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

The rice crop in the lower part
Of the State has been seriously injured
by the freshcts.
= The State Epworth League is to
hold its annual meeting in Camden,
S. c., April 2O-23.
Miss Padgett and Mrs. HERS
were accidentally burned to death re-
Gently at Walterboro.
Measles, mumps and whooping
cough are going the rounds in various
sections e the State.
On, day last week 10000 fine
shad wee 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. Wellbrook, young
German Of Charleston, committed sui
eide in Jacksonville, Fla. last Friday.
W. T. Milford, ex-Superinten-
dent of Education of Abbeville Coun
ty, died at his home in Abbevile last
Sunday.
Senator Henderson, Of Aiken, is
spoken Of in some quarters as being
likely to oppose Tillman for the United
States Senate in 1900
= Alonzo D. Webster, son Of the
Republican boss in this State, has been
nominated by President Mckinley to
be postmaster at Oraugeburg.
Gov. Ellerbe continues so very
i'll that it has been suggested that he
turn the arduous work of his Office to
Lieutenant-Gcvernor McSweeney till
he recovers.
The Columbia State, after thor
oughly Investigating the figures, an
nounces the fact that South Carolina
will rank second among the States Of
the Union 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 "to divers parties is not per-
missable.
- Robert Trotter, one Of Pickens
county Oldest citizens aud well-known
throughout the up country, died Sat
urday night after an illness Of three
weeks, at his home near Dacusville,
in his 84th 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 Greenville mud must be
tough. Beattie Rowland, 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 Beattie must have.
There was marriage by telephone
in Fairfield County blizzard week.
The parscn couldn't make the trip to
the brides home because Of snow, sleet
aud bad roads, so he tied the knot by
wire, and didn' kiss the bride.
The number Of cases Of small
pox in the country between Sumter
and Mayesville is growing larger each
week, the negroes disregarding the
simplest and most ordinary means Of
preventing the spread Of the disease.
The roof Of Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton house took fire few days ago,
and the General, with the weight Of
eighty years resting upon him and Z
cork leg beneath him, CALAMITY mount
ed the roof and extinguished 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 eff.
"A miner by the name Of Hayden
was assaulted and knocked senseless
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 their
crime.
Mr.. NJ. II. Kempson S gin house.
twenty bales of cotton, cotton seed,
wagons, thresher and other articles
were destroyed BY fire at his home IN
Saluda County on Sunday morning.
The fire is thought to have been of in
cendiary origin.
"A negro woman 81 years old, was
burned TO death on a farm a few miles