The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-04-19
South CarOlia Notes.
Free Lance,

Free Lance.
The Lexington County %chaiDgang
escaped in a body the other'day.
Anderson will accept a SIC, 900 Ii
brary from Andrew Carnegie.
The railroad commission is sitting in
| GreenvilIe 10 hear some complaints Of
citizens.
Capt John w. R. Berry. an aged
confederate veteran, is dead at
Branchville.
Arson G.. Merreick, ] has won the
appointment to Annapolis in the third
congress district.
r.. H. Sloan, Jr., Of Greenville has
received an appointment to Annapo.
lis from Senator Latinler.
The cornerstone of new public
school building at O~rangeburg has
been laid with ceremonies.
The Sea Island cotton growers have
organized and agreed to limit the sale
of sea island cotton seed.
w. B. Moore has been elected vice
president of the Mills Mfg. Co, in
Greenvilie to succeed the late Col.
James l.. Orr.
c.. E. Watson, who has been agent
for the Southern Railway in Green
vile for % years, has resigned on &C.
count of failing health.
Capt. E. Bacon has resigned as ac-
countant for the d~ispensary investi-
eating committee end has been sue
ceeded by w. w. Bradley Of Able
vile.
Alice Dozier, a colored washerwo-
man, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by a negro named Clarence
Il reenlee at Anderson. Greenlee fled
and has not been captured.
W.. E. Lucas has resigned the presi-
dency of the Darlington Mfg. Co. and
will give his entire time and atten-
ton to the Laurens Cotton Mills and
Watts Cotton Mills at LaureDs.
Miss Florence White, AGED 10, tele'
phone operator at Florence, eloped to
Wilmington and was married to 0. l..
Richardson, a Richmond travelling
man.
P. Dozier Cuttino of Sumter died at
Tuscon, Arizona.
The Charles & Summerville Electric
Railway has been begun.
Three white men are on trial at
Pickens for the murder of negro.
w. H, Kerr beat Kenneth Baker
for mayor of Greenwood by five votes.
The assessment of the GreenvilIe
Traction Co. has been raised from
Sc, 900 to $4,000 a mile.
5000 persons have been invited to
the Southern Educational Conference
at Columbia next month.
Prof. John R. Mack of OrangebUrg
County, formerly president of Linz e
stone College at Gatfney is. dead.
Rev. O. #. Porcher Of the Episcopal
Church at Greenwood has declined
a call to the Episcopal Church at
Florence.
State Senator R. +. Manning has
been elected presientd of the Bank.
of Sumter, 10 succeed the late w. F
Haynesworth.
Fire was discovered in the ainrery
of the South Carolina Cotton Oil Go,
in Greenville, tut was extinguished
with 500 loss.
j. E. Payne has protested against a
tax assessment placed upon biz
stock of goods as beer dispenser in
lGreenville. Decision has been reserv-
eb.
An election will probably he held on
the question of annexing Brookland
with Columbia. Brookland is in Lex
ipgton County.
Dr.. Mathilde Buck of. Philadelphia
has become resident physician at
Winthrop College, succeeding DIR. l..
Rosa Hirschman.
Petitions to hold an election to vote
out the d%ispensary in the Union
| County have been put in circulation.
J. F. Claude is promoting the move
ment
The total cotton receipts at Ander-
son for the season have been $1,000
bales. The receipts up to the same
time last year were %, 124, bales.
Walter Ellis, Clarence Richey and
| Walter Smith Uere acquitted in Pick
ems of the murder of Harrison Ogles-
by, colored. The jury was out three
hours.
Messrs. Whipple Bros, of Rhode ISL
and have recently shipped two cars of
radishes from a seven-acre patch near
Beaufort. This is q new enterprise in
Sothu Carolina.
Gov Heyard has been invited to at
tend the reunion in Charleston April
7 of the Yale men of South Carolina.
A dinner will be given to President
Hadley.
A compulsory school attedance law
has been found in Columb ia. No ef-
fort is being made to enforce it be-
cause school facilities are insufficient.
1t is the opinions of some lawyers
that the law would be held u%nconstitu-
tional as special legislation.
Rock Hill will erect new munich
pal building.
A thief at Dillon got away with a
mule and an open top buggy.
The Bank of Greers has moved into
its handsome new quarters.
The new Dank building at Iva, An
derson County, is being put mp by Joe
Masters.
The Darlington Wholesale Grocery
Co.'s warehouse was burned with a
loss of $4,000.
Work on the equestrian statue of
Gen. Wade Hampton is progressing
nicely in Paris.
Ira A. Giles of Anderson has been
appointed to a position in the Panama
canal service.
The Southern Rail way has bought
land in GreenvIlle for additional
trackage facilities.
Pettigru Hillhouse has been ap-
pointed agent for the Southern Rail-
way at Greenville, to succeed c. E.
Watson, resigned.
Lancaster has abolished it's county
changing because there were not
enough convicts to justify it.
The Huntsville Cotton Mills, of
which c. Twitty is president, will
have q $500. 600 additional,