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VOL. XXIII, NO. 52. DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896. WHOLE NUMBER 1,142. LOCAL m matters in and around the TOWN OF DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Tersely Told, of Interest to Our Many Readers. Mr. W. A. Isgett, of Tim- monsville, spent last Monday in town. Mr R K. Dargan went to New York last Thursday night for a short stay. If you want wedding and ball invitations printed neatly and • in good style call at The News office. Maj. John McCullough has gone up to Greenville to spend the holidays with friends and relatives. The Rev. J. A. Magruder will hold services in the Episcopal church to morrow morning Christmas day. Union services were held in the Presbyterian church last Sunday, the Rev. R. A. Child preaching the sermon. The graded school closed yes terday and a number of the teachers have gone to their homes to spend the holidays. Found—A gold star pin with initials H.r?. L Owner can get it at this office by paying for advertisement. Mr. Geo. E. Dargan stood his examination for admission to the bar before the Supreme Court last Thuasday. Cadet William Adams, of Clemson, is spending the win ter vacation with his aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Ervin. Mr. Joseph D. East, principal of the Darlington graded school, will be married today in Charl ton, Ga., to Miss Janie Herndon Covington * , The Darlington News will come out 53 times durins' the year 1896, the last issue being next Thursday, the last day of the year. Mr. Ira 8. Burch, manager of the Darlington Tobacco Mfg. Co., presented the editor of the News with a very pretty cal endar the other day. The News office will be clos ed only Christinas day, as the paper will be issued December 31 and not take a week’s vaca tion as is the custom with week ly papers. Mr. S. P. Thomas, of Oats, left last Monday on a business trip to Lake City Florida. Mr. Thomas has a son and daughter living in Lake City and will spend Christmas with them. The effort to induce the mer chants to close their stores on Christmas day and the day after has failed. Some of them will not even close on Christ mas day, although the most of them will. Those anxious to pay their subscriptions or transact any kind of business at the News- office will please bear in mind that the office will be closed only one day, Christmas day, during the holidays. Mr. W. A. Blizzard made an assignment on the 17th to Mr. J. L. Bailey. Mr. Blizzard is very popular in the communi ty and his friends hope that his suspension of business will only be temporary. The auction business flourish ed on the square last Saturday. Mr. Johnnie Reb Drake sold a lot of medicine and amused the crowd with ventriloquism, an other man sold all sorts of small goods and Schultz had an auc tion of clothing. Read the list of books re ceived during the past week at the Armory. They include the very latest fiction of the high est grade, and the volumes are all handsomely bound and printed in clear type, on good paper, Mr. R. W. Spann, of Benson, Williamsburg county, called at The News office last Thurs day and subscribed for the paper. Mr. Spann had been at tending to business in the coun ty and enjoying a hunt at the same time. Elections will be held on Jan. 12, and 15, for Dillon and Bam berg counties respectively. The territory for Dillon county will be taken exclusively—I believe, from Marion county, and the territory for Bamberg exclu sively from Barnwell. 4 T- Thompson went to Marion yesterday. ^' dargan advertises a lot of fine horses, mules and colts for sale. . Mr. J. 0. Muldrow, the drug gist, has presented the News office with a pretty calendar. Mr. Fraser James is home from the Institute of Technolo gy in Atlanta, to spend Christ mas. Mr. J. M. Rhodes, who un listed in the United States Army about three years ago is home again. A very pretty calendar receiv ed from the Darlington Phos phate Co., for which they will accept thanks. The News has received a neat calendar, prettily illus trated, from the Acme Fertili zer Co. in Wilmington. Mr. M. L. Wilkins, cotton buyer for the Adams Cotton Co., spent Sunday with Mr. William Kirkpatrick at Society Hill. Dr. E. K. Wright, of Wilson N. C., is visiting his cousin, Dr. W. J Garner and “Doctor” Johnnie Reb Drake this week. Mr. Harry EUerbe, of Ashe ville, stopped over in Darling ton yesterday on bis way to Bennettsville to spend Christ mas. I Remember that the time for paying State and county taxes expires on the 31. There will be no extension and the penalty will be charged against those who do not pay up. Rev. J. C. Roper, of Clio, has been spending a few days with the Rev R. A. Child. Mr. Roper was on his way to Union where he has been appointed to take charge of a church com posed of factory operatives. A squib in the Columbia Tie gister stated the other day that Col. J. J. Lucas, of Marion, had been appointed as one of the board of visitors of the Citadel. Is not Maj.