The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-17
STATE NEWS.

~o'"uu'e 10 Trying tue expert
ment of sprinkling her streets with
petroleum to keep down the dust.
"A lady in Greenville got mad
and left the dining room of hotel
because a shirt waist man was allow.
ed &c siS down at table.
= It is stated that Mr.. J. w. Nc.
Collough, Of Greenville, will shortly
succeed Mr.. L. D. Melton as u S
Marshall for the distric. of South Car
c!:Hs.
- Arthur j. Knight, of Ben.tts
vile, has been appointed post office in-
spector for rural mail routes, with
salary of $1,000 per anuum and 50
per day for expenses.
- The Ladies Nj Monunl entail Associa-
tion will unveil Confederate monu-
ment at Aiken on Tuesday afternoon,
23rd inst. The unveiling ceremonies
will be made big event.
= The annual meeting of tie State
Alliance is to be held in Columbia on
the 24th inst. An effort will be made
to revive interest in the Alliance
throughout the State this year.
= The inmates Of the Connie Max
we'll ,Orphanage, amounting to 119 in
number, have been given vacation
OF five or six weeks and nearly all of
them are now scattered throughout the
State, visiting relatives or friends.
- The State Pharmaceutical Society
is prosecuting druggists in whose
shops prescriptions are compounded
In violation of the law. A dispen-
sary constable was assigