The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, July 23, 1896, Image 1
VOL. XXIII, NO. 30.
DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,120
LOCAL
matters in and around the
town OF DARLINGTON.
A Column of News, Tersely Told, of
Interest to Our Many
Readers.
\V, S. Andrews has been let
out of jail on bond.
The McKinley shirt front is
one of the latest novelties.
Miss Bessie Ervin went to
Columbia last Tuesday morn
ing.
Th' 1 colored Baptist church is
undergoing some necessary re
pairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Macfar-
lan and children have gone to
Saluda.
The Rev. R. W. Lide left for
Port Royal last Tuesday to visit
a friend.
Mr. C. D. Evans spent last
Sunday with his mother at So
ciety Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tilling-
hast, of Sumter, are visiting in
Darlington.
Dr. W. J. Garner is announc
ed as a candidate for the Legis
lature this week.
Mr. Frank Parrott has been
sticking type for a few days in
The News office.
our young people
a picnic tomorrow
The State Campaigners will
speak at Oats today.
Messrs. T. E. Sligh and Junius
Parrott spent Sunday in Flor
ence.
Several of
will attend
at Garner’s Mill.
Quite a crowd of bicyclists
from here will attend the races
in Florence today.
Mr. W. G.
last Tuesday
where he went to purchase the
outfit for his repair shop, which
he will soon open up in the old
Lewis shop near the Electric
Light station. Mr. Dickson
R. 1. CHARLES AGAIN.
HE WRITES ANOTHER LONG AR
TICLE TO THE MESSENGER.
In
Which He Makes Some Very
Severe Charges Against Messrs.
Parrott and Lawrence.
I have been the subject of a
very unseemly and unprovoked
Dickson spent | attack by these two young men
in Charleston | in your last issue, {tnd I think it
is due to myself and to the peo
ple whose offical servant I am
in a small way, to justify myself.
I had taken occasion to criticse
will make a specialty of repair- the action of the Grand Jury in
ing icyc es. entirely respectful language, at-
A Colored man called “Preach- tributing no criminality or in-
f la n Mond »y tentional misconduct to any of
afternoon by Chief Dargan for Lu . . . .
raising an order on one of the them ’ buteipre8sly Btatm S that
stores in town. The order was I a Grand Jury from the nature
written for 20 cents, but the two) of the case must leave a great
many subjects of inquiry entire-
Mr. Henry M. Smith adver
tises a ginning outfit for sale in
The News this week.
Mr. Edward Coker returned
froinSaluda last Saturday after
a stay of a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert James
and baby are spending some
time at Pawley’s Island.
Rev. Wilmot S. Holmes, of
Florence, preached in the Epis
copal church last Sunday night.
Mr. Brasington, of the firm of
Brasington and Eason, has gone
on a trip to Bennettsville,
Wadesboro and other lowns.
There is a vacancy for Dar
lington county at the Citadel
Academy. See the advertise
ment in this issue of The News.
The Misses Livingston and
Miss Lipsocmb arrived in Dar
lington from Bennettsville
Tuesday morning to visit Mrs.
Frank Pegues.
Mr. W. D. Sligh left last Sat
urday for Columbia for a short
visit. Before returning to Dar
lington he will spend sometime
in North Carolina.
The Rev. Mr. Easterling, of
Marlboro, preached in the Bap
tist church last Sunday morn
ing. He also conducted union
services that night.
Mr. Herbert Pegues, who is
in the employ of the Coast Line
at Tarboro, N. C., spent last
Sunday in town with his broth
er Mr. Frank Pegues.
The platform of the Chicago
convention is again published
in The Mews this week in order
that all may become perfectly
familiar with the different
planks.
A cabbage with twenty six
distinct heads on the same stalk
was on exhibition in town Sat
urday. It was raised in the
garden of Mr. Richard Moody,
in the Riverdale section.
Some of the campaign speak
ers passed through here Monday
night on their way to Hartsville
from which place they drove
to Chesterfield to attend the
campaign meeting there.