~J. J. Lucas, of Soc iety Hill, the man, or is the Re gister correct? The editor of The News would be pleased to receive a lot of Christmas and New Year’s pre sents in the shape of paid up subscriptions. New Year’s day is especiallv a good time to make and carry out good resolu tions, and a subscriber car make no better resolution than one to pay his subscription to the county paper. Bro. N. N. Burton has resign ed the pastorage of the Swift Creek church, Darlington coun ty. Here is an opportunity for some of our pastorless fields to secure the services of one of the best men in the State. Bro Berton is so well known to our people, and so highly esteemed by his brethren, that he needs no introduction to South Car olina Baptist. His present ad dress is Darlington, S C.—Bap tist Courier. Timmonsville, Darlington and Mullins, so far, seem destined to outstrip the many other mar kets in South Carolina, now scarctly more than nominally such. Sumter is also in the ring of rivalry, making a quar tette of competitors Several of the smaller markets are alter nating sales, to secure buyers’ attendance from each other’s breaks. Planters are disposed to sell at home, but will appreci ate the building up of stronger markets in preference to sup porting too many scattering markets.—Richmond Tobacco Journal. Roll of Honor of Indian Branch School. Higher class, Eula Odom, Virginia Parrott, Nora Brunson, Hampton Davis. Intermediate, Ida Flowers, Maggie Blackman, Lula Blackman, Willie Black man, Harold Parrott. Primary, Birdie Flowers. Tillie Sellers. Mrs. E. B. Moore, Teacher. Editor Darlington News: I appreciate the notice you took of my school in your last issue and wish to inform the public through your columns that I am sufficiently encourag ed in my school work to con tinue both my day school and my night class. The hours for the day school are from 9 a. m. to 12 m. and for the night class from 8.30 p. m. to 10 30 p. m. Three hours in the day and two at night. Respectfully, John J. Dargan. Darlington, S. C , Dec. 21, ’96. To The Correipondents of The New* The editor of The News would like to have all the cor respondents of the paper give short accounts of the condi tion of the people in their respective sections this year, as regards finances, provisions &c. It would be weil to compare their condition last year with their present condition and also do a little speculation as to the coming year. Correspondents will please send in their infor mation in time for the issue of Jan. 7, 1897, and, if it is not convenient to send it by that time, as soon thereafter as pos sible. Fresh evaporated apples at Dean Bros. Two Dsrlington Writer* of Fiction Among those who competed for the prize for the best story offered by the Charleston Eve ning Posf, are Mr. Witherspoon Ervin and Mr. W. D. Woods, of Darlington. The subject of the former’s producJon is “In the Nick of Time and the latter “Dr. Percy’s Theory.” The Post speaks of these stories and a number of others as having strong points and extremely readable, though they were not prize winners. Th* Rev. N. N. Burton. The many friends of the Rev. N. N. Burton, who has been pastor of Swift Creek Baptist .church for the past five years are sorry to learn that he has resigned the pastorate of that charge. The writer has never heard Mr. Burton preach, but from a short acquaintance with him, knows him to be a man of no mean order of intelligence and possessed of good sense and strong con victions Outside of being a strong worker in the church, Mr. Burton is a good man to have in a community and his place in the county will be hard to fill. Buy the “Lilly of the Valley” butter and “Swans Down” flour to make your pound cake from Dean Bros’. Or. Willits. Dr. Willit’s has been heard from in regard to his failure to appear here on Wednesday night last, to keep his appoint ment. The whole trouble was due to an unfortunate misunder standing, and is greatly to be regretted as the Doctor would have spoken to a packed house. ▲ new engagement will be made with him at an early day, though it is impossible to give the exact date this week In the meantime, holders of sea son tickets are requested to bear with the management of the lecture course until this un forseen complication can be straightened out. Arrange ments are also being made to bring the Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., back in the near future. Now is the time for Gin House