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' r. THE DiBtfflGTBH 1BALD PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. J.%. McOMOHT, Proprietor. WALTER D. WOODS, Editor. auBscnu-nox IX ADVAXCB: One Dollar a Year. ==; 1 '' i ADVERTISING RATES. Trxnsibnt Advertisements 75c. i square for Amt insertion, and SOi per square for each subsequent it .. sertion Business Notices 10 cents per line for each insertion. Obituaries exceeding six lines charged for at the rate of transient advertising. Liberal Discount made on contract r standing advertisements. ■a DARLINGTON, S. C. Friday, October 0,1893. Te Subscribers. ' A^i subscribers to this paper should nave aiready received or will receive within a few days statements of their accounts. A number have already made settlements, and we hope that others will respond promptly. The accounts are all in small sums nnd each one can be settled without mat erial efforts on the part of those in debted to liai The large number of these accounts due makes tbs aggre- that we to It is simplj absurd to profess deplore the interference of the Fed eral Courts into what are claimed be-strictly. State matters, while the same time we are doing all in our power to make this interference not only possible, but absolutely necessary for the protection of the rights of those who have fallen un der the displeasure of the powers that are now in control of the State Government Congressman McLauren’s bill for the Treasury Department to issue $I26,000,o00 in notes and lend it to the people will give each inhabitant of the country within a faction one dollpr eighty cents each. Some or ohr. fellow oit'zeos with large families might he able to control about twenty dollars if Ur. McLau ren’s hill .were to pass. * We' Suggest that while that Napoleon of finance, Mr. McLauren ispnshiog bis measure through it would be just as well to make the snjount. sufficent to give us all about fifty Dollars each. If the Government can make one dollar out bf nothing it can just as easily make millions. Some of our inform contemporaries are making very lame excuses for Senator Irby’s disgraceful conduct in Colombia a week or two ago, wbi]b others are professing to be astonished and somewhat ashamec at his (Irunken escapade. Those who seek to excnse his misbehavior are simply making themsel ves re- diculous, and those who profess re gret are grossly inconsistent from the fact that they knew what kind of a man Mb Irby was when they so strennonsly advocated his election, and their only real sorrow is on ac count of the injury it may do the so called reform party. For the dis grace that this would be border ruffian has brought upon the State they care nothing, as from the very outset they have cared more for the triumph of a faction than for the fair name of their native State. Putting Irby in the place of Wade Hampton is the same kind of reform that would he brought about if we were to substitute the feudal ism of the dark ages for the freedom enlightement of the present day. Pray let all populists have the courage of their convictions. To win a fight under false pretenses is positive curse to the victors. It con. verts them into frauds and by make- ing fraud appear to pay and prosper. It never pays. It did not pay in the least election. Cleveland was elected by the populists of the South, who were afraid to openly declare and contend for their convictions. The Freeman warned and warned, but “the policy” of wearing the cloak of Democracy to get in our Congresamen and other (State) officers prevailed and now see what a mess we are in. We deserve what we have brought on onrselvea. Let ns do better in fut ure. Be fair and fearless, open and earnest and honest—Sumter Free man. Oar contemporary is pretty heavy on the Reformers, but what it says is true. Much aa we differ with the Freeman we have always admired the resolnte candor, entire fairness •nd unshrinking courage that its view. He will never, however, induce lis brother Populists to throw aside the Democratic mask until they are forced to it they being entire stran gers to anything like political candor. The Denocracy has the offices at its disposal and taut is what thet pop ulist patriots are after. A Terrible Stern. New York, Oct 3.