The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, April 26, 1894, Image 1
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YOL. XXL NO. 17.
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2G, 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,003.
LOCAL LAMS.
MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS
PEROUS DARLINGTON.
THE MILITARY FINDING.
his
A Column of News, Tersely Told, of
Interest to Our Many
Readers.
Judge Thos. E. Richardson,
of Sumter, is in town.
Mr. F. F. f’ovington, of Mar
ion, t. as in Darlington yester
day.
Books are now open in the
Judge of Probate’s office for re
ceiving town taxes.
Miss Mary Holloman, of Sum
ter, and Miss Morrall, of Tim-
monsville, are visiting near
Dovesville.
The services in the Baptist
Church on Sunday morning
next will be especially for the
young people.
Dr. John E. Boyd went to
Columbia on Tuesday to stand
an examination before the State
Medical Board.
The Jews are celebrating the
feast of Passover. The season
began on Friday last and will
end to-morrow.
Trial Justice Floyd and Coro
ner Parnell have removed their
offices to the second floor of the
Hewitt building.
Mr. Eugene Harrell, who re
cently went West to live, has
returned to his home. During
most of his absence he was quite
sick, but has now recovered.
The friends of Mr. K. D. Lu
cas, who was wounded five
times m the recent riot, will be
glad to know that he has so far
recovered from his injuries as
to be able to appear on the
streets.
Judge Watts has reduced the
bond of Dr. B. H. Payne,
who killed Henry Green, color
ed, from $5,000 to $3,000. It is
now probable that Payne will
be released from custody in a
short time.
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the People’s
Bank will be held on Monday
and the stockholders of the
Darlington Manufacturing Com
pany will hold their annual
meeting on Thursday. '
Dispenser H. A. Josey re
quests us to say that Mr. J. W.
Reynolds is not on his bond.
The information, upon which
we stated in our last issue that
Mr. Reynolds is one of his bonds
men, is evidently incorrect.
Chick’s Merry Makers are
holding the boards at the opera
house this week. The company
is certainly giving good per
formances and the cheap prices
charged make the entertain
ments within the reach of every
body.
The trial of the suit of the
bondholders of the C. 8. & N.
Railroad against the town of
Darlington, which was set for
Monday next, in the United
States Court at Charleston, has
been postponed until the June
term of that Court,
The Darlington Guards have
received an invitation to attend
the national encampment to be
held in Spartanburg from July
2 to 12. They will probably ac
cept and enter the competitive
drill which will be one of the
chief attractions of the occa
sion.
The Straightouts have defeat
ed the Athletics in two games
of baseball within the past few
days, on Friday by a score of
23 to 15 and on Tuesday by 21
to 14. On Saturday afternoon
the Athletics will play a game
with the Factory club on the
latter’s grounds.
Mr. S. B, Gandy has been ap
pointed by the Governor a mem
ber of the Board of County
Commissioners in place of his
brother, Mr. A. A. Gandy, who
resigned to accept the postmas-
tersnip. Mr. W. B. Hoole is
acting as clerk until the office
can be filled by election at the
next meeting.
Three more persons were lodg
ed in jail on Monday on the
charge of murdering Ervin Free
man, near Society Hill They
are James Atkinson, white,
James DeLane, colored, Con-
stancil Davis, colored. The last
named is a daughter of Sam
Davis, who was first arrested
for the murder and is now in
jail.
Cash’s to morrow, where his
attorney, Mr. Stephenson, of
C'heraw, will make application
before Judge Watts for his re*
lease upon bail. ,
A Member Attacks It Although
Signature is Attached to It.
At a ver> late day a member
of the military court of inquiry
upon the Darlington killing
tries to deny the genuineness of
the finding. It looks very much
as if political pressure has had
its effect upon him. Here is a
letter from him on the subject:
Sally, 8. C., April 18. 1894.
