The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, November 16, 1893, Image 1
VOL. XX, NO. 48.
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893.
WHOLE NUMBER 980.
LOCAL LACOAICS.
MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS
PEROUS DARLINGTON.
of
A Column of New*, Tersely Told,
Interest to Our Many
Reader*.
The regular meeting of the
Knights of Pythias win be held
on Tuesday night.
Dr. W. J. Qarner has been
elected vice-president of the
South Carolina Club for this
circuit.
The President has issued a
proclamation designatingThurs-
day, November 30, as Thanks
giving Day.
Ur. J. C. Garrison, who has
been a State constable since the
dispensary law went into effect,
has resigned.
The Court of Common Pleas
is still in session. It is engaged
in the trial of no cases of public
interest, however.
Anyone wishing to rent a
good two-horse farm should
read Mr. E. C. Lide’s advertise
ment in this issue.
Mr. S. Manne’s grocery store
on Pearl street has been closed
by a chattel mortgage held by
the Bank of Darlington.
There has been no material
change in the cotton market for
several days. Middling cotton
brought 71 cents in Darlington
yesterday.
A german, which promises to
be largely attended and a very
enjoyable affair, will be given
in the Guards armory to-mor
row (Friday) evening.
A new street has been opened,
extending in rather an indirect
line from Pearl street, near
Loafers’ Bridge, to New street,
near Mr. W. A. Parrott’s resi
dence.
Dr. A. T. Baird has abandon
ed the idea of building, as was
announced in a recent issue,
and has purchased the residence
of Mr. J. A. Bearon in east
Darlington.
The Sumter Freeman, in a re
cent issue says: “A rumor is
afloat that the Charleston, Sum
ter & Northern Railroad is about
to go under control of the fa
mous Plant System”.
Rev. R. W. Barnwell, the new
rector of the Florence and Dar
lington Episcopal Churches will
conduct his first services in the
church at this place on Sunday
evening next, beginning at 8
o’clock.
Governor Tillman has appoint
ed Mr. W. F. Wilkes, who lives
in the lower part of this county
near Timmonsville, a member
of the board of control in the
place of Mr. Geo. Just Brown,
resigned.
The annual races of the Flor
ence Driving Association are
now in progress and several of
Darlington’s best horses are
among the participants. The
Darlington Driving Association
expects to hold its first regular
races next month.
At a meeting on Friday of the
creditors of Capt. E. W. Can
non, of Hartsville, who recent
ly made an assignment, Mr. C.
K. Rogers was made "Creditors’
and Messrs E. K. Dar-
T. Thompson and T. H.
BAPTIST NOTES.
Delegate* Elected to Welch Neck A*-
sociation—Visiting Clergymen,
The annual convention of the
Welsh Neck Baptist Church is
now in session at Mt. E1 o n
Church in this county. The fol
lowing delegates were elected
on Sunday last to represent the
Darlington Baptist Church:
Rev. John Stout, Messrs W. C.
Coker, J. P. Coleman, D. M.
Smoot, F. C. Luke, A. A. Gandy,
Louis J. Bristow.
Several distinguished Baptist
divines stopped over in Darling
ton on Sunday, en route to at
tend the convention. Rev.Char
les Manley, president of Furman
University, Rev. J. L. Vass,
superintendent of the Connie
Maxwell Orphanage, and Rev.
A. J. 8. Thomas, editor of the
Baptist Church. Mr. Vass
preached in the Baptist Church
m the morning and Mr. Manley
in the evening and Messrs Vass
and Thomas made addresses to
the Sunday School.
At the church conference on
Sunday, when delegates were
elected to the association, the
pastor of the Church was in
structed by a unanimous vote
to invite the next State Baptist
convention to meet in Darling
ton.
A word to the wives is suffi
cient. Dry Goods. Norment &
Co.
A QUEER HABIT.
A Sumter Mule that “Ju*t Took On
To" a Colored Man.
