The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-18
STATE NEWS.

ed from Big Camp, Berkeley county.
- Darlington hns sold 4,S5O,OOO
pounds OF tobacco this season as against
1000, 600 last.
- The farmers of l}nrnwell county
will plant more cantaloupes but fewer
watcrmelons this year.
- Seneca is soon to have yarn mill
that will be run by electricity generated
by the water power on Concross.
= The summer school at Rock Hill
for South Carolina teachers will open
on July II and close on August 13.
= The city authorities Of Charleston
have prohibited the Mormon elders
from holding meetings in that city.
The annual Council of the Episco-
pal Church for the diecese Of South
Carolina will convene in Aiken on NAV
9th.
Tho Secretary of States otilco at
Columbia, lbi,- ,S; S2ntinues to grind out now
charters at the fIS '' anu ''ur Il
day.
= Major b. b. Evans HIS ee!9rned u.
from Cuba to Edgefield and will be-
come candidate for railroad commits
siOner.
- 1t is expected that 10000 people
will attend the meeting of tho National
Educational Association ut Charleston
next July.
= The State Christian Endeavor con-
vention will meet at Aiken April 4tl,
to Goth. Several noted speakers will
be on hand.
- Julius S. Moses, confidential clerk
of a broker in Charleston, has. disap-
peared leaving n shortage of $7O0 in
his accounts.
= The dispensary Oh Gervais street
in Columbia was burned on April 10th,
and several adjoining business houses
badly damaged.
- There is to bo big electric plant
put on Broad river Mt Gatfney which
will furnish power to number of big
mills in that section.
= Farmers all over the State are
busy planting corn and preparing for
cotton. The general opinion is that
the acreage of cotton will be increased.
Prof. Newson, veterinarian of
Clemson College, has found CHAMBERS
among horses in Georgetown, Oar
lington. Orangeburg and Bamberg
counties.
- The Seaboard Air Line between
Cheraw and Columbia is now open for
traffic. The distance is S3 miles and
and there are II stations between the
two noints.
- John r. Abney, graduate of
Wofford College, class of 1870, now
living in New York, viii make the
literary address before the societies Of
WOfford College il Jans.
- The State House Commission has
elected Frank p. Milburn, of Char
lotte, N c., supervising e;chitect for
the completion of tho State House.
Mr.. Milburn's plans estimate the cost
of the work at $105,0OO.
A committee of business men are
making canvass of the city Of Spar
tanburg to secure funds with which
to endOw O chair of scholarship in
Wofford College in honor of DR.. Jas.
II. Carlisle. The purpose is to raise
100000.
= r. G. Hunt, Of Dacusville, is in
possession of a petrified duck. He
found it few days ago in the bed of
an old river where he was cutting q
ditch. IS is supposed 70 have been
there over hundred years.-Pickens
Journal.
- Colonel Issac F. Hunt, the last
commander of the Thirteenth South
Carolina regiment, McGowan's bri-
gade. died in Greenville last Friday
after brief illness. Paralysis of the
brain caused his death. He was sixty
seven years old.
= Mrs. John Jolly, O yeung woma an,
was burning trash in the field near her
nome near Florence, when her dress
caught fire from the trash pile and her
clothing weTo burned or before help
could reach her. She was the wife of q
popular young farmer.
- Last week at Aiken Jailer Pitner
was overpowered by George and John
McHan. two desperate negroes, who
took the Jail keys from him and made
their escape. They scaled the brick
wall and then slid down the railroad
cut and fed to the woods.
= mr. Henry H. Brunson, the. de-
faultiDg probate judge, has returned
to his home in Orangeburg. He has
been quite sick, and is not well yet.
It ia declared nv hia f1,ienda thot ha 10
not short in his accounts, and that he
will take up the duties of his Office
again as soon as he RECEIVERS.
- The Spring festival Of Music and
Art to be held at Columbie April %
and 27th. is an assured success, and
will be one OF the greatest eventa ever
In the Gonth. Excursion
tickets will be sold on all the railroads
and large crowds from neiehborine
c:tseess cities VII: ~ q: aiten6.
John and Harvey jackson. two
brothers. acoased OF killing and burn