The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, March 09, 1893, Image 4
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HENnY T. THOMPSON.
WADDY THOMPSON.
Editors.
Thnrsday, Marcli 9,1893.
JUDGE SIMONTON S DECISION
GENERAL NEWS.
Items o
Interest From
World.
All Over The
EX-PRESIPENT HARRISON.
Benjamin Harrison retired
from the Presidency on Satur
day last, carrying with him the
esteem and best wishes of the. Two Louisiana editors had a
.... . ! duel last week but neither was
American people. Having at h urt .
taim d the highest position to
i which his fellow citizens could
1 elevate him, he will retire to the
shades of private life. It is not
1 unlikely that in this privacy he
of his
The first point in the prohibi
tion fight has been won l>v the i ,a8ti rerna ' n, * er
State. Judge Simonton of the da - vs - for U is not P robable that
United States Court declared on
Wednesday of last week that
the dispensary or prohibition
law of South Carolina is consti
tutional. A case to test the
constitutionality of the law was
brought before him by two
Italian liquor deal rs of Char
leston, this action being taken
independently of the State Li
quor Dealers’ Association. The
decision of Judge Simonton
does not, however, settle the
which his party depleted the
treasury. Asa man there
naught to sry against him.
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his party will call him to the
front again. He lacks the
strong individuality of his pre-
| decessor and successor, Grover
Cleveland, and such individual
ity is essential to enable a man
to remain prominently before
the people after his defeat.
It is a pleasant duty to
wish good fortune to follow Mr.
Harrison. He made a good
President While he is not as
great and brilliant a man as
question. It may still be car-1 many of America’s statesmen,
ried to the State Courts and this he is straightforward and cour-
is what the liquor dealers will ageous and he gave the country
do with it. a clean administration. His re
Our position on the dispensary cord is pure and he leaves no
law has been one of opposition scandals to sully the reeollec
on principle and from a stand tions of his Presidency. His
point of expediency, and, while defeat was due to the high pro-
believing the law to be very ob- tective policy to which he was
jectionable, we have always committed and the extravagant
urged that it should be enforced
if it be declared constitutional.
Prohibition is wrong in princi
ple, does not prohibit and works
injury to the country ; there
fore, we object to it. The dis
pensary system is even worse
than prohibition because it is a
sham of the veriest sort. But j
the law must be obeyed and if!
the dispensary act is declared
constitutional wo shall advo
cate its enforcement so long as
it remains on the statute book.
We should like to know, in
passing, however, if Governor
Tillman will declare .Judge
Simonton's decision on the dis
pensary act to be due ‘•either to
tyranny or ignorance, or both,”
as he characterized the Judge's
action in the trouble between
the railroads and the Sheriffs.
We hardly think he will, for
once before, when the Federal
Court made a decision favora
ble to Tillman, the Governor
thought no praise too high for
that tribunal. When the
Judges agree with Tillman they
are right and just, but when
they differ with him they are
either tyrunical or ignorant.
Ex-President Harrison has
accepted a professorship of law
in the Stanford University of
California.
A prominent gentleman and
equally prominent lady commit
ted suicide in Wheeling, W.
Va., on Monday.
W. T. Jones, a Houston, Tex
as negro, killed his mother on
Monday by beating her skull to
pieces with club.
By the falling of a wall in
Chicago on Tuesday of last
week eight persons were killed
and four injured.
Two of the Homestead strik
ers, who were indicted for
poisoningnon union labors have
confessed their guilt.
Five children were suffocated
in a fire in a tenement house in
New York on Friday. Their
parents had left them alone
locked in a room
The residence of Cyrus Lee,
near Greenville, Ky., way burn
ed last week. Lee, his sister
and brother, wife and child
were all burned to death.
At Trenton, Tenn., on Wed
nesday of last week a white
man. named Bud Garth, became
oension appropriations with involved in a difficulty with
* and he killed them
in what form we place it the
principle remains just the same.
