The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-03-20

What Our Neighbors Are Saying and
Doinq Condensed for Busy Readers.

D0"ey oao ~ 70" 'ioA'e
last week.
The mother of Mr.. V. E. McBee,
the general manager of the Sea-
board Air Line railroad, is dead.
Columbia is making great prepara-
tious for the entertainment OF the
Confederate Veterans.
Spartanburg is making desperate
eff)rts to have the State Summer |
school meet in that city.
Ex-senator Proctor, of Vermont,
is the guest of Senator Tlllman, at
his home in Trenton.
The gambling hells OF Greenvllle
have been raided. A water haul as
usual was the result.
The Carolina National Bank, OF
Columbia, has doubled it's subscri p
tion to the Charleston Exposition.
Congressman Latimer has denied
that he traded his vote on the Expo
sition appropriation to Charleston.
The town council of Sumter is in
wranggle over granting a franchise
to telephone exchange.
A train load of bananas from Nor
folk, Va, arrived in Columbis Wed
nesday over the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad.
Former Judge Wallace, who was
speaker of the historical s'Wsllace
House" is sick with the grip at his
home in Union.
Col. James G. Gibbes proposes to
write q history of the burning and
sacking of Columbia, by Sherman
and his bummers.
Mary Paige, negro school marm,
of Columbia, has been indicted for
fraud and forging a certificate to
teach.
According to the census bulletin
No. So, Orangeburg leads the State
in cotton growing with 62,O71 bales.
Sumter is close second. Lexing-
ton is the 18th on the list. Her pro-
duction is placed at 13,024 bales.
At the request of Solicitor Thur
mond the Governor has pardoned
Belton Mitchell, of Edge6eld, who
was convicted OF larceny. he is
wanted as a witness in a more i'm,
portant case.
A strong appeal has been made to
the Governor to commute the death
sentence of Lawrence Choice, q
negro, who killed Sam Coleman in
Greenville county, to life imprison-
ment.
The Governor has been a>ked to
pardon MIR. J. G. Chsfiu, the con
tractor who killed man in Green.
vile few years ago and was con-
victed of manslaughter and sent to
the penitentiary. The Governor has
referred the papers to Judge Klugh.
Governor McSweeney has tele-
graphed to the Governor of Mary
land asking him to urge the iegisla-
ture of that State, which is now in
session, to make an appropriation for
the erection of a State building at
the Charleston Exposition.
According to an opinion of Assist
ant Attorney General Gunter, the
merchants of the State will have to
make return of the value of their !
goods, merchandise, moneys and
credits pertaining to their business |
as merchants at the same time and |
on the same blank form as when |
listing other personal property for
taxation.
On account of blunder of the
Legislature, the Comptroller General
has refused to issue his warrant for
the amount of the premium due the
sinking fund commission and the
building of the Hospital for the In
sane has been without insurance for
ten days The regents have decided
to insure the buildings and supply
the premium from the general fund
of the Institution.
The Governor has pardoned Will
Williams, convicted in Laurens Co.,
in February last, of housebreaking
and larceny and sentenced to 13
months in the penitentiary. The
boy was convicted of breaking into
a house and stealing certain articles.
Since the trial all the articles were
found in the possession Of another
negro who has confessed that he
alone did the act and that Williams
knew nothing of it. The authorities
at once asked for the pardon thus
correcting the error made.