The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-12
STATE NEWS.

I0rt ana Orangeburg.
= There are now sixty three graded
schools i'll South Carolina.
- Three homicides occurred in
Greenwood County last week. All
negroes.
= Nellie Logan, colored, died at
her home near Westminster on the lst
inst, aged 112 years.
- A little negro child was Killed at
Vcrdery Tuesday By being knocked in
the head with rock by another little
negro.
- A mad dog created commotion
in Abbeville last Wednesday and bit
a man in crowded store before it was
killed.
- There are twenty-five cases of
small pox in the penthouse in Green
vile. and eleven of them are conva-
lescing rapidly.
= Father McManus, the Charleston
Catholic priest who was charged with
entering sanctuary and disturbing
religious worship, has been acquitted.
- Mr.. VIM. NJ. Campbell, living
near Seneca, killed recently two Berk-
shire hogs, eighteen month old, which
netted respectively SIG and 401
pounds.
: = Col. William Aiken Kelly, for
sixteen years city assessor of Charles
ton, and gallant Confederate soldier,
died. at his home In Charleston last
Thursday.
- An unknown negro man was kill
ed by a train on the South Carolina
and Georgia Railroad one night last
week near St. Georges. He was ap
parently walking on the track, when
night westbound freight struck him.
seyering his head from his body.
- Richland county is now without
board Of control Chairman Robert
son and DR.. Hopkins had their rcsig-
nations before the State Board of con
troll last Friday. It is understood
that these two gentlemen resigned on
account Of the State Board of Control
interfering with the management of
the county dispcnsarics.
- A Greenwood man contributes
this story to current small pox litera-
ture. In 1867 his family lived in
Edgefield District. A stray cat came
to his house, broken out with pustules
and in a short while lis family took
small poX. He is sure that The cat
brought them the disease, as they had
nc other opportunity to contract it.
- We had thought that Governor
Ellerbe could not surprise us any
more, but for white man, Ii white
Democratic Governor Of South Caro-
lima, to appoint negro constable and
authorize him by commission to search
white peoples houses, we must con-
fess we are surprised. Did Gov. ".
Fl. Ellerbe do that? Yes, he did that.
-.Saluda Adrocatc.
- The statistical table in the min
utes of the South Carolina Baptist
convention shows total white mem
bership of 92,593; an increase during
the year of 5,304 by baptism, 712 by
restoration monies raised for all pur-
poses, S195, ,632 81; total value of
church property, 81 ,04S, ,057; number
of churches, 1856; Sunday schools, 667
with 4,67O teachers and officers, 40,3 1913
pupils, and contributions amounting
to 81, ,60485
= Mr. John w. Berry and his
brother were in town last Saturday.
In the afternoon during that heavy
gale that was blowing, they were sit
ting in their buggy near the Blue
Front, when dead tree fell with a,
crash across the buggy. Strange to
say. while the buggy, hind wheel,
back and dash board were smashed to
smithereens the gentlemen escaped
unhurt except n few bruises. The
escape from sudden death was mirac-
ulous.- Sala7u -idrocate.
- Mrs. Janey Moore, who went to
Nebraska 2S years ago. returned to
Seneca last Tuesday to visit relatives
and friends. N1ra. Moore is S8 years
old. She travelled 1900 miles and
was foar days on the road. She met
twe brothers and one sister at Seneca.
Her brothers, A. J. Sanders and j. B.
Sanders, are respectively 81 and 80
years old 9aee57 9aee57 sister, Mrs. Nicey
8urkett, is about 20 years old. They
were all together at Dir. Tom Burkett'
at Seneca on Friday, December 31st.
81 i'eiurn Correspondent Of Koe,cee
Courier.
A special dispatch to the Colum-
bia Rcgiste, from Spartanburg, under
date of the 7fh inst. says: "Just as
has been expected we have developed
o case of small pox-not one Of our
very own, but an escaped case from
Greenville. A negro confined in the
Greenyille pest-house jumped out of
one Of the windows last night and
boarded the early morning train, get
ting off here. He went to relatives
home. Thomas Bomar. who lives on
the Howard Gap road. He was all
broken ont, and DR.. Harvey, one of
the eolored physicians here, was sent
for. he at once recognized the dis
ease and notified the city authorities.
The case. was pronounced genuine
spall pox and Immediately quaran-