The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-09-27
MIXED PICKLES.

MIXED PICKLES.
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Reading Matter.
Remember your County Fair.
Artificial cotton is being manufsc-
tured in Austria.
Your presence will be greatly sp-
preciated at the County Fair.
Let US all go to work to make our
County Fair a bowling success.
In the Governorship contest the
Supreme Court of Nevada decided
that Sadler was elected Governor by
plurality of 60.
It is the duty of every person IN
Lexington county to send an exhibit
and attend the County Fair.
1000 coal miners in West Virginia
last week asked for an advance OF 5
cents per ton, which was refused, and
they went out on strike in a body.
St. Vincent, the United States hos
pital at Norfolk, Va, was burned on
September 21. It was the largest hos
pital in the South and was valued at
$3.50, 900.
The war cloud in South Africa con-
tinues to grow darker and more
threatening each day. The Beers
seem determined to resist British
tyranny to the last ditch.
Bacon, -four, lard, in fact all kinds
of groceries, are. advancing in price.
Now let manufactured goods coup in
price and then will the price of cotton
pop up and the Southern farmer will
reap the benefit.
$500 Odd Fellows and their sisters
of the Rebekah order paraded the
streets of Detroit in full uniform.
1t was the grandest and most impos-
ing procession seen in that city since
1890.
The Columbia Evening Record
favors the continuance of the beer
privileges on the ground that Of two
evils it is wisest to choose the least,
therefore to reduce the consumption
of whisky, beer drinking should be
encouraged.
Dr.. Zimmerman, the State Treas
urer, who has the reputation of be-
ing the handsomest man in South
CArolina, had the misfortune to lose
his barn and its contents by fire on
the 2O.h instant. Loss about 81, 200.
No insurance.
A party of insurgents ditched a
railroad train near Angeles in the
Philippines, on the morning of the
22nd inst ard then fred on the de-
rallied train from a bamboo thicket,
killing two Americans and wounding
five others. The insurgent were dis
persed.
A report comes from Manila that
the American prisoners in the hands
of the Fllipinos were treated well BY
their captors until the insurgents
lost all hope Of getting ransom, and
then their treatment was changed
and system Of starvation and
cruelty was commenced.
The up country troops above Co.
lumb:a will go to the Dewey celebra-
tion in New York over the Southern
Railway. Their headquarters will
be on Fourth street and the First
Artillery U. S. A. band will be taken
along. The troops below Columbia
will go over the Atlantic Coast Line
The State has so far neglected to
give the name of the gentleman who
it alleged is so familiar with the So
called popularity Of its lately de-
missed ''soaking idea" Is the ''gen-
tleman" like the s'idea' a myth, and
exist in the imagination of the editor
of the State onls7 Its silence is evi-
dence of this.
Liberty is nothing to me without
honor" said Dreyfus on being in
formed that the French Cabinet of
Ministers had pardoned him. And
in this he was correct, for being
wrongfully and unjustly convicted,
both right and justice demand that
his vindication be complete. Until
this is done the Lilly of France Will
remain tarnished.
An election was held in Prosperity,
Newberry county, on the 21st inst,
on the question of "Dispensary" or
mo Dispensary." By a vote of 27
for to 80 against no dispensary car
ried the day, so that the people of
that town who imbibe the liquid
stuff will have to seek the lair of the
hind tioer whenever they want fo