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VOL. XXIII, NO. 23. LOCAL LACONICS. matters in and around the TOWN OF DARLINGTON. A Column of New*, Ter*ely Told, of Interett to Our Many Reader*, Union services were held at the Baptist church last Sunday night. The straw ride and picnic at the Mineral Springs was much enjoyed. A party of voung people en joyed a picnic at Lucas’ mill last Saturday. A choir is to be formed for the protracted meeting to be held in the Methodist Church next week. Tillman’s pitchfork badges have appeared on the streets of Darlington—on the coats of the liquor constables. A called meeting of the direc tors of Grove Hill Cemetery was held in Mr. J. J. Ward’s office last Thursday afternoon. We have now another omni bus which meets all the trains. One is from Outlaw’s stables, and one from McCullough Bros’ stables. Crops never looked finer in this section, if all reports be true. The danger is that they will be cut off by some disaster just before harvest time. There will be a convention of the Epworth League held at Sumter, this week. Mrs. L. I. Parrott, Miss Adkisson and Miss Spinks will represent the Lea gue of this place in the conven tion. Thefe is plenty of material in Darlington to form a base ball club. Why is it that our town is always the last to look after such matters? Let some one gfct to work and get up a team and furnish some amusements this summer. The convicts were employed in taking up the old matting and scouring the court house last Saturday. No one would have supposed that they were prisoners from the cheerful manner in which they sang while working. Mr. Geo. 0. Lee, of Lydia township, is announced this week in The News as a candi date for clerk of court of Dar lington county. It will be ob served that Mr. Lee stands on the Democratic platform of 1876 which ought to be good enough for anybody. The first flag, owned by the Darlington Guards, is now in a neat frame and hanging on the wall of the Armory. The old flag shows hard useage and the ravages of time, but, if well taken care of, will be preserved for many years to come. A lot of liquor shipped to the Darlington dispensary laat week was seized by the constables here because it was not labelled properly. As soon as the offi cers discovered their mistake the liquor was released and turned over to thft dispenser. There is some talk of having a game of base ball at the Acad emy Green next Tuesday after noon between Darlington and Society Hill. The Green is not a very desirable place to play ball, and Darlington should have a park for that nurnose. A large crowd of negroes from Darlington attended the Federal Memorial Day exercises at the National cemetery in Florence on the 30th. The Rev. E. B. Burroughs, pastor of the colored Methodist Church at Cheraw, was the orator of the occasion. The chain gang has been working over Swift Creek on the way to Doneraile, In try ing to improve the road they have taken away the sidewalk, which makes it rather disagree able on those who live in Doner aile and have business in town. The News acknowledges with thanks an invitation from Mr. P. P. Bethea to attend the cele bration of the Simms Lilerary Society of the Hebron High School at Stoke’s Bridge June iJOth. If possible, ihe editor would like to be present on such a pleasant occasion. The editor of The News has received an invitation from Mr. F. E. Hinnanttobe present at the closing exercises of the Dovesville Academy to-night, and also an invitation to attend the basket picnic to be given by the school to-morrow at Leav- ensworth. The editor hopes to be present on both occasions. DARLINGTON, 8. 0., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Brief Mention About People You Know and People You Don’t Know. . Mr. A. M. Coker, of Society Hill, spent last Sunday in town. Mr. Henry M. Willcox, now of Marion, is in town on a visit. The Rev. R. W. Lide is now recuperating at Red Springs, N. C. . Miss Hessie Burch, of Flor ence, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. E. Nigles. Mrs. S. E. Hatchel, from Char leston, is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. E. Ward. Mrs. B. Bowles spent last week with relatives and friends at Mont Clare. Mr. G. K. King left for Flat Rock yesterday morning where he will spend the summer. Mr. L. C. Glenn has been spending a few days at his home in Gaston County, N. C. Miss Eleanor Godfrey, of Che raw, is visiting the family of Col. E. R. Mclver, at Palmetto. Mr. J. D. Baird, of Darling ton, is spending several days m Bennettsville.