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DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1893 WHOLE NUMBER 950 VOL, XX, NO. 15. LO LACIM. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. A reward is offered in this is sue for the recovery of a lost dog. The Darlington Club will give the annual reception on Wed nesday night, the 26 inst. The town is using nice sprink lers or fountains for watering the grass in the Court House park. A very enjoyable dance was given at the Cleveland House on Monday night by the He brews. The frame for Mrs. L. V. Zimmermans residence near the Methodist Church has been erected. The County Board of Equali zation held its final meeting on Tuesday and heard complaints from those whose returns had been raised. Applicants for certificates to teach in the public schools should remember the date of the examination, which is Fri day of next week, the 21 inst. The Darlington Guards have decided to enter the first grade military contest at the Spring Carnival in Columbia on May 17. The prize for this contest is $200. The Tennyson Club will meet to night (Thursday) at the resi dence of Mrs. A. M. Woods. Dr. W. J. Garner will entertain the club with an account of his re- eent travels in Europe. Mr. S. Wolfram and Messrs. A. Weinstein & Bro ad vertise their respective lines of business in this issue and Messrs Joye & Sanders and Mr. A. J. Broom have interesting changes in their advertisements. The town authorities did a good thing on Monday when they had the business portion of the town watered with the fire hose. .It would be well for the authorities to repeat this of ten during the dusty weather. The trotting races, which the Driving Asssociation is having upon its track, for the purpose of practising the horses, afford an enjoyable pastime. Yester day afternoon races were given to tfhich the ladies were espe cially invited. Messrs Moorhead Cox & Co. announce in this issue that they have for sale Wilkinson's Matchless Mineral Water, which has stood the best chemical analysis, and is especially adapt ed to dyspepsia, headaches and similar troubles. Jack Johnson, colored, living about a mile and a half from town had his foot so seriously in jured by an accident some weeks ago as to require its amputation on yesterday. Dr W. J. Gar ner, assisted by Mr. Jno. A. Boyd, performed the operation. The Atlantic Coast Line will sell round trip tickets to the naval rendezvous, at Hampton Roads, Va., next week. War ships of all the nations of the world will participate in the display. The priceof the round trip ticket from Darlington is $12,85. The school trustees who still hold the poll tax lists burnished them by the Auditor should re turn them as soon as possible. The following are the townships whose trustees st’ll hold the lists : Darlington, High Hill, Leavensworth, Lisbon, Lydia, Society Hill and Stokes Bridge. Until further notice the hours for services in the Presbyterian Church will, beginning on Sun day next, be as follows : Morn ing Sunday service, 11 o’clock ; evening Sunday service, 8 o’clock ; prayer meeting, Wed nesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Communion services will be held on Sunday morning next, with a preparatory service on Saturday. The annual conference of Florence district will be held in Cheraw next week, beginning on Wednesday, the 19 inst., and clos’ngon the Sunday follow ing. The delegates from the Methodist Church at this place are Rev. J. E. Carlisle and Mes srs J. Gregg McCall and W. J. Rogers. This delegation is in structed to invite the conference to meet here next year. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Brief Mention About People You Know and People You Don’t Know. Mr. A. W. Moore, Jr., of Cam den, visited Mr. C. M. Ward last week. Mr. Sam Edmunds, of Sum ter, visited Mr. C. W. Hewitt this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Edwards returned on Saturday from Charleston. Miss Sophie Thurston, of Sum merville, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Woods. Mr. Clark Willcox, of Marion, brotherof Dr. J. C. and Mr. H. M. Willcox, visited Darlington this week. Prof, and Mrs. J. B. Duffie are visiting Mr. C. W. Hewitt. Prof. Duffie is superintendent of the Sumter Public Schools. Mrs. Frank R. Chambers, of New York, and her daughters, Misses Greta and Mary are visi ting their relatives, Rev. and Mrs. John Stout. Miss Maria Lee Evans, of Florence, and Miss Louise Pow ell of Virginia, spent a few days this week as the guests of Miss Nonie Williamson. Mr. J. Gregg McCall will rep resent the Darlington Lodge of the Knights of Honor at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in Orangeburg on Tuesday. Mr. H. B. Evans, superintend ent of the Pee Dee Compress Company, has returned to his position at the compress after an extended visit to Georgia. Mrs. A. J. Baird left yester day to join her husband at Char lotte where they will make their future home. Mr. Baird is now superintendent of the electric railway of that city. The Columbia Carnival com mittee has invited Messrs G. W. Brown. E. G. Woods and R. E. James to act in the civic escort to the