The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02
STATE NEWS.
: Ex-senator Irby is now practicin

= Ex-senator lrby IS now practlclnS
law at Laurens.
There are 30 widows and two
widowers in the town of Due West.
DR.. W. j. Garner, of the State
Board of Ecalth, died in Darlington a
few days age.
Mrs. VIM. C. Whitney was scri-
ously hurt while riding fast on a fox
hunt at Aiken few days ago.
= The residence of John Rowland
at Donalds was destroyed by fire last
Sunday. He had no insurance.
= Capt. Isaac H. Means, librarian
and treasurer Of the South Carolina
College, died at his home in Columbia
last Friday
= The 30. p's.' continue to go out
of business in every section Of the
State. They say there is no money
in the business for them.
= There are three candidates for
Mayor of Columbia at the approaching
election. They are McB. Sloan, Col.
Lipscomb and Alderman Bremen.
j Large sales of fertilizers are re
ported from every section Of the State.
1t is to be hoped that most of it will
be used under other crops than cot
ton.
= The State Dispensary will remain
in the Agricultural Hall The Board
agree to pay Mr.. Wesley $4,000 for
back reut, and S175 per month here
after.
Miss Fannie Reeder, an insane
sister of Mr.. Brooks Reeder, was
burned to death during the burning
of their residence at Garys. Newberry
county.
= The Rock Hill correspondent of
the Columbia Register gives intimatlon
of jealousy between some of the
teachers of Winthrop college, which
may result in change Of the faculty.
= Attorney General Barber leaves
for Washington this week to defend
the dispensary law before the United
States supreme court, in the case of
yandercock VS.. Vance. This case
will be heard on March 7th.
= Hannah Sumter, young colored
woman, who works on the farm of DR..
w. W. Ray, near Weston's, met with
horrible death. She and number
of employees were engaged in burning
broom sedge off field, when her
clothing caught fire and she was
burned to death.-The State.
"A well-defned case Of what is
supposed to be smallpox has appeared
in Columbia. Every precaution has
been taken to prevent spread Of the
loathsome disease. The subject is a
negro man and lives on the outskirts
of the city.
James W. Howard, an industrl-
Gus farmer of Orangeburg county, was
called to his door Saturday night and
shot and killed. Forty shot penc-
trated his heart. Lawrence II. Hun
serGller, his brotherin-law, is charged
with the shooting and is under arrest.
- The Butler Guards, of Green
vile, has got its fighting blood ur
and pants for war. At call meeting
held the other night it was unani-
mously decided to offer the services OF
the company to Uncle Sam and inform
him that marching orders were await
I ed in breathless expectancy.
- The severe drought has causec
80 per cent of the cislerns Of Charles
ton to be dry, and those houses that
have water in their cisterns arc doing
service for their respective neighbor
hoods: and it is said that water is
even sold in Charleston. In the sur
rounding country, the ground is al
parched up, and serious trouble vii
ensuc if the rains do not set in soon
as the streams are dried up and tho
cattle are furnishing for water.
= Tie people Of Lockhartarc rumi
mating over freak there in the shape
of goose. Mr.. Joseph Meggs had /;
goose, three years old, that he sup
posed to he Il gandcr 1t is perfectl,
white and has every appearance of
gandcr On Sunday before last h
was aetonished when he discovere'
that it had commenced laying. |
has been laying regularly every da,
since. Perhaps it belongs to TIN
variety known as the Emblem geese
They are perfectly white and yo'
can tell The goose from the gander. =
(bcSfry Bulirfin.