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AN AFTERNOON FULL OF SPORT FOR THE SPORTING PUBLIC. Two Blcycto Races And Five Horse Races.—“Clendon*' Wins In The Free-For-All. [Reported for Thk Nbws. | Tuesday morning dawned bright and clear, giving every promise of a fine day. At 2 o’clock, the time when the races were called, the sun |was shining intensely hot from a clear sky. The neat little grand stand, which had just been built, was fairly well patronized. A number of ladies graced the occasion with their presence and many were the pies and candies wagered on their favor ites. The judges stand was oc cupied by Mayor W. F. Dargan, Geo. Stackley of Florence and J. H. Blackwell, of Lake City, assisted in the bicycle races by Messrs. Willie McCown and L. M. Norment. The first race of the program was the boy’s bicycle race which failed to fill, and the free for all bicycle race was called. In this there were but three start ers; Lide Nettles and Harry Andrews of Darlington and J. H. Stanard, Jr., of Florence. The race was half mile heats, best two in three—J. H. Stanard ron the first heat in 1;25 with Lide Nettles as a close second. Nettles won the second heat in 1:51. Hary Andrews was never a dangerous competitor and did not start in the third heat which the Florence man won m 1:35. The finish was very close and exciting and within a few yards of the finish, Mr. Nettles lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground striking'under ihe wire, out immediately sprang to his feet and walked away as if not seriously hurt. The second race called was the 3:15 class trotting, in which there were four entries, Dr. Garner’s “Little Pet.” was. however, the only one who an swered the bell call. Luckily, Dr. King, of Florence was on hand with his fast mare “Wa seca” and consented to fill the race. He drew the pole and got the best of the start in the first heat and won handily by three lengths in 1:311, “Little Pet” having made a break on the third turn. In the second heat “Little Pet” started slight ly in the lead and her driver resolved to keep this advantage, and took the pole before mak ing the first turn. From the grand stand it looked as if this over anxiety would cost her the heat, but, as she came under the wire a length in the lead the judges gave her the heat. Time, 1:24. The deciding heat was closely contested and one of the prettiest heats of the day, the two horses going almost neck to neck until they reached the upper turn on the back stretch, where “Little Pet made a break, losing two lengths, which distance she never recovered, “Waseca” winning handily by two open lengths. When “Waseca” be gan to slow up “Little Pet , passed her going at full speed and her driver challenged his opponent to go on and trot a full mile which they did in dead earnest, “Waseca” winning as before. The time of the neat was 1:21. During this time a purse of $6.00 was made up among the crowd for a bicycle race to take the place of the one which did not fill. There were three start ers; Earnest McCullough, Eddie McNulty, and J. L. Williams The race was half mile heats, best two in three. Earnest Mc Cullough, won in two closely contested and very pretty heats in 1:34i and 1:36 respectively. Eddie McNulty was second. J. L. Williams did not start in the second heat. Next came the 2:40 trot and pace; half mile heats, best two in three. There were four entries, “Red Chief”, “Count • Medium,” “Lord Culpepper” and “Cotton Boy.” J. F. White’s “Cotton Boy,” alone put in an appearance. To make up the race, C. 8. McCullough’s “Highland Red,” who was en tered in the tree for-all trot,was subsituted for the minus start ers. The horses were sent off on the 3rd score with “Cotton Boy” on the inside, having the lead by a head which he main tained to the end of the heat, finishing a winner by ten lengths.. Time, 2:21t. “High land Red” was quite unsteady making three losing breaks in the heat. The second beat was a repitition of the first quarter when the gray made a break and “fligbland” who was also on a break passed him about a length where they both settled. The gray was gaining when “Highland” again left his feet and ran like a thoroughbred the entire length of the stretch, the gray pacing on even terms finishing the last eight in 171 seconds. The time of the heat being 1:261. ngross- ed in