The idea of prohibition is goodl
and beautiful, but to derive |
benefit therefrom and put in
practice the theory we must]
make some jfractical applicati* >n,
and not substitute one form of
evil for another.
“The work of the Lord is per
fect,” and when He answers our
j rayers it will not be in the form
of a Dispensary Act. Many
are being wafted on the wings
ol hope into an impractible, in
consistent application of prohi
bition and are compromising. I
hope the day will never dawn
when Christians will be seen
behind the Evans bill bar deal
ing out liquor by the pint. It
would be a shame and disgrace
to any church to have its mem
bers behind the bar. They would
be subject to church discipline
and dealt with accordingly.
What would Christ have said
if one of His “twelve” had open-
ened a dispensary bar ? How
can we expect to govern the
consumption while the demand
and supply remain ? We should
put an end to 1 oth by sending
our drunkards to Dr. Keely,
thus killing the germ of future
generative drunkenness, and by
stopping the manufacture of
liquor.
To be a successful practitioner
a physician must disagnose his
case and treat from cause, and
not symptom : so must we mas
ter the cause of this great evil
before trying to govern the ef
fect. Efkee Ei,us.
ft M Hi
Sill PLAIN PACTS
The Legislative Assembly of
Arizona has passed a bill ex
tending the right of suffrage to
women
STATE NEWS.
and
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
We are now under Democra
tic rule. Grover Cleveland is
President and both the Senate
and House of Representatives
are Democratic. Saturday just
past marked a new era. the
complete control of the govern
ment by the party of the people.
And the party has a great lead
er. Of large mental capacity
sterling honesty and independ
ence of thought, together with
the courage to maintain his po
sition, Cleveland is the most
striking figure in American pol
itics. His former able adminis
tration foretells the success of
the present one and this, togeth
er with his well known views
on all financial and economical
questions, will give the whole
United States, irrespective of
sections, a feeling of security
and confidence.
As he is an ardent tariff re
former the poor man may reck
on, without fear of disappoint
ment upon President Cleveland
using his utmost endeavors to
have the robber tariff reduced
and, as Congress is Democratic,
his efforts should, and will be,
successful. He believes in
sound money, that a dollar
should be worth a dollar, and
in this the poor and the rich
should find equal satisfaction.
He opposes without fear or fa
vor abuses and extravagances
of every kind and the suffering
taxpayer may rely upon him to
lepel, as he did in his first ad
ministration, the ravenous raids
of the pension bummers upon
thi treasury.
To the South the re-accession
of Cleveland to the Presidency
should be a particularly auspi
cious event. For four years, at
Gathered From Our Exchanges,
Put In Paragraphs.
A white man, named Nathan
Thompson, killed a negro, nam
ed John Bell, in Barnwell coun
ty last weeli.
On Thursday Eddie Cochran,
a young farmer of Edgefield
county, was run over by a wa
gon and killed.
The handsome residence of
Mr. Albert Aycock, at Wedre
field, Sumter county, was de
stroyed by tire on Sunday. *
John and Jasper Atkinson,
white, wer» convicted in Fair
field last week of the murder of
John H. Clamp, also white
They were sentenced to be
hanged on J une 9
Dr. James Woodrow, who has
for many years published the
Southern Presbyterian at Col
umbia, has sold the paper to a
company at Clinton, S. C., where
it will hereafter be published.
Bennettsville lost last week
three of her most prominent and
popular people by the death of
Mr. W. H. Hamilton, Capt. J.
N. Weatherly and Mrs. Dickson
Fraser. The last named was a
daughter ot ex-Judge Town
send.
Col. D. P. Duncan, who is one
of our railroad commissioners,
has accepted the position of
secretary and treasurer of the
National Alliance. His head
quarters will be in Columbia.