The mules of Sumter county
must have a very queer habit
or else a colored man, who was
arrested here on Thursday last
on the charge of stealing one of
those animals, belied the char
acter of the one he took. Mr.
J. P. Kilgore, of Bishopville,
recently had a mule stolen from
him and on Thursday Isaac
Mack, colored, was arrested in
Darlington for having the ani
mal in his possession When
uestioned about the matter
ack denied that he had stolen
the mule and said that it had
met him on the road and “just
took on to him”. Mr. Kilgore
who came over for his mule,
thought, however, that Mack
had better tell the Court about
the queer "taking on” habit
that the mule has and "just
took on to him” (Mack) and
carried him back to Sumter.
Agent
n, H
ipain “Creditors’ Committee”.
Mr. J. A. Mclnnes, of Charles
ton, will locate in Darlington
for the purpose of conducting a
first-class blacksmithv. Mi
will make a specialty of shoeing
fine horses and doing work in
the higher branches of the busi
ness. He has had many years
of experience and comes to Dar
lington highly recommended
The people of Sumter will
give a grand ball on the 39th
Inst., the occasion being the
opening of the opening or the
new armory of the Sumier
Light Infantry. An invitation
to attend has been extended to
the people of Darlington through
Mr. R. L. Dargan. The C., 8.
l & N. Ra :, road will give excur-
! sion ra’ s.
The exhibition of chrysanthe-
(iums which Mrs. C. S. McCul-
[>ugh made at her residence on
Friday last was quite a success,
large number of her friends
lied during the day to inspect
tie exhibit and no better evi-
ence of the beauty of the flow-
i can be bad than the expres-
i of Admiration elicited from
who saw them. The News
turns thanks to Mrs. McCul-
ih for a large box of very
isome specimens of this
1 flower.
Mrs. S. J. Nettles desires to
rent three rooms in her resi
dence.
FELL IN A WELL.
The Drowning of a Little Colored Boy
in Mechanictville.
Ramie Ervin, the eleven-year
old son of William Ervin, col
ored. met his death at his home
in the Mechanicsville section,
on Sunday afternoon, by falling
in a well. He was drawing a
bucket of water when the chain
broke and he was thrown in
headforemost. There w as about
six feet of water in the well and
the little fellow was drowned
Nothing was known of the af
fair until the boy was missed
and it was not until the next
day that his body was taken
from the well. The coroner’s
jury rendered a verdict in ac
cordance with the above facts.
THE PROTEST
IN THE DARLINGTON POSTOFFICE
MATTER NOW READY.
Worsted patterns in ginghams
new and stylish. Norment &
Co.
A BARN DESTROYED.
Fire Inflict* a Severe Lot* Upon Mr-
J. T. Suggs
Mr. J. T. Suggs, who lives in
Philadelphia township, lost his
barn by fire on Thursday night
The building was a very large
structure. He als6 lost by the
fire two hundred and fifty bush
els of corn, a lot of fodder and
peas apd all of his farming im
plements. There was no insur
ance on the property and Mr.
Suggs’s loss is, therefore, very
heavy. The fire is thought to
have been of incendiary origin.
To arrive—two striking nov
elties in kid gloves. Norment
& Co.
MARRIED.
At the residence of the bride,
in Darlington, 8. C., Tuesday,
November 14, 1893 by Rev. John
Kershaw, of Symter, Augustus
Henry Hayden, Jr., M. D.,of
Charleston, 8. C., and Mary
Sparks, daughter of the late A.
C. Spain, Esq., of Darlington,
8. C.
Practically Unanimously Signed by the
Business Men of the Town—A
Political Rumor.
The Darlington postoffice mat
ter still occupies the attention
of our people. The protest of
the business men of Darlington
against the Appointment of Mr.
J. M. Waddill, which has been
practically unanimously signed,
is now ready, together with
other papers necessary to the
case, to be submitted to the au
thorities at Washington. Mr.
