Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mwm, Wm fflS &. B'- . 8b Sarlington |to. PUBLIBHXD KTKKT TRTIUOAT M»unxe. ALEX. «. KOLLOCK. BDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS—|1 P»r Annum in Advance; 00 eenta for «ix months; 30 cents for S months. Advkrtisibo Rates: One Square, first Insertion $1-00 Every subsequent insertion 00 Contract advertisements inserted upon the most reasonable terms, The editorials in this paper are writ ten in the singular number, the editorial ‘we” having been discarded. DELEGATION AT LARGE TO THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. W. H. Ellerbe, B. R. Tillman, John Gary Evans and D. J. Bradham; alternates, C. M. Efird, W. H. Mauldin, W. O Tatum and J. G. Wilburn. The ,district delegates are as follows: First district: M. C. Cooper, of Colleton, Thomas Martin, of Beaufort. Second district: M. B. McSweeney, of Hampton, B. L. Caughman, of Saluda. Third district: J. H. McCalla, of Abbe- vflle, J. B. Watson, of Ander son. Fourth district: J. D. M. Shaw, of Laurens, J. J. Wal ling, of Fairfield. Fifth dis trict: J. D. Strait, of York, T. Y. Williams, of York. Sixth district: W. D. Evans, of Marl boro, A. H. Williams, of Wil liamsburg. Seventh district: Dr. O. R. Lowman, of Orange burg, Dr. H. T. Abbott, Sumter. Manning Irby, so far from being sent as a delegate to the Chicago Convention, was not re-elected State Chairman and D. H, Tompkins, a tool of Till man, was ptit in his place. Ben jamin also had himself elected as National Committee man. Without at all intending to touch up the Harteville Mes senger when I made an innocent remark about it a few weeks ago, I am now willing, as far as I am concern ed, to let the matter rest, be lieving that the people of the county understand the situation. Since the editor of the Messen ger does not desire to be consid ered friendly politically to either Tillmanites or Conserv atives, he can surely expect no favor from either faction Many people in the county heretofore have considered it a Tillman paper, but, since Mr. Drew denies that it is friendly politically to either faction, they must accept his statement and let him abide the conse quences. Mr. J. E. Norment’s “write up” of Cheraw came out in the News and Conrier last Monday the 25th. The people of Cheraw have established a number of enterprises in their town of late and Mr Norment’s fine “write up” in the News and Courier should serve to still further stimulate them along the line of material progress. Cheraw deserves to build up and Mr. Norment and the News and Courier have given much eu couragement to her enterprising citizens by showing up the ad vantages of the town to the outside world. Mr. Norment had already gained a wide reputation in his special line, but his comprehensive article on Cheraw has added new lau rels to his fame. MR. PARROTT EXPLAINS. The following is taken from the last issue of the Harteville Messenger: Editor Mttf&ger: The official notice of the meeting of the County Conven tion was sent to your paper on account of its general and large circulation, that it might he published, and not “concealed” from Democrats. The re cent tempest, in the political tea-pot, was premature and out of place. There is none so blind as he who won’t see. Respectfully, J. N. Parkott. Mr. Parrott knows full well that such is not the case and that he is only talking through his hat. Had he wanted the largest number of democrats to see the notice he would have sent it to The News, Darling- Ionian and Messenger for pub lication. As it is he wanted only those democrats, who are in favor of “16 to 1 or bust,” to see the notice, as was fully proven by the bolting resolu tions passed at the county con vention. of The Harteville Messenger last week said: Sine* the editor of The Darlington News seems to think that it is a dis grace to advocate the dispensary law, we would like to know what he thinks of Col. i. A. Hoyt, the veteran editor of the Greenville Mountaineer and tor many yean one of the editors of the Baptist Courier. Col. Hoyt is one of South Carolina's noblest and truest sous and does not approve of all that the Reform administration has done, yet he has written editorial after edito rial in favor of the dispensary. We sincerely admiVe CoL Hoyt and always read what he has to say on public ques tions with deep interest That is just