The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-08
STATE NEWS.


Of tie State has hcen seriously injured
hy the lrc>hc,>
The state I.rworth League i, to
!n!4 II annual meeting in camden.
;. c., April 20 y.
Miss Padrctt and Mrs. Hers
were accidentally burned to Heath re-
Gently at Waltcrboro.
Measles, mumps ami whooping
cough are going the rounds in variou,
sections of the State.
- One day last week 20 1000 iie
shad were shipped from Georgetown
to the eastern markets.
= The Charleston strawberry crop
will be month or six weeks late,
owing to the severe weather
George W. Wcllbrook. young
German of Charleston committed su:
eide in Jacksonville, Fla. last Friday.
W. Il. Milford, cx-Supcrintcu-
dent Of Education of Abbcvillc Coun
ty, died at his home in Abbcvilc last
Sunday
Senator Henderson, of Aiken. i,
spoken of in some quarters as being
likely To oppose Tillman for the United
States Senate in 1900.
Alonzo ID. Webster, son of the
Republican boss i'll this State, has been
nominated by President Mckinley to
be postmaster at Orangcburg.
- Gov. Ellcrbc continues so very
i'll that it has been suggested that he
turn the arduous work of his Office to
Licutcnant-ticvcrnor McSwccncy till
he rccovcrs.
= The Columbia State, after thor
oughly investigating the figures. an-
nounces the fact that South Carolina
will rank second among the States of
the t'nion in the production of cotton
cloth
= The supreme court has held in a
Saluda county case that dispensary
indictment must name the parties to
whom the alleged sale was made and
that ito divers parties is not per
missablc.
- Robert Trottcr one of Pickens
county's Oldest citizens and wcli-known
throughout the ur country. died Sat
urday night after an illness of three
weeks, at his home near Dacusvillc,
in his S4th year.
- Ex- Attorney General Barber has
decided to locate in New York for
the practice Of law He has had the
move under consideration for some
time, but only recently has he secured
Offices in that city.
= The Grccnvillc mud must be
tough. Beattie Rowland, Il mail car
rier, broke his leg while pulling through.
it. He did not discover that it was
broken until he got home. Queer sort
Of legs Bcattic must have.
= There was marriage by telephone
in Fairfield County blizzard week.
The parson couldn't make the trip to
the bride home because Of snow. slect
and bad roads, so he tied the knot by
wire, and didn't kiss the bride.
= The number Of cases of small
poX in the country between Sumter
and Maycsvillc is growing larger cacl
week, the negroes disrcgarding the
simplest and most ordinary means cf
preventing the spread Of the disease.
= The roof Of Gen Wade lamps
tons house took fire few days ago,
and the General, with the weight Of
eighty years resting upon him and q
cork leg beneath him, gallantly mount
ed the roof and cxtinguishcd the
flames.
- Senator McLaurin says there is
no truth in the recently printed story
that he is to succeed Judge Simonton
as circuit Judge. Judge Simonton's
health is said to have improved so
much that his retirement is probably
far off.
"A miner by the name of Hayden
was assaulted and knocked senselcss
down in Saluda county last week by
two men who were acting as guides
for him. They robbed him of eighty
cents and are now in Jail for thcir
crime.
- Mr.. NJ. II. kempson' gin house.
twenty bales of cotton, cotton seed,
wagons, threshcr and other articles
were destroyed by fire at his home in
Saluda County on Sunday morning.
The fire is thought to have been of inc
cendiary origin.