The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-25
STATE NEWS.
The Aiken dispensary is shor'

= The measles are raging in several
>ectinn~ of the State
= The c'tiz-n> "f Due West con-
template bu'li,ns a COTTON mill.
= There are six hundred people yet
pay their taxes in Pickens County.
Mrs. McLauri", wife If Senator
McI.aurin, is seriously i'll in Wash
in.t'n
r. w. S'ahland was elected SEN
at"r f'"m the new connty of Dorches-
ter last week
= Frank Holiday. small boy Of
Marion county: Was killed by eating
m,rch heads. Keep matches away
frnm children.
= The Rock Hill Cotton Factory
Company has asked for he. appoint
mcnt Of a receiver TO take charge Of
ITS assets aud distribute the same
among It's creditors.
= A case of smallpox was reported
in Hamburg lat week It was child
Of Edward Abbot. The doctors do
not agree as 70 the disease, but the
house has heen qnarantined.
One of the two regiments at Co.
lumbia-the Second Tennes>ee-is to
he mustered out SOON. A committee
If Columbians has visited Washington
to request another in>taIlment Of the
boys in blue.
- Governor William &. Ellerbe aud
Lieutenant Gnv. VI. B. McSweeney were
indncted into of6ce last Wednesday.
The ceremonies attending the change
of Administration were brief, not
lasting oyer twenty minutes alto
gether.
: The farmers of Florence are go
ing into the tobaccn business this year
heavier than ever. A correspondent
writing from there says there will be-
a increase Of 200 per cent in the
acreage; aud that new t"bacco barns
q e sni"g up all over 'h.: county. The
business nf tnbacco raising has betn
v.ry profitable there the last year.
= Just month agn the death pen
atty was inflicted on Matthew Moselfy
in Ora"geburg for the murder Of
colnred brother, and now two of her
murderers are in jill in Orangeb' rg
waiting for the day to come. which is
not far off, when they will foll'w
Moseley by the gsllows route to Il G
other world. They had an awful
warning, bat they needed it not.
Some Of the new>p .pers, aud par
ticularly the Georgia newspapers, have
hren trying to "pnIl off fight be-
t Veen Senator TiIman and General
Butler fur United States Senator from
this State; but General Butler will
not enter the race. H. told areporter
fnr the Meto. and Courier that he
was "done With politics once and for
ever" aud that he "will almost posi-
lively not be u candidate for tie
Senate.
: Allen B-Ik, leading farmer {
Williamsburg county, residing on the
outskirts of the town of Lake CITY,
was carried to Charleston last week,
being charged with the burning Of Il e
Lake Guy post"ffice on January 9,
1898 II. is also thought to have
been an accnmplice in the killing f
Postmaster Baker aud child, the wou d.
ing Of the members of the f.m'ly al d
the second burning Of the postoff.ce
on February % last.
john G. 2. Williams, POSTMASTER
at r dgeway, has been arrested on tie
charge Of emb-zzement. The warra {
was sworn to by Pnst"ffice Inspect.
Butler, and charges Williams with ap-
propriating to his own use $S8. He
was released an $500 bond for is
appearance at the April term of tie
Uni,ed States Court at Greenvil'e.
Williams has been postmaster Stree
Mckinley administration went ilto
power.
"A dispatch from Charleston ga.
that Rev. II. R. M'>eley, "f Forenr (,
). c., waS requested by the Americ; n
Bipti>t Home Mission S 'ciety to "a {
a- general missionary to the eastern
provinces of Cub,, with hradqnarf' rs
at Santiago. De-. MoSeey has not dri.-
nitrly accept-d the proposition. b. {
will go TO Cuba for few weeks to Ok
nv he field and start the S'cet
work. He had experience in Spanis .
Au-rican countries. having been
missionary to Mexico.
-J. Frank Harms, q wel'-knnV n
s7reenyille county farmer, living u ar
R.eiy river, was in Greenville tbs
week. He says he has an old neg .
servant nm his Dlacn who. enjoys .