The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-11-24
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fcvcrs may be prevented by keeping
the blood pure and the system toned
up with Hoods Sarsapalilla.
! The appeal cases from the 5:h cir
! cult will be called in the 7th day OF
, December and their hearing will
/ continue for five days.
The United States ship Lancaster.
has been ordered by the war depart
ueut to Port Royal, this State to be
used as training slip for gun cap
| tains
Notwithstanding recent fatal accl-
! dents attending games of foot ball
that sport continues to hold its own
in popular favor.
Disagreement for life by burns or
scalds may be avoided by using
DcWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the
great remedy for piles and for all
kinds of sores and skin troubles. j.
f. Kaufman.
The test Of cylindrical bales of
cotton made by the Columbia Duck
ing mill last week, was entirely salts
factory and it is claim for this man
ner of baling cotton that there is an
Improvement in the texture Of the
staple over the old mode.
Ed Purvis, a negro, was hanged in
the Jail yard at Ellington, \. G., on
the l7th inst, for killing NJ. J. Black
man, a white fagman on the Atlantic
Coast Line. He confessed to the
crime and his soul went to glory via
the necktie line.
The thirty fifth annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Southern
Express company was held in Savan-
nab, Ga, on the 22d inst. All the
old cflicers were reelected and the
finances of the company were found
to be in an excellent condition.
J. NJ. Thirswcnd, of Glosbeck,
Tex, says that when he has a spell
Of indigestion, and feels bad and
sluggish, he takes two of DeWitt's
Little Early Risers at night, and he
is all right the next morning. Many
thousands of others do the same
thing. Do you? J. +. Kaufmann.
Ten OF the police officers who mob
bed and killed Arroyo. the would be
assassin who attempted to murder
President Diaz at Mexico City some
time ago, have been tried and con
demned to death. They should be
forthwith pardoned without any
delay.
The re organizing committee of the
Union Pacific Railroad company has
paid to Uucle Sans agents the sum
of $l3,G45,250 in cash, being the
value Of the bonds of the company
owned by the government. The
government, it is claimed, has lost
considerable sum of money by the
transaction.
A spurious ten dollar bill is said to
be circulating in business circles.
This startling information will cause
US to lose no sleep as $40 bill never
fluids it's way into our pockets. Now,
if it was 10 cents piece or five
cent nickle we would have cause for
an occasion to worry. What anxiety
we escape by not being rich.
Several hundred delegates we've
present at the Good Roads Conven-
tion, which convened in the Masonic
Temple in st. Louis On the 22d, inst.
The subjects discussed were The
/ practical utilization of the labor of
tramps, vagrants and prisoners in
paving stone and other material for
roads and Streets" and The most
feasible plan for improving the pub
! lie roads,"
Captain Graham, after making a
fair test of the competency, reliability
and steadiness of negro labor in his
hosiery mills at Hopkins, has aban-
doned the experiment as unsatisfac-
! tory and will replace this class of
labor by white hands as soon as his
! mill is put IN operation IN Columbia,
! it having been removed from Hop
kins.
Dr.. James Woodrow, prominent
Presbyterian divine and a former
President of the South Carolina COL
legc, has just returned to his home
in Columbia from a tour through
Europe and speaks pleasantly of his
trip. The Doctor, besides being
al eminent scientist Of National
reputation, made himself prominent
in the scientific world some years
ago by declaring his belief in the
doctrine of the evolution Of man and