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xivlin af^it VOL. XX, NO. 27. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1893. WHOLE NUMBER 901. ij ii. 5S. MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. A meeting of the Alliance lecturers was held in the Court House on Friday. The “Glorious Fourth,"which was on Tuesday, was, as usual, unobserved in Darlington. The annual reunion of the survivors of the Inglis Light Artillery will be held on the 27th inst. The first session of Clemson College will begin to-day. Six or seven students will probably attend from this county. The examination for the scholarship in t h e Winthrop Training School will be held in the Court House on Saturday. The union services on Sunday night next will be held in the Methodist Church and will be conducted by Rev. J. G. Law. The sanitary regulations of the town are published in an other column. This is an im portant matter and everybody should read the regulations carefully. Quite a number of Darlington ladies and gentlemen went to Eutaw Springs on Tuesday on the excursion run to that place under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A of Sumter. Dozier Bell, the colored police man who had lime thrown in his eyes, is improving. One of his eyes is almost certain to be lost, but the condition of the other is better. We have received the pre mium list .or the fourth annual fair of me Lumber River Indus trial and Live Stock Association to be held at Red Springs, N. C., on August 17, 18 and 19. We have received an account of “Children’s Day” at Pine Grove Church and also an ar ticle on prohibition, which we are unable to publish this week, but they wii. appear in our next issue. At a meeting of the Town Council on Saturday Mr. W. B. Brunson was elected a member of the board of health in place of Mr. C. B. Edwards who de clined to serve. Now let the board get to work in earnest. An entertainment will be giv en at Lydia to-morrow (Friday) evening under the auspices of the I. O. G.. T. It will bo free and will begin at eight o’clock. After the exercises refreshments will be served. The public is invited. The large colored excursion from Gibson, N. C , to Augusta, Ga., via Darlington, will be run to-day. A number of people from here, including some whites, will take advantage of this opportunity to visit the “Fountain City.” On Satu day last the fine horse, Selim, the property of Messrs McCall & Henkle, of Florence and formerly owned by Capt Whipple, stumbled and fell on Muse’s Bridge and sus tained injuries, but the exten^ of which we have not learned. The tenth annual excursion from Wilmington to Washing ton will be run by the col ored people of the former city on July 17. Special cars will be arranged for whites. The 1 price of the round trip ticket from Darlington is $12.30; Dovesville, $12.30; Society Hill, $12.80. The notice calling the thir teenth annual reunion of the survivors of the Pee Dee Light Artillery appears in this issue. The reunion will be held at the Darlington Mineral Spring on the 21 inst. Col. James Arm strong, of Charleston, will de liver an oration on that day a time and place which will be announced in the next issue of this paper. At the meeting of the Demo cratic Voters of the town on Thursday night last Mr. W. J. Moorhead was nominated as the candidate to fill the vacan cy on the Town Council caused by the resignation of J. J. Ward, Esq. At the election on the next day he was elected without opposition. At a meet ing of the Council on Saturday Mr. Moorhead was sworn in. He was assigned to the finance committee. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Brief Mention About People You Know and People You Don’t Know. Mrs. Sallie Coker has gone to the Hammocks. Mr. W. D. Coggeshall is at Cleveland Springs. Miss Mary Jane Howie, of Lydia, is visiting the Misses Kelley. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Dar- gan have gone to Cleveland Springs. Miss Juliette Watson return ed to her home in Roanoke, Ya., yesterday. Miss Emmie Sanders, of Sum ter, is visiting Mrs. W. M. Haynsworth. Mrs. W. J. Alexander and family left on Monday to spend the summer at Saluda, N. C. Mr. J. D. Haynsworth left on Tuesds y for the World’s Fair, where he will remain sometime. Rev. and Mrs. John Stout left on Monday for the Hammocks to spend a three weeks’ vaca tion. Mrs. W. J. Early, who has been visiting relatives at Mount Pleasant, S. C., has returned to Darlington. Mri Walter Griffin has return ed from Charleston, where he I has been pursuing a course in stenography. Messrs F. O. and A. H.Spain, | both of whom now reside in Atlanta Ga., are on a visit to : their old home. Mr. Charles Spinks will leave this morning for his old home in Greensboro, Ga., wh^re he will remain about a mor th. Mr. M. T. Lide and Mr. Eu- i gene Vaughan went on Tuesday to Cleveland Springs, where they will remain several weeks. Mr. D. F. Houston, who has been attending Harvard Univer sity, returned on Friday to spend his summer vacation at home. Mr. Geo. M. Boyd, who is now employed with the Paine Fertilizer Company, of Jackson ville, Fla., is in Darlington on a visit to his home folks. The friends of Mr. A. A. Gan dy, our efficient County Com missioner, will be pleased to know that he is recovering from his severe spell of sickness. Messrs E. C. Bacot, W. C. and R. E. Coker and H. H. Rast have returned home from the South Carolina College. Mr. Bacot graduated at that institu- j tion last week. Mr. Geo. A. Bland has accept ed the position of bookkeeper for Mr. J. H. Early, in place of Mr. A. B. Tomlinson who will probably remove West. Mr. ; Tomlinson is now on a visit to his old home in Wadesboro. THE LAST HOURS. The Closing of the Barrooms and the Liquor Sold Cheap. On Thursday and Friday, the two last days upon which the barrooms remained open, the town was crowded with people. Liquor was selling cheap and townsmen and countrymen alike laid in a good supply. Everyone got a jug and quite a number got a “jag”. On Fri day night the liquor that re mained unsold was given away and those who stood around to watch the closing of the saloons had a glorious time. Promptly as the town bell struck the hour of midnight the bars went out of existence, but “the boys” had previously had their fill and all night the revelry was kept up. The closing of the bars was a new thing for Dar lington and the crowd waited curiously for the hour when it should he done and while wait ing enjoyed fine drinks at small prices. The next morning the town looked strange with all the A DRY TOWN! SUCH HAS DARLINGTON BEEN SINCE SATURDAY. A Temporary Injunction—Argument Thereon To-day—A Bigger Fight on Hand. A dry town! Such has Dar lington been since Saturday last. Our readers have been kept informed of the successive stages in the fight against the county dispensary being opened with Mr. J. Buckner Floyd as dispenser. Since our last issue Judge Hudson, on the showing made by C. S. Nettles, Esq., issued a temporary injunction restraining the dispensary from being opened. Saturday came and the bars were closed and there was no dispensary, conse quently no liquor could be bought. The town was dry and has continued so until now. There was no lack of the “red eye”, however, for nearly every man in the town and county had previously laid in a supply. Argument on the injunction will be heard before Judge Hud son at chambers in the Court House at Darlington this (Thurs day) afternoon at C o’clock. The proceedings will be interesting and will be watched eagerly by our people. The petitioners will endeavor to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent and if they succeed the board of control will have to hold another elec tion for dispenser upon newly prepared petitions. If they do not succeed the dispensary will be opened immediately by Mr. Floyd. A lot of dispensary li quor is now at the A. C. L. de pot awaiting the result of the fight. Assistant Attorney Gen eral Buchanan wa* in Darling ton on Saturday looking over the field. Messrs Boyd Sr Brown are attorneys for Mr. Floyd, and it is said that Attorney General Townsend and Solicitor Johnson will appear in behalf of the board. It is thought that the hearing will probably con sume two days. The fight against our dispen sary is, of course, only local, but it is reasonably certain that another fight, more general in its nature, will be made against the whole dispensary system. In this the liquor men of Dar lington have taken the initi ative, hut have since been join ed by a number of their breth- eren throughout the State. C. S. Nettles, Esq., went to Balti more last week and rumor had it that he went there, represent ing the liquor dealers of Dar lington, to test the constitution ality .of the law before United States Judge Bond. He did not appear before Judge Bond, though, and what he did could not be learned It is generally understood, however, that Nich olas Bond, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Baltimore and son of the Judge, has been associated with Mr. Nettles in making the test. The liquors dealers and their counsel are very reticent on the subject and when ap proached by a representative of The News they invariably re- SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONFERENCE, j The Programme Arranged for the An. nual Meeting at Hebron. The following programme has been arranged for the annual meeting of the DarlingtonCoun- ty Sunday-School Conference, which will be held at Hebron Church: TUESDAY NIGHT, JULY 18. 