He says that the Alliance will
more than ever try to kee > out
of politics.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Tweitman
were murdered at their home in
Lincoinville, near Charleston,
on Monday, by unknown par
ties. The murder was most bru
tal, both of ,he victims having
their heeds crushed. Robbery
is supposed to have been the
motive of tl e crime.
The Hour; of Bishops of the
Episcopal Church has refused
to accept the resignation of
Bishop Howe of South Carolina,
who resigned on account of ill
health. Provision has been
made for the election of an As
sistant Bishop to aid the veuera
ble Bishop in his duties.
Just after the close of the
February examinations at the
'South Carolina College, a party
of Students made a bonfire on
the campus, which alarmed the
whole city and called out the
fire department. As punish
ment the faculty suspended ele
ven of the students. The citi
zens of Columbia, thinking the
punishment too severe jietition-
ed the faculty to reinstate the
boys, but the request was refus
ed as the faculty thinks the
hoys deserved the punishment.
The Tillmanites of the South
Carolina delegation endeavored
to have the whole delegation to
agree upon a plan for the distri
bution of tlio federal offices in
this State, but so far Senator
Awenstt!
two negroes
both.
A terrible cyclone visited
Marksville, La., on Tuesday of
last week. Houses were ruined
and trees were upturned. Two
people were killed and forty in-1
jured. ^
A colored female college and COGGESHALL & CO.
a colored newspaper office in
Little Rock, Ark., were burned
on Thursday night The fires!
are thought to be the work of
an incendiary.
In accordance with the agree-1
ment, the Supreme Court hav-^
ing decided against them, the
Populist Legislature has been
disbanded and the members
have joined the Republican Leg
islature.
A terrific cyclone swept over
Georgia, Alabama and Missis-1
sippi on Friday night. Great |
damage was done to property '
and a number of lives were lost.,
In Georgia alone eighteen per-1
sons were killed.
Grover Cleveland was inau
gurated President of the United
States and Adlai E. Stevenson
Vice President on Saturday.
Despite the unfavorable weath
er the inauguration ceremonies
were very imposing.
A large party assembled at
Bay City, Mich., on Thursday,
to w itness the launching of a
vessel. An immense wave swell
swept a number of spectators
into the water and about thirty
people were drowned
The anti option bill was killed
in the federal House of Repre
sentatives on Thursday. The
majority of the members favor
ed the bill by a vote of 172 to
124, but. as under the rules ii
required a two thirds vot^, the
bill was defeated.
Gen. Beauregard in his will
left $500 to Confederate soldiers,
and to the city of Charleston he
gave his sword which was pre
sented to him by the ladies of
New Orleans in 1801 as a token
of honor for his services in cap
turing Fort Sumter.
An immense naval display
will be held in Hampton Roads,
Va. and in New York harbor in
April, in commemoration of
Columbus’discovery of Ameri
ca. War ships of all the great
nations of the world will join
the United States vessels in the
display.
AN OFFICER ASSAULTED.
A Darlington Deputy Sheriff Attacked
in Sumter County.
[News anil Courier, Meh. 8.J
Last Friday E. B. Scarbo
rough, a deputy sheriff from
Darlington, arrested a negro
named Jim Wilson near Elliott,
in this county. After he had
made the arrest about a half
dozen negroes attacked the de
puty, beat him badly and res
cued the prisoner. A negro wo
man was shot in the head, but
not dangerously, during the
difficulty. The negroes got the
deputy's pistol away from him,
but finding it empty they gave
it back to him. A posse was
obtained and the rioters arrest
ed. They are to be tried at this
term of the Court.
THE EVANS BILL.
The Views of a Florence Lady Who is
Well Known Throughout Darlington.
Beg leave to inform the
Darlington people that
their line of STAPLE
AND FANCY GRO
CERIES, CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE AND
LAMPS is complete and
solicit your patronage.
They try to have on
hand what you call for
—but if they fail in any
particular they can and
will quickly get any
thing you want in their
line.
Goods promptly deliv
ered to all parts of the
city.
