The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-03-31

served during the evening, but the
chief feature will be the selling of
aproI.s, plain and elaborate, made by
the ucft hands of the Spartan beauties.
Colonel j. Wash Waits, President
of The Lanrens County Agricultural
Society, does not think that society has
me power I" send Delegates To the
Fihmc,s' Convention ut Columbia on
ms Z9ih April, and such II dcirga!io,,
IN his "pilior, would be out OF place.
Nearly 81 900 has been raised for
rebuilding the baptist Church at Gram
lieviIlc recently destroyed b, fire. The
new church will be erected on Mont
@"inery street, II most desirable lot
having been presented fur that pur-
posr by tie Grunitcvillu Cotton Mills
Company.
Lieut.. Maus has made ~ supple.
mental report in reference to lhr mur-
der Of Captain Crawford bv Mexican
troops, aud it has been sent to Wash
ln2ton. Ii contains his own report
and statements of Lieut.. Shipp, Mr..
iiorh ana the hospital steward, all
white, who were present at the time.
> 1t is related that n shrcwd mill
man in Maine that when asked whether
the knights of Labor affected his bust
ness unfavorably. he answered: "Oh,
no; not ut all When they wanted to
start Il lodge In our town | Joined it
win all my o~vcrSccrs, and we are
running 1t in Il very satisfactory man
ncr for all hands"
There is a widow near State Line
Church., ~Spartanburg county, who
owns a good old~>tashioncd rifle aud Il
Shotgun, and she knows how to use
them. She now aud then puts in her
appearance at II me%ighborhOod shoot
ing march ani always takes The prize.
\ hawk wuul,i stand Il bad chance
foolIng around her spring chickens.
Thomas Hamilton, cX-mcmber of
the Legislature of South Carolina,
died 1t Beaufort last week. Ham.
ZION wa Il member OF The Legislature
IN 1876, and was one Of the three col
oicd members who first gave in their
adhesion to the Hampton government
and secured a quorum for the Demo
cratic House oi Representatives.
Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New
WOFid, has sent to the governors
otthc New York hospital n check for
$4,000, the amount Of his first Years
salary as II Representative in Congress
from the Ninth District. This dona-
ton is to be used in cndowing a per
inancnt bed in the hospital for the
benefit of sick and disabled newspaper
workers Of every kind.
The Committee on Agriculture Il,
Washington will make an appropria
ton for the continuance OF The tea
farm at SummcrviIc, but the amount
will probably be reduced to $4,000
COMMISSIONS Coleman, it is said,
was opposad To any appropriation for
That purpose, but the friends of the tea
farm urged the matter before the com
mittec with SO much vigor that the
appropriation above mentioned will
be recommended.
--On Friday last at Branchvillc,
while some gentlemen were shooting
at n mark with Il parlor rife, the bali
glanced on the side of the tree on,
which the mark was placed and hit It
hntIt two.vearold boy upon the front,
step OF the store. The bali was from
u - cartridge and seem to have struck
the clild's leg sideways, cn,rri.,.
sqnnrcly the back Of the leg abuu,
fhr"" CT four inches above The heel,
making Il very painful wound.
-.nc Edmund. resolutions were
adopted by the Senate OH Friday last.
These resolutions cuncur in the report
OF the majority OF the judiciary com
mit,rr, cou,ic!nn the Attorney General
tor refusing Ia transmit certain paI,rra
demanded by The Scntc, and condemn
the discharge of Union soldiers ana
The appointment of cX-Conlcdcrutcs.
Before the last resolution came to "A
vote, Butler said. if he had time h,
could demonstrate that the Republicans.
party had violated tic law relating
to soldiers ten times, while the present,
administration had not departed from
it once.