The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-05-29

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last week to the Bluffton sufferers.
The 21st of June will be q short day
IL you have one of the Wilkes easy
chairs.
Col. j. H.. Wharton delivered an adj
dress at Tranquil, Abbeville county,
on Saturday last. 1t was children's
day, a great day and much enjoyed.
Round trip rates to Greenville to-day
$500; occasion the Gordon lecture
there tonight; tickets good until to-
morrow.
Gen. j. B. Gordondelivers his great
lecture, Last Days of the Confede-
racy" in the Opera House at Green
vile this evening.
President Craighead of Clemson
College will speak at the Presbyterian
College, Clinton, at the approaching
commencement.
Remember that six o'clock closing
begins with next Friday and be sure
to keep it in mind and provide all
| your indispensables before that hour.
Miss Rebecca Odom, who has been
one of the corps of the Graded School
teachers for the past session has re-
turned to her home in Marlborough,
S. @.
1t gives us pleasure TO acknowledge
an invitation to the Southern Inter
State immigration and Industrial Con-
gress 20 be held at Augusta on the Both
day of May.
Chairman L. D. Childs, Of the State
Prohibition Executive Committee,
issues a proclamation and calls for the
sending of delegates to the State Con-
vention, 7th June, at Columbia.
At the Methodist Conference which
has just been held at Memphis Bishop
Keener was appointed to preside over
the State Conference at Laurens
on the 21st of November.
The Gary Watts Guards, Capt. w.
L. Cunningham, have received their
arms and accoutrements and had their
first drill lear New Prospect on Satur-
day last.
Abbeville, Greenwood, Greenville,
Spartanburg, Union, Newberry and
Clinton, as manufacturing and educa-
tional points ought to wake up the Rip
Van Wrinkle town sleeping in their
center.
Farmers uniformly report the young
cotton as dying and doing badly. The
frosts of last week, succeeded by cold
nights and dry weather has been too
much for the tender plant and the pros
pect is dreary.
The stalwarts of Ora, in this county,
played the young giants of Fairview,
Greenville, at Gray Court, on Saturday
last. The score stood 26 to IL in favor
of the young stalwarts. Every body
turned out in the stirring hamlet of
Gray Court, and made it an all round
festive occasion.
The Grand Lodge X. of P. closed it's
annual session at Beaufort, 23d inst.
Laurens was proposed as the place for
it's next meeting but Sumter won. G..
c.. Featherstone was hOnOred with q
place on a standing cOmmittee-Law
and Supervision.
Palmetto Lodge A. F. M. this city
served at Ross & Richardson's restau-
Elightful collation.. A large number of
visiting brethren attended from adj
joining lodges and the I'd and Sd de-
| grees we're conferred.
The Mayor and Council are having
the dead branches of the public square
trees removed, improving their health
and appearance. Many of the trees
were seriously injured by the great
blizzard, but are recovering.
Miss Cleo Cunningham, daughter of
Capt. w. L. Cunningham was married
ford, Rev. Mr.. Daughertyo of Waterloo,
performing the ceremony. Let the
pathway of life be o long one strewn
with roses bespeaks THE ADVERTISER
for the young couple.
Capt. Robert Lites, q appointment citi-
zen Of Abbeville county, died at his
home at Troy on Sunday last. He
leaves a widow, who was Miss Mary
Byrd, of this county, a sister of Capt.
A. B. Byrd, now Of Anderson. Mrs.
Lites has many relatives and friends in
Laurens whose sympathies go out to
her in her bereavement.
Governor Tillman issues O call for
help for the white people on the coast
in this State who were put in a starv-
ing condition by the disastrous floods
last autumn. There should be q re-
spouse and The ADVERTISER will
cheerfully remit any contributions to-
ward these u unfortunate fellow cit
liens.
The County Medical Association
held its annual meeting in the Court
House on Monday last with a good at
tendance. Among other interesting
proceedings the following officers
were elected to serve the ensuing year:
President, DIR. j. P. Simpson,; LIST.
Vice-President, DR.. j.. @. WILDER, End
Vice-President, DR.. j.. III. Downey;
Secretary, DR.. H. X. Aiken; Treas
urer, DR.. II. b. Todd.
Harris Lithia is the next meeting
place, 4th Monday in July next.
On yesterday morning at about day
light near Clinton, Perry Rock, col
ored, was shot and killed byNDennis,
his brother. 1t appears that Dennis
called Perry to the door of Ibis cabin
about the hour named and on Perry
opening the door q shot was Hired and
Perry fell, shot in the right breast and
died in a short time, making no state
ment. A bundle Of clothes was subse.
quently found near by and a pistol on
the bundle. Dennis states that he and
Perry stole the clothes and three pis-
tolls the previous night and in trying
one of the pistols it accidentally dis:
charged with the stated result. II
also appears that the theft was com
mitted. Dennis' conduct. he auhee.