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VOL. XXIII, NO. 37. DARLINGTON, S. O., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1896 WHOLE NUMBER 1,127. LOCAL LACONICS. matters in and around the TOWN OF DARLINGTON. A Colunn of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Mr H. A. Edwards, of Harts- ville, was in town last Tuesday. Major John McCullough has returned to Darlington for the winter. D. M. Young, Esq., of Sum ter, spent last Monday in Dar lington. Mr. Walter Edwards, of Hartsville, spent last Sunday in town. J. R. Coggeshall Esq., spent last Saturday in Florence on business. W. Huger Fitzsimmons Esq., of Charleston, was in town last Thursday. Master Jimmie B. Carter, of Swift Creek, is clerking for Mr. (J. O. Mertz. 155 more votes were cast at the second primary in Darling ton than at the first. Rev. R. E. Peel, of Lamar, will conduct services in the Baptist church next Sunday morning. Mr. S. Wolfram has returned from New York where he went to buy his jewelry for the sea son’s trade. There v r eie no services in the Methodist church last Sunday morning as the Rev. Mr. Child was taking his vacation. Mi's Melita Clyburne, who has been spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Taylor, re turned to her home in Camden last Saturday. On account of Tuesday being election day there was no to bacco sold at the warehouses. There was a largo sale, how ever, yesterday. Mr. K. D. Bristow left for Columbia last Saturday after noon where he will take a posi tion as operator with the West ern L' niou Telegrah Co. C. W Hewitt has just receiv ed a large lot of buggies, wa gons and harness for the fall trade. See his advertisement, and when you come to town give him a call. Mr. P. W. Bell and family, who have been living in Harts ville, for several mouths past, moved back to Darlington last Saturday. Mr. Bell has taken charge of Coggeshall’s market. The Daily Record, published ny C. A. Brown at the Durliny- lonian ottice, made its appear ance last .Monday to take the place of the Daily Index, which went by the ooard a lew weeks ago. Mis. C. P. (juattlebaum and childieu, of Conway, spent laat Fiiday with the family of Mr. W. .Mc(J. Buck. Mr. Quattle baiim came over to Darlington, Friday night to take his family back home the next tune. Brunson, Luun & Co. tell the people in The News this week about their large stock of dry goods, clothing, notions, grocer ies tic. If you have not been to their store lately do not neg lect to go aid examine their goods. Mr. Fiank Houston has re turned to his home in Texas. The reservoir on the North side of the Square needs atten tion, Mrs. W. F. Dargan has been W. R. visiting Mrs. Cheraw. Evans, in THE GUARDS INSPECTED LIEUTENANT STOKES. BY Those who owe for The News w ill please not wait for bills to he sent tlu m as they can see the tune their papers expire by i* 1* rringto the dates on the lit tle slips. It does not pay to be sending out a lot of bills to one man for one dollar. Deputy sheriff t"ok a little negro boy to the hospital for the insane, in Cc>- hnidi; i, last .Friday. The boy is si i. to have been made crazy by * ,n:g a snake, which, by the way, might be said to be enough to run a person crazy. Col. John J. Dargan, who w as severely hurt by a runaway horse about ten days ago, was able to he at his otlice again last Monday. His recovery has been most rapid aitd he is cer tainly to be congratulated that his injuries were not more seri ous. Miss Maggie Jones has re turned from a business trip to New York. Mr. E. M. Smith, of Williams burg, is on a visit to his son Mr. Henry Smith. Messrs. Hart Coker and his brother Thos. H. Jr., were in Darlingten, on Wednesday. Mr. Emile Dargan is “Cen tral" in the Telephone Ex change, in the Armory build ing. Dr. Bart Houston, of Monroe N. C., lost his child on Sunday night last from an attack of meninget.is. The members of the Ingiis Light Battery are earnestly