country, is destined to revolu tionize the construction of pas senger cars. Mr. Adams proposes to con struct a train, the engine of which is pointed like the bows of a ship, so as to split the at mosphere. The tender tapers back to meet the first car, to which it is ve-libuled by hoods completely encircling the space between the tender and the car. Each car of a train is thus vesti- buled. A false bottom extends beneath the cars, dropping to within three inches of the track. Flexible and removable sections connect the false bottom with the side of the car, and when a train is made up there is not an opening surface from the.front end of the tender to the rear end of the last car, which is also tapered like the stern of a ves sel. JJJAt the highest possible esti mate a train of six cars thus constructed will offer but 160 square feet of wind surface; which, at a speed of sixty miles an hour, would have a resist ance of 2,880 pounds as against the 10,300 of existing trains of equal length. It therefore fol lows that a train such as Mr Adams proposes can reach a speed of sixty miles an hour at an expenditure of less than one- third the power now required, and that speeds of seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred mues an hour can be reached without exhausting the capaci ty of modern passenger locomo tives. FROM BAD TO WORSE. Since we published in our last issue an article on the State debt, facts have come to light wh'ch show that the terms upon which the refundment is made are not av favorable even as was first supposed. The admin istration had to give 4} per cent interest, with the very best se curity, the phosphate beds, when other Southern States have recently refunded their debts at smaller interest and with less security. We thought this was bad enough, but facts, since brought to light, make the matter worse. The old debt does not mature until July 1, 1893, but the administration proposes to date the new bonds from January 1, 1893 and make them bear interest from that time, six months before they take the place of the old bonds. The interest on the new bonds for these months is to be paid to parties placing the bonds for con.missions for their services Tin se commissions will amount to !j 130,500. There are two ob jections to this commission business. First, while the refunding Act does not specifically limit the amount of commissions to be paid, it certainly implies that they should be limited to the sinking fund, some $30,000, as will be seen by the following extract from the Act, “in order to have the said bonds and stock promptly placed the Governor and State Treasurer are hereby authorized to offer and pay a commission to parties placing said bonds and stock; and the funds belonging to the sinking fund are hereby appropriated to pay such commission, if so much be'necessary: Provided, however, that they shall have said bonds and stocks placed without paying ^commission if practicable.” The admmis- ration is thus giving as com missions $100,500 more than it should. Second, it is interest on both the old and new bonds, from January 1, 1893 to July 1, 1893, it is virtually increasing the debt for that period and to increase the debt without the consent of the people is in vio lation of the Constitution. We cannot but think that this point is very forcible, although the Supreme Court has decided that the plan is legal (and we accept its decision with all due defer ence ) The State is certainly paying interest for six months on two separate debts and, legal or illegal, it is very objection able. When it is remembered that the setting aside annually of $7'>,000 of the phosphate reve nue for the redemption of the de »t will very nearly offset the money saved in interest by the relundment, no appreciable re duction in taxes being thus ef fected, the unfavorable terms upon which the refundment is made are the more to be deplor ed The people will soon be come tired of the Tillman idea of financiering to Mr. McDonald, who was in charge of the telegraph office there, and who forwarded it to Columbia. Mr. McDonald pre served the original disnatch, and has it neatly framed and preserved as a relic. — — • TO AID EX-CONFEDERATES. Th« Fund Appropriated for the chase of Artificial Limbs. [Exchange. J Governor Tillmar, Comptroll er General Ellerbe and Chair man Bratton, the special com mittee in charge of the distribu tion of the $5,000 appropriated by the General Assembly for the purchase of artificial limbs for Confederate soldiers, are ready to receive applications The money is available to those who received any portion of the fund appropriated in 1881. The law does not make any f irovision for anyone who lost a imb or an eye who did not re ceive a portion of the last fund for a similar purpose. The fund in 1880 was $23,000 and was all consumed in the purchase of limbs. The present fund is to be used in the purchase of du plicates of the old limbs. It is desired that all Confederates be informed of this fund and that they understand its purposes The money will be pro-rated among the applicants, as there is no other way of knowing how many of the former beneficiaries are alive in the State. The proof necessary is that the ap plicant received a portion of the fund when last distributed. A big fire among the tobacco factories of Richmond, on Tues day of last week, destroyed $250,000 worth of property and threw twelve hundred people out of employ ment. Among the buildings burned was the fa mous Allen & Ginter’s cigarette factory. SOME nm PACTS WORTH READING! With the short crop and low prises bow are the people to supply their many wants? 