Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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«T Tbthsdat lit iT. JeK."',' j«’ -.jn*' ,^_ ' -xj . ^+? r ' ■’' ~ 1 ■bsbt *. tbokpsov. EDITOR ACT) PROPRIETOR. TREKS—$1 Per Annum In Adrunoe; 00 eenU for elx months: 86 cents for • munthn. Advkrtisiho Bates: One Squnre, first Insertion $100 Every subsequent insertion 60 Contrset udyertfeements inserted upon the most ressonnble terms. The News o' the Week. Work is soon to be commenced on s cotton mill in Bsnufort. A charter has been issned to the Fairfield Gotten Mills, of Wlnnsboro, 8. C. Governor Evans has appointed John H Seners a Magistrate at Che- raw. The regular Democratic National Convention will be held at Chicago this year. Property to the amount of $800,000 was destroyed by fire at Chicago on Sunday. Fire destroyed $70,000 worth of property in Jersey City, N. J.. on Saturday last. ' . Gen. Weyler has been appointed by the Spanish government to sucoeed Gen. Campos in Cuba. Three mm were killed at New Ha ven, Conu., on Tuesday by the explo sion of an acetylene gas receiver. Hon. J. W. Griggs was inaugurated Governor of New Jersey and the Hon. K. J. McLaurin Governor of Mississip pi on Tuesday. Bernard GUlm&n, the famoiu politi cal cartoonist of Judge, died in Cana- joharie, N. Y., on Sunday. He only 88 yean old. Congressman MeLaorin has intro duced a bill into Congress providln for a public bnilding at Florence, E C., to oost $100,000. The Court House at Beaufort, S. C was damaged by fire last week. None of the official books or papers were destroyed, however. It has been formally announoed that Ex-President Harrison is soon to be married to Mrs. Caroline Lord Dimmock, a niece of General Har rison’s first wife. The large tobacco factory owned by the Stultz-Spanow Tobacco Company was destroyed by fire at Martinsville, Va., last week. Loss $86,000, with only $6,000 insurance. Messrs. Ryttenburg A Sons, of Sum ter, have offered a prize of $86 in cash for the best one thousand pounds of tobacco raised with their fertilizers and sold on the Sumter market. Fire at Hagood, in Sumter County, last week burned three stores and partially destroyed the stock contain ed therein. The fire is thought to have been of an incendiary origin. Among the bills which passed the United States Senate on Tuesday was one appropriating $16,000 for the re lief of Nswberry College for the losses sustained during the War of Secesson. John Reynolds accidentally shot and Instantly killed Willie Ray while fooling with an “unloaded” pistol near Camden last Saturday. Both oarties are white, and were good friends. It is reported that in one compan> of the 1st regiment, National Guardi of Maine, seven members asked foi their discharges at the time the war talk commenced because they didn’t want to leave home. Seven negroes who were working on the Walterboro and Western Rail road, being built from Walterboro to Ehrhardt’W were killed by the tailing in of the roof of their mud-covereo shanty one night last week. L. E. Wilson, agent of the Southern Express Company at Eatonton, Ga., has disappeared. An examination of safe snowed that the money pack had been rifled. A shortage of has been found. The governor has appointed Mr. Robert Graham, of Charlestou, clerk of the court for that County. Many thought that the governor would ap point Mr. Elmore Mar tain, who has been and still is chief of the Charles ton police. The following delegates have been appointed by Governor Evans to re present South Carolina at the wo man’s suffrage convention that meets in Washington this week: Misses Mary Hemphill, of Abbeville, Katie Lilly Blue, of Marion, and Schofield, of Aiken. The measles has taken firm hold at the South Carolina College. There are six oases in the infirmary, with several others threatened. Dr. Wood row does not think it will be neces sary, however, to discontinue the ex orcises, as was done at Clemson and Winthrop. Gen. Farley, CoL McCrady, Gen. C. I. Walker and Judge J. H. Hudson, the committee appointed to memorial ize the Legislature in reference to the preservation and compilation of the Confederate rolls, will appear before the Ways and Means Committee this week and lay the matter before it. The Secretary of State has issued a commission to the German Building and Loan association of Charleston. The ooporators are T. A. Wilbur, B. J McTureous, J. B. Reeves and 8. 8. Buist. The capital stock of the association is $160,U00, divided into shares at $100 each. Tit Sing, a Chinaman, running a grocery store near the Union dei»ot in Afusta, Ga., was found murdered in the rear of his store on Tuesday morn 1- His body wag, nearly hacked to s. Robbery is supposed to have en the motive for the crime. There is no due to the murderer. The twenty-eighth annual Conven tkm of the National Woman’s Suf frege Association will be held in Washington January 88 to 88. Anthony, president, and Mias Harriet Taylor Upton, secretary of the association, are in Washington arranging the details of the meeting {he board of trustees of Clemson wiD meet in Columbia this the Faahington for the t at the meeting. aie to b* are a number of anxious to eurnous The Columbia Register pub lished an editorial on Saturday and another on Sunday severely arraigning Mr W. F. Dargan tor the testimony he gav6 in the McLaurin-Wilson contest. The testimony at which it takes ex ception is as follows: ’’Question.