The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-07-18
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Interesting Notes from Various Sou,
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T Mrs. Preston s. Brooks was criti.
cally Ill last week at the residence of
her son.in.law, Capt. v. e. McBee, in
Columbia.
Governor Tillman has asked for
Tour hundred stands of arms from the
United States government to be used
at Clemson College.
Governor Tillman has appointed
Mr.. L. j. Duckett school commissioner
OF Laurens County, in place of L. P.
Davenport, resigned.
The South Carolina State Dental
Association viii convene in its twenty
third annual session, at Columbia, on
Tuesday, August sth.
The Grand Lodge of l. o. G. T. of
South Carolina will meet in Yorkville
on Tuesday, July 25, and continue in
session until the next day.
The assignment Of Citadel cadets
to Clemson College has been with
drawn, as Lieut.. Donaldson does not
need their assistance in drilling the
students.
Capt. J. Ravenel Mac beth, formerly
OF Charleston, died at Monks Corner,
July 1st, after short illness. He was
q gallant officer of the first South Caro-
lima Artillery, G. S. a.
Charles l.. Simons, for twelve
years money order clerk in the post
| Office in Charleston, died on the llth
inst. 1t is generally thought that he
worked himself to death
The County Alliances all over the
state are passing resolutions calling
Tor the repeal of the Sherman law, and
the substitution for it of an act provid-
ing for the free doinage Of silver.
Mr.. j. G. Blair, of York County.
reports that he harvested this year rs
bushels of wheat from bushels sown.
Inc wheat was sown in two patches,
and the better of the two yielded So
bushels from bushels sown.
The railroads of the State have
the State Fair, but this rule has been
abrogated, and exhibitors will pay
1relght hereafter on all articles sent to
the Fair, which will decrease exhibits
in the future.
-Alliancemen will have rally at
Greenwood on the 10Th inst. and every
effort will be made to make it q monster
affair. Governor Tillman and other
prominent Alliancemen will make ad.
dresses. Reduced rates will be given
on the railroads.
Two Mormon preachers have been
arrested by the citizens of Woodford,
Barnwcll County, and ordered to leave
the country. The friends of the Nor
mons tried to rescue them, but the peo-
pie were determined to get rid of them,
and sent them off under strong
guard.
Isaac Mitchell (colore6) and his en-
tire family, consisting of five persons,
were poisoned last week in Charleston
Mitchell and daughter Ada are dead,
and the others are critically ill. The
physicians who made the post mOrtem
agree that the victims died from arseni-
cal poison.
The next annual meeting of the
State Teachers Association will be
held in Spartanburg, August 2, 3 and
1. Through the generosity of Presi-
dent Wilson, the grounds and buildings
of Converse College will be thrown
open and placed at the disposal of the
Association.
Judge Gary decided that the court
had no jurisdiction in the dispensary
case at Columbia, as he had no right to
go back and pass upon the question of
fact involved in the action of the county
board OF control. The board did not
exceed its authority in appointing
dispenser, and it was their business to
decide whether the petition was signed
by majority Of freehold voters.
-Adjutant General Farley has paid
the State troops their annual appropria-
tion. The number of men present at
the inspections this year was $500. The
amount divided among them was $IO.-
600. This is the first time the State
troops have ever been paid OFF so early
In the year. but as several companies
desired to attend the Worlds Fair, and
several expect to go into camp, Cen
eral Farley decided to pay them at
once.