The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-05-30

When you want the best groc cries
for the least money, 60 to 7. B.
Aughtry & Co, Clumbia. They
also carry a | large line of grain, hay
ard fine food.
We have seen a sample OF wheat
grown on the place of MI. John
Wessinger, in the Fork. The heads
were full and heavy and be has five
acres of extraordinary fine wheat.
On July 21st, at the residence OF
Mr.. Reuben W. Kleckley, Msssrs.
Kleckley & Buff will give a first
class barbecue. Sharpen up your
appetite against that time.
TIE friends of Rev. J. G.. Graichen
gave him a severe pounding last
Friday evening. They laid it on
thick and fast and spared not the
iuAiction. He stood it b-avely.
We are prepared to thresh grain
and solicit the patronage of the pub.
lie. Toll, 18Th and 20 b. Satisfac.
ton guaranteed Keep your grain
for us and We will thresh it.
c. " Caugbman,
Thos. L Harmap,
Lexington, S. G.
Jim Stuckman, Carl Hampton and
Ed Wheeler, three colored youtbe,
have been committed to Jail to
answer to the charge Of burglary
and larceny at the approaching term
of court.
MI. William D George graduates
from Clemson College this year in
the department of Mechanics and
Engineering. Mr.. Bernard Rawl
will also graduate from the same in
stitution al the same time.
When you want fine fresh groce-
ries, dry goods, shoes and hate, 60 to
J. D. Taylor. he sells cheap and
you can always find just what you
want there. The patronage of the
consuming public is solicited.
Mr.. a j. Fox has just finished
boring a we'll at the Methodist par
sonsge in tnis place. It is 1876 feet
deep and the flow of water is satis-
factory. His outfit will shortly be
moved to Saxe-G otha to bore a num-
Der CT wells there.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Middleburg Mill, of Batesburg,
will be held at the Secretary's Office
in Columbia, on July 81, for the
purpose of authorizing the assurance
of $500 900 of bonds worth to be
secured by a mortgage on the cor
porate property.
A preliminary hearing was to have
been held here yesterday before
Magistrate Meetze in the case of the
State vs.. B. S. Dufie, charged with
removing personal property under
mortgage. Ga account of the alb
sence of material witnesses the hear
ing was postpone.
The eclipse last Monday was a
novel sight and one that not many
had ever seen before. Some say that
the entire surface of the sun was
covered while others contend that it
was entirely covered except a small
rim. The totality, if such it can be
called, was of small duration, lasting
but a second or 80. Several stars
we're plainly seen and there was a
grayish hue which is often witnessed
just az shutdown lengtheus into
evening. The roosters crowed Justify
reminding n of just before day
break.
Lstely several petitions have gone
from this county to Governor Nc
Sweeney, asking for executive elem
ency in behalf of Allen B. Neese,
who was convicted of m~anslaughter
at the June term of court for this
county in 1854, and sentenced by
Judge Benet to IL years in the
penltentiary. It will doubtless be
remembered that he fatally cut his
brother-in law, Mr.. Artemus Good
VIII, during an alteration in the
early part OF that year. Counter
petitions have also been forwarded