The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-10-26
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Teddy Roosevelt is bustlipg for
the Governorship of New York.
Columbia is full of candidates for
ma2isterial honors of that city.
The commanders Of all the war
ships tf the British North Atlantic
squadron have received orders to
mobolize at Halifax.
Mr.. George Higgins, Of Columbia,
lately Treasurer of the State Fair
society, has accepted an important
position under Collector Webster.
The millionaires of New York have
run their hands into their pockets to
elect Teddy Roosevelt Governor and
have anted up with money without
end.
The Confederate Veterans of this
State urges Col. Floyd, recently nom
mated Adiutant and Inspector Gen
eral, to appoint Captain Wadlaw his
assistant.
No information has reached the
State or navy departments regard
ing the alleged encounter between
the ships of Dewey andthose Of
the Filipiuos.
Uncle Sam says that Spain must
positively evacuate the entire Island
of Cuba by the 1st of January or the
Spanish soldiers there will be made to
leave at the point of the bayonet.
The Kennedy tract OF land, just
outside Of the northern suburbs Of
Columbia, has been selected by the
United States inspecting officers as
site for the camp for the soldiers.
Spartanburg has an afternoon
paper. 1t is known as the Evening
Star, and Col. Larry CAN'T, of the
Piedmont Headlight, is its editor
and publisher. May the Star always
shine brighter and brighter.
George W. Vanderbilt has taken
legal steps to eject squstters from
that portion of his Blltmore prop
erty near Asheville, n. G, reserved
for a hunting preserve. The squat
ters will fight him in the courts on the
ground that they have had quiet and
undisturbed possession of the prop
erty for seven years.
Strenuous efforts are now being
made to get President MrKinley to
revoke his order mastering out the
regiment. All the commissioned
officers of the regiment went to
Trenton yesterday to invoke the in
fuence of Senator Tillman to have
the regiment retained IN the services
of Uncle Sam.
The political situation in North
Carolina is critical The whites are
determined to throw off the yoke o.
negro dominion and the negroes
are as equally determined to keep
the yoke on white mems necks and ii
is momentarily. expected that q con-
fict between the races will begin
which will not end until many lives
are lost. The result of such a con.
fict is not hard to foresee.
The reception of Senator Tillman
at Richmond, by the Virginia Demo
Gratis was in the nature of huge ova-
tion and his speech at the Academy
of Music made "hot times in that
town that night" The Senator is
doing effective work in North Caro-
lima for the cause Of Democracy and
white supremacy.
Lieutenant Col. Tlllman, has been
promoted to the Colouelcy CT the
First S. c. regiment to succeed Col
onel Joseph K. Alstop, recently de-
ceased, and Maj. Fuller has been pro-
NOTED to Lieutenant Colonel Of the
same regiment. The other promo
tions have not been announced as
yet.
The Columbia State says: 1T
will do Chairman Tolbert and the
colored Republicans generally great
deal of good TO read the reports from
virden, III. With State troops
under orders of a Republican gov,
ernor keeping Southern negroes out
of Illinois mines at the point of the
bayonet, hope of interference by
Northern Republicans with the pres
ent political status in South Carolina
must be regarded as very misty.
Colonel Joseph K. Alston, of the
First regiment, died at the home of
his wife in Yorkville last week. He
was suffering from an attack OF
iaundice, but the cause of his death
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