The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, August 20, 1896, Image 1
VOL. XXIII, NO. 34.
DARLINGTON, S. O., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1896.
LOCAL LACONICS.
MATTERS IN AND AROUND THE
TOWN OF DARLINGTON.
A Column of News, Tersely Told, of
Interest to Our Many
Readers,
Cotton has commenced to
come in almost every day.
Mr. Lee Rivers, is spending
some time in Anderson, H. C.
Mr. W. T. Powell, of Cheraw,
spent last Sunday in town.
Misses Margaret and Bessie
Ervin left for Saluda last Fri
day.
Mr. Andrew Wardlaw went
to Columbia last Monday after
noon.
Mr. Frank Wardlaw is visit
ing his sister Mrs. J. L. Ed
wards.
Mr. Abe Hyman left last
Tnursday for New York to buy
goods.
Mr. R. K. Dargan return
ed > home from Saratoga last
Saturday.
The Primary and the Oper
etta will both be on the 25th, of
AugUB'.
Miss Isa Davis, of Charleston,
is visiting her sister Mrs. Lucy
M. Norment.
A mower with twd horses in
it has been at work on the grass
on the square. r
Oapt. J. M. Patrick, of Pat
rick’s Military Institute, was in
town last Friday.
Misses Fannie and Louise Cor
bett, of Wilmington, are visit
ing Miss Marian Nettles.
The Rev. T. Hartwell Ed
wards will preach at the Bap
tist church next Sunday.
The Rev. Mr. Perry, of Harts-
ville, conducted services at the
Baptist church last Sunday.
Misses Irene and Bessie Char
les, of Timmonsville, spent a
few days in town last week.
Mr. J. R. Coggeshall went to
Columbia and last Friday, re
turning to Darlington Sunday.
Mieses Fanny Gandy and Ella
Summer left for Greenville last
Friday morning to vist rela
tives.
Mr. George Richmond, book
keeper for -the American To
bacco Co., is back in town
again.
Messrs. W. M. Brown and
Harry Foster, of Lancastor, are
making a visit to Mr. Geo. W.
Brown.
The Rev. D. M. Fulton con
ducted the Union services at
the Methodist church last Sun
day evening,
Robt. Mucfarlan, Esq , re
turned from Saluda on the 12th,
where he had been spending
about a week.
Mr. Purvis Boatwright is
back home again after a visit to
friends and relatives in Edge
field county and Georgia.
The young men expect to give
a dance at the armory after the
rendering of the operetta Paul
ine, next Tuesday night.
Mrs. Mary Corbett, who has
been visiting Mr. R. B. Nettles’
family, has returned to her
home in Wilmington, N. C.
Mr. Dozier Sligh is back
again at his post in Sligh &
Rucker’s store after a vacation
of a few weeks spent in the
mountains.
Welling & Bonnoitt have a
nice commodious building for
their tin and repair shop. Such
an enterprise will be a great
convenience to the town.
During a thunder storm last
Friday afternoon, lightning
struck the house of T. V. Gor-
dans, doing considerable dam
age, but fortunately no one was
hurt.
The first bale of cotton sold
in Darlington this season was
bought, last Thursday, by Mr.
J. A. Buchanan for eight cents
—weight 520 pounds.
Messrs. Edward and Robert
Coker and Mr. Preston Ed
wards expect to play a series of
games of tennis against the
Maxton team this week in Max-
ton.
The Darlington Lumber Co.,
whose saw mill has been locat
ed at Dovesville during the past
year or more, contemplate
moving their plant to some
point on the C. 8. & N. R. R., a
few miles from town.
Whipple left last
New Hampshire.
A few summer visitors have
returned, and report a pleasant
time.
Mr. Chas. A. Smith, cotton
buyer from Timmonsville, was
m town Tuesday.
Mr. A. L. Dantzler has been
spending a few days at his
home in Orangeburg.
Mrs. Allen Flowers, nee Miss
Bettie Cain, of Sumter, is visit
ing her sister Mrs. L. I. Parrott
The county campaign is at an
end. This must be a relief to
the candidates this hot weath
er.
The Artesian well is quite as
much of a fesort as it would be
if it was a spring at a watering
place. The scene there in the
afternoon is an animated one.
Misses Annie Perry, A. L.
