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garlington Jtrai. PtJBUSHXD ETBAT Tbtrsdat MomriHO. HKSTRT T. THOMPSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS—$1 Per Adudu in Advance; 80 eenta for ill months; 26 cents for I munths. Advbrtibipo Rates: One Square, lint insertion $100 Every subsequent insertion 60 Contract advertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms. The News of the Week. A $15,000 fire occurred at Ashland, Ky.. on Friday. Fire in Danbnry. Conn., on Tues day destroyed $160,000. Three children were burnt to death at Orangeburg last week. Fifty negroes left Newberry for Li beria, Africa, last Friday. A little white boy was burned to death at Yorkrllle on Thursday. Three hundred negroes sailed from Savannah, 6a., for Africa on Monday Phosphate rock has been found in paying quantities in Juniata County, Penn. Three negroes were burnt to death near I'lausaens, in Florence County, on Monday last. A lady was killed by a train at the Reid Street crossing in Charleston on Saturday. The'Bangor Pulp and Paper Co., of Bangor, Maine, assigned last Wednes- day {liabilities, $85,000. W. W. Rice, ex-Congressman and brother-in-law of Senator Hoar, died at Worehester, Mass., on Sunday. Nleaner Lopez y Chacon. Spanish Consul at New Orleans for the past four years, died in that city last Wed nesday. The hon foundry of Kurthz A Buhrer, of Chicago, was burned on Wednerda) night. The loss was fully $186,000. At a sale of the private collection of the late William Schauss in New York on Friday last, thirty-one paintings brought $186,826 Gen. Lewis Merrill, military com mander of South Carolina during the reconstruction period, died in Phila delphia last Wednesday. Joseph Ryttenberg, the head of the firm of J. Ryttenberg k Sons, of Sum ter, and one of the most prominent business men of that place, died there on Friday. More than a quarter of a million gallons of beer were spoiled by fire in the cooling rooms of the M. Brand Brewing Co., of Chicago, last Wed nesday. Three separate and distinct fires oc curred in the city of Greenville on Wednesday night of last week. For tunately none of them were very de structive, Ex-Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney has published a “request" to his friends not to join any “move ment” to promote his nomination for the Presidency. The United States Senate, by a vote of 64 to 6, passed a Bill on Friday re cognizing the Cubans as belligerent*. It passed the i>ouse on Monday by a vote of 268 to 17, Ex-Congressman McCalmmy, of North Carolina, and two laborers were instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler on the former’s plantation near Scotts Hill, N. C., last week. The Alcazar and Park State Hotels in A lanta were burned on Tuesday. They were both Exposition hotels, and had not oeen occupied since the gates of the great show closed. The committee on elections have made reports in the McLaurin-Wilson and the Lstimer-Moormau congres sional contests Both Representatives McLaurln and Latimer were declared elected, and will retain their seats. A little three-year-old white boy was instantly killed at Walhalla last week by being struck on the head by a rail, which was knocked off the fence by the child as it was trying to cross. Three men were killed in a railroad wreck near Macon, 6a., on Saturday The accident was caused by a rail being removed for the purpose oi wrecking the train. No arrests have yet been made. Ex-Speaker Crisp has consented to become a candidate for th< United States Senate to succeed Senator Gor don. He will lead the fight for the “silver” men, and Secretary Hoke Smith will run on the “gold” plat form. Gov. McLaurin, of Mississippi, has addressed a message to the Legisla ture of his State advising it to pass a law forbidding citizens of the State to make contracts specially payable in gold. He quoted the Constitution of the United States in support of his proposition. Lord Kelvin has been making ex- periu ents to discover what the effect of a cannonade of quick-firing guns would be on board the vessel firing an< i the only thing which called for the same good end. organized for the’purpMe .,f gfving a we ought to ask the Coast Line Now, let those who have not week's military oe ehration andcami- for—is that the Harteyille train yet seen their way clear to an val in May. have agreed upon . a„_j q „ active participation in the first thefollowiDglistofprizee: For prizes, Con t , oue to run every Sunday meetill £ go t( ; work aml ge t up ^^that h^ e D n^er ^mCt y ed Tn morn,n « from Hartsville to anoth „f and more genera! meet uUnter-State drill, first prize^ $1,000; Florence and return. This .jug, while the public mind is second prize $800. Prizes an ounting would not only get to $1,000 have been offered for com , , i petit ion bt tween eompniiieti of forty here for us early on or more first. $2,000; second, $250; maiden drilling by companies of Geor gia regiments outside of Savannah. There will be prizes of $1,000 for rifle contests