where we differ— the editor of The News has somehow failed to admire Col. Hoyt, ever since he was Chair man of the the democratic ex ecutive committee of South Carolina. Had he and his com mittee refused to recognize the Tillmanites as democrats the State might have been saved the everlasting disgrace of Till- manism. Then, too, there must be something wrong with the prohibitionist who advocates the dispensary. In last week’s Hartsville Messenger Mr. Drew implies that the post masters at Harts ville, Clyde and Ashland have been giving him information in regard to the circulation of The News at those offices. Prob ably Mr. Drew and the post masters do not know that such is against the law and the latter are liable to lose their jobs in consequence. As to which pa per has the largest circulation that amounts to nothing—The News could have 2,000 circula tion as well as not if the editor cared to “pad” his subscrip tion list. Since Mr. J. N. Parrott is in an explaning mood will he please tell by what authority the county convei. tion elected a' member of the executive com- . mittea to represent the Harts ville dab when no meeting of tlMU dab had been held. It is the duty of the members of the i different dabs to elect their eohnMttee men, and the con vention has nothing whatever to do with it. The same thing, I beleive, was done with other dubs, bat one instance is suffl- Let Mr. Parrott, or any justify this high- >ifthey can. The editor of The News feels competent to take care of him self without sending communi cations to the Hartsville Mes senger. The editor, however, who does not care to be consid ered friendly politically to eith er Tillmanites or Conservatives has a hard time of it. The edi tor of The News claims to be one of the best friends the far mers have because he opposes Tillman. He is, however, a straightout democrat with no taint of Tillmanism and would feel insulted if anyone expressed any doubt as to his position. The editor of The News was not aware that he had done the editor of the Hartsville Messen ger any injustice. Straightout democrats have considered the Messenger a Tillman paper in sympathy for a long time and the editor of The News simply intended to place it where it be longed, and has done so, if the endorsement of his friends count for anything. ATillmanite said the other day that the editor of The News had treatpiMr. Drew exactly right because he did not believe an editor ought to ride two horses at the same time. South Carolina was awarded a gold medal for the excelency of the State exhibit and also the exhibit made by Clemson at the Atlanta Exposition. The Ex position management has in formed the administration that the medal will be forwarded if the State will pay $125 for it— most unheard of proceeding surely. Governor Evans will not pay the $125. Mr. J. E. Norment left Tues day last for the Haile and Brewer gold minete in Lancaster and Chesterfield counties, re spectively. Mr. Norment will write an article for the News and Courier about these mines, which will, doubtless, be of interest to many people in South Carolina who probably do not know that the State has within its borders two such large add productive mines where the yellow mettle is dug out. Capt W. E. Stoney died at his home in Charleston Sunday, the 24th, of paralysis. Capt. Stoney had an excellent war re cord, but he had also served his State most acceptably as Comp troller-General, which office he held two or three terms. Capt. Stoney was one of those high toned honest officials who held office in the so-called “old ring rule days.” Would that we had men in such public positions to day. Mr. Joel E. Brunson, the grand Mogul of the prohibition movement in this State, says that dispensaries are worse than bar rooms. Who has more au thority to speak on this ques tion from a prohibition stand point, Mr. Brunson or Col. J. A. Hoyt? ^ Irby’s soliloquy: Had I but served my boss with half the the zeal I served my party he would not have left me naked to mine enemies—the quotation may not be exact, but sufficient ly so for the purpose. The editor of The News is not in the habit of bragging and only occasionaly talks about getting a lot of new subscribers. Last Saturday, however, with a little work, he put nine new ones on the list. The Greenville News is very cruel when it says that Tillman is the logical