B. R. Tillman, Governor, Columbia,
S. C. Dear Sir: Having sat on the
jury in Darlington in the ease of In
quiry concerning the death of Frank
F. liormeut and others, 1 wish to in
form you that I did not understand
the verdict as reported by the fore
man, Mr. J. A. Mooney. I understood
him to have read that those men
came to their deaths at the hands of
McLendon and Cain, but not whether
it was in self-defence or wilful or fe
lonious. There was not anything
said about that. If I had understood
it the way he has reported it 1 would
not have signed it, for my opinion is
it was self-defence. I remember he
said that there were a few words he
had left off, and he went to writing
again. Le said that he wanted to fix
it up right. 1 don't know what he
wrote. 1 remember he said when we
went in the jury room that what we
did would have no weight at all in
Court. I want to tell you that I was
never on a jury before, and I did not
know what I was there to do. I had
no instructions in the Court room nor
gnywhere else. Yours,
J. 0. Coopkr.
P. 8.—I pin a backwoods farmer
and know nothing about jury rooms
or law, for we are trying to obey the
laws of our country. ’ I am aTillman-
ite to the core, but I want every man
to have justice.
The following, in regard to
what Capt. Mooney says in an
swer to Mr. Cooper, is taken
from the News and Courier:
Grkrnvillb. April 23.—Capt J. A.
Mooney, chairman of the military
court of inquiry which sat in connec
tion with the coroner's jury at Dar
lington and made a report accusing
the Stale constables with murder,
will publish a statement to-morrow in
the Greenville News in reply to a let
ter of f. C. Cooper, of Fort Motte.
Cooper was a member of the court.
In h s letter published Sunday he in
sinuates that he did not understand
what he was doing when he signed
the report and that he was misled or
overpersuaded by Capt. Mooney to
sign the document. Capt. Mooney
will show that the court was appoint
ed by the regular military channels,
the non-commissioned officers and
privates being chosen by the captains
of their respective companies without
(iETTIAG TO WORK.
any pre-arrangement. The names of
the members of the court were tele-
raphed immediately to Governor
'illrnan and were presumably accept
able to'him, as he made no objection.
Instructions were sent to the court
by Gen. Richbourg and read and ex
plained in the presence of all and
specifically authorised each member
to file, if he wished, a separate report,
ving his views of the evidence. I apt.
ooney has a fac simile water press
copy of the report, showing that no
thing was added to or taken from it
after it was signed. He states that it
was thoroughly discussed by the mem
bers of the court be f ore being written
and after it was written was read over
to them twice at least, and repetitions
errors in names, &c., corrected with
assistance of Capt. Henry of the Gor
don Light Dragoons and other mem
bers. Capt. Mooney was mads chair
man of the court, from the fact that
he held the senior commission.
New Home and improved No
9 machines guaranteed for 5
years at half price at Blackwell
Bros.
THE CLEVELAND HOTEL.
The Popular Establishment to be Re
opened Next Week.
The Cleveland Hotel, which
has been closed since the return
of Major W. A. Evans, the for
mer proprietor, to his home in
Chesterfield about three weeks
ago, will be reopened, Col. Ben
Rogers, of Bennettsville, hav
ing leased the establishment.
Col. Rogers is an ex Sheriff of
Marlboro county and is a very
popular man all over the Pee
Dee section. The hotel, of which
he will take charge, has always
been liberally patronized and he
will doubtless do well in his
new business. He will open
the Cleveland for the reception
of guests on the first of next
week, and the people of Dar
lington will give Col. Rogers a
hearty welcome to their midst.
SHOT IN THE HEAD.
A Bullet Strikes a Colored Boy’s Head,
Doing Little Damage.
