The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-14
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PEN AND SCLsSORGRAPHs

The Alabama constitutional con.
vention is now in session.
Congressman Burk Of Texas is
dead.
Mrs. Mckinley is slowly but
surely improving.
There will be 1,468 delegates
in the Virginia Constitutional
convention soon to meet.
Surgeon general w. H. DAILY
committed suicide at his home in
Pittsburg; Pa, Sunday morning.
It is said a move is on foot to
move the body Of Abraham Lin
coin. It has already been moved
six times.
A cyclone in Kansas last week
came near wiping out a town and
many persons were killed and o
number seriously wounded.
The Sumter Institute, once a
very popular school of learning,
has closed doors and passed into
history. The society however will
be kept up.
Court meets in Darlington on
Monday noxt and at Bcnnettsville
tho Monday following. Judge r.
Q. Watts will preside at the sum
ner term.
Charleston claims 500 blind
tigers. She only needs Marlbo-
70 .juries to stop this violation Of
law and teach them how to res
pect the law.
The great hall Of fame on Uni
versity Heights, New York, has
been dedicated. The exclusive
use Of this structure is commem.
crate famous Americans.
Sumter has two sets of blood
hounds-one for the sheriff and
one for the city police. Friend
Henry Patrick might try one to
help him in locating evil doers.
Thhe people did not want any
political campaign this year and
Governor McSweeney says they
shall not be worried with one.
That puts a quietus on the rack
ct started up by the politicians.
Governor McSweeney is the man
Of the hour. He has no boss but
The pcoplc and 'hcy ecepl ia he ID
hearty accord With hiru. ,phat. ID
scc,ns toua Ought 10 satisfy any
reasonable mnn
I'ha railroads o} hjAssachu-
Sets played a practical joke on
the solon who introduced q bill
to require them to issue 500 mile
books at 9 csnts a mile, by qui-
city Sissuing them and saying
nothing about it.
President Hartzog Of Clemson
/ Is willing to give the farmers Of
\ the State an opportunity Of getting
aall the information they want in
scientific farming. Just write him
about it how and when.
r. r. Commissioners Rogers
OF North Carolina tells of a wal
nut tree cut in that state which
when cut into veneering realized
$780, 900. The owner got 81 800
for it, and the man who cut it
$4,000 put on the cars. It was
curled walnut.
South Carolina has become the
leading cotton manufacturing state
in the South, because she protect
ed her infant cotton mills, exempt
ing them from taxes for q term Of
years. However protection may
DO proven wrong in theory, it
makes mills wheels hum in; prac-
tice. Augusta Tribune.
1t is said that the bridge to be
built by the Pennsylvania Rail
road company across the Hudson
river at New York will be the
greatest bridge in the world.
The Wilmington Star thinks
this but right. The country
which has the greatest rivers,
greatest lakes, highest noun
tains, greatest Trusts, greatest
men, handsomest women and
biggest humbugs. in the world
ought to havo also the greatest
bridge.
John Davis, Of Wheeling, w.
Va, struck q streak Of bad luck
the other day. He was picked up
on tho street, two doctors pronoun-
ced him dead, and a coroner's jury
decided that he died of heart dis
ease. Not satisfied with this, when
moved to the under aker's estab-
lishment, ho insisted on sitting up
and singing the doxology. Then
they got mad at him and fined him
$5 for being drunk.
McIIaurin may take JUNCTION to
his soul on account Of the crowds