Witherspoon and Ervin Wat
ford have been declared the
winners of the Winthrop schol
arships for Darlington county
Cant. Paul _
Monday for New . __
Capt. Whipple will be absent
several weeks during which
time he will visit in different
parts of New England.
Dr. Ware has moved from
Dovesville to Society Hill. A
vacancy, therefore, is left at the
former place for some youni
physician who is anxious to fin
field for his talents.
Dr. Frank Houston and wife
are visiting the former’s parents
in Darlington. Dr. Houston
holds a professorship in Politi
cal Economy in the University
of Texas at Austin, Tex.
In order to vote in the pri
mary you must have your name
enrolled ou a club list five davs
before the primary. Those who
have not already enrolled their
names can do so to-day for the
last time.
The choir for the recital are
getting ready. They will prac
tice every afternoon in the
Armory. Some very fine music
has been selected, and the pub
lic will no doubt be pleased
with the recital.
Those who owe for subscrip
tions to The Darlington News
will confer a favor by not wait
ing to receive bills. The expi
ration of' all subscriptions is
printed on the labels and sub
scribers can tell at any time
when their time is out.
Mr. T. J. Lipscomb, the pop
ular grocery drummer, was in
town last Saturday, with a
large line of samples. Mr. Lips
comb is now traveling for Reid
Murdoch & Co., of Chicago, the
largest wholesale grocery con
cern in the United States.
Mr. E. E. Lunn, of Brunson,
Lunn & Co., Mr. E. R. Cox, of
VIoorhead, Cox & Co., Mr. J. 8.
Burch, of McCall & Burch and
Mr. S. A Woods, of 8. A.
Woods & Co. left for New York
Tuesday afternoon to buy goods
fur their respective houses.
The gallery of the Baptist
Church has been altered for the
new organ. It was too small.
The organ is expected in a few
days, and will at once be put in
pl«ce. Mr. Leish, a skilled or
ganist, and builder will have
charge of the putting up of the
instrument.
Dr. C. B. Lanneau has been
urged by the people of Society
Hill to move there aud practice
his profession. While Dr. Lan
neau feels much gratified that
his services are so much in de
mand, he has nevertheless, de
cided to remain in Darlington
where he is well pleased.
There was a very pleasant
sociable and dance at the resi
dence of Capt. William Charles,
in Springville last Monday
night, given in honor of the
Misses Rogers, of Bennettsville,
who are visiting Misses Julia
and Bessie Lide. Quite a num
ber from town attended.
Furman University has an
advertisement in this week’s
News. Furman, although a
Baptist institution, is desirous
of attracting students from
other denominations who are
anxious for a good education.
It is doing a good work and
should be liberally patronized.
The number of Bycicles has
increased ic the town, and it is
high time for our City Fathers
to enforce the rule in regard to
carrying lights at night. Ria
ing on the side walk in the
dark, particularly in the fire
limits is the usual practice, and
the wonder is that some serious
accident has not happened.
Mr. H. H. Garner is employed
at the Planters’ Warehouse.
Mr, McKenzie, of the firm of
John McSween & Co., of Tim
monsville, was in town yester
day.
Look out for Coggeshall Sc
Co’s, '‘ad” in the next issue.
They are going to slaughter
prices on eyerything.
Mr. James W. Blackwell is
now in the Northern markets
buying Fall stock of goods. Mrs
Blackwell accompained her
husband on his trip.
Mr. L. C. H. Brown, of Greens
boro, N. C., has rented the
floor under the lodge hall for a
grading room. Mr. Brown
grades tobacco for those who do
not care to or do not know how to
do the work themselves.
Several of Darlington’s tobac
co men went to the opening
break at Hartsville Tuesday.
One of them reports that about
20,000 pounds were offered for
sale on the warehouse floor,
which is a good opening for a
brand new warehouse.
Much of the fall stock of
goods has arrived, and our
merchants have been busy for
the last two weeks opening the
same. There is every prospect
of a good trade this season. The
knowing ones predict a good
price for cotton, and the tobac
co break shows that the price
of that product will be good.
Manv are anxious to know
what the Coast Line is going to
do about the passenger train on
the Cheraw & Darlington R. R.
The freight business u now be
coming heavy and will soon be
come more so, when it will take
a whole day to make the round
trip between Darlington and
Cheraw. It is a serious incon
venience and loss of time to be
compelled to ride on a freight
train which sometimes stops an
hour and a half, or two hour)
at one point—and the railroad
people ought to have more con
sideration for their patrons.