Waddill has also prepared a
petition. The protest will be
forwarded to Washington as
soon as the Postmaster General,
who has been communicated
with, signifies his wishes as to
how and when it shall be pre
sented.
The following, which appear
ed in the Sunday News, we pub
lish for what it is worth. The
rumor referred to was not
brought back from Washington
by the committee, as the inter
view incorrectly states, but orig
inated in South Carolina and
is very commonly believed in
Darlington and elsewhere in the
State.
A Charleston business man
who has recently returned from
a trip to the Pee Dee section re-
pjrts an unusual awakening of
interest in national politics in
Darlington, where, as has been
published in the News and Cour
ier, a cousin of Congressman
McLaurin, J. M. Waddill, has
been appointed postmaster. As
a matter of fact, the News and
Courier carried the first inform
ation of t h e appointment to
Darlington, and the news fell
like a bomb-shell on the unsus
pecting community. The gentle
man referred to says that the
people of Darlington blame Sen
ator Butler for this appoint
ment, and, whether justly or
unjustly, are bitter as gall
against him. They have great
hope of a revocation of the ap
pointment since the commis
sion, through the intervention
of a committee of business men
who hurried immediately to
Washington, has been "held up’
for investigation. This com
mittee has, it seems, picked up
some political straws at t b e
National Capital, and are pre
dieting the direction of the
wind.
"Senator Butler's course for
the last few months, said he,
has been a puzzle to more as
tute men than myself, but these
gentlemen think they have un
ravelled a skein that has a so
lution of the problem at one
end. They are inclined to be
lieve that our senior Senator
has given up the race for the
Senate, and will gracefully sur
render his seat to Governor Till
man, making no fight for it,
and we may assume that he is
laughing in his sleeve at the
threats which are being made
of the desertion of his friends
from his standard. He does not
wish their support for the Sen
ate, for he has other fish to fry.
In short it is the belie': now prev -
alent that Senator Butler would
like to be "Governor Butler”
and will enter the arena for the
Democratic nomination with
the support of the new made
friends on the other side of the
fence.
"This, he says, does not seem
improbable in the light of much
that has transpired and the op-
position developed'in the reform
ranks to those gentlemen who
have been prominently mention
ed as probable recipients of this
honor from their party. How
ever, the end of the story is not
yet.
“Our senior Senator is not be
lieved to have relinquished his
claim on Senatorial honors. It
is a nice thing to be Governor
of such a State as South Caro
lina, and to have one’s portrait
in the gallery of famous men
who have held this exalted posi
tion; it is indeed a nice thing,
but two or three years is enough
and it is a still nicer thing to be
a. United States Senator, so we
may imagine our Senator-Gov-
ernor again- seeking honors af
ter severakyears of much glory
and much harder work, again
the candidate for Senatorial
honors, when the term of the
Hon. John Laurens Manning
Irby expires.
"Now, continued he, you
newspaper men are on the look
out for such jumps of the cat
and you may keep your eyes
open on this matter and should
you conclude that there is any
probability of the truth of those
conjectures let the eager and
expectant public know. In the
meantime you may publicly
state that the city of Darlington
is practically in a state of fer
ment over the appointment of
Waddill as postmaster. It was
all that I heard in the store and
the curbing The business
on _
men are determined to leave no
stone unturned to keep Waddill
out of the postoffice”.
With reference to Mr. Wad-
dill’s politics we publish the fol
lowing letter from his brother
to the News and Courier.
To the Editor of The News
and Courier: I beg that you
publish this card in the interest
of justice. I am not desirous to
appear in print, but John M.
Waddill, of Darlington, is being
made to suffer for my acts, and
I thing it right that the public
should know the facts as they
have been.
