The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-04
STATE NEWS.


,Aihcn is 80 hav. Il ,.w 100000
motel. Two rirh Np,licrnprs furnish
the money
Three gentlemen from Lapan are
making Il touroi the state cx;imi,,in,r
the cotton mills.
- The SUMMER schnol at Rock iIill
for South Carolina teachers will omen
on July Il and close OH August l3.
= Small pnx has appeared in Colum-
bin, but the board Of health has taken
1t III charge and will stamp it out at
once.
- The total projected capitalization
OF cotton mills in South Carolina since
tho first day OF this year has been more
than five million dollars.
= 1t is reported that cx-Governor
John Gary Evans; now u resident of
Spartanburg, will run for Congress
against Stanyarnc Wilson and cy-
senator j. l.. Nj. Irby.
Twenty-Five citizens of Green
wood recently signed petition asking
Editor n. 6. Gonzales of the State to
be g candidate for Governor. Mr.. Con
zales gracefully declined.
= Hemp is said to have been success
fully grown in South Carolina before
and after 1884, and that cotton seed oil
dIu Inedl WCIC IIrSG Ill the state
by Gov. David II. Williams.
Perry Glcnn, aged 60 years, com
mitted suicide at Batesvilie by jump
s0ninlaw Of Mrs. Thirlkill who com
mittcd suicide in the same way short
while ago.
-R. 6. Hunt, Of Dacusvillr, is in
possession of pctrilicd duck. He
found it Il few days ago in the bed of
an old river where he WIS cutting Il
ditch. 1t is supposed to have been
there over hundred years.-PictcnS
JOurn0I
- The Grecnviilc correspondent of
the State says that Miss Carrie l.. Bos-
tick of that cik has been accepted as q
by the Southern Baptist
Board and will 20 to China or Mexico
next fall. She is now teaching in the
Greenvillc Female College.
= The Rev. Mark Boyd. WHO was 80
years old last month. and WAS the old
deSt clergyman in South Carolina, died
born in Newbcrry aud spent most of
his life there as Il minister. Three of
his sons arc Methodist ministers.
= Following the lead OF The Pclzer
Company, the Sampson, the Victor,
the Rcedy River and the Piedmont
Mills have announced that the wages
of the operatives will be increased
April 1st. These increases will mean
100000 extra dollars to the operatives
- Mr.. Cecil l;eddoes, from Colorado,
is prospecting for gold in the vicinity
of Greenwood. MIR. Beddoes is an ex-
pert mining engineer, and il is his
opinion that MS Georgia and South
x,,n,,o +lo .rol<l t;<I,t, = e -
ca previous to the discovery of gold in
California, there must be more of the
precious stuff in these States.
- Classy Boan, white woman living
in Chesterfield county, received five
different wounds in her body and
then ilcr clothing was set on fire and
her body burned so that she died after
wards. The atrocious crime is charg-
ed to Harvey jackson, John jackson,
Ben jackson and j. Il. Stein, all white,
who are now in Jail awaiting trial.
The crime is said to have been commit
ed on March 18th and has just come to
light.
- 1t is more than probable thatat no
distant day Georgetown, will be made
nm ocean port. III the river and hnr-
Dor act of the 55th Congress IL survey
Of Sampit river was ordered. This
survey was recently made and report
Df the same has been submitted to
Congress by the secretary Of war.
Major Ruilner, of the corps of engineers
and the engineers who made the sur
vcy declared the project Il worthy one.
and the same is meeting with gnnnr:..ii
TavOr.
- Penitentiary guard ]. p. Harling
was attacked and disarmcd of his rifle
by five negro cOnvicts whom he had in
charge Oh u farm near Columbia; but
in tho hand to- hand fight which en-
sued he drew his pistol and killed one
Of the mutinOus prisoners and wound
ed another; two others brcamc fright
encd and surrendered, and only one
The negro who was Eille,!
was in the act OF firing upon the guard
when the latter saved his life by use
of his pistol.
- Miss Emma Clieatham, Of Ninety
Six, was burned to death last week. |
Miss Chcatham was an epileptic and
was 45 years old. She was in the house
alone and it is supposed that she fell
in tho fire. When found she was in
bed and her body, nll but her feet,
which were protected by, her shoes,
was burned to crisp, The accident
happened about 10 o'clock Tuesday
md she died Tuesday night at s
o'clock.
= DR.. Marstlon Manson, of Califor-
nia. visited Clemson last fall. lie
writes pleasantly to DR.. Hartzog Of the
Impressions received while there. He
is anxious to bring the South into
closer touch with California. He
sends some rooted canes of tho "Log-
lnberry," n hybrid of the raspberry
and the blackberry, which he thinks
will do we'll in South Carolina. 1t is Il
delightful table fruit and makes cx-
cellent preserves.
= About three years ago Lewis Feas-
Mems, colored. The bullet, n 80
:alibre. lodged in the front brain, and
from the effects of which she lay for
more than n year and could not speak
md cOuld scarcely move herself S,1,,
lad to be fed. Notwithstanding the
bullet is still. imbedded in her brain.
:ho IS now aDic TO walk. talk, sing and
eenl hersalf md with tho nxnnntinr, &c