The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-12-20
STATE NEWS.


= The National Educational Associa-
tiOn will meet in Charleston next year
- A Presbyterian church with fifty
members has been organized at llOd
ges.
in SpartanburE County, and every one
is making money for the investors.
- Last Saturday night in pickcns
County West Head shot and killed Joe
Kelly. Both are white and recently
had II fight.
The report ofthe Misunderstanding
committee has been printed and dis
tributcd to the legislators through
ont the State.
When you visit the cities of Green
vile and Sparlanburg do not spit on
the sidewalks. rs both cities HOW
have u law prohibiting it,
Comptroller General Dcrham fig
ires 1T out that each school childs
share OF disprnSary profits for every
year amounts to lJt cents.
- 1t is claimed that the State dispcn-
sary is doing S:',.000 more business per
month for the past few months than
for the same time last year.
= Rev. A. +. Jamison, who was
recently elected superintendent Of the
Connie Maxwell Orphanage by the
Baptist State Convention has accepted
the position.
A large number Of North Western
people will buy land and settle i'll
South Carolina this winter 4 grow
Horny county.
= The principal undertaken in
Greenvillc says that within the past
civ In I,n. IN. ~
scventy-thrcc. persons who came to
their death by violent and unlawful
means.
Capt. G. Wash Shell died sudden
iy at his home near Laurens last Fri
well known throughout the State, and
had served in many positions of honor
and trust.
u Mr.. John II. lnabinet, an aged and
respected farmer, was killed by his de-
mented son, VIM. Inabinet, near
Ridgeville: The slayer, it is stated.
has several times been in the hospital
for the insane; he is now in Jail.
- Mr.. W. II. Townsend, of Barnwell,
has been appointed to succeed Capt &.
+. Sawyer ns Solicitor of the Second
Circuit. Capt. Sawyer resigned to
accept position in the U. s. army and
will go to the Philippine Islands.
= The Southern Railway Company
has issued a general order declaring
that all employees Of the company
must stop. using cigarettes or resign
their positions. This order is appli
cable only TO the South Carolina divis-
ion.
Governor McSSweeney S has arrang,
ed to borrow $4,000 for the State board
of health with which to fight the small
pox until the general assembly takes
up the matter. A case of smallpox is
reported ut Wheeler's Hill, suburb of
Columbia. 1t is thoroughly isolated.
r. The passenger train which bore
the prominent officials of the Southern
over the new road from Columbia to
Savannah, has a record left behind it.
At one time during their trip the indi-
Gator showed that they were moving
at the rate Of seventy four miles per
hour.
-. The Western Carolina Game Pro-
tectlve Association, of Greenvillc,
reports that since September 1st the
Association has paid for 300 dead
object Is to rid that section of the cGun-
ty Of hawks, owls aud other such quail
hunters.
- 1t has been discovered by q Pink
ertOn detective who was working on
the express robbery that occurred in
Columbia last year, that two negro
wOrkmen on the pavilion Mt ShandOn
recently found nearly two thousand
dollars. which they appropriated and
invested.
= The Greenville Nems of yesterday
says: "The Rev. w. B. Johnson and
Mrs. Harriet Cantrcll, both OF Gran
dner pestOffice, who were married:
there last Thursday by the Rev. J: L.
are we'll and favorably known through
out the country"
DIR. Andrew Wallace, of Grccnvillc,
has been appointed by the State Board
of Health to take charge Of the small
p0N situation i'll the up country, and he
has power to enforce vaccination
wherever deemed necessary. At pres
cnt no great complaint of smallpox is
heard i'll the up country.
= After so long time work has
been started OH the construction of the
home for Gen. Wade Hampton. which
is to be located at the corner of Barn
we'll and Senate streets, Columbia.
The committee in charge proposes to
erected in the shortest possible time
BeDJamln j. DO0Ilttlc, n farmer,
of Parksville, S. G., left Augusta the
other night OH the South Carolina
train. Bath is his nearest railroad
station, but the train he was on did
not stop there, so he jumped off. lie
fell on his head and broke his neck.
He was about forty years old and leaves
a family.
= At Heath Springs. Lancaster coun
ty, on the South Carolina and Georgia
extension, the depot platform, IL num-
Der of cars and 400 bales of cotton
were burned, together with white
man named Sutton from Blacksburg.
In the evening Sutton was drunk,
IOnining ABOUT the town trying to get
lodging. No one would take him in hia
intoxicated condition. He was seen to
get into box car loaded with cotton.
That was the last thought of the man
till his charrcd remains were taken
out of the car. He is supposed to
have started the fire with spark from
his pipe. The cotton was fully in
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