The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-10
STATE NEWS.
Miss Josephine Mears, of Bea,

fort county, who has just passed her
eleventh birthday, weighs 116 pounds.
- Twenty deep wells have been
driven in Blackville recently. The
deepest goes down $50 feet and all
furnish pure water.
A Golden n-headed eagle, which
measured feet 4 inches from tip to
tip of wings, was killed near Kelton
in Union county, last Thursday.
= DR.. J. W. Hudson, of Mayes-
Vile, sent keiffer pear to the Ne,cs
and Courier the other day which
weighed 324 ounces, and also said
that he had another which weighed
SO ounces.
- The papers speak of an old Bible
being found in the low country, by a
negro, which was printed in the year
1876. In the Chapman family of New
berry there is one much older. It
bears the date of 1913, and is perhaps
the oldest Bible in the State. It is
of the King James version.
= The Pinckney Phosphate failure
in Charleston is in great muddle.
Mr.. Barber, attorney for the State,
does not know how the matter stands.
It is said that there are % lawyers
engaged on the case. Before the mat
ter is settled, the creditors will be
assessed to pay the lawyers.
= The Abbeville, Pelzer and Pied
mont R. R. people had meeting at
Donalds, S. c., last Wednesday, W.
G. McGowan, L. w. Parker and Joe
Mccullough were elected committee
to apply to the Legislature for a
charter. If they obtain it and the
Seaboard people come up to the rack
as they should, then the road will be
an assured fact. .-Pezzer Herald.
= Perhaps the oldest person in
Oconee county was Red Henry Cleve-
land, colored man, who died on Mr..
L. G. CASTOR S pl;ce, near Westmin-
ster, on Wednesday, October 9th,
1887, aged nearly one hundred years.
In ante-bellum days he belonged to
Mr.. Thomas R. Shelor for fifty or
sixty years. He was faithful SER
want, and since freedom has been a
quiet and humble citizen.
= On last Sunday afternoon MIR.
James Smith, Of Chappells, received a
pistol from a colored man named
Lindsay, who had borrowed it for him
to 60 on a journey, when, on letting
the hammer down, after extracting
the only two balls supposed TO be in
the pistol it exploded, hitting Lindsay
in the head and killing him. Magis-
trate Day held an inquest, the result
of which was. that the deceased was
accidentally killed.-Neaober'y o.
Serrer.
David Chavis, living about four
miles from North accidentally shot
his sister, Rosa, with pistol one day
last week from the effects of which
she died on Thursday. 1t was very
sad accident, the victim of which was
only fifteen years of age. Major G.
w. Dannelly. acting as Coroner, held
an inquest over the remains of the
unfortunate girl. The evidence shows
that Chavis was in the act of putting
up his pistol when it was discharged.
-OrangeJurg Times.
| Bud Mastars, who lives lives at
Rock postofice, tried to commit sui,
eide last week. He shot himself
through the left hand with 38 calibre
pistol, the sound of which was heard
by some one near by, who at once
went to learn the cause Of the shoot
ing, and when he reached him Bud
was searching for razor to cut his
throat. He was overpowered and car
ried to DR.. j. NJ. Crenshaw, who
dressed the wound on the hand. He
is doing very we'll at present.-Ptckens
Journal.
= Mr.. Henry G.. Anderson, farm
er. met with very serious accident
at Fort Lawn. He was at Hough and
Barnett's gin, which is so constructed
that the cotton bales after being
packed are dumped onto the ground
from an elevated platform. Mr..
Anderson was walking beneath this
platfc~n when the hands turned loose
a bali of cotton. The bale fell en-
him and broke his back, instantly
paralyzing his lower limbs. The
hands gave the customary warning
but Mr.. Anderson, being somewhat
hard of hearing. failed to heed it.
: The engineering corps under w.
B. Crenshaw, cngineer-in-charge
which made the preliminary survey
from Dover to Cynthiana, will return
to Dover about the 25th inst, and at
ter surveying the Dover bottoms and
surrounding hills. of which mapwill
be made, will lay out the line where
the steel rails will be laid. Several
Dover boys are with the corps and it
will be welcome news to them to learn
they will be returned here instead of
going ahead on the main line. The
Black Diamond will by that time have
six surveying corps in the fcld-one
here. two on the Eincenncs line. one
on the indianapolis line, one in Ohio
and the bridge corps. And don't for
get it-Dover led the way.-Dorcr
Hy.) Ncws.
= Phyllis Pitts, colored, was killed
at her home about half 4 mile from
H. 1oct Mon1ou