The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-12-06
STATE NEWS.

oilrg MP his blk, 10Y ,llc gubrlnatorial
campaign.
Surveyors havc started on the
route of the Missing Link railroad.
which is to run from Chattanooga to
Walhalla 5. {.
= Zachnriah Singleton. IL negro. who
killed another negro in CharcStuu. has
been convicted and sentenced To be-
hanged January 9TH.
\. B. COvingtnn. of Camden, com
mittcd suicide because Of a,lisappoint-
mcnt in love. lie was IL native OF
Chrraw and about thirty years of age.
- Mr.. a. w. Smith, Il wealthy citizen
OF Abbovlllc, Is nj the head of Il move
ment having for lis object the building
of Il 10000 spindle mil, in that town
next year.
The citizens OF Columbia arc just
which is now nearing completion, and
is accedcd to be one of the landsomcst
buildings i'll the city.
Mr.. w. ID. Sullivan. OF Laurcns
county, has presented Prof. ID. A. Du-
Pre-, of WOffOrd College, with IN Indian
relic-a spherical stone which they
doubtless used in making medicine into
Il powder.
Mr.. j. II. lrivctt OF Darlington
county realized last year $500 from
IL acres of tobacco and this years crop
will equal last years. His brother.
Mr.. j. T.. Privctt. Will realize $4,000 on
- acres planted in tobacco.
= An infant OF Mr.. and Mis-. V $.
Medlin, who live about two miles west
OF Pickcns {; H.. accidentally fell in
severely burned. only living about
twcnty-f0ur hours afterwards.
: GOV. McSwcrnev and his STAFF
were entertained in Charlcst0n's own
generous way in hat city last Thurs
day. At the banquet given i'm his
honOrat night he was toasted amid
great applause. aS the next governor"
a citizen of Darlington claims to
have had strange experience one
night last week. While asleep he left
his room and woke to find himself in
his ncighbor's chicken coop. lie WAS
kind enough not to disturb the chick
ems, however.
= The southern Express company
has offered Il reward of $500 for in
formation that will lead to the arrest
robbed the express car near Branch
Vile. AS yet there is absolutely no
clue us to who the robbers were.
a. }: Pittman, who killed his
brother. n. II. Pittman. of Gourtlins,
on Oct. 18th, was tried in Charleston
wednesday and acquitted by the jury,
much to the astOniShmcntO OF every one
who knew anything of the case. The
plea of the prisoner was self-defcncc.
= The governor has ordered an
election to be held in Greenwood cOun-
ty on the 10Th of this month to fill the
uneXpired term of the late Judge of
hot y
first Democratic primary will be held
next Saturday and if necessary q
second on the 10Th.
- Coll Jas. u. Blanding, of Sumter,
will retire from the practice of law on
January 1st. He has occupied the
same building, the same room and
same scat with the same law books
around him since July f6i4, except two
years in the Mexican war and four
years in the late war between the
States.
= Almost every druggist in Char
lesion has received notice from the in
ternal collector of revenue that they
are indebted to Uncle Sam in the sum
sale OF malt preparations during the
past year and Il half in accordance
with the revenue act.
= Sam Lee, the mulattO politician
from Sumter who figured conspicn-
Ously during the days of radicnlisn.,
and who was one of the representatives
in Congress when the State was under
negro rule, was up before the police
court in Washington last week charg-
cd with breaking into chicken coop;
friends intcrceded for him and had him
released on the ground of insanity.
= Miss Hennic Thrcatt, of Chester
field, had a narrow escape from q
watery grave last week. She was OH
drove into Flat Creek which was 80
much swollen from the rains that her
buggy was washed down the stream
several yards and lodged against tree
that was lying in the creek. by catch
ing hold of a limb she was enabled TO
get out upon the bank. The horse was
drowned.
- If it was thought that the small
pOX scare iii South Carolina had be-
come II thing of the past it was mis-
take, OF il it had it has taken root
again; Governor McSweeney has re
ceived communications from officials
at Hampton and Bambnrg notifying
him of the existence of the pest in or
near those places and he has put the
matter in the hands OF the chairman of
tho State Board of Health. The eases
discovered have created quite scare.
- The South Carolina marble works
have prepared the design of q hand
some monument and submitted it to
Col. John II. Sloan and Col. Wylie
Jones, the officers OF the Gary M0nu-
mont association, which purposes to
erect in Columbia II monument to the
Eagle Of Edgctield," who was a gallant
Confederate soldier and leader of the
straightOut movement of 1876. The
base of the monument will be 12 feet
square. The die block will be polish
ed stone. The shaft will be rustic
stone with polished edges. The mon
Suitable inscriptions will be placed On
the die block with possibly also
s-oIao bald easic.
= There is q law on the st:tute books
of South Carolina which ia very much