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

Rock Hill has case of small
pox. The patient caught it in At
- Ex- President Cleveland is spend
ing a few days at Georgetown shooting
ducks.
- The Dispcnsary in Greenville
did not pay expenses during the
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
70 death at her hume near Emngnam,
Florence county, while cooking in an
open fireplace.
- A poultry department is to be
established il the department Of agri-
culture at Clemson College for the
purpose Of experiment and instruc-
tion.
= November Davis, an old colored
man was burned TO death in his cabin
in Varnville. It is supposed that he
was under the influence of liquor and
fell in the Are.
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 $15,600
|, The penitentiary report has not
been finally made up, but it is pretty
certain that the Institution will pay
into the treasury at least $40, 600, and
next year.
~ 1t is thought and rumored that
Senator Archer, OF SpartanbuYg, will
oppose Governor Ellerbe next year.
The Senator is man Of ability and
will have large following il he should
enter che race.-.Solado Sentinel.
AT Youngs, Laurens county, on
the 9th inst, John Wharton, an
IrishmaD, 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.
- The State Board of Control gave
out figures which show the business
of the dispensary FOR September,
Qctoho- and November, 1887, to have
been 1857 ,4zi. 81. The same months
in 1896 show $276, ,542.70, decrease
IN receipts of $110,879.17.
~ Arthur Henson and son of
George Neely, not far from Greers,
were handling their pistols carclessly
when Henson's was discharged and
the ball inflicted fatal wound in
Neely. These boys were IA to 16
gears old and were using pistols as
playthings.
80 Work began on the pickens and
Easley railroad Tuesday and about
seventy mules.and horses were put to
work and about seventy-five or one
hundred hands were also on hand.
There is no doubt about the compile
tion Of the road now. Hurrah for
HichenL county, - I,ickens Journal.
Mr.. r. R. Legare, Of Beaufort,
has on exhibition veritabie curiosity
in the shape Of small fish which was
brought up by the pump in his we'll.
TIE Tie aashh 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 simi-
lar to the small fish caught in the
underground lakes Of Mammoth cave.
- Last Thursday John Rryan., :.
workman, was blown to atoms by a
dynamite explosion about two miles
from Columbia. The county is now
auarrying rock for its macadam road
and Bryant.is thought to have gone
about the box in which the dynamite
is kept with q lighted pipe, which
resulted in the explosion and his
death. Parts of his clothing aud. body
were found about the ground.
- Edward McCrady's History of
South Caroline will be published dur
ing the present month by the Macmil-
len company. Of Of New FORK. 1t will
cover the history of this colony under
che Proprietary government from 1870
to 1719, and will be the most complete
Fand accurate account of that period
that has ever been.given. It has all
the charm of romance, and increases
in interest to the conclusion of most
remarkable story. - lNsHeats ana Courier,
Although call has been issued
for the county boards of pensioners TO
meet on January %, Comptroller Cen
eral Epton is afraid that he is going
TO have considerable troublein getting
them to assemble, The members Of
these boards get no salary. and,
usually, receive "a lot of Hcussing' for
what they do, and it is a hard matter
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