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MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of Newt, Tersely Told, Interest to Our Many Readers. Mr. C. R. W<xxIb ha* North for the summer. Sumter is to hare fine bicycle races on June 28th and 2!»th. Prof. J. D. East, of Bennetts ville, was on a visit to his rela tives in Darlington this week. The Athletic Base ball club defeated the Factory nine by a score of Bt to 12 on Saturday last. Mr. Albert Woods, who has been going to school at Bell Buckle, Tenn. is at home for the holidays. The many friends of Mr. Hugh Wilds throughout the county will regret to learn that he is quite sick. Mr. P. J. Boatwright has re turned from a visit of several weeks to his fonner homo in Edgefield County. Mr. G. J. McCown, who mov ed to Georgia recently, was back in Darlington this week on a visit to his relatives. Court is in session at Florence this week. It is feared that the recent j cold weather will seriously af- | feet the cotton crop. of I Dr. B. H. Payne has returned ! to Darlington from a visit to | the upper portion of the State. gone E- Bishop will preach at the Presbyterian Church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. An excursion was run from N. C., &. N. of the Yesterday (May 30) was Dec oration Day at the North, cor- responding with our Memorial Day, May-10. Rev. J. E. Carlisle conducted the regular union services at the Presbyterian Church last Sunday night. Col. Hinsdale and Mr. Smith, two prominent members of the Raleigh, N. C. bar, were in town on Monday on professional business. Bishop Capers, of the Episco pal Church, passed through Darlington yesterday afternoon on his way to Society Hill, where he is to preach to-day. Mr. E. Keith Dargan left on Monday for Richmond, where he is to attend the unvailing of the monument to the soldiers and sailors of the Confedracv. Base Ball Galore. The Darlington Base Ball Club was organized this week with Mr. Bright Williamson as President, and Mr. George E. Dargan as Secretary and Treas urer. Mr. Louis G. McCall is to act as manager of the players and Mr. J. Walter James as captain of the nine. This or ganization will work in connec tion with the Darlington Base Ball Association which was formed earlier in the season, but is separate and distinct from it. Some good players have been secured, the team has been re-organized and is now in first-class condition. On Thursday and Friday of this week (today and tomorrow) they will plav the Sumter club andtwo fine games may be count ed on. Sumter to Red Springs, yesterday, over the C. S. road, under the auspices Sumter Light Infantry. The latest nows from the Rev. Mr. Stout is to the effect that ’ he was out of all danger. It will be some little time, however, before he will be able to return home. The board of health des're property owners to be informed that a thorough in section of all the premises in town is to be made in the course of the next ten days. Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Baird, gave a reception at their resi dence last Friday evening com plimentary to a young lady from Charleston who is visiting in the community. Maj. M. McR. McLauchlin, the well-known teacher, who for merly had charge of a school in this county, returned to his rhifi yeox home in Cheraw oij^JJjA*y3irf?r . ijistu.. after wm Sbsence of live months spent in the State of Alabama. Two enterprising photograph ers have been in town for the past week making photographs of the public buildings and of inany private residences for S which they found a ready sale. Right Rev. E. Capers, Assis- lant Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, w ill preach at the Episcopal Chapel on S mday evening next, at 8.30o’clock, af ter which he will confer the rite of confirmation. Rev. J. E. Carlisle has sent to The News and Courier in the name of ‘‘The Darlington Churches” the sum of $20.24, the amount of last Sunday’s un ion collection for the benefit of the Bluffton sufferers. The advertisement of Cleve land Springs, that famous sum mer resort so popular with the people of Darlington, appears in this issue. The prospect is that a considerable number of our people will go there again More About Pe»-vine Hey. Editor Darlington News: 1 read in a recent issue of The News “H’b” letter on pea-vine hav, and I endorse what he says, but I wish to call his attention to the fact that the speckled pea of which he speaks is by no means the earliest pea that will make a good crop. I have been forced by short corn and oat crops to plant pease for early feed, and in hunting for an ear lier pea than the life-preserver, | I succeeded in finding one var iety that is three weeks and an other that is ten days earlier. I have these two varieties, togeth er with “H’s” speckled pea, planted, and I expect to begin feeding with the earliest of them all about June 20th. H. T. J. Hard time prices on Domestic sewing machines; $45 the for mer price, $25 the present price, $20 saved on each machine. McCall & Burch. At The Guards' Armory. The ladies of the community will give an entertainment, con sisting of vocal and instrument al music, for the benifit of the Guards, at the Armory, to morrow (Friday) evening, at 8.