The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-06-02
ESTABLISHED 1912.
PI'THY NEWS ITEMS.


max, who was under sentence to be
hanged at Milton, Caswell county, n.
c., in June until July 6.
The construction of water supply
is talked of at Wsllhalln, S. G.
The Greenwood, s. c., Oil Co., is
building ginnery, and machinery
consists of eight 70 saw gins with
handling and cleaning apparatus.
The Pocahontas, Va, Cotton Mfg.
Co., is adding 5000 worth of new
machinery to its cotton mill
The Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd
Fellows will erect an orphanage at
Abingdon.
The Ladson Presbyterian Church
Columbia, S. c., will erect a new ed
flied to cost about $4,000.
The contractors for building the
Pickens & Easley Railroad, South
Carolina, will soon commence track
laying. The roal will be nine miles
long.
Governor Carr set July 13 as the date
OF execution of Calvin and Thomas Co
ley, the negroes who murdered the
peddler Tucker, in Franklin county.
Louisburg, N. c., is tho place of exc.
cution.
Fire destroyed the lumber dry kiIps
and 10000 feet of lumber at George
town, 8. G.
Large deposits of Besscmer ore have
1t Is reported, been found in Stokes
county, N. c., on the property of the
Carolina Iron, Mining & Investment
Co.
The agent of European coloniza
ton company is said to have decided
to make Fort Worth, Texas, the center
of extensive colonization work.
Church & Malone have obtained II
bond on the Newell mine, in Cabarrus
county, y. c., and will at once put in
machinery to develop same. Church
X Malone are said to be agents Of VIM.
Malone, of Petersburg, Va. and Jno.
Z. Jones, of Gold Hill, Neb., both
members of Congress.
Fire at Spartanburg, s. c., de
stroycd the warehouse of the Port Roy
al and Western r. r., with guano and
30 bales of cotton.
Another cotton mill to be built nt
South Norfolk, Va, at cost of 5000,
600 Is being talked of.
The Powhatun Mfg. Co.'S knitting
mill at Lambert's Point, Va. near
Norfolk, is working on full time, en-
ploying over 300 hands!
The Hermitage Cotton Mills.
Reidsville, n. c., after 3 months idle
ness, have resumed. G. Clarke is
Supt.
The Greenwood Is. c. Cotton
Mills have declared per cent. semi
annual dividend and reelected w. l..
burst rs president.
The Green Hill Wooden Mill, To-
Gated near Mt. Airy, n. c., will be put
in operation again very soon by Nj. j.
Hawkins, of Warrenton, who recently
purchased the plant. The entire ma
chinery is being overhauled.
Ground wns brokon this week on
Coddle creek, near Concord, n. c.,
for the new cotton mills of the G.. W.
Patterson Mfg. Co. They expect to
have everything completed and the
machinery i'll readiness for the coming
cotton crop.
The Union Is. C.) Cotton Mils
G,st shipment Of cloth la,,
Friday. The mill wiz ~ .u1 -, q.
aud day, orders having been received
to keep it constantly busy six months
ahead.
II Is reported from Columbia, S.
c., that Aretas Blood, of Manchester,
N. H., and other stockholders interest
ed in the new cotton-duck mill ut Co
lumbia are preparing 10 organize n
company to build another mill at the
same place.
Active preparations are under way
| for the early commencement of work
at the Newport News, (Ns.) ship ward
on the three vessels TO he built for the
United States Navy. Some OF the ma
terial for these boats has already ar
rived, and the work of construction
will, it is expected, he begun within
the next few days.
Governor Tillman left Columbil
Saturday for New York to deliver nj
address before "A temperance conven
ton on the dispensary system.
Senator German, OF Maryland, is q
very sick man