—Pee Dee Advoc ate. Mrs. Minnie Hoole, of Dar lington, is visiting Miss May McLendon. — Florence Times- Messenger. / Miss Gussie Bland, of Dar lington, is visiting Mrs. C. C. Beck, in this" city.—Florence Times-Messenger. Mr. K. D. Lucas has sold his stock of groceries to Mr. John Bulcken, and the former has gone out of business. Bishop Capers will be in Dar lington on the evening of June 21 to confirm those who desire to join the Episcopal Church. Miss Mattie Lide, who has been teaching in the Greenville Graded Schools, has returned home to spend the summer va cation. Messrs. G. W. and W. F. Dar- an and R. W. Boyd and G. W. rown argued a case before the Supreme Court in Columbia last Thursday. Miss Virginia Williamson, of Darlington, is visiting at the county home of her brother, Mr. Thos. W. Williamson.—Flor ence Times-Messenger. Mrs. F. F. Warley has pre sented to the Darlington Guards a crayon portrait of her late husband, Maj. F. F. Warley, who was the first Captain of the Company. The Rev. Wilmot 8. Holmes, rector of the Episcopal Church at Florence, will hold service in the Episcopal Chapel in Dar lington next Sunday night at 8.30 o’clock. The Rev. T. H. Edwards, of Palmetto, preached at the Bap tist church last Sunday morn ing. Services will be conduct ed there next Sunday by the Rev. N. N. Burton, of Swift Creek. Messrs. S. A. Woods, H. G. Andrews, L. M. Norment and B. F. Smoot enjoyed a two or three days’ flshiug frolic last week on Little Pee Dee. They had good luck and brought home a nice lot of fish. Mr. S. P. Thomas is announc ed in this issue of The News as a candidate for magistrate of Lydia township. Mr. Thomas was born and raised in Lydia township and is well known throughout the county. Little Cleveland Muldrow met with a very bad accident last Tuesday afternoon. While playing, jumping out of Mr. C. E. Ward’s bam, he accidently fell and sprained his arm. Dr. Galloway was immediately call ed in and soon pulled it back to its place. Stop and get five ceits worth of that nice candy at Cogge- shall’s. _ Closing out a lot straw hats at Blackwell Bros’. Try a box of that fine “Butter milk” soap, for sale at Sims’ Grocery. Insure against bicycle accid- dnis with Dargan & Baird, gen eral agents of the great United States Casualty Co. Rate, $2 per $1,000. Bring your watches, clocks and jewelry to C. N. Spinks, -at Barrentine’s drag store, and have them repaired promptly. All work guaranteed. a :::::::: school. THE EXAMINATIONS AT THE HE BREW SABBATH SCHOOL. Rabbi Chuminacaro Deliver* a Fine Sermon to a Large Audience.— Prize* Awarded. The Jewish Sabbath School had an examination last Sunday night. The examination was composed of questions on the Jewish Bible and on the Jewish religious creed. The questions were, propounded by Rabbi Chuminacerd, of Augusta, and were put exclusively to the chil dren of the three smallest class es of the school. All of the children examined did great credit both to themselves and their teachers, and showed by the way in which they answered the questions tnat they had been carefully trained and not one part of their religious belief had been left out. There were four prizes offered for best examina tions as follows: One by Mr. I. Lewenthal, Superintendent of the school, and one by each of the teachers. The Rabbi requested Messrs. W. F. Dargan, G. H. McKee and E. C. Coker to act as judges and they awarded the prizes as fol lows: the Superintendent’s prize to Miss Theresa Witcover; the prize for the first elass to Miss Rosa Wolfram: the second class to Miss Marie Rotholz, and for the infant class to little Miss Miriam Witcover. This school was organized in October last with fourteen schol ars, and has increased until now every Hebrew child in town is a member. Rabbi Chu- minacero has been in the habit of coming here once each month for the purpose of con ducting religious services, and it is due greatly to his efforts, assisted by several young ladies in town, that this flourishing school was organized. The re port of the treasurer