I was appointed by Governor
D. H. Chamberlain in 1876 as
sheriff of Marlboro county to
fill an unexpired term. I ran
on the Republican ticket in 1876
and was defeated. Since then
I have had nothing to do with
politics and have been merchan
dising in this county and town
I exercise my right as a citizen
to vote for whom I please and
have voted three times for
Cleveland
John M. Waddill has alwavs
been a Democrat and voted the
Democratic ticket. He was
railroad and express agent at
Society Hill for years, and dis
charged his duties with great
satisfaction to the patrons of
the companies. At that time
the moneys to move the cotton
crop of Marlboro county came
through his office, and no doubt
the citizens of this county who
had dealings with him would
bear cheerful testimony to his
business capacity and affable
dealings. He being of recent
years before the public has
caused the mistake of putting
him in my shoes.
Very respectfully,
Geo. M. Waddill.
Bennettsville, Nov. 10, ’93.
Mr. Waddill has not always
voted for Democracv, for he ad
mits himself that, while he did
not vote the Republican ticket
in 1876, he did not vote for
Hampton, who that year re
deemed the State from the ne
groes.
A VERY SAD DEATH.
A Lady, but a Short Time a Wile, Pass
es Away.
Mrs. Fannie Lee, the wife of
Mr. G. O. Lee, a young mer
chant and citizen of Lydia, died
on Monday. She was the
daughter of Mr. John Bell, of
Kershaw county. She was only
about twenty-three years old
and had not been married more
than a year. The union, so hap
pily begun and so soon and so
abruptly severed, makes the
death particularly sad and draws
the sympathies of everybody to
the young husband in his be
reavement.
Three of the very best papers
of their kind in the country, the
Weekly News and Courier and
the Southern Cultivator, and
The Darlington News will all
be sent to any address for one
year for $2.45. 4t
An Editor’s Opinion.
H“We have'looked somewhat
into the merits of the fourteen
different typewriting machines
on exhibition. «Jt is very inter-
teresting to see the various ex
perts manipulate the keys of
their particular make, each
claiming superior features. It
seemed to us for the one great
duty required of a typewriting
device by all business men, viz,
to knock out from twenty-five
to one hundred letters per day,
there is nothing yet built that
can stand the racket equal to a
Caligraph. We see no advan
tage in the fancy work that
some of the others claim to do.”
—The Irrigator, DeLand, Fla.,
September, 1893. *
THE com NEWS.
FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Chronicles from Clyde—Religious
Meetings in Progress—Teach
ers and Schools.
Mr. D. D. Johnson has been
quite unwell for a few days.
We have almost finished
gathering our short cotton crop.
If nothing happens some of
our boys will raise enough pork.
We are glad to have the
Hartsville boys visit our sec
tion.
Rev. J. A. White preached an
excellent sermon at New Mar
ket, on Sunday, taking his text
from Romans VIII, 16.
Some of our farmers are sow
ing wheat this year. They say
they will try to raise their own
hogs and hominy next year.
The session of Morman School
began on Monday of last week
with Mr. Geo. Wright as teach
er. He is a good man for the
place.
Miss Cornelia Laramore, of
Marion county, took charge of
the public school at Clyde on
Monday. She is as good a teach
er as can be found.
We are informed that Mr. R.
E. Parnell, who moved to Sum
ter county last year, will return
to this section. We will give
Bob a hearty welcome.
Our Pond Hollow friends are
having a good deal of preach
ing just now. Mr. H. T. Jones
is carrying on a Baptist meet
ing and Messrs Grantham and
Smith an Advent meeting. The
members of both of these de
nominations wish to organize
churches in Pond Hollow.
FOR THE NEXT
HARTSVILLE.
Mr. W. K. Bell is preparing
to erect a residence near Mr. H.
Lide Law’s.
Miss Bannie Bryant, of the
Leavensworth section, is visit
ing in town.
The session of the free school
at Damascus began on Monday,
November 13.
Miss Maud Carraway, from
near Jovann, is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. W. W. Stognall.
Mr. E. D. Wright and^amily,
who went to Spartanburg about
a year ago to reside, have re
turned to their old home to live.
Hartsville should organize a
fire company of some descrip
tion. We have nothing of the
kind here now and fire is as
likely to burn Hartsville as any-
other town. Whoop this mat
ter up, Messenger!