these events, a heavy cloud had formed in the north, and by the time the free-for-all trot was called it had begun to rain and in the midst of a heavy shower, Mr. J. F. White with his black horse “Clendon” and Mr. W. W. Cooley with “Billy Wilkes” scored up for the word. “Clendon” drew the inside posi tion, but “Billy” was half a length ahead at the start; he, however, made a break in the first turn and was very erratic, owing to the fact that he broke and lost his knee and-arm boots, “Clendon” finishing an easy mile, several lengths in the lead, over a very sloppy track, in 2:251. The last race was the running race of 3 eight-mile heats, best two in three, between W. W. Cooley’s “Surprise” and A. K. Atkinson’s “Archie.” “Sur prise”, ridden by Charlie Law, won the first heat in 45 seconds; “Archie” won the next two in 46 and 481 seconds. Thus ended a very enjoyable afternoon’s sport that we hope to see repeated several times this season. A TRIBUTE TO “CLENDON” A Card From an Admirarof The Black Stallion That Did So Nobly. Editor Darlington News: In the “free-for-all” trot that caused so much excitement as to the result, Mr. J. F. White’s well known stallion “Clendon” proved himself the master of the turf, and with the most graceful strides and thoroug- bred will, he carried the honors of the day amid great cheering from the great crowd present which flocked around him and shouted themselves hoarse. “Clendon * 1 ’is strictly a thorough bred, and has a pedigree that is unexcelled by any horse in the State. He stands all seasons at the race track stables, and with the records he has already made for himself, he can be pronounc ed one of the best horses in the State. With a drenching rain against him, Mr. White plowed through behind his noted “Clen don” and won with graeat ease in 2:251. x. Wear Cheraw knit socks. * < Tbs Weather and the Grope. • Reports from almost every K rt of the county indicate the «truction of the crops by the continued rains. Cotton and tobacco seem to suffer most, however. Blooms and leaves are failing off the cotton and the full bolls are rotting, while the leaves of the tobacco plants are being ruined by too much rain. Most of the principal wa ter-courses have overflowed the banks, and in some instances entire crops were destroyed be sides many head of cattle. News reached here yesterday that the water from Lowther’s Lake had covered the “island” on which the enormous crop of Messrs. Suggs & Blackwell is situated, and that the entire crop, together with several hun dred head of cattle, had been destroyed. If the report be true, one of the largest crops in the county is ruined. Leaf tobacco in pack barns, town and country, insured in best companies and at lowest rates. Mrs. Lucy M. Norment Music at one-half price for the next 80 days. C. N. Spinks. FUTHER INFORMATION. Mr. John Skalton Williams Makes a MoreExplicit Statement. The staff correspondent of the State who interviewed Mr. John Skelton Williams, the Richmond banker recently, as to the bond matter, is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Williams, in which that gentlemen is a little more explicit in regared to the whole matter. He fears that he will be understood as saying that Mr. Lancaster has made a failure of placing the bonds. In explaining the re lations of his firm with Mr. Rhind, Mr. Williams simply said that their dealings were not direct with Mr. Rhind, but with Mr. Lancaster. He says in his letter: “The commission question was agreed to between Mr. Rhind and Mr. Lancaster, and I had nothing to do with Mr. Rhind regarding the commission.” Mr. Williams writes further: “When the Manhattan Trust company of New York and their following retired from the syndicate Mr. Lancaster had formed in New York, Mr. Lan caster brought the matter be fore my banking house, and after looking into the matter carefully, we decided that the proposition was a good one and accordingly went in, and also interested some of our friends in Baltimore, including the Baltimore Trust company in the enterprise, all of whom went in with the clear understanding that the commission which Mr Rhind informed Mr. Lancaster must be paid would have to be allowed Mr. Rhind for himself and his associates, whoever they might be. “I saw Mr. Rhind several times while this bond matter was on hand, but he always maintained a