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VOL. XXI, NO. 6 DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1894 WHOLE NUMBER 992 « LOCH' IMICS. THE TOWN'S PROFITS. LIKE BANtyllO’S GHOST MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of New*, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Meny Readers. Good cottod is bringing from 71 to 7i cents. Miss' Ellen Pinkston, of Wadesboro, is visiting her sister Mrs. P. B. Allen. - Court is in session at Florence. Several of our lawyers have been in attendance. Mrs. Pauline Gerganus, of Anderson, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.'H. A. Edwards. Evangelist Williama, of Mar ion, is conducting ' religious meetings in a tent Aefcr the At lantic Coast Line depot. Mr. C. W. Hewitt has remov ed his office to the rooms for merly occupied by .The News on the second flpor of the Hew itt building. Under the new apportionment Darlington county is entitled to fourteen students in Clemson College and all of -these < places have been filled. , Mr. R. A. Dixon is now clerk- •ing in Mrs. E. E. Sanders’s store and Mr. Willie James holds a similar position in Mrs. L. E. Joye’s establishment. In accordance with a recent Act of the Legislature the coun ty commissioners have fixed the fees for county licenses for hawkers and peddlers. News has been received here of the safe arrival of J. E. Net tles, Esq., at his destination, Trieste, Austria, where he will serve-the United States as Con sul, The store of 8. 8. Dreher, the colored Pearl Street merchant, was closed'on Tuesday under a chattel mortgage and the goods were immediately sold at auc tion. Mr. B. F. Campion, who has fof several years been doing a successful business at this place in upholstering and furniture repairing, has an interesting announcement in this issue. Ignt began yesterday, “Ash Wednesday”. Services -were held in the Episcopal Church at 4 30 . p. m., and during the Lenten season services will be held on Wednesdays and Fri days at the same hour. Our youag friends, Messrs Eugene Harrell and John Skin ner, who recently went West to try their fortunes, have been heard from. Mr. Harrell is on a ranch near Desarc, Ark., and Mr. Skinner has located at Pet ty, Texas. tfhe Mme for making returns for town taxation will expire on Saturday. The books of the town clerk, which are now open for this purpose ip the Judge of Probate’s office, wHl be closed at five o’clock ou the afternoon of that day. The little son of Mr. Arthur Hart met with a painful acci dent a few days since. He fell fell upon,the piazza of his fa ther’s residence, striking on his head, and was rendered uncon scious for some time. The lit tle fellow is now doing well. The Columbia State of Satur day says: “Last night the little three-year-old son of Rev. and Mrs! J. A. Rice, while playing about the room at bis home fell on his right arm. Both bones of the forearm were broken. The broken bones were set and the little fellow is now doing well.” The negotiations which have been in progress during the past week, looking to a transfer of the Cleveland Hotel to Mr. A. B. Josey, of Orangeburg, did not materialize. The public generally will be glad to know that the genial and popular host, Major W! A. Evans, will, there fore, continue in charge of the establishment. The State Board of Control will Here after Withhold the Money. Mayor Dargan’s letter to Gov ernor Tillman in regard to the town’s portion of the dispensa- ry profits, which was published in our last issue, has been com mented upon very considerably both within the State and out side. The Governor has not re plied to it and it is not probable that he will do so. The State board of control proposes to ad here to its original position and will withhold the profits that should accrue to Darlington af ter the quarter ending February 1. The money will be used in paying constables to spy upon our people. It is stated that a number of letters have been sent to the board from this place alleging that the town is not co-operating in the enforce ment of the law, but thb truth of this allegation has not been proven. As stated in our last issue it is not probable that the town authorities will tamely submit to the taking away of Darling ton’s profits and this action of the State board will cause, no doubt, another law suit. Finest variety of valentines ever brought to Darlington may be found at the bookstore. “THE LIGHT FANTASTIC." An Enjoyable Evening In Darlington’s Society. The german given by the young men at the residence of Mr. C. 8. McCullough, on Fri day night, in compliment to Miss Emily Nesbit, of George town, was one of the prettiest dances enjoyed in Darhngton for some time. The following were the attendants: Mr. and Mrs. C. S. McCullough, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Norment, Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist, of Yorkshire, England, Mrs. A. C. McFall, Miss Emma Williamson, Miss Emmie James, Miss Donna Spain, Miss Emily Nesbit, Miss Katherine Ashley, Miss Georgie Ashley, Miss Alma McCown, Miss Mary Lucas, Miss Bessie Williamson, Miss Ethel Boat wright. Miss