Mr. P. C. Pleasant, represent- -
ing the Richmond Tobacconist,
paid The News office a call
last Friday. Mr. Pleasant is
taking a trip through the tobac
co raising section of this State
in the interest of his paper.
Sydnor & Treadway, of the
Darlington Tobacco Warehouse,
announce in their advertisement
this week that their warehouse
will be open for business Tues
day, August 11, for the sale of
tobacco, and every day thereaf
ter.
Coggeshall & Co. have moved
their office from the middle of
their store to the rear end. The
change adds very much to the
appearance and attractiveness
of the store and will also be
convenient in the arrangement
oi their large stock.
The Editor of The News
thanks Mr. Ralph McLendon,
of Cypress, this county, for an
invitation to attend the anni
versary exercises of the Cal
houn literary society of Clem-
son College to be held Thursday,
Aug. (jth at 8 o’clock p. m.
bad been changed to a four.
“Preacher” was locked up in
the guard house.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carr
have taken board at Mrs. Wil
lis’ Mr. Carr travels for the Beck
& Hardware Co. of Atlanta,
Ga., and will make Darlington
his headquarters for the present
Mr. and Mrs. Carr’s friends
welcome them to Darlington
and hope that a taste of our fine
artesian water may induce tljem
to make Darlington their home.
The Planters Warehouse,
Smoot and Walden proprieters,
announce in their advertise
ment this week that their ware
house will be epen for the sale
of tobacco August 11th next,
Mr Walden is a warehouseman
of ten years experience and
promises to do all in his power
to see that the planters gets the
best prices tot their tobacco.
Mr. Smoot is well known to the
planters in this section, having
been one of the proprietors of
the Planters Warehouse since
its organization.
An advertisement of the
Farmers Tobacco Warehouse
at Hartsville will be seen in this
issue of The News. The Harts
ville people have certainly
shown commendable enterprise
in building a tobacco ware
ly to the Foreman and the com
mittees and I went on to say
that I thought the Foreman and
the committee on official bonds
had done me ap injustice and
had been prejudiced by some
means or other against
my bond. In making this
statement I took. the view
that the members of a grand
jury are public officers and as
such as much subject to reason
able and respectful criticism as
any other officers.
I then called attention to our
peculiar law for preparing the
annual list of jurors in which
the Clerk, Treasurer and Audi
tor are constituted a board of
jury commissioners and requir
ed to select from the inhabitants
of the county a list of such as
they may think well
qualified as jurors, provided
they take 'at least one name
from every 20 voters on such list.
(Section 2375 Revised Statutes,
Vol. i.)
Now this law was made im
mediately after 1876 to fill our
peculiar condition at that time
and it was thought necessary to
vest almost absolute power in
the jury commissioners.
My argument was that, in
house for themselves and The preparing that annual list, if
Editor of The News hopes to I majority of the Board of Jury
see enough business for all the Commissioners expected to have
Darlington and a case of inquiry before the
Hartsville. The building of the Grand Jury that fact would na-
warehouse at Hartsville will I turally influence their judgment
havft th« tp.nrlflncv to increase I in selecting men favorabl to
their views and interest.
have the tendency to increase
tobacco planting in the county
and it is highly probable that
Darlington and Hartsville will
not conflict with each other to
any extent in the warehouse
business.
Wear Cheraw knit socks.
think this is a fair deduction
and one that has always been
recognized by law. It is no re
flection on any jury to say that
is scarcely necessary to say a
word. He enjoys a character
and reputation throughout the
county at present of such a na
ture that nothing he could say
would reflect on the moral
character of the humblest ne-
^ He is a very competent officer
and a man of some natural
smartness, and could be a high-
y useful citizen were it not for
his moral defects. He cannot
be relied upon in any emergency
and the people have found out
that fact at last. Very few
would accept his statement on
any subject as true unless
strongly corroborated by other
circumstances. I dislike to ap-
)ly harsh epithets to any one,
even the most contemptible,and
as the people of Darlington
county now know Lawrence as
well as I do and he is powerless
to do any one any harm, I dis
miss him under the charitable
injunction “Speak good of the
dead.”
Such an inexcusable attack as
these two young men make on
me, if emanating from persons
of some character and manli
ness,might stir sufficient indig-
natbn to induce me to appeal to
another mode of redress.
It would indeed be inexcusa
ble to resort to harsh measures
with two such lovely cherubs,
pampered on three or more
Ti COUNTY mi.
ITEMS FROM SEVERAL SECTIONS
AS TOLD BY CORRESPONDETS.
SOCIETY HILL.
Miss J. A. Coker and brother,
Mr. Daniel Coker, of’Hartsville,
were sojourners in our city
Sunday. •
Mr. Frank J. Byrd, of Me
chanicsville, paid friends and
relatives here a flying visit the
first of the week.
Hot weather and hard times
and the coming campaign are
frequently discussed.—rather
interesting topics eh?
Miss Carrie Hart, of Florence,
and Miss Hannah Byrd, of
Riverdale, are visiting the fam
ily of Mr. T. H. Coker.
Miss Mabel Dove, one of
Dovesville’s attractive young
ladies, spent a portion of last
week in town with friends.
Miss Agnes McLane, a young
lady very popular and well
known in this section and a
resident of Cheraw, is visiting
in company with her brother,
Mr. Willie McLean, the family
of Mr. W C. Wilson.
Mr. Henry Womack, book
keeper for Messrs. W. A. Car-
OYI
r. C. F. DuBose,
visit
med to
who
at this place,
lumbia.
We (till have
sick. Among
a great man;
them Dr.
W. Harris, but we hope to
the Doctor up soon again.
0* account of so much rain,
our public roads and bridges
are to a very bad condition.
The County Supervisor could
find something to do now to oc
cupy a part of his time if he
would come around and see a
bout them.
Mrs Bailie Huggins died last
Saturday afternoon at six o,-
clock and was interred at Mt.
Cion church Sunday afternoon.
She leases two sons and one
daughter and a host of relatives
and friends to mourn her loss.
We extend our sincere sympthy
to the bSreaved family.
'We notice that some corres
pondents are boasting of the
crops in their sections, and,
while we dislike to boast, wo
will venture the assertion that
Cypress ean'show up as fine, if
not the finest, crops of any sec
tion of Datiington county. If
these scribes do not believe it,
they can come around and see
and be convinced that we are
correct.
terms of office holding until, rigan & Son, returned home
like spoiled children, they have }«»t week from Virginia where
become to consider these offices
their personal and private prop-
ty and to resent any inquiry
with their affairs with the vul
gar and indecent epithete of the
gutter. I might slap their fa
ces with impunity, but tar the
present I propose to hold them
to that mode of accounting that
they least desire.
Mr. Lawrence says I am a
“fool,” a “knave,” a “liar,” a
“populist” and a “frequenter of
the dispensary” because I
charge that he has given no of
ficial bond for present term of
office. Now if on the stump he
fails to sustain his position in
this particular what condition
will he be in? He ought to
know whether he gave bond or
not and there is no room to plead
mistake. It will not do for him to
make the excuse that he gave a
bond for a former term for every
child would khow that that was
not a bond for the present
term.
Likewise Mr. Albert Parrott
who so glibly charges me with
“want of veracity” might ex
plain on the stump why it was
that at the primary election in
1892 he saw fit to commit a
fraud on the people by having a
false ticket printed at The Dar
Make your leaf tobacco crop
absolutely safe by insuring it.
Mrs. Lucy M. Norment.
hand in making it up. Such
has always been the spirit of
the law.
