The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-13
STATE NEWS.

= columbia Spring Floral n
Horse Show will be held on the 21st.
- Kcrshaw county has already
eight candidates in the field for county
officers.
- Senator George Lamb Buist, Of
Charleston county, has retired from
politics.
- A section of the Standard Ware
house, with about 1900 bales of cot
ton, was destroyed by fire last Monday
morning.
- Chains Of torpedocs are being
pat down iii Charleston haroor, SO as
to block the advance of any hostile
| vessel in case Of war.
- The Governor has received orders
from the General Government to have
his militia in fighting trim ready to
move at a moments notice.
- Another holocaust. Four me-
gro children were burned to death in
O%rangeburg last Wednesday. They
were left alone in a room with fire.
= 1t is expected that the Pickens
Railroad will be fully completed and
turned over by the contractors to
President Boggs and his company on
next Friday, April 10Th.
a large meeting Of the citizens
Of Laurens held last Monday adopted
resolutions asking the Board of visi-
tors Of the Citadel Academy to rein
state the recently expelled cadets.:a
- The annual convention of the
societies of Christian Endeavor in our
State was held at Clinton, S. G. The
founder of the society, Rev. T. E.
Clark, was present. The convention
was a Gee
A Sumter negro who was told
the other day that he would have to
go into the army when the wal began,
replied that he just couldn't do it as
he was under contract and would be
put in jail if he broke it to join the
army.
- It is epidemic in Columbia. Some
of the physicians cal! it c%hiokenpox
and some call it SMALLPOX; but all
agree that there is absolutely no dan
ger, as there have as yet been no
fatalities from the disease in the
State.
- While carelessly handling a
Winchester rife last Monday night,
Drayton Majors, who lives near
Hodges, accidentally shot and killed
his eight-year-old son. It is reported
that MI. Majors was intoxicated ut
the time of the killing.
= Information from McCor-
mick that work on the Dorm gold mine
is progressing rapidly. A mining
company is operating the property
and a new shaft is being sunk. There
is a good prospect that this old mine
will again yield fortunes in the yellow
stuff.
- On the 9Th, 18th md goth, at
Converse College, under the auspices
Of the Choral society, there Is 10 take
place what is conceded by all the
leading musical papers to be the lar
gest ED most important music festival
yer arranged in this section of the
country.
- What promises to be one of the
biggest" sensational suits Orange
burg county has ever experienced, has
just started in that county. It .ap-
pears that L. d. Fielder charged his
neighbor, Lewis Jones, with larceny,
some months ago, and now Jones has
sued Fielder for So, 900 damages. Both
parties are prominent citizens.
Mr.. VIM. Mccoy was caught in
the machinery of a shingle mill, near
High Falls, Wednesday morning about
ten o'clock. and was so badly mangled
that he died IL thirty minutes. His
clothing was caught by tho rapidly
revolving wheels and he was dragged
into the machine. His feet were
crushed, one leg was broken, and he
was otherwise terribly mangled. He
leaves a wife and Eve children, who
have the sympathy Of many friends
RaMalla Courier.
-'"The end of the world may come
before the middle'of the year 1893"
This is the statement of q minister
now preaching in Greenwood county. |
He does not make the statement as a
conviction Of his own. but as a result
Of the careful compution of others
based on the prophecies of Daniel and
Isaiah. So far the prediction has not