The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
STATE NEWS.

Wm. Y. Fair has been appointed
postmaster at Newberry, S. c.
j. H. Hays of Rock Hill has
been appointed agent for the Catawba
Indians.
1t is reported that John Il. Tol-
bert, Of Greenwood, will be appointed
collector of customs at Charleston.
= Col. T. j. Lipscomb, ex-Super-
intendent of the State Penitentiary,
has been nominated Mayor Of Colum
bia.
: The Port Royal dry dock is to be
arranged to allow the largest war yes
sells to 60 in and out at any stage of
the tide
The late W. c. McGowan. of
Abbaville, carried $4,000 life ir-
surance, all of which has been paid to
his heirs.
: Your Uncle George Tillman In
dignantly denies that he will with
draw from the Gubernatorial race, and
says he will stay in to the finish.
= Senator Scarborough of Horny
county has been announced as can
didate for congress in opposition to
the present incumbent, Hon. James
Norton.
Judge Samuel Melton is critically
i'll at his home in Columbia There is
not thought to be any present danger
but his maIady is said to have taken
the form of paralysis.
1t is announced that J.. d..
Childs. if his health permits, will be
the prohibition candidate for governor
and that J. A. Mccullough, Of Green
Vile, will be his running mate.
: The Asylum for Imbeciles and
Insane in Columbia has 90S patie nts,
more than they have ever had. They
are forced to send harmless incurables
to the county poorhouse in order that
room may be made for curable patients.
= The number Of pensioners in
Greenville county this year is one
thirc. greater than last year. A simi-
lar increase all over the State will de-
crease the sum each pensioner receives
to less than mere pittance.
= An old colored man named Ben
Stephens who lived near Liberty
Chapel church in the Mars Bluff
section died Tuesday at the advanced
age Of 81 years. He was the father Of
about 40 children and has been mar
ried several times.
= In case of war, South Carolina
caa fl out thousand regiments with
officers, from captains up, if the other
States will furnish the privates. We
can also man the whole commissariat,
calling upon others only for the stuff.
Chester Lantern.
= The record of crime in South
Carolina printed in one Columbia
paper of March Is includes five kill
ings-all negroes. One was woman
murdered by her white male compan-
ion: another was a man killed by white
constablcs, and the remaining deaths
resulted from ordinary negro rows.
= The R;sers. father and two sons,
were convicted Of various crimes COM
mitted at pomaria, Newberr! county.
a few days ago. They were supposed
to be respectable. wellto.do people.
bat they had been rcobiug stores etc.
The old man, who was 50 years old
and Il member Of the church. was
sentenced to eighteen months on the
county chaingang aud the two sons to
the pen;tentiary for five wears and one
month. The courts Of Newberry seem
to DO their duty.
= President Boggs has announced,
unoiicially, that the Pickcns X. r.
will certainly roll into pickeu> on
Monday. 2Sth inst. The engine is at
Easley pulling iron and the track is
laid and spiked up to the Vandiycr
hill. At the present rate, with no
other unforeseen drawback We can GER
tainly meet the ears at the Pickens
dcpot on the above date. By the way
will there be any demonstration what
ever over this noted cvent.-PtcL'eaS
4 .Scn'inei
The ease Of the Governor : slts-
pension Of the Clerk Of Court. " il.
Bullock. was argued in -Abbevlllc last
Saturday by Assistant Attorney Gen
cral Townsend and Mr. William \.
iraydon on behalf of Mr.. Mcmillan.
the Governor appointee. and by
Mcssrs. Ellis G.. Graydon and Frank
b. Gary on behalf Of Nlr. Bullock.
Judge Klugh, who heard the case,
decided that the Governor had no
authority to remove the Clerk at this
time. The grand jury may act on the
case again in June.