—Th0 Sun’s special from New Orleans says: A terriffic storm struck New Gr ins late Sunday night, coming from the Northeast and raged here all night and part of yesterday, sweeping to the South from here along the line of the Mississippi river through Parish Plaquamine to the gulf. The storm was one of the worst which ever visited this part of the country, and as far as can be learned twenty-four or more persons were killed, and probably three times as many wounded, some fatally. The wind had reached a velocit; of forty-eight miles an hour at 8 clock Sunday night It constantly increased in force until 2 a. m., wl e» its velocity was estimated at s xty miles an hour. The crush of sheds and buildings blown down, trees torn up and houses unroofed, caused in tense alarm, and most of the city re mained up all night expecting their houses to be blown down. Among the buildings destroyed were the Sarapa street market which crashed several buildings in its fall; the Burdette Street Mission Church; the cotton yard sheds of the North eastern railroad; Coleman’s boiler shop, and the Pythian Hotel. A number of other buildings were un roofed. The revel ment levee, on Lake Pont- chartrain, which protects Nem Or leai >8 from overflow on the river, was washed away, the water sweeping ov er it fifteen feet or more. Many of the yachts there were sunk or injur ed. The track of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was badly washed for fifteen miles, and it will be sev eral days before it can run trains. Three deaths, one person woundeec I severely if not fatally, is the mortali ty record in New Orleans. Below the city it was far worse, especially in Plaqnamine. Here the wind reached a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour, sweeping everything before it The parish seat of justice, Pointe a la Hache, a town of 200 people, was the worst sufferer. In the town not a single house escaped injury The court house and Catholic church, the principal buildings in the town, and some twenty other buildings, were destroyed, and the situation was so threatening that a greater part of the people, fearing destroc tion in their buildings, camped out in the streets all night in the heavy rain.1 IThe air was filled with debris, tne i smpathy to Senator Irby and assure limof continued support and un alterable confidence. “M. B. Crisp, President” I and the wind was blowing so fiercely that many of them had to anchor themselves against trees to prevent being blown away. Four grown people are known have been killed, in Pointe a Hache, together with several child ren; how many is not exactly known, Among the killed were Mrs. Leon La Franche, wife of one of the leadin merchants of the town, and Mrs. Levanders, wife of a well known lawyer. Telegraphic communications was cut off with nearly all places yester day. Skiffs were sent ontm the swamps about Lake Ponchartrain and forty persons were rescued in more or less danger from the storm. The sugar district escaped the worst of the blow. There is much danger to rice and sugar cane. It is probable that the mortality will be greatly increased when the news is received from far away set tlements on the gulf coast below Pointe a la Hache, in the orange country of Louisiana. The crop was ripe upon trees and was about to be harvested. It was completely des troyed in the storm with a loss of $350,000 on this one item. The crop on the Orange farms of Bradish Johnson, the largest in the South, had been sold to a fruit dealer in New Orleans, Mr. Oleri, for $65,000. He said that there is not an orange left on the trees and is the same all the way down the coast FOR SALE. RESIDENCE ON PEARL tor Apply to MY street for sale cheap on easy terms: !KBON THE CAMDEN JUNCTION, The Sonth Carolina Railway Re fuses te Make Transfers •f Freight. The South Carolina Railway refuses to make transfers of freight at the Camden Junction in Sumter county. The refusal is made in response to the petition sent by the business men of Darlington to the railroad commission asking for the transfer of freights at the junction, In order that the people of that section may ship their tobacco to this market. Receiver Chamberlai n writes the commission as follows: “I have again considered the subject in view of your suggestions that It would be for the Interest of our road to comply with the wishes of those who have brought the matter to your official attention, and in view of the various arguments presented by Mr. Thomas in his