outside of the two trophies, one to cost $1,000 and another $400, which have already been ordered. Travelling men will be put on the road in a few days to advertise the carnival throughout the entire coun try. OUR NEW SCHEDULES. The new schedule which went into effect on the C. & D. road on Sunday last marks some im portant changes which are worthy of being commented up on. The people of Cheraw now have a passenger train “every day and Sunday too.” It leaves Wad sboro early in the morn ing, passes Darlington at 7.23 a m, and goes straight through to Charleston. Returning, it leaves Chaneston in the after noon, passes Darlington at 7.23 p m, and goes on to Wadesboro. The mixed train from Hartsville does not go any further than Darlington when it comes down in thd morning. It remains here all day, returning to Harts ville at 8.30 p ra. During the week, three trains meet here in the morning, from Cheraw, Bennettsville, and Hartsville, respectively; and at night, they all meet here again, returning to the places named. The through freight between Flor- the that day, but would give us double daily connections with the outside world on Sunday as well as in the week. It would put the railroad to very little extra ex pense, while it would give us almost as fine mail, express and travelling facilities as we would have if Darlington were situat ed on a through trunk line. mail warmed and interested, that whiskey fiend. to defend a woman, and during the entire course of his career as a lecturer and an evangelist he had been striving to protect every woman and child in the land by barring their doors against the entrance of the THE TWO DROMlOS. Sam Jones on the Dispensary question makes right rich read ing. The extracts from his re cent vigorous utterances in Col umbia contain some words that we are not in the habit of print ing in this paper, but as they come from a minister of the Gospel, and as what he has to say would lose more than half its strength without them, we depart from our customary course in such matters. As usual, Mr. Jones coins some original expressions: “Dnmi- johnocrat”, for instance, is worthy of a place in the Eng lish language. When Senator Tillman first appeared on the political horizon nearly ten years ago, this paper called at tention to the striking similar ity between him and Sam Jones in the way the two say and do things. Since then, the like ence and Wadesboro conforms ne88 ^ een 60 frequently sad the ship eubject to the fire. He finds that after fifteen minutes firing the survivors of both vessels would be reduced to a mental, if not ph. steal, incapaeity, owing to the concussion of the projectiles on the sides of the ves sel and tbs noise of the guns. Mrs. Jennie Haskell Rose says in the New York Mercury: “Recently, within an area of twenty-five miles.in the very sparsely settled rice planta tion region of Booth Carolina there have been no less than five golden weddings celebrated within the space of one winter, and one of these aged husbands has II,ed for fifty years with hie third wife. What other part of the country can furnish a record like thatr The recent votes in the Legislatures show that the movement for woman suftago is losing ground in New Eng land. in Vermont and in M-ssaohu- setts theia was a decided drop from records, and in all other-New Htatro suffrage bills have In Maine the House Trage bill and m Hamp- " read- to about, the same schedule as heretofore. It will not carry passengers, however. A spec ial pouch containing the mail is brought up from Florence in the morning, but none is taken back in the afternoon. It is hoped that the mail -authorities will provide for this, however, at an early day, and that the Southern Express Compauy, too, may be induced to make use of this freight train for the transportation of express be tween Florence and Darlington, as was done once before under similar circumstances We will then be able to send mail and ex press to Columbia, Charleston, Atlanta and New York twice a day, as formerly, and to receive it from those points twice a day also. The changed schedule, design ed. chiefly, it is presumed, for the accommodation of the peo ple along the line of the C. & D. road to the north of Darlington, will not, therefore, affect us ex cept in two particulars: our Sunday mail comes late in the evening instead of early in the morning, and those who wish to take the fast train for the North in the evening any day of the week have to go to Florence by private conveyance. It has been suggested that both of these difficulties could be re medied if the railroad authori ties would only agree to reverse the schedule of the new passen ger train on the C. & D. road, arranging for it to come up ; n the direction of Wadesboro ear ly in the morning, and return to Florence late in the evening As this is the regular traiq that does service between Florence and Charleston in the morning, it is not at all probable that the railroad people could be induc ed to make the change. Be sides, that