—’What plan or course was pursued here by the Supervisor of ligistratlon in giving registration certificate*,if you know, as to the date of issuing such certificates; were any registration certificates issued tc knowledge after the books had closed by law?’ “Answer.—‘Ye«; I sent people out there to get registration certificates, sending a list of names, and the par ties I sent got the certificates.’ “Question. —’What did you hear J. F. Garner, the Supervisor of Registra tion, say that he would do about issu ing registration certificates after the books were closed? “Answer.—‘He said that be would issue them to white men—any white men. Irrespective of faction; but that he would not issue them to colored men after the books were closed. “Question.—‘Do you know or not whether as mneh as several hundred certificates were issued to white men after the books were cloeedf’ “Answer.—‘The way I knew that some were issned, I found out that some were issued to Tillmanitee, aud I determined that I would have some for the Stralghtouts, and told the 8u pervlsor so, and be said, of course, he let any white men have them, but he would not let any negro have tneui; I told him at the time that I thought it a very reasonable view to take of it; I wanted the certificates.’ ” The curious part of the Reg ister’s criticism is that it does not find fault because registra tion certificates were issued af ter the books were closed in ac cordance with the law, or with those who caused them to be issued in that way, but it complains because Mr. Dargan told about the matter on the witness stand. We are at a loss to know what else he was to do. As we understand it, Mr. Dar gan did not put himself forward in the capacity of a voluntary witness in this matter. He was duly subpoenaed in accordance with the law, as were the other witnesses in the case, and when called upon to testify simply told what he knew. The Register still “harps” on the “white supremacy” string for all it is worth. We are now, and always have been, as much in favor of “white supremacy as the Register, with the dis tinct qualification that it be perpetuated by legitimate meth ods, as it can be. It was not necessary to its perpetuation that certificates be issued after the bo ‘ks had been closed in ac cordance with the law: on the contrary, the sole reason prim arily for their being issued in that way was simply to accom modate the political friends of the official who had control of the matter. But whatever the reason for it, the proceeding was clearly in violation of the law, and if the Register saw fit to make any cdtic ism this would have been its correct point of attack. The trouble with this, of course, was that, in that case, the attack would have operated in the nature of a boomerang”, reflecting more on those of the Register's own political persuasion than on those it was seeking to injure. To walk deliberately around such a patent ground for critic ism, and go out of its way to make its onslaught on Mr. Dar gan simply because he told what he knew on the witness stand, was so illogical and in consequential on the part of our contemporary that its course need not be dignified by any further argument than that which we have herein briefly set forth. A TIMELY EULOGY. The Colored American, of Washington, D. C., which is one of the leading organs of the other race published in this country, has a column article in its issue of Jan. 18 on ’lr. McLaurin, the representative in Congress from this District, ac companied by an excellent pic ture of the gentleman in ques tion. Coming from such a source, and at a time when opposition to him from any di rection is construed into being a slap at the much vaunted “white supremacy” issue, this fulsome eulogy of Mr. McLaur in possesses a significance so apparent that there is no neces sity for enlarging upon it. Of equal significance is the boast that he was a member of the State Beturning Board which voted the certificate of election in the 63rd Congress to Murray, a oolored man, to the exclusion r iV" Vai ' '"U ‘ '.