- 30 o’clock. An enjoyable pro gramme is promised, and the prospects are that there will be an unusually large crowd in at tendance. The price of admis sion will be 25 cents for grown people and 10 cents for children'. At the conclusion of the enter tainment, refreshments will be served at reasonable prices, aud the floor will be cleared for dan cing. The afternoon of the same day will be devoted to the children, the doors opening at 4 o’clock. There will be music and other forms of amusement provided, and ice-cream will be furnished the little ones at 5 cents a saucer. The price of admission for them in the after noon will also be 5 cents. Nurses accompanying children will be admitted free of charge. 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 fie sent to any "ddress Jor one 'yedYfor $2.45. perience, perhaps homes would, not have been saddened. You claim to believe there are good citizens of Cypress of the Reform faith who do not endorse the! sentiments expressed. Yes, there are many good citizens of Cy press township of the Reform faith, but they will be hard to I find who will endorse insurrec tions, insults, and high taxes caused by unwise actions, you find them, please let us know them. Your belief surely faint. You attempt convey the idea that said reso lutions are void of the truth. That the truth is in said resolu tions is verified by the actions THE CODiTV SEWS. FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. RIVERDALE. Miss Bertha Bland, of Dar lington, spent last Saturday and Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. jflj. A. Middleton. Miss Clara Howie has return- * 81 ed to her home in Darlington, t° after a pleasant visit to Mrs. W. H. Mozingo. A match game of baseball played here on Saturday is still only some- was NETTLES’S MILL Mr. W. S. McIntosh seriously sick. Peter Beasley lost his horse last week. Mr. B. H. Goodson is what improving. Our c itton looks bad this weak from the effects of the cold. Mr. D. S. Barefoot, Jr., killed an unusually big owl in his chicken coop recently. Mr. W. T. Gainey and Miss Margret Woods, both of this section, were married on the Itfih inst. of the town the world knows, j ^ft®™ 0 ©!! between the Mechan- Mrs. Kehoe the mother of Mrs. J. M. James, died here very suddenly on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Kehoe had been On Tuesday Trial Justice Dargan committed for trial at the approaching term of the Court of General Sessions Maria Ingo, a colored girl about thir teen years of age, charged with forgery. She had an order on .i . i * * , i a merchant in town for fifty 4i!!!L. ( a . u « ht « , °, r u ,out cents which she is said to have three weeks. She had been in feeble health for some time. The remains were sent to Nor folk, Va., for interment. Quite a number of Darlington people went on the excursion to Red Springs yesterday. Lots of amusements were promised the excursionists in the way of base-ball, bicycle races, &c. The programme mentions a special number of a “half mile race for Darlington riders on ly.” Col T. M. Berry, late of Chester, who moved to this County with his family early in the year and settled near his brother-in-law, Mr. P. .P. Chambers, had the misfortune to lose his little infant, about five months old, on the 24th inst. The funeral took place at Black Creek Church. The Atlantic Coast Line has issued a schedule of its summer rates to the springs of Virginia and the Carolinas, a copy of which can be obtained by ap-; “raised” to $3. Mrs. Lizzie White, a sister-in law of Mr. J. C. White, died on the Factory Hill on Saturday last, and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery the following day. She was the widow of Mr. Jerry White, and resided formerly at Timmonsville. Six children survive her, some of them quite young. The residence of Mr. Com mander, about a mile from Florence on the left hand side of the C. & D. railroad track going down, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The building was a new one, Mr. Commander’s first house built on the same site having been lost in the same way only a few months ago. The following compose the prize squad of the Darlington Guards which is to enter the competitive drill at Spartan burg in July: Lieutenants James, Lide, Parrott; Sergeants Florence vs Darlington. The game of ball between Florence and Darlington on Thursday of last week was an interesting one, and