But Mr. Parrott says I am
wanting in veracity” when I
impottant Notice To Democrat*. I state that a majority of the
A meeting of the Darlington Board can make up the fist. If
Democratic club for Darlington so, the Supreme Court of South
township is called to meet in Carolina is “wanting in veraci-
the Court House at Darlington I ty” when it states that identical
on Monday 24th inst. at 4.301 position m the case State vs.
p. m. for the purpose of organiz- Merriman 34 S. C. page 16. But
ing and getting up club list as as it is not presumable that the
the club failed to have a meet- Supreme Court is wanting in
ing when last called for want | veracity, does it not lead to the
no person in any way interested lington News office in exact im-
in its finding shall have any itation of the Register type and
\ j • :a. a £ inlr and haaHa/1 <( Til 1 man t.ip.lrAt.”
of a quorum. A full attendance j
of members of the club is earn
estly solicited. J. J. Ward,
V. P. of Darlington D. C.
inevitable conclusion (accord
ing to Mr. Parrott’s boyish log
ic) that Mr. Parrott is “wanting
in veracity?”
But Mr. Parrott says there are
Twine for hanging tobacco at other things in my article not
Edwards & Co’s. ^ true. That other thing is the
The'x Raya. assertion that his office bond is
„ , T m r, i , utterly defective and I will add
Prof- J- T. Coleman, of the h aB always been since the death
Citadel Academy, will deliver a jj r j q. ^ju cox 12 months
lecture m the Opera House Fri-1 (Section 511 Revised Sta-
day evening the 24 on electrici- tuteB vo i j ) And that notwith-
ty and Roentgeji s rajrs. Prof. 8tan< jj n g h e is the custodian of
Coleman has a magnificent set j ar<fe am0 unt8 due to minors,
of apparatus, enabling every | w id 0 ws and creditors.
one to see clear through boards.”
Such an exhibition will be a
rare treat for those who attend
and all should avail themfelyes
of this opportunity. Admission
25 cents, reserved seats 10 cents
extra.
25,000 lbs bacon, 5,000 lbs
lard to arnye Monday; Deans
Bros.
I have called attention to this
defect in the law and abuse with
no intention to reflect on the
Grand Jury or the Foreman or
the committee, but to reiterate
the assertion that when they go
into the matter-of examination
of official bonds they are oblig
ed from the nature of the case
to depend on the information of
the Clerk and Auditor as to the
status of persons, and if they de
ink and headed “Tillman ticket
and otherwise in exact imita
tion of that ticket, except that
his own name was inserted for
Clerk in the place of the nom
inee of that party. He might
O on to explain the difference
tween getting $3000 to $4000
a year that way and of “obtain
ing goods under false pretenses”
or what the State vulgarly calls
larceny. He might also explain
to the boys of his Sunday School
which method a young man of
delicate organism and refined
aspirations might be excused in
adopting to get out of the vul
garity of farm life.
And these are the two young
men that constitute, exofficio, a
majority of the Board of Jury
Commissioners and annually
prepare the jury list with liberty
to reject from that list 19 in
every 20 of the legal voters of
the county because they are not
in their judgment “persons of
good moral character.”
I have lived all my life nearly
here in Darlington county
among the people where I was
born and I have never before
been charged that I know of
with “want of veracity” or any
dishonor. , I have in the course
of a long and large practice of
law handled without bond an
immense sum in the Aggregate
le’s money and
Mr. L. J. Bristow Laaves Darlington.
Mr. Louis J. Bristow, who | pend too much upon this infor-
has
been foreman for some
time of The News office, left
Darlington on the 21st for
Washington, Ga., where he
has accepted a position on the
Georgia Reporter of that town
Mr. Bristow is one of the most
ination as friends are apt to do
with friends, their confidence is
liable sometimes to be abused.
And I have complained that it
has been abused in this case or
appears to be and the Grand
Jury have been prejudiced
accomodating and pains taking against my bond by false in
printers the editor of The N*ws formation and likewise have
f « i I /visai*InnlrA/
has ever known and deserves to
succeed wherever he goes. The
Georgia Reporter will have a
valuable young man
wee.
overlooked glaring defects in
the bonds of the two officers or
these defects have been kept
on its | from their knowledge.
As to Mr. Lawrence’s letter it
of other
never have I been charged with
misappropriating or losing a
dollar of it.