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 mcstdotoubleputtiffossibl*. We claim to 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 twenty per cent, cheaper than our competitor who buys on fuur months time. We are willing to give our customers this difference. We have . just returned from New York with the most com plete stock of - - - Drf Mi, loiisu, Sim, lati ui Sldlitg-- - that we have ever shown 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 Ail we ask is a fair and square comparison of our goods. Thanking you for your past liberal patronage, we invite you to call and see us. Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM. Willcox’s Old Drug Store. ONLY A DRAWN BATTLE. The administration and the administration organs have been bragging a great deal on account of a recent report that the United States Supreme Court had made a decision in the celebrated railroad tax cases, which would indicate a victory for the State. We refrained from making any comments at the time, preferringto await the official decision of the Court. And it is well that we have done so, for the jubilee that the Ti'lmanites have been holding is rather premature. The decision of the Court has just been made public. It does not touch upon the merits of the case at all. It simply declares that the United States Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in the cases heard, the two test cases selected by the State, as they do not involve amounts sufficient for the cases to be heard, the statute requiring that each case shall have at least $2,000 involved to bring it within the jurisdiction of that Court. The State’s plan of taxing the railroads may be just and legal, or may not be. The decision STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.) Executive Chamber. f WHEREAS information han been received at this Department that on the night of the fifth day of January A. D. 1S93, the barn of A. R. Oarner wa» burned, the warehouse at Syra cuse was broken open and robbed and the ware house at Lamar waa Vy&ru- ed, in the Cou«. y tW.ington, and There being reason to believe that the burning was an act of incendiarism. Now, Therefore. I. B. R. Tillman, Governor of the State of South Caro lina. in on’er that justice may be donr and the majesty of the law vin dicated. do hereby offer a reward of ONE HUNDEREI) DOLLAA8 for the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who committed said act of incendiarism. In Testimony Whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to he affixed, at Columbia, this Eighteenth day of January A. D. 18»8 and in the one hundred and seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. [SEAL] B. R TILLMAN. By the Governor: J. E. TINDAL, Secretary of State. Jan. 26—’93. Dispensary, No. 9, P. B. ALLEN, PEARL ST.. DARLINGTON, S. C. Not the State Dispensary Provided for by the Proiiibition Law, but the place where you can get the purest Wilts, Lips, dp Holm Jan26—2t Fall and Winter, 1892. We have now open a complete Block of fall and winter goods which have been marked down at the lowest prices ever offered by us. We are able to. meet the SHARPEST COMPETITION And only an inspection of our stock and compariaon of prices will prove the fact thaf HE WILL NOI' BE IMMHJ! _ Every article is a leader with us this fall, but we call spe cial attention to the REYNOLDS’SHOES, the best in the market. Also the $ mjvto-u- eA ^ (Wittorv <^fo. the best sewing machine made. We control al o the sale of ofLt ^ofvutaA £(^c|,fit-Q?WaruiU}, “•SNtuj- efSomt/ ’ 41 Gwaanl Af«nte for THE MUTUAL UFE IVSU«AXCB COKFAjnr Of New York, For the Counties of Darlington, Sumter and Marion. - o-— Prompt personal attention ven to all bosineas entrusted them. June 9—lyi , Print! iistructlon. P RIVATK iMtnwHoB fiwn In U- at aebool or eoSSoMO, by the Bov. Ed ward MeCrmdy, I. B., a recent grad uate of the Untmntty of the South An appointment may be Bade with Mr-MeCredy for the porpooe of ob taining information aa to term*, Ac., try ap^jjrhaw a* The Dahumoto* £ THE VOTE DEES I See the beavtlfoi animal at J- H. JAMES’ when yoo SepW—tf. to town. NHP" t* Fir Stto. 7.600 t.JL MARLY. Returns of Property for Ini- tioo. GEN. LEE’S LAST TELEGRAM. A Veteran Telegraph Operator's Relic of the Great Soldier. [From the Savannah News ] S. K. McDonald, of Winnsbo- ro, 8. C., a veteran telegraph operator, and