Clara Ward. Mes srs J. C. Keys, Walter Griffin, A. T. Baird, R. L. Dargan, C. M. Ward, B. F. Taylor, P. J. Boatwright, Willard Ragsdale, Eugene Vaughan, J. D. Baird, Walter James. Finest variety of valentines ever brought to Darlington may be found at the bookstore. THE SAME OLD STORY. A Boy Playing with a Pistol Accidental ly Shoots His Comoanion. On Saturday afternoon there was a repetition in Darlington of the old story of little children playing with a pistol with the usual sequence of one being shot. Wallace Jackson, color ed, about twelve years old, was fooling with the weapon, when he accidentally shot his play mate Sam Brown, who is about the same age, a son of Daniel Brown, the well known colored blacksmith. The affair occur red in a house in the lower part of the town, below the C., S. & N. Railroad. The ball entered the unfortunate little fellow’s head between the eyebrows. Of course the wound is exceeding ly dangerous, but Dr. J. C. Will- cox, who is attending him, ex presses some hope of the boy’s recovery. GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS. The Passing Away of a Very Old Man at Hia Home Near Timmonsville. Mr. W. D. Hill died at his home near Timmonsville, but in this county, on Tuesday night. He had been very ill for some time having been stricken with paralysis. He was well known and much thought of in his neighborhood, where he had lived so long. Mr. Hill was quite an old man, probably the oldest person in his community. He was buried yesterday (Wednesday). Mr. Brooks Hutchinson, a very worthy young man who has been employed for several years in Mr. N. L. Harrell’s es tablishment, has gone into bus iness on his own account. He has opened, in the small build ing beyond the jail used until recently by Mr. C. W. Hewitt as an office, a harness and shoe shop. His friends wish* Mr. Hutchinson every success. DIED. In Darlington, 8. C., at the residence of Mrs. M. P. Foun tain, on Sunday, February 11, 1894, Jane Fountain, relict of John Fountain and daughter of the late David Milling, aged 7U years. Interment was made in the family lot at Lowther’s Hill Cemetery, on the day following her death. THE MUCH VEXED QUESTION OF LIQUOR WILL NOT DOWN. The Monster at Dovesville and Lamar —Justice Floyd to Hear Three Cases To-Day. The question of liquor will will not dowtt. Here are the latest developments in Darling ton county and town: THB DOVESVILLE DISPENSARY. On Saturday the county board of control met and heard argu ments from those in favor of es tablishing a dispensary at Dovesville. At a previous meet ing the board gave a hearing to those opposed to it. As has al ready been stated in The News the matter stands thus. At a recent election held by the qualified voters of the village of Dovesville the dispensary ad vocates were victorious by a vote of 18 to 16. In opposition to this a petition was filed with the board of control, signed by 183 qualified voters of Leavens- worth township in which the village is located, praying that a dispensary be not established at Dovesville. carried to the state board. The county board, after giv ing the matter careful attention, decided that under Section 8 of the dispensary law it has no power to establish a dispensary under such circumstances as surround the Dovesville case (the sale of liquor having been previously prohibited by law in that village). According to the way the county board views the statute, the State board of con trol alone has authority to act in the premises. The advocates of the State bar did not give up the fight, however, on account of this de cision, but have already carried the matter to the State board, where they will again be met by the opponents of the Doves ville dispensary. STRONG PROTESTS. In view of the fact that the fight over the Dovesville Dis pensary has been transferred to the State board, strong papers have been forwarded to that body petitioning against the es tablishment of a dispensary at any point outside of Darlington C. H. The county board of con trol, the board of county com missioners and the Darlington delegation in the Legislature have advised the State board that one dispensary in this coun ty is enough. The State board seems over anxious to establish dispensaries everywhere, but it can hardly over-ride the overwhelming sentiment against the establish ment of further dispensaries in Darlington county. At the same meeting of the county board the State bar mon ster again SHOWED ITS HEAD, this time from Lamar. This is the second effort to have a dispensary established at that village, it will be remembered that an attempt was made to have the Legislature at its last session change the charter of Lamar so as to allow liquor to be sold in its limits. It was un successful, but the subsequent change of the dispensary law itself, whereby State bars may be established in the hitherto “dry” towns, gave the dis- pensaryites at Lamar another chance. But a JPECUHAR CONDITION OF AFFAIRS exists. Under tlm law, for a dispensary to be established at any town, an election on the question must first be held by tne voters of the town. This election must be called