The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-29

It has been suggested that the chicken
fanciers get up o county poultry assool-
alton. There are q dozen or more persons
in the county who ar0 raising standard
bred fowls, It would be well once q year
to have them on exhibit, 30 that the people
could BEE ari compare different preeds
and know what the county is doing In the
wav Of raising fine fowls. What do the
fanciers of fowls ssy7
Sam. Littlejohn, a negro tramp, was
found secreted in the engine room of the
Cotton Mill this morning about 2 o'oloc
by the night Waterman. The latter tele-
phoned police quarters and officer King
went down and arrested the negro. who
had on his person a pistol and III hle hands
q hammer and other tools. He has not
explained his object In entering the mill.
Mayor folly sent him to the city chain
gang this morning for thirty days.
Alexander Carr, who killed Capt. 81. O..
King in Atlanta In 1894 has been declared
insane by q jury. He vas under sentence
to hang last Friday. Soon after the muir
der Carr began to feign insanity. For
more than a year he did not speak q word.
Experts pronounced him a victim of de.
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of murder and sentenced to be hanged.
One month ago, Just a few days before the
date set for his execution, be broke bis
long silence and stated that be had been
ehammipg all the time. The Governor
gave him 30 days respite to see whether or
not he was cane. he was examined and
pronounced insane, and will be sent to the
asylum. It Is still o Question With many
whether he is zane or Insane. Capt. King
was we'll known in this county, having
been born and reared near Bolton The
case of Carr is a strange one, as be boldly
told the Jury that he had as much sense as
any one of them, and that he was willing
to be hanged for the murder.
The Columbia correspondent Of the
Nevs and Courier, writing under date Of
April %. says: "Tbis morning Secretary
of State Hopkins received an application
for q charter from the calhoun Falls Com
pauy,' whose capital stock Is two million
and fifty thousand dollars The directors
of the company are Patrick Calhoun, Alex,
P. King, VIM. P. Calhoun, all of Atlanta,
&C.,, and Granville Beal, of Abbeville, 8.
@. The general business will be the pur-
chasing and holding of property in Able
vile County, also the building and opera.
ClOR Ol IHClOIlc5 Ot Gil 5OILd, UAO AoJAb6 Wv
OF towns, making or constructing such
canals and waterways as to said corpora.
ton may seem meet, the establishing and
operation of electrical plants, including
both light and power plants, and the trans.
mission Of power, and the sale or lease OF
water or mechanical power. The principal
business will be transacted at Calhoun
Falls. There will be twenty thousand,
FIVE hundred shares at the par valne OF
500 OF this amount at least 3l.050 600
shall be common stock. The site selected
by the Calhoun Falls Company Is an ex-
cellent one for such an undertaking. The
Seaboard Air Line and the Port Rovel and
Western Carolina railroads will afford fine
railroad facilities for the company. Re-
Gently fourteen thousand acres In Calhoun
Falls was purchased by Mr. Patrick CAL
houu for SAG, 900. It was formerly owned
by James Edward Calhoun