candidate of the free silver democrats. Such ed itorials are dagger-thrusts in the side of Mr. Gonzales of the State, who, of course, could not endorse Tillman on any plat form whatever. Dr. Sampson Pope has an nounced himself as a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket. , The convention which met in Columbia last week was a Till man convention out and out. In his bout with Hill in the Senate some time ago Ben Tillman told Hill that he had tha boys in this Stafe in hi? breeches pock et and could carry them any where he wanted them to go if the Cuicago convention did not act to his notion. It was cer tainly no bluffing on Tillman’s part—the boys are still in his “breeches pocket” and those who can not get in there are hanging on to his coat tails. Irby, to all appearances, has been kicked clean out of the Tillman ranks, never to return again. Irby has been hard pressed before this and come oat ovlvp. I really hope that be,ja gone this time, because it will be tbe beginning of the end of Tillmanism. IMPEACHMENT OF L. J. WILLIAMS. The Greenville News Has Some Fun at Mr. Williams Expense. As impeachment seems to bo the order of the day, we demand that one L. J. Williams, of Edgefield county, former mem ber of the Legislature, now a member of the State Board of Control, be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. We present the following: We do impeach L. J. Wil liams, a member of the State Board of Control, of high crimes and misdemeanors on the following grounds: 1. That the said L. J. Wil liams, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the in stigations of the devil, who ap reared in the shape and form of a barrel of beer not chemically pure, did unlawfully, wilfully and maliciously charge that his excellency. John Gary Evans, jy the grace of B. R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina, ac- cepts presents of liquor. i 2. That the said L. J. Wil haras did also accuse the said John Gary Evans aforesaid, with using public money to ad vertise himself in Atlanta, Ga. 3. That the said L. J. Wil liams did accuse the said John Gary Evans of wantonly usur ping Sections 25 and 31 of the Dispensary law, thereby knock ing a hole in the said law big enough for the said John Gary Evans to pull presents of liquor through without touching either side. 4. That the said L. J. Wil iams bamboozled Colonel Jones and Mr. Nicholson, mem bers of the Board of Control, thereby making them particeps criminis in busting the law as charged in specification 3. 5. That the said L.. J. Wil liams accused the aforesaid John Gary Evans with prating when it is a well established fact that the said Governor only cackles. 6. That the said L. J. Wil liams charged the said John Gary Evans with hitting him under the belt, when it is well known that the said Williams does not wear a belt and that the said Evans never struck anything but chemically pure as charged in No 3. 7. That the said L. J. Wil liams did, with malice and a desire to supress a free and un limited press, speak of an Ab beville journal as “a contempti ble little paper,” and the edi tor as “a pitiful little statesman outof ajob.”—GreenvilleA’eics. Black pepper, 6 cts per lb, at Coggeshall & Co’s. •-#«•— Fresh line of candies received every Friday. F. M. Sims. EARLY HISTORY OF CAST STEEL. Bow the Secret of Its Msoofectare Wee Revealed to the World. The history of east steel presents a curious instance of a manufacturing secret stealthily obtained under the cloak of an appeal to philanthropy. The main distinction between iron and steel, as most people know, is that the latter contains carbon. The one is converted into the other by being heated for i considerable time in contact with pow dered charcoal in an iron box. Now steel thus made is unequal. The middle of a bar is more carbonized than the ends, and the surface more than the center. It is, therefore, unreliable. Neverthe less, before the invention of cast steel there was nothing better. In 1730 there lived in Attercliffe, near Sheffield, watchmaker named Huntsman. He became dissatisfied with the watch- springs in use, and set himself to the task of making them homogeneous. “If,” thought he, “I can melt a piece of steel and cast it into an ingot its com position should be the same through out." He succeeded. His steel soon be came famous. Huntsman’s ingots for fine work