The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-09-04
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Interesting Notes from Various Sour
CeS.
"A new temperance paper is to be
started in Sumter, as an organ of the
Good Templars.
Gen. E. w. Noise has been APP
pointed a judge in one of the depart
ment buildings at the Worlds Fair.
All the members of Congress from
South Carolina, except Mr.. Brawley,
voted in favor of the free coinage of
silver.
Mr.. III. l.. Darr has bought the out
fit of the Bishopville News and will
soon commence the publication of q
paper there.
The Columbia State is authority
for the statement that the Conserva-
tives will not put a State ticket in the
field next year.
Rev. Marion Gassaway, who re-
Baptist Theological Seminary, has left
for his field of mission work in Saltillo,
Mexico.
Secretary Holloway says the State
Fair is all right and will be held as
usual this year, satisfactory arrange
ments having been made with the rail-
roads for transportation.
The reunion of Harris battery at
Denmark was a grand time among the
old survivors,, a large crowd of whom
were present. Senator M. G.. Butler
was the orator of the day.
PROF. j. S. Newman, of Clemson
College, has written a letter to the
News and Courier proposing to raise a
fund of $4,000 to erect a monument
to John G. Calhoun at the college.
General Wade Hampton has been
elected by the ladies of Orangeburg to
deliver h Grafton at the unwilling of
the Confederate Monument on the 18th
of October, and has accepted the in
vitation.
Rev. w. d. Bewley, of Union, who
has been attending the Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary at Louisville, KY,
has been compelled to relinquish his
studies on account of i'll health, and
will engage III business again.
The report of the earnings of the
railroads of the State shows an increase
for the twelve months ending June 30,
1898, over the year previous of 49,
194.SI. This is q gratifying report
considering the stringency Of the
times.
"A white man from Clarendon
County named Adolphus. Sweat has
sued the city Of Sumter for $500 for
false Imprisonment. He claims that
he was arrested for carrying concealed
"SoPoio uhu 10 aU UlC U1llS dCUlIlS Us
q constable in the discharge of his
duty.
"A revival of gold mining may be
ooked for in the South in the near fu.
ture. This State has a number of pay.
ing veins if improved methods are put
to work on them, and a high authority
says it is no trouble to get capital to
operate these mines now since the
closing of the silver mines in the
West.
In the case against Chas. P. Bar
rett and others before U. S. Commits
sioner Calvert at Spartanburg last
week, II. b. Wyatt, a witness, told a
somewhat sensational story of how
Barrett wished to make the post office
at Wyatt's n money order office. He
said a great deal of money could be
made out Of it and after enough had
been gotten, to avoid any trouble the
whole damn thing" could be burnt
up and it could be said that the money
and books were destroyed in the fire.
Those "whole, souled Fisher boys
could be gotten to get 5000 or $500
worth of money orders and collect
them somewhere else. This could be
repeated till there was danger of being
detected. Wyatt refused to be a party
to such a fraud and the scheme fell
through.