The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-10-07
THE NEWS OF THE STATE.
Some of the Latest Sayings and Doings Il
South Carolina.

Daily freight trains arc now run
Oh the Blue Ridge Railroad.
Chicken cholera prevails TO Il con
siderable extent in York county.
%. Il. Culbrcath's life was insured
Tor $4,000 in iavor of his children.
-Grccnvillc and pclzcr have been
placed in telephone communication.
The annual fair of tho Piedmont
Fair Association is only two weeks of.
The Ncwbcrry County Fair will
be held on the 2Sth, 10Th and 3Oth in
stant.
There were three deaths in Camden
during the month of Scptcmbcr-all
colorcd.
New buildings arc going up rapid
ly in Charleston and old ones being
improved.
M. A. Waldrop, ofGrccnvillc, cx-
hibits stalk of cotton with 1l3 ma,
turcd bolls.
The residence Of Mr.. Jerome G..
Miller, of York, was burnt by an acct
dental fire.
Capt. II. f. Edwards, Of Darling
ton, was found dead in his bed on last
Friday morning.
-Road-workcrs in some parts of
Abbcville county arc excused on ac-
count of headache.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod
OF South Carolina will meet at Lex
ington on the 23rd inst.
"A sturgeon weighing 100 pounds
Jumped into boat crossing Sanl-Bar
Ferry and was captured.
-Spartanburg banqucts the Green
wood, LaurcnS and Spartanbury Rail.
road men on the 18th inst.
The State Baptist Convention will
meet at Ncwbcrry on Thursday before
the third Sunday in November.
Robert J.. Connor, son Of Mr.. l..
ID. Connor, Of CokcSburv, was Killed
in a railroad accident in Arkansas.
"A protractcd meeting at the Bap-
tiSt church in Williamson has attracted
much interest and worked great good.
j. a. Attaway, of the Red Bank
section of Edgciicld county, claims to
have discovered coal deposit ON his
plantation.
"A young man of Abbcvilc county
gave COW and calf, a shotgun, a sow
and seven pigs and six dollars in cash
for a hound.
The next term Of Court for EDGE
field county will convene on the second
Monday in November. Judge IIud-
son will preside.
"A wild turkey gobblcr runs with
drove of tame turkeys in Orange
burg during the day, but at night goes
into the swamp.
Sarah Scott, a colorcd woman,
died suddenly on steamboat in
Charleston as she was on her way to
ST. Helena Island.
The good will, material, etc., of
the Rock Hill UcraM is offered for
sale by Francis w. Williams, assignee
Of j. Nj. Ivy II Co.
The Associate Reformed SYNOD Of
the South was in session several DAYS
in Due West. The next session .will
be held at Bethany, Miss.
John Benson, convicted Of killing
another colorcd man in Laurcns and
recommended to mercy, has been sen
fenced 10 be hanged November 20.
Capt. III. f. Edwards, of Palmetto,
Darlington county, was found dead in
his bed on the morning Of the 3Oth ult.
lie was perfectly well the night before.
William j. Cunningham was tried
last week in the Lancaster Court for
the murder Of Robert Bowers ut tho
Halle gold mine on May II, last and
acquitted.
w. C. Smith, of Anderson county,
from onc-siXtccnth of an acre expects
to make about 100 pounds of good
tobo ,, which at % cents n pound
would be worth S25.
The farmers of Eastern Kcrshaw,
where the cholera has been killing out
so many hogs recently, are thoroughly
disguised with hog raising and are
anxious to sell out their entire stock.
In Abbcvillc county, few DAYS
ago, colorcd woman living several
milos from the village, who has been
somewhat notorious for her immorali
ties, was visited and whipped by the
REGULATORS"
The new Catholic church at Abbc-
vile will be dedicated on the fourth
Sunday in this month with appropriate
ceremonies. Work on the new Meth
odist church in the same town is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The gin-housc of Mcdaniel a.
Brooks, at Modoc, Edgcfcld county,
was accidentally burned on the 2Gih
ult., together with 20 bales of cotton
belonging to farmers in the vicinity
Loss about $4,000; no insurance.
1t is said that Mr.. O'Shiclds, a
well known farmer in Spartanburg,
has hc'n warned TO leave the county
aitcr he gathers his crop, the charge
being that he warned the sheriff of tho
approach of the late lynching party.
George d. Wadlcy, Supcrintcnd-
cnt of Construction of the Georgia
Central Railroad System, will com
mcncc work on the Savannah Valley
Railroad Immediately, and expects TO
complete it inside of eleven months.
There arc thirty-scycn practising
physicians in NcwbcTy county, one of
whom is q colored man, DR.. u. w.
McDIorris, who graduated in 1888 at
Mcharry School Of Medicine of the
Central Tennessee College, Nashville.
There Wos n heavy frpshot I'm