orator and other notable guests during the great Carni val parade. Mr. Angus Gainey, a former Darlingtonian now residing in Greenville, Tenn., will shortly go into the music and furniture business at that place on his own account. Mr. Gainey ex pects to visit his old friends in Darlington next week. Mr. Harry Smith, who has been working with Mr. C. R. Woods in the cotton business at this place for about two years, returned to his home in Char lotte on Mondav. The many friendsof Mr. Smith trust that he will return to Darlington in the fall. , SEVEN HUNDRED AND TEN CANS. Stolen from the Canning Factory—No Starvation for that Fellow. For sometime it has been sus pected from the number of goods missing that the canning factory was being robbed. Sus picion finally pointed to Silas B. Bass, colored, who was ar rested on Monday night. His premises, near tbe C., S. & N. depot, were searched, and in a loft were found seven hundred and ten unopened cans from the factory, some containing okra, others tomatoes, peas, etc. Bass also had a queer arrange ment under his house for hiding chickens, and he had a lot of them there, but the casual ob server would not know it, for the only access to the chicken- coop under the house was through a flower pit. It was a novel scheme. Bass is now in jail. One of his ostensible means of living was preaching. On Tuesday Bass’ wife and her little brother were arrested. For sometime past our citizens have been greatly worried by cnicken thieves and when the news of the discovery of Bass queer coop had spread abroad many thought that there they would find their stolen fowls and quite a number did find their fowls there. It was an amusing spectacle to see on Tuesday so many ladies and gentlemen gathered at Bass’ house for the purpose of recog nizing and recovering their chickens that they had given up for gone. “Hypnotism.” To-morrow (Friday) evening is the time appointed for Mr. L I. Parrott's experiments on “Hypnotism”, in the opera house, foi* ihe benefit of the library fund of St. John’s school. Reserved seats, 25 cts.; general admission, adults 25 cts., child ren 15 cts. m\(l THE HOSES. THE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FLORAL FAIR. The Entertainment Promises to be a Great Success—The Cantata and the Names of Those in It. The ladies of the Darlington Horticultural Society are spar ing no pains to make their flor al fair a great success. They have spent a great deal of time and thought upon the entertain ment and they have decided up on many attractive features for the fair, besides the floral ex hibit. They are bent upon making the society one of the most useful and popular in Dar lington and we believe they will be successful. A meeting of the society will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at the residence of Hon. Geo. W. Dar- gan at four o’clock. The pur pose of the meeting is to make final arrangements for the fair and the attendance of every member of the society" is request ed. In view of this spring being very early and of the rapid opening of the flowers, it is pro bable that the fair will be held two weeks earlier than it was first intended, or about the lat ter part of this mo th. All the arrangements for the cantata, which will be given on the first evening, have been completed. The cantata is named, “The Flower Queen, or the Coronation of the Rose.” The synopsis, briefly stated, is that the flowers (each represent ed by a lady) retire to a secluded dell to select a queen from among themselves. In this dell a re cluse, tiredof life had, unknown to the flowers, sought refuge. Each flower recites its claim to the position of queen, but the rose is finally selected. In the meantime, however, the recluse is so impressed by the recitals of right and duty that the flowers make that he decides to return to a life of usefulness. The recluse will be imperson ated by Mr. R. E. James and the following is the list of la dies who will participate, togeth er with the flowers they will represent: Miss Emma Edwards, rose; Miss Jennie Rast, hya cinth; Miss Nonie Williamson, dahlia; Miss Sadie Dargan, daisy; Mrs. H. A. Edwards, lily; Miss Emma Williamson, violet; Miss Clara Ward, pansy; Miss Bertie Wardlaw, pink; Miss Lizzie Rast, fern; Miss Marie Lide, tulip; Miss Alma McCown, wild rose; Miss Mary Law, sunflower; Miss Bessie Ervin, blue bell; Mrs. G. E. Dar gan, Forget-me-not. ALMOST A CHAIN GANO.* George Brockenton the First Man to Goto Jail at Hard Labor. Trial Justice Floyd sent George Brockenton, colored, to jail, on Monday, for twenty days, for stealing five pounds of can dy from Mr. Pinkston’s store. The public interest in this case lies in the fact that the Trial Justice added hard labor to the sentence, the first case of its kind in this county. It was done under the Act of the last Legislature which allows any court to add hard labor to a sentence of imprisonment in the jail for a period less than twelve months. This is a good law and is in tended to keep prisoners from lying idle in the jail at the county’s expense. The County Commissioners may use such prisoners sentenced to hard la bor for work upon the public roads or municipal authorities may use them for working the streets. Whichever authority uses them must furnish suitable guard and must feed the prison ers. It is probable the town au thorities will use Brockenton. THE PEE DEE DOCTORS. