The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-01-11

Iae peace treaty mas Deen gwen
to the Senate.
Colorado will probably have a vo.
man for Governor.
Gen. Ludlow has forbidden im-
moral dancing in Havana.
The South C4rolina Heavy Artil-
lery will be mustered out.
Tie Second South Carolina regis
ment has left Savannah for Havana.
A strong syndicate of railroad mag
mates will get control of the Seaboard
Air Line railroad.
The Maine Republicans will send
Senator Hale back to the United
States Senate as an anti expansions
lists.
Hon. VIM. J. Bryan is making a
vigorous and effective camp aign
against the new tangled doctrine Of
imperialism.
The Chicago Democrats have unsn-
imously endorsored Bryan for the
Presidency and the Chicago platform
az the standard.
Governor Ellerbe has appointed
sanitary inspectors to take charge Of
the small pox epidemic at Maysville,
in Sumter county.
The Second Tennessee regiment,
which is now in camp at Columbia,
has received official notice that it
will be disbanded.
The State Board of Control has
turned the profits from the sale of
whisky into the State treasury for
the benefit Of the school fund.
The Republicans of California
have instructed their Congressman to
support the doctrine of imperialism
and McKinley's Philippine policy.
Miss Olive F., daughter of Admi-
raj Sampson, was married to Henry
Harrison Scott of San Francisco, at
Glen Ridge, N. j., on the 4th inst.
A Havana Editor charges a Span
lard named Bresne with the crime Of
blowing up the Maine, and as edi-
tors never lie, the charge must be
true.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Of Columbia are making an
effort to erect q HANDSOME building
in that city. The site has aires55
been secured.
The Senate committee to whom
was referred the House bill granting
two months extra pay to the volun-
teers who served in the late wal out
side Of tie limits of the United
States, has made a favorable report.
A Laurens negro who had deserted
his wife and five children, was
mobbed by negroes and severely
handled. Wave the bloody shirt,
ye cankerous Northern ~hypocrites,
for another Southern outrage has
been committed!
Theodore Roosevelt, the famous
Rough Rider who covered himself
with honor and glory during the
late war, and in time of peace re-
warded with Office, has been inaugu-
rated Goeernor of New York.
The Louisville Courier Journal has
suggested the names Of Admiral
Dewey for President and Fitzhugh
Lee for Vice President as the Demo-
| cratic nominees for 1900 and tie
| platform to be 1.-The Stars and Stripes,
God Hose them"
A delegation representing the
Protestant Christians and the Pan
Presbyterians has presented to Pres
dent Mckinley two mammoth petit
tons favoripg the disarmament OF
the nations and the settlement of all
disputes by arbitration.
By the will of Charles D. Jacob,
ex-Mayor of Louisville, and Presi-
dentof the Kentucky Mutual Life
Insurance Company, the sum OF $780,
OC0 was to be used for two years by
his widow and then applied to the
erection of a monument over the
grave of his SOD, Charles D. Jacob,
Jr., a private Of the First United
States Cavalry, who was killed on
San Juan Hill.
The editor Of the Columbia STATE
is growing quite sentimental since
his return from the Cuban a He
"pinipg" to taste the nectar from the
red lips of some unknown cbarmer
under the rose. He doesn't think
that the mistletoe is in it for a min
ute when it comes to kissing as the
following clipping taken from a re-