The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-01-03
s4ate News.

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one is making money for the Invest
ors.
The report Of the Neal Investigate
irg committee has been printed and
distributed sothe Legislators through
out the State.
When you visit the cities of Co.
lumbia, Gieenville and Spartanburg
do not spit on the sidewalks, as these
cities now have a law prohibiting it.
It is claimed that the State dis
pensary is doing $4,000 more bust
ness per month for the past few
months than for the same time last
year.
Rev. A. T. Jamison, who was re-
Gently elected Superintendent of the
Connie Maxwtlt O~tphanage by the
Baptist State Convention has &C.
copied the position.
A large number of North, Western
people will buy land and settle in
South Carolina this winter. A grow
ins colony is located and doing wsll
in Horny county.
The principal undertaken in Green
vile says that within the past six
years be has buried the bodies Of
seventy three persons who came to
their death by violent and unlawful
means.
Mr.. John H. Inabinet, an aged
and respected farmer, was killed by
his demented SOD, VIM. Iaabinet,
near R;dge7ille. The slayer, it is
stated, has several times been in the
hospital for the insane; he is now in
jill.
The passenger train which bore
the prominent officials of the South
ern over the new road from Columbia
to Savannah. has a record left be-
hind it. At one time during their
trip the Indicator showed that they
were moving at the rate Of seventy
four miles per hour.
The Western C.rolina Game Pro-
tective Association, of Greenville, re-
ports that sirce September 1st the
Association has paid for three hun
dred dead hawks at the rate OF Csc. a
piece. The chject is to rid that Sec
ton of the country of hawks, owls
and other such quail hunters.
1t has been discovered by a Pink
erton detective who was working on
the express robbery that occurred in
Columbia last year, that two negro
workmen on the pavilion at Shandon
recently found two thousand dollars,
which they appropriated and in
vested.
The R-v. W. B johnson and Mrs.
Harriet CaDtrell, CT Greenville
county, and favorably known, were
married last Thursday, and both
were 70 years Of age.
DIR. Andrew Wallace Of Greenville,
has been appointed by the State
Board of Health to take charge Of
the smallpox situation in the up
country, and he has power to enforce
vaccination wherever deemed neces-
sary. At present no great complaint
of smallpox is heard in the up
country.
After so long a time work has been
started on the construction of the
home of Gen. Wade Hampton, which
is to be located at the corner of Barn
we'll and Senate streets, Columbia.
The committee in charge proposes to
have a neat and comfortable resi-
dence erected in he shortest possible
time.
Benz J. Doolittle, a farmer, OF
Palksville, S. C, left Augusta the
other night on the South Carolina
train. Bath is his nearest railroad
station, but the train he was On did
not stop there, so he jumped eff. He
fell on his head and broke his neck.
lie was about forty years old ano
leaves a family.
At Heath Springs, Lancaster eour-
ty, on the South Carolina and Georgia
extension, the depot platform, a mum,
Der of cars and 400 bales of cotton
we're burned, together with a white
man named Sutton from Blacksburg.
10 the evening Sutton vas drunk,
roaming about town trying to get
lodging. No one would take him in
his intoxicated condition. He was
seen to get into a bcx car loaded
with Gotten. That was the last
thought of the man till his charred
remains we've taken out of the car.
He is supposed to have started the