re- uested to meet at the Mineral pring on the 19th Sept. Miss Pauline DuRant, of Marion, left for her home on Monday. She has been visit ing Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Lide, in Springville. * Miss Emma Lee Granger, of Tennessee, has arrived in Dar lington to take charge of the millinery department at S. A. Woods & Co.’s store. The rehearsals for the Recital take place on Monday, Wednes day, and Friday afternoons at the Baptist Chuich. The hour for meetinp 1 is six o’clock. The Jewish holiday of the "New Year” began on Tues day, and will continue until to day (Thursday.) Their places of business have been closed in consequence. The News is somewhat late again this week in order to pub lish the latest news from the election. All the readers of the paper, who do not take the dailies, will have the consola tion of knowing that they get the latest up to the time of go ing to press. Tl>*- Rev. Thos. J. Taylor, pastor of a Baptist church in Warren county, N. C., has signed one of the $.’>.00 rotes for the Timrod Memorial and sent it to the Hon Goo. W. Dargan, of Darlington. The good work is making progress in Darlington county. A number of the citizens of the town, the editorof The News among the number, were treat- oi to a serenade by some young ladies and gentlemen Wednes day night of last week. The writer, in behalf of himself and the others, takes this means to thank the young people for the kind attention. We buy dry goods, clothing and shoe's in larger quantities than any other merchant in this part of South Carolina and can afford to sell them for less money. Sligh & Rucker. Hundreds of boxes of crackers, clieese, sardines &o. to be mov ed in the next ten days at Cog geshall’s. The Tobacco Market. Darlington tobacco market sales have been good since last report and prices have been very satisfactory. Sellers al ways leave Darlington with a smile. The Darlington market has sold about twice as much tobacco as was sold last season in the same length of time. Messrs. Sydnor & Tredway sold this week for Mr. J. J. Ward •204:1 pounds at an average of l!i;l7..')0. This was three curings Scarborough j U st as it came from the barn. This is the best sale made of the ’90 crop. They sold yesterday for Mr. B. M. Brown 2603 pounds at an average of 112.75—this in cluded some of his commonest grades. Darlington is the mar ket. Bring your tobacco along and you will save money by selling at home. They Make A Fine Appearance. Lieu tenant Stoke* Pleated With Dar lington and the Reception which He Met With Here. Lieut. M. B. Stokes, U. S. A., made an official inspection of the Darlington Guards on Fri day evening last. He reached Darlington by the early morn ing train. Capt. Thompson met him at the depot with a carriage, and drove him direct to the Armory, where he re mained as the guest of the com pany during the day. He dined there with the Captain and the three Lieutenants, and in the afternoon, was driven around the town and its vicinity, visit ing the Mineral Spring and other, points of interest. The inspection took place at 8.45 o’clock in the evening. The Company,forty men strong, formed in front of the Opera House, and preceded by the Coker band, marched to the pa rade ground, north of the Ar mory, where the inspection was held. Lieut. Stokes made a thorough examination of the uniforms and equipments, dur ing which time the band played an appropriate air, as is usual on such occasions. The inspect ing officer commented upon how well the men looked in their new uniforms, and particularly on the fact of how well the uniforms fit them. The men did lo_>k well, their new uni forms, (blue trimmed with white, made after the style of the army regulation), presented a fine appearance under the brilliant electric light, and the lady friends of the Company, who were looking down on it from the windows of the Ar mory, expressed the opinion that it was one of