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of An Old Association. The Pee Dee Medical Associa tion met in the parlor of the Enterprise Hotel on Wednesday of last week, with Dr. C. Kol- lock, of Cheraw, the President, in the chair. The following members were present: Drs. Miller, Evans and Culpeper, of Florence, Willcox, Lunney, Garner, Hill, Josey, H. Wil liamson, J. W. Williamson, Griffin and Baird, of Darling ton. The following were elected to membership in the association: Drs. B. G. Gregg and L. Y. King, of Florence, and Drs M. G. and R. E Lee, of Darlington. It was decided to have writ ten a history of the society from its organization to the pre sent day and Dr. E. Miller was selected to prepare it. Dr. A. T. Baird, the regular appointed essayist, read an ad mirable and carefully prepared essay on “Hypnotism,” which was much enjoyed by his hear ers. Dr. W. J. Garner read an in teresting paper on the surgical treatment of diseases of the tonsils and Drs. J. Lunney and C. Kollock gave accounts of difficult operations performed. Each subject presented mot with a free and interesting dis cussion, in which all present participated. A resolution offered by Dr. J. C. Willcox looking to the reorganization of the State Board of Medical Examiners was adopted. The pres'dent ap pointed the following delegation to the State Medical Association, which meets in Sumter on the 19 inst: Drs. Evans. Miller, Willcox, Lunney, Baird, Gar ner, Hill, Culpeper and Josey. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted asfollows • President, Dr. C. Kollock ; Vice President; Dr. J. C. Willcox, Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. J. Lunney. The meeting then adjourned and the doctors enjoyed an am- | pie spread in the dining room of the hotel. Town Taxes. The time for the payment of town taxes for the year 1893 is approaching. The an nouncement is made in this issue that payment should be made at the office of the Judge of Pro bate from April 15 (Saturday next) to May 15. The rate of taxation for this year has been f ilaced at 5 mills, the same as ast year. The provision in the town charter for taxing dogs at $2 a head will be rigidly enfor ced and the owners of these animals should bear this in mind. Have your spring and sum mer suits made to order by Ohem&Co., merchant tailors, Baltimore, represented by Fred Lewenthal at S. Manne’s. Fit guaranteed. 4t TOTIGHT TILLMAN. The Wage Workers' League Gaining Foothold in Darlington. It is stated by the daily news papers that the Wage Workers’ Democratic League of this State J has developed marvellous strength. The work of organi zation was done quietly but most effectively and there are ; now four hundred sub-leagues established throughout the I State. The movement, it will | be remembered, was inaugura- J ted among working men, who consider the Tillman legisla tion against corporations as more injurious to them, the em ployees or wage-workers, than anybody else. The State Convention meets on Wednesday next. The work of organizing throughout the ; State has been so secretly done, that little is known so far as regards the membership. The News has run across the leaders of the movement in Darlington however, and, while we are not at liberty to tell all we know, we can state that a sub-league will be established in Darling ton in time to send a delegation to the State Convention. The prime object of the association, and no secret is made of this, is to get control of the State from out of the hands of Tillman and his lieutenants. BOTH ARMS BROKEN. A Colored Man Badly Injured—He has an Arrest Made. Jet Calhoun, a Darlington colored man, received severe in juries on the C., S. & N. Rail road, near Syracuse, on Mon day. Both of his arms were broken and his face was badly mashed. He swore out a war- i rant against Mr. W. H. Simp- ! son, the conductorjof the north- | bound passenger train, alleging that Mr. Simpson had pushed him off the platform of the train while he was endeavoring to pay his fare. This Mr. Simp son denies, his side of the story being that Calhoun either jump ed off or fell off accidentally. Mr. Simpson was put under a $400 bond to appear at a hear- j iug before Trial J ustice Floyd 1 on Saturday next. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Chips from Cypress—Four Thousand Turpentine boxes Destroyed by Fire—Personal. Mr. J. W. DuBose has the finest crop of wheat in this sec tion. The cotton crop in this neigh borhood will be larger than last year. Miss Ida DuBose has returned home from a visit to friends at Clyde. Mr. J. W. Crosswell, of Rish- opville, visited this place not long since. Mr. J. M. Hoover, of North Carolina, spent several days hire recently. Cypress seems to be quite a favorite place with the “tar heels.” Samuel Simon, a colored man, while recently clearing off a small piece of rough pasture land, accidentally let the fire get into a pine forest destroying about four thousand turpentine boxes. It also ruined a field of oats, belonging to a colored man. LYDIA. The farmers are busily en gaged in planting cotton. The party season is about over and croquet “is all the go.” Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Davis spent several days in Sumter last week. Our “M. D’s.” report the peo ple of this community distress ingly healthy. The farmers say that the past continuous cold weather has played the “mischief” with them. Mr. O. D. Lee is rebuildin his ginhouse which was burnei in January. Mr. Lee has a quantity of plough stock timber on hand that he would be glad to get rid of. We would be glad if the Una correspondent would make his reference, which he referred us to in the last Lydia letter, more plain as we are a little dull of comprehension. JASPER. Farmers are busily planting cotton regardless of the dry, windy weather. The cotton will not come up until it rains. Mrs. E. J. Stephens had her arm broken on the 6 inst. Dr. Culpeper was immediately sum moned. Mrs. Stephens suffered intensely, but she is doing as well as can be expected. Harry Harrison, an old color ed man who lived near Mr. T. J. Sansbury, died on Thursday last. He was seized the day before with cramp cholic and died in the most excruciating pain. We have been visited by sev eral forest fires recently and some damage has been done by burning- rails. Pasture fences were burnt and animals had some freedom in roving. We see the light from fires every night. RIVERDALE. The people of Meehan icsville church have organized a Sun day school, with thirty odd members enrolled. Capt. Whipple recently furn ished the Darlington market with a Holstein beef which net ted eleven hundred and sixty pounds when dressed. Mr. J. A. Middleton has had his dwelling plastered and is applying the painter’s brush, which makes the appearance, a great deal more attractive. Lowther’s Lake is quite a favorite resort at this season and it seems that the visitors possess fine piscatorial skill for they succeed in capturing a great many of the “finny tribe.” Messrs Woods & Woods will receive next week complete lines of full dress vests and thin coats and vests. (Other Locals on 2nd Page.) Reward. L OST or stolen a bl dog ; bud on collar and lock ; an swer to name of “Pet.'’ Party having same will be liberally rewarded if he dog is returned to the office of Tmt Dakuxotob Nkws. Our Spring Stock of Novelties in DRESS FABRICS, All in single dr 'ss patterns, no two alike, has arrived, and we will take pleasure in display ing them to our friends, the public. We would call especial attention to our WASH GOODS DEP T Consisting in part of DOTTED SWISS, SATIN E OLORIA, CANTON CLOTH, TITANIA, INDIA MULL. PERSIAN MULL, INDIA DIMITY, EMPRESS STRIPES, LLAMA CLOTH, IRISH LAWN, SICILIAN TULLE, VENETIAN FABRICS, OUTINGS, SCOTCH G NGHAMS, LINEN CHAMBRAY. We.also call your attention to our line of lacee, Embroid eries, Ribbons, Gloves, Hand kerchiefs. Fans, etc., which is complete in every detail. We are agen.s for the cele brated Thomson’s “Glove-flt- Ung” Corsets. We carry a s ilendid line of Ladies’ Shoes and Slippers. Come into our store and we will guarantee you both pleasure and sat isfaction. McCall Cf Burch. Having just received the Latest Hoyelties IN Spring Milkj, lotWFutj Bool:, I am prepared to wait on my friends and the public in general. HT’No trouble to show goods. Call and examine stock and prices. M. J. BYRD, West Side Public Square. Marl8—to Jul 1. COGGESHALL & CO. GROCERIES, GLASSWARE, HAY AND CROCKERY, GRAIN. AND LAMPS, WOOD AND WILLOW WARE. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Our stock in the above lines is complete in every detail. We have on hand at all times a choice and fresh line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. «T Goods DELIVERED FREE and promptly to all parts of the city. O-INTE TTS ^ O.A_IL,]L,. Respectfully, COGGESHALL & CO. (Edwards, Norment & Co’s old gro cery stand.) Mar2—4m Many people can give fits That will make you very sad, But we give you a new kind of fit— The kind that makes you glad. McCALL & BURCH — CAB FIT — YOUR EYES 1 YOUR TASTE 1 YOUR PURSE! Most men are not careful enough when l uying clothes; they should lot k more closely into the worth, style and FIT of the garment. There is a vein of stylish grace that, run'i through our entire variet} of SPRING SUITS. Call and exami ic them. Our NECKWEAR Depart ment is overloaded with new Spring styles and shades, and if you want any thing REAL “TONY” & UNIQUE make us a visit. SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! McCall Si Birci IF YOU DON’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 J. L. SISKRON. W. 8. ANDREWS. SlSKRDN & A«W8, FURNITURE, COFFINS, John Siskron’sOId Stand, Darlington, S. 0. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GENERAL REPAIRING, Mar 16—ly. Hut & Wools, - 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 Tork, For the Counties of Darlington, Sumter and Marion. Prompt personal attention given to all business entrusted to them. June 9—lyr For Sale. V KOn hard pineGuage shinglss at a vary lowprlca. J.H. SAKLYi