Alfred Henderson, a colored
boy about nineteen years old,
was shot in the head at Jack
Smith’s premises at Loafers’
Bridge on Monday night. The
shooting was accidental. A
friend of the boy was fooling
with a pistol, when it was ac
cidentally discharged. A 1 -
though Henderson received the
ball in his head, he is not much
Atkinson will be taken toi hurt, but was walking about
town the next day. The ball
entered the forehead, but when
it struck the skull did not pene
trate it, but ranged upward,
causing only a flesh wound.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS PREPARING
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Rev. G. T. Gresham, the County Chair
man, Issues a Call for a Con
vention.
The first move 6f the State
Prohibitionists towards prose
cuting their campaign this year
was made, as has been stated,
several weeks ago when the
State Executive Committee is
sued a call for a State Conven
tion to meet in Columbia on
June 7 to nominate, if deemed
advisable, a full Prohibition
State ticket.
Now, the Prohibitionists of
Darlington county are begin
ning to get to work. Rev. G.
T. Gresham, county chairman,
has issued a call for a county
convention to be held in the
Court House on June 4 for the
purpose of electing delegates to
the State Convention.
The following is the text of
the call:
ATTENTION PROHIBITIONISTS!
Dear Friends:—It is time we
were preparing for the coming
conflict. Already representa
tive Prohibitionists have met in
Columbia and issued a call for
a State Prohibition Convention.
All friends of prohibition in
Darlington county are request
ed to meet in the Court House,
at Darlington, S. C., at 12 M.
on Monday, June 4, to elect del
egates to the State Prohibition
Convention, which will be held
in Columbia on Thursday, June
7, “to take into consideration
the best means to remove the
liquor traffic from our State,
and, if deemed advisable, to
nominate a full State ticket to
be placed before the Democracy
of the State for election”.
We recall with special pleas
ure the earnest and faithful co
operation of the friends of Pro
hibition with the County Chair
man in the last campaign and
we crave the same earnest and
faithful co operation in the
campa’^n now opening.
We snould not be true to our
feelings if we failed to give ex
pression to our high apprecia
tion of the gentlemanly cour
tesy with which we were invari
ably treated by those who dif
fered with us as to prohibition
and we bespeak for ourselves
the same kindly consideration
from them during the present
campaign.
It shall be our aim in the fu
ture, as it has been in the past,
to. push the prohibition cause
with firmness and moderation,
to stir up our friends to action,
while we give our opponents no
just cause for offence. We pro
pose to fight our battle within
the Democratic lines and in do
ing so we do not propose to
know any man politically. If
the State Convention sees fit to
put a State ticket in the field, it
will be subject to the primary
election. If we suffer defeat at
the primary, we shall accept
the result in good faith.
Friends, let me hear from you.
Write me what vou think of the
move; offer any suggestions you
may have to make as to work
in hand; go to work in your re
spective sections for prohibition;
work up the sentiment and we
shall score a decisive victory in
the next election.
Yours for Prohibition,
G. T. Gresham,
County Chairman.
Una, S. C., 20 Apl ’94.
Straw hats, Reynolds shoes,
summer suits at a bargain.
Blackwell Bros,
THE FLORAL FAIR.
The Enterteinment Postponed Until the
Latter Part of May.
The annual floral fair of the
Darlington Horticultural Socie
ty which was to have been giv
en this week, has been postpon
ed until May 24 and 25, on ac
count of the lateness of the
roses this season. The ladies
are making active preparations
to insure the success of the en
tertainment and have already
decided upon a number of at
tractions, not the least among
which will be performances on
the stage each night.
The following committees have
been appointed: On Flowers,
Mrs. C. 8. McCullough, Mrs. E.
T. West, Mrs. H. E. P. Sanders.
Mrs. D. S. McCullough, Miss
Nina Coggeshall, Miss Annie
Williamson; on Refreshments,
Mrs. H. T. Thompson, Mrs. Ba-
cot Law, Mrs. W, B. McGirt,
Mrs. A. C. McFall; on Children’s
Amusements, Mrs. A. T. Baird,
Mrs. E. E. Nigels, Miss Mamie
Coggeshall, Miss Bessie Lide.