portion of the new schedule is a good thing for Darlington in another way, in that it enables people to the north of us along the line of the 0. & D. road, a prosperous sec tion, and one directly tributary to this place, to come here in the morning to transact their business, returning home in the evening. If the authorities per sist in their determination to prohibit the freight train from carrying passengers, we do not See that there is any chance for our people to obtain any closer connection witb the fast train North in the evening than by means of the “dirt road” be tween Darlington and Florence But some way must be made to get the mail here from Florence on Sunday morning, even if we have to appeal to the Board of Trade to arrange for sending to Florence for it by private con- ^eyance- The greatest “boon” -iwe could have in connection I witb the present achedule-—the commented upon, that it is uow almost an every day occurrence to hear people say how very much they would like to be pre sent at a joint debate between the two. It would not greatly surprise us if they have an op portunity at last of having their wish gratified. We do not well see how Ben can avoid the issue which Sam has forced up on him. While the former is lecturing from place to place at the North on the lovely moral effects of the Dispensary law, the latter has deliberately come over on this side of the Savan nah river and jumped on the law “with both feet”, using language in describing it which was only equalled by that of the redoubtable Senator himself in his recent remarkable effort in Congress If these two ever do get together, my, won’t “the fur fly?” Corbett and Fitzsim mons would not be “in it” at all alongside of them! will reflect the highest credit upon the humanitj and enlight enment of this people. I know no work I would prefer aiding to that of a second Peace Con vention. Let us have it right away. Let the well meaning and helpful critics cease for a time to tear down “errors” and go to improving, before it is “lost,” “the splendid opportu nity”to build up a broad, noble, humane sentiment among all classes of our community. John J. Dargan, Darlington, S. C., March 3, 1890. Pitching Into The “DemijohnocratV’. | The State. 1 The Rev. Sam P Jones, the famous lecturer and evangelist, was greeted by fully 1,500 peo ple at the Washington Street Methodist church yesterday afternoon, on the occasion of his first public appearance in this city. In the irnmense con gregation of people there were many members of both houses of the general assembly, a large number of ladies, several min isters of the various denomi nations and others prominent in this city, and they listened iu rapt attention to the cele brated speaker, laughing when occasion warranted and drying tears from the eyes when h's pathetic stories touched a re sponsive chord and sounded sympathy in their hearts. On the rostrum were Drs. Rice. Kirk and Daniel and several other Methodist ministers of the city. The exercises opened with prayer, followed by the singing of hymns The evangelist stood for a few moments silent before i he immense audience, and then slowly and deliberately began his address he announced hO text, “Come, let us reason to gether,” saying that the great God, who made and would finally judge all, by the text wanted men to r> ason with Him and He to reason with men, and that it was his purpose by hi-, address to reason with those before him. That which had rn ide him a good father, husband and citizen could make others the same if they obeyed the teachings that he had obey- j P rt '^ c her has a text and speaks ! in the pulpit on it. but a woman He had never been a member of any legislature in any State, but if he had he would have stood firmly by the women and children and voted for any law that guranteed them protection. He said that if the preachers behind him, pointing to those on the rostrum, would cease preaching of the “sweet by and by” and commence on the nasty “now,” the people would re ceive more benefit as a result. The average South Carolina boy was in his seventh heaven of delight when in possession of a bottle of dispensary wins key and a pistol—but in jail the next morning, perhaps. He referred to the bitter anguish of a mother when her son was a drunkard and he warmly scor ed the dispensary law for being an agency for the distribution of a drink that would make drunkards out of the sons of the State. The famous preacher then hesitated a moment before beginning the narration of a pathetic tale regarding a rela five. He had been preaching in Atlanta and iu illustrating the evils and vices of liquor, he told the people before him that f. end had been stabbed by her husband. He went to her bedside and as lie kissed her fevered brow, she asked him if he was going to the State prison to visit her husband.' He re plied that he was and shortly after left on his ride to the pen itentiary. There he was met at the gate by the youthful hus band and convict, who, under the influence of