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Ti MEIiSGTOS liilD] PUBLlrfHKO KVKUY FHIJ)AY. J. S. McOREIGHT, Proprietor. WALTEP. D. WOODS, Editor. soHacnii'riox in ahvanck: One Dollar a Year. ADVERTISING RAT EH. Transient Ai>vkrtisrhbnts 7o<-. per *iuare for flint iiiwrtion, anil 5<K>. per square for eaeh suliw^quent in- sertion f i ' • Business v Noth , es 10 rents per Hue for each insertion. Ortlju ARtEs exceeding six lines charged for at the rate of treusient - ‘'•'iffwdrtWlhg. LirkkaIi DrscorNT made on contract or standing advertisements. DARLINGTON, S. C. 0 '|963. . L4ttle John to Big Hugh- loSk v^t- -Lemiue "It has been stated that the Liquor Dealers' Association has put up $350,000 to defeat the Dispensary law. The question is frequently asked if the.learned jndge took his position in order to wreak vengeance on political enemies or in obedience to a more potent power in these avaricious tinresf—Cotton Plant. The above item is both infamous Ihtl contemptible and no man with houonjgi)? jfntipcts would have given utterafleG , T0 ftf An editor who makes such grave insinuations, know ing when he expresses them that they are utterly false, is a disgn ee to the profession of journalism and should not be countenanced by honorable people. 'fbefe Is no gleater absurdity than ftH the talk indulged in by ignorant politicians, about the per capita cir culation in the country, and a Very little study and reflection would show auy intelligent man that w-ith good banking facilities very little money is required to transact the business of the nation. In proof of this as sertion it is only necessary to men tion the fact that France lias about twice the per capita circulation of England, but this does not hinder the latter country from being the greatest commercial people in the world, and this supremacy they could not maintain if they did not have a sufficient amount of money in circulation to carry on their inn mense commercial transactions. The solution is easily found when it Is mentioned that the banking facilities of England afe far superior to those of France, fie fitreraer’s Mattafclcs. We would not for one moment countenance any violation of law or resistance to an offioei in the dis charge of his duty, but the manner in which the' dispensary constables have hrtn armed and the Governor’s avowed Intention of instructing thfem to shoot down any one who in terferes kith them in the discharge Of thflr'duty, deserves the gravest ceuiuWi and will, if carried out, produce bloodshed for which Mr. Tillman himself will be responsible. Except in the case of attempting the arrest of known desperados who have been guilty of grave crimes, peace officers has no right to use a devdly weapon, except in self de fense; and his use of it to take life, without adequate excuse, is some* thbg to which the people wiil not dbd should not submit. The police Of London, the largest city in the World, are not allowed to carry Are- arm* at all; and yet despite this they irnmoge to make arrests and keep the violator* of the law in practical suggestion. . When a law itself is impdijulaf and the inSlhod of its enforcement obnoxious, popular indig- fill make itself felt and tiiose dertake to carry out the law like lip their minds to come ^good deal of abuse and ridi course it would be belter Ijfle not the case, but com- paratively few people will submit in •il«M»4qirbat they conceive to be wrong, aiti if Gov. Tillman's con- (tables ramt this by using their re- velvets thsy dofojit great risks to themlslves, for the taking of life UOder circumstances of this charac : ter Is something that will not be tol erated, it matters not by whose order If Is donA Gov. Til'man has said that he would do everything in his power to put down lynch iaw, but in the instructions be gives his conr-ta bles he violates the spirit of his pfomiee, in that he offers a very hr the -people to M* own Will k Buffi and visit summary punisnment upon I those who have tin*folly and temerity to curry out. his instructiolia. Office S. ('hi-rry, 21 Drayton street, Savannah. G;l„ Doc. i(i. tHUl Messrs. I.ippniun Bros., Dear Sirs: i would like to add mv testimony to the almost miracu lous/effect of I’. I’. l\ in the case of Mary Ingthain, a woman living on my place; she had a constant cough, tore throat, debility, etc., and was emaciated to a degree t hat she was unable to get out of bed un aided, being given up by physicians; she had taken the ruinous so-callod blood medicines without the least effect, until being put under the 1’. P. 1*., she immediately began to im prove and is now in as good health us ever in her life. You can refer to me at any time as to the effects of P. P. I\, in the foregoing case. Yours truly, Sami'el Cherry. Moxticllo, Pa., Jan 21.1890. For thy last eight years 1 have been in bad health, suffering with Malaria, Rheumatism. Dyspepsia, Dropsy. My digestion was bud, and my hair ail came out, in fact I was nearly a wreck. 1 bad taken kid- nej^aud blood medicines which did n;tvuo good, ^iheii I began .taking P. P. V., about three "months ago, I was as weak as a child. 1 have only taken four bottles (small si/e i, and to-day 1 am a well man and my hair has come again.” 1 cannot recom mend P. P. P. too highly. W. Y. Ware, Marshal, Mouticello, Fla. SOUTH CiU C31IEE, COLUMBIA, S. C. tH’SMKHj l:egius I.M-pU-mt'cr CUll.. Pom courses; t'lawimi, Literary, .Sciciitilie and l..v.v.' w to e:nciv'e studi •» in lii”lier elas is New < iyiimasium. Welt app iitie.) i.alu eatoiiis, Clnuii- cal, t‘|iy.-le:d, IlioKy,'.. at, < I. Neee.-- -ury ex|>eii.-es tVom * No to t-SlU. t'or furlliei inform; t on address the President, .IAY1KS AYOODKOW. PITH ILITSB1 INSTITUTE, -/VxYicLoi’son, S. O. A Military Boarding rtcbiail. tSes- sion opens September 12lh. Healtliy location. S leiul, moral and religious privileges goal. Kill! eorps of expe- rieneed touchers. Enforced uppliea- tion. Rates reasonatile. Apply for eutidogue to Col. Jolin U. I’atriek, Huperlutendcnt. Why Not Ride the Best? First. Second. Third. F. C. GwF,Nt- v Witness. As has already been announced, we will take elaborate notes at the World’s Fair for the purpose of writing it up in detail, and will en deavor to give our readers just as graphic an account of it as is in em power to write. ftymputhetio f»k«. Rabelais compiled a enriotw list of inks of a sympathetic nature, which were largely In vogue in hia days. In bis book entitled “Piint agrwl," he makes his read ora aoquuinted with i’anttrgnc's exploits In trying to decipher the invisible cfcsr- aoters of a letter which a Parisian fo- uialo had written to Pautngrtud, "Ho held it np before the firs," saysIUbckisi to kk If it was wrirtt-n with rpirits of awmouift mixed with water. Then he placed it in water to discover if the writing bad not be^n done with sirup of tithymal. When this would not work, he held It over a candle, which would ! Fourth, have brought out the characters had they been written with the juice of white onions. By rubbing a part of it with nut oti he tried to find whether it had not been written with tko sap of a fig tree. And if frog's blood had been used in tho place of ink the milk from the breast of a woman suckling her firstborn daughter would have betrayed the se crets of thatdetter." While at Rabelaiif time during the sev enteenth century French people adhered Strongly to the belief tb&t sympathetic inks oftbis character could be and were used, they are now In liigh feather over the discovery of a luminous Ink by one of their countrymen. This ink piakes it possible for letters to be read in the dark One of the French journals recently gave the recipe for this ink. Aphosphorea cent compound cau be obtained by cal- cinatiug carbonate of chalk with sul- phur.—8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. Grand Spring Opening. (■'fear; •S-ii : Victor Bicycles are first in tires and improvements and lead the world of cyciedom. Boston, OVERMAN Washington, WHEEL OO. OENVSR, SAN FRANCISCO, TVJLc'Oi’eiftlit, Argent. Old Tlmer« on tho Ohio Illrer« The Ohio river steamboat captain of 63 years ago has never been equaled in point of assumed dignity by anything ex cept the modern postoffloe clerk and the officers of the "mosquito fleet'’ during the war. When he came on board and the mate took his place at the bell with tho roustabouts ready to haul in the gangplank, one could imagine that ebont all that wo* admirable