The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, July 06, 1893, Image 1
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VOL. XX, NO. 27.
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1893.
WHOLE NUMBER 901.
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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.
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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