The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-08-27

shV NNVT1h Whore hS mas Ucen
on the same platform with populists,
republicans and freaks generally. A
distinguished and died-in-the-wool
democrat of Greenyille travelled
towards the mountains in that county
with a notorious radical In search OF
land and called at the house OF an old
democratic mountaineer. The Col. in
PRODUCED the real estate man who was
known to the mountaineer by reputa-
tion, when the latter remarked, Col. /
have known you a long time and seen
you In many crowds and never doubted
you, - but, by the e~ternals,
this is more than | can stand, / must
doubt you from this on.
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We take pleasure in making the
AMENDE HONORABLE for some renec-
lions in our last issue upon the County
Democratic Executive Committee Of
Newberry, based upon wrong informa-
ton. EARLY in the meeting of this COM
mittee held last Monday, u vote of II
to Is indicated hat the Primary in
which Mr.. Hodges was elected Probate
Judge, would be set aside. Our infor-
mant must have left at that iuncture:
for after q recess and further investiga-
ton, the committee confirmed Mr..
Hodges election by the same vote-l7
to is. Our former statement, made in
all sincerity, was not true in fact and
our remarks were therefore out of
place. S.
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And now they say that the trend in
the United States is to establish great
plantations with broad acres, where
entertaining can be INDUCED as in Eu-
rope. There is no aristocracy on earth
which is no based on land with thou.
sands of acres, parks, lakes, lordly oaks
and miles of broad M and drives
OF stately elms. And where will the
Press and Banner man be with his
sanctum of six feet by four in his mis-
cradle little smoky village of 5000,
pushing his pencil at i so per 800
words.
Greenwood will make q game-cock
battle in the coming convention for a
new county, herself the ~nead-center.
The plan is to cut q slice from Able
vile and a segment from Edgefeld.- :
Thus will be combined the classical
and martial attributes of Athens and
Sparta, making a model combination.
We wish well TO our aspiring neighbor
Greenwood, which deserves all she can
claim, and hope that her aspirations
may be contaminated.
A committee has been appointed to
investigate the affairs of Clemson Col
lege. This is well. All the people in
the State who pay taxes are interested
In Clemson n want it to succeed. 1t
is a big affair and it will take time to
get it smoothly working. The head of
the institution should be a good man
and he should boss it. 1t would appear
that there are too many mouthy pro-
lessons and the trustees meet too often,
~
The great negro rising and appeal
ing to the negro did not materialise on
Tuesday last. Now let the Solons of
the September convention avoid the
shoals and quicksands O the 18th
Amendment and Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton in the South is safe "%forever and a
day"
There isdanger that the information
al Yacht Cup will pass to the British
in the coming contest. In such an
emergency what are these poor sixty
five millions of Yankees to do?
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q. The Dispensary has paid back Tie
$4,000 originally advanced by the
State to start the big GROCERY. Chief
Tapster MiNon's mixed drinks did the
business.
Returns from all over the State in
dictate q surprising Democratic VIC
tory.-Columbia Evening News.
The Evening News is entitled to the
sympathy of q large circle of friends
for any undue alarm or perturbation
which it has been suffering.
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Omaha has two sets of officials each
claiming authority. A western city
may be able to survive under the con-
ditions.