Organ Recital.
The ladies of the Baptist
Church are preparing a rare
treat for this community in the
shape of an organ recital to
come off in the Baptist Church
when the new organ is ready
for use within the next 15 days.
The full program will appear
next week in the local papers:
but in the meantime we are left
to anticipate the delights of the
occasion by the assurance of
having Mr. Leisch in charge of
the grand pipe organ and that
Prof. Tillingnast is now train
ing some of the best vocal talent
of the town for choruses, quar
tette, trios, duets and solos, to
be accompanied by the organ,
on that occasion. It will be
strictly a sacred concert, but
unsurpassed (might we say un
equalled?) by anything ever had
in this town in the high order
of musical achievement. It is
expected that the church will
be filled to its utmost capacity
that evening.
The Primary Election.
The primary election comes
off next Tuesday. Factional
lines have been very little
drawn in this county at the
campaign meetings and there
has seemed to be a disposition
to elect the beet men to office.
A Big Prlca for Tobacco.
Mr. Winston Rogers, of
Palmetto, sold about 500 pounds
of his commonest tobacco yes-
terdav at Smoot Sc Walden’s
warehouse, at an average of 15
cents a pound. The Darlington
market is certainly surpassing
itself this season.
Mora Educational Campaigns N
Editor The Darlington News:
to put good i
will set
your duty
men in office, men
whowQl serve the interests of
all of the people and not the in-
tercets of any particular class.
A Portrait of C. K. Rogers.
The Knights of Pythias are
having put up in their castle
hall a life size crayon portrait
of Mr. G. K. Rogers who died a
few months ago. Mr. Rogers
was the first Grand Chancellor
of the State and first Chancel
lor Commander of the Darling
ton Lodge.
Notice.
The surviving members of
Companies “A” “F” and “M”
of the old 8th South Carolina
Regiment will meet at the Min
era! spring on Tuesday the 1st
of September next. By order of
W. E. James,
Secretary.
Mr. W. G. Dickson, proprietor
of the Darlington Iron Works,
is now prepared to do all kinds
of repairing of machinery
Bycicle repairing and sundries
a specialty. Will also do pum^
work and plumbing of of all
kinds.
Good coffee at Coggeshall’s,
121 cents per lb.
The Tobacco Market.
The prices for tobacco in Dar
lington this week have been
higher than last week, and the
amount sold on the market
large considering the opening
sales held in the neighboring
markets. The sales each day
since the opening have been in
the neighborhood of 8,000 to
10,000 pounds. Planters seem
to be well pleased with the
prices.
Fresh mackerel at Coggeshall
Sc Co’s.
Maatlng of tha Agricultural Society.
The Darlington Agricultural
Society met at the fair grounds
Tuesday and was called to or
der by the President W. E.
James. Mr. J. J. Ward made
a verbal report on immigration
which subject was discussed by
Messrs. J. W. Beasley. E. R.
Moiver, W. C. Coker and others.
Col. E. R. Moiver read an ex
haustive report on “diseases of
domestic animals.” This sub
ject elicited a full discussion by
several members of the society.
Mr. S. B. Gandy, in the ab
sence of the Chairman, Mr. B.
F. Williamson made a report on
the subject—can tobacco take
the place of cotton as a money
crop? This was discussed by
Messts. J. W. King, E. M. Wil
liamson and others. The Pre
sident appointed Messrs. J. J.
Lucas and W. C. Coker a com
mittee to draft resolutions on
We have an unusually large
stock of LADIES' OXFORD TIES
in all the latest styles that we
are selling very cheap to close
out. Also a large line of Misses’
and children’s oxfords at just a
little above cost.
DARLINGTON SHOE STORE,
WOODS * MILLING, Preprleters.
Buy your
-
Deans Bros.'
cotton sheets at
the death of our much esteemed
member, Mr. Edward E. Evans.
These resolutions were ordered
to be published when prepared
and spread upon the minutes as
part of the proceedings of this
meeting. Yesterday was the
fiftieth anniversary of the soc
lety, and in order to stimulate a
more active interest, on motion
the chair appointed a commit
tee, consisting of Messrs. W. C.
Coker, E. R. Mclver, J. W.
King, 8, B. Gandy, J. W. Beas
ley, J. J. Ward and E. M. Wil-
liamson to act in conjunction
with the President and Secret
ary of the Society in getting up
an elaborate program for the
next meeting, with power to
act. On motion the officers of
the Society were re-elected for
the ensuing year.
