The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-12-15

pUA. IuC pdClCut Caught III III IAL
lanta.
Ex-Prcsident Cleveland is spend
ing few days at Georgetown shooting
ducks.
= The Dispensary in Greenvill'
did not pay expenses during thu
month of November.
The recent report that typhoid
fever was epidemic at Winthrop Col
lege is stated to have been entirely
erroneous.
Mrs. Divers Kinney was burned
to death at her home near Efingham
Florence county, while cooking in an
open fireplace.
"A poultry department is to be
established in the department of agri
culture at Clemson College for the
purpose of experiment and instruc-
tion.
November Davis, an old colored
man was burned 20 death in his cabin
in Varnville. II is supposed that he
was under the influence of liquor and
fell in the FIRE.
y The Greenwood, Anderson and
Western Railroad was sold at Sievern,
S. c., by order of the United States
Circuit Court last Thursday. The
price paid was sl5,600.
= The penitentiary report has not
been finally made up, but tits pretty
certain that the institution will pay
into the treasury at least $40, 900, and
be in shape to run on cash basis
next year.
- It is thought and rumored that
Senator Archer, Of Spartanburg, will
oppose Governor Ellerbe next year.
The Senator is man of ability and
will have large following il he should
enter the race. -So1ado Sentinel.
- At Youngs, Laurens county, ON
the 9Th inst, John Wharton, am
Irishman, was rolling logs up hill
side to sawmill. A heavy log broke
the gearing and rolled down the hill,
going over Wharton, killing him in
stantly.
...;s-. The State Board of Control gave
out fg1fes~%hiehA show the business
of the dispensary for Ssptembals.
October and November, 1897, to have
been s287 ,421.87. The same months
in 1896 show S276, ,542.7O, decrease
in receipts of $110,87917.
= Arthur Henson and son Of
George Neely, not far from Greers,
were handling their pistols carelessly
when Henson's was discharged and
the ball inflicted a fatal wound in
Neely. These boys were IA to 16
gears old and were using pistols as
playthings.
- Work began on the Pickens and
Easley railroad Tuesday and about
seventy mules and horses were put to
work and about seventy-fve or one
hundred hands were also on hand.
There is no doubt about the compile
tion Of the road now. Hurrah for
Pickens county.-Pickens Journal.
Mr.. r. r. Legare, of Beaufort,
has on exhibition yeritable curiosity
in the shape of small fish which was
brought up by the pump in his we'll.
The fish is about three inches long
and blind. 1t looks like mullet
about the head, and leach in the
balance of the body, and is very SINH
lar to the small fish caught in the
underground lakes Of Mammoth cave.
= Last Thursday John Bryant,
workman, was blown to atoms by
dynamite explosion about two miles
from Columbia. The county is now
quarrying rock for its macadam road
and Bryant-is' thought to have gone
about the box in which the dynamite
is kept with lighted pipe, which
resulted in the explosion and his
death. Parts Of his clothing and body
were found about the ground.
- Edward AIcCradys History Of
South Carolina will be published dur
ing the present month by the Macmil-
Ian company, of New York. 1t will
cover The history of this colony under
the Proprietary government from l6IO
to 1719, and will be the most complete
and accurate account of that period
that has ever been given 1t has all
the charm of romance, and increases
in interest to the conclusion Of most
story .-Nc7rs upd T1urirr.
Although call has been issued
for the county boards Of pensioners to
meet on January % Comptroller Gen
cral Epton is afraid that he is going
to have considerable trouble in getting
them to assemble. The members of
these boards get no salary. and,
usually, receive "a lot Of cussng for
what they do, and it is hard matter
to get men to stand that kind of thing
long. Some change in the law will
have to be made if this important
matter is properly attended to.
The following from the Atlanta
fonstitationS Washington corrcspon
dentindicatcs that Senator McJ4aurins
illness is quite serious Senator Nc
Laurin of South Carolina is down with
typhoid fever at his Washington resi-
lence, and it is feared the young
carolinian is very sick man. He
was not at all well when he came to
WASHINGTON, but not until to-day did