The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24

Wiuiss Warren, whose death in
Georgia is announced, was regarded as
the most influential negro preacher in the
South. lie was pastor of three churches,
with an aggregate membership of 10, 000.
When a negro was inclined to be obstre-
porous Warren was often sent for, and he
occasionally gave the offender a severe
thrashing after prayer for his soul. On
one occasion, it is said, he corralled sixty
nine negro women who thought them
selves too good to help their husbands,
and gave them all a severe whipping,
after which all went on splendidly. His
power through religious zeal was almost
unlimited, and he was known far and
wide as "Pappy Williss." He is said to
haye had several thousand dollars in cash
besides great deal of personality and
the title to the church property. He ap-
pointed his own successor to tho pulpits
he left vacant.
North Carolina is making commen-
dable progress in the building of good
roads. Thirty counties have levied a
general road tax, and from the consider
able cum thus realized the construction
of permanent roads goes steadily on.
Other counties in the State are using
their convicts to great advantage in road
work, and wherever one goes now in the
State evidences of frst-class road i'm
provements are to be seen. 1t is announ-
ced also that popular sentiment in favor
of the work grows as the good roacs
lengthen out.
Thomas Evans, an engineer, has had
the distinction CO. ferred upon him oi
being the first person fined for violation
of the rule of the New York board OF
health prohibiting expectoration in q
public conveyance. Evans, who was
riding in trolley car in the Harlem
section, dsfied the conductor when that
functionary called his attention to the
rule against splitting upon the floor of the
car, and the conductor caused his arrest,
the police magistrate asserting the dignity
Of the law by imposing upon the offender
fine of So.
- There is prospect that the bill in
tho Kansas Legislature to enact the ten
commandments will become law, if it is
not amended to death. A sharp tilt oc.
Cured in committee the other day over
an amendment proposing to insert the
words, COR his bicycle" after "horse' and
before COX" In the tenth commandment
It has been proposed that an eleventh
commandment reading, "Thou shalt at.
tend to thy own business and let thy
neighbours alone," be added, with pen.
atty for attending to other peoples bust
ness provided.-Sa Morning Ne'cs
- A large force of hands are now al
work at. Watula, on Conneross creek,
four miles from Seneca, preliminary to
building the large cotton mill of the
Seneca Manufacturing Go. President
Schirmer is very active in pushing the
work. There is an abundance of the
finest kind of granite for building the
dam and mill foundation, and near by
on the company's land there is excellent
clay for brick. Most of the timber fol
lum ber to be used in building will be cut
on the same land.
- Mis-. Mae Wilcox, Of cambridge, Va,
has peculiar disease. Her bones have
become as brittle as chalk, as she is com
PEELED to wear plaster cast. Recently
she was carefully placed in carriage fol-
a drive, when a slight jolt Of the wagon
caused the fracture of her left hip. Her
condition puzzles the physicians of that
section of the State.
= DR.. Geist- jacob, of Frankfort, Ger
many, has written history of dentistry
from ZOO B. G. to the present time. 1t is
known that there were men practicing
the profession of dentistry in Egypt at
least 5000 years ago.
Major McKinley's mother, now 81
years of age, had the proud satisfaction OF
being an eyewitness of her distinguished
sons elevation to the presidency. We
trust that she may live to sec him COM
plete his term with credit and honor.
- According to Galton, the patterns
on the finger tips are not only un-
changeablc throughout life, but the
chance of the finger prints of two per-
sons being alike in less than one
chance in G4,OOO,0OO, 900.
A strange tree has been found in
the French settlements on the Gaboon
River in Africa, which quito cclipscs
the bread fruit, and almost realizes
Lowell's whim of tree bearing but
tered mullins. 1t is called the bread
and-butter tree, and it yields both a
thick and fatty substance called coy
cay, which is an excellent substitute
for butter. and a grain from which
very nutritious bread is made.