the prettiest inspections they had ever wit- since which time he has been serving with his regiment (the 10th Inf ran try) in Indian Ter ritory. Under a special act of of Congress allowing each State one army officer to look after its militia, Lieut Stokes was recently assigned to duty in South Carolina with headquar ters at Columbia. The State has been entitled to this detail for several years, and it seems strange that it has not been asked for before, for an army officer of Lieut. Stokes’ attain ments is capable of rendering inestimable service to our militia organizations. No report of Friday night’s inspection would be complete wituout mention being made of how very much the presence of the Coker band added to the occasion. This organization is a great credit to the community, and it should be encouraged and fostered by our people in every possible way. The mem bers have improved considera bly in their playing of late, and they gave much pleasure to all were present Friday night. 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 pump work and plumbing of of all kinds. The following salesmen and sales ladies will be glad to have their friends call on them at Sligh & Rucker’s. Louis Norment and Miss Mag gie Law, Dress Goods Depart ment. Mrs. Lila Skinner and Miss Fannie Gandy, Notion Depart ment. M. H. Norment anf Earle Child, Shoe and Domestic De partment. C. A. McCown and Albert Bruce, Gents Furnishing and Hat Departmet. Claude Smith, W. Dozier Sligh and T. Erie Sligh, Cloth ing Department. Miss Irene Shuford, Cashier and Book-keeper. 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 t MILLING, Proprietors About three hundred bales of cotton bought on this market yesterday, the price being from ~ to 7.80. Darlington buyers give none of your fancy prices; trunks • or a bale or two in order to fool Pros.’ people, but maintain a high, steady i rice all tl rough the teaaon. Hundreds of barrels of flour to be moved at slaughter prices We want room and must have it. Coggeshall & Co. —••• Deans Bros, who havo hereto fore had two drays, have added a free delivery wagon, in order thnr tin ir many customers may be accomodated. Large supplies of apples, po tatoes, lemons, bananas and cocoanuts arriving daily atCog- geshall’s. Get one of our improved ball bearing “Wheeler & Wilson" machines.—Blackwell Bros. 2,500 lbs. bacon and 6,000 lbs. lard to arrive today.—Deans Bros. A Dtioch Cypres* Darlington Hartsville High Hill Lamar Leaven* worth Lydia Uechanicsrille Palmetto Philadelphia Society Hill Stoke* Bridge Syift Creek Total Crockery ware, tin y flr ®» and bags at Blackwell Beautiful line of fine trunks at Sligh & Rucker’s. nessed. At its conclusion.^the Company was put through'tlie manual of arms. Lieut. Stokes expressed a desire to witness an exhibition drill, as he said he had heard so much of the Com pany everywhere he had been m the State; but owing to the large number of recruits who were in the ranks, it was im- ossible to give such a drill on riday night. The Captain promised him, however, that if he wpuld return to Darlington a little later in the Fall, after the regular drills had been re sumed, he would show him what the Company was capa ble of. This he promised to do, and it is to be hoped that he will, for he made a most excel lent impression here on every one with whom he came in con tact, and he will find many friends to give him a welcome on the occasion of his subse quent visits to Darlington, which we hope will be many. Before the Company was dis missed Lieut. Stokes made a short address to the men, in which he spoke words of en couragement to them, and ex pressed his pleasure at the ex cellent eondiUou in which he found the Company. He said n ^ that he had been led to expect| SwIttC'jeek a good deal from it, from what he had heard, but that he had not been disappointed. After the Company was dismissed, an impromptu, but very enjoyable, dance was