it is a great pity it could not have been play ed to the finish. Florence scor ed three runs in the first inning and three more in the fourth. Darlington made no runs at all until the eighth inning, when three were scored. Three more were made on the ninth inning, putting the two nines even, 6 to C. Florence had played its last inning; Darlington had only one man out and a runner on first base, when the Florence nine appealed to the umpire to rule the Darlington team be cause they claimed that one of its men had “cut off” in run ning to third base. The umpire over-ruled the request, on the ground that if the alleged irre gularity did occur, he failed to see it. Florence thereupon refused to plav the game out, and under the baseball rules, it was declared forfeited in favor of Darlington by a score of 9 to 0. “Advertising certainly pays”, say Baird & Smoot, smiling blandly, as they telegraph off for additional supplies of their celebrated rocking-chairs. The Reformers of Cypress. Editor Darlington News: In justice to ourselves and other Reformers of Cypress, we would like to have a few words to say through the columns of your paper in reference to the resolutions adopted by some of the Cypress Reformers. In the first place, the statement that these resolutions were adopted by the Reformers of Cypress is very misleading, as those who acted in the matter represent only a very small portion of the Reformers of this place. In fact, most of us knew nothing about any such resolutions be ing passed until we read them in the Columbia Register, and were greatly surprised when we saw them. We believe that we would be safe in saying that nine-tenths of the Reformers of Cypress did i ot know anything about the matter until it was all over. AVe are sure that we have as good and as honorable a set of Reformers at Cypress as is to be found in any section of this county, and we can well as sure the people of the town of Darlington that we have no an imosity against them. Dar lington has as many good and law-abiding citizens in it as any other town of its size in the ’biate. We believe that \ne paTvic who passed the resolutions re ferred to did so without care fully considering them, and that they may now regret them, but it seems that occasionally people will let passion and pre judice over-ride their better judgement. We do not want any more strife among our peo ple. Let us have peace and good will and brotherly love among us, and when we do, we will place ourselves on a higher plane and on a surer road to success. We appeal to all good citizens to do their best to keep down strife and bad feeling. “A house divided against it self is sure to fall.” is a rule that we must bear in mind if we ever expect to see better times, or to become a more prosperous people. We commend The News very highly for the mild way in which it commented on the resolutions, and the good spirit it has manifested, and good advice it has offered, all of which we hope our people will heed and profit by. J. W. DuBose, P. A. Savarance, and others. Cypress, 8. C., May 28, 1894. hence the resolutions. The Re formers of Cypress wish to place themselves ou record as being apart from such violations of the law by insurrections as Gov. Tillman and the resolutions have properly defined. You say the constables were interlopers, strangers in your midst. They were where they had a right to be. They were sent by the State to put down violations of the law. Did the town aid them, or did it oppose them!’' If strangers, they were on a good mission. Much more could be said in this reply to your com ments or criticisms, but as you claim to be a penitent, and not wishing the wound to be reopen ed, I must be lenient in my re ply. I agree with you, Mr. Editor, let us heal old wounds, avoid making new ones, and using your language, “Bone of our bone; flesh of our flesh”, let us be brothers together. Why did you not proclaim this earlier, and louder teach and practice, and learn that the majority will rule? The Reformers of Cypress are a liberal-hearted and a for giving people, yet firm in their resolutions. T. L. Northcutt. A handsome ornament to any piazza—Baird & Smoot’s two rockers for $5. For style and neatness The Darlington News job-work is unsurpassed. Don’t take our word for it. See samples and be convinced. icsville and Back Swamp teams. The contest resulted in a score of 10 to (> in favor of Back Swamp. Mechanicsville will cross bats with Back Swamp at their grounds next Saturday af ternoon. Mrs. Jane Wallace, nee Wil liamson, died at her home at Palmetto on the 20th inst, af ter several'years of great suffer ing. Her remains were brought here and interred in Lowther’s Hill Cemetery on day. A large concourse of rela tives and friends were present to pay the last tribute of respect to a noble