and Tornado Insurance. Best companies in the world. Mr«. Lucy M. Norment. The Knight* of Pythias. The last convention of Dar lington Lodge No. 7 K. of P. held Dec. 7, was a very interest ing meeting and the lodge was found to be in a very flourish ing condition, having 119 mem bers in good standing. The fol lowing officers were elected for the year 1897: E. R. Cox, past chancellor of the term; G. H. McKee, chancellor commander; E. O. Woods, vice chancellor; Geo. Onslow, prelate; E. R. Oox, Master of Work; E. E. Nigels, keeper of records and seal; S Lewentbal, master of exchequer; N R. Harrell, mas ter of finance; H C Race, mas teratar'usjB F.Smoot,in inner guard; B B Forman, outer- guard; L 8. Welling, trustee for three years. After the re gular meeting of the lodge the endownment rank held their an nual meeting and the following orficers were elected: S. Lewen- thal, president; W. L. Gallo way, vice president; George Onslow, secretary. This en dowment rank is carrying about $175,000 of insurance, divided among about 60 members. At the next meeting of the regular lodge, Jan. 5 the new officers will be installed. Spare a little cash now. Re liable insurance, any kinds—all kind—every kind. Mrs. Lucy M. Norment. The Darlington Guard* Ball. At a meeting of the Darling ton Guards held Tuesday night, it was decided to give a grand ball and supper on the night of December 31st. The Guards have given a number of these entertainments in recentyears and they have been looked for ward to with great pleasure. Invitations will be sent out and it is expected that there will be a large crowd of people present from Darlington and neighbor ing towns. Tne Darlington Guard* Library Aatociahon. Editor Darlington News: For years Darlington has needed a library, but the diffi culties which surrounded this undertaking have hitherto in vented any one from attempting this important work. The interest and ability of Capt. Henry T. Thompson, which has already served Darlington in more ways than one, is here again strikingly evidenc ed almost unaided and alone, and with an excellence which such an undertaking necessitates, Capt Thomp son now has this move ment well under way. System and thoroughness mark the smallest detail of the organiza tion which ie destined to do work which should, from the very beginning, enlist the in terest and pride of those who really care for the developement of the highest and best inter ests of a community. With out going into details it can be said that Darlington now has a library established on business principles, where the newest and best books are received every week and where intelli gent, capable and most inter ested management guarantees the excellence of the,work and its consequent refining influ ences. The library is now a fixed fact, but there is an as pect of the situation which should command more than mere interest and appreciation from those who are so glad to reap where another is sowing. The writer knows that Capt. Thompson has every week to make the most strenuous efforts to meet the responsibilities of the work which devolve en tirely upon him. Because he has voluntarily and cheerfully assumed these responsibilities is still another reason why ma terial encouragement and as sistance should be given him. His past work shows what he con do and this has given Dar lington an enviable reputation abroad. For what he has done and what he is doing he de serves now something more than the grateful appreciation whicn the people of Darlington have given him. Let there be a library fund raised, payable monthly, to decrease hL per sonal responsibility and this will mean an increase in the value of his work and of its re sults. Capt Thompson’s first knowledge of this letter will be- when he sees it published. • Let his further knowledge be that practical and appreciated re sponse which shall lighten his burden and render the assis tance which his work so genu inely merits. X. Y. Z. v The State game warden has seized and declared confiscated to the State of Minnesota thirty tons of venson claimed as being illegally shipped out of the State via Milwaukee Road. It was tagged to persons in Boston, New York and Chicago. The fines of the alledged illegal trau- sportation of the game will reach somewhere in the neigh borhood of $40,000 to $60,000. Venison is now selling at 18 cents a pound, and it will be an easy matter for the State to dispose of the 60,000 pounds confiscated for $10,000. This is ssid to be the largest seizure ever made at one time in the United States.