by, and held under the direction of," the municipal authorities. But the Question here arises, who are tne authorities at Lamar. The terms of Dr. J. A. Cole, the last intendant, and the council elect ed with him. expired in April 1893 and no election for their successors has ever been held. There seems to be no town offi cials, the matter of government at Lamar having fallen into a state of “innocuous desuetude” WANT A SPECIAL ELECTION. But the few people who want a dispensary at Lamar want it badly, so much so that they will use every possible effort to get it. It is peculiar bow hard peo ple will try to get liquor in their vicinity. This was the plan adopted. A petition, signed by 19 voters or the town, was filed with the county commis sioners asking that they order an election for intendant and council for the town of Lamar. In the event of the county com missioners complying with the request and the town govern ment of Lamar thus resurrected, an election should then be held in the town on the question of dispensary or no dispensary. A STITCH IN TIME. The people opposed to a dis pensary at Lamar, who are in a large majority in the township (Lisbon) wished to be on the safe side and, not waiting for the decision of the county com missioners, sent up two large petitions against the dispensary to the board of control at its meeting on Saturday. The first petition was from the q ’alified voters of the township and con tained 200 signatures; the se cond was from the ladies and young men between the ages of 16 and 21. containing 274 signa tures. The total number of sig natures on the two petitions is, therefore, 474 Rev. C. D. Mann and School < -ommissioner Per- ritt presented the petitions to the board. Mr. Mann stated to a repre sentative of The News that an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the voters of the township are opposed to a dispensary at Lamar. He stated that the sig natures he secured were the re sult of a very brief canvass and that he believed he could get the signatures of 95 per cent of the voters he had not been able to see. Only four persons, whom he approached, had refused to sign the petition against the dis pensary. DISPEN8ARYITES KNOCKED OCT. But the efforts of the oppo nents of the dispensary turned out to be needless for the pres ent at least, for the dispensary- ites were knocked out in the first round without their assist ance. At a meeting of the board of county commissioners, on Tuesday, the petition asking for an election of officers for the town of Lamar was considered. Upon the advice of their attor ney, Judge T. H. Spain, the commissioners decided that they had no authority to call an elec tion, but that by the failure to hold an election at the regular time, in April last, the charter of Lamar had been forfeited. The town government is defunct. The only recourse now to be had is to apply to the Legisla ture for a new charter. So the opponents of the dispensary at Lamar may rest easy for a while. THREE TRIAL JUSTICE CASES. While all this activity about the dispensary is going on in the county, the town of Dar lington comes in for her share of the interesting developments in the liquor question. Trial Justice Floyd will try three cases this (Thursday) morning, all of which are connected with the dispensary law. Without waiting further on the Solicitor, he will try E. D. Nixon for keep ing a “blind tiger”, John Green for assault and battery and Pri mus Delaney for malicious' mis chief. The first two cases were forerunners of the recent Pearl Street riot and the last resulted from that disturbance. All of the defendants are colored. C. S. Nettles, Esq , will represent them and he has demanded a trial by jury in each case. The trials will begin at 10.30 o’clock. As the Nixon affair will be the first “blind tiger” case ever tried in Darlington, the result will be waited for with interest. THE RIOT OASES. The fifteen warrants for the recent Pearl Street riot, which it is said include several white persons, still lie lodged in Jus tice Flqyd’s desk. He is unwill ing to serve them without con sulting the Solicitor, whose sick ness has prevented him from coming to Darlington. As the Solicitor will have to attend court in Chesterfield next week, the riot oases will have to lie over for sometime yet. Justice Floyd still refuses to make pub lic the names of the parties against whom the warrants have been issued. THE OTHER “BLIND TIGERS”. We mentioned a short time since that Justice Floyd had other warrants for keepers of “blind tigers”. These, he says, he will serve in due time, but refuses to tell in advance who keeps the tigers, where they are located or when he will pounce upon them. MORE BLOODSHED A "ROSETTE" PARTY. THE ALARMING CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE STATE. Even Governor Tillman, Who is Mostly Responsible for it, Appreciates the Gravity of the Situation. More blood has been shed in South Carolina on account of the dispensary law The record of last weak shows that ihe con dition of affairs in the State is alarming. In Columbia W. B. Meetze was shot by Davis Mil ler and now lies