Do you want a sewing ma
chine on easy terms? You can
buy now payable next fall.
Blackwell Bros.
A SUNDAY MAIL.
A Proposition to Secure a Star Route
from Florence.
Some of the citizens are dis
cussing the possibility of get
ting a star route mail from Flor
ence to Darlington and return
on Sundays. The people of this
town are put to serious incon
venience by the fact that no
mail is received here from Sat
urday night to Monday morn
ing on account of the trains not
running on Sunday. It is said
that the postoffice authorities
would give us a Sunday star
route mail, if we should petition
them to do so, showing them at
the same time the great bene
fits that would accrue from such
an improvement in our mail
facilities. This is a matter that
it would be well for the board
of trade to investigate.
Cheap, medium and fine pants
overalls and jackets. Black-
well Bros.
TH AlEWS IN DARLINGTON.
How the Decision was Received at the
Seat of the Late War.
Nowhere in the State was the
“knockout” of the dispensary
received with more delight than
in Darlington. The news of the
decision reached here Thursday
morning and immediately it be
came the sole topic of conversa
tion upon the streets. As soon
as night came a jollification
was held on the Public Square.
Fireworks were sent off, the
factory band played lively tunes
and the crowd g»ve vent to their
enthusiasm by cheer after cheer.
The jubilee was kept up until a
late he ur. Many of the promi
nent citizens were serenaded
and the local dispensary was
honored with “In the Sweet
Bye and Bye” from the band.
TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
They are Requested to Send Us Letters
as Regularly as Heretofore.
On account of the pressure of
matters incident to the recent
riot in Darlington we have been
compelled to omit from our col
umns for several issues past
many interesting letters from
correspondents. We trust that
our readers and those who kind
ly furnish us the news from
their respective sections will
forgive us for what could not
be help. Now that we have
more space at our command we
trust that our correspondents
will continue to write regularly
an 1 thus contribute towards the
mantenance of one of the most
interesting departments of the
paper.
Hard time prices on Domestic
sewing machines; $45 the for
mer price, $25 the present price,
$20 saved on each machine.
McCall & Burch.
THE “KMCK-Oir
Doctor* in Council.
The annual meeting of the
State Medical Association is now
in session at Rock Hill. The
delegates trom the Pee Dee As
sociation are, Drs. J. C. Will-
cox, W. J. Garner, of this place,
J.M. Josey, of Cypress, J. L.
Napier, of Blenheim, W. J.
David, of Bennettsville. Drs.
Willcox and Garner left on
Tuesday to attend the meeting
and will return the latter part
of this week.
For sale at great bargains for
cash—a lot of second-hand sew
ing machines, many of them
practically as good as new; ap
ply at this office.
A Former Darlingtoman Honored.
It is learned here from a pri
vate source that Mr. Charles P.
Pressley, who formerly lived in
Darlington and is well remem
bered here, has been appointed
Vice Consul for the United
States at Grenoble, France. Mr.
Pressley has been living abroad
for several years. The Consul
at Grenoble is Hon. H. Clay
! Armstrong, Jr., of Alabama.
Winks—What’s the matter,
old boy. You look as if you
didn’t get sleep enough. Got a
new baby?
Jinks—No. Got a daughter
old enough to have callers.—.N.
Y. Weekly.
MORE ABOUT THE IMPORTANT
DISPENSARY DECISION.
All the Dispensaries Closed and the
Governor Says We Shall
Have Free Liquor.
We were able to make but a
short notice in our last issue of
the all-important dispensary de
cision of the Supreme Court, as
the news reached Darlington
just as we were about going to
press. This reminds us that
The News was probably the
first paper in South Carolina to
announce that the Supreme
Court had decided the law un
constitutional.