~ r i -nm.WHj' K’lfr* T-r of Geh. Moise, of Sumter; as is fthsidtft mOSaton sVsTeM. mmtam/m" also the statement that “he [Mr. McLaurin] is the ido] of the colored people of his State, and when it comes to support ing him for any measure they lay politics aside and vote for him because they admire him.” Pending the settlement of the issue between Mr. McLaurin and his colored opponent, Wil son, of Florence, which is being passed upon by a Congressional Committee in Washington, this timely publication in the Color ed American may accomplish the purpose for which it was in tended. In the meantime, it enables us to furnish our subs cribers with some rich reading, and to give them some valuable information, such as the state ment that Mr. McLaurin is not in public life “for the loaves and fishes” that are to be had. and the further statement that “not since the days of Hayne and Calhoun have the people of ’■kmt'h Carolina had s ’ able and popular a leader.” We regret that, on account of its length, we are unable to reproduce the entire article, but such extracts from it as we publish in this issue will, we feel sure, be tho roughly enjoyed by our readers. THE LEGISLATURE. We regret lhat we are unable, owing to our limited space, to give our readers a synopsis of the voluminous proceedings of the General Assembly which is now in session. As a matter of fact, however, they do not lose much by not having it, as the proceedings, so far, have been of very little public inter est. It may betaken for granted that whenever anything of great interest transpires in the deliberations of the body, means will be tak en to place it before our readers. The fight against the Citidel is the most important matter that has come up yet. The bill to do away with that institution was ultimately kill ed in the House by a narrow margin, all three of the repre sentatives from this County voting against the Citadel. A FORTUNATE FAMILY. When the Legislature assem bled last week, the Speaker of the House announced that Mr. W. Boyd Evans had been ap pointed Journal Clerk. Until reading of this appointment, we had been under the impression that the members of the Gary Evans family had all been pro vided for, even to its most re mote branches. Are there any others still unprovided for? If so, they should be brought for ward while the Legislature is in session, so that the requisite number of offices may be creat ed in case there are “not enough to go round.” LEE'S BIRTHDAY, Gen. Lee’s birthday (Jan. 19) falling on Sunday this year, it was celebrated on Monday in stead in North Carolina and a number of the other Southern States where, by statute, it is a legal holiday. It is a shame that South Carolina has never recognized the day in the same way. The Legislature now in session could not do a better work than to pass a law setting apart as a legal holiday in South Carolina the birthday of the greatest Southerner of the Nine teenth Century. Modi do- Taking. Medicine taking may become qnlte as engrossing a habit as gnm and tobacco chewing, opium eating and the like. Just observe the number of medicine takers that one encoun ters in railway travel, in the. street oars, the elevated trains, and, in fact, under any conditions where the public eye has an unrestricted op portunity to gaze upou the private individual. Medicine takers are mostly women, though the habit is by no means confined to them alone. Many men may also be seen popping small pills and damping little pow ders between their paws at all too frequent intervals. All medicine takers do this mechanically, how- ,almost automatically,as though they had no particular motive in so doing beyond the fact that they were the victims of a hi bit Another sig nificant thing about the medicine takers is their apparent good health. If bright eyea, dear skins and un troubled countenances are any gauge of physical welfare, the medicine takar does not need his medicine. Of course act all possess these wd- oome characteristlos, hut so many of them do as to Justify the conclusion that medidne taking must be » healthful habit,—Chicago Kst The A Que«r Insect. “walking sticks,” “walking ’ etc., are among the most curious forms of insects inhabiting tropical America. They belong to the great family of phasmidtes, and are also odd specimens of animated nature as one could well imagine. The type of the family is an elon gated creature with a cylindrical brown body, looking exactly like a small limb or twig with the bark on. Some of the branches of this numerous family live in the torrid portions of Africa, where they at tain enormous sizes. Vane, the great traveler, says that he has seen them so large that “they had the general appearance of great, animated clubs moving upnnddov.n the branches and trunks of the gigantic tropical trees.”—St. Louis Republic. s — Color No Object. “Green tea or black tea, miss?" inquired the shopman in a sort of medioo-bedside manner. "I don’t think it matters," said the girl. “Missus is color blind.'