The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-06-18

cav that they will replant their tobac-
20 and corn. The hail stones were IN
places as large as hen eggs. Lots OF
birds, young turkeys ard small chick
ems were killed.
The A. r. P. church at Pleasant
Hill, Lancaster County, was moved
several inches by severe wind storm
last Sunday afternoon. The pastor
had Just pronounced the benedictlon
when the storm came up.
The commencement exercises OF
Newberry College will be inaugurated
Sunday, June 15. The folloWlng
Wednesday will be commencement day.
The salary of the postmaster at
Winnsboro has been reduced from
81. 500 to 81, 400, in consequence OF the
falling off in the sale of stamps.
"A strange fatality seems to hang
about the depot agency at Eiioree;
During the few years since the railroad
was bnilt through that section three
agents have died.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee Of Aiken has decided TO
have county dispensers chosen by the
primary, despite the action OF the
State convention to the contrary.
The trustees of Erskine College,
Due West, have decided to erect a
monument IN memory of the late Dr.
W. M. Grier, for many years the presl-
dent of the college.
= project is on foot to erect cot.
ton mill at Pembroke, on the line OF
the proposed electric railway from
Bennettysille to Dillon.
The dwelling house of Warren v.
Cuuer, Orangeburg County, was
destroyed by an incendiary FIRE on the
night of the 9th inst, involving a loss
of 81, 600 or 81, 800. No insurance.
The Anderson Spool and Bobbin
Company, which will have a capital
stock of S4,O0o and manufacture bob
bins and spools, has applied to the
Secretary of State for charter.
The work on the sewerage system
in Columbia is progressing rapldy.
sOne-third Of the pipe has been laid,
This amount is equal to ten miles, the
system when completed comprising
about 2s miles.
The Democratic campaign in South
Carolina opens next Tuesday and will
continue six weeks. The first meet
ing for State officers, will be held IN
Sumter, in the Opera House. The
Senatorial and Congressional ball Will
open in Columbia.
G. Bass, who recently resigned
the Office of coroner Of Florence Coun-
ty, will leave next week to make his
home in Norfolk, where several Of his
sons hold good positions. His. wife
and daughter viii accompany him.
The rails for the trolley line from
Augusta have been laid through the
town of Aiken. A freight depot will
be erected on the outskirts OF the
town. The power house is completed
and as soon as a few gaps are filed in
cars Will commence running to and
from augusta.
tablet to the memory of Confed-
crate veterans in the yestibule of the
famous st. Michael's church, Charles
ton, was unveiled Thursday, with IN
teresting ceremonies. The address was
delivered by Bishop Capers.
Thursday, June u, the distribu-
ton Of the fund to provide artificial
limbs for one-legged and one-armed
Confederate veterans was made by the
comptroller general There was some
thing over so bene6ciaries and each
got little less than s25. This is an
annual fund and the beneficiary has
the privilege Of taking an artificial
limb CT the money.
The Columbia city council re
ceived as information a request from
the police commission to pass an ordi-
nance prohibiting the operation of.
slot machines in Columbia. They are
doing a hourishing business.
Spartanburg is to have new ma
5ional bank. with a capital stock of
800, 600, in which some of the most
practical and successful business men
In this portion of the south will be
materially interested. j. 81. Sloan
will be the president.
The corporators Of the Columbia
and Lexington electric railway have
had several routes between Lexington
and Brookland surveyed and staked
out. The construction of the line is
now an assured fact.
The State Hospital for the Insane
at Columbia now has /, 165 patients,
the largest number ever known. The
increase in the past month has been
81. No more patients can be received
until some arrangements are made for
additional quarters. The Institution
is now overcrowded.
james Brock, an aged inmate of
the Charleston aims house, committed
suicide by slashing his throat with a
razor. Brock was in failing health
and his growing in6rmity brought on
melancholia, which caused the rash
act. Mrs. Brock was with her hus-
band when ne committed the act.
w. NJ. Dibble, president of the
Bank OF Aiken, was out in his lot
Sunday afternoon, and was attacked
unawares by a large bull, which got
him dowp> and gored him badly. The
hull was beaten off by one of the farm