The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-09-10
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Interesting Notes from Various s

Interesting Notes from Various Sour
Ces.
Ground was broken on 3aturdS-s
last FOR the erection> of an iron fouudH
IN Darlington. 1t Sill have blasH
furnace with capacity OFF, OF , 900 p,4s4asesel
An effort will be made to have the
constitutional convention change tho
oIhclal name OF the South Carolina
State Lunatic Asylum to that of the
south Caroline State Hospital.
Nose Jackson, who several nights
ago threw stone though u car win
aow OF the night train near Melrose.
~ ~, striking one of the passengers
| on the arm, has been arrested and
lodged in Jail at Saluda.
III there is no cyclone this year the
rice planters of South Carolina will
ProoaDly make money for tho first
Time In some years. The Japanese
crop Is to II large cXtont failure, and
that raised in this country is not enough
10 supply the demand.
supervisor Scott, OF Union, sug-l
gests u general meeting OF all the
county Supervisors of the State during
C9e nohtn OF October for the purpose
Oh consulting together upon the opera
tion of the new county government
law, the best method OF working the
pubic roads, utilizing convict labor,
etc.
"A farmer in Orangeburg County
last week sold lot of thirty-seven :
Dales OF cotton which was raise IN 1875. 2
Inls COTTON mas been stored away for
twenty years and the owner during
that time could have gotten Is cents or \
more per pound for the whole lot but
was probably holding it for % cents,
ana aiter twenty years decided to sell. q
Tho large fruit crop and the abun-
uaht corn crop have induced Il numberSt
vi people throughout the State to
apply Tor authority to run distiiierfe; =
a great many corn liquor stills havS
oeen licensed in the upper part of ths
otate' Inc intention is to sell as!
niuch Oh Inc product as possible to th R
otate. Ihe brandy distillcries ar
Intended mostly for home corsumntiirll .,
mere have been quite Il 80
QUERIES started in = = -
the last year, and 1seSl>E !, 5. % S. 5
have, have manged to geJ We
tee3r-9lAput ol ,n';r'h liquor. ~ '',I' +, #
ness OF corn mitY influence t, &
corn liquor. sS 4 (
The people in the southeasternFS
portion of Abbeville County arc very
much excited on account OF the discoy-;
cry OF some rich gold finds. Some IS
iiorty TONS OF mining machinery have
been received from Pennsylvania and <
the mining is to be carried on ex-
tenslyeiy. The richest finds have been
IN Walkers Branch, at the foot of
Little Mountain. This is in the inn
mediate section OF the Dorm mine,
whlch has not been worked since the
war, but before the war more than a s
million dollars of gold had been taken
from the Dorm mine. Since then the
mine has been fOrSakcn, and only occa-
slonaliy have nuggets been taken from
it.
Judge Townsend has decided "A
case involving the title OF about $500,
OO0, belonging to the estate of Mrs.
d ulll II. Clarke, deceased, who inherit
ed it from her uncle. II. ~. Barnum,
the great Snowman. The property i'm
question is situated in the States. OF
South Carolina, Connecticut, Kansas Z
and New York and the question at
lssae was whether She will OF Mrs.
Clarke should be construed according
to the laws of South Carolina or a
cordlng TO - .aws Of each OF
States in which the property
situated, and it really IN
her husband should
erty or whether
child it should
tives. BY tn,
send the willis
Mr.. Clarke.