The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-11
STATE MEMS.

lry on the lOtn or January.
= The Chester Reporter states that
Rev. r. p IIat>on, of.the Sonsh Car
'lina Conference, was recently robbed
OF $500.
= The Southern Christian Advo-
ate has been moved to Columbia and
vill hereafter be published by the
Stale Printing Company.
= The Legislature will elect
superintendent If the State Peniten-
tary on the l7'h instant. There are
number of candidates for the posi-
tion.
Last Sunday night the store Of
Hag"od & ca. at E,sley, Was entered
ny burglar, who proved to be VIM.
iroves, negro, who was soon arrest
I'd and committed to Jail.
: The bank Of Marion, S. c., has
vouud up. 1t is solvent, with con-
siderable amount of undivided profits
on hand. The stockholders have con-
,, cludrd to 60 out of business.
= Chesterfield Court House is prob
ably the only county seat in the State
that has not single lawyer living in
it. Hon E j Kennedy was the only
one and he died on Christmas day.
Adjutant General Floyd announ-
ces that John D. Frost, Jr., of Co.
lumbia, will be appointed assistant
Adjutant General. Dir. Frost was
adjutant and major of the 1st Caro-
lima.
= The contract has been let for the
erection of new Alumni Hall on the
Campus Of Furman University at
cost of $4,000. Work is to begin
March 1st. 1t will be large and
commodious two-story building.
= The Supreme Court in the Lee
county case has decided that the COM
missioners of election had their duties
defined and so did the General Assem-
bly,. and it was not one of the duties
of the General Assembly to declare an
election.
Governor Ellerbe has received
letters from the clerk of court of Sum-
ter county saying that smallpox is
prevalent in the Maysvi!le and Lynch
burg sections Of the county. The dis
ease is confined to the negro farm
hands so far.
John L. Westmoreland, one Of
the Oldest, most widely known and
most highly respected citizens of
Greenville county, died Friday night
at his home near Locust. If he had
lived until February 1st he would have
been 81 years old.
Capt. o. Barber. the father of
Attorney General Barber, died at his
home at Richburg on the morning Of
December Oath, in the 69th year Of
his age, from the effects Of a paralytic
stroke which came on him while on
his farm the day before.
- Judge Brawley has appointed
Messrs. James F. Redding and E. G.
Hesse permanent receivers of the
American Savings Bank in Charleston.
The bank is in hopeless condition
and the depositors will lose heavily.
South Carolina should have bank
inspector.
- Coroner Rivers, Of Charleston
county, held eight inquests last year.
Most of the cases were plain killings,
although quite number Of the deaths
Investigated were the results of acci-
dents. And there was no one senten-
ced to death in that county last years,
The worst criminals escaped arrest by
fight and concealment.
&C. @. Scruggs, Of Spartanburg,
demanded tie return ce 81 900 worth
of liquor seized from him as an origi-
nal package dealer. He was indicted,
but the grand jury found no bill. MIR.
Miles recommended the payment Of
the bill, as the whiskey had been used.
The board agreed to pay the original
cost of the liquor, about 5000.
= The patriotic people of the Cow
pens battle ground section of this
county are clearing of the old ground
preparatory to celebrating the 1l9tb
anniversary Of the battle of Cowpeus
on Tuesday, January II. They ale
aiming on that day to take such stels
as will secure the proper Observable n
Of the day in the future. Col. Fl. P.
Griffith has been requested to address
the people on that occasion. All ale
invited, descendants Of the Revolu-
tion especially. Gofaey Ledger.
Col. John p. Thomas, in his re-
port as State historian, shows that be
has gotten complete records of Cor.
federatc soldiers from this State. Co..