The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-07-24
State News.

Col. S. ". Vance has been unan;-
mously reelected phosphate COM
missioner.
Senator Tillman is said to be
director in a FIVE million dollars
Texas oil company.
Columbia is trying the experiment
of sprinkling her streets with petro-
leum to keep down the dust.
A peculiar disease has appeared
among the hogs of Colleton county
and whole droves CT them are dying.
The annual meeting Of the State
Alliance is to be held in Columbia on
the oath instant. An effort will be
made to revive interest in the Alliance
throughout the State this year.
The Board ofDirectors of the State
Dispensary has decided to withhold
Charleston's share of profits until the
municipal authorities Of that city
shall interest themselves in the better
enforcement of the dispensary law.
The inmates of the Connie Max
we'll Orphanage, amounting to ll9in
number, have been given vacation
of five or six weeks and nearly all OF
them are now scattered throughout
the State, visiting relatives or friends.
The Blue Ridge railroad was sold
at public auction at Anderson on the
first Monday in July and was bid in
by the Southern at 100000, the up
set price. The road is under heavy
mortgages and liens including lien
Of $10,716 81 for State and county
taxes.
There was frolic at the home of
Aaron Chavis in Orapgeburg county.
After sort Of dull prelude the fire.
works were suddenly touched off.
When the racket was over it was
seen that seven persons were shot,
two of them being women. Two of
the wounded may die
Mothers who have always 80
dreaded the approach of hot weather
when they have a teething babe,.
should not fceget that Teethina
counteracts and overcomes the Effects
Of hot weather on children, keeps
them in healthy condition and makes
teething easy. Teethina costs only
25 cents per box at druggists; or
mail 25 cents to G J. Moffett, M D.,
ST Louis, Mo.
The latest from Washington ia
that Port Royal Naval Station is to
be made the principal recruiting
station for the Navy. From 1000 to
1000 young recruits will be kept at
the Station, and the alterations 10
the buildings looking to the change
are being rapidly made.
The new squad of dispensary COZ
stables has arrived in Charleston,
and are making things warm for the
blind tigers, seizing fixtures, counters
and contraband liquor. This is, it is
presumed, the beginning of the des-
perate onslaught upon the tiger keeper
that will be made in every city where
blind tigers exist.
You can never cure dyspepsia by
dieting. What your body needs is
plenty Of good food properly digest
ed. Then if your stomach will not
digest it, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will.
1t contains all of the natural digest
ants hence must digest every class OF
food and so prepare it that nature
can use it in nourishiDg the body
and replacing The wasted tissues,
thus giving life, health, strength,
ambition, pure blood and good
healthy appetite J. E Kaufman.
Mrs. J J. Ballard, highly re-
spected lady of Florence, fell down
the steps of her dwelling and broke
her neck. Mrs. Ballard was going to
the assistance of Mrs F.V. Huggins,
who lives next door, and who had
found a negro boy under the bed and
screamed from fright. She leaves
q husband and several small children.
Sam'l. W. Mitchell, of York county,
has brought suit against the Wood
men of the World for fifteen thousand
dollars damages for injuries alleged
to have been sustained during initia-
ton March 12nd last. Mr. Mitchell
claims that he was made to ride q
mechanical goat, and that careless
members made the animal cavort so
violently as to bruise him badly: he
alleges in his complaint that surgi.
cal operation of a nature quite serious,
especially TO him, will be necessary.