The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-07-13

| the dorchester COuHty ali1auCo'
All the doctors agree that Lexipg-
ton village is distressingly healthy.
| Mr.. P. H. Corley has given the
| court house roof a new coat OF paint.
| The war revenue tariff is burden
some and business is groaning under
it.
There will be a basket picnic at
Barre's Upper mill on Thursday, July
2Slh.
DIR. J. VIM. Stokes will be one OF
the speakers at Drafts barbecue on
July23.
Mr.. Jeff Amick has returned from
Harris Lithia Springs much i'm
proved in health.
Prof. Oscar D. Seay is teaching a
two months school at Providence
with marked success.
Messrs. A. F. Fox and Willie
Lown have returned from q short
trip to Asheville, N. G.
It is said that there is so much
shooting in Cuba that the rain has
been frighten to America.
Mrs. Belle Brodie and son, OF
Clemson are visiting her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. G. S. Bradford.
Mr.. W. D. Shull, left some very
fine peaches at this Office last week,
for which he has our thanks.
Summer is dull but the young peo-
pie keep the times lively for the kero-
sene man by sitting up o nights.
Sheriff Caughman advertises sew.
eral pieces Of property for sale in
this issue to satisfy tax executions.
The State Board of Equalization
is now in session, at Columbia. MIR.
J. W. Dreher represents this county.
Edwin Folk Strother, Esq, ris-
ing young lawyer of Batesburg, was
in town yesterday on professional
business.
A first class practically new sew.
ing machirais offered in exchange
for country produce. Enquire for
particulars at this Office.
Miss IAns Meetze has been elected
teacher in the Orangeburg graded
school and has accepted the position.
We are informed that the friends
of Mr.. Thomas Cason are urging him
to make the race for the Legislature.
DR.. Blue Mountain Joe Harman has
our thanks for some fine onions and
also for the first watermelon brought
to this Office this season.
We can truly sympathize with our
soldiers in the trenches in front of
Santiago such weather, which they
experience almost daily.
The friends of Mr.. J. Marshal
Shealy of the Fork, appreciatipg the
manner in which he has discharged
the duties of Magistrate, announce
him for reelection.
Hilton's Iodoform Liniment will
kill the poison from poison Ivy,
counteract poison from bites of
snakes, stings of insects. In sure
cure for sore throat. Will crre any
case of sore mouth. 25c.
The Lorick's barbecue comes of at
Mr.. Wade A. Lorick's, next Satur-
day, and as the whole neighborhood
will be there, candidates will fld
this a fruitful field for work.
We have been requested to an
nounce that there will be a basket
picnic, at Steadman's Mill, on July
23d, to which everybody is invited.
There will be music and dancing.
The cue at Wyse's ferry and the
one over on Broad River, at Austin
Metz's place last Saturday, were well
attended and the candidates were on
hand in numbers. They spoke at
both places.
We learn that the body of Mary
Lybrand was found near the Augusta
road, just north west of Summit, last
Saturday with a gun shot wound in
her head. Magistrate Addy held al
inquest, but no clue was developed
to locate the murderer.
The editor of the Evans City, Pa
Globe, writes, "One Minute Cougl
Cure is rightly named. 1t cured my
children after all other remedie:
failed" 1t cures coughs, colds ant
all throat and lung troubles. j. E
! kaufmann.