seperate letter. As the matter is now presented, It seems to me to amount to this: The South Caro lina Railway is now asked to make a very considerable outlay of money to establish facilities for a transfer of freights generally at Camden Junct ion, it being conceded that this will result in a large loss in revenue to the South Carolina Railway. The present laws of the State do not appear to require the South Carolina Railway to do ihis, and the request of the railroad commissioners, especially the letter of Mr. Thomas, is an appeal to the South Carolina Railway to do this for the alleged benefit of certain shippers of cotton and tobacco. Upon thia state ment of the case it seems to me that would be entirely improper for me to ac cede to this appeal. The South Caro lina Railway is bound to comply with all valid existing laws of the State, but I am advised by my counsel, and I reach the same conclusion by my own examln ation of the statutes, that the laws of the State do not at present require the South Carolina Railway to do what is now asked of it by the railroad com missioners. 1 must, therefere, respect fully decline to do more than 1 agreed to do in my letter to the railroad commis sioners of March 23 last." NOTICE. ALBERT WILKES- Mr. W. F. DARGAN’S celebrated stallion, will stand the season at my stable’s; terms, 9i5. d. s. McCullough. Sept. 8—tf. TO LET. FROM FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, 1883, the Enterprise Hotel, Darling ton, 8- C. For full particulars, apply to f. J. WARD. You Say You Can’t Quit Tobacco? Then try the Rose Tobacco and Suuff Cure. It is set ting hundreds free from the filthy habit. Send one dollar for a tablet or write to me for descriptive circu- an and testimonials. You can make money selling it as I give large dis counts on the dozeu. Address, L. L. PICKETT, General Agent for So. Ca., Columbia, S. C. P. S.—You can make money work ing for my paper, “The Soldier.” •DEATH OF MR. COVINGTON. A Baptist Minister ef Florence Dies en the RallretA Train. [News and Courier.] Florence, September 30.—The Rev. B. G. Covington, for eight years pastor of the Baptist Church of this town died this morning of heart disease on the train between here and Latta whither be was going to fill an appoint ment. He had been in feeble health for several yeais. on which account he re signed the pastorate of the Florence church about a year ago. The attack was caused by his running to catch the tqaln. He complained of pain when he reached the depot. Mr. Covington was 54 years old anc had been in the ministry thirty years. He came here from Robeson County^N. C., and was a prime mover in the Baptist Orphanage. He leaves a wife but no children. editor exhibits, in •dvocatine bis Officially Endorsed. Greenville News. The wildest imagination of a writer of burlesque never conceived anything funnier than these resolu tions, which we find gravely set forth in the Laurensville Heareld: Bryson Alliance. 1 September 23,1893. / “Whereas, The public prints dur ing the past fen days are teeming with lurid accounts of the unfor tunate affair of the fi«n. J. L. M- Irby in Columbia; ar a -ereas, we can see that the anti pr ss is gloat ing and reveling over Colonel Irby’s blunder, not because of the affair it self, but because it was a reform leader who made tl.e slip. Therefore be it “Resolved, That wnile we are deeply pained that Senator irby uade this mistake of becoming intoxicated, vet we recognize the fact that be, like all of us, is but' i u -nan, and it is human to err. “2nd. That the ghoulish glee manifested by the radical anti press over Colonel Irby’s mistake is but a pretext to cast odium upon the re formers and alliantemen throughout the State. “3<L That the attacks came from a set of men *lio, many of them* not only drink liquor but get drunk every day in the week—and Sunday too; and it is all right because they are antis. “4th. That wt hereby extend out Cleaning Silverware About the last thing done to silver ware in the factories is to cleanse the surface of all grease and other mate rial used iu the polishing, a process that usually involves a deal of hare labor. A mechanic who had notec the expensive character of this work invented a bath in which the foreign substances that cling to the surface of silverware are easily and quickly removed. From this bath the silver ware comes clean