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enlisted so promptly to keep them.
waiting on those who hsve been either
negligent or Indifferent, the above or
der will be strictly enforced"
INTERESTING TO VETERANS.
The following general order will be
found of interest to the Confederate
veterans throughout the State:
Headquarters South Carolina Division
United Confederate Veterans, Green
vile, S. c.. Feb. 26, 1895. S5,
General orders, No. 10. ,,s... ~
In compliance with orders from
Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee
commanding department. east of the;
Mississippi, U. G. ", Commandants
of camps throughout this division will
Immediately report to these headquar-
ters the names and numbers Of their
respective camps together with the
names of their commandants adju-7
tants and the number of veterans up
on their rolls.
By order of
S. S. Crittenden,
Major General South Carolina Division
United Confederate Veterans.
Jas. G.. Hawthorne,
Adjutant General. s;.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
It is announced that Ex-Commis-
sioner Traxler has been appointed So
Letting agent of the Darlington Phos-;
phate Company. Mr.. Trax1erw will be-
gin work just as soon as he finishes
up in Columbia.
Mr.. w. w. Scruggs, who has been
at work on the system of bookkeeping
that is to be used by the dispensary,
was at work this week getting the
books in shape in order that they
might be sent out. The books have all
been received and are in very good
shape. The board of control think.
that everything can now be kept In
much better shape.
Grand Chancellor Bacon of the
Knights of Pythias, writes that he has
just granted dispensations for the In
stitution of three more lodges of his
order in the State, at Chester, Eloree,
and Lake City. This will send the
number of lodges in South Carolina up.
to about eighty with a membership Of
about 5000.
The many friends in Columbia of.
ex-Secretary of State j. E. Tindal, viii
learn with regret of the burning of
that gentleman's residence in Claren-.
don county, which occurred at about 1
o'clock Sunday morning last. The.
fire is supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin. A portion of the furni-
ture was saved. The house was par
tally covered by insurance.
The opera house, Monday night,
was crowded with a fashionable audi
ence gathered to see Mile. Rhea. In
1.-The Parisians. The star fully sus-
tanned her reputation. Everybody
was delighted.
The entertainment of the local anna
teurs in the opera house on Tuesday
night was great success. The fund
realized, for the poor of the city, was
quite up to expectations, the net profit
being over SIS.
The Electric Railway Company has
gotten permission from the City Coun-
Gil to complete it's proposed belt line
to encircle the city through Elmwood
avenue on the north, Gervais street on
the south, the extreme city limit on
the east and the river on the west.
President Marshall will push the work
with his accustomed energy-assuring
its completion by the first week In Ap-
ril.
Capt. Lawson D. Melton contradicts
the statement that he has abandoned
his contest for the seat of Mr.. STAN
yarne Wilson of Spartanburg, the
Congressman-elect from the fourth
district.
The coming of Lent, which com.
menced on the 9th, (Ash Wednesday,
will quiet things in the social world.
Active steps have already been tax
en- by the officials of Allen University
for colored students) to rebuild the
houses recently destroyed by fire.
We have had genuine Columbia
weather this week-almost springike.
Uprising in Cuba. -;
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March Ia
special to the Times Union from Port
Tampa, Fla, says: THE steamship
Masotte arrived here Yesterday from
Havana bringing Cuban advices up to.
Thursday. The press reports OF an
insurrectionary movement on the IS
land are confirmed. The daily papers
of Havana are devoting small space to
the uprising and seem to consider it OF
no importance, but these papers arefor
the most part under government con-
troll. From these papers, it appears
that there have been uprisings in the
province of Matanzas and Sandego De
Cuba, and conflicts have occurred be-
tween the government forces and bands
of insurgents in which one or two men
have been killed and several wounded.
The insurgents seem to move about IN
small bands, composed of fifty to 1ooEs
men.
A Physician Shot.
RALEIGH, N. O., Feb. 2S..A special
to the News and Observer from Lex
ington, n. c., says: DR.. R: L. Payne,
one of the oldest and best known ply.
sicians of Lexington, was shot ana
10 h1r 20 vfnr Shlm-