given in the Arm ory in honor <f Lieut. Stokes, and judging from the zest with which he took part in that por-1 tion of the programme, he is as, much of a society man as he is ] a soldier, (which is saying a good deal) and, if we mistake not, there will bo other attrac tions to entice him back to Dar lington next time besides bright brasses, bright buttons and bright bayonets. Lieut Stokes is a native of this State and is every inch a soldier. He graduated from West Point four years ago, We do not handle groceries, but we do handle more dry goods, clothing and shoes than any three merchants in Darl ington. Sligh & Rucker. BASCAUTY J. . THE “TATOOED” MAN DEFEATED FOR THE SENATE. Earle’* Majority at M«t Accounts S.* 209—76,818 Votes Reported and the Balance Will Not Change the Re sult, Though . Earle’s Majority Will Be Reduced. Earle has 41,011 and Evans 34.802. Judge Earle’s majority at present is therefore 6,209. In the vote given to-day the com plete returns from 25 counties are given. Practically com plete returns are given from many others, as will be seen by the marginal statements. Sa luda is the only county that nothing worth mentioning has been heard from. Comparing the figures received on the second primary with the totals in the last primary, the missing vote is as follows: Barnwell 969 Chesterfield 292 Colleton 621 Florence 618 Aaiupton 711 Kershaw 698 Lexington 666 Orangeburg 612 Saluda 1,466 Union 782 Willia insburg 492 7,492 The anti-Evans increase in these counties has been consid erable, though in the last elec tion only three of them gave anti-Evans majorities. They will hardly reduce the present majority to any appreciable ex tent. * Glancing at the counties marked incomplete, it will be seen that Orangeburg shows up with 42 out of 50 boxes, Lexing ton with 16 out of 25, Williams burg with 20 boxes, Colleton with only 10 boxes missing and Barnwell with 23 out of 41. THE VOTE BEPOBTED. Here is the total vpte as tab ulated. The returns are com plete from every county except where it is so stated in paren thesis: Columbia, 8. C., Sept. 8, ’96, 5.16 p. m. Special to Thc News: With fifteen counties complete and many others practically se, to tal vote reported at 4 p. m. is 62688, of which Earle has 36349 and Evans 26239, a majority for Earle of 10,110. State chairman Tompkins concedes Earle’s election by 6000 majority. If total vote goes to 90,000, which is most improbable, and Evans is allowed two-thirds of missing votes, Earle will have 1000 majority. Nice coffee at 121c per lb at Coggeshall A- Co’s. We have in stock 1,600 prs. men’s extra pants. Prices 60 cts. to |8.00. Sligh Sc Rucker. A nice line of Blackwell Bros.’ groceries at If yonr boy needs a new suit, visit our store and yon will find what yon want. Sligh dt Rucker. Fresh oat meal and Graham flour at Coggeshall’s. We have in stock over Two Thousand boys and children’s suits. Prices from 65 cents to $8.00. Sligh &: Rucxer. High grade bicycles for sale at $45.00 at W. G. Dickson’s. Primary. Sept, 8th. C. 8. SaNXH. AUDITOR. Law- Mozin- Earle Evans rence 25 102 111 29 78 70 817 48 184 97 87 76 17 88 34 27 187 137 28 181 21 129 36 99 8 18 12 21 4 19 39 77 83 54 12 43 78 131 24 37 63 41 go 17 88 ITS 110 70 72 114 64 15 6 27 19 m 68 903 964 974 1062 Primary, Aug. 26th. U. a. 8BRATR. AUDITOR. Dim- Motln- Law- Evans. 1,264 1,498 1,984 977 Antioch Cypres* Darlington Hartsville High Hill Lamar Leavenswort Lydia Mecbauicsvil Palmetto Phiadelphia Society Hill Total Evans can Earle go reoce 86 7 16 4 83 66 2 39 36 56 03 96 123 87 140 100 9 63 62 63 91 14 12 16 28 126 9 35 40 90 97 2 9 20 20 48 5 106 26 52 e 19 11 3 8 19 1 2 14 0 18 67 11 20 6 41 14 6 88 2 40 140 14 97 204 89 68 19 42 19 68 986 207 623 520 757 Abbeville Aiken Anderton Barnwell (28 ont of 41) Beanfort Berkeley Charleston Cheater Lheaterfield (14 out of 17) 923 Clarendon 857 Colleton (10 short) Darlington Edgefield Fairfield Florenee (eity and six) Georgetown Greenville Hampton (6 out of 24) Horry Kershaw (two-thirds) Lancaster Laurens Lexington (16 out of 25) Marion Marlboro Newberry Oconee Orangeburg (43 out of 60)1,393 Pickens 798 Kichland 716 Salnda (3 boxes) 60 Spartanburg 8,840 Sumter 763 Union (town and 6) 707 Williamsbnig (96 boxes) 784 York 1.814 498 699 968 1,214 1,062 664 686 270 1,728 309 1,112 659 960 1,260 1,078 1,270 849 1,008 1,009 Our stock is now Blackwell Bros. complete— The finest line of children’s clothing ever opened in Dari- ton at Sligh A Rucker. Dry goods, dress goods, no tions &c.