and brilliant, The employers of the inventor have pat ented the process with his consent, and the patent is regarded as a valu able property. Johnson Oriental Soap is fur sup erior to all the other so—called met icine soap for beantifyymg the com plexion. Sold at Boyd’s Drag Store. Whe nyou ere in dialling top, leave your work at MASON’S New Jewelry Store, ON PEARL STREET. DOK8 AND WILDCURE K. R. G. ■■■er CtHlaints, Dyspepsia, Stoa aeh Trimbles ef Every iund, Rhea- ■atisH, Eearalgia and all diserders Kidneys sad Bleed. ef the W. G. DICW,x„ Cotton Mill. WANTED RECRUITS FOR THE THIRD Artillery, United States Army, sta tioned at Fort Fherson, Atlanta, Ga., and Fort Barrancas and Key West Barracks. Florida; able bodied white men of good character and habits, un married, between the ages of twenty- one and thirty, good pay, rations, clothing and medical attendance Ap plicants must be prepared to furnish satisfactory evidence as to age, charac ter and habits. For further informa tion call at Rendezvous, 1st Lieutenant C. W. FOSTER, 3d Artillery, Enter- S risc Hotel, Darlington, S. C., until ctober 15, 1893 G-in House Insurance Your Gin House Insured in FIRST CLASS COMPANIES At Lwwest Rates. Either for the Ginning Season or one year. For terms call on FMIK E. MEIT. YOUR ATTENTION. Our Fall and Winter stock is now open and we will be pleased .to have you examine same. Our line was never before better, and we can now give you as . goods for One Dollar as any legitimate dealer in the State. We give you below prices on a few leading articles: CLOTHING, ETC. Boys’ Suits, $1.25 to $6.00. Youths’ Suits, $3.50 to $7.50. Men’s Suits, $5.00 to $15.00. Men’s Shoes, $1.00 to $5.00. Ladies’ Shoes, $1.00 to $3.50. A Nice Umbrella for $1.25. Men’s Half Hose, 5c. to 25c. Ladies’ Hose, 5c. to 25c. Calicos, 4}c. to 71c. Ginghams, 51c. to 10c. GROCERIES. Bagging, 51c. Tics, 90c. and $1.10. Flour, $4.00 to $5.50. D. S. Bacon, 12ic. Shoulders, 12c. Hams, 15c. Leaf Lard, 121c. Coffee, 18c. to 25c. Rice, 41c. to 7c. Cheese, 12}c. to 131c. BLACKWELL BROS- SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Full line just received. Tablets from 5c. to 50c. Pencils, with rubber, 5c. up. Slates, bound and not bound, 5c. Ink, any color desired, 5c. Pen staffs, all colors, 1c. up. FULL LINE STATIONARY. Box paper from 10c. up. The Eagle Fountain Pen 10c., pens for same 1c. To be had in any quantity from Book and Toy Oompany. TESTED and proved fob years. Terry, Miss., April 81,1893. We have been using Dr. King’s ROYAL GERMETEUR for several years in our family, and have recom mended it to many others. It has always done what is claimed for it, far as tried, and I regard it as the best medicine we have ever had In our family. Mrs. J. 8. Halbert February 28,1898. My wife had been a great sufferer from catarrh for several years, and had tried a great many remedies without relief. One bottle of GERMETEUR gave her relief, and with every bottle used there is marked improvement, and we are ex perimenting a permanent cure. She has gained 20 pounds since commencing GERMETEUR. I was troubled with indigestion and insomnia. Two bottles of GERMETEUR made a new man of me. My appetite is good and my sleep sound and refreshing. Rev.J. H. Spurlin, Pastor First Baptist Church, Sturgis, Ky. Price: 91. 00; 6 bottles for 90.00. Free information, KING’S ROYAL GERMETEUR CO. Atlanta, Ga. GERMETEUR PILLS cure const < tutlon. 00 pills 20 cents Darlington Novelty Co., PeAX*! RDferoet. O. Alexander, Manager. f)rand Spring Opening. 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, WOODS <Sc WOODS. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. In this department we give ’em FITS?! It will be to your BE1VE-FIT, To buy your OUT-FIT, From us at a small PRO-FIT, If not we FOR-FEIT All claim to leadership in the business. We have no RIS-FITS, They are all CLOSE FITS. Come and let us give you a FIT. The Cleveland House, NEW MANAGEMENT AND NEWLT FORNISNED. YV, ISvana, Manager. THE SHOE DEPARTMENT Has always been one of our speciah and the styles we are displaying thi season will compare with any goods to b found. GROCERY DEPARTMENT. In this department we carry a full lin of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and on shelvesjare fielld with fresh Canned Good and niceties too numerous to mention. All goods are delivered free of charge. WOODS & WOOD®. V