Mr. F. C. Hyman, the popular
cotton buyer of Sprunt & Son,
has been transferred from Harts-
yille and Mr. W. B. Stephens
has taken his place. Mr. Ste-
hens has purchased cotton here
ore and he has many friends
in Hartsville who welcome him
back.
RIVERDALE.
people went to
week to attend
The Darlington News
office makes a s
rg ji
of fi:
ob
ne
job work of all Idnds, particu
larly of wedding and ball invi
tations. The character of the
work is identical with that to
be obtained in Charleston or
Columbia and the prices are
guaranteed to be the same thqt
prevail there.
Some of our
Columbia last
the State Fair.
Miss Hannah Byrd has re
turned to All Healing, N. C., to
ursue her studies in Jonee’s
minary.
The Angel of Death invaded
the home of Mr. W. W. Isgett,
on Tuesday of last week, and
carried off in his embrace little
Belle. The bereaved family
have our heartfelt symoathy.
VI m m Wk
Dms Mi Utfirlotil.
We have a few nice dress pat
terns left that we will sell out
very cheap; former price $1,
now $80 cents. A good many
remnants—just enough to make
a nice dress for a child—at bar
gain prices.
STOP!
—Before purchasing and see the
LARGEST
MOST COMPLETE
CHEAPEST
Also Fall and Winter Stock of
DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
HOTIONS.
Cloak Department.
Cloaks for ladies and
children; newest styles
and lowest prices. In
these goods we will
make you special prices.
Eigi! Rugs! Rigs!
Smyrna, 18 by 30 inches, at
$1.25.
Smyrna, 20 by 54 inches, at
$2.
Smyrna, 26 by 54 inches, at
$2.50.
Smyrna, 30 by 60 inches, at
$3.50.
Smyrna, 36 by 72 inches, at
$4.50.
A few velvet rugs left: 27
63 at $2.75; 36 b) 72 at $5.
If you will come in and see
these goods you will observe at
once that they are very cheap.
Now is the time if you
want to see whatyou can do
with a dollar. We are going
to sell them.
by
TRUNKS
AND-
VALISES.
GROCERIES.
I
II11M In
NOTHING!
To examine our stock.
You Will SaTe
BY DOING 80.
3>
in.
A lot of new Dry
Norment & Co.
Goods just
Resisted Arrest
William Meetze, of Columbia,
secured the privilege of selling
light drinks at the State Fair
last week, but Governor Till
man, claiming thtft he sold
strong drinks, ordered his arrest
Meetze, however, rtdusecTto be
arrested without a warrant, so
the Governor, taking a number
of constables with him, went to
Meetze’s stand and insisted on
his being arrested. Meetze said
he would go on a warrant but
cursed and swore that he would
kill the first man who crossed
his counter to attempt to arrest
him without a warrant. He de
fied the whole crowd and he
was not arrested. The next day
a warrant was served on him
and he submitted to arrest and
gave bond. Meetze in the last
election was a red hot follower
of Tillman.
Judging from the way we are
we are selling this line we
must have the nicest lot in
town. This year we are
making a special run on
$10, $12.50 and $15
suits, and they are
beauties for that
price. All we
want you to
do is to come
in and try
them on
and
SOO
How Nicely They Fit 1
Hat Department.
Another lot of Tourist
and Youmans’s hats
jusc in—newest styles
and shapes.
Collars, Cuffs, Gloves and Neck
wear in abundance.
Shoe Department.
Everybody knows the reputa
tion we have in this line, so it is
not much use fo say anything
else except that we are still giv
ing our customers the best shoe
for the money we can get.
Pricss lew Ijttlii Eirt Mu!
Cambric Dress Linings .
Standard Prints, very
best .
Standard Dress Ging
hams
Finest fancy Dress Ging
hams
Double-widihWoolCash-
meres
36-inch Worsteds, all
shades
DRESS GOODS
& TRIMMINGS,
DRY GOODS
* NOTIONS,