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

18th inst,
- 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 we'll and
enjoying thc best of health.
- The government reports that the
sweet potato crop for South Carolina
is 16 per cent short of being 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
arc over fifty of them at work through,
out the south. two women preachers
included.
= A nugget of virgin gold, weigh
ing 20 pcnnyweights, was picked up
by plowman on Dir. Jessie Nance's S
farm, two miles from Gaffney, day or
two ago.
- The South Carolina Methodist
Conference meets in Florence on Dec.
9Th next. There will be from $50 to
400 ministers and lay delegates in
attendance.
= The dispensary law without the
copstables means free liquor and with
the .constables it means free murder
added. Pay your money and take
your choice. The octopus must CO.
iSpartanJurg 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 dispensariss.
- Charleston 8 cotton receipts are
piling up at lively rate and il is con-
fdently 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 Newberry
county saying that he named his twins
McLaurin and Ellerbe. Aete- .he
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
! ses1 by Dir. 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
Guiding wearing apparel, &C., and S131
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-
dated for duty as result Of collis-
ion with bottle of car3olic acid. In
attempting to stop the fall Of the bet
tic from the mantel ae his home in
Abbeville a few days ago, the, acid
was spilled en- his right hand anu foot,
ipfiicting 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 Jess, Of avoirdupois. i
- Rattlesnake skins are of some
utility and Mr.. Charles Bultmann, of
Florence, can offer the proof. For a
young lady Of that city he has made
Of the skin Of one of those poisonous
reptiles q pair Of dancing slippers, to
one Of which fourteen rattles are
attached. The slippers are beauties.
- The State penitentiary ie eating
10 Dc prontabIe to the State. Super,
intendent Neal says that after paying
ali 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 thousand bales.
At Greenwood, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hughey, widowlof William ,Hughey,
committed suicide by severing her
jugular vein with q knife. Mrs.
Hughley owned considerable eestate at
Abbeville and elsewhere. She was so
years old, and lived with hcrnephew,
w. r. 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 J. with "a liking for
travel, was caught Monday afternoon
| in the woodward Of w. H. Reamer
within the city's limits. The fox ar
rived here In q carload OF wood; but
WAS not q part or parcel Of the con-