The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-12
BRIEF MENTION.
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by n. O. Pyles.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
South Carolina Dispensaries In NUMBER
of counties In the state are In full blast.
The monthly meetings Of the COLUMBIA
Medical Society are both instructive ana 30
The meetings of the State Alliance will be
held at Walhalla Oh the Goth inst;
A coroner's jury OF Greenville, has returneo
a verdict that Mrs. Rose Anna Evans, VINO
died IN that county some Time ago, WEE
poisoned by her husband, Marion Evans.
The State Press Association will meet IN
Colum bia op the 18th, inst.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad Will
fight the Dtspensary law.
County Teachers Institute are In session IN
several counties 10 the State.
The eighteenth annual commencement o.
the Orphans Seminary WAS held at Cllntop
on the night OF the 2Sth Of June.
MIR. John D. Rivers was drowned on SUN
vans Island beach on the 4th Inst, while
endeavoriug 10 rescue number or LADIES
DR.. W.T.. G. Bates, State Treasurer. has
been elected president Of the Globe Phosphate
Company, OF Columbia. -.
The Asylum has TO patients within IL.
walls: The highest ~ numoer ever Known ~
Jerry Hennegan, coiored, was hanged al
Bennettsville on the 7th inst, for the crime
OF arson.
convice from Charleston was shot and killed
on the evening OF the 7th inst, while trying
| to escape.
THE UNION.
Investigations show that there nre many
fraudulent pensioners whose names shou 10
be dropped from the rolls. One man Is get.
ting sl2OO per month because he has two
corns on one toe.
The Youngest telegraph operator In oa Amsri srl
Is only five years old and can call up opera
tors and receive messages accurately.
The recent decline In the price OF silver has
caused several mines TO suspend operations.
that has Introduced the kindergarten feature
In TO It's schools.
A Baptist Congress will be held in Augusta
Ga, in November.
session 23l days, adjourned on the Sd inst.
A tornado passed through Iowa on the
9th inst. destroying many lives ana doing
great damage 10 property. ~ Land
er OF the Peoples party In Georgia, opened
on the 4th Instant what he terms bis cam
psign OF political education,
The biggest gun at the Columbian Exposi
tiOn is lust Al feet long, 81 feet hlgh, weighs
HO. 900 and carries q ball weighing Two tons
Augusta, Ga, church goers are considering
the matter OF putting electric fans into tneii
churches.
American Bimetalic League, has Issued q cal
for q naliopal convention OF that league to
meet In Chicago, August the 1st
The fourth was celebrated In Chicago WIFE
great maguihcence.
Many recent bank failures are [ePorteo
throughout the country.
Vice.Presldent, Stevenson and a party o.
personal friends we're 10 have left Chicago or
the 10th inst, for tour OF the faclnc eoAs
and Puget Sound country,
-Four men were drowned In Lake Tango
New, on the 4th inst, by the upsetting OF
small boat. ~ A.
A new electric car moter has been invented
by two young men OF Augusta, Ga, A.,
The average daily attendants, at e Ine
Worlds Fair during nggd6 lne month o. June wal
MIR. Henry Hill. OF Warrenton, Ga died or
the 4tb inst from blood poisoning caused
from stepping on brass bucki
During panic At the Worlds Fair GROUNDS
on the 4ih inst, niue persons were seriousl,
Great distress is prevalent In Western Kan
sas because of a scarcity OF provisions.
The Georgia Central railroad Will be solo 10
December II no satisfactory arrangements ars
made before that time.
Congress- will convene on the 7th OF August
to consider the financial condition o. the
country. -,,
Will be repealed when Congress convenes.
Statistics show that the South has Win
stood the financial cricis better than any
her portion OF the country.
THE New York World saps the Cotton Plant
In the South is In q poor condition.
THE WORLD.
Missionaries are being murdered in China
A London dispatch says an explosion 90
Cured ON the 4th instant In lngrams Coliery
Thorphill. Yorkshire, at time when while
AS men and boys were in the mine.
The boilers OF steamer on the 4th lnst.
ex ploded killing 28 persons.
Cholera is still prevalent In France.
students continue TO riot In Paris.
Prominent officials at Seville are In con-
stant fear OF being blown up with dynamatlt
and anarchists. Am
ole has only "a newspapers-lO dailies, IA ai
longer Intervals.
The post Of Vera Cruz. Mexico, is TO have
all arsenal and floating dock. N. o. Pyles.