The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-09-16
TaN NEass On fan srArn.
Some OF tho --latest Sayings and Dolnss In
south Carolina.

south Carolina.
Hog cholera prevails to a con-
siderable extent in Marion county.
-Cowpens has three brides, aged
respectively Is, Ia and 10 years.
Henry Berry, n colored preacher,
LOST his hand in a cotton gin ut Rock
Hill.
Marshal Hamilton, colorcd, was
suftocatcd by foul air in a well in York
county last week.
Work is progressing on the foun-
dation of the Calhoun monument i'm
Marion Square, Charleston.
Mr.. III. N. Emlyn, of tho Daily
Record, has been duly installed as an
alderman of Columbia.
M. p. Maycs, Jr., has been APP
pointed postmaster ut Maycsvillc, Sum.
ter county.
Thus far about one hundred bales
OF cotton have been shipped from the
Marion depot.
"A public meeting in the cause of
of education was held at Lancaster
Courthouse OH Monday night.
The Abbcvil!c High school opened
on Monday with tho promise of a sue.
ccssful session.
-Jcrc. Williams, colorcd, fell out of
n boat in Edisto River, near Orange
burg, last week and was drowned.
Afr. Julian A. Sally of Orange
burg, with his doublc-barrcl, downcd
two bucks that attempted to pass him.
An agricultural society has been
organized in WATERFORD Of which
Col. II. S. Bcdon was elected prcsi-
dent.
The Tooth anniversary of Plum
Branch Church, Edgciicld county, will
be celebrated on Tuesday, October
18th.
AT the close ofthe fiscal yoGr, there
will be Il surplus in the treasury of the
State lunatic asylum. There arc 6O4
inmates.
Mr.. r. b. Lowry, of York, has a
doublc-hcadcd king snake, which he
Killed IN the road before discovcrin g
its s~ingularity.
Mr.. w. "A. Carncs, of Lancaster,
recently had about sixty feet square of
q patch of cotton completely killed by
lightning,
Charleston, Columbia and Green
vile are the only places in South Car
DINA which come under the ten cent
immediate letter delivery system.
The subscribers TO the telephone
exchange in Columbia are indignant
at a threatened increase of rates from
$50 to 800 a year.
From 225 to 275 hands have been
working on the Columbia Canal for
the last month. The work is reported
as progressing satisfactorily.
Mr.. II. S. Galloway has Que of the
largest brick kilns ever burnt in Able
vile county. There arc 100, 600 bricks
IN it, and it has sixteen eyes.
The board Of councilmcn of New
berry have passed an ordinance re-
curing that all births and deaths that
occur in that town shall be registered.
The earnings of tic Chcraw and
Chester Railroad for the month of July
1859, amount to Sl,5l8 0S, an increase
OF Sl5G 80 over the receipts for the
same month last year.
There is n young lady III Orange
burg Wh0 runs Il farm and makes
from thirty to forty bnlcs of cotton n
year, beside sothcr crops. She doesn't
u 10 marry, however.
"A party of young mer paid Dr..
CAN'T $40 for the privilege of cutting
the dam of II of his fish ponds near
Aiken and caught only nineteen suck
ers. This is II true fish story.
Mr.. Henry George, who resides
near Carriers P~Ostoficc, Colleton coun-
ty, picked n peach from one ofl,is trees
measuring ten inches in circumference
and four inches in diameter.
The telephone company has given
notice to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Ncwbcrry
that The exchange in that town will be
closed ON the 2ith of October, rs the
business fails to pay expenses.
Capt. X. G. Billings, of Lancaster,
sat down on n snake supposiug il TO he
stump, got mp hurricdly anu made
tracks honicward, when he straddIcd q
ycllow.jackct's nest, but got away
without serious injury.
Joseph A. McEachcrn has eight
acres On mill pond) of the finest rice
ever seen in Marion county. IL will
average six feet high, is well headed,
and good judges estimate that it will
yield from 80 to 100 bushels per acre
'NfS ia ihtillCu ID. i . lpONu,
employed as a train hand on a freight
train on the South Carolina Railway,
fell between the cars near Branchville
last Tuesday morning and was run
over and instantly killed.
Judge Kcrsh =. in his charge TO
the grand jury in cdgcllcld, directed
attention to the custom among trial
justices Of compromising eases of lar.
ccny. Such action is unlawful and
unwisc in policy.
"A meeting of the citizens of CAL
lloun, Bordeaux and Magnolia town.
ships, was held on Saturday at Mount
Carmel, Abbcvillc county, for the
purpose of asking the buyers of seed
cotton to desist from their business.
Mr.. G. III. Sanders, of Kershaw,
killed n strange bird among a flock of
doves. and found it to he n carrier
pigeon turned loose in Pensacola.
Florida, and bound for 70 Courtlapdt
street, New York.
DAINTY sheriff Hunhno or EJ.o