drink had mad ly stabbed bis friend and was then serving a term in the State prison. Afterwards he killed himself. The great speaker's eyes were filled with tears when he finished and over the entire churchwhite handker chiefs dried the eyes of many who w, re touched by the words of the evangelist and his pa thetic story of a drunkard’s end. He advised ihe legislature to seek the counsels of their wives and sisters in casting their votes tor any measure that con cerned them. “They are better men than you are, you old fools.” (Greet laughter.) The Notice to Township Commis sioners. County Supervisor's Office, 1 March 2, 189G. J IN AN ACT PASSED DEC. 21, I 1894, page 1.001, Journal, it reads that the Treasurer of said Counties shall furnish the County Supervisors of their re spective Counties a list contain- ijg the names of all persons who have paid their commuta tion tax, and the Chairmen of Township Boards of Commis sioners shall also prepare and furnish to the Supervisor a list of all persons liable to road du tv in their respcctiveTownships, and so on. Gentlemen, this list should have been furnished be fore March 1st, but that time is now here, and only partial re ports have been made for six Townships out of fourteen. Will you send them in at once, and let the Supervisor check off all who have paid their commuta tion tax, and who will therefore be liable to road duty for three days during the year? W. S. KING, County Supervisor. M5 3t. ed. The best thing to do in this world is to do right and when a man or boy imagined that he had found something to beat doing rightly, he labor ed under a great mistake, and one which would prove the faithful father of 10,000 Others. God had made it easier to do the right than the wrong. It had been made easier to tell the truth than to lie, for the the truth had to be rammed back in order to let the li • be heard and the lie had to be fol lowed up and remembed always, in order to crush the truth for th*‘ time being “Some of you fel lows have been at it.” He com pared life to a circle and said if one was good the road would be smooth and easily traveled; but otherwise, when near the start ing point one would stumble over some devilment and pile on more to cover it up again Turning to the legislators present, he asked: “Is there any honor iu being a member of the legislature?” Continu ing he said: “No, that is a small potato, and a stringy one at that.” (Laughter.) The devil, he said, would get some of them, but he thank ed God that he would not get much. (Laughter.) Then the great evangelist turned to the strain of politics, and the congregation knew that something interesting was coming. Mr Jones said that he was not talking as a Reform er, Conservative, Republican. Democrat or Demijohnicrat, or as a representative of any other party. “Most of you fellows would feel awkward in my fix. I’m a gentleman. Suppose you try it for a few days and see how it feels ” (Great laughter.) He thought a'l political par ties formed a dirty cesspool of corruption and vice, for the politicians ceased to be men and formed themselves into a | howling mob of unscrupulous office seekers. He said that he was in Washington when Clevt^and was turning out the Republican calves who had been liviug iu the cowpens for the last 30 years and sucking all the while. So soon as they were ousted the Democratic calves scrambled in, each grab bed a teat and began to suck away (Great laughter.) If he wanted to ruin anyone he’d run him for an office, though it was possible to go in clean; it was utterly impossible to come out in that condition The last con- pay anything, The Peace Conference. Editor, Darlinqton News: 1 learn that there are these in the community who are entire ly dissatisfied with the conduct of the Christian Peace Conven tion held last Sunday night, and are declaring that “a great op portunity was lost in utter ab surdity.” I write to suggest that this dissatisfied feeling can be turned to good account for the great cause now in hand if those who feel such dissatisfac tion will not allow their ener gies to be entirely expended in condemning the failure of the past, but will wisely improve the future by directing their efforts to the getting up of a second meeting of a somewhat different and broader character. The first was strictly a C hrist- ian gathering on a Sunday eve ning for the purpose of putting a visible Christian seal of ap proval upon the proposed gig antic work of twq nations along lines of Christian labors of many centuries. Now let us have a secular meeting on a “week day” to bring into play all the good influences fiom all classes in the community to help on this enterprise. I and numbers of others think the meeting on Sunday evening a remarkable success when the the novelty of tho undertaking is considered. The newspapers, especially The Darlington News, had given their suppoit, and Capt. Thompson, of the Guards, had giveu the hall free of charge for the evening. The hall was full, and of such peo pie as give