It now remains for these two
young men at this late day of
my lire, to make the first charge
against me of dishonorable con
duct.
It remains for me to demand
that they make good that charge
or by their silence remain selt-
confessed • blackguards in the
slime of their own infamy and
the contempt of their fellow cit
izens of botn factions.
R. K. Charles.
July 13, 1896.
Yeast cake at Deans Bros.’
he has been recuperating in and
around his native home. We
are glad to see you back Mr.
Womack.
Dr. R. A. Trippett purchased
a bicycle some time ago and
now ranks among the best
wheelmen of our city. Others
are contemplating purchasing
wheels. The next thing is a
race track. I expect a suitable
tract of land for the purpose
could be procured with little
expense, in or outside of our
level town limits. x
Capt. W. A. Carrig'A’s ar
tesian well is’ now being bored
on his plantation over the river.
Mr. Willie Btogner was given
the contract. Mr. Stogner has
been engaged at this work in
Hartsville and seems to have
given the citizens there satis
faction. He is a resident of
our town and any persons desir
ing wells bored will do well to
see him, for he is a competent
machinest and generally pleases
his patrons.
^ ^ ^
If you borrow flour from your
neighbors return cream, for
sale by Coggeshall & Co.
CARTERSVILLE.
We think some of the happiest
people in our country now are
the colored people who put in
and take out our barns of tobac
co. Their conversation is of
course carried on in their own
dialect, full of jokes and hu
mor, and of such a nature as not
to be offensive to cultivated
ears. Give the devil his due
and the negro a chance; treat
him as a human being. Don’t
thrust 10 cents meat down his
throat, but let him have it
and then you can control his'
bor.
The regents of Spain seem to
be making a poor out suppress
ing the rebellion in Cuba. Al-
phonso, though only eight yean
old, seems to be getting along
even better than the infant ruler
of South Carolina. Perhaps,
siuce the regent of South Caro
lina failed in his presidential as
pirations, and showed ;the six
teen thousand people in the au
ditorium that he was the biggest
jackass in the show, he may re
turn to South Carolina andgroom
Johnny over for the campaign
aud tell him how to get out oi'
that $49,000 bond steal.
There was a serious affray at
the usually quiet town of I
tersville, on Saturday night
last, between Frank Mims,
white, and-Hase Daniels, color
ed. Mims came totown drunk^qd
got into a boxing bee with Dan
iels. The latter proved too much
for Mims aud knocked him out.
Mims then drew his knife and
cut Daniels’ $rm severely.
Daniels then knocked Mims
down with a stick, fracturing
his skull, and Mims then sat
down on the railroad track
which was near by. It being
dark, some one else struck Mims
on the head, fracturing his skull
in another place. Dr. G. G.
Palmer has no hopes of Mims’
recovery^. For the credit of
Cartersville, we will say no in
toxicants are sold here.
PAtMETTO.
is all the go
now. Watsmelons have been
cat short in this section by the
heavy rains.
We are very sorry to- report
that Mr. Caleb Boone is in very
bad health, but we hope that he
will speedily recover.
I be present
Mr. and Mrs. L. B, Gardner, q£ Association
of this section,
day with Mrs
Riverdale sectioa.
a very pleasant time and good
crops.
The picnic at Mr. Arthur
Humphries’ fish pond on the
18th inst. was a great success,
although the day was very un
favorable. A large crowd at
tended and all seemed to enjoy
themselves to the fitileet extent.
A plenty of good music was
The survivors’
Pee Dee Light
at the DarUagtou
Spring July 21st was
order at 11 a. m. by
R. B. Hepburn. Ti
.the old boys who
the ravages of time aud the four
years’ campaign led by Lea and
Jackson from sixty-one to sixty-
five, answered to roll oalL
The election of offloers for the
ensueing year, waa: R. M.
Rogers. President; Simon Mc
Lendon. Vice President; Biihu
Muldrow, Secretary.