strict reserve when the matter of commission was touched upon or referred to.” CLYDE. We are having lots of rain and it looks like tke boys will lay by grassy crops after all. Black Creek has been impas sable for a few days but is now falling. Rice crops are fine in our com munity up to date. Mr. W. E. Johnson has some fine watermelons, for I have sampled them. Some of oar boys are having some very fine fruit for sale, such as peaches and pears. The health of our section is very good at present. Mrs. M. M. Parnell, of the Union section, was visiting friends in our community last week. From what we can learn from a reliable source the chain gang is doing'some good work about Ashland? A Prominent Collecian. Mr. S. Frank Parrott, return ed to Darlington last Monday night from Knoxville, Tenn., where he was sent as a delegate from the South Carolina College to the Convention of Southern Students, which was held in that city several weeks ago. Mr. Parrott was to have come home some time ago, but he remained in Knoxville with a school mate who was taken ill while in at tendance upon the Convention. Mr. Parrott a is very studious young gentleman, and has al ways taken a high stand in his classes. He will finish his sen ior year at' the South Carolina College next year. Hartsville Visitors. Mr. J. S. White, who is the leader in the tobacco movement at Hartsville, S. C., and Mr. J. B. Nutt, who will be manager of the warehouse at that place, were in Winston Saturday. The warehouse at Hartsville is near ly completed, and ample prize- houses, which are offered free of rent to leaf dealers, will be provided in time for the opening sale. Mr. Nutt has had several years’ experience at the Ashby Warehouse in Mt. Airy, N. C., thoroughly understands his bus iness and knows how to treat buyers and sellers. Both of the visitors impressed those they met with being full of life and energy—regular market build ers.—Southern Tobacco Jour nal. MARRIED. By the Rev. R. A. Child, at the home of the bride’s father, Capt. J. C. Blackwell, Darling ton, S. C., on Wednesday after noon, July 15, 1896, at 5 o’clock, Mr. N. Ramie Harrell to Miss Emma Blackwell. Make your leaf tobacco crop absolutely safe by insuring it. Mrs. Lucy M. Norment. Gadzooks—“We don’t seem t) hear anything nowadays about the coming woman.” Zounds—“No, because she has already come, and is now off on her wheel.”—New York Trib. ute. Angling by Electric Light. One evening recently two anglers, one a resident of New Haven, tried the in teresting experiment of fishing in Sea- ford-bay by electric light. A fisherman of New Haven rowed the anglers from the railway pier soon after six o’clock, when it was completely dark. A port able battery with a five-candle-power incandescent lamp was taken, and this lamp was lowered ontil a weight below it touched the bottom at 25 feet. Both battery and lamp were specially made for the trial, and the lamp was protect ed by a galvanized crinoline and was made watertight. When it reached the bottom of the sea, there was, it is stated, a circular area, 20 yards in diam eter, brightly illuminated right up to the surface. Fishing was carried on with an ordinary line on the port side, the lamp having been lowered on the starboard side of the boat.—Scientific American. Looking For Trouble. It is only necessary to become deeply interested in coincidences to discover them on all sides. Resolve to record all that come to hand, and they seem to mnltiply until yon can regard yonrself as providentially favored in this direc tion. If yonr calling develops a taste for matters of this kind—for example, if yon are a writer, With a keen sense for the literary nossibilities and dramatio effects of such coincidences—is it strange that yon should meet with more of them than yonr prosaio neighbor, to whom they wonld be trivial and dull? If yon cultivate the habit of having presenti ments and of regarding them as signifi cant, is it strange that they should be come more and more frequent, and that among the many some shonld be vaguely suggestive or even directly corrobora tive of actual occurrences? I know of persons who detected the gradual growth of such habits in them selves and wisely decided to check the tendency before it became pernicious. They began to neglect them or act in the teeth of them, and I am unable to discover