high tone and char acter to any gathering. All re cognize, too, the splendid work done by the clergymen of the town and Presiding Elder Hod ges, of Florence; for not only did those ministers help greatly to bring out the crowd by their appeals from their pulpits, but they gave to the occasion ad dresses of dignity and force, and left lovers of the great gress could not cause they were advocating so not even a saloon. (Laughter.) earnestly under profound oblig- He strongly believes in wo- ations to them. I feel sure, too, man’s rights, but he did no. that thev will lend cordial and want to see her a father of a most *-fficient aid to any secular family. He emphatically de can wipe up the floor with any preacher on a pretext. (Laugh ter.) The people need improve ment, and if they don’t get it very shortly they’ll turn into rnzorback hogs on the slight est provocation." (Loud laugh ter ) Plenty of Time. [News and Courier.] A correspondent in Darlington County reports that many farm ers in that county “will plant tobacco more extensively than last year,”and adds:"The young plants in the beds are thought to be killed by the recent cold spell of weather, but there is plenty of time to sow again.” If there is plenty of time to sow new beds in Darlington, there is time to sow them in other counties. Farmers who desire to try the crop, but have been hesitating lest it was too late to prepare the plant beds, should profit by this information. Better than Cotton [News and Courier.] Some of the farmers near Dovesville, Darlington County, it is reported, averaged be tween 14 and 20 cents per pound on all their tobacco last year. Mr. McCall, of Florence, made 1,736 pounds per acre, on four acres or 0,944 in all. If he had sold his crop at the Dovesville prices he would have received from $243 to $347 per acre, or from $972 to $1,388 from the four acres. There is a new crop in South Carolina that pays better than cotton. Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe when Lax ative Bromo Quinine will cure you in one day. Does not pro duce the ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for tak ing. Guaranteed to cure, or money refunded. Price, 25 cents. For sale by O. B. Davis. WILL. J. GAB, 1 D„ DARLINGTON, S. C. OJTice over Boyd's Drug Store. Office Hours: 11 a m to 1 p in; 4:30 p tn to 7 p iu. Mar.VOeiy. J. J. WARD, Attorney at Law, DARLINGTON, S. C. Will Practice in the Courts of the Fourth Clreuit. Mart-96- Ex-Judge J. H. Hudson, Special. tt. L. Darrin Attorneys & Counselors at Law, DARLINGTON, S. V. SPECIALTIES: Real Estate, Corporation and Commer cial Law. Pra< tieo n itrdnml 4tli Circuits. FOR SALE. A LOT OF STABLE MANURE. Apyly to McCullough bros. The Charleston Medical School. FM1HB course begins April 1, 1818. I. Hospital instruction, with am ple facilities for studying special nranciies, will be given. For inform ation apply to Ur. 0. M. Ret Went worth Street, Charleston, S. C. .Ian. 30.—2ui. For Sale. k* ■ ■ ICKORY King’’ corn, the best 1 1 carlv corn. 50 cents a "eck, $160 a bushel; “Japan’ rice, which made a full, heavy head la-t sum uer, notwithstanding the drought, 75 cents a peck, $2 a bushel; “Spanish” pea nuts, 50 cents a peck. Ham pies of them all are to be had at Coggeshall 4 Co.’s. It. 8. F. ERVIN. I DON'T KNOW EVERTTHING— But I’m pretty well posted on time-pieces. That’s my particu lar line, and I can doctor any Clock or Watch That was ever ]>rokcn. If you have r.ny silver goods or je« dry that need repairing,I can do it for vou cheap. EVERYTHING: usually kept in a lirst-class jew elry store,ami at the lowest New York prices J/ FOR MSN • .TwSSl • HIGHEST MSH PRICES^- paid for old gold. 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O. . lv 'V: ;i r: -i hate been using "Acme” fertilizers f„r the past four years w ilh entire .. iliMaclion Lnsl year I sold my entire lol.aeeo crop ai an average of $.4-1 per acre, and tins year 1 have just carried off a a liig premium v,|e j,t |{ieh- of a'lon r/f’-" ' ff 1 'T 1 , iM1 - ninc l ,r< aim uni,m. lo $2s(i, out of a total of 2., offered, amounting to $523,50, selling one hogshead for $112 ii2 l,e- ng an average of 4.» cents per pound. I expect to use no oiin r guano lids year >ut Acme, and jou may refer any one to me who wants to know how I used it. Very truly yours, V. W LAND. MR. ALEX. GREEN, Whitakers, X. C. Dear Sir:—1 have used "Acme” fertilizer I,ought of you for the mist two years. I have just sold some tobacco grown with "Acme” fertilizer at the big premium sale in Richmond. \ n„ on Jan 2*th and 2!lth, one for second heV emon wrapper and one for second-best smoker. 1 si,all use ‘Acme" again tins year and consider it the best guano for tobacco that 1 have ever used. Yours verv mdy, S. L. COLEY. I used 22 tons of “Acme" fertilizer last year, ami it gave entire sal'isf ictlom in agai’n this r vear' SfRt,,0n 0 “ ,oba<<!0 ,ll * n 11 "i' f v<ilizer 1 <‘vcr Used I shall use it again mis year. E. W TIMBERLAKE. FOR S-A-LIEJ BYT Judge, Superior Court, N. C. Brunson, Lunn & Co.