woman. On Wednesday of last week Willie Fields, a little colored boy who lives on Mr. W. E. Dargan’s plantation, was struck on the top of his cranium by lightning while returning from the field, carrying under his arm a tin pan. His hat was torn to pieces, and the electrici ty passed down his left side to the knee, splitting his apparel and slightly burning him on the shoulder. It crossed to the right leg at the knee, rent his pants and burnt his toe. He was apparently dead at first, but was restored to conscious ness within the space of an hour, and is now doing well. It was certainly a most remark able occurrence. Buy the celebrated Walter A. Wood mowers and harvesters from Walter J. Parrott. plying to Mr. Pegues, the agent | Cox, James, Boatwright; Cor at this place. Tickets will MB ~ on sale at these rates from June 1 to Sept. 30, inclusive, and will be good for return passage on or before Oct. 1, 1894. On July fi. at Howe's Spring, in Florence County, there will be a big Alliance meeting. The following speakers have been invited and will probably accept the invitations: Governor Till man, Congressman McLaurin, Comptroller-General Ellerbe, Secretary of State Tindal, Pres ident W. D. Evans, of the State Alliance, and Dr. J. William Stokes. The factory operatives will run their annual excursion on June 23. They go to Sullivan’s Island this year, the fare for the round trip being only $1.50. These excursions are always ad mirably managed. The best of order is maintained and it is probable that a great many peo pie will avail themselves of the fine opportunity offered them of taking a brief trip to the sea shore. The Malloys (colored) of So ciety Hill, are in “hot water.” Leighton Malloy was bound over at Cheraw "a few days ago to appear at the next term of the United States Court to an swer to a charge of passing counterfeit money, while Depu ty Collector Stackhouse over hauled Bob Malloy recently on the highway between Cheraw and W adesboro and took tii irty- five gallons of illicit liquor away iiom him. ^: * £&***+ - v j* > 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. porals DuBose, Wells, Vaughn, McCullough; Prhates Baird, Bristow, Coit, Gillespie, Har rell, Johnson, McCullough, H Norment, L. Norment, Rast, Rogers, Smoot. J. S. McCreight, who was convicted of breach of trust with fraudulent intent at tne last term of the Court of Gener al Sessions, was taken to the Penitentiary on Monday, where he is to serve a sentence of twenty months. McCreight has been in jail since Court ad journed. He had intended ap pealing to the Supreme Court for a new trial, but it seems that his appeal has been aban doned. Death of Mr*. Wardlaw. Mrs. Patterson Wardlaw died on Thursday of last week, and was buried the following day in Grove Hill Cemetery. The funeral services were held at the Baptist Church, of which the deceased was a member, the Rev. Mr. Perry, of Hartsville, officiating. The church was crowded to overflowing with sorrowing friends if the bereav ed family. Messrs. L. C. Glenn, G. K. King, Bright Williamson, M. T. Lide, W. D. Coggeshall aud T. H. Rogers acted as pall bearers. Mrs. Wardlaw was Miss Claudia Edwards, a daugh ter of the late Col. B. W. Ed wards. She had been married less than a year. Her s^d death cast a gloom over the entire community. Who Want* Thi* Office? Many persons may have for gotten that the last Legislature created a new office, namely, that of “County Supervisor.” This officer is elected at every general election, serving for two years. The salary in Darling ton County is $800 per annum. The duties of the position are set forth as follows under the law, from which it will be seen that that the County Supervi. sor is to take the place of the Board of County Commissioners, the latter office having been abolished: “The County Super visor shall have general juris diction over all public high ways, roads, bridges and fer ries, and over the paupers, and in all matters relating to taxes and disbursements of public funds for Countv purposes, in their respective Counties, and in any other case that may be necessary for the internal im provement and local concerns of their respective Counties; said Supervisor shall have pow er and authority to administer oaths to any person in reference to matters ap" rtaining to his office.” Baird & Smoot are “rattling off” at a lively rate the great bargain of the season which they are offering—two hand some rockers for $5. Buy a New Home or Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine and pay next fall; found only at Blackwell Bros. Those Cypress Resolutions. Editor Darlington News: Please allow me space in your columns to reply to your com ments of May the 17th, upon the resolutions of the Reformers of Cypress. You start out by saying you were not asked to publish said