Just as everybody supposed
would be the case, Justices Mc-
Iver and McGowan concurred
in deciding the dispensary un
constitutional and Justice Pi.po
dissented. The opinions are
very lengthy, hence we cannot
give them in full. We have,
however, selected from the Co
lumbia Journal
A SYNOPSIS OF THE OPINIONS
and here reproduce it:
Judge Mclver’s decision on |
the subject is very able, clea' - ;
and logical and completely |
knocks out the dispensary law.
He says that the Attorney Gen
eral during the hearing had sug
gested to the court that the act
of 1893 superseded the act of
1892 but that no motion had
been made by the State’s at
torney alorg that line and the
court would consider, for the
sake of argument, the two acts
identical.
Proceeding in the decision
Judge Mclver says that ordi
narily the presumption is in
favor of any act passed by the
Legislature being constitutional
and reviews at some length the
nature, scope and object of the
law.
He declares that it violates
two articles of the Constitution
namely the first and the four
teenth. The first article de
clares aU men free and equal
with right of enjoying liberty
and property and the second
uarantees every man against
eing deprived of his right to
engage in any lawful business.
These rights, the court observes
are derived from the creator
rather than from the govern
ment.
The traffic in liquor itself is
not unlawful and the law in so
far as it forbids a citizen from
engaging in it when the State
is allowed to conduct the same
business is null and void.
The court next considers the
question of the alleged police
regulation of the traffic under
the dispensary law butconclud
es that it has no such idea. The
whole scheme the court says is
one to increase the revenue of
the State. Tho State has no
right to engage in business in
competition with her citizens.
Such an idea is at variance with
all ideas of civil government.
The power given the State to
engage in the liquor business
by the last Legislature is out
side and beyond the power con
ferred upon the General Assem
bly by the people.
The court answers also the
argument raised that because
the State engaged in business of
supporting colleges that she
could also epgage in the busi
ness of selling liquor. This is
answered by showing from au
thorities that education is a
legitimate function of govern
ment while selling liquor is not,
The above are some of the
leading ideas advanced by the
majority of the court and. as
will be seen, they thoroughly
cover the grounds and effectual
ly and finally knock out a law
conceived and operated as a
political expedient.
Justice P o p e’s dissenting
opinion covers nearly 100 pages
of fools cap. He argues chiefly
that the whole law is constitu
tional from the fact that the
regulation of the liquor traffic
is a legitimate function of gov
ernment and he holds that the
dispensary law is such a regu
lation. He does not think the
prime object of it is the raising
of a revenue.
THE EFFECT OF THE DECISION.
The decision created consider
able sensation throughout the
State and everyone naturally
asked, what will the administra
tion do about it ? The public
did not have to wait long for
the first step on the part of the
State. On the day following
the decision the State board of
control met and, in view of the
action of the court, ordered the
State and all of the county dis
pensaries closed immediately.
This was done and since then
not a drop of dispensary liquor
has been gotten anywhere in the
State. All the constables were
paid up and discharged.
THE LOCAL DISPENSARY.
The Darlington dispensary
was reopened for the first time
since the riot on Thursday, the
day the decision was announced.
It therefore had only a short time
to remain open and the new dis-
C enser, Mr. H A. Josey, had
ut a brief term of office-hold
ing. On the very next day the
establishment was closed along
with all the other dispensaries
in the State.
The following is the order—it
came by telegraph—upon which
Mr. Josey closed the dispensa
ry:
Columbia, April 21,1894.
H. A. Josey, Darlington:
Close up the dispensary immediate
ly until further orders.
D. H Trailer,
Commissioner.
A similar order was sent to
all the other State bars.
PROHIBITION OR FREE LIQUOR ?