showed that the school was in a sound financial condition, and that they had paid out a consider able amount for books for the school. After the exercises, were con cluded, the Rabbi delivered an excellent sermon, in which he pointed out that the con stitution of the United States was founded on the old Mosaic law, and showed the closeness of several of its provisions to the ten commandments. Quitp a crowd of gentiles were present to witness the exhibition and to listen to the well-known Rabbi, and the hall was crowd ed. A new line of crackers and chocolate cakes at Coggeshall’s. Voung gentlemen, old gentle men, ladies and children’s slip- is, 55 cents up at Blackwell roe’. Dead Lattar*. Letters addressed to the fol lowing persons remain uncalled for at the Darlington postoffice, and are advertised as “dead” for the week ending June 1st: F. F. Neathen, Z. Thomas, J. E. Kirven, John Cumen, N. L. Kendall, John Hickson, J. Haihee, J. N. Harrell, L. Wal lace, W. Rush, WU1 J. W. Rogers, L. Z. Mixon, Elijah Brown, Mrs. Rosa A. Adams, Tempie Johnsoi, Susie Isgett, S. C. Garding, Miss Carrie cus, Lizzie Robertson, Bettie Kelly. Town and country dwellings, barns and other substantial buildings and their contents in sured against wind storms, at lowest Baird. rates Dargan & Buckwheat flour at 2} cents per pound at Coggeshall’s. Th* Last Mealing of the Season. The Timrod Club held its last meeting of the season at the residence of Mr. Layton Lide in the country last Friday night. Several of the members will leave Darlington soon not to re turn, perhaps, but they will, doubtless, remember for a long time the pleasant evenings which thev spent with their friends of the Darlington Tim rod Club. Wanted: every bicycle rider to bring his wheel to me and PRISONER ’POSSUMED. Officer* Relaxed Their Vigilance and He Escaped. A correspondent from Dar lington to the Columbia Reg ister, under the date of May 26th, said: “A very ugly cutting affair took place today. It ap pears that Mr. Irvin Mims, living about ten miles from this place, took up an ox beloning to a negro, said ox having trespass ed upon Mr. Mims’ pasture. The negro went for his ox. On be ing told he would have to pay for the privilege of pastaring his cattle on another person’s farm, he flew into a passion and cut Mr. Mims seriously in sev eral places and would have kill ed him if Mr. Mims had not got hold of a file he had been work ing with and resisted bis attacks and cut him on the head with the file. A warrant was obtain ed and the officers went out to make the arrest The doctors who were attending the wound ed man gave it as tneir opinion that it would not do to move the negro to jail. This made the officers of the law less vig ilant and when their backs were turned the darkey jumped out and took to the woods and has not yet been caught WILL NOT HELP US, Cuban Tobacco v*. South Carolina Tobacco. Some of our South Carolina tobacco planters think the des truction of the Cuban tobacco crop will have a tendency to advance the price of the tobac co raised by them. In this sup position they are entirely wrong. The Cuban tobacco is used in the manufacture of cigars ex clusively, while none of the South Carolina product is used for that purpose. The larger portion of the South Carolina crop—we may safely say three- fourths—is composed of smok ers, cutters and strips, and is used in the manufacture of ci garettes and smoking tobacco. There being also a large portion of strips exporte 1 to England. So the pointer will readily see that the destruction of the Cu ban tobacco crop will in no way advance the price of our home product.—SouM Carolina To baccontst. Arriving at Sims’ Grocer a load of cabbages every day. A few more ice cream freezers at Coggeshall’s Cloting of The Graded School*. The Darlington Graded Schools will close for the Summer vaca tion on the 8th inst. There will be several changes in the facul ty next Fall. Messrs. Glenn and Coker and Misses Withers and Verdier have decided not to be candidates for re-election. What other changes, if any there will be, is not yet known. Miss Withers has accepted a position in the Abbeville school. All of these teacbers, with the exception of Miss Verdier, have been teaching in Darlington for several years, and their many friends