8.30 o’clock—Sermon by Rev. S. J. Bethea. jo ply, “We have nothing to say”. But they th>nk they have a good case because they are all wear ing smiling faces. There is no douot that there is something in the air, in fact it amounts al most to a certainty that the test will be made and that, too, im mediately. So our readers should be prepared to receive sensational developments at any time. Mr. Nettles requests us to say that the interview which the Washington correspondent of the News and Courier alleges to have had with him and which among other things reflects up on the State Courts is absolute ly untrue Fe did not see the correspondent nor did he ex- ^aloons closed. Over each bar-i press to anybody any suchsenti merits. Home Missions. room “the boys” had on the previous night suspended an am using inscription and in most cases the inscription was ac companied by an equally am using picture, all done with a i marking brush. Several busi ness houses, not saloons, were adorned w-ith red flags and the fnr r t e v,i> W a- Ch ha8 been S f leCte 1 are Revs. J. G. Richards, of fn nr»L d pens * ry wa8 dre88ed | Blenheim, W. B. Corbett, of A meeting of the executive committee of home missions of the Pee Dee Presbytery will be | held at the residence of Rev. J. G. Law to night (Thursday) The members of this committee are m crape. Laces, ribbons, fans, hosiery and gloves just in, Norment & Co. Bennettsville, J. H. Dixon, of Florence, J. G. Law, of Darling ton, and Messrs John McSween, of Timmonsville, J. J. James, of Darlington. FIRST SESSION, WEDNESDAY. 9.30— Organization of Confer ence; report of executive com mittee. 10— Report of schools. 11— Sermon by Rev. J. B. | Wilson. SECOND SESSION, WEDNESDAY. 2.30 — Devotional exercises; roll call; reading of minutes; normal work, by Prof. W. A. Massabeau. 3.30— Reports from schools. 4—Question box. 8.30— Sermon by Rev. Speig- ner. THIRD SESSION, THURSDAY. 9— Devotional exercises; roll call; reading of minutes. 10— Normal work, by Rev. J. A. Rice. 10.39—Address: “What does! a teacher owe to the Sunday- school?” by Rev. J. E. Carlisle. 11— Sermon by Rev. C. D. Mann. FOURTH SESSION, THURSDAY. 2— Devotional exercises; re ports of committees. 3— Normal work, by Prof. W. A. Massabeau. 3.30— Address for general dis-! cussion : “How- cab exercises be best improved ?” 8.30— Sermon by Rev. A. H. Best. FIFTH SESSION, FRIDAY. 9—Devotional exercises; ap pointment of executive commit tee; resolutions. 11—Sermon by Rev. J. E. Carlisle; adjournment. ON THE DIAMOND. Two Splendid Games Played at Flor ence. One of the best games ever witnessed in this part of the country was played at Florence onTuesday betweenFlorence and Fayetteville. At the end of the eleventh inning the score stood 7 to G in favor of Florence. A number of Darlingtonians wit nessed the game. Mr. F. E. Floyd, of this place, played on the Florence team and his fine work won great applause from the spectators. He scored the first run made on either side and also the final one which de cided the game. The same clubs played another game yes terday, which resulted after a battle of eleven innings in a score of 3 to 3. A MOONLIGHT PICNIC. A Pleasant Evening Spent at McCown's Mill. The following ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a very pleas ant moonlight picnic at Mc- Cow-n’s Mill on Monday night: Mrs. T. W. Norment, Misses Ora Thomas, Lillie Covington, Sallie McEachin, Carrie Mont gomery, Nonie Starr, Lida Law, Laurie,Law, Maggie Law, Nela Davis, Bessie Williamson, Nonie Williamson, Rosa McCown, Alma McCown. Messrs. J. E. Norment, L. M. Norment. W. B. McCown, M. H. Norment, B. F. Smoot, Lawton Dargan, W. T. Montgomery, W. D. t’ogge- shall, T. H. Rogers, C. A. Mc Cown, J. M. Earle. A NEW GROCERY. Mr. Walter J. Parrott to Enter Darling ton’s Mercantile World. Darlington is to have another grocery store, with Mr. Walter J. Parrott as proprietor. He will begin business