The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17

= The Clemson Exhibit at the State
Fair is spoken Of as highly creditable
and interesting.
Gen. Wade Hampton has returned
to Columbia. He is looking well and
enjoying the best Of health.
= The government reports that the
sweet potato crop for South Carolina
is 16 per cent short of being a full
crop.
= Mr.. Mccoy, chairman of the
board of control for Berkeley, has re-
ported the Moncks Corner dispensary
short $695 to the State board.
A poultry department is to be
established in the department of agri-
culture at Clemson College for the
purpose of experiment and instruction.
= Two. more Norman preachers
have been sent in to this State. There
are over fifty of them at work through
out the south, two women preachers
included.
= A nugget of virgin gold, wei h
ing 20 pennvweights, was picked up
by a plowman on Mr. Jessie Nance S
farm, two miles from Gaffney, day or
two ago.
= The South Carolina Methodist
Conference meets in Florence on Dec.
Sth next. There will be from $50 to
400 ministers and lay delegates in
attendance,
= The dispensary law without the
constables means free liquor and with
the constables it means free murder
added. Pay your money and take
your choice. The octopus must CO.
SpartanJmg Herald.
The Columbia Register says that
the Internal Revenue Department of
the United States has issued over 400
licenses to sell liquor in South Caro-
lima since last July. Of this number
only 80 were issued to dispensaries.
= Charleston's cotton receipts are
piling up at lively rate and it is con-
fdeptly expected that the total receipts
for the year will be considerably in
excess of the half-million mark. The
receipts have been particularly heavy
during the past couple of weeks.
= The Governor has received a let
ter from an admirer in N'ewberry
county saying that he named his twins
McLaurin and Ellerbe, after the
Junior Senator and the Governor of
the State. 1t is complimentary
blend Of names.
- Mr.. D. L. Evans, of the Provi-
derce section of Orangeburg county,
has on his place several pecan trees
that are just now beginning to bear
we'll. The trees are about fifteen
years old, and were grown from the
seed by Mr.. Evans himself. The nuts
are very large and fine.
Roger Boyce, living about two
miles from Princeton in Greenville
county lost by fire, last Thursday, his
dwelling with the entire contents, in
cluding wearing apparel, &c., and sl3l
in money. The fire was accidental
and the property was insured in the
Farmers Mutual, of Greenville, for
$500.
: Stenographer Wyatt Aiken is
slightly disfgured and almost incapa
ciated for duty as result of coils
ion with bottle of caroolic acid. In
attempting to stop the fall of the bot
tie from the mantel at his home in
Abbeville few days ago, the acid
was spilled on his right hand and foot,
iphicting severe burns. The burn on
the foot is particularly painful and the
prospective Congressman from the
Third district has no little trouble in
moving about his two hundred pounds,
more or less, of avoirdupois.
= Rattlesnake skins are Of some
utility and Mr.. Charles Bultmann, of
Florence, can offer the proof. For
young lady of that city he has made
of the skin of one of those poisonous
reptiles pair of dancing slippers, to
one of which fourteen rattles are
attached. The slippers are beauties.
The State penitentiary is getting
to be profitable to the State. Super
intendent Neal says that after paying
all debts he will have at least $40, 600
profit to be paid into the State treas
urs. The authorities are holding the
cotton grown on the State farms in
hope of better prices. They have
done this before and made money by
it. This year the States crop is not
less than a thousand bales.
= At Greenwood, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hughcy, widow of William Hughey,
committed suicide by severing her
jugular vein with knife. Mrs.
Hughley owned considerable estate at
Abbcvillc and elsewhere. She was 81
years old, and lived with her nephew.
". Il. Buchanan, at whose house
she committed the rash act. No cause
can be assigned except temporary
alteration Of the mind, caused by i'll
health, from which she frequently
suffered of late years. At these times
she often threatened to take her life.
She had no children.
a gray fox, with a liking for
travel, was caught Monday afternoon
in the woodward of W. III. Reamer
within the city's limits. The fox ar
rived here in carload of wood; but
was not part or parcel OF the con,
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