The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-11-04
THE NEWS OF TIE STATE.
Some OF the Latest Sayings and DoIngs
South Carolina.

Inc Marion county falr VIII be
held this week.
Tho Mcthodists of Fort Mill are
buildinga parsonage.
An epidemic of matrimony is
sweeping over Spartanburg.
The new Presbyterian church at
Wcdgcficld was dedicated OH Sunday
before last.
The survivors of the Palmetto
Sharpshooters arc arranging for re-
union next year,
The heavy rains last week did
considerable damage to the cotton i'm
the Piedmont section.
"A kennel for the breeding and
training of pointer and setter dogs has
been established on farm near Rock
Hill.
Geo. E. Watson, son of Mr.. I. III.
Watson, of Marion, dropped dead at
his home in NIillcdgcville, Ca, re-
Gently.
The Collcton Baptist Sunday
School Convention will be held at
Bethlehem church on Friday, Novem-
hcr 13.
Jonathan Gary, of Edgcticld coun-
ty, was robbed of $255 while in the
crowd around the circus ticket wagon
on Monday.
Some unknown person fatally shot
one of Mr.. Benjamin Snclgrove's
horses in his stable at Gilbert Hollow
on Friday night.
After four trials in the courts at
Abbevillc, it has finally been decided
that the goose is not domestic animal
under the statute.
THE town of Lancaster was raidcd
on Saturday night by party of street
lamp smashcrs, sign changers, house
rockers, step movers, etc.
-Thirty-thrcc persons arc now con-
fined in Edgcticld. Jail charged with
being implicated in the Culbrcath
murder. They will apply for bail this
week
Sam and Gus Seawright, two boys
of Abbcvillc county, have averaged two
hundred pounds of cotton each every
favorable day since the picking season
commenced.
--Chas. Chant and Bella jackson,
colorcd, of Collcton, acting husband
and wife, quarrclcd about another
woman, when Chants wife stabbed
and killed him.
Representative l.. =. Jones, of
Edgeiicld, who has been living near
that town for some years, has removed
to Ridge Spring, having sold his plan
tation and residence to John III. IIol-
lingsworth.
Mr.. j. G. Whittcn, steward of the
Anderson county poor house, has made
this year $50 gallons Of sorghum mo-
lasscs from small piece of land. This
will be more than enough to supply
the paupcrs.
Between thirty and forty thou
sand dol lars arc due Wonord College
from subscriptions to the "Ccntcnnial
Endowment Fund.-" and on bonds
given to the Endowment Fund of
Woflord College,"
A colorcd boy in Lancaster ran a
race on foot against another on an old
poor horse. Tho little chap who ven
turcd to pit his speed against the
horses was ovcrtakcn in the race, run
over and fatally injured.
Mr.. James Lagroomc, of Edgcfcid
county, has farm valued at SD 900,
on which he makes about one hundred
bales of cotton every year, besides an
abundance of small grain and corn,
and raises the finest stock in the county.
"A herd OF fine jersey cattle, sew
cral head of pure Angora goats, Bcrk-
shire hogs, etc, will be sold at public
sale in Lancaster on November 20.
They were the property of the late Dir.
Joseph III. Foster, breeder of fine
stock.
Trustworthy information indicates
that the cotton crop of Ncwbcrry
county will be about tho same as it
was last year. The corn crop has
been excellent, and especially in the
bottom lands along the Saluda and
Bush Rivers.
The expenses of the recent term
of Court at Lancaster were 31.O70. 35.
The whole expenses of Court to the
county for the present year, for grand
and petit jurors, States witnesses,
bailiils and meals furnished Jurors
while engaged in trying cases, have
been $2,85S.35.
Mr.. b. d. Springs, of Fort Mill.
VI" NN''ey1 iSuiiLCi
pounds of lint from 100 pounds of seed
cotton of the Pcterkin variety. Mcssrs.
j. r. Allen and w. j. Rawlinson
planted the same variety and the yield
was forty-one pounds of lint to the
hundred pounds of seed cotton.
While prospecting for phosphate
on the Carrier lands, New Road, Il. o.,
Collcton county, one day not long
since, Charles Campbell, son of Col.
A. u. Campbell, killed three rattle
snakes and water rattle. The rattle
snakes averaged four and half feet,
and had from eleven to thirteen rattles
each.
"A Presbyterian church was organ
lied in Mount Carmel, Abbevillc coun-
ty, oil Monday, October 10, consisting
of thirty members. The following
officers wcrc elected, admitted and
installed; Eldcrs--J. w. Morrah, G.. A.
White, X. h. Morris. Deacons-A. III 4.
McAllister, j. j. White, +. l.. Nc
Celyy.
David A. Long, of North Caro-
lima, who married Miss Alice Evans,
of Rock Hill, on March IL, 1885, and
was arrested ten days afterwards upon