on August 1 in the store under the Enterprise Hotel now occupied by Mr. I. Lewenthal. Mr. Parrott will confine himself to the grocery line, but in this he will keep first class articles, dealing both in staple and fancy groceries. His many friends, who will gladly become his patrons, wish him every success in his new venture and in this The News joins. New summer dress goods to arrive this week, Norment & Co. {Other Locals on %nd Page.) FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Chronicles from Cypress—A Cham, pion Walker—More About the Pretty Girls and Crops. Our farmers have sown lots of their oat land in peas. It is probable that some of our young men will join the excur sion to Augusta to-day. Mr, S. C. Parnell is not at all behind when it-comes to fine corn. He is in a fair way to take the cake. It is an every-day remark with travelling men that they had not seen any crops until they reached Cypress. It seems that the Bishopvilie girls are very popular with our boys. Two or three of them have been captured and from present indications several more will soon fall victims. If a certain young dude does not stop coining around here calling on one of our young la dies on Sunday and keeping her from attending church, we will report the case to Governor Tillman and see if he can’t find some sort of law to stop it. If the Green Plain correspon dent will just come to Cypress once he will be convinced that we have the prettiest girls in the county for they are here to speak for themselves. He will be like the Queen of Sheba when she went to hear the wis dom of Solomon. It will be re membered that on her return she said not half had been told. Cj press can boast of another champion walker. He attended the last court as a juror and when he was discharged he started home on foot at break neck speed. He said he had to see his wife and baby. When he reached the outskirts of Dar lington he was told that his horse and buggy awaited him in town. But he refused to turn back and kept up his quick pace, arriving at his home, a distance of seventeen miles, in about two hours. If any other section can beat this record we would be glad to hear from it. UNA. Mr. Rosier Kelley is having an abundance of green peas. Mr. T. J. Price fell from his wagon last week and broke his collar bone. Mr. B. R. Gatlin weighed a ripe tomato that Mr. T. J. Price raised this season. Some mcendiary applied the match to a stack of oats in Mr. T. J. Bell’s field on last Friday. Mr. James Witherspoon has bought Mi. O. D. Lee’s engine and will run agin in connection with his cane mill at the old Witherspoon stand. The summer is here and we are having our usual flow of visitors. Among those who re cently arrised are Miss Lou Dunlap of Ridge Springs and Miss Julia Gresham of Leavens worth. The quietness of the season was broken on last Fri day evening with an ice cream party. The ladies of Mt. Elon gave an ice cream festival at the par sonage on Friday evening last which was a success in every particular. The ladies did their work admirably. Mr. J. C. Howell deserves much credit for his assistance. The ladies are indebted to the young peo ple of Hartsville and Bishop vilie, especially t^e young men, who did so much to swell the funds. The clear profit made is about $20. The grain crop is short though it was harvested in good condi tion. Some are thrashing. Our growing crops seem to be in a fair way at this time for matur ing very well. Corn is about an average; cotton is very irreg ular in some farms but bids fair with g4pd seasons to do well. The befft field ot cotton that we have seen in this immediate community is that of Mr. T. J. Bell. Mr. T. J. Price has some ; very nice but not as much of it as Mr. Bell; also Mr. B. R. Gat- ! lin has some that is good. We have been told that Mr. E. H. Hearon has an excellent corn ; crop. Mr. P. G. Fields has an excellent crop of com. Brusa silks, light weight and stylish, 81 cts a yard, Norment & Co. PHILADELPHIA. Miss Lula S. Watson has been the guest of Miss Mertie Howie. Our farmers have pretty well put General Green on the re treat. Mr. Robert Mixon stepped on a glass bottle recently and cut his foot very badly. Mr. C. W. Stewart recently killed a very large moccasin on his plantation. It measured nearly six feet. We were pleased to see Mes srs J. L. Parrott, of Bishopvilie, Geo. Lawrence, of Effingham, and T. C. Jeffords, of Darling- tor, on a recent visit to this sec tion. The Philadelphia Sunday school