The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-27
N, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE ~, 1900.
STATE NEWS.

The work ON the new union depot
in Columbia is being rapidly pushed.
= The State Dental Association will
meet at Harris Lithia Springs July at
4p.m m.
Nearly every section of the State
has been visited by heavy rains the
past week.
Up to Friday 18th inst, the ground,
in and around Ninety Six had not been
wet since the first OF April.
-Abbeville has arranged to have a
Street Fair and Carnival on July II, 10
10, with a new program each day.
There are twelve cases of homicide
to be tried at the Court of Sessions
that convened in Columbia last Mon
day.
= Mrs. Matte Hughes, who left
Greenville last week, as many supposed
for good, is now a resident of Spartan
burg.
"A conservative estimate places the
number of bushels of wheat to be
marketed in Greenville at $4,000 to 1OO,-
600 bushels.
= The Board of Trustees Of Furman
University are considering the advisa-
bility Of adding law department. to
the curriculem of that college.
- Napoleon Lavelle, the celebrated
Charleston prisoner, who killed his
wife in Charleston in 1889, died at the
Penitentiary last Thursday as a result
of an operation for hernia.
Senator TiIlman has left the State
campaign to help Senator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota. who is in danger of
being buried out of sight under an ava
lanche Of Mark Hanna's gold.
- The South Carolina College has
conferred the degree Of ell. D." upon
Hon. Henry Mclvcr, chief justice of the
State supreme court; Hon. VIM. A..
Courtenay and ExGov. Hugh s.
Thompson.
- According to ruling Of the DEM
ocratic executive committee of Edge
field, the local dispensers in that coun-
ty must be endorsed by the people in
the primary for recommendation for
appointment.
They are now shipping daily from
Ridge Springs three cars of peaches in
refrigcrators. Each car holds 600
crates, which means 1900 crates alone
from Ridge. Johnston, Wards and
Monetta ship equally as many.
Another homicide is reported in
Laurens County. A neelJ named Hill
killed another of the same name three
miles south of Watckoo. One was the
uncle of the other. THIS makes three
negroes killed in the seven days, two by
negroes.
A Columbia contracting company
has been awarded the contract for the
stonework of the monum ent which 10
to be erected on the Chickamauga
battlefield in memory Of the South
Carolina soldiers who fought and per-
ished there.
- The State Democratic Committee
has made an assessment on each county
for campaign purposes-S10 for sen
atOr and So for each member of the
house. The assessment has not been
made on the individual candidates, as
has been supposed.
C. Walt Whitman, who was ruled
out of the race for governor Cor the
reason that he was unable to plank
down the $50 assessment at the time
specified by the rules of the Democratic
party, has paid it now, and will Join
the campaign party.
- Rev. w. T. Matthews, until recent
ly Chancellor of the Presbyterian Col
lege of South Carolina, has resigned
that position and removed with his
family to Hickory, N. c., whittier he
has been called to tho pastorate. of the
Presbyterian church.
i. - The Wheat Growers Convention
Of the State will be held in Greenwood
on August Is, and the local committee
are at work preparing for it. A large
attendance is expected and the conven-
tion promises to be even more success
full than the one last year.
- A singular incident in political cir
cles is the fact that in Lancaster coun-
ty three men of the same name are
running for the same Office. r. Baxter
Blackmon, j. E. Blackmon and Ernest
Blackmon are all three out for county
Of education.
William Wardlaw, who ia said to
be a bad negro, attacked Mr.. John
Lipscomb at his home near Ninety Six
and snapped his pistol at him three
times. Mr.. Lipscomb turned into his
room to get his gun when the negro
fed, but he was afterwards captured.
=. Mr. A. C. Jones, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United
States Sennte against Senator I'tilman,
has Withdrawn 1ro:: .,;;o 1aoo. CHAIR
man Jones accepted the withdrawal
and will return the fee that Mr.. A. C.