COGGESHALL & CO.
(Edwards, Norment & Go’s old gro
cery stand.)
Mar2—4m
Equalization Board.
T Hk first regular meeting of the
Darlington County Equaliza
tion Board will be held at the Audi
tor's Office on the second Tuesday in
March, the 14 inst., in accordance
with the time fixed by law Chair
men of the township boaids consti
tute the County Board of Equaliza
tion
W. H LAWRENCE,
Clerk of Co. Board.
March 2—2t.
FOR RENT.
M Y TWO HOUSES in the rear of
the Bank of Darlington, the
one in which I now reside, and also
the new one fronting on Russell street.
For terms apply to
Mch2—tf Mrs. S. L. PEARCE.
Final Notice.
OTK’E is hereby given that 1
iYI will file ray final return in the
office of the Probate Judge for Dar
lington county on March 30 1893 as
Administration of the Estate of O. H
Wilbert and apply for Letters Dismis-
sory.
HARRIETTE GILBERT.
Feb. 28—4t.
IF YOU DOH'T—
Like the Watch you
have trade it off for
another at Mason’s
Jewelry Store.
We have plenty of
Waltham,Elgin and
^ Illinois Railroad
Watches, in Gold,
Silver and Nickel,
at reasonable prices.
Feb28—tf
Private Instruction.
P RIVATE instruction given in la-
tin, Greek. Mathematics, English,
oranyof other branches usualiytaught
at school or colleges, by the Rev. Ed
ward McCradj, A. B., "a recent grad
uate of the University of the South
An appointment may be made with
Mr Mct rady for the purpose of ob
taining information as to terms, 4e.,
by applying at The Darlington
News Office.
the least, we shall be absolutely &tor Butler . nnounces that he
free from the fear of hostile | wil1 I P aketb(! fi .K ht a Sf ain . 8t T 'lI
legislation.
Butler and Congressman Braw-! To the Editor of the News and
ley have refused to accept any I Courier : It seems to me that a
agreement. It is said that Sen- calm, intelligent mind can see
' of Lost Stock.
otic, is hereby given that,
Xn the expiration of thirty
after
that the “Evans bill” is not pro , 1 ’* t >' e . e *l , j ration ° f ‘ hir ty days
■ , , ( 1 '* > ' t io"’l > .u t lyher ^ Villman ^^^lhe‘D»rl^.^oaBundljDit^i
I man for rselection to the Senate, issue ; taking the whiskey busi- Loan Association for the renewal of
It is also reported that Congress- ness out of the uandsof individ- Certificate No. 129 of the capital stock
! man Talbert will be a candi- uals and placing it ia the hands
Alfred P. Robinson. Chiif date for the Senate and the fight of the State is rot prohibition. No “ “
Justice of Delaware, died on will therefore be a triangular good can come of substituting
Wednesday of last week. ‘ one. I one evil for another; no matter
of Alice M. Burch, which certificate
of stock has been lost or destroyed.
E. J. BURCH.
Darlington, 8. C., Feb. 9, 1893.
With the short crop and low prises how 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 MUST DO DOUBLE DUTY IF POSSIBLE. We claim
o be the place to buy, and asx 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 four months time. We are willing
to give our customers this difference. We have
just returned f^>m New York with the most com
plete stock of
— Drj Utils, Sotiois, Sloes, lots mi Clolliiig - - -
that we have ever shown here. No Seconds,
Misfits, Off Colors, or Job Lots from auction, but
all elegant and reliable goods. Reme.i.ber,
don’t buy a dollar’s worth until you see our stock
All we ask. is a fair and square comparison of
our goods. Tl anking you for your past liberal
patronage, we invite you to call and see us.
Yours respectfully,
A. J. BROOM.
Willcox’s Old Drug Store.