—Exchange. THE CODBTY MS. ITEMS FROM SEVERAL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY CORRESPONDETS. ? HOPEWELL. Mr. G. H. DuBose went to Cypressjlast week on a business trip. Mrs. t Hattie Boykin, of Cy press, visited in our section recently. Cadet Frank Copeland, of Clemson, is at home to spend the holidays. Mrs. E. C. Huggins, of Cy press, is spending the Xmas holidays witn relatives here. The school at this place will have a Xmas tree at the Acade my on Thursday afternoon. There is a great deal of mov ing to and' from this section, especially among the colored Some of those who are niov ing are Messrs. B. 8. Beasley. Rufus McPberron and Arnold Middleton. There is a neat tenant house in course of erection on Mr. J. J. Ward’s place near here. Mr. E. C. Reynold’s has the con tract for building. Mr. Wm. Suggs, an indus trious farmer formerly'of the Lydia section, has recently moved into our community. We are glad to welcome him into our midst. LAMAR. The Holiness Bros, are with us yet. The Lamar School had a musical on last Friday evening. Our city had the pleasure of & visit from Dr. P. E. Griffin on Monday. There will be a magnus fan tastic parade through the streets on Xmas day. Lamar has organized a come dy company, known as the “Maceo Music Minstrels. The Rev. E. O. Wilkes left with his family for his new home this week. Our best wishes go with him. Rev. Mr. Peel, pastor of the B^tist church, preached a ser mon here Sunday afternoon and he denounced holiness and whiskey, with gloves off. CLYDE- Several families are moving around just now. Several of our boys anticiapte having a fine Christmas. We had a fine sermon at New Maiket Sunday by Rev. J. W. Warr. are glad to have our pas tor Rev. J. C. Counts back for another year. Mi. 8. M. Forrest, of Kelly- tows, left this morning for New Orleans La. Mi B. L. Outlaw, of Kelly- towm is erecting a nice tenant houst on his farm in place of one lately destroyed by fire. Out community was shocked on the 14th to hear that Ben Kelly had been shot and killed on the highway by a crowd of men near Chesterfield O. H. From what we have been told by req>onsible men he was shot without a word of warning. Such is this is terrible to think of in a civilized country and should be stopped at once. In looking over some copies of the Sentinel published fortv- three years ago farmers thought it was a great and wonderful thing to have a hog weighing 150 or 200 pounds, and as soon as it was made known that a man had an “animal” of such huge (?) dimensions neighbors for miles around would flock to see it. Wonder what our grandfathers would think of the 600 pound pets of the pres ent day. Again we say let the ;ood work go on.—Barnwell " intinel. The following paragraph is from the Hartwell Ga., Sun: “Over in South Carolina CoL T. L. Gantt is fighting through his spleadin paper, the Pied mont Headlight, against an at tempt that is being made to cut grand old Spartanburg into two counties. Larry lived long enough in Georgia to know what a mistake it is to chop a State up into insignificant eonnties. Don’t let them do it if you can' help it, Larry. Small co mties mean, as a rule, small measures, small means, small men—small everything. It is not at all desirable except where a county is very densely populated.” The Sun speaks from experience, and knows the disadvantage of having small counties. Th* Blayara of B*n K*lly Granted Bail by th* Supram* Court, dude* Town rand Aopaar* for Solicitor dohnaon. Columbia, Dec. 22.—It is not very unusual for dispensary constables to be implicated in killing affairs. It is a natural sequence, it would appear, of the enforcement of the dispen sary law by a constabulary force. It is, however, some what noteworthy that two con tingents of constables and their posses are now in iail in differ ent sections of the State, and that they are both anxious to get out on bail to spend the Christmas holidays. The day also developed another curious fact in connection with these killing affairs, the result of the enforcement of the dispensary law. The executive depart ment' telegraphed three of the constables in jail in Spartan burg to employ counsel and ap ply to the Supreme Court for bail, while in Columbia Mr. Townsend, in behalf of Solici tor Johnson, was resisting a motion for bail. The facts of the killing of Kelly in Chesterfield County are familiar to the readers of Ihe News A Courier. Under the finding of the coroner's jury W. E. Swinnie was charged with the killing, and Constable Geo. Just Brown, D. Preston Douglass and J. H. Chapman are held on the charge of being accessories before and after the fact of the homicide. Solicitor Johnson asked As sistant Attorney-General Town send to frppear for him in the case, and Mr. Townsend in his argument presented positions that will certainly be of inter est He said that the evidence offered all showed