The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-05
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Interesting Notes from Various 9. Sour
CeS.

Interesting Notes from Various.sour
CeS.
The Sumter Freeman nominates
Hon. w. ID. Evans ior the United States
| Senate.
DIR. l.. G. Stephens, OF Barnwell,
has gone to San Francisco, Cal, as a
delegate to the American Medica! AS,
sociation.
The ST. Matthews cotton seed oil
mill, in its first years operation has
earned for the stockholders dividend
of 333 per cent.
The people of Clarendon are anx-
ious for Hon. j. e. Tindal to make the
race for Governor, believing that he
can do moro towards solidifying the
reform faction than any other man
mentioned for the place.
An old weather observer calls at
tentiou to it as a remarkable fact that
nearly all hailstorms in this section
so from west to east, and that storm
from north to south, though occurring
occasionally, is something very un-
usual.
Prominent citizens OF Lancaster
have, through published card in the
local paper, gien warning to all who
may persist in selling liquor in that
town that they will be prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law for every
violation.
c Congressman Talbcrt has intro
duced bill :" to enjoin tho further is
sue of bonds by the Secretary of the
Treasury and to coin the seigniorage, y
which amounts to $55.000,0O0. This.
MIR. Talbert thinks, will solve our finan-
cial troubles.
The Oakland club OF Fairfield
County has passed set of resolutions
in which it recommends that Demo
Gratis opposed to the Reform movement
should carry the issue square into the
November election without going 1T
the primaries.
Tho Secretary of the State has is
sued commission to tho Greenvile
County Hedge Fence Company. with
the following cOrporatOrs: r. Y. Hell
lans, H. b. Buist and a. Blythe. The
capital stock is $4,000, divided into
shares of 800 each.
-Brigadier General d. W. Flagler,
OF the War Department., has issued a
decision which holds that tho arms of
the Washington Light Infantry of
Charleston are the property of the
they were given the company by Con
gress. The arms will accordingly be
turned overto the State.
The Lever, of Chicago, the leading
prohibition organ OF the West, SAYS
cditorially: "The mayor of Colum-
bia, S. c., is made Of the right kind of
stuff. He has issued proclamation
giving due notice that under tho re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court he
will enforce the laws of the State and
OF the city prohibiting the sale of
liquor. Such mayor is an honor and
credit to his CITY,"
The Prosperity Canning Company
is arranging to can this season firty
acres of tomatoes, being 10. 600 bushels,
or about no, 900 three pound cans. This
represents about 500 cans of tomatoes
alone per working day all the year
round and does not include tho output
OF other canned products. The Pros
perity cannery was begun in small,
experimental way, but, for its capacity,
has proved paying, even profitable,
enterprise from the start.
The Aiken Times notes tho sale
of che Sand Bar Ferry" which be-
longs to the estate of the late Miss
Julia Whatley, of Augusta, Ga. The
Times says: This lovely place on
the Savannah wa; the regular ducll-
ing place of the country gentry before
the war. More ducls have probably
been fought there than at any other
place in the State. 1t has been in the
possession of the Whatley family for
over sixty years"
The safe used by the three C's
Railroad Company in its office at
Yorkville was blown open last week
and a sum of money not exceeding $45
was taken thcrefrom. The Job was
evidently the work of an experienced
craftsman, as it was accomplished by
bouring hole in the door and forcing
powder into the safe. The whole
thing seems to have been worked eX-
actly in tho way told about in the dime
| novels. There is no clue to the identity
| OF the robbcr. This is YOrkville's first
| experience with this class of criminals.
Tho Republicans are preparing to
test the constitutionality of the regis.
tration laws OF South Carolina, in ac-
cordance with the resolution recently
| adopted by the State executive com.
mittcc of the Republican party. The
| committee appointed by the State
committee to have the test made and
raise funds therefor has been hard a,
work and it proposes, if possible, tc
have the constitutionality of the law
decided upon in very short rdc. The
| work has been in the hands of State
Chairman Webster and ex-State Chair
man Brayton.