For sale—Short hand type
writer. Apply to Mrs. Lucy
M. Norment, Darlington, 8. C.
New clothing at Coggeshall
& Co’s.
Dead Letters.
Letters addressed to the fol
lowing persons remain uncalled
for at the Darl.ngton postoffice,
and are advertised as “dead”
for the weekending August 17th:
R. D. Gainey, L. Pirn, N. Coit,
Williamson Byrd, Juddie Jones,
Ben Williams, H. F. Bear, A.
Hutchinson, Mancy Charles,
Lula Nesmith, Jane Davis, An-
na Gregg, Clara Brown.
DIED.
At Smith’s Mills, Williams
burg county, Sunday Aug., 9th.
Mrs. Sarah E. Harllee, wife of
Capt. R. Z. Harllee, and mother
of Messrs. P. Z. and R. E. Harl
lee of this city.
Tne largest line of crackers
and glassware ever in town at
Coggeshall Sc Go’s.
Fine horse for sale—excellent
buggy mare, fast and stylish, 4
years old. Apply to E. C. Coker
Darlington, S. C., before Sept.
10th.
I fully concur in the declara
tion that the
campaign has
Carolina in the eyes of
world; but I do not on that ac
count conclude that we should^
have no more campaigns. It
is a campaign no doubt that ffi.
brings the ignorance and rude
ness of our people to the sur
face and shows them thereby to
the world, but this is the only
evil it doee and in this there
may be ultimate benefit. If
the rudenese and ignorance are
here, they will do harm in
many ways at many times
and the evil must be cured, not
concealed. To cure it, it is ne
cessary to expose it. We need
more campaigns and need that
our best educated men
part in them. Meet the people
—the masses face to face and
discuss issues in the most ear
nest. yet orderly manner and
demon stratable beauty and ad
vantages or such conduct, as
contrasted with a Governor
who makes obscene allusions
“in public on the stage” and a
Judge that talka and fights like
a back street bully. Soon this
course will correct the evil and
the people will feel so great a
distaste for such methods, as we
now have, thatno office-hunter,
wishing above all things to
please them, whatever be the
coarseness of his composition,
would willingly let them dis
cover his ugly traits. He would
strive to behave himself like a
tleman and next to really
ing a gentleman, we desire a
man in public life to behave
like one. We must not be too
easily discouraged about our
people. They are ignorant and
rude, but at last must rule; and
they never can rule wisely and
becomingly, unless that igno
rance and rudeness is measur
ably removed and it never can
be removed except by educa
tion and the quickest way to
educate them is by public dis
cussions, which in the course of
time lead te reading and reflect
ing. So let the campaigns go
on and on and more people of
the better sort enter activily
into them and assist In the won
of education and good results
will become apparent after-
awhile.
Bryan is doing a grand work
for the whole country in his
splendid conduct of this nation
al campaign and will give our
poor little State a distinct lift
out of its political mire. Should
he be elected President our next
campaign will show the effects
of his fine influence on public
affairs. In the mean time let
us all assist in every way in our
power to the “higher level” and
my word for it, we’ll get there
and that before very long. We
have, it is true, peculiar and
great difficulties m this State.
For say what we may real lib
erty is a comparatively new
they have
live. Thus it was in
war. The rulers in the
and state reaped oaly that which
hey had sown. They had pto-
ibited free discussion—they
done their best to keep the
‘ unacquainted with their
and their rights. The
bution was just and natur
suffe
If they suffered from pop
alar ignorance, it was *
they
•wav the key of knowledge. If
they were assailed with Mind
fury, it was because they had
‘ an equally blind sub-
It is the character of such re
volutions that we always see
tbs worst of them at first. Till
men have been for
free, they know not how to
their freedom. The natives of
winecountries are always i
In dfcnates when wtoe la
rarity, intemperance aboam
A newly liberated people nay
be compared to a northern army
encampment on the Rhine or
the Xerxes. It in
wnau
nothing ie
toxicatien.