dangerously wounded. This shooting was the result of a difficulty between the two men, which grew out of the trial of a “blind tiger” case in a Trial Justice court, in which Miller was a witness against the alleged tiger. In Spartanburg county spies killed a man named Ballew and wounded another named Moore. The spies were endeavoring to search their houses by night. All parties connected with both affairs are white- South Carolina is in a sad plight, and even Governor Till- himself is beginning to realize it, as will be seen by the follow ing interview with him, which was published in the State of Tuesday: Governor Tillman now fully realizes the grave situation in the State brought about by the continued efforts to enforce the State dispensary law with a force of armed spies. The State yesterday morning very fully outlined the gravity of the con dition of affairs. Yesterday morning when Governor Till man read the accounts of the bloody affair in Spartanburg he realized, no doubt, that what had been said was true, for when asked what he had to say in regard to that affair and the several others of the same kind which have developed in the last few weeks, he said: “I deprecate, along with all law-abiding men, the spirit of lawlessness and the spirit to in cite resistance to the law and to magnify and distort all efforts to enforce it, into acts of tyran ny and blood-thirstiness. The dispensary law is not on trial as much as all law and obedience to the recognized channels through which laws are en forced. “I invoke the moral support of all good citizens, whether they are in favor of the dispen sary or not, to put down this rebellious spirit. I intend to put it down with an iron hand, but the collision between the con stables, the sheriffs and other officers of the law and the vio lators of the law will be mini mized if those who ought to know and do know better, would seek to discourage the lawless elements of society in this re sistance.” The Governor has heretofore spoken only of what he would do himself in this matter and his utterances were all of a na ture entirely different. His re marks quoted above speak for themselves and show that he has begun to think more of the condition of affairs here than ever before. OFFICIAL "BOOZE”. The Report of the County Dispenser for the Last Quarter. Instead of the usual monthly report of the Darlington dispen ser, we have obtained for pub lication the report for the quar ter ending February 1. It is as follows: Amount of sales, $7,; 081,81; cost of liquor sold, $5,- 402,84; gross profits, $1,678,97; expenses, $590,92; net profit, to be divided equally between town and county,V. 088 . 05 - Thetown will get its quota for this quar ter, $544,02, but hereafter, ac cording to the instructions of the State board, Darlington will get nothing. Shall we Have Baseball? In last week's issue of the Cheraw Reporter appears the following: “Mr. Walter James, o f Palmetto, i n Darlington county, is visiting Mr. Mack James. These two oase-ball en thusiasts desire to form a league consisting of Florence, Pal metto, Darlington and Cheraw teams to play the coming sea son. Such an arrangement would add greatly to the sum mer's attractions in the four towns mentioned and it is hoped that it will be put through.” The Young Folks of Lydia and Vicin ity Make an Evening Merry. A very pleasant “rosette” party was given by the young people of Lydia at the residence of Mr. O. D. Lee, on Thursday evening. The following are the names of those who were pres ent: Dr. and Mrs. R. B. R. C. Wallace, Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Harrell, Miss Lizzie Banks, of Columbia, Miss Mitilene Howie, of Florence. Miss Annie Drig gers, of Williamsburg, Miss Lilah Kelley, Miss Mamie Kel ley, Miss Nellie Parrott, Miss Janie Howie, Miss Vista Gar ner, Miss Alma Garner, Miss Mattie King, Miss Willie Fields, Miss Mertie Howie, Miss Judith Podges, Miss Mamie Howie, Miss Lou Miller, Miss Mary Jane Harrell, Miss Atlanta Rinehart, Miss Sue King, Miss Rosa Jo sey, Messrs H. G. Andrews, Sam Howie, W. L. Pierson, John Parrott, J. C. Clements, A. R. Garner, J. L. Munn, R. A. Dix on, E. Howie. Willie Lee, M. R. Howie, N. R. Harrell, B. Fields, R. L. Blackmon, Lester Wad- ford, B. F. Smoot. Finest variety of valentines ever brought to Darlington may be found at the bookstore. FEBRUARY SALEDAY. The Property Sold by the Sheriff—The Clerk has No Sale*. Monday was saleday, when the following official sales were made by the Sheriff: In the cases of B. A. Early vs. A. L. A. Wallace, thirty-one acres in Swift Creek were sold to B. A. Early for $500; State vs. Central Carolina Land and Improve ment Company (execution for taxes), thirty lots in the town of Darlington, near the C. 8. & N. depot, to Frank Williams, of Hennettsville, for $75; State vs. Gens Hens Crenshaw (tax exe cution), six hundred and fifty- seven acres in Antioch town ship to J. 8. Hawkins for $22; State vs. Mary E. Bateman (tax execution), one hundred and ninety-four acres in Antioch township to Mrs. J. E. Ousley for $45. The Clerk of the Court made no sales. Midway Types. The Detroit Free