Call on
THESE ARE
llines»
WE CARRY:
Goods
Dress Goods,
Trimmings
Notions, Laces,
White iff oods,
Embroidery
Slices, Ready-made Clothing, Tinware,
Hardware, Crockery, Glass,
GKROCZEZRIIES,
(at Wholesale and Retail.)
We would just like the public to know that we have opened up a large
and complete line in all the above departments
JFVtt* Spring, 1893.
Customers who have dealt with ns in the past know what that means. To
those who never deatlt with us we wish to say that we nride ours-Ives on the
reputation we have justly earned—“One of the cheapest and most reliable
houses in the city of Darlington.’’
BRUNSON, LUNN & CO.
C. MOONEY
-FOR-
ME! ill Eli LVR
of all kinds.
All orders filled promptly, and satis
faction guaranteed.
Aug 25—6m
IS NOW
A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware
Store. Also a full line of
igrinM lofltauBti, ligiutn’ Splits, Mitliisrj, - Ituss
-A-TSTD TUtf-WAHE,
And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash.
Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing
Oct 6—tf
-A. SFEOI.A.LT'y.
Buggies,
Surveys,
Pheetons,'
ROAD CARTS, WAGONS, HARNESS SADDLES,
BRIDLES, COLLARS, HALTERS,
CURRYCOMBS, BRUSHES, LEATHER, WHIPS,
LAP ROBES, HARNESS OIL, COFFINS,
CASKETS, BURIAL ROBES, ETC., ETC.
N. L. Harrell,
Darlington, S. C.
1
- FIRE —
Insurance Agents,
Represent some of the strongest
companies in the world, such
as THE HOME of New 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.
June 9—lyr
Copartnership Notice.
OTH'E is hereby given that I
Ln have taken into copartnership
in my genera; merchandise business
Mr. Samuel Harris, and that the said
business will hereafter be conducted
at the same stand on Pearl Street
under the firm name of J. Goldman 4
Harris.
JOSEPH GOLDMAN.
Darlington, S. C., 16 Feb. ’93.
BANK OF DARLINGTON,
DARLINGTON, S. C.,
Capital, — — $100,000
Surplus and Undivi
ded Profits, — $45,973.80
DIRECTORS:
W. C. Coker, J. L Coker,
R. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward.
E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman,
Bright Williamson.
Transacts a General Banking
Business.
Savings Department.
Deposits of $1 and upwards
received.
Interest allowed at rate of 5
per cent, per annum from date
of deposit—payable quarterly
on the first day of January,
April, July and October.
For further information ap
ply at the Bank.
Accounts in both Depar
ments solicited and will I
given careful attention.
o
BRIGHT WILLIAMSON,
_ President.
L. E. WILLIAMSON,
Cashier.
Dec. 81—tf
invited.
Darlington Lodge
No. 7, Knights of Pythi
as, meets on 1st and 3rd
[Tcbsday Evenings in
each month, at Castle
Hall, Florence street,
opposite Broad. Visit
ing brothers fraternally
Copartnership Notice.
N OTICE is hereby given that tl
undersigned have this day fori
ed a copartnership under the fir
name of Norment 4 Co. for the pu
pose of conducting a retail busine
in dry good, dress goods, notions, 4i
m the town of Darlington, at tl
Nachman stand, corner of faslu
Street and the Public Square.
T. W. NORMENT,
v. „ „ L. M. NORMENT,
Darlington, S. C.. Feb. 27, 1893.
March 3—3t.
The “ ' Driving Issoc
tion.
I S now ready to break colts i
train horses for both running i
trotting. The celebrated stand
bre< stallion Highland Red will mi
his season at the stables of the a
elation For terms etc. adc.ress,
„ E. R. MclVEI
Pres 4 Treas. D. D. A.
March 2—4m.
MU. McGIRl.U. D.S.
Offers his professional stnvlce
’» of Darlington and vici
the people c. auu vici
Office over the store of Edward*
ment 4 Co. ’
Jan l#,’»0-i y