that they have fared worse than those who religiously honor and otey these premonitions. —Robert Grant in Scribner’». NEWS OF THE WEEK. At Gaffney there was a rainfall of fraction over seven inches from last Monday at 12 o’clock to Wednes day at 12 o’clock. I Cal Caughman, Jr., who was shot by young Harmon at Lexington about two weeks ago on account of a young lady, died last week. Mrs. John Fleming, of Spaitan- burg, was accidentally shot and kill ed by a young man named Lanford, who was walking behind her buggy when his gun went off. General A. J. Warner, President of the Bimetallic Union, says the union will issue an address Monday calling on all silver men to support the tick et and platform of the Democratic convention just adjourned. The remains of a white man, half eaten by buzzards and hogs, were found in a ravine near East Lake, Ala., seven miles from the city, by a negro. Beside the body was a box which had contained morphine. It is believed the man core mitted suicide, T. H. Otten, of Detroit, a drunken horseshoer, shot his wife, the bullet lodging in her shoulder, and also shot Mrs. Henry Desruisseaux, at whose house Mrs. Otten had been staying, she having left her home on account of her husband’s dissipated and dangerous habits. Mrs. Desruis seaux was shot in the abdomen. Both women will probably recover. Lightning struck Mrs. Susan Ray’s house Friday evening, near Maud, seriously shocking Mrs. Kay, her daughter Joanna and John Davis, riddling one of John’s pants legs from foot to hip and schorching the flesh. It seems that the lightning struck the house all over, judging by the damage done it. It took 750 shingles to re-cover the roof.—Gaff ney Ledger. Judge Simonton of the United States circuit court at Ashville signed a decree of foreclosure for the sale of the Lynchburg and Durham railway and it has been filed there. The de cree is in favor of the Mercantile Trust company of New York and is by consent. The road is 115 miles long and cost f2,500,000. It was leased for 99 years. The date of sale will be fixed later. George W. Turner has been ap pointed receiver for the New York Recorder, as a result of a friendly understanding between all the inter ests involved. The paper will go on without change of management. The bonded debt of the company is $200,- 000, and the unsecured debt $845,000. The plant and machinery are worth $215,000, aside from the good will which is the principal asset. Great alarm has been caused in Warren County, Tenn , by publica* lion of a communication signed “The Mob,” which threatens the lives of 15 men, who, it declares, will soon meet the fate of Starling Miller. The lattei was recently found hanging to a tree on the highway, and his murderers are supposed to have been moon shiners against whom he had lodged complaints. Governor Evans has offered a re ward of $100 for the apprehension and conviction of the party or parties who some time ago set fire to and burned the dwelling house of Eugene Able in Aiken county. He also of fers a reward of $60 for the aj pre hension and conviction of the party or parties who on the night of May 17th last set fire to and destroyed the barn and cribs, together with their contents, of Mrs. Amenda Smith in Laurens county, Charles Broadway Rouse, the wealthy New York dry goods mer chant who offered to contribute $100, 000 to the proposed Battle Aboey pro vided it should be located in Rich mond, is reported to have yesterday told the committee in charge of the memorial that he would increase bis contribution to $500,000 if the South would raise a like sum and build the memorial in Washington. Gen. W. H. Jackson is said to have answered, on behalf of the committee, that the structure must be built on Southern soil and that it was the general senti ment of the trustees that Nashville is the most appropriate location for it. Senator Raines, of New York, highly pleased with the results of his liquor tax law, and thus far he has reason for being pleased. He says that when the bill was before the Legislature last winter he estimated that the total receipts under the operations of the law would be $19,- 000,000. In figuring up the State tax rate the Comptroller estimated that the State’s share of the revenue would be $2,500,000. The Senator Insisted that the State's share would be at least $3,300,000, but was willing