resolutions but had done so for the benefit of your readers. The committee discussed whether you should be asked to publish them or not, but after deciding that you would knife said resolutions, decided not to make the request; nevertheless you knifed and published said resolutions, and warped them to suit your politi cal views; on one side you cry, “peace, moderation”, and on the other pour out gall. You claim said resolutions to be very bitter with political animosity. This I deny; said resolutions condemn the insurrection as be ing lawless and unwise, and condemn as uncalled for insults on the part of the town. You claim that said resolutions can do South Carolina no good but a vast deal of injury. Said re solutions will not do any harm to the good name of South Car olina, but allow me to say that insurrections and heaping up a burden of taxes on the people by the town’s unwise actions can do Darlington no good. You claim the purpose of the Reform ers of Cypress is to keep up fratricidal strife; were this true, then they would truly deserve the disapprobation of all true and good men. but said resolu tions set forth different views from this. They go forth con demning those who would mur der their brother. Oh, had you taught such before the sad ex- The latest song but,” Marie”, by Raymond for sale by C. N. Spinks. sweet Moore, CLYDE. We notice a few scattering apples left from the March -reeze. The recent frost damaged cot ton and other growing crops somewhat. The “red top” cane planted in. this section is fine, much UetlcYVas. 4 '’’' -.“.ribbon.” Do you want a sewing ma chine, $15 to$35? See Blackwell Brojs. Examining the Body of Constable Pepper. [The News and Courier.] A permit for the exhumation of the body of R. H. Pepper, the State Constable who was killed at Darlington at Ihe time of the late dispensary distur bances there, for the purpose of holding an autopsy, w as applied for at the health office on May 8. Dr. Horlbeck expressed himself as not opposed to the exhumation taking place, and the body was exhumed and an autopsy held by by Dr. B. N. Lebby, it is presumed, at the order of the Governor. This much is certain—however noth ing else about this mysterious affair is—as Dr. Lebby, when seen by a Reporter, refused to be interviewed, declaring that he was not at liberty to make any statement whatsoever. Current report has it that de claring at the time that Pepper had been killed by Redmond was a put up job, it being so stated to save from the annoy ance of legal proceedings the true slayer, and that the Gov ernor has determined to have this autopsy held in order to learn the size of the balls with which Pepper was killed, and We are having fine weather for farm-work, and our boys are getting their crops in good fix. The fall sown crop of oats in this section is very fine, but that sown in the spring is not so go. d. Master Willie Hall killed a huge rattle snake last Friday measuring four feet three inch es, and having thirteen rattles and a button. Mr. D. W. Smith, accompan ied by Mr. G. J McCown, who is now a resident of Georgia, paid Mr. B. L. Outlaw a flying visit on Saturday. Mr. D. F. Morrison’s mule ran away last Friday night while he was returning from the exhibition at Bell’s school house. The buggy was badly smafhed up, but fortunately no one was seriously hurt- The exhibition at the Bell school-house came off on the evening of the 25th inst, and, as we expected, it was one of the best ever witnessed hers. Everything passed off nicely, and the occasion will be long re membered by the large assem blage present. LAMAR. Mr. E. G. Gray, of High Hill, spent several days last week in Lamar. The oat crop is being housed; What Governor Tillman Says About Clemson. [News and Courier.] Governor Tillman, who re turned this evening from the meeting of the board of trustees of Clemson College, reports that the board of trustees has decid ed to advertise for bids for the rebuilding the main building of Clemson College. The bids are to be opened on the 27th of June and work immediately com menced. It is evident from this that no effort will bo made to rebuild the College foil the pre sent session. Ample jarrange- ments have been maoe for the requisite class rooms, i The new mechanical hall proxies six or eight good class rooris without inttrfering with the fork. The experimental station office has been converted inf) a class room, and a good rfom in the old Calhoun mansifn will be used. To supply anf other re quirement wooden J structures will at once be builU After the emergency is ovei fbese build ings will be used/ or the ser vants. They havefieen wanted for some time. At to the loss Governor Tillman says that it is impracticable t> estimate it until the walls ar«carefully ex amined. Bruce tnd Morgan, the architects, tbnk that most of