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town. The railroad men also cut the
wires and twisted them around the
[ poles. The jury brought in a verdict
for 81, 200 for the Ninety y-SiX comapny,
$3.50 for Rice, and $500 for Sloan. The
Judge reduced the verdict for the COM
pany to ST, coo.
Bishopyille is clamoring for new
school house.
Macbeth Young has been re-elect-
| ed Mayor Of Union over two oppo-
Inents.
There are at present i've paupers
| IN the Lexington poor house, three
white and two colored.
S tits said that the scarcity Of eggs
in Ofangeburg is caused by the death
! of many hens from cholera.
Il Fl. Aull, the Governors private
secretary, formally announces that he
will not becomea candidate for Secre-
tary Of State.
Ernest Moore, a small negro boy,
was drowned while bathing In cistern
on j. b. Cushman's place at Rose
land, Aiken County.
| Coke Smith, who was shot by
Gabriel Jones in a difficulty at Greers
ISunday, died from his wound Mon
day evening. Jones is in jail, to await
trial for murder Both negroes.
Farris & Wise. who run machine
shop at 0rangeburg, have leased the
Branehyille and Bowman Railroad for
Eve years. They have taken charge OF
the same, and will remove, their ma
chine shopto Bowman. 81
Fields of oats, cotton and tobacco
in Orangeburg County we're COM
pletely destroyed by hail storm on
Sunday, June i. In one section hail
could be gathered, several days after
wards, insufficient quantities to make
ice cream.
LIN difficulty in Columbia Mon
day night John Dargan shot Hopkins
Stokes and Jack Armstrong. Stokes
is seriously wounded, the ball enter
ing his lung. Armstrong is shot In the
arm. All the parties are white. Dar-
gan is in jail.
A military company has been or
ganized at Manning, with the follow
ing officers: A. G. Davis, captain !;
John W. Heriot, first lieutenant; !;
Charles r. Harvin, second lieutenant.
The election for non-commissioned
officers has been deferred.
A little boy at Woodruff cotton
mill caught large bullfrog one even
ion last week and cut off and dressed
the hind legs; that evening and next
morning he feasted on them, and at
10 o'clock in the day the balance of
the frog was still alive and hopping in
the yard.
Near Rowesville, 0rangeburg
County, the other night, Wash. Eel
der, desperate negro, tried to cut
his brother and sister with knife,
because they had.accused him OF spit
ting In the coffee pot, which was on
the FIRE. He was shot IN the right
thigh by his brother Joe, the ball cut
ting the femoral artery, causing
death in ten minutes. Joe is in jail
LII is said that J. E. Madden will
soon be engaged as permanent train
81 aor William G. Whitney's horses,
with the privilege Of maintaining his
own breeding establishment in Ken
tncky and also running stable IN ms
name and colors. During the present
Illness Of John ". Rogers, MADDEN
has been engaged to train the Whitney
horses, but this is but temporary ar
rangement. Aiken Journal and
Review.
Last Sunday afternoon Mr.. ". Z.
Fancett was arrested at the Bamberg
depot, just as he was about to take
the train for Augusta, on the charge
OF acting as labor agent without license.
lie was claimed that Mr.. Faucet was
in Bamberg, hiring hands for the King
mill In Augusta, and the warrant was
issued at the instigation OF the man
agement Of the Bamberg cotton mill.
Some excitement was created by the
arrest. The matter was setteed by Mr..
Faucett signing an agreement not to
make any further attempts to get labor
In Bamberg. he was thereupon re-
leased from custody and left for
Augusta Monday night.
Mayor w. L Bass, of Lake City,
has rendered his resignation to the
town council and it has been accepted.
Moore and Stanley, of Lake City,
estimate damage done to their tobacco
crop by the recent hailstorm at 81, 600.
The building boom in Greenwood
has broken out again. Many residences
are going up and additions are being
made.
Near Lowndesville, Abbeyille
County, J. L. Hall was shot and kill
ed by ". A. Simpson, who claims
self defense and surrendered to the
sheriff. Both white.
in a difficulty in the Lancaster
cotton mill between some negroes, two
brothers. viii and Tom Adams, were
shot by Frank White. Tom was shot
in the groin and Will in the hip.
1t is rumored that President Mon
tague, Of Furman University, will
soon resign, to take the nov vacant
presidency of the University of Ala
bama, at Tuscaloosa.
Charleston will probably soon have
another commercial organization,
which will be composed entirely Of
merchants and be known as 1.-The