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-OUTH CAROLINA NEWS. items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Spartanburg is working hard to se :ure the next state reunion of Con .ederate veterans. J. W. Stribling, cashier of the Bank af Seneca and a leading citizen of Oconee, died early on Monday morn Mr. John Corley, a prominent cit -zen of Edgefield and a gallant Con federate soldier, dropped (lead 'early Monday morning. A reunion of the Mexican war vet !rans of Lancaster county was held n Lancaster last week. every survi -,or of* Lancaster being present. Fire partially destroyed 25 bales of cotton on the platform of the depot at Pendleton last week. The fire was probably caused by sparks from a passing engine. Will Wilbur, a negro, accidentally killed himself at Halie gold mine, in Lancaster county, last week. He had been out hunting and on entering his .house the gun struck the door and was accidentally discharged. A clumsy attempt was made on Sunday to break open the safe of the 7wholsesale firm of the Norris-Coon er company, in Columbia. The at empt was unsuccessful, being made, - evidently, by an amateur. Another big mass meeting of the -iarmers and business men of Union -county has been called to meet on next Monday, when the meeting will be addressed by President E. D. Smith, of the State Cotton Growers' association. The body of a negro, identified as -Jeff Prince, was found in a ravine, in -the rear of Evins street, in Spartan burg, on Monday afternoon. The neck was dislocated and the head of the man was lying in a spring branch. It is supposed that he was drinking and fell down the hillside, breaking his neck. The entire Chatfield building, in Afken, with the postofficefixturesand mails, was destroyed by fire on Sun day night. The total loss, it is es timated. will aggaregate about $8, .oo. It is stated that the development of the Davis gold mine, in Kershaw c.ounty, is to begin at once, northern capitalists having been interested in the mine. It is said to be one of the ~richest gold mines in this section of tAhe country. Mr. Munn Jolly, of Maude, Chero kee county, on Monday afternoon, -picked up his gun, which he had tak -en out with him, by the muzzle and ~it was discharged, the load taking teffect in his neck and killing him in stantly. Powell R. Feldier, a young man .about 21 years ol age, left the ci,y o'f Sumter on Saturday night, and it .ita been discovered that he is stori in his accou:ts $325 with the Sizer .amber company. .\ warrant has be-en issued for his arrest. It is said he~ has gonle to Cuba. .vm ud iiowman. the 16-year-old ve:'e boy arrested in Charleston : ~ harged with having started a nu2: ber of d :Mract ive :i re> in that city,. ple:ded guty :n tec.turt of comn mon pleas there this week and threw himself on t.he mercy of the court. the jury recommended him to mer -y, and he thus escaped the ga'i Alice Fuller. a poor white woman, who has been living on charity for - some time, was badly burned on Tuesday afternoon about five miles from Columbia. Mr. E. J. Dunnoway, - a farmer. found the woman in the woods enveloped in flames, and as soon as possible after her wounds nad been treated she was taken to 'Columbia and placed in the alms ab~use. It is reported from Charleston that -all hope is gi'ven up for the bark Essex, which sailed from Charleston son December 7with a cargo of 460, ~ooo feet of lumber for New York, and it is thought she has gone down with -her captain and crew of seven men. The cargo was valued at about $5, boo. The funeral of Col. James L. Orr '-as held at Christ Episcopal church in Greenville on Tuesday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and iriends were present to pay the last tribute to one aniversally known and admired. It is said to have been one of the most largely attended funerals -evr hld n Greenville. Many peo Horses,l The best the State. F ceived. Pric Quat ole were in attendance From every par: of the state. On Tuesday morning Wallace \Vhitlock, of Spartanburg. dismissed his cook. Soon thereafter her hus band went to Whitlock's house to as certain the cause. Whitlock ordered him to leave. Soon afterwards two friends of the cook returned with shotguns and opened fire on Whit lock's house at long range. Their names were Charlie Anderson and Ernest Anderson. They used small shot. Mrs. Whitlock and a smal child were wounded. Mrs. Whitlock's wounds were light, but it was not known how the wounds of the little child might terminate. Both negroes were -7rested. It is stated that Governor Heyward was expected home from New York on Wednesday, but that the news of the death of an aunt would probably keep him until the end of the week. NIrs. Elizabeth Clinch Anderson, who died in Washington Saturday, was a daughter of Gen. Bayard Clinch, a brigadier in the United States army before the War for Southern Independence, and married Maj. Robert Anderson, whose gal dfense of Fort Sumter was the first ramatic episode of the great war. Maj. Anderson was southern in sym