The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-23
STATE NEWS.
Negro postmasters have been a

in the heart of the town February IA.
The usual insurance will be paid
= Wild geese have been rather
plentiful on the Catawba river this
season, but ducks were pretty scarce.
There has not been much shooting.
= The contractors expect to be able
to complete the Pickens Railroad by
March 10th, when the first train will
be hailed with delight by the wide
awake citizens of that fourishing
town.
Ed. Signor, the drunken barber,
who brainad his child at Orangeburg,
with piece of iron hurled at his wife,
is now in jail. The child died after
lingering quite while with its skull
crushed.
This section has been devastated
by fire for the last week. The noun
tains were in blaze at night, and the
whole country is filled with smoke.
These fires have caused more Or less
loss everywhere Halhala Courier.
DIR. Westerbaker, Of the marine
service, went to Spartanburg last week
tn oyamine certain cases of SMALLPOX.
He looked into the matter carefully
and said the disease was not smallpox;
but some other kind of skin disease.
= Senator Archer, of Spartanburg,
says that Clemson College last year
received 100000, a per capita of
1865 for every student in that institu-
tion. Winthrop received $4,000, a
per capita of s237. Money is certain
ly spent lavishly where it comes out
Of the pockets of the taxpayers.
A detail Of twenty men from
Battery NJ, Jacksonville, Fla, has
been sent to Charleston and stationed
at Sullivan's Island. An entire regi-
mcnt will be sent to Charleston soon.
The Atlantic Beach Hotel has been
leased and will be used as Garrison
at the solicitation of the commercial
organizations of the city of Charles
ton.
- At the recent session of court at
Camden Judge Townsend in his charge
to the grand jury, in referring to the
increase of homicide in this State, ex-
pressed his opinion that the increase
of homicide was due in great meas
ure to the fact that executions for
murder, etc., were private instead of
being public
= On Friday night 18th inst about
10 O clock, Mr.. j. w. Price, living
about three miles from Mccormick,
had his barn and stables burned. He
lost all of his corn and the most Of
his fodder, his farming implements,
and fine mare and mule by the fire.
The barn and stables were about two
hundred yards from his house, and
the fire was not discovered till the
buildings were falling in. 1t was
evidently the work of an incendiary.
= There died in Sumter county
Armstrong Rodgers, a eolored man,
who had attained the age of almost
a century. The old man lived on DR..
J. c. Spann' mill place near Catchcll.
At one time he was we'll known car
penter. He claimed to have been a
man working at his trade in 1888, at
which time he made the coffin in which
Gen. Sumter was buried. Rodgers
was never slave. He bore good
reputation among his white neighbors.
= One day last week when the forest
fires were raging all over the country,
Mr.. Richard w. Seegars; with col
ored driver, was going from Kershaw
to his home in the northeastern por-
tion OF the county when he was caught
on the road by forest fire. and before
he was able to get to place Of safety
his wagon and one mule were burnt
up. He and his driver managed to
get the other mule out, but in so doing
both lie and the driver were so badly
burnt that at last reports it is doubt
full if they will recover.
= Engineer Henry Hammond. who
runs on the G. S. & n. freight, was
severely burned Wednesday while on
his regular trip to Bcnnettsville. The
wood on the tender became isnited
by spark from the smokestack and
was burning iercely when discovered
about TWO miles from Darlington. MIR.
Hammond pulled the throttle open and
put on all speed as he realized at once
that the fire could not be c1tinguished
until he reached Darlington. The heat
aoon became so intense in the cab that
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