The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-09
STATE NEWS.
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= There are seven applicants for
the position of United States Marshal
of South Carolina. j. p Hunter is
now Marshal and his time expires
March 18th.
= The shingle record has been
broken. Out of one pine tree on Mr..
P. 3. Kemp's place, in Greenwood
county lately, Mr.. Matt Horne made
1C, ,43O good shingles.
= The talk Of biennial sessions Of
the Legislature is gaining ground
every day. A good deal such talk is
going the rounds Of the newspapers.
Some enterprising politician ought TO
make the campaign next summer on
this economy plea 4bbcri7lc Medium.
: Only two members of the Wal
lace Legislature, Senators Aldrich, of
Barnwell, and Jeffries of Cherokee,
are in the present General Assembly.
The clerks of both bodies, Gen. r. r.
Hemphill of the Senate and Gen. j
W. Gray of the House. were in that
historic body.
Five tramps were arrested in
Columbia last week for attempting to
rob the safe in the South Carolina
Railroad warehouse. Mr.. Hertford
Parks had just gone into another
office, and returning sooner than was
expected succeeded in catching one of
the party who had got s14, and hold
ing him till the police could come to
his assistance.
IS. p Breazealc showed us a
peculiar corn last Tuesday. The ker-
nels very much resemble gourd seeds,
and popularity Of it is that it grows
on the car with the other corn. All
the grains while in roasting ear are
full and plump, but after becoming
mature, they shrivel up, until they
look very much like gourd seed. a
bushel of this corn out-weighs bushel
of the old kind. II is very prolific
Pickcns Sentinel.
Howard Ellis brought three cop
per cents to this office tast week
which he told us his wife found in
the gizzard of an old.hen which she
killed day or two before. The hen
laid in the house and eat in the house
from the time she was little chicken,
and it is supposed she picked up the
coppers on the floor. The money had
evidently been in the hens gizzard a
long time as each piece was worn per-
fectly smooth. .-Dnrlin9ton NecS.
! II is strange what some thieves
will steal sometimes. The Columbia
Register says that somebody entered
the Washington street Methodist
Church and stole from the back of the
pews the name plates of the pew
holders. What the thief could pos
sibly want with them is unknown. as
simply as bits Of brass metal they are
worth nothing. The pew-holders were
much mystifed when they found that
all the plates were gone. No one has
any idea who committed the deed
= The conspiracy to murder Jailer
Coleman by smothering him to death
with blanket when he should come
to open the cell doors at the county
jail vas the sensation in Columbia
last week. The whole scheme origi-
mated in the. minds of John Rabb and
Laban Young, Two prisoners, who are
being held to await trial at the spring
term of the court of general sessions,
one on the charge of ow-stealing and
the other for rape, and had not .)aller
Coleman discovered the plot just in
the nick of time the conspirators
would in all probability have carried
out their plans and effected one of the
largest jail deliveries which the State
has known.
= Sam Meyers, l5-ycar-old Negro
boy, living on Calhoun street, has
fallen victim to a nose vaccination,
which is giving him no end Of trouble
He brought it all on himself by touch
ing the vaccination spot and then
inserting his fingers in his nose.
Meyers was vaccinatcd the first part
of last week at one of the colorcd
schools. The vaccination showed
signs Of having taken after few days
by the intense itching and pain of the
arm. The boy was warned to keep
his fingers off the running sore but
all the admonitions Of his people
amounted to nothing. After he had
endured the tormcnts Of vaccination
for several days, his nose began to