The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-02-28
State n ews.

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Col w. A. Neal has reimbursed
bis bondsmen for the money they
had to pay ont iu the matter of his
penitentiary shortage to the State.
1t is claimed that the State dis
pensary is doing $4,000 more busi-
ness per month for the pact few
months than for the same time last
| year.
It is rumored in Charleston that
| Armour of Chicago had bought
farm near that city and would erect
fertilizer plant to cost 100000.
The National Teachers Association
will hold it's next meeting in Charles
ton from July 7 to IL, inclusive. Ten
thousand teachers are expected to be
in attendance and the railroads will
grant unusually low rates.
The town of Union voted $4,000
for sewerage and other improvements.
Work has begun on the Seneca
Cotton Mills. The ground is being
laid off and made ready for the build.
ings.
It is rumored that Col. James a.
Tillmap, of Edgefeld, will be can
didate in the next primary for Lieut..
Governor.
MIR. G.. Duncan Bellinger Of Barn.
we'll will not run for Congress but
will be candidate for reelection to
the Office of Attorney General.
Capt. J. A. Peterkin of Fort Motto,
started tomato csnnery last year.
He succeeded so we'll that he will en-
large his factory this season.
Along during the war from 1861
to 1865 the post Office at Spartan.
burg issued few stamps. These
stamps are now worth about 500
each.
Simpsonville is to have a cotton
mill. The capital stock may reach
$250,000, and Alexander Finley. OF
Greenville, will be president.
Theodore T. Bedford of Potter
vile, Penn, will establish knitting
factory in Greenville. 1t will be
equipped with thirty machines and
its capacity increased in'the future.
While rabbit bunting in Oconee
county a few days ago negro boy
was killed by the explosion OF q
single barrel shot gun. He took aim
to fire the gun when the breech pin
flew out and the load blew his brains
out.
At the annual meeting of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Society held
in Columbia the premium list was1
revised. II was long and tedlousN
Job. The premiums were increased
$1,000, there being $1,000 offered
for county exhibits. The race purses
were made 50 500, being an increase
of $1,000.
A remarkable occurrence happened
over en- the factory hill some days
ago. At the home of Mr.. Liner
twins were born each of whom had a
full set of upper teeth. This is the
first instance of the kind ever hap
pening in Union so far as we can
learn. Both of these children died a
few days after their birth-Unlon
Times.
Fully half the students OF the
Medical C,llege Of Charleston have
mumps.
Maxey Fswell and Hope Robert
son we're hunting ducks on the
formers plantation in York county.
They were lying down by pond,
Fewell in front. Fewell was to shoot
first and Robertson to fire at the
ducks when they rose. Fewell fired
and then, in the excitement to see
the result, sprang up in time to get
the full load from Robertson's gun IN
his head. He died instantly. Fewell
leaves a wife and two children.
Robertson is boy.
Cherokee is up with the process
sion in all material progress and
when it come to boys she has the
largest one in the State Of his age.
Laurens Massey, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. J. Massey, is FIVE years and
eleven months old. He is four feet
and three inches high and weighs
1Os pounds. He measures thirty
nine inches at the waist, fourteen
inches around the knee, eleven inches
around the wrist, and is very
healthy and has an unusually bright
mind.-Gaffney Ledger.