* —Fort Worth Gazette. Sh. Left Her Card. Some time ago, in passing through a churchyard in Lancashire, I saw a number of flower wreaths on a newly made grave. One among others bad a card attached on which was written, “With Mrs. ' ’s deep sympathy,” and printed in the comer, “At home on Fridays. ”—Loudon Spectator. The Method of De.Hn* With Petty Offend ers Followed at th. Hah. “New York is a generation behind | the age in some of its methods of dealing with offenders as compared with Boston,” said a criminal law yer. “For instance, they have a method of dealing with petty offend ers over there which to my mind is the only sensible and logical system. Here if a man is arrested for being drnnk and disorderly or for petty assault or theft he is sent to the workhouse for anywhere from ten days to six months, as the magis trate chooses. He then becomes a charge on the county, and as it hap pens that in nine cases out of ten the offender is a workingman with a family his wife and children also have to be oared for at the county’s expense. Besides t.iis, the mere sen tence is a dog’ ’ -tion ind a blow to his manhood which it is hard for him to recover wl on released. “In Boston they ha*re wh t is called the probation system, and I think it is the only city in the coun try where this is practiced. They do not send a man to prison for a minor offense—that is, if it is his first. The character and oircumstanoes of the offender are investigated by one of the officers of the probation bu reau, and if the judge is satisfied that the offender is likely to reform if allowed to go free ho is turned over to the probation officer and sen tence is suspended. The majority of oases are of persons charged with drunkenness, and tJe rule is genet- ally applied to workingmen. Habit- ual drunkards are sent to tho island, but a man who falls from grace once gets another chance. “After the offender is turned over to the probation officer he is taken to the bureau, where he receives a register number, and the cironm- stanoes of his arrest, with his pedi gree, are taken down. Then he is al lowed to go. Tho probation officer investigates the situation of his family, and if he is a man accus tomed to spending his wages regu larly for drink arrangements are made with his employer to turn over his wages to his wife. This, of course, has to he done with his con sent, and as he has the alternative of going to prison if ho docs not consent he rarely refuses to sanc tion the arrangement. The system of espionage in vegue in the proba tion bureau is as effective and pri vate as nny Russi.ii, secret police bureau. The police of tho district in which the probationer lives are no tified and the policeman on the par ticular post whore his homo is locat ed is instructed to watoh him. — "The probationer is required to report at the probation bureau at least once during the period which the judge specifics. This is usually five weeks in tho lower court and onoyear in the superior court, where the graver offenses are tried. If, during that time, his conduct has been of a nature to satisfy the court that he has repented of his ways, he is allowed to go free altogether. Dur ing the probationary period, how ever, the probation officer may ar rest him without a warrant at any time. If the probationer should mis behave himself, or repeat the offense for which he was ii. st arrested, and he is caught. 1 ’s usually fined $5 or $10. If, h< t, ho should re peat the offense fter l aving served out his probation period, a double penalty is imposed. Tho probation bureau has an average of 800 per sons on its books under constant surveillance. “There are six male officers and a female officer for women and young girls. The women who are subject to the probation system are compar atively few. They are only released on a charge of loitering in the street, drunkenness or disorOTrly conduct. The entire oost of maintaining the bureau, including salaries, is not more than $15,000 a year, while the saving to the county, you can im agine, is many times that sum. The moral effect of such a system is, to my mind, the main consideration, and I think it is very progressive.” —New York Sun. Through the streets of Darling ton wouj' 1 ••e an extraordinary sight, yet it might not cause any more excitement than AMesMsu Dancing a hornpipe on the steps of the Court House. Either of these sights would make the blood run cold in the vt-ns of those who gazed thereon. The announcement that Had been declared would still further agitate tho public mind and everybody would say "What next?” Yet there are other things which might create a greater sensation, such as Clerk’s Sales. But when a mar . • oies fm ward who can sell GiOceries, China and Glassware cheaper than Coggeshall & Co., and at the same time give as good quality, popular f nthusiasm will know no bounds. STATE OESOUTH CAROLINA.. County of Darlington. IN COMMON PLEAS. Francis J. Pelzer v*. Z. R. Mixon and Nahum Galloway. Judgment for Foreclosure. Pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclos ure made in the above stated dlise, I will offer for sale in front of the court house in Darlington county, on the first Monday In Feb. next, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands of Z. R. Mixon, on the east by land of John F. Atkinson, south by lands of William Richardson and west by estate lands of Jessie Gilbert: also all that other tract of land containing forty (40) acres, more or less, bounded north by estate lands of Jesse Giloert, east by lands of R. H. A. Graham, south by lands of X. R. Mixon and west by estate lands of Jesse Gilbert. Terms of sale, one-half cash, bal ance in one year, secured by the bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold. Purchaser to pay for all necessary papers. W. ALBERT PARROTT, Jan. 16,1896. Clerk. Sale Under Tax Execution. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Darlington. The Town of Darlington vs. Cham pion Canning Co., et al. Office of The Town Council,) Darlington, S. C., Jan. 2,1896 j By virtue of sundry tax executions in my hands, I will sell for non-pay ment of town taxes, on the first Monday in February next, in front of the Court House of Darlington County, during the legal hours of Pale, the following described lots of laud, ail situated in the town of Darlington, County and State afore said: (1) All that lot of land known as lx)t No. 2 of Block K., as shown on a plat of the lands of W. (). Woods, made by James M. Earle Dee 21,1898, on file in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance for Darlington County, levi-'c! upon as the property of Susan E. LaMotte. (2) All that lot of land fronting on Pearl Street ninety eight and one-half (981) feet, and in depth two hundred and -even (207) feet hounded noith by Pearl -trect, east by lot of Isaac .Strauss, south oy lot of H. M. Smith, and west by lot of (4 O. Mertz, levied upon as the prop erty of Mary Alanne. (8) AH that lot of land known as Lot No 2 ji Llock 18 on a plat of the Witte lands, situated on Uicsnut Street, bound ed north by • hesnut Sticet, east by Lot No. 8, soutn by lands of Sam Parnell, and west by a lot whose owner is un known, the lot herein described measur ing on the north line ninety-one (91) feet, on the east line one hundred and sixty- eight (168) feet, on the south line nine ty-six (96) feet, and on the west line one hundred and sixty (llj(l) feet, levied up on as the property of Jacob Met urry. (4) All that lot of land fronting on Pearl Street eighty-five and eight- twelths (85 8-12) feet, and ninety-three (98) feet deep, bounded north by lot of Dr John Lunney, west by lands of Jno. Buleken, east by land of P. B. Allen, and south by Pearl Street, levied upon as the property of Abram Weinberg, (5) All that lot of land being nine ty (90) feet in width, and nine (9) feet deep, bounded north by land of Estate of Mrs. John Lunney. east by land of II. Hennig, south by lot above describ ed as "9”, and west by land of Estate of Mrs. John Lunacy, levied upou as the property of Abram Weinberg. All of which sales will he made to satisfy the executions above named. J W. EVANS, Town Clerk. HOAD. C. A D., C. 8. at N., LEAVES von: Florence, Hartsville, Wadesboro, Florence, Hartsville, Sumter. Bennettsville, HOKES! A CARLOAD OF HORSES! All well broken to single and double harness and extra well- bred horses. We will sell them AT AU! SATURDAY, JAN’Y. 25 ) A fine chance to secure a bar gain. Don’t neglect it! McCullough ^ ° . WATCHES, CLwS, JEWELRY Sms-;:! At lowest New York prices for cash. tV.Spoctalee t , suit “all kinds of eyes.” Highest cash prices paid for old gold. Sumter, •Sunday only. tDaily excep dav. ^Mondays, Wednesday Fridays. ^Tuesdays, Tho Saturdays- mm. B. IHcGWT.D.D.sj Offers his professional ser the people of Dari i n gton and v Office over the store of Edward Jan 19. ++++*++*4 tow Tito Tit Mou;. THERE IS MONEY IN Tobacco Growing. Go Planters Make From S76t S30O Per Acre. It YouWant To Try Thl^ Crop We C»n Help You. ‘ 1 * Send us one dollar and we ' ♦send you the Southern Tobacco Job Tevery week for six months; i Jcopy of !£ The Tobacco Planters’ Gul$ fa book which tells all abon| Jbacco growing The two ♦complete outfit, worth huo Jof dollars to every beginm fthey give the experience of ] ♦cessful planters. Address | Southern Tobacco Joun + WINSTON, N. C. 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I GKR.AJ lie pa ring of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry a pecialtv, and satisfactory work guaranteed Everything I sell guaranteed to be He that (oretella tiis own calamity _ and makes events before they oome ust what 1 r» present it. doth twice endnve the pains of evil S. WOLFRAM. FEHTIUYERS, Carolina Golden Belt itmmonlated Guan Fov Tobacco! Manufactured by POWERS, GIBBS & CO., Wilmi x—o—x Nead^carefullj^and remember: Society Hill. I All parties who used the T L Gibbs’Hijjjh Grade want it again p 1 U8od Gibl,s & this year in preference to any ' brade Ammoniatet other. This we consider the ^ and Was as mucl1 1 highest testimonial that could ^ aa any fertil >zer be given for it used. W. C. COKER & CO. B - A - * FOU S-A.LZE BY Coggeshall & Ci