The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-08

South Carolina Will meet in Orangekury
in December.
- In. nearly every section of the
State the farmers are preparing to SOW
Il big acreage III wheat
= 1t costs three hundred dollars to
be candidate for Mayor in the Dcu,-
ocratic primary IN Charleston.
= Ihc recent storm is said to have
done great damage to the rice in
the nclEhborhond of Georgetown.
- The Neal investigation rroyt is
being printcd Tor distribution among
the members of the general assembly.
=. Charlcst"n's annual fall festival
begins ON Monday. Goth inst 1t will
no doubt attract large crowd Of visit
OrS.
- Col. Joseph Talhrrt, member of
Congress, says tn 1 he is satisfied Will,
his pres, ut office and has no desire To-
oppose Is. Il. Tillman for the Senate.
- Coy. McSwccncy has issucd his
thanksgiving proclamation and makes
II conform III date to the date fixed by
President Mckinley Thursday, tie
Both of November
= John Sinclarc, of Kershaw county.
was examining pistol few days ago
when 1t was discharged. the ball strilk-
ing his three year old daughter, prob
ably fatally wounding her
- The South Carolina Ircsbytcry.
at an adjournment meeting. during
the recent sessions OF the synod nc-
ceptcd an invitation to hold the next
regular meeting at Greenwood.
- c.. w. Chandler. OF Cokesbur, Inns
= canning outfit hat costs $40 With
1t ne puts! up from 40 to 50 dozen cans
day. ic sells 3 lb tomatoes ut 95
cents Il dozen and says there is good
money i'll the business.
- Magistrate G.. NJ. ID. Barrett. of
Bishopvlllc. was recently removed from
Office by Coy. McSwcency as IL result
OIL the grand Jury charging him with
naltcasancc III office. He hns been
arrested on five different warrants.
=. The United States Department of
Agriculture has issued an interesting
pamphlet, Tea Culture; the Expert
lncnt III South Carolina by DR.. Charles
:; t;;,1'.r H1h'cP;n,id; ;;, me p"mp!llet is beau
formation about tea and its culture.
- Mr.. Norman a. Collins of sandy
Flat, Grccnvillc county, sent Biil
BISHOP, Il young white man, to Greer's
with Il bale of cotton to sell. Bishon
sold the cotton i'll his own name, LETT
the team standing i'll tlle streets and
disappeared.
- Jonathan {. Hanks, of the Sandy
Fiat section OF Grccnvillc County, is
perhaps the Oldest white man in the
State. lie has seen every President
elected since Washington. and is II
Mexican and the Civil.
= log train of the Atlantic Coast
Lumber company, running ON the
Georgetown and Western railway
struck cow and six cars were over
turned. The great logs rolled over and
ground three men to II pulp. Three
others were perhaps fatally Injured.
= Captain B. b. McWhitc, of Flor
cncc, man well known throughout
the State, having represented his conn
ty Tor four years III the house of rep-
rescntativcs, has been killed by his
cotton gin. This is the :fifth ;ienth
from the same cause in South Carolina
this season.
-~sDr. ". J. Bower, ;::I:ui,,;st,ntor
OF the estate Of Richard Wannor, who
was killed in q wreck on the SeashOrc
division OF the Consolidated Railway
lin Charleston) on June 25 last, hns
filed suit in the Court of Common Pleas
Tor Charleston county for $s50, 900 dam
ages.
- Tom Harris. q negro, was killed ut
the Greenwood oil mill ginnery Thurs
moving bale OF cotton from the press.
which is operated by steam power,
when his head was caught under the
"fOllow block" and crushed beyond re-
cOgnition.
- The storm which passed over
Charleston the other Cight blew down
a twO-story house in rear ct the prem
lscs 40 Coming street, killing one per
son and lnJuring three others: The
house was occupied by five people, and
it is y miracle that The tivo were not
killed by the falling timbers and brick.
The Secretary of State has issued
n commission to James Cockshott tI,i Of
Charleston, IL. Z. Riley of Philadeiphia
and &. NJ. Trenholm of Charleston as
cOrpOratOrs OF the Southern Hardwood
companyo OF Charleston. The company
proposes to manufacture oil kinds Of
hardwood products. The capital stock
is $4,000, divided into shares Mt 800
each.
- Jesse W. Johnson, farmer living
near Mnrydell, in the upper part of
Grcenville county, was shot in the
killed. The shot was fired by his neph
ew, George johnson. from a revolver.
The killing is supposed to have been
caused by some difficulties which have
existed bctwcccn the men for some
time.
= That many prospective investors
are turning their eyes these days to
South Carolina is evidenced by the
fact that there is scarcely day passes
that letters OF inquiry do not reach the
heads of some of the departments of
the State government asking for in
formation as to South Carolina's re-
sources and advantages. This en-
phasizes the great necessity for an in
dustrial department of some kind in
the State government.
Mrs. Jno. &. Williams has had n
rare plant growing in her yard for
seven years, but each winter it has
been killed to its roots. Last fall she
covered it over with earth, and now it
is over ten feet high and has Il large