The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-02
STATE NEWS.

= Two negro murderers will be exc
cuted in Charleston next Friday.
The dispensary profits for the past
quarter aggregate total Of s64, 900.
- Burglars are operating in mostof
the railway towns in the upper part Of
the State.
: There are four fourishing roller
flour mills in the small county Of
Newbcrry
= An effort is started again to erect
a monument to .le memory of Geu.
NJ. ". Gary.
- The annual excursion from
Charleston to the up-co1ntry takes
place on the 10th inst.
= The kissing bug has arrived in
Greenville. Sheriff Gilreath has cap
tured one and put him in a bottle.
: 1t is reported in Columbia that a
new syndicate has bought the Colur:
bia canal, paying something like
s8OO,OOO for it.
= Official announcement has been
made that Oh Oct. 1st, 1899, work will
be begun on opening Congarce river
fer steamboat navigation up TO Co.
lumbia, S. G.
- The Lowndesville Oil Company
with capital stock of $4,000 has
been chartered. A. l.. Latimer is
president and treasurer, and A. ".
Barnes is secretary and manager.
- The Fall meeting Of the South
Carolina Holiness Association will be
held at Leesville, S. c., beginning
Monday night, September 4, 1899, and
continuing through the following Sun
day.
- Gen. Wade Hampton, who has
been spending some time at Wrights
vile Sound, near Wilmington, N. c.,
is reported to have been much invigo-
rated by his sojourn on the coast. The
grand dld hero is now at Dagger's
Springs, in Virginia, where he has
gone to join his son and daughter:
= Mr.. w. T. Walters, Of the South
Union neighborhood, has SOW that
has given birth to three litters Of pigs
within one year as follows July q.
1898, fifteen pigs February %, 1899,
eleven pigs July IA, 1899, fourteen
pigs total forty pigs. The SOW is
about four years old.
The citizens of Easley have de-
cided to erect a cotton mill. The cap
ital stock will be 100000. The fol-
lowing are the corporators S. f.
Bradley, W. NJ. Hagood, DR.. R. F.
Smith: J. NJ. Geer, W. H. Pickens,
Col. j. L. Orr and Col. j. f. Hagood.
Mr.. John M. Geer has been elected
president of the mill.
= That was a piece Of agricultural
enterprise on the part Of Mr.. Blalock,
Of Laurens county, who hauled water
to the field and had fifty hands plant
ing and watering corn. He is large
planter and plants for crop of 1000
or 1,5O0 bales Of cotton as rule, but
fears his crop will be sad failure.
- The tobacco farmers ofsOrange-
burg are busy curing their crops, but
it will be several weeks before their
tobacco will be put on the market. It
is desired to have quantity ,accumu-
late at the warehouse in Orangeburg,
and that there will be an inducen1ent
for number Of buyers to attend the
sale from different parts of the State.
= The automibile and bicycle show
which will be held in Charleston from
Nov. 2l to 24th, promises to be we'll
attended and will attract immense
crowds from South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina and other
Southern States, as all of the rail
roads will give reduced rates over
wide territory.
= Since the 1st of January, 1899,
charters have been issued concerns in
South Carolina representing an aggre-
gate capitalization of nearly s., 100000.
OF this amount 81, ,22e.79O represents
new concerns, and 81, ,6l3,O the cap
ital of organizations increasing their
capital stock a total Of 81, ,S39, 200,
being a gain of 1887 900 compared
with the same months last year.
= Maggie Brown, negro, commit
ted suicide in Greenville by satura-
ting herself with kerosene oil and set
ting herself on FIRE. The fire occurred
at 3 o'clock a. M, and every thread of
clothing was burned from her body.
She died in terrible agony at eleven
O'clock. She was able to talk after q
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