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

Is rcpOtlcu itS !cpdil iHS? l'tiI.t''iN', '.'',
oiling mp his bike for the gubcrnatorial
campaign.
= Surveyors have started on the
route Of the Missing Link railroad,
which is to run from Chattanooga to
Walhalla S. &.
-Zachariah Singleton. Il negro, who
killed another negro in Charleston. has
been convicted and sentenced to be
hanged January 9TH.
"A. B. Covington. of Camden, COM
mitted suicide because of adisappOint-
mcnt in love. He was Il native of
Chcraw andabout thirty-years of age.
Mr.. A. w. Smith, wealthy citizen
Of Abbeville, is at the head OF Il move
ment having for its object the building
OF 10000 spindle mill in that town
next year.
The citizens of Columbia are just
ly proud of the new Masonic Temple
which isnow nearing completion, and
is acceded to be one Of the handsCmcst
buildings i'll the city.
Mr.. w. D. Sullivan. Of Laurens
county, has presented Prof. ID. A. Du-
Pre-, Of Wotford College, with an Indian
rclic-a spherical stone which they
doubtless used in making medicine into
powder.
Mr.. J. II. Privett Of Darlington
county realized last year S3,3O5 from
16 acres Of tobacco and this years crop
will equal last years. His brother
Mr. J. L. Privett. will realize $4,000 on
12 acres planted in tobacco.
= An infant of Mr.. and Mrs. V IS.
Medlin, who live about two miles west
of Pickens G. H., accidentally fell in
the fire last Wednesday and was very
severely burned, only living about
/ twenty-four hours afterwards.
Coy. McSwccney and his staff
were entertained in Charleston's own
generous way in that city last Thurs
day. At the banquet given i'll his
honorat night he was toasted amid
great applause, asthe "neXt governor
"A citizen Of Darlington claims to
have had a strange experience one
night last week. While asleep he left
his room and woke to find himself in
his neighbor's chicken coop. He was
kind enough not to disturb the chick
ems, however.
= The Southern Express company
has offered a reward of $500 for in
formation that will lead to the arrest
and conviction of the robbers who
robbed the express car near Branch
Vile. AS vet there is absolutely no
clue as to who the robbers were.
A. J. Pittman, who killed his
brother. n. II. Pittman. of Gourdlns,
on Oct. 18th, was tried in Charleston
wednesday and acquitted by the jury,
much to the astonishmentO OF every one
who knew anything of the case. The
plea of the prisoner was self-defence.
= The governor has ordered an
election to be held in Greenwood coun-
ty on the 10Th OF this month to till the
unexpired term of the late Judge OF
Probate, Capt. w. E. Cothran. The
first Democratic primary will be held
next Saturday and if necessary
second on the 10th.
: Col. Jas. ID. Blanding, of Sumter,
will retire from the practice OF law on
January 1st. He has occupied the
same building, the same room and
same seat with the same law books
around him since July 1914, except two
years in the Mexican war and four
years in the late wal between the
States.
= Almost every druggist in Char
lesion has received notice from the IN
tcrnal collector of revenue that they
are indebted to Uncle Sam in the sum
of SG0 for license and penalty tor the
sale of malt preparations during the
past year and half III accordance
with the revenue act.
= Sam Lee, the mulattO politician
from Sumter who figured consplcu-
ously during the days of rad. .aallsm,
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 chars-
ed with breaking into a chicken coop:
friends intcrceded for him and had him
released on the ground OF insanity.
= Miss Hennie Threatt, of Chester
field, had narrow escape from a
watery grave last week; She was GO on
drove into Flat Creek which was SO
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
inc hold of limb she was enabled to
get out upon the bank. The horse was
drowned.
If it was thought that the small
pox scare in South Carolina had be-
come Il thing of the past 1T was Il mis-
take, or if it had it has taken root
again. Governor McSwecney 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
the State Board of Health. The cases
discovered have created quite scare.
= The South Carolina marble works
have prepared the design of 4 hand
some monument and submitted it to
Col. John +. Sloan and Col. Wylic
Jones, the officers Of the Gary Monu-
mcnt association, wEir::; purposes to
erect in Columbia monument to the
memory of Gen. Mart Gary, the "Bald
Eagle of Edgcield," 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
olith will rise to Il height OF 35 feet.
Suitable inscriptions will be placed on
the die block with possibly also
bronze bald eagle.