The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-10-14
THE NEWS OF THE STATE.
Some OF the Latest SayinGs and Doings
South Carolina.


The Citadel Academy is well under
way, with excellent prospects.
-Newberry College has op pened
under very favorable auspices.
B. f. Welsh has been acquitted of
the murder of w. G.. Moore, at Lam
easter.
The Green Pond, Walterboro and
Branchville railroad is in fair way to
be built.
Il. NJ. Wolfe, of Orangeburg, has
been acquitted of the homicide of
Albrecht.
An amalgamation of the Huguonot
and Camperdown mills at Greenville
is proposed.
-Abbeville is to have a bank and
Major A. b. Wardlaw has been elect
ed President.
The New Brighton Hotel on Sulli-
van 8 Island is being put in trim for
winter travel.
The executive committee of the
Piedmont Fair Association is booming
the coming enterprise.
David Miller and James Carson
had each hand and arm laccratt q b ;
cotton gins in Spartanburg.
Congressman Tillman will address
the survivors of Colleton at Walterboro
on the 18th of November.
The State Convention of the Wo.
mems Christian Temperance Union
will be held in Greenville OH the 18th
Inst.
Three prisoners escaped from
Newbcrry Jail few nights ago by
taking the lock off the door of their
cell.
Henry Butler, colorcd, accidental
ly shot and killed another colorcd man
in Bordeaux, Abbeville county, last
week.
The South Carolina College has
opened with about 175 students. The
prospects of the institution are brighter
than usual.
The Rev. a. w. Moore, of Lam
caster, was thrown from buggy in
Laurens county last week, and pain
fully injured.
Owing to the increase Of business,
two trains day now run on the Abbc-
vile branch of the Columbia & Green
vile Railroad.
MIR. G.. w. Williams, of Lancas-
ter, had his house destroy yed by an in
cendiary fire last week. Loss about
$500. No insurance.
The Rev. II. NJ. Allen, of Hall
Township, Anderson county, was
thrown from his horse and had his
right arm, just above the elbow,
broken.
Mr.. j. d. Avinger, of Vance's
Ferry, claims to be the youngest Con-
federatc soldier, having entered service
when he was only thirteen years and
six months old.
The Columbia postoffice needs
separate delivery windows for ladies,
as the crowds are such at the single
window now used as to preclude the
presence of ladies'.
j. E. Elliott, of Lancaster county,
fired two loads Of bird shot into the
head ofa negro named George Carter
who had attacked him with the heavy
end Of a wagon whip.
Henry Ashley, an aged coiored
man who had affiliated with the Dem.
ocrats, died in Aiken last week, and
was buried by his white friends, the
negroes having ostracised him.
Governor Thompson has offered
reward for the arrest Of parties en-
gagged in the lynching of Culbreath,
and has instructed Attorney General
Miles to assist in the prosecution.
An Orangcburg farmer has exper-
imentcd in raising tobacco, and comes
to the conclusion that it Is a more val
uable crop, and that it would require
less cultivation and less fertilizer than
cotton.
Major Joseph Carter, trial justice
at Carter's, Colleton county, in comm.
down stairs on lhe evening of October
z, stepped on small dog and fell,
breaking his arm in which he was
during the war. He is doing
we'll.
Mr.. Robert Brodie, of Aiken,
seized an immense hawk by the wings
as 1t was endeavoring to carry of one
of his chickens, when the savage bird
insalted it's ialons in his legs and held
OH until Mrs. Brodio decapitated it
with hatchet.
The main statue for the Calhoun
at Charleston has been fin.
.ohoo oho VIII Oo ohippCu kIou Ndplcb
in few days. The statue Ia of bronze
and represents the great statesman in
the act of rising from his senatorial
chair. 1t will surmount the monu.
ment.
The Adjutant and Inspector.G Gen.
aral Of tho United States has prepared
uniform rules for infantry, artillery
and cavalry practice, and General
Manigault will promulgate the rules at
an early date in this State, with the
hope of securing uniformity of prac-
tice here.
Mr.. C. L. Payseur, OF Lancaster,
bought as old gold an old-fashioncd
with the following inscrip-
ton on L.: "This is tho picture of
Fcnwick, Esq, of South Car
olina, grand son of Robert Fenwick,
Esq, of Stanton in the County of
Edward Fenwick
was born In South Carolina January
22d, 1921, and died July 8, 1875"
"A gentleman just from Charleston
says that DIR. Bellinger will be acquit-
la1 10 triaA fnt, tho Etllfnn, af DEln.,