lit the universe was about to move out. And it was a quaint picture, with merry and home like features. The old timer along the banks of tho Ohio loves to talk of tho good old days only to bewail the degeneracy of the time*. Us never tires of telling of the exploits of the Boston, Bottoua, Wild Wagoner, Lady Fiauklin, Alice Pike and a score of ether familiar names. What tf the old timers were profane? The natives along the Shores expected it. When the steamer of 30 years ago round ed to for the purpose of taking on wood, the poor devil who sawed the wood jnst as firmly expected a cursing as he did a salutation. The wood was too blank long, too Blank short and too blank green. Everythlhg was wrong. In fact, th# stamp of-Jtrntaltty pervaded every transaction aud ell intercourse. But it was not a spirit of mhtatRy. It wm their way—fie way of the tribes. It was as naturd for an Ohio river steam- boat offletr to swear as ti wn* for 1dm to hit a deckhand with a board or os tt ts lot * dude to look itlly.—Cleveland Plain Desist, Wendell Phillips as a testeren. Yfoudell PhUUpe ss a lectnrcr, and apart from his extraordinary power as a convention orator on occasions, was quite the tnost interesting, tho most con vincing, the most polished and delight ful platform speaker that America has produced. He owed his success to Ms wit, to the most felicitous and Incisive vocabulary, to the most melodious and entrancing voice and to bis perfect com mand of himself and all his resources. He was never slovenly. He always brought his host thought roost carefully arranged to bis audience, and he never met an audience, even one hostile to bln. and his opinions, that ho could not at length subdue to his potent influence. Nothing was left to chance. He would no move have produced an unfinished lecture than a great artist would have exhibited an unfinished pic ture. He respected his audience, and the audience always felt this The sym pathy that be gained from it, even when It disagreed with him, was tho more re markable because be never, or rarely ever, Improvised. Yet he had such con summate art that he seemed to beim- provtstug, tho golden words apparently dropping freshly coined from the bril liant mint of his mind. He was eloquent without a single burst of cheap rhetoric. Aud of all orators ou the platform he we* the most convincing and plausible fur tbs twur-Ctolcr PwUef Wsrnsr Fifth. Sixth. That Columbia lias a first- class Music Honfep. That everything in shape of a Musical Instranient can be obtained from this House, That this House represents the builders and knocks out the middle men, That the generous public is paturonizing this Home Enterprise liberally. That you can obtain the very best Piano made aud for the least money from this House. That threading Female Cob legos in this State arc using and endorsing the Pianos sold by this Institution. (SIVIAilrit JUIOAl>I><N. The following Magazines can he had from the BOOK STORE: Harper’s, Lippincottjs, Arena, Scribner's, Century, \ortli American Review, Bclford, Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, Review of Reviews, 6iue and Gray—t’onfederatc War Journal, Forum. Gody's, Romance, Folumbia, Outing, Sloriettes, Frank Leslie’s Budge!, Saint Nil-kolas, Southern Slates, Cosmo politan. Kook and Toy Oompany. NEW GOODS. We have just received an elegant and handsome line of Dry Ms and Notions, and invite an inspection of same. To the Ladies of Darlington: You are cordially invited to attend our Grand Spring Opening, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 28 and 29. Our line of Dress Goods and Trimmings for the present season is a wonderful collection of elegant designs and fabrics of the latest and most popular fashions. The present season marks the appearance of a series of new and beautiful de signs in Wash Goods that eclipse the previous efforts of the manufacturers. It is needless to say that we have them in all the newest patterns and colorings. • In Laces, Embroideries, Hosiery, Gloves and Ribbons, we are exhibiting one of the largest and finest collections ever shown in Darlington. Respectfully, WOOIDS <& WOODS. Our new stock of spring and summer Seven th. That the best Professors of