The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
STATE NEWS.

postmaster at Newberry, S. G..
j. H. Hays Of Rock Hill has
been appointed agent for the Catawba
Indians.
= 1t is reported hat John Il. Toll
bert, of Greenwood, will be appointed
collector Of customs at Charleston.
- Col. L. J. L;pscomb, ex-Super-
intendent Of the State Pcnitentiary,
has been nominated Mayor of Colum-
bia.
= The Port Royal dry dock is to be
arranged to allow tkc largest war yes
sells TO 60 in and out at any stage of
the tide.
- The late W. c. MCGOWAN, Of
Abbeville, carried $4,000 life ir-
%surance, all of which has been paid to
his heirs.
- Your Uncle George Tillmau in
dignantly denies that he will with
draw from the Gubernatorial race, and
says he will stay in to the finish.
- Senator Scarborough Of Horny
county has been announced as a can
didatc for congress in opposition to
the present incumbent, Hon. James
Norton.
- Judge Samuel Melton is critically
i'll at his home in Columbia. There is
not thought to be any present danger
but his malady is said to have taken
the form of paralysis.
- 1t is announced that l.. d..
Childs, if his health permits, will be
the prohibition candidate for governor
and hat j. A. Mccullough, Of Green
Vile, will be his running mate.
The Asylum for Imhecilcs and
Insane in Columbia has 98S patients,
more than they have ever had. They
are forced to send harmless incurables
to the county poorhouse in order that
room may be made for durable patients.
- The number of pensioners in
Greenville county this year is me-
third greater than last year. A SINH
lar increase all over the State will de-
crease the sun each %pensioner receives
to less than & mere ~pitfance.
- Az old colored man named Ben
Stephens who lived near Liberty
Chapel church in the Mars Bluff
section died Tuesday at the advanced
age of 81 years. He vas the father Of
about 40 children and has been mar
rieG several times.
In case of war, South Carolina
can fit out u thousand regiments with
officers, from captains up, if the other
States will furnish the privates. We
can also man the whole commissariat,
calling upon others only for the stuff.
Chester Lantern.
- The record Of crime in South
Carolina printed in one Columbia
paper Of March Is includes five kill
ings-all negroes. One vas a woman
murdered by her white male compan-
ion; another was a man killed by white
constablcs, and the remaining deaths
resulted from ordinary Negro rows.
- The Risers: father and two sons,
were convicted Of various crimes COM
mittcd at Pomaria, Newbcrry county,
a few days ago. They were supposed
to be respectable. w%ell-to do people.
but they had been robbing stores. etc.
The old man, who was 81 years old
and a member Of the church. was
sentenced To eighteen months on the
county changing and the two sons to
the penitentiary for five years and one
mouth. The courts of Newberry seem
to do their duty.
- President Boggs has announced,
unoficially, that the Pickcns Il. r.
will certainly roll into Iickens on
Monday. 2Sth inst. The engine is at
Easley pulling iron and the track is
laid and spiked up to the Vandiver
hill. At the present rate, with no
other unforeseen drawback we can GER
tainly meet the cars at the Pickens
depot on the above date. By the way
will there be any demonstration what
ever over this noted cvent.-I'ickcns'
Sentinel.
- The case Of the Governor sus-
pension Of the Clerk Of Court. w. II.
Bullock, was argued in Abbcville last
Saturday by Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Townsend and Mr. William n.
Graydon on behalf of Mr.. Mcmillan,
the Governors appointee, and by
Messrs. Ellis G.. Graydon aud Frank
B. Gary ON behalf Of Mr.. Bullock.
Judge Klugh, who heard the case,
decided that the Governor had no
authority to remove the Clerk at this
time. The grand jury may act on the
Ease again in June.
= While tcrpedoes and mines are
being planted at the entrance to Port
Royal harbor il is almost certain that
several of the monitors will be station
ed there permanently X hostties