The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-12-07
STATE NEWS.
The truck farms near Charleston

Col. James Tillman, of the First
Regiment, is getting himself in train
ing for the race for Governor in 1900.
y The corn crop Of South Carolina
this year is estimated at 17,500,0OO
bushels, against l5,3O0,0OO bushels
last year.
: The United States Government
will pay the widow of the late Col. J..
K. Aston, Of the 1st S. G. Regiment,
a pension Of S. per day for the re-
mainder of her natural life.
= Woford College has adopsed the
plan of working on Saturday and tax
ing Monday as holiday. Faculty and
students both thought it would work
better and they are willing to try it.
= The question of establishing a
County Court is being agitated at
Yorkville. The members Of the York
Vile bar interviewed on the subject a
few days ago expressed themselves in
favor Of it.
Governor Ellerbc has appointed
Claude Sawyer, late Captain in the
First Regiment, Solicitor for the
Second Circuit, made vacant by the
election of Solicitor Bellinger Attorney
General for the State.
ALI the work preliminary to Civ
ing out the contracts for the copstruc
ton Of the Sumter and Wateree Rail
road has been completed. and the
chief engineer is expected in the next
few days to give out contracts for the
work.
The Planters Warehouse at Mul-
Inns, Marion county, sold on Wednes-
day of last week $1,000 pounds Of TO-
bacco at III cents pound. This sale
included common scrap and the usual
amount of odds and ends usually found
in sales at this season.
-R. V. Lanford, near Woodruff,
killed pig last week which was III
months old and weighed, gross, 573
pounds. He got more than one hun
dred pounds of lard from it. 1t is a
good hog that will make lard enough
to last family year. The pig in
creased more than pound day: .A:szl
From all over the Piedmont belt
comes the gratifying news that vast
quantities of wheat (vast for this sea-
sony are being sown. King Cotton has
stuck many Of his victims under the
fifth rib, and many Of those who are
yet able to move will forsake him at
last, and depend on something else for
a subsistence.
= A colored woman living on Con
gressman Stokes place, a few miles
from Orangeburg, left hcryoung baby
in the yard while she attended call
at the dwelling and when she returned
only Il few minutes afterwards she
found that the baby had been killed
by large hog which had the run of
the yard. The body was horribly mu-
tilated and the child survived but
short time. The hog is u notorious
"chickcn eater but no.one supposed
he would attack child.
= William Mackey, a colored man,
who lives in the suburbs of Lancaster,
hearing noise last Thursday morn
ing before daylight out in his yard
where his pig was tied, went out to in
vestigate. He found strange hog
fighting his, and as he approached tie
stranger turned and vigorously attack
cd Mackcy himself. cutting long and
ugly gashes in his leg and chasing
him back to his house. He lost con-
siderable blood from his wounds, which
had to be sowed up. His own hog
was killed by the strange animal.
= The State did not appropriate
sufficient money with which to pay
the managers and commissioners of
election. Legal aud properSvouchers
have been presented, bat there is no
money on hand with which to pay
81, l74 Of the expenses Of the election.
The State is liable for the money, and
Comptroller Derhamcfavors borrowing
the money and having the General
refund it. If this is not
done the unpaid commissioners and
managers Of election will have to wait
patiently until the general :appropria-
tion bill may be passed.
: Dennis McLaurin, colorcd man,
died last week in Marlboro county in
his lOl year. He and his wife remain
ed on the old homestead Of ante-bellum
days until their former owner died a
few years ago. Dennis was a life
time democrat, voted the democratic
ticket Immediately after'thc war and
continued to do so until his death.