first filed themselves able to in
dodge without restraint fat each
a rare and expensive luxury,
; is to he seen but in-
. Soon, however
plenty teaches discretion; and
after wine has bean for a few
months their daily fare, they
become more temperate than
they had ever been in their own
country. In tbs same mabaer
the final and permanent fruits
of liberty are wisdom, moder
ation, and mercy. Its
diate effects are often
to imme-
atraons
“Pitcher James, of Wa
ton, is n gtv
ons of those
to be the athlete's
Whenever Ji
especially hard’
. ‘ «■**.”
crimes, conflicting errors, scep
ticism on points the most dear,
dogmatism «a points the most i -
mysterious. It is just at this °P wlin Jg ^ ssaso
crisis that its enemies love to R ail,e foand “ IIB *■'
exhibit it. They pull down the
scaffolding from the half-finish
ed edifice; they point to tne fly-
he nuUng bricks, the
ing bricks, the
i, the frightful
he whole no
thing to all classes of people ia
South Carolina.
Before the war the slave
holding class ruled and the non
slave holding had little more to
do than to vote as eome slave
holder suggested. None
free and equal. The
were not the only people
by Lincoln’s proclamation.
And wfc must give the newly
(practically) enfranchised a
chance to learn by experience
the proprieties and nee is of po-
J life in a state
ing dust, the
comfortless rooms
irregularity of the
pearaace; and timn ask in
where the premised*
and comfort are to be 'found?
If snob mi
to prevail,
be a good bouse
eminent in the t
Ariosto tells s
a fairy, who, by
ious law of her nature,'
condemned to appaar at certain
in the foito of a foul
and poisonous aaaks. Those
who injured her Raring the
period of her d*
lorever excluded
pation in the
she bestowed. But
in tpite of her
pitied and pt
afterwards revealed
the beautiful and
which was natura
f their
all their wishes,
houses with wealth,
happy in love, and v;
war. Such a spirit is
At times she tslces thy
a hateful reptile. 8h
public liberty/
Hs is Making a
There is scarcely
crank in the eity, ‘
est down to the smell 1
do not remen
James used to pMeb great
when a student at the 8>
Carolina college. Since he en
tered the big national
a pitcher for ’
season his career
watched closely by Us
and they have reason to t w _
at the enviable reputation he Is
ed to all
evidently kept a
the 1 toO
This is a
pitcher to
James will be
after by aaarly all
when the next!
roll around. Stats.
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says: .“Muir
heretofore been known as Oon-
serstives will vets in tiw ap-
for. Asoosof ths
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JT—: only one
to those
venture
are those who,
receive her ia '
frightful
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shall
taialy <n
but they
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litioal life in a state of freedom
and equality. More liberty and
continuous discussions are what
require to bring our politics
to that higher plane of which
w« hear so much and eee so lit
tle at present. A quotation
from Macaulav’s essay on Mil
ton ia suggeetive in this con
nection sod though rather
lengthy it will well repay care
ful reading by all our people at
this time. He says:
'If it were poseiple that a peo
ple, brought uo under an in
tolerant and arbitrary system,
could subvert that system with
out acts of cruelty and folly,
half the objectione to despotic
power would be removed. We
should, in that case, be compell
ed to acknowledge that it at
least produces no prenhsous ef
fects on the intellectual and
moral character of people. We
deplore the outrages which
company revolutions. But
more violent the outrages, the
more assured we feel that a
revolution was necessary. The
violence of thoee outrages will
always be proportioned te the
ferocity and igronanoe of the
people: and the ferocity and ig
norance of the people will be
propotioned to the oppression
ami «T
the svils ’
freedom
ours is
not bear I
unabtsty
or
taswly
for
fevss bis ostt, he can
light «f day;—he is
New<
into]
ths
taoea. But the
to remand him
hut to
to ths *ays of
sun. Tha Maas of truth
liberty may at first dasasl
bewilder nations which have
half blind in the beam
of bondage. But let them gase
on and they will coon he able
to bear it. Ia a few yean men
learn to reason. Ths extreme
violence of opinion a
theories correct eaoh other. Dm
scattered elements of truth
cease to conflict, and b«gia to
‘ we. And at length a ays-
of justice and order ie
educed out of the ohoaa.
letter 1
In %
den, of
«ary,Jbe
nings
vote
Bryan i
as nisei
vention,” I
of my
and' liberty
on who
• can
Many polit
rein the t
sc
are tn the habit of laying
down as a self-evident
tion thatno!
free till th^rm
of the tool In thaw
received notto go 1
till he had team*
mea are to wait ft
slavery, they may
degradation under which ty i
twee