The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-05
Local News.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1899.
Court Proceedings.

M. r. Howard, charged with the muir
der of j. r. Bridges was being tried.
The trial consumed nearly all Of the
day, and resulted in ln acquittal of the
defendant.
The Grand Jury submitted the fol-
lowing presentment that day and were
discharged:
pREsENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY.
To his Honor, Geo. W. Gage, Presid-
ing Judge, June Term. 1890:
The grand jury beg leave to report as
follows:
Since our last session, special COM
rnittee of our body has investigated the
county Offices and submitted it's report to
as, which we adopted and have made a
Rart Of this plassntment. We are pleased
20 say that shows avery satisfactory
condition Of tho publhs affairs.
It is with sense of pleasure and graf
ification that We report that this body
has unanimously resolved that we rec
ommend to your Honor that our courts
be opened with an invocation to Al
nightly God that he grant wisdom and
fidelity to eTery officer of the court in
the responsible and solemn discharge OF
the high duty of administering justice
between the people.
The presence Of an unusual quantity OF
insects that are harmful to the crops and
whose ravages cause no small damage 10
every section, emphasizes the necessity
for the laws providing penalties for kill
ing any one of great variety OF. our
birds, or for destroying their nests or
Young, and the even greater necessity for
their rigid enforcement. We desire to
call upon ali officers OF the law, and all
thouchtful citizens to unite in enforcing
these laws, and thereby protect those
useful little creatures that have been aptly
described as the sfarmers feathered po-
lice.''
Every person who may have business
/ in this court, and especially jurors and
other officers whose duties compel them
to remain here so long and continuously,
doubtless appreciate the many comforts
furnished by the new court house, but
since our last term sewerage system
has been put in by the Supervisor and,
hence the comforts and conveniences are
increased, aud the building thereby made
q model in all its departments.
We renew our former recommendation
that permanent roads be built as rapidly
as the county7s finances will permit, real
izing the impossibiiity of constructing
permanent dirt roads out of soil common
80 this county.
We renew our Recommendation, as ear
uestly as we can make it, that new steel
cells be Immediately placed in the Jail, it
being made to appear to us that those
now there are insufficient to hold the
prisoners, nscessitating the mixing Of
the races, and is being condemned by
the board Of health Of the city and the
Jail physician because Of the crowded
condition frequently happening there,
and the resulting unsanitary conditions.
We wish to extend our hearty thanks
: to your Honor for the courtesies extend
ed to us during this term, and also to our
able solicitor, and to aiithes other officers
of the court for their uniform courtesy
and attention..
We have considered and reported on
all bills submitted to US by the solicitor,
and considered all other matters laid be-
fore us by different persons and made
such disposition of them as we thought
best. All of which we respectfully sub
nit. L. E. CAMPBELL,
Foreman Grand Jury.
Anderson, S. c., june 2s, 1899.
REPORT or SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
To the Grand Jury:
Your special committee appointed at
the last Court to examine and report on
the condition Of the several public coun-
ty offices, beg leave to- submit the follow
ing:
s We employed Jno. X. Hood to assist
us in our work, and we made as careful
an examination into the public affairs as
the TOO limited time at our disposal
would permit.
It is impossible in four days time to
make anything like thorough investi-
CATION of the Offices, for that much time
would be necesessary to make complete
examination Of any one of the three or
-four of them, as the County Supervisors,
Treasurer's or Dispensers, for instance.
But we think the tests made would be
likely to disclose any improper methods,
unless a aconspsracy existed between some
of the officers to defraud the public, and
then screen each other in so doing.
We speak thus only by way of Illus
tration, for Wa haven't the slightest sus-
.picion of any such thing, as will be shown
later on.
We found the Clerk of Courts Office
admirably kept and admirable III arrange
ment. The clerk is progressive with the
age in keeping his Office, and we wish to
commend him for the zeal he shows in
keeping his indexes geographically up
to date as nearly as hs can, even at the
same extra expense to himself.
This Office acts as pension agent for
tie county, ard we find that he received
for the pensioners last year 81, ,027.20, for
all of which he issued checks, but there
remained in his hands $4,000 uncalled
for, which he will return to the State
treasurer, as required by law.
The Auditors Office continues in the
same excellent condition reported last
wear, and the same is true of the Sheriff'S
Office, both of which officers seem to take
much pride and interest in their work.
The County Superintendent of Educa-
ton reported to US that his predecessor
turned over his books in an unfinished
condition, thereby putting some extra
labor on the Incumbent, There are some
discrepancies between the books Of this
Office and the Office OF the County Treas
urer. which seem to be of a purely cleri-
cal kind, as for instance, a difference i'll
the amounts credited to some of the