Music in South Caro lina are using and endors ing Instruments procured from this House. Eighth. Will find the best Organs at this Institution on the market .Ninth. The "Symphony .Self-Play ing Organ,” the marvel of the age, is represented by this Enterprise. Tenth. Orders for Sheet Music will have prompt attention by this Music House. Eleventh. Y ou can have an old Piano, Organ or any Musical Instrument put in first-class order at this Establishment Twelfth. Y bn can get your Pianos tuned on short notice by the best tuner South, by addressing this House. Thirteenth. Fourteenth. \Ve refer the public to Ijouu and Exchange Bank of Columbia, as to responsibility. Jf you desire" any fur ther information, ad- ilresi the proprietors of this Music House. M. A. Malone &Bro. COLUMBIA, S. C. FIRE! FIRE! I represent Twelve of the roost reliable Fire Insurance Companies in the world— amone them, the Liverpool and London and Globe, of England, the largest fire company in tho world, and the dCtoo, of Hartford, the largest of all American fire companies. Prompt attention to business and satis faction guaranteed. F. £. \OKU EAT, DARLINGTON, 9. O. Office between Edwards, NortnctA has arrived, and in it will bo found suits for Men, Boys and youths in all the latest styles and shades. HOWARDS A CO. NORWENT &CO., -——Proprietors of——- “THE LADIES’ STORE!” Dealers iu—-— Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Etc., LADIES' COOPS EXCLUSIVELY. Cssseet * FM^ese We want every one to come and see our styles and prices. Nothing but New Goods in Stock, Respectfully, MORMENT & CO. Nnchma'i building, rorner Public Square and OasLua Street. “ >X O IV r r S.3 IIJK Y.” THE! JH O 3SS' SS. ® ' Xt IDX> Y. It will cure Malaria, Indigestion, Nervousness, Dysentery and Bowel Complaints. ■Vmicxt X’coTple You. 3BC.xiow Shay. Free Sample Bottles at Uriiggists and Dealers. Office of Wilmtkgton & Wf.ldon Railhoao Co,. Di sk, N. C. Monterey Company, Florence, S. C. Dear Sirs—Our railroad attorney Fl-OiiEKCE, S. C., June 7, ’93. Monterey Company, Florence, S. C. Dear Sirs—For the past year I of your city gave me a bottle of Mon-: have been a great sufferer from indi- torey a few days ago for my wife. She aestion and dyspepsia and was una- had been down nboat one mouth, had ble 1° keep food on my stomach, two physicians with Imr, also hail i J : ■' consequence * suffered with ex- been taking Ayers Sctsaparilla; was| hanstnin and sleeplessness to such an taking that when I received your ]•"<!" that I was confined to my bed. medicine, and was slowly growing pun the’ recommendation of my weaker every day. From the first! physician I commenced to take your dose she took of Monterey she com-' medicine, “Monterey.’ The results menced improving. She is now up were simply murveloos. In less than and I think will soon be well if she; “ week’s time I was attending to my can get one more bottle of Monterey. > w, irk and feeling better than I had Pleas ■ send by baggage master. I! ^ 0I Yws- I would not be without will remit on reoelpt. Pltnsc quote! Monterey, and highly recommend it prices on six or twenty-four bottles.! ,0 “J; sufferers, Several of my neighbors want to try; (Signed) Yours truly, it. Yours truly, ' Wm. Quirk, P, J. Jeffreys, j station Master AtlantioCoast Line. Kailroud Agent. ; Ask your dealer for Monterey. If lie does not keep it, we will send you a large bottle, express pro-paid, on receipt of $1.00. MONTEREY €0., Proprietors sb4 ithnafactarers, FLORENCE, S, C. ft Wi HWKEfl * W'< CbUliMoB, 8, C., state Agents, CL0THIN8 DEPARTMENT. In this department we give ’em FITS?? It will be to your BENE-FIT; To buy your OUT-FIT* From us at a small PRO-FIT* Knot we FOR-FE1T All claim to leadership in the business. We have no MS-FITS, They are all CLOSE FITS. Come and let us give you a FIT. THE SHOE DEPARTMENT Has always been one of our specials, and the styles We are displaying this season will compare with any goods to be found. GROCER if DEPARTMENT, In this department we carry a full line’ of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and our shelves are fielld with fresh Canned Goods' and niceties too numerous to mention. All goods are delivered free of charge. WOODS A WOODS,