the walls are iolid and will not have to be t*rn down, but the portion nearrst the old ex hibit and the rhysical depart ment were pretfr badly shatter ed. The tower is left standing and will very probably be of use, as it wa* only gutted by the fire. The board was very much gratifief to see that the loss was vert much less than they had fejred it would be. They expect f> have everything ' L.apple-pie order by next ses sion. \U.of the members of the board, except' r ®fL t KR Tindal, Stackhouse and Bowen, nZre present and the board had a long and thorough session. Gov ernor Tillman attributed the leaving of the cadets to the hard times and the idea that after the fire there would be a vaca tion. Governor Tillman in a speech urged all the cadets to stick to their work. He does not think the corps will fall be low the 500 mark, and he be lieves that the leaving spurt has died out. The board has decided to let the cadets have a ten days’ outing at the Spartan burg encampment. A fire bri gade will at once be organized, the boys will be drilled and the professors will get up a brigade for work in the vacation season should the emergency arise. so, by comparing the size of the estimate is that about half balls with the pistols used, dis- cover whether Pepper was kill ed Dy Redmond or by another person in the fray, who is said to have declared that he killed Pepper. The balls are said not to be in the body, the shooting having been done at such close | [ast 1 ?L U ™ r v? that 1 h 6 y paSSed * The completion of the Baptist rp. , * u , j Church at this place is being The Reporter was told vester-! hed forwar(i P a * 8 rapid | y £ °, U , n , d0 u bt 4 possible; the frame work is fin ed veracity that Dr. Lebby had { a u„j said that Pepper had been kill ed by two balls, one 32 calibre and the other 38. A physician. a crop will be made Mrs. S. C. Starr and Mr. Ben nie Starr went to Columbia to visit relatives last week. Rev. C. D. Mann preached a very interesting sermon on the subject of missions on Sunday upon being consulted, expressed great doubt whether, after hav ing been buried since April 1, it would be possible to tell the size of the balls from wounds. ished. Miss Abbey Murray, of North Carolina, is visiting the family of Mr. T. F. Wilson, and the boys seem to think there is no body like Mr. Wilson. Mr. Jacob Spears has painted th e his new dwelling. If others would follow Mr. Spears’ ex ample, we think it would add very much to the appearance of our town. The militia company at this place has been sworn in and armed. The company has six- all of whom The Darlington News office turned out a pile of job work last week. Ladies’ Oxfords, 65 cts to $1 50 at Blackwell Bros. The very finest quality of wedding and ball invitations printed at The Darlington News job-office with neatness and despatch. New Home and Wheeler S —r — — out. The company is drilling Extras for 'Walter A. Wood | twic « a w eek. The officers are harvesters and mowers at Wal-i as ^ 0 !^ 0W _ S: _^- F. Willeford. ter J. Parrott’s. — »»»■■■ —» — For solid comfort try one of Baird rockers. captain; J. K. Windham, L. L. 1 Rose. J.B. Reynolds, lieutenants; when tired R L. DuBose, M. M. Cox, C. L. & Smoot’s Reynolds, H. M. Murray, Ser- | geauts. Big Fire In Mayesville. ITheNews and Courier,] Sumter, May 26.—This after noon at half past 5 o’clock the alarm of fire was sounded and the fire department responded promptly. The cause of alarm was a request from the people of Mayesville to send them as sistance, as their town was on fire and beyond their control. ln*a remarkably short time the Sumter fire department were at the Atlantic Coast line depot ready to go to Mayesville. About that time a telegram was received by Chief Bloom, say ing the fire was under control and that assistance was not needed. From what can be learned three buildings were burned, the postoffice, store of Weather Cooper and a warehouse of Mr. Hudson. The drug store Of Mr. Mayes and several smaller buildings and the large store of J. E. Mayes caught fire several times, but the flames were ex tinguished. The losses cannot at this hour be ascertained. The fire originated in Hudson’s warehouse. All Nature Looks for Spring, and is It not natural? Yet this is a season that is characterized by a feel ing of “malaise,’’ when biliousness becomes more prevalent than at any other time during the year, the sym- toms being a bitter taste, offensive breath, coated tongue, sick headache, and loss of appetite. If this condi tion is allowed to continue serious aud fatal consequences may follow. Do you know that Cleveland Springs meets all these requirements, and a few weeks stay there will make you f. el as if you had a new lease on life? Address J. B. Wilkinson, Prop , 6hel by N. O. Resident Physician, Dr. W. J. Hamer, of Darlington.