Press is this year fairly outdoing itself. Not content with permanently en larging its famous weekly edi tion to twelve pages, it proposes to give to every yearly subscrib- ef a beautiful souvenir of the world’s fair, called “The De troit Press Press Portfolio of Midway Types.” This artistic production comprises twenty photographic plates, 8x11 inches, representing the strange people that were seen on the Midway Plaisance. The faces and fan tastic dress will be easily re cognized by those who visited the fair; others will find in them an interesting study. You can obtain the portfolio and one of the best of literary weeklies one year for $1. The address is De troit, Mich. Lst us Rsason. If any one who suffers irom Rheumatism would stop and rea son a moment before they de cide to purchase some remedy, they could not help avoid any so called cure that is sold for $1. Figuring the retailers, the job bers, and the manufacturers’ profits out of that solitary dol lar, and there is left not over 20 cents for the medicine. Asiae from its reputation, and the fact, Dr. Drummond’s Lightning Remedy appeals to one’s good sense. The price is $5 per bot tle and to any one suffering from Rheumatism it is as cheap as it is good and effective. Sent to any addrc*"« bv Drummond Medi cine Co., 48-50 Maiden Lane, New York. Agents wanted. Cus’omer—Why is it you charged as much for a 6 pound pig as you do for a 16 pound Pig? Butcher—The smaller the pig, mum, the worse it hurts us to kill it. Got to charge some thing for our feelin’s, mum.— Chicago Tribune. Scarcely had Atlanta finished her sensational trial of Lewis Redwine, a society leader, for embezzlement, when she en gaged in another trial equally as sensational. Last week Har ry Hill, also a leading society man, was tried for and convict ed of forgery and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. THE COUNTY NEWS. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Current Events at Cypress—An Able Sermon Against the State Bar room-Other Items. Our farmers are busy at work preparing for another crop. Prof. Graham has had a good offer to teach in a High Scnool in Mississippi. Mr. T. S. DuBose has erected a blacksmith and woodshop here anu will soon be prepared to do all kinds of work in these lines. The school building at this place caught on fire a few days ago and had it not been for the hard work of Prof. Graham it would have been reduced to ashes. As it was the damage was only slight. We are glad to say that Mr. H. J. DuBose, one of our oldest citizens whom we reported in our last letter as quite sick, is better. Mr. W. H. B. Du Bose, however, continues very ill, but we hope to see him up again. Mr. R. McLendon, who has been clerking for Mr. J. A. Du Bose of this place, left last week to attend the High School in Charleston. He is a splendid boy and his many friends wish him much success in his studies and predict that he will make his mark. Three prizes were recently of fered in our school and were won as follows: Mr. Willie Mc Lendon for best mark in deport ment and for general improve ment; Miss Corrinne Huggins for best mark in the dictionary class and Mr. Burt McLendon for best mark in the spelling class. Rev. C. D. Mann delivered a very able sermon at this place on Sunday, taking temperance as his subject. His remarks were well to the point and he showed that the dispensary law as it now stands is much worse than the old high license bar system and the evil is daily growing worse. We are satis fied that he proved his position to the satisfaction of all who heard him. NETTLES'S MILL. Mr. H. T. Jones has had a se vere attack of the grip. Most of our farmers are break ing their cotton lands broad, cast. Some of us are fencing in new pastures for stock—an indica tion of better times ahead. On account of an accident the Messrs Goodson had to stop their saw for a few days last week. Messrs H. F. Jones, E. A. Dixon and Geo. McIntosh have fixed up a blacksmith shop at McIntosh’s mill. Mr. J. W. Coker is getting ready to build new stalls and Mr. Charles Moody is preparing to make improvements on his place. Mr. Charles Bozeman and Miss Carrie Coker were married at New Providence Church, on the" 24th ult., Rev. F. M. Satter- white officiating. The ceremo ny was very pretty, the couple having four attendants. Later a large number of friends re- r ired to the residence of Mr. H. Rogers where a fine sup per was served. Everybody wishes Mr. and Mrs. Bozeman a long and prosperous married life. JASPER. Mr. L 8. Lloyd is quite sick but we hope that he will soon recover. Logrolling has been the or der c? the day for sometime, as the people are busy preparing lands for cultivation. Mr. W. R. Gardner, one of our most energetic farmers, who was accidentally shot a little over a month ago, is slowly im« proving. About eight or ten acres will will be used in this section this year in the cultivation of tobac co. If this is planted succees- fully.it will equal iayalue thirty acres of cotton. Hog and hom iny will receive considerable at tention this year, along with wheat, oats, rye and potatoes. (Other County Newt on Page 4)