The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-18
STATE NEWS.

= Inc i. VI. y. n. Otatc COnVen-
ton will meet in Spartanburg Feb
ruary 9l2
The new year found the peniteu-
tiary with 7s4 convicts, 81 more than
this time last year.
= 1t is rep"rted that bleachery
enterprise is in process Of orgauisa-
tion at Spartanburg, S. c.
- The farmers of the eastern part
of the State are going to increase their
tobacco acreage this year.
The Gatfuey cotton mills have
concluded to run day and night. The
demand for their goods warrants this.
= A Laurens negro who had de-
serted his wife aud five children was
mobbed by negroes and severely han
died.
The Newbcrry dispensary did
big business the last quarter in 1898.
The total sales for the three months
were slO,83S II.
II. G. R"binson, Esq, of Pick
ems, and Cole L. Blease, E.q., Of
Newberry, are candidates for members
Of the State Board of Control.
For the third time within few
weeks Mr. R. T. Blair, of Ridgeway,
S. c., suffered considerable loss by In
cendiary fire on the night of Jan. 5.
President Hartzog, in his annual
report on Clemson College, asks the
Legislature for an appropriation Of
$40, 900 for the College for the current
year.
-Spartanburg will soon enjoy the
advantages Of thoroughly equipped
and moderuly arranged sewerage sys-
TEN, covering about eighteen or twenty
miles Of territory.
= The little 8-year-old daughter Of
Mrs. Hancock. who lives on Maj. j.
S. Floyd's farm in the suburbs of
Walhalla, was accidentally burned SO
seriously last Saturday afternoon that
she died during the night.
= The Charlotte Neaos reports that
Squires Bales, whose domicile is just
on the line between North and South
Carolina, married POI couples during
the year 1898. His home has been
named Gretna Green.
= The I'd South Carolina regiment
at Havana has been sent to Buens
Vista, 8 miles in the country. Their
first night was spent in the pouring
rain. Previously they had been en-
camped at Moro Castle.
= Thirty-fve negroes left Green
wood Sunday over the Southern for
Tallahassee, Fla, where they go to
work on turpentine farms. They were
for the most part "town negroes" and
nobody regretted their departure.
- Sheriff L. NJ. Clyburn, Of Lam
caster, killed his pig Wednesday. It
was just 13 months old and weighed
net 547 pounds. 1t was Poland China
breed, and every one who saw it says
it was the largest hog for its age they
ever saw.
= A sad accident occurred near
Packsville which caused the death Of
Hampton Cutter. He was working at
the saw mill Of his father, Ben Cut
ter, when piece Of plank was caught
in the rapidly revolving saw and hurl-
ed it in the direction Mr.. Cutter vas
working and struck him on the head,
crushing his skull.
The revenue officers have recent
ly got hump on them and have made
things lively among the illicit dis
tillers along the line of Lexington and
Oraugeburg counties. They recently
made raid and succeeded in captur-
ing and destroying eight or nine stills.
james B. Williams, the slayer of
Major W. A. Williams and Of Charlie
Potts, died suddenly Friday afternoon
iu the Greenville county Jail, where
he was confined pending the decision
of the State supreme court on his ap~
peal for q new trial in the Potts casee
in which he was convicted Of murder
at the last term of court and sentenced
to be hanged on the 9th Of this
month.
Gov. Ellerbe has had placed at
his disposal a scholarship in the Dread
Institute, at Worcester, Mass. The
scholarship includes board and tuitiors
The school opens on January 25tb.
the Dread Institute was tt g
New Era Cooking School Of Worcester.
The special work Of that school was
the teaching of cookery, and the. fit
ting Of girls for teachers, lecturers
and demonstrators 10 cooking alone.
The Columbia State, few days