What will Governor Tillman
do next and does the decision
give us prohibition or not, are
two questions that were on
everybody’s lips. For several
days the Governor refused to
have anything to say in answer
to these questions, but on Mon
day he finally granted an inter
view to the newspapers. From
what he says one would judge,
as to the firsl question mention
ed above, that he will submit
gracefully to the decision. As
to the second question, have we
prohibition, the Governor gives
as his opinion that we have not,
but on the contrary says we
shall all have free whiskey. B it
here is
THE GOVERNOR’S INTERVIEW
as taken from the State:
The following interview was
obtained from the Governor yes
terday by a representative of
the State, and after being writ
ten out was submitted to him
and approved by him; it is
therefore “official:”
The Governor was asked how
long before the uncertainty
about the decision would be re
moved and the mystery solv
ed.
He said: “I have already
solved my part of it. It is now
for the judges to let the people
know what they have decided.
I don’t know whether the decis
ion means prohibition or free li
quor, or what it means. Who
can tell what they mean ? I
don’t see what object they could
have had in leaving the matter
in doubt at all.”
“Well, Governor, what about
that extra session ?”
“Who has heard anything
about an extra session ? All I’ve
heard of it is some talk in the
newspapers, and of course the
papers are always in the
wrong.”
“It is claimed by some that
the decision leaves the law a
prohibition law and that tho po
lice regulation feature of the
law stands. How about that ?”
Governor Tillman replied:
“All I have to say is tha. he
Legislature gave ;no authority
to enforce the dispensary law.
When the court declares the
dispensary law dead why, of
course, my authority to enforce
it dies with it. I don’t see what
right I have to attempt to main
tain the constabulary tocnforce
a prohibition law if it is such.”
“Governor, whose business is
it to find out what tho court
means ?”
“I don't know. It’s not mine.”
Then laughingly the Governor
said, “What was that Byron
said about Wordsworth ? Oh
yes, ‘I wish he’d explain his ex
planation.’ ”
The Governor was asked what
he intended to do about having
the stocks of the various county
dispensaries shipped back here
and stored; if the rents and in
surance would net amount to
more than the expense of doing
this ?
He said he had no authority
whatever to go into the expense
of moving the stock and things
would just go on just as they
are.
Continuing he said: “You see
I am paralyzed. I can’t do a
thing. It seems to me that tho
| court in so many words express-
I ly declared that 'the dispensary
law is not a prohibitory law.’
The court denies emphatically
that the municipalities have the
OUT ON BAIL,
M'LENDON AND CAIN RELEASED
FROM CUSTODY.
The Men who Killed our Citizens
Give Bond to Appear for Trial
at the dune Court.
Constables J. D. McLendon,
is who charged with the mur
der of Frank E. Norment, and
O. C. Cain, charged with the.
murder of L. L. Redmond, have
been released on bond. Last
week their attorneys made ap
plication for their release before
Judge Watts in Columbia, who
fixed their bonds at $4,000 apiece.
McLendon is from Orange
burg and he secured his bonds
men from that county, W. S.
Burton and J. W. Macks, the
former justifying for $4,000 and
the latter for $2,000, Cain also
obtained his bondsmen from his
home, Barnwell county. They
are C. H. Mathis and J. I).
Whittle, each justifying for
$2,000.
Both of the bonds have been
received in Darlington and are
now lodged in the office of the
Clerk of tho Court. Immediate
ly upon their receipt Sheriff
Scarborough telegraphed in
structions to Columbia, where
the men have been held, that
they be released from custody
and it was so done. The bonds
read that McLendon and Cain
shall appear at the June term
of Court for Darlington county
to answer to the charge of mur
der.
No statement has appeared in
the daily papers within the last
few days in regard to the con
dition of McLendon’s wound,
but from a citizen of Darling
ton, who has seen him, we learn
that he is n it in the precarious
state that the reports of last
week would lead the public to
believe.
Three of the very best papers
of their kind in the country, the
Weekly News and Courier and
the Southern Cultivator, and
The Darlington Neavs will all
be sent to any address for ono
year for $2.45. 4t
Our New Dress Goods
Trimmings are now open and£
l!we solicit a careful examina $
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rics in Correct Styles
at very Low Prices.
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know will please.
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