The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-08
NO. 36.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Interesting Notes from Various So,
CeR.

Interesting Notes from Various Sour.
ces.
The Seaboard Air Line has taken
in charge the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens Railroad and will here
after operate the same.
The Chester county board of
control has decided to open dispen.
sary at Chester, and has appointed Mr..
L. Mod. Hood as dispenser.
-Hart's battery will have reunion
at Denmark on August 30th. GeneralL
NJ. c. Butler, Wade Hampton and
Stephen d. Lee have been invited to
attend.
ID. Nj. Langford, agent of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad, has been
arrested at Prosperity for delivering a
keg OF whiskey to the owner thereof
He at once gave bond in the sum of 5000
for his appearance at court.
Mr.. j. A. Schwerin, of Sumter, has
entered suit against the Atlantic
Coast Line in behalf of his wife for
$1,000 damages for injuries received
several weeks ago by the collapse of a
bridge at the Mill street crossing of
this road.
"A large party left Anderson last
week on an excursion to Arkansas
Texas and other portions of the far
West. The majority of them are pros
pecting and few of them will pro
badly settle in Texas.
On Friday last, in accordance with
requisition made by the board of trus-
4ees, a carload of forty convicts was
sent up to Rock Hill to work on the In
dustrial and Normal College. This
makes seventy-five convict laborers
now at work in Rock Hill.
The Coast Line has heretofore en-
loyed a monopoly Of the profitable
Florida travel. The building of the
air line extension of the South Bound
below Savannah forces it to shorten
line or lose it's business. The connec-
tion at Jessup will save sixty miles of
tra,e ell.
The Thornwell Orphanage will be-
gin the first year in its own technical
school in September. A granite build
ing, 56 by 100, three stories, has Just
been completed, and 1t is something
new under tho sun for South Carolina.
The whole plant has cost about $4,000,
all volunteer gifts.
Tho Cherokee Falls cotton mill OF
York County will be closed for short
time, partly on account of the strin-
gency in the money markets, and also
to mako changes in order to get more
power for operating the looms and
other machinery, which will be added
this winter.
Invitations have been issued to q
grand reunion of Confederate veterans
at Lexington, S. c., August 81. Gen.
John D. Kennedy of Camden has been
invited to deliver the oration of the day.
Col. Zimmerman Davis of Charleston
has been asked to make an address in
behalf of Compay F., Fifth South Caro-
lima Cavalry, Buffers Brigade.
Judge Hudson has filed supple
mcntary opinion to his last decision in
the Darlington dispensary case. He
says among other things that Justice
Popes order was not intended to dis
solve his previous order of injunction
but was intended to stay proceedings
also that j. b. Floyd, dispenser, was
guilty of contempt in violating his
order of injunction.
The Baptists Of York County have
perfected all arrangements for the es-
tablishment of the Baptist High School
at Yorkville. The school will be
opened on January |. Rev. r.. II. Grif-
fifth, ID. d., of the Limestone Institute,
was elected president of the proposed
institution. The Kings Mountain Mill
tary School property has been secured,
and the building is now being placed in
first class condition.
The Nickel Savings Bank of Char
lesion has made an assignment to
Julian Mitchell, Jr, for the benefit of
its creditors without preference. The
statement shows the liabilities of the
bank to be $4,000 and the nominal
assets $41,0O0. The deposit account
amounts to $5,O 600 only and the assignee
is of the opinion that the deposi-
tors will be paid in full. A netting of
the creditors will be held on the 9Th
instant. The assignment was not un-
expected in he business circles.
Mr.. l.. g Deschamps, son of the
late Senator Deschamps, of Clarendon
County, was waylaid and brutally mur-
dered by an enemy supposed to be in
theimediate neighborhOod on Sunday
morning. He had walked out and
after staying some time his family be-
came uneasy and diligent search was
made for him by the entire neighbor-
hood, but his body was not found until
about o'clock Monday afternoon. He
was shot with a gun heavily loaded
with buckshot, some ten or twelve TAX
ing effect in the neck and face. His
assassin was hid in thick cluster of
bushes and shot him as he was walking
along without any warning.
"A monument has recently been
erected in the church yard of the First
Presbyterian church, Columbia, to
Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, whose
mother was the founder, and who was
herself the leading spirit, and for
many years regent of the Mount Ver-
non Association. The monument is in
the style of the early English Gothic,
solid in structure, but light in outline.
On the head of the monument is a
medallion in bronze; at the foot is the
coat of arms, and on the right the fol-
lowing inscription :" Ann Pamela
Cunningham, born 18th August, 1916,
and died the I'd May, 1875, at Rose
mont plantation, the family home in
Laurens county, S. g."