—-lowest prices at Cog geshall’s. =T By the Mailer. ST ATM Or SOUTH (JAMOLIKA. Darlington County. Jame« R Coggeahall, Plantik, agaioet Minnie Ct. Alexander, C AlnaSsr. J. J. Ward and J. H. Ksiiy, Bank of Darlington, Tbs Bnnk of Darlington and C. B. ward*, H. A. Bdwarda and L. Coker, trading as Bdwande ft Oo^ Aron Bttvertmrg and Iseob H- Steinberg, trading as Bn verb sag ft Co^ * 1 Lewenthal and ft. ft. P. Sander* as Administrator «f tha Estate of J. D. Haynosworth, Da- fendaate. By virtue of Deeretal Order ont of tbs Circuit Ooart oft ia <’hennery in Mm eense, I wU aeU at aafc- lie rcndoe at the Conrt Hoaw issr of the County of Darlington on tho first Mandarin OotoberjMSI^b^ ia the feraooon end five o’eioek In afternoon tho following property. All the right, title oaf Minnie O. Alexander the a two-thirds inters eta in ail tain lot of land eitnata lying and bo- tng in tho town of Doriington and In ing on tho pnbllo os 1 one hundred feet rcc running back three of said twenty-five foot bounded We can shew as good sortment of clothing a merchant in this part S tate. Sligh A Rucker. an as- s any of the Oar shoes are selling fast, why? because they are new and made of the best stock, and we sell cheap. Coggeshall & Co. SSi bounded on tho northeast by the nubile square, eoatheaet by h>t of 8. Marco, northwest by lot of I*. W. J. Garner and on the west by lands of Mm. M A. Huggins, said lot being known as the old Darlington Hotel lot. Terms of sale,one-third each and the other two-thirda in two eqaal eaaoei instalaeenta the Hist instahesut twelv months after the day of sale and tho second instalment twelve thereafter with legal interest on the unpaid the day of sale to no ee of purchaser and mortgage of pro misee, with loaf to pay alloaoh. B K. CHARLES, Dargan ft Coggeshall, PlantifTs Attorney’s. Ready For Bvsiiess! With a stock more com plete Id all lines and prices lower than ever before. Earle 1.825 1,911 2,266 998 *229 481 2,721 748 610 977 1,086 808 1,168 745 6tf •200 8,148 820 878 487 1,066 1,882 811 1,867 754 1,048 1,879 1,208 927 1,412 165 8,162 1,881 427 639 1.826 We meet all legiti mate competition and often do a little bet ter and we give the very lowest prices every day in the week. Total •Majority. 84,803 41,011 Auction Sate of Horae*. 25 head of horses and mares will be sold at auction at Mc Cullough Bros. Stables in Dar lington, Tuesday, Aug. 15th at 11 o’clock a. m. Fuller Bros. & Bristow. Fresh shipment Dukes and Cycle cigarettes just arrived at Coggeshall’s. 500 barrels of “Ballards” flour to arrive in ten days. Deans Bros. _ Blackwell Bros, have pants for the long, pants for the slim ami pants for tne stout. With our Florence and Darl ington stores combined, we are today among the largest retail merchants in the State. Sligh & Rucker. Big lot of cotton goods bought to sell at Coggeshall’s. Ask to see our little giant school shoes for children, beet child’s shoe in America. Sligh & Rucker. 1,000 bushel-i feed oats just received at Deans Bros.’ Department is fall of new and stylish, goods. To suit everybody. Everything new and nobb; in gents furnishing at Sligh Rucker’s. I Swap your old machine for new one with Blackwell Broe. Shoes—Shoe*—We have the largest stock in Darlington and we are offering some big bar gains. Sligh & Rucker. At rock bottom prices. COME AND SEE FOR YQI — .rMim - imiT