Col. James Asmstroqg and
General W. E. James, of the
old bloody Eighth Sooth Caro
lina Regiment, and Dr. Hohnea,
a gallant survivor of Gen. Kil
by Smith’s Western braves,
were present as guests of the
Association. Comrades Mul
drow, McLendon, Rediok, T. A.
Moore, Pettigrew and w. E.
James entertained tike associa
tion with pleasant memories of
their recent visit to the reunion
at Richmond, Va.
A committee was appointed
to work towards erecting a
monument at Richmond to the
Confederate women.
▲ poem by Mrs. R. M. Rogers
was read and many were the
reminiscences of the days when
the now gray bearded veterans
were gaflan roliolting boys.
Col. Jimmie Armstrong, who
is always amusing and witty on
such oocassicas, entertained
the comrades with a few re
marks which were of course
greatly enjoyed. On motion
Col. Armstrong was invited Bo
resent at all of the reunions
to bo held
t last 9<m: | hereafter.
Slskron, of Resolved: That we appoint a
They report memorial committee or
ial committees, whom duty it
shall be to propers tributes to
the memories of deceased com
rades—such committees to be
appointed by the president, <
for each one of our
rades.
As usual, on them occasions,
a most enjoyable day was pass
ed, and another pleasant re*
TBs Dar
lington Guard*' with a
furnished by the two string onion was added to the long list
bands, for the danosm. A game winch have been held by the
of base ball was played between Survivor’s Association of the
the Lake Swamp and the Hall | Pee Dee Light Artillery,
teams, the Lake Swpmp team
carried off the laurels. Mr.
Humphries deserves groat cred
it. We were very Barry you,
bJi.SSyho«I 0». «f Uk> .tow ,tao« to
but sincerely hope 7<>u come ^ Anrayof the
promises to give anothir soon,
and guarantees the pubic a bet- w . arc ,. 9 * W V 9
ter time, as every thing will be I
arranged more convtBientiy I “ere, and they go away
then. _
SPRINGVILLE.
Fruit is scarce in tikis section.
The health of this section is
very good at present.
Tobacco growers am very
busy curing the leaf.
Crops have been dainBgsd
very much by the recent heavy
rains.
impressed with the eat
th«>t well known
Sometimes in addition to
words, valuable testimonials of
regards are forth coming. This
was the cam a few days
Capt. Thompson
surprised by re _
Charleston, a package, which
contained a beautiful work of
art, in the ahape of a wreath of
On last Thursday afteraeoa,
lightning struck five of Mr. H.
L. Garland’s hogs.
Miss Carrie Sheriil, of Doves-
ville, is visiting her sister Mrs.
W. O. Tedder at Floyds.
Most of the farmers ami of the
G.
on either side of a ]
below. At the
abbreviations. So. Oa.
This wreath is placed on aJ
ground of blue, which In
out in bold relief all the beauty
design. The wreutik m
of
through laying by cotton—ooese made entirely
rest for the boys now until they I which flowers i
have to pull fodder. *mhliTrrI giving
The protracted meeting clos-1 artistic beauty, which it
ed at Bla<*Chmk onthe 17th *» hard to describe in ooU type,
to." Si toSTwS. . tato. toton, “D” fc "Q” -•
many conversions made Bod f^®*** 1 *® “•$•»
souls brought unto Christ. Bep- ?°P 0, ?£“^ e “ *
tiara will be administered to]
them Sunday, 2«th inst.
16 to I—1 ft “Tetley’s Tea” is
equal' to le ft* ordinary ti
Deans Bcos.’ agents.
HIGH HU-L.
Miss Hattie Hill, of Eliott, is
vwitiatf friends amd relatives iv
this section.
Tobacco is looking fine, there
is some oomplaning about the
rain interfering with curing.
We were glad to have
Bessie Rhodes and
Blackman in our midst last
Tuesday.
Mr. H. T. Stuckey is the first
to ship tobaooo from this
tion, but it is likely that
will be some to follow iu a few
days.
While a
i* Mt.
M
about the ties of ^
which went down te the d