will regret to learn that they are not coming back. Mason’s fruit jars 1-quart, 85 cents, 2-quart $1.10 per dozen. Jelly tumblers, 35 and 40 cents per dozen at G. O. Mertz’s. Look out for wind stormsl The cheapest tornado policy on the market is written by Dar gan & Baird. Rates per $1,000: 1 year, $2; 2 years, $4; 8 years, $6- New Case*. The following are the new criminal cases to be tried at the approaching Term of Court: Peter Williams, burglary and larceny; E. J. Wilson, violation of the dispensary law; Dozier Bland, violation of the dispen sary law; John Isham, assault and battery of a high and agra vated nature ;G. B. Kelly, main taining a nuisance and violation of dispensary law; Henry Da vis, arson; John Coe, burglry and larceny; Jim Green, viola tion of the dispensaiy law; D. L Brock, violation of the dis pensary law. Old sewing machines repair ed or taken in exchange for new ones at Blackwell Bros’. THE COUNTY Nfifil. ITEMS FROM SEVERAL SECTIONS SIckitM* and Horaa Thieves at Cypress —Deeth of a Sahy- Other Oerreepeadenee. Mr. R. L. Hagood says he will have a plenty of ripe mel ons by the first of July. Mr. Hanimee DuBose, of Camden, is visiting friends and relatives at this place. There have been a great many deaths among the colored pie of this section of late. Mr. Lee Vaughan cot his foot very badly a few days ago with an ax while cutting wood. Mr. E. B. DuBoae’s baby died last week with fever and was interred at tbs Methodist church at of tbit place. Mrs. Hester Parnell, of this place, is also very ill with fever bat we are glad to say that she is improving and hope that she will soon be out again. Mr. C. B. Pate, of this place, is traveling for W. B. Baa & Co. of Winston, N. C., with a full line of samples of tobacco and cigars. The Methodist Sunday school at this place speaks of having a “Children’s Day” about the last part of June or the first part of July, and the children are looking forward to a big timA. The most of oar people com plain of very poor gardens and while we have been having light showers, it seems that it is almost impossible for us to get a good shower to saturate the land welL Miss Mamie Huggins will leave this week for Leesville to be present at the Leesvhle school commencement where her sister, Miss Corrine, is at tending Miss Corrine will graduate this term. The farmers are now busy cutting and housing their oat crops. The long dry spell that we have had this spring cus the oat crop very snort. The cotton and corn crops are look ing very well in this section. A great many of our people approve of the editor of The News in asking the editor of the Hartsville Messenger to come out plainly and say what political side he is running his Taper in the interest of, as the time has past when people ap preciate any man who tries to wear two faces under the same hat and at the same time. Rev. R. M. Du Bose, formerly of this place, but now located at Lexington, is visiting his moth er, Mrs. E. A. G. DuBose. Sev eral of his brothers and sisters are very low with fever. Those of the family that ave very ill are Miss Bailie and Messrs. Charley. Tolen, Edward and two of the late J. J. DuBose’s Children. We hope for them a speedy recovery. There seems to be a lot of horse thieves in this section, as they have made several at tempts to steal horses from farm stalls at night of late. A few nights ago they made an at tempt to get a horse from Mr. P. B. McLenden but was freight- ened by some colored people who heard them and went out to see what was the trouble at the lot. After leaving 1 they went to Mr. J. W. Boykin’s lot and made an attempt to get one of his horses but found his un der lock and key. The same night they made several other attempts to get horses. It is hoped that the people will keep a sharp lookout for the rascab and if caught have them brought to justice. (Other County news on page 4.) Every ms have a Mew Spring Bait. Wedoi the ClotUng that wffl he asM in Spring, but we do i A STOCK OF We have in MADE TO ORDERS A BIG, STOUT MAN. dent worry yotueeif by l *.. CANT GET A FIT. We placing oar Spring Orders. TALL MEN WITH LONG . ;:**»**■ .Miiiijw. DUDES AND SOCIETY BOYS. Wo can fit yen in el SOMETHING ELSE Store. We have by far the largeet stock of Gnrt’si in Darlington. Hot weather wiB wflli