were in universal demand. He did not call them cast steel. That was his secret. About 1770 large manufactory of this peculiar steel was established at Attercliffe. The process was wrapped in secrecy by everyone within reach. True and faith ful men were hired, the work divided and subdivided, large wages paid, and stringent oaths administered. It did not avail. One midwinter’s night, as the tall chimneys of the Attercliffe steel works belched forth, a traveler knocked at the gate It was bitter cold, the snow fell fast and the wind howled across the moat. The stranger, ap parently a plowman or agricultural laborer seeking shelter from the storm, awakened no suspicion. Scanning the wayfarer closely, and moved by motives of humanity, the foreman granted his request and let him in. Feigning to be worn out with cold and fatigue, the poor fellow sank upon the floor and soon appeared to be asleep. That, however, was far from his inten tions. He closed his eyes apparently only. He saw workmen cut bars of steel into bits and place them in crucibles in a furnace. The fire was urged to its ex treme power until the steel was melted. Clothed in wet rags to protect them selves from the heat, the workmen drew out the glowing mold. Mr. Huntsman’s factory had nothing more to be dis closed. The making of cast steel had been discovered.—Inventive Age. •‘WKst a Pi«« of WOrk Is M»nl- In this scene occurs ft passage which seems to mo the keystone of Hamlet’s character. It is a phrase in which the whole tragedy of his life is bounded as in a nutshell. Hamlet exclaims, “There is nothing either good or had, but thinking makes it so.” In these words we find the clew to the failure of mary a potentially great man. The man who most succeeds in life is he who only sees one side- The man whose mental horizon is wide, who is capa ble of seeing the good and evil on both sides, who wanders from the highroad of a fixed purpose into the bylanes of philosophical contempla tion, will not reach his goal so soon as he who only looks straight ahead and follows the nose of his purpose unthinkingly. A demonstration of this is contained in the written play of “Hamlet,” which the brief three hours’, traffic of the stage prevents being shown in action. I refer to the character of Fortinbras. He sees only one side of things and knows precisely what he wants. And what is the result? Well, the result is that when Hamlet is dead this es sentially practical, unimaginative young man comes in, and, in the language of our modern slang, “takes the cake.”—Beerbohm Tree in Fortnightly Review. Cruelty of the Seel Hunter*. The seals we killed either with guns or pikes. There is very little sort attached to seal hunting, espe cially in Antarctic waters, as the seals there are tame through igno rance of man’s bloodthirstiness. Generally they were asleep when we approached, and many of them died without having seen their mur derers. But, as a rule, the slaugh ter and skinning of the seal were most barbarous, bloody and hideous —unnecessarily so. Specially cruel is the task when seal pikes are used. Only rarely does a seal die from one or two blows of the pike, and if it is not dead it is generally consider ed “ail the better, ” for it is easier to skin a seal while it is half alive. In the utmost agony the wretched beast draws its muscles away from the sharp steel which tears away its skin and thus assists in parting with its own coat.—C. E. Borohgrovink in Century. In manufacturing, Pennsylvania stands next to New York, employ ing 620,562 hands and sending out $1,331,794,001 worth of product Something Jf*ew in Furniture- is constantly being added to our stock (among the largest in the State). We have everything needed for the house. Do You Need a Baby Carriage? or a mosquito net, a hammock, a refrigerator or anything in the Furniture line ? If so, we will make the price inter esting to you. If you are a close buyer and understand the - price of Furniture, get your price with cuts, and we will match them. We keep in touch with all manufacturers. If we can’t match your cuts, then you may Enow that The Article in Question is Out of Date. We repair Furniture and make it as good as new. We make picture frames, and keep window glasses for sale. We want to impress upon the minds of bargain seekers that THE MONEY TALKS WITH US. HOME OOTFirTEt MIRD BROS. You can