recently agent of the South Bound railroad at Es- tell, has what he believes to be the last telegram sent by Gen. Lee. It is addressed to the may or of Columbia, 8 C., and is a reply to a request from the citi •ens of Columbia that they be accorded the privilege of ten dering him| a public reception. The telegram is written on a torn piece of note paper. It reads as follows: Columbia, 8. C., March 30, 1870. To Mayor Mckenzie : I shall be very happy to xee the citizen* of Columbia and to take each by the hand if they will pass through the car, but it must be in a quiet way, as I am quite indisposed and must pass on. . R. E. Lux. Gen. Lee and his daughter j .z • . „ I Agnes were on their way from does not touch upon this at all, ! R ^ hmoDdtoFloiidft>and / hedif . so where is the victory for the j patch was written on the train State ? Some of the cams do Winnsboro, and was handed For Sale. quantity i Allen lorq iM. seed of tlie Allen long staple va riety. The seed is taken from cotton which brought Ilf cents. This varie ty has produced as much cotton per acre as any I have ever planted. Price 50cts a bushel. P. P. CHAMBERS, Jan26—3t Dovesville, S. C. I Fot Sale. county raised Red Rust Proof Oats for sale at my “Skuffal" plantation. BRIGHT WILLIAMSON. Jan. 26—It. Darlington Lodge, No. 7, Knights of Pythias. A SPECIAL meeting of the lodge is called for Friday evening, the 27th inst. As the business to be sub mitted if of great Importance a full attendance is de tired. By order of the Lodge CHAS. K. ROGERS. K. R. 8. Final Notice. N otice is hereby given that I have filed my final return as Executor of the estate of M. A. Atkinson in the Office of the Judge of Probate for the County of Darlington and will, on Monday, the 27th of February, 1898, apply for Letters Dismissory, E. K. ATKINSON, Executor. Jan. 23. 1883—4t. Prolate Notice. T HE annual returnsof all Execu tors, Administrators, Trustees, and Guardians, appointed by the Pro bate Court, are due in the month of January and February. The Judge of Probate trusts he will not have oc casion to enforce the penalty of the law upon any deiinqnente. T. H 8HAIN. Judge of Probate. Jan. 20—2t* For this section of the country, and sell needles and supplies for every machine on the market. Respectfully, Blackwell Brothers. July 21—6rn fiy lion is STEVENSON. THE GREATEST WORK OF THIS MASTER NOVELIST Will be published . k 1BE millEWS! / COMMENCING _ OTICE ie hereby gi’ Office of $ is NJqwi given that the Clerk will opewA on Monday; 5 r nany, I, IMS, at the Office of the Probate Judge for the purpoee of taking all the returne of property in the Town •( Darlington, and will oontinue open for n period of thirty day*, end ing February S, 18BS. Owners of property are required to return under oath no* only personal property, hot alee all real estate, ■peetfyiag the same by street and nnmber wherever poeeible, and also all investments in stocks, bonds, moneys, and securities, whether con trolled aa agent, guardian, adminis trator, or trustee,{either lathe town or invented out of it. Ail male per- i between the ague of eighteen and fifty are liable to afreet duty and mast make returns for the same. A penalty of fifty per eeat will be ex acted for all faMaree to make returns aa above apeeified. By order of Town Council, J. W. EVANS, Jan 6—it. Clerk. Inentioi Meehaiics! All persons in need of babbitt metal wan pnrchaae it cheap at ran Da« urrnroir Nxwe office. Jane IS, *SO—tf SANTH JPo JVot Jttiss n! TethePeblie: W HEN yon an In the city don't tall to call at the Enterpruo Hotel Berber Shop It ie the only fint-dam shop in the city. Fashionable hair cuts, first- dace ahavee and the Until after Christmas his headquarters will be at the Darlington Book. Store. ■ Call on him and see his magnificent array of presents, such as Bnlis, Top, uilnlit Set;! CONFECTIONS & FRUITS. Buggies, Surreys, Pheetausi ROAD CARTS, WAGONS, HARNESS SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, HALTERS, % CURRY COMBS, BRUSHES, LEATHER, WHIPS, LAP ROBES, HARNESS OIL, COFFINS, CASKETS, BURIAL ROBES, ETC., „ ETC. ■IN. L. Harrell, Darlington, 8. O. Mlnkhi toSbup. Four peine Barbexiuuwayson hat imb j^aiBe Nixon & Harllee, Onl PubUe Square. ■ Proprietors. *, South **de * -'ft • Mk lor listing fiseal rl 18M, art rare made, all real estate* ' All real es- apentbe net mqSrt: > hie tnx dnpUcate i erigi- nfoijr I (worn to befor* « X the • - : .'A-?'.-.’ School Notice. A MEETING of the eitixen* of the School District of the Town of Darlington is hereby called for Fri day, January 27, at 12 o’clock, in tho Court House, for the purpoeeof dedd- ing what tax shall be levied for the support of the schools for the enening year. By order of the board of Trustee* this fird day of January, 1886. 0. B, EDWARDS, Jan U—2* fie*] For Riit. Omen Coumty Comkissioi Darlington, January OB rent for the j . eember net 1 ■tiding* near Di the “Darlington tlon.” Bids will be 1 M.. January Mth, IMA HENRf E. P Jag. fA "fit, • 1 •-•yv S J Ud ■ - ^