to compromise on $3,000,030. The re ceipts to date, he declares, demon strate that his original figures were correct. It is stated that the total will go as high as $10,500,000, but he thinks that the rebates under the law will take away nearly if not quite $500,000. A committee was ap pointed by the Legislaiure to exam ine into the workings of the law, and this committee will meet in Albany on the 15th inst. The question of strengthening the law so as to prevent evasions and mere severely punish violations will be considered, and It is likely that the committee will take up the investigation of the subject of impure and adulterated beer. Insure your leaf tobacco. Lowest rates given. Mrs. Lucy M. Norment. ® eJ0© DONE PROMPTLY -AT- Reasonable Prices Can Be Accommodated BY PATRONIZING Peimplilets, Briefs, he\\<d\< Irfeqds, Bill IJeqds, Envelopes, Dtfqfts, CTiecl^s, ^c, NEATLY PRINTED --A-INID- §P||A||D||D||E||D§ fie Darliiti Mm Ota ARMORY BUILDING. “HoW Is your daughter get ting on with the piano, Num. son?” “First-rate. She can pi a - with both hands now. says that she will be able to >lay with her ear in gj, months.”—Household Words. Officer—“What did you'want sir?” * ’ Citizen—“Somebody has stol. en my watch, and I want you to hunt the rascal up and give im the key to it. It raises the mischief with a watch to let it rundown, you know.”—Boston Transcript. YOUR OLD FRIENDS, Sydnor & Tredway, WILL AGAIN HAVE CHARGE OP Miigtoi Iota Mini We want your patronage and will do all . that can be done for you. YOURS TRULY, SYONOR & TREDWAY. DISH WASHER. I HAVE A DISH WASHER WHICH WILL whs)] nil *h>-'M«hos lifted by an ontlnarr family In one minute and a half. If it doea not do what I claim you need iiay me nothin* for it. 1 have bouKht the riant to tell name In Darliugtcu county. J. H. PKA.NCIg ’ Cards. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF a candidate for tbe House of Re presentatives; subject to tiie Demo cratic Primary. GEO. W. BRO’VN. FOR SHERIFF. T HE FRIENDS OF MR W. P. Cole hereby announce him as a candidate for the office of Shetiff of Darlington county, subject to the Democratic primary. FOR AUDITOR. ( HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF as a candidate for the office of Anditor of Darlington county, sub ject to the action of the Democratic primary. H. A. JOSEY. FOR SOLICITOR. ( HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF a candidate for the office of Solic itor of the Fourtli Judicial Circuit, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary election. P. B. SELLERS, June 29,1896. T HE FRIENDS OF SOLICITOR J M Johnson request the an nouncement of his candidacy for re nomination as Solicitor of the 4th Circuit, subject to the action of the Democratic party, with a promise on his part, if nominated and elected, to devote his best energy and experience to the discharge of that office for the ensuing term. FOR CLERK OF THE COURT. I 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. 1 HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF as a candidate for the office of Clerk of Court of Darlingtou County, according to the Democratic platform of 1876, subject to the primary. GEO. O. LEE. June 2. 1896. FOR^ MAGISTRATE T he friends of mr s p. Thomas desire to announce him as a candidate for Magistrate of Lydia Township, subject to the action of the democratie primary, WILL. J. GABMER, M. D„ DARLINGTON, S. Office oner lioyds Drug Store. Okkick Hours: 11 a m to 1 p in; 4:30 p m to 7 p m. Marfi-W-ly. DIRECTORS: W. C. Coker, J. L- Coker, R. W. Boyd, J. Gregg McCall, E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman, Bright Williamson. BRIGHT WILLIAMSON, President. L.E. WILLIAMSON, Cashier. THE DARLINGTON NEWS Ike Oldest Nenpiper !■ Dtrliigtoi foul; * * * Funded ThibIj Three hu Goes into the Homes and Places J Business of the Substantial People < This Section. » * • * * Its TOWN an t COUNTY NEWS COLUMNS and LITERARY FEATURES arc unsurpassed: as an advertising- mediu to reach the people who have money to *p*i Ills imenimM. 62 NUMBERS, • THF BUNK OF DkRLINGTOII. DARLINGTON. S. C. CAPITAL, — — — _ $100,000 SURPLUS. — — $50,000 Savings Department, Interest allowed at rate of 5 per cent, per annum from date of dejmsit —payable quarterly on tne first day of January, April, July and October. Transacts a General Banking Business.