that Con stable Brown did not take out a warrant and that he summoned a posse to assist him in the seiz ure . of the contraband goods Kelly wad suspected of having in his possession. Mr. Town send took the position, and cited authorities and argument, that a constable has no right what ever to summon a posse to as sist in the seizure of contraband or other liquors, especially when he has no warrant- If Con stable Brown had a warrant for the arrest of Kelly then he would have had toe right to summon a posse, but he certain ly had no right to summon a posse for the seizure of contra band goods, and on this' line he argued that the members of the posse were volunteers and re sponsible for their actions. He argued that it was not shown by the testimony that the dead man had drawn a weapon or that he had any intention of us ing a . pistol.- Mr. Townsend Id that Constable Brown seem ed to have known that Kelly was coming with the contra band goods, and he should have gotten out a warrant before at tempting to do what he did, but on the other hahd he gets three volunteers and stations himself along the rood, and, so to speak, holds up Kelly. Mr Kennedy, who appeared for the parties soliciting bail, said that the constables had a common law right to the poem, and that as to warrant, that had Brown spent time trying to get the warrant Kelly and his liquor would have escaped. The warrant, he said, was gotten as soon as pom He said <hat aa soon as the told KqUy to stop that ha reaoeed .down to draw his pis tol, and, that had the poses not shot when a it did some of them wonld oCktainly havt been kill ed, as Kslly was a-dangemns man. and had irivei that he vfrould kill the first oon^ stable oi any one doe who in terfered with him. The arguments were longer than customary, and at the oon elusion of the speaking the Chief Justice announced that the Court would take a brief recess, after which it would an uounoe if s decision, which that each of the defendants entitled to bond in the sum of $1,600 each. honor of your request the presence at the of.their daughter, Ella to Col. John Fletcher Wednesday evening, D T$f«i avenue, 30, at 7 o'clock, 337 New York.” It is thus that CoL Hobbs is going to start the cow year of 1897, afters life of of a Col. Hobbs is now wdrld wanderer and a reformed cannibal King. By the kindly assistance of the goddam of luck, aided perhaps by tbs left hind foot of a graveyard Carolina I sionary-i inhabits or some other Col. Hobbs has always i to eomo out of his safely and with something to bis gain. When a shipwreck him on ihe shores of a mis- eatiag community, the tents .of which had aot tasted white man for several months, he promptly sent in curves which puzzled the mas ticators so that his life was spared. In due time CoL Hobbs learned the language, and when the time came he ran for the bom job of the kingdom and carried the country vote—a la Ben Tillman— only his platform was not pitchforky in f He wonted the hayseed nibal vote, however, and he left his kingdom for lean shores the natives bitterly and swore off man-food forever. This matrimonial adventure will doubtless he the grand, happy climax to the Coleoet’s life, end his fHeads all over South Carolina wish him all the in the world.—NImm Courier. happiness i and Courii How Cfcristmas Is Observed in At Christmas everyone visits the Field of the Shepherds, a mile away from tike church, which is reputed to be the place where the shepherds tended their flocks. At the big enurch a procession of bishops, and people form in the before the edifice, end dressed in his _ robes. Turkish soldiers line both sides of the streets to ehar the way for the prooqmion. The Latin patriarch of arrives, is carrying banners candles, and all go into the La tin chapel through tils mala en trance. The entrance is so Mnall that bat one man can enter at a time and ha moat stoop to do so. The reason for this is that the Mohammedans at one time did so much to annoy the Christ en horseback, and the was made smaller to I out. Inside the very ancient, some of it fromthe time of In the Latin chapel of Bt, Cath erine services are held all aight, and at midnight Mm patriarch chapel is filled "with people sit ting on the Boor. Then thepro- oajiiop repairs to the Grotto of the Nativity; ui Originally this m tural cave in course the was not _ hie slabs' cover the walls and floors, and too tan-foot carries thirty-two execution and in the < is a small rsoss^’haag aboat with fifteen lamps- On ths floor of the recces a bright 'sil ver star is set ia, and it is al most worn away Mb the atant kissing it of the church all night. Yaur Bay Wear Urn a I So Mr. GOman Brown, of 3* Mil} St., South Gs ~~ “ told by the son had T