pathy, it is said, but was placed in a very distasteful predicament and followed the dictates of his con science. He is buried in the cemetery at West Point on the Hudson, and there the body of his southern wife will be taken for interment. Mrs. Anderson was a sister of Col. Clinch of Savannah, who died about four mon:h ago. Having seen a dispatch from Washington, published in the New Orleans Times-Democrat, to the effect that because Mr. John L. McLaurin, of Bennettsville, was supposed to de sire a place on the proposed commis sion to extend our cotton trade in the east, the measure was being an t:ionized in :he senate, the former sn... r has written Senator Clay. eho is in charge of the bii!. authoriz ig him to say that he not only is not acandida-.e for that or any other place integift of :he president. but that B-:. wuld not accept a place on the *mmiss1in if tendered him. Mr. Mc aurin was hurt and indignant at eunwarranted assertion when. he -clares, his sole purpose is to help 5 people and with no idea of self iterest. Former Senator McLaurin ':ent to WVashington to do some ac ve work f'or the b)ill. He Believed the Bear Story. ''In Austin one afternoon," says Seator Bailey. of Texas, a?ccording to Harper's WVeekly, a number of ,mte legislators and not a few lawv vrs were telling stories of bear h.miting. A six-footer from the Guad ::upe bottoms told a story of saughter of the Bruin family that would have been calculated to aston ish the late Baron Mumchausen. The teler of this story was, of course, the hero of the devastation related, and i seems p)retty clear from his recital that he had exterminated all the bears ice s-> thick, in the dense cane breaks and swampy jungles of his re gion. "When the six-footer had finished his tale there arose a chorus of dis st. Nearly every man preseni swore roundly against the improba hility of the adventures. In fact, sev eal of his auditors did not si. ,ple tc aply a plain epithet to that mndivi dual, and a general clamor ensued. "Against this popular verdict there asond niv one champion. Thi5 Rules,But assortment 'resh Car Loe es and termc tlebaum SUCCE'S juattlebaum Prosperi was a wiry little man, who up t, that time had not spoken a word. ' *Gentlemen.' remarked he., whet the noise had subsided, 'I believ, every word our friend has uttered You are incredulous simply becaus, von haven't had his opportunities fo: slaughtering big game. Now, I my self have had experiences in that line back in old Mississippi, that I almos dread to tell you of, lest you shou< think that I, too, were drawing on mi imagination. " 'I could tell you of the greates bear hunt in history, back there oi Deer creek. We started our game ono Saturday morning and followed hin through six counties, camping on hi! trail every night. His tracks were o the size of a bushel measure. At th< end of the third week we caught ul with him, our dogs having followe< his trail. I had the lead of m3 comrades, and as I approached th< scene I gave a yell of encourage ment to the dogs. With that thei closed in on the bear. With thi stroke of his terrible paw, that bea: slew forty-eight of the best hunting dogs in Mississippi, and the rest fled I avenged my dogs by shooting th< bear through the brain. He weighe< some twelve hundred pounds. "When the wiry little man had fin ished his story there was not a word except from the man from Guada loupe. 'That's an infernal lie!' hi shouted. "In a twinkling the man from Mis sissippi had jumped for the fellov and they went to the floor, the littl< fellow on top, choking his adversar: viciously. "'You dont' believe it, eh?' de manded he, fairly raining blows upoi that prostrate victim. 'Then tak, that, and that, and that. Don't be lieve it? I believed your bear story and you'll believe mine, or I'll bea ou to a frazzle.' "Gasping for breath and begging for mercy. the defeated one rose t< his knees and blurted out: "'The gentleman is telling th t:uh. There's no accounting fo what a bear will do when he get NOTICE. W \e will receive applications fo Peer Dispenser on the 6th day o March and will consider same an' elet on the 25th. Applications mus be in legal form and handed to chair man on or before the above date b: 10 o'clock a. mn. Jacob Senn, Chairmar J'. P. Harmon, J. R. Scurry, Members County Board of Control, NEW YEAR.NEW PLACE We have Moved into our Handsom New Store Building on Caldwel Street, Near the Postoffice, and ar Now Ready to Begin the NEV YEAR in a NEW WAY. We Wish to Express our Sincer Thanks to Those Who Have Patron ized Us at the Old Stand, and Confi dently Trust that the Patronage Wil Continue. J. W. W HITE. Il 9SENT FRE E toa PAINLESS O06f0adau Kil 3*cane orwhiskey, ~EhE ticulars on homet -- mnt.Addesssanatorium trea AND B. M. WOOLLE' Whiskar CureIi"*seh jios,WaI to be found ii td of Live St ; to suit anybo & Lang ISORS TO & Schumpert, ty, S. C. QUIT COUGHIN There is no n Lungs out, wk tle of Murray lien and Tar. A few doses of this Household lief. 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