The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-26
No, 81.
sTArE NEWS IN nnIar.
Interesting Notes lrom Sxarious Sour

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. Interesting Notes from Various Sour
Two new dispensaries, have beer
established in the city Cha.~'aston.
Con. M. G.. Butler
by the ladies' OF Angus
memorial add; ess on Ap.
w. IA. Parsons & Co..
ers of Now Hork, have instl,
against the State Publishin
pany for an amount aggre,
$l,272.79.
-The machinery for Lockhart Mill.
Union County, is to be delivered at
Hickory Grove, over Three Ca rail-
road, hauled to the river, and carried
to its destination in boat. There will
be over 100 carloads of it.
Governor Evans will this wee
make an ofiicialSvisit to the Deaf, Dun
and Blind Institute at Cedar Springs,
Spartanburg, County. From there he
an examination OF that institution.
Robert McLain, North Caro-
linian, has been arrested In North
Carolina, and is to be brought to
Spartanburg, to answer to the charge
OF horse stealing. McLaiu is said &c
DO q man OF fine family connections
and to stand we'll at homo.
Mrs. A. Viola Neblett, of Green
vile, Is travelling through the
arranging dates for advocates {
Woman Suffrage movement to-.
She will be assisted in this VIC
Miss Virginia d. Young, OF FL
in this State.
| Work will soon be common
the new cotton factory at Bath
| new mill will be furnished with
spindles and $50 looms, and WI
| completed and ready for operat
| about five months, and will
employment to about $50 operati
The Wofford College, Spartanb
baseball team has organized for
season. William Coleman is manal
and John Humbert is captain. I
Wofford Collegians expect to max
strong fight for the State champ
ship. Thoir team will go regul
into training this week.
Il competitive eyami.-'
be held at SpartanBurg u.
1898, beginning at 10 o'cloc,. =.
which will determine Congressman
Wilson's choice OF cadet at the
United States Military Academy at
West Point from the Fourth Congress
sional District Of South Carolina.
j. g. McLendon, who opened tho
firing in the Darlington riot last April,
is said to be slowly dying OF the wound
he received at the time. He Is at his
home in Barnwell County 1t was
thought that the wound was slight,
but 1T has never healed and no hopes
OF his recovery are now entertained.
Enlistment of tho State militia
under the new law is about complete.
seventy companies have entered the
service. or the 100 companies
organized after the Darlington riots,
only twenty have enlisted. Last year i,
there were about 200 companies in the
State.
At Yorkville, a few days ago,
Earnest Parker caught a pig belong-
ing to him and was about to crop its
tail. The pigs tail was wrapped
about one finger Of his left hand and
in his right hc held the knife. He
mistook his finger for the tail and at
one stroke cut it of. The finger was
never found and tho pig went his way
rejoicing.
Congressman Stanyarne Wilson,
Democratic chairman Of Spartanburg
County, has ordered aprimary election
to select delegetes to the constitutional
convention. The committee prescribes
that only those who voted the John
Gary Evans ticket in the last general
election shall participate in this
primary-ex the anti-Tlllman-
tics, who supported DR.. Sampson Pope.
A curious story comes from Cros9
Anchor. Last week a negro man wax, :
returning through the woods '""'
work with an ak slung- acrosa Ii.
shoulders, when suddenly he stepped
into an old well, partially covered
with brush. He was forced to cut
steps in tho side of the we'll by which
to climb, out, and it took twenty hours
of hard work before he reached the
top.
The South Carolina Equal Rights
Association has elected rs president
Mrs Virginia d. Young, Fairfax
vice president at Largo, Mrs. Viola
Neblett, Greenville; secretary, Mrs.
Marion Morgan, Buckner; treasurer
Mrs. Georgia Bailey, Greenville press
reporter, Mrs. Mary Hemphill, Abbe-
vile. General Hemphill's paper, the :
Abbeville Medium, was made the
organ Of the State society
1t is stated on good authority that
Senator Tillman will appoint Mr..
Matthew Fitzsimmons Tighe, recently
of Charleston, but now of Washington,
d. c., as his private secretary. Mr..
Tighe was formerly on the staff of Tho
Charleston News and Courier. In
1891 Senator Irby appointed him as
private secretary, and he acted in
that capacity until last fall, when he
resigned and accepted position on
the staff Of the The Washington Times.
He is young man of more than unual
talent.
Secretary Charlisle has appointed
VIM. Martin Aiken, of Cincinnati, o.,
architect sof the Treasury,
to fill the vacancy that occurred on
Sept. 20, 1894, by the resignation of
Jeremiah O'ISourke, OF Newark, N. j.
The salary is $4,000 per annum. Mr..
Aiken is about ~ years Of age, and
was born in South Carolina. He 10 q
descendant OF the celebrated Aiken
family of this State. after whom tho
town OF Aiken is named, and is
nephew Of Hon. ID. Wyatt Aiken, who
the Third South Carolina
District for six years ia Congress. Mr..
Aiken removed to Cincinnati some ton
or fifteen years 49,
THE DIsPENSAk
ley has decided u.
arising out of the sci.
cOnstables of the scho,
which arrived in Charles: