The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-31
STATE NEWS.

Columbia is soon to have furni-
ture factory.
= Work has been begun OH the nd
dition to the Walhalla Cotton Mills.
= Bishop A. w. Wilson, of Baltimore.
Md, will preach tho Commencement
sermon ut Wofiord College on June
| 10th.
Greenville county : years : per
cent. bonds sold laet week for 100. tho
highest price that has yet been paid for
| them.
The dec0mnoscd body 0f iii uu-
! known white man was found few
days ago in the Wateree River swamp,
Sumter County.
= Sheriff Crccch, of Barnwell, who is
u one armed man, lost the other by
falling under the southern vcstibulc ut
Hampton recently.
The Grcenvillc Daily Times has
suspended after five or six nonths'
struggle. 1t requires big amount of
cash to maintain Il daily paper.
| = Already in the first month of tbis
| JN"A ~A'1oo'Voo ID tnc amount which
represents the applications for charters
for cotton mills in South Carolina.
| Candidates are announcing them
selves through the papers in Edgefield
county. Will the old proverb "The
early bird catches the worm" hold
| goods
= The Charleston Post says that Ell
dred s. Fickling. who was the tallest
man in the Confederate army, is still
living in Beaufort County. Ho meas
ured feet 10 inches in height.
- 1t is said that Representative j.
A. Mccullough, of Greenville, is &C.
riously contemplating entering the race
for congress this summer in the Fourth
district against Congressman Wilson.
= The cotton mill fever seems to
have developed in almost every town
in South Carolina. Thei prospect is
good for another mill in Laurens and
also one ut Johnston in Edgefield coun-
ty.
= In special message toltle Legis-
laturc Governor McSweeney in
dorsed and advocated the official
support of the General Assembly for
the proposed exposition to be held in
Charleston in 1901. No State appro-
priatiOn is asked for.
= Mr.. Frank V. Capers, an old CO.
lnmbia printer. who published the
Voice Of the People, q weekly news
paper, Mt Newberry, has received an
appo intment to..a place in the compos-
ing room of the Government printing
Office at Washington.
= The original flag of the Darling
ton Guards has been sent to Columbia
to be put in the archives of the State
for safe keenins. This was done at
the instance of the survivors of that
com mana who passed a resolution to
that effect at their meeting last year.
= Nicholas Ittner, of Atlanta, has
been awarded the contract for building
Columbia's new city hail, which is to
contain modern opera house with a
seating capacity of 1000. There were
bidders for this contract from four
States. Ittncr gets the job Mt $42,S72
The opera house is to be ready for
next season. C0lumbim's city hall was
burned last March.
Suit for $4,000 against the United
States was filed in the United States
Circuit Court Mt Charleston last week
by Arthur Lynah, ct al The dam
ages are asked for the destruction of q
rice plantation on tho Savannah river.
When the Carter improvements were
made at Savannah, it is claimed that
the water level was raised, causing the
complete destruction Of the plantation
ana making it unfit hereafter for rice
cultivation. The suit involves deep
interest to rice planters generally.
a little girl five or six years old,
daughter of Mr.. John Vaughn, who
lives in the Bethlehem neighborhood.
while playing around the fire, ignited
her dress and ran from the house. Her
mother saw her and caught her and
tried to tear off the child's clothes and
cxtinguish the flames, burning her
hands in so doing. She had presence
OF mind and grabbed the child and
souscd it in n tub of water which was
standing conveniently near and put out
the fire. The child. fortunately, was
not burned. except her hair.-PicGcnx
Sentinel.
The post Office department, in pre-
pairing blanks for bids for carrying the
mails in South Carolina, inserted two
propositions. One was for carrying
the mails according to the old star
route method, the ether Tie application
Of the rural free delivery service. A
number of contractors submitted bids
and the officials were agrccably sur
prised to find upon examination of
them that the cost of rural free deliv-
cry was but $4,000 more per year than
by the old method. This is considered
one of the strongest agreements in
fAVOr of rural free flnlivnrv throun unhnnt