The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-06-08
STATE NEWS.

Geo. 1. Cunningham has been
appointed postmaster at Charleston to
succeed A. II. Mowry.
-Gaffney and Cherokee county, to-
gether with their friends and neigh
bors will celebrate the Fourth Of July
in grand style.
Major John Alexander, promi-
nent and popular citizen Of Columbia,
died at his home in that city last Sat-
urday afternoon.
= Rock Hill has company Of one
hundred colored men, under command
of Robert Culbert, ready to volunteer
for service in the army.
= Union has quarantined against
the world. The quarantine caiecr is
kept busy every day looking after the
four passenger trains each day.
May 30, 1898, was the hottest
day of that date in Columbia, s. c.,
for the last ten years,-the thermom-
eter registering 101 degrees in the
shade.
= Prof. E. P. Moses, professor Of
peoagogics in Winthrop college, has
tende. led his resignation to the board
of trustees, to take effect at the end Of
this session.
: The people from all over the
State are very much pleased at the
Governors appointment Of Mr.. Wyatt
Aiken Of Abbeville as adjutant of the
Third battalion.
= Camp Crittenden of Piedmont
has recently received beautiful flag,
which will be carried at the reunion
in Atlanta. Forty or fifty veterans
from this camp will attend the reunion.
Mr.. G. Walt Whitman, Of Jones
vile, was in the city yesterday. He
says he is in the race for Governor.
He expects to win, and will make the
campaign on his bicycle.-Spartan-
burg Herald.
Married at Elloree, S. c.. on May
End Mr.. W. o. Dorrity and Mrs. Mary
Clayton. The groom prides himself
with being 70 years of age and the
capture Of a IS year old bride. We
feel assured their troubles will not be
many.-Manmin0 Times.
A regiment of negroes will be en-
listed from this State. Col. Hoggins
will be made its colonel. He favors
feeding soldiers on hog meat entirely,
especially colored troops. He says
niggers will fight better on hog meat
than any other kind.
Last Thursday night, in Able
vile, a lamp exploded at the home Of
Charles E. Bruce, aud his wife, CATCH
ing on FIRE. was burned to death. Her
daughter, Bessie, was badly burned on
her hands while trying to extinguish
the flames upon her mother.
= Florrie, the ten year old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. w. II. Pinson, while walk
ing through her fathers farm one day
last week. was bitten by water moe
casin. The proper remedies were ad-
ministered and the little girl recovered
without any serious results.-C2intoa
Gazette.
= Samuel Bonham, son of Ephraim
Bonham, of Saluda township, Green
vile county, committed suicide on
Tuesday at l o'clock by shooting him
self through the left breast with rife.
The deceased was about II years old
and apparently in good health and
spirits. 1t is supposed that he was
suffering from temporary alteration
of mind when he did the rash deed.
= The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Easley Oil Mill Com
pany was held last Friday. Under
the efficient management of B. G.
johnson, the mill has been prosperous
ths past season, Notwithstanding the
hard times, and dividend Of Is per
cent. declared. Mr.. W. c. Smith was
reelected president and B. c. John
son superintendent.
= Mr.. Robert c. Sanders, son of
Mr.. Edmund Sanders of Great Cypress
township, was killed by lightning on
the 25th ult. In company with his
father and Mr.. Il. S. Myrick he had
gone into Saltkehatchie for days
fishing. They had stopped in an open
place to eat dinner when the fatal bolt
fell causing his instant death, aud the
day that had opened SO brightly end
ed in eadness and tears, He was about
"a years Of age, a young man of bright
character and fne promise.-Ba-n,reu
D~o,7-