The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-07
STATE NEWS.

"A negro woman died in Darlington
few days ago ut the ripe old age of
10 years.
= State Constablcs are required un-
der The new law TO give bond in the
sum of $500.
- Three millions have been invested
in cotton mills in this State in the last
two months.
= The S. C. Press Association is ar
ranging to take q one weeks trip to
Cuba, leaving Columbia. March 10.
Col. Vance, State phosphate com
missioner. reports the phosphate in
dustry in fiourishing condition.
Watermelons paid 80 we'll in
Hampton county last year that the
acreage will be increased this year.
= There is now reward of $4O0
out for the capture Of the convicts who
escaped from tho Marlboro chain gang.
! Senator Tillman has had twenty
thousand copies of his speech on the
Philippines printed and will distribute
them among his constituents.
= Leonard r. Owens, postmaster ut
Marion, has been arrested, charged
with embezzling funds belonging to
the postotsice to the amount of $1,000.
The Edgefeld Chronicle says that
all the lawyers of that place will be
! candidates for Office this year, one for
Solicitor and the others for the Legis-
lature.
Last Saturday night i'll Greenviilo
Earle league, negro, was stabbed in
the heart by Homer Ward, n young
white man. Both were drunk. Ward
was arrested.
= The two U. S. Senators from this
State and the seven congressman have
contributed eighteen dollars to assist
in building Il monument to tho late
DR.. w. NJ. Grier.
| Pearl Hutchins, colore, brake
man on the Southern railroads local
freight running between Greenville
and ToccOa, was run over and instant
| ly killed by his train at Easley.
| - 1t is rumored that representative
d. II. Magill, of Greenwood, will be a
candidate for Secretary of State. ID.
A. G. Outzs has intimated that he will
be candidate for the same place.
| ID. w. Inabinet, who several
months ago brutally murdered his
father, and has since been confined in
Jail Mt st. Georges, has beeu declared
| insane and removed to the asylum.
= Smallpox has appeared in or near
Grahamville in Beaufort county, and
at jameson in Orangcburg county.
The State Board of Health has been
notified and will look after these
places.
- Under the new dispensary law the
! counties and cities will receive moro
money than under the old law. Here
after 10 per cent Of the profits will go
to the State and 90 per cent. to the
| counties and cities.
= There are twenty cases of small
pox at Lake City, all among the white
people, and all the people of that sec
tion are very much alarmed. The
STAGE Board of Health has put all the
patients under guard.
= There will be total eclipse of
the sun on May 2S. The government
will have observations erected in this
State, where there is o greater proba-
bility OF clear weather that anywhere
else on the line in which the eclipse
will be visible.
- Mormon elders are doing mission
ary work in Charleston. They have
asked for permission to preach on the
II oil 1,.,k
they could select q vacant lot and
preach on that with permission of the
owner.
A dispatch from Darlington says
James Gardner committed suicide at
Mechanicsville in that county by taking
strychnine. Disappointment in love
was the cause. Mr.. Gardner was from
North Carolina and was 55 years old.
who rejected him.
= Mrs. Anna E. Marshall, of Green
vile, has dOnuted to Furman Univer-
sity her valuable complete museum.
This collection was made by her father,
DR.. Jno. =. Barrett of Abbeville coun-
ty q native of Yorkshire, England.
This museum has been insured for q
number of years for $4,000 and, of
course, it's real value is much moro
than this.
ue OCnCr uay In OreenVlIIc COun-
ty q negro girl of sixteen was publicly
whipped by her father with a stout
hickory switch, rather than have her
prosecuted for n brutal assault on an
aged lady, who had scoldcd her for not
doing the family washing in proper
manner. No crowd was permitted to
be present, only one ncighbOr as
stable, and'a representative Of the in
jured party to see that the punishment
was properly inflicted.
- Governor McSweeney has received
from the United States treasury de-
partment q check for S7,552. "a on
account of the South Carolina Spanish
war claims. There has been q long
wait and there sTo YET claims amount
ing to about $14 900 to be heard from.
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