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

VI OcucIdi 'oeSSiOuH convened MONDAY.
10Th inst,
The Clemson Exhibit at the State
Fair is spoken Of as highly crcditablc
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 IL per cent short of being a full
crop
Mr.. Mccoy, chairman of the
board Of control for Berkeley, has re-
ported the Moncks Corner dispcnsary
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, weigh
iug 20 pennywcights, was picked up
by plowman on Wr. Jessie Nance S
farm, two miles from Gaffney, day or
two ago.
- The South Carolina Methodist
Conference meets in Florence Oh 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 eonstables it means free murder
added. Pay your money and take
your choice. The octopus must co.
SpartanJurg Herald.
The Columbia Registe, 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 cotton receipts are
piling up at lively rate and it 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 let
ter from an admirer in Newberry
county saying that he named his twins
McLaurin and Ellerbe, after the
Junior Senator and the Governor of
the State. It is a complimentary
blend of names.
Mr.. D. L. Evans, Of the Provi-
derce section Of Orangeburg county,
has on his place seyera! pecan trees
that are just now beginning to bear
well. 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
Guiding wearing apparel, &C., and si31
in money. The fire Eas occidental
and the property was insured in the
Farmers Mutual, Of Greenville, for
$500
- Stenographer Wyatt Aiken is
slightly disfgured and almost incapa-
oiated for duty as result Of collis-
ion with q bottle of car5olic ecid. IL
attempting to stop the fall Of the bot
tic from the mantei az his home in
Abbeville few days ego; the. acid
was spilled on his right hand and foot,
ipficting 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 orless, Of avoirdupois.
~ Rattlesnake skins are Of some
utility and Mr.. Charles Bulsmann, 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 pair Of dancing slippers, to
one Of which fourteen rattles are
attached. The sinners are beauties.
.- - The State penitentiary is getting
to be profitable to .he 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 q thousand bales,
At Greenwood, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hughey, widowof William Hughey,
committed suicide by severing her
jugular vein with knife. Mrs.
Hughley owned onsiderableestate at
.Abbevillo and elsewhere. She was 80
years old, and lived with her nephew,
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 40 children.
- a gray: fox, with liking for
travel, was caught Monday afternoon
in the woodward Of w. H. Reamer
within the city's limits. Tho fox ar
rived here in q carload Of wood; but
was not q part or parcel Of the COM
sigtfnent. The wo0d was shinned