The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-28
STATE NEWS.

= The city of Abbevillc is now light
ed by electricity.
= laurcns has determined to build
another cotton mill.
= There is some prospect of another
big cotton mill company being organ
lied in Columbia.
The late session of the Legislature /
passed i'll all one hundred and sixty !
three Acts and twenty resolutions.
= The annual State Intcr,lrnomna-
tlonal Sunday school convention is 70 !
be held in Laurcns. $. c.. March on-oa
= The Norris cotton mill has, for
some time, been running two forces of
hands, one for day and one for night
work
= The increased attendance ut the
South Carolina College has ncccSsitat
cd the employment of four new pro
fcsS0rs.
- WclSey Smith. colurcl. WAS beat
en- to death by five other negroes near
Winnsboro. He had tried 10 stop Il
quarrel among them.
- Car loads of dog wood are being
shipped from Central, in l'ickcns coull-
ty, Tor the manufacture of bobbins
and sp0ols for cotton mills.
The street car line in Grccnville
Will he six and Il half miles long and
Will be i'll operation by July 1. Con
tracts have been let for six cars.
DIR. David NJ. Ramsey, of Char
lesion, will preach the baccalaurcatc
sermon before the faculty and students
of Furman Univcrsityat the commences
mcnt in June.
Mr.. Robt. Truscdalc, IL recent
graduate Of WOttord College, will soon
leave for Cienfuegocs, Cuba, where by
appointment of Bishop Gambler he goes
to teach and preach in English while
learning Spanish.
dim SizemOrc was struck by the
yestibulc near the Brandon mills, in
Grcenvillc, on the 17th and his skull
fractured. He was driving wagon
across the track when struck by the
train. 1t is supposed he was under
the influence of whiskcy.
The Charleston broom factory is
paying to-day ten cents per pound for
broom straw, and has to get it's support
from Tennessee, Kansas and Illinois.
Why not plant broom corn for crop,
send the straw TO market and feed
your poultry OH tho corn2
= Charlie pcnden, of Laurens COun-
ty, while out shooting rabbits with q
pistol last week, met with n peculiar
accident. He had wounded rabbit;
while kicking, one Of its feet struck
the trigger, exploded the revolver, the
bullet striking Mr.. Fcden.
- Th0s. L. IIasclden, railroad and
express agent ut Clio, Marlboro coun-
ty, committed suicide by shooting him
self with pistol. His accounts for
both railroad and express companies
were found to be correct and in his
pocket were found sums of money ag-
grcgating 5000.
: The following has been appointed
by tho governor onithc Chicamauga
commission: Gen G. /. Walker, Char
lesion; Col. J. Harvey Wilson, Sumter,
and Capt. Z. X. Henderson, Aiken.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
for the purpose Of erecting u granite
monument to the South Carolina Con-
federatc dead there.
= Col. John p. Thomas has returned
Governor McSwccney his. commission
as compiler of Confederate records.
He resigned last December. No ap-
preparation was made to pay Colonel
Thomas, but he continued and COM
pleted the work rs n labor of love.
The records will be turned over to the
adjustant general for safekeeping.
Gov. McSweeney has appointed
the following delegates from this State
to the third annual meeting of the
Pure Food and Drug Congress to be
held in Washington, d. c., on March
9Th, next: Hartwcll M. Aver Of Flor
once, N. c. Osteen of Sumter, Nj. T..
Clark of Marion, Col. L. Il. CAN'T of
Spartanburg, Geo. A. Wagner of Char
lesion, DR.. G. Il. Wyche of Newberry,
Geo. r. Rooster of Columbia, and Col.
James Il. Biicon OF Edgeticld.
- DR.. S. p. H. Elwell, pastor of the
Springfield Methodist church in Char
lesion, visited Columbia on Feb. 10th
to deliver an anniversary sermon on
Sunday night to tho Knights of Pyth-
las and to attend banquet on Monday
night. While sitting in barber shop
on tho afternoon of February 18th he
was suddenly struck with appoplcxy
and died in a few minutes. He was q
popular minister and a devoted Con-
federate veteran, and chaplain of the
State division Of the u. G.. V.
= Carter, white man from Fayettc-
vile. n. G., who was experimenting
Che work of q fcrco Of convicts at
Bennettsville, S. c., was killed few
dovc n on nv ono of tho Donro ynomh harc