The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-07
STATE NEWS.


morning to burn cotton.at Rock Hill.
Charleston's cotton receipts are
now 1000 bales ahead of this time last
year. |
Eleven eases Of smal.-po are re
ported from Gray Court, in Laurens
County.
- There arc 81 cotton seed oil mills !,
in South Carolina, using e2O, 900 tons of
seed annually.
L. 'B. Morgan, the merchant ut
Eesley. whc ii;!lci, Il burglar, was ac-
quilted at the Pickens court.
= Tho holding Of fall Festivals, isg =
ting to be quite common nov; through
out the State. Orangeburg will hold
one on November 10, II and IL.
"A negro it.eeting in York county
has passed resolutions crying out
against the impending danger from
white teachers in colorcd schools.
= -Saluda has population OF 400
The corner stone for the courthouse
WAS laid in July, 1896, when not more
than 25 people lived in the hamlet.
= The Baptist State Convention will
meet in Greenwood, the change having
been made necessary by the illness of
the wife of the pastor Mt Newberry.
- The Synod of South Carolina has
decided to inaugurate movement to
! raise an endowment fund Of $1,000
for the Presbyterian Seminary at Co.
lumbia.
= The trustees of the Thornwell Or
phanage ut Clinton, S. c., report S1G,-
600 collected for the last year. Every
dollar of that money goes where it is
doing most good.
The citizens Of NcwbcIry have or
ganized Ii Game Protective Association,
having for its purpose the protection of
game and fish by the enforcing of the
game laws of the State.
- Mr.. j. G.. Smith, of Aiken County
recently found OH Shaw creek an alliga-
tor nest containing A eggs. He took
them home and reset them and now ~
has IA young gators about foot ~
length.
= Tho famous DonQhuc plantation
In :iarion has been sold by Chancellor
johnson to Mr.. A. l.. Calhoun, Jr. II
was perhaps the largest real estate
transaction that has taken place in this
State for many years, 1900 acres bring
ing $4,000,
The National Municipal League
will begin its sessions in Charleston OH
December 10. Mayor Smyth has sen,
Gov. McSweeney an earnest invitation
to attend and deliver the address OF
welcome on that day. The Governor
hopes to be able to accept.
- Rev. John Owen, f0i' scvcrni years
past prominent member of the South
Carolina Conference, was accidentally
shot last Wednesday by young man
with whom he was out hunting neal
Johnston where Mr.. Owen was located
Mir. Owen died from tho effects of the
wounds Friday afternoon at @ o'clock.
- The Grecnville News states that
j. H. Traynham, who took the second
prize in that county, made 109 bushels
of wheat on three acres. He sowcd
peas and moved 4,414 pounds of hay
Counting his prize money $35 and his
wheat at IS cents and Lis hay at II
cents, the crop ON the three acres
brought him $157.4O.
Mr.. Frank E. Smith, of Yorkville.
has hit upon scheme to prevent ne.
groes from crossing his lot at night
He has erected On old gallows. recently
found on his premises, and the negroes
gave it wide berth. Hatchet marks
on the gallows show that II elsons
have been hung on it.
! The ministers of the Yorkvillc dis
trict of the African Methodist Epis-
copnl Zion church, lately assembled,
adopted series of resolutions protest.
ing against the putting of white teach
ers in negro schools to teach negro
children. To this whites and blacks
should agree. Let the negro schools
| bo black and the white schools white.
TO mix one is to threaten the other.
The Cotton Growers Association
of South Carolina met in Columbia last
Wednesday and after n thorough dis
cussion of the situation determined to
push tho work of organizing the farm
crs of South Carolina so as to- control
viz SOItoA Wllu the
other cotton growing States. The as
sociation also decided to send full
delegation to the hcmccting of the nation
al association this month.
= The officers Of the State who went
on to New York after Maestro Dom
inicO, the Italian murderer captured in
that State. have returned bringing the
trial for the murder of another Italian
committed some years ago. The pris-
oncr reached Colleton few days ago.
The bringing back Of thisssfellow, it is
thought, will have good effect upon
the lawless crowd Of foreign laborers
working in the phosphate .Smncs in
South Carolina.
Finley Brown, the twclvc-ycar-
old son of w. X. Brown, of Charleston,
died there last Saturday morning under