buy everything in Darlington cheaper than on any market in the State. Is it not “worth your while” to make our city your headquarters when purchasing ? PllllS BREEN M PURPLE, Soda,3 cts shall & Go’s. per lb, at Cogge- It is an extremely difficult matter to get STRICTLY PURE PARIS GREEN. WE HAVE IT AND GUARANTEE EVERY POUND SOLD. Our prices are always the lowest for the BEST QUALITY GOODS. WILLIAM M. BIRD & CO., Headquarters for Evertliing in the PAINT AND OIL LINE. The pay of a private in our army is from $13 to $18 a month, accord ing to length of service, with ra tions and quarters. Alloys of iridium and osmium are now very generally used to point gold pens. FOR CLERK OF THE COURT. ( HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF as a candidate for re-election to the office of Clerk of Court lor Dar lington County subject to the Demo- . .cratic primary- W. ALBERT PARROTT. For Correct Styles In MILLINERY CML OJT Miss Maggie Jones. 1,000 bushels of meal to arrive this week at Deans Bros.’ —«« Molasses, 15 cts per gallon, at Coggeshall & Go’s. - ’ — Three pounds of dried apples for 10 cents at Deaus Bros.’ Coffee, 12i cents, per tb cash, at Coggeshall & Co’s. MEN WORSE THAN APES. Revolting Co.tom. of Some of the African Tribe* The cannibalism of the black secret society known as the Human Leopards, in the country near Sierra Leone, dis closed by the recent trial, brings forci bly before us the difference between the East African and the West African hab its of eating human flesh. The Sherbro cannibals waylaid and killed their vic tims and afterward feasted on their flesh. The cannibalism of the east coast is of a very different kind. The flesh of the old people—the grand father and grandmother of a family—is dried and mixed with condiments and a por tion of this is offered, with a dim sort of sacramental meaning, to travelers who become guests of the family. To re fuse it would be a deadly insult. Toac- cept it is a passport to the privileged position of a friend of the house. Many of our travelers in East Africa have eaten thus sacramentally of the an cestors of some dark-skinned potentate The cannibalism of the west coast is, as has just been seen, of a more horrible kind. The Sherbro ease seems to be connected with fetichism, the worst de velopments of which are peculiar to that country; but there is a hideously genuine appetite for fresh human flesh still existing among the negroes of West Africa. This cannibalism mani fests itself in a refinement of gluttony which has its mild analogy in the tastes of Europeans. Young boys are brought from the dark inferior, kept in pens, fattened upon bananas and finally killed and baked. To these Thyestean feasts come not only the savage chiefs of the interior, but also, it is whispered, black merchants from the coast. Men who appear at their places of business in English territory in broadcloth and tall hats, who ape the manners of their white masters, are said to disappear an nually into the interior, where, we are told, they might be seen, in naked sav agery, taking part in the banquets on plump boys, in which they delight. Be this as it may, somehow the native of the west coast and its Hinterland is unlike the East or South African native in the deep-lying savagery and the ex traordinary facility for returning to it which are his leading and very unpleas ant characteristics. The subject claims the attention of the anthropologist, and certainly suggests a curious reason for questioning the relationship of the black man and the ape or the gorilla, seeing that the race of monkeys seems to be singularly free from anything like cannibalism. — London Saturday Re view. • . The fly that steps on a sheet of Coggeshall’s tanglefoot sticky fly paper, or the tobacco worm that eats Coggeshall’s Paris green. Be careful where you walk and what you eat, or you may get stuck or poisoned. WE MURDER only flys, and prices; give honest weight & pure goods. OTTiR. LOSS—YOTTIR, O-JlXHT- A Good Set of Plates for 29 c Met of Handled Cups and Saucers, 34 c Set 8-inch Covered Dishs, 48 e GoldBahd Chioa Cups and Saucers TO i Mice Set of Tumblers, 22 c Pruit Jars, per ilozeu, Jelly Glasses, per Dozen, Coffee, per Pound, Rice, per Pound, 3-pound Can Peaches, 3-pound Can Apples, Everything guaranteedxto give satisfaction or money refunded. $1 to $1.25 40c 12 3 6 6c COGGESHALL &