has elected Messrs J. C Dowling and J. S. Howie and Miss Alma Garner delegates to the Darlington County Sundav School Conference, which will convene at Hebron Church on the 19th inst. We notice that some of your correspondents have been boast ing of the pretty girls in their ! respective localities. Now, Mr. Editor, we will just take occa sion to remark that there is no place like Philadelphia and no section of the county has pret tier girls. If anyone doubts this let him come around, for we can satisfy the most jealous. The Angel of Death invaded the home of Mr. W. T. Yarbo rough on the 12th ult. and call ed away his babe of only ten weeks. Its mother preceded it to the spirit land about one month. On the 23d ult. Gus, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Suggs, was called to the oth er shore after a very painful ill ness of six weeks. He was two | years and ten months old. OATS. Mr. J. W. Woodham's thrash er has been doing work in the community recently. Mr. Barefoot, an elderly gen tleman, died on Sunday, the 18th ult., while on a visit to his son, Mr. Peter Barefoot. Dr. W. D. Kirkland, of Col umbia, editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, preached at Wesley Chapel on a recent J Sunday. The Lydia Lodge, I. O. G. T., {expects to give an entertain ment and also serve refresh ments at Lydia to-morrow (Fri day) night. The literary fea ture will be free. The exercises begin at 8 o’clock. The public is invited to attend. Mr. J. L. McLendon has been endeavoring to organize a class in penmanship at this place for the summer. The session will cover about eight weeks. He will probably begin next week, and all who desire to attend may communicate with him at Cypress, S. C. Mr. McLendon held the position of insfructor in penmanship in the North Ca rolina College, at Mt. Pleasant, during the past session. vvn c\* rtl Mk)\ A WOMAN'S ADVICE. “Hello, George, have you or dered your summer suit yet ? “Well, don’t delay a minute, but go at once to McCall & Burch’s and— "What! That horrid thing ! No, indeed, you shall never wear it. Makes you look like a slouch. Throw it away and get one of McCall & Burch’s, which they are selling at cost for cash. They ’re just too lovely. And they always give such perfect fits. “That’s a dear. Yes, come early. “Good-by ” AGreatSuit SAIriEL —AT— ttllMH’S Our entire line of Spring and Summer Suits must be closed out in the next sixty days. We will sell you anything in this line AT COST FOR CASH We mean what wo All we want is for you to call and see for yourself. Another fresh arrival of Negligee Shirts — the beet Darlington for the money. $1 in Something new in Windsor Scarfs at 50c, the very thing to wear with negligee shirts. We are still making a special ty of Shoes. We have about 35 pairs in sizes ranging from No. 5 to No. 7, which we are selling out re gardless of cost. These shoes are regular $5 and $G goods, but owing to the unpopular rises we will close them out at $1.50 per pair. HARTSVILLE, Miss Mattie Hearon, of Dar lington, is visiting in town. Mrs. R. D. Johnson, of Flor ence, spent Sunday with friends and relatives here. Mr. J. Maner Lawton has left Hartsville to be gone some time visiting relatives in Hampton, S. C. Capt. E. W. Cannon’s store was struck by lightning last . . Thursday night during athund- n i co l' ne extra light er storm. No damage was done weight coats and vests; also ex- Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Coker, Jr.,; tra P ants ’ have returned from a trip to j Sullivan’s Island. Mr. Coker’s | health has been improved some what by the trip. The Hartsville Farmers Alli ance has put on new life and is receiving new members at near ly every meeting. The recent election for officers resulted as follows: J. E. Miller, presi dent; W. S. King, vice presi dent; Andrew Blackman, treas urer; A. F. Miller, lecturer; W. R. Teel, doorkeeper; D. D.Bone, seargent-at-armw; S. C. King and T. H. Ellis delegates to the County Alliance. IN OUR HATS. Benton Runniru;Away. In our Hat stock we have a On Sunday afternoon Mr. and few more Straw Hats left which we are selling at reduced prices; Mrs. R. L. Bonnoitt were out driving when the horse ran away and threw them out of: not at cos ^’ the buggy. Fortunately neith- j er was hurt. They turned the j horse over to two colored men ! to bring to town and the ani- j mal again ran awav throwing | the occupants out and smashing | the vehicle. As in th) first run-1 away no one was injured. J