The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-01-27
PITHY NEWS ITEMS.

Nh'thtI NON'pu ulil Is 10 ne eTtCteu
near Spartaa5urg. S. G.
tannery is being built at Kings
Mountain, N. G.
A shoe factory is being erected at
Statcsville, y G.
Tin is now being successfully mined
at Kings Mountain, n. G.
A cannery with cvaporating and
pickling departments v-u he .,..ab.
iishe at Rocl lsfsunt, NC.
A new plugsSs%cco factory is being
built at Raleigh, N. Q.
A new one set S'oolen mill is pro.
posed Mt Staunton Va.
DR.. f. Burke Haywood, Of Raleigh,
n. c., physician 1f prominence and
surgeon during the late war. died
Thursday.
Bishop Capers of the Episcopal
| church, is to have an official residence
at Columbia, S. G,
j. A. Strickland a counterfeiter has
been arrested at Aiken, s. c., by U.
s. officer.
The South Carolina Dispensary VIII
in future operate the Palmetto brewery
at Charleston
Rnleigh's Chamber of Commerce on
dorses the proposed North Carolina
exposition movement and calls on the
press and people To support the move.
ment.
| Governor Carr offers reward for
Orange Page and Mary Smith, who
murdered Ross Haywood, the colored
centennrinn at Raleigh n. G.
DR., Sampson Pooc, of Newberry, has
declared himself 8 candidate for Gov
ernor of South CaI0lina.
Marion NJ. Hutson has been al.
| pointed collector of customs Mt the
port of Beaufort, y. G by President
! Cleveland.
| Judge 1zlar, OF Charleston, S. c.,
hns filed mn order with the clerk ofthe
| court dccrecing that receiver shall
be appointed in the how famous Roy
| al Fertilizer Cos case
| A Shelby, n. G. dispatch says: &c.
| ID. Jones, n prominent young farmer
and magistrate, was foully murdered
by Lawson Howell, n negro near here
Particulars are ratHgre."
II has been discovered that persons
have been making mp fire in the
Episcopal church at Morganton, NJ
c., at night and playing cards by it.
W. f. Furr, of Stanley county, N.
c., IL the father of 22 children. He
has been married twice, his first WIFI.
being the mother of l3 and his lm
wife 9. All OF his children are marrir
except 6. Mr.. Furr is SO years ol,
but does not look to he over so
DIR. Farher. J~yish Rabbi at Macon,
Ga, fled from toEn Tuesday night,
taking large ambnints Of money Dor.
rowed from tho mtnbers of his con
gregntion. Great excitement prevails
among his r"oplJ
Tho military hohrd of Virginia, Gov.
ernor O'Ferrnll 5tcurring, has deci
ded that the bluo'fafgue uniforms now
in use in the United States army be
adopted instead OF the gray uniforms
Of the Virginia Volunteers.
The Confederate Veteran Camp Of
New York held its fourth annua, din
ner in honor of the memory OF Gen
Robert +. Lee on the Anniversary o'
his birthday Friday, January 19. Mrs
Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie Davi,
were present
One of the most prosperous railroad,
in South Carolina is the Georgia, Car
olina and Northern, which has only re
Gently been opened for through travel
The report Of the earnings for Novem
Der show healthy increase Of bust
ness They are Earnings for 1892
$40, 242.9l; 1898, s67, lO7. 16; increase
| $40, ,s64.27; per cent, 1912.
Sugar is now made absolutely fire.,
by the tariff committee of Congress.
| Printing was begun in Cambridp,
1889, New LoHdon, Conn, 100
Charleston, S. c., 1870. The Gazette
the first Charleston newspaper, was no
published until 1872.
| Chas. Holt, son of ex-Goverpo,
Holt, Of North Carolina, was married
Thursday to Miss Jones, daughter o
Gov. Jones, of Alabama.
IL is stated that there is enough
kaolin in Ashe, Jackson, Swain. Wa
tauga, Mitchell, Macon, Buncombe
Richmond, Guilford, Iredell, Anson
Burke, Mcdowell, Lincoln and Gas
ton counties, n. g., TO supply tn,
world with china.
| Sunday was the anniversary Of Gen
Stonewsll Jackson's birth, and tn,
Stonewall Camp Of Confederate Vet
Grams held memorial services in tn,
evening in his honor, in St John'i
Church, Portsmouth, Va The Rev
Beverly ID. Tucker delivered an ad
dress.
The largest cargo of perishsbI,
freight Except one Of truck that eyei
went out of Newbern, n. G., wa
taken North by the steamer Neus.
last Saturday. II consisted of fresl
fish, clans, oysters and eggs. Their,
was over q hundred tons OF them