The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-10-20
STATE NEWS.
= Senator Tillman is recovering
from an attack Of iaundicc.

: The phosphate industry OF the
State has yielded So, l46 since Jan
uary /.
= Mrs. Gov. Ellcrbc heads the list
of ladies composing the reception COM
mittce at the coming State ball.
= William C. Dreher of South Car
olina has been appointed consular
agent at Markneukirchen, Germany.
= The South Carolina Annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will convene in Charleston in
December.
= The Ohio River and Charleston
Railroad is now running regular
schedules from Gahney to Camden,
S. c., and Marion, N. G.
- Robert Burns, of Fort Mill, had
his leg amputatcd recently: the re-
suit Of wound received at Fort
Stcadman, March 25th, 1863.
= Senator McLaurin pledges him
self to support the repeal Of the pro-
hibitive Federal tax on State banks
and the creation of State bank cur
rency.
= The State Board of Liquor Con-
troll has changed the hours for opening
and closing the dispensary to the full
constitutional limit-from the rising
Of the sun to the going down Of the
same.
= Governor Ellerbe is in receipt of
letter from Federal Secretary of
State Sherman urging him to take
immediate steps towards securing rep
resentation for this State in the Paris
Exposition.
Col. j. P. Thomas, of Columbia,
has been appointed by Gov. Ellerbe to
continue the work of getting up Con-
federate rolls-formerly carried on by
Hon. Hugh L. Farley. In this ap-,
pointment the Governor has made a
wise choice.
= The round bale has made it's ap-
pearance in Barnwell. Col. Mike
Brown leads in this improvement.
The cotton is delivered from the
wagon and ginned and packed in ten
minutes. And the proceeds of the
bale can be packed off in still shorter
order.
"A writer in the Keov2c Courier
mentions that the splendid oak on the
banks Of the Seneca under which Gen.
Andrew Pickens made treaty with
the Cherokee Indians more than a
century ago has been attacked by relic
hunters and suggests that measures
for it's protection should be taken.
The tree by all means should be
guarded and preserved.
= The Columbia Register says the
Governor Guards at recent meeting
received and accepted a portrait Of
Uncle William Rose, the colored vete-
ran of three wars, presented to them
by himself. The company gladly
received the portrait and passed suit
able resolutions expressive Of their
appreciation. The portrait was hung
among the portraits of other distin-
guished military men which now adorn
the walls Of the Guards armory.
= a rather curious accident occur
red in Charleston at the. South Caro-
lima and Georgia railroad company's
yards ir which two colored men were
nearly drowned. A large wooden
tank used by the road, suddenly burst
into a hundred pieces, submcrging
two colored men, James Smalls and
John Benson. The two men we're
seated beneath the tank when the
crash came and in an instant they
were thrown to the ground by deluge
of water and splintered timber.
= Gus AFTER, son of Baylus Arter,
colored, was accidentally shot Monday
night with 32-calibre pistol. Some
dogs were barking in the woods and
he and another person started to see
what the dogs had found, Gus carry
ing the pistol and the person with
him an axe. While they were looking
up in a tree to see what the dogs were
barking at the pistol went off, the ball
taking effect in his right breast, pass
ing through one of his lungs and
lod gine in the back. DR.. G.. W. Earle
was Immediately summoned and the
ball was cut out. The patient was
doing we'll at last accounts, but his
recovery is very uncertain n.-Fich;cns
Journal.
= The evil effects of Mormonism
are being felt in Fairfield county, as
expressed by the Winnsboro CORES
pondcnt of the Ncrs and Courier.
He says that "the public generally
believe that the Mormons are prac-
ticing vices, or would do so if not
afraid. They agree that nothing but
the fear of punishment by law pre-
vented them from openly proclaiming
the doctrine of polygamy, and that
they would practice clandcstincly what
they religiously believe to be right or
admissible. The fewest number in
the county doubt that the Mormons
are guilty of this vice and there is lit
tie sympathy for them"
Ex-United States Senator Robert
son died in Columbia last Wednesday.
He was Senator from South Carolina
under the reconstruction regime and
was succeed by ex-senator Butler.
Mr.. Robertson had been paralyzed for
years. His estate is estimated to be
worth nearly million dollars.
Thomas James Robertson was born in
Foirfold 6 g. Aum z 1922 He