The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02
STATE NEWS.

There are 30 widows and two
widowers in the town of Due West.
- DR.. w. j. Garner, of the State
Board of Health, died in Darlington a
few days ago..
Mrs. VIM. G.. Whitney was scri-
ously hurt while riding fast on a fox
hunt at Aiken a few days ago.
- The residence of John Rowland
at Donalds was destroyed by fire last
Sunday. He had no insurance.
- Capt. Isaac II. Means, librarian
and treasurer Of the South Carolina
College, died at his home in Columbia
last Friday.
- The 80. p's." continue to go out
of business in every section Of the
State. They say there is no money
in the business for them.
= There are three candidates for
Mayor Of Columbia at the approaching
election. They are Mob. Sloan, Col.
L%ipscomb aud Alderman Bremen.
- Large sales of fertilizers arc re
ported from every section of the State.
1t is to be hoped that most Of it will
be used under other crops than cot
ton.
- The State ~Dispcnsary will remain
in the Agricultural Hall. The Board
agree to pay Mr.. Wesley $40, 900 for
back rent, and S175 per month here
after.
= Miss Fannie Rcedcr, an insane
sister Of Mr.. Brooks Recder, was
burned to death during the burning
of their residence at Garys, Newberry
county.
- The Rock Hill correspondent Of
the Columbia Register gives intimation
Of jealousy between some of the
teachers Of Winthrop college, which
may result in a change of the faculty.
- Attorney General Barber leaves
for Washington this week to defend
the dispcnsary law before the United
States supreme court, in the case of
vandcroook vs. Vance This case
will be heard on March 7th.
- Hannah Sumter, a young colored
woman, who works on the farm of DR..
w. ". Ray, near Weston's, met with
a horrible death. She and a number
of employees wcrc engaged i'll burning
broom sedge off Il field, when her
clothing caught fire and she was
burned to death.-The State.
A well-dc6ned case Of what is
supposed to be smallpox has appeared
in Columbia. Every precaution has
been taken to prevent q spread of the
losthsome disease. The subject is a
negro man and lives or The outskirts
of the city.
- James w. Howard. an industri-
Gus farmer Of Orangeburg county, was
called to his door Saturday night and
shot and killed. Forty shot penc-
trated his heart. Lawrence II. Hun
gerfiller, his brother-in-law, is charged
with the shooting aud is under arrest.
- The Butler Guards, Of Green
vile, has got its fighting blood up
and pants for war. At a call meeting
held the other night it was unani-
mously decided to offer the services of
the company to Uncle Sam and inform
him that marching orders were await
ed in breathless expectancy.
- The severe drought has caused
80 per cent Of the cisterns of Charles
ton to be dry, and those houses that
have water in their cisterns arc doing
service for their respective ncighbor-
hoods and it is said that water is
even sold in Charleston. Il the sur
rounding country, the ground is all
parched up, and serious trouble viii
ensuc if the rains do not set in soon.
as the streams are dried up and the
cattle arc famishing for water
- The people of Lockhart are rumi-
mating over a freak there in the shape
Of a goose. Mr.. Joseph Meggs had a
goose, three years old, that he sup
posed to be u gander. 1t is perfectly
white and has every appearance of a
gander. On Sunday before last he
was astonished when he discovered
that it had commenced laying. 1t
has been laying regularly every day
since. Perhaps it belongs to the
variety known as the Emblem geese.
They are perfectly white and you
can't tell the goose from the gander.-
Chester, Bulletin.
"A day or two ago a white man
walked into a store in the city about
night and desired to purchase a pair
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