The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-10-18
a Dish Of Hash.

a DISH o. aas1.
Cold Thursday.
AL aboard for the State Fair.
.L L cures peuragia.
Read the Clark ard Sherif's sales in this
issue.
There is new dry goods company in Co
lnmbia
Fires are con- Portable these mornings
evenings.
CONGRESSMAN Lever is in town taking IN
the County Fair.
Great minds, like high heaven, are pleas
ed with doing good.
Thanks toJ. E. Williams, Of Norway, for
kind remembrance.
Lovely moonlight nights. Just the KIND
for moon struck lovers.
We hear many persons hereabouts talk
ing Of attending the State Fair.
There was big meeting of North Carolina
Socialists at & reensboro on October llth.
The total vote in Darlington county on.
the Dispensary was less than 1000. That
looks like the voice of the people
A Baptist paper makes call for strong
man for Governor on the platform OF
Prohibition, Purity and Peace
A majority of the Magistrates OF Edge
6eld has been arraigned by the grand jury
for irregularities as shown by their dockets'
It is said that the persimmon crop is un-
asaally large and sweet this year. The
golden fruit hangs In great and r1ch cius-
fers.
Secretary of the Navy Bouaparte has
been invited to Charleston when the cruiser
Of that name goes there to receive the sil-
yer punch bowl
". e. Touchstone. Superintendent Of the
TJn;on and Buffalo cotton mills of Union.
mas teedered his resignation, which will
probably be accepted.
A German paper thinks our army is 'srot-
tsa' and that Americans are patriotic only
With their mouth. We refer it to England
and Spain for information on these subjects.
This. ss it is with the farmers. is our haf-
yest time. Read the advertisements IN the
Dispatch before shopping if You want to
get che most goods for the!least money.
Edward Cunlif, trusted employee OF
the Adams Express company at Pittsburg,
pa has skipped by the light of the moon.
takine with him s1o0, 900 belonging to the
company.
assistant Attorney General Townsend
having resigned. General LeRoy F. You
mans. OF Columbia. now discharges the du-
ties of that cfice by the grace Of Attorney
General Gunter.
800, eco Of spartanburg's 80 year q per
cent. bonds were recently sold for $1OU.-
GEO. with accured interest from date. This
means premium of over $1,000 and AZ
per cent interest.
The celebrated Wallace House gavel,
which was presented to the House OF Repre-.
sentatives by Capt. W. A. Courtney. Of
Nevry, S Co. presented to the Iimrod
library IN Columbia Wednesday.
. Jim Psdgett, an Edgefeld negro convict,
vas cnneicted of aheinons assault upon the
personof little girl at Johnston and was
sentenced to twelve years in the peniten.
tiary He narrowly escaped lynching at
the time.
WANTED-By.a Chicago Manufacturing
House, person Of strustworthiness and some
what familiar with local territory as assist
ant in branch Office. Salary $l8 paid weekly
Permanent position. No investment re-
quired. Previous experience not essential
to engaging. Address, Manag: r Branches.
Como Block, Chicago.
The case of Federal Judge Baker. of In
diana, has been referred to the civil service
commission. He is charged with having
violated the law by soliciting funds from
Office holders for election purposes. ae
will probably lose his official head, as ne
shouid do.
A negro brute was recently lynched by
party of his own color at cambridge. Ca,
recently, for raping two negro girls. The
snecktis party" was largely attended by the
negroes Of the surrounding country. who
seemed to enjoy the Summary manner in
which Justice was meted out to the fend
ircaroate.
Governor Heyward has refused to REIN
state Whetsell. the deposed Treasurer of
Dorchester county although he deposited
$4,000 in bank at St George to cover any
shortage in his Office. It seems that
he failed to have rich and Influential friends
at Court, or the result might have been
different. .
Prof. Arthur F. Hartman, who is princi-
p&. OF Public Schools at Florence, Ala.
in sending his remittance for the Dispatch,
writes: ..Thoh my closest associations are
are all now with the people of Alabama,
still enjoy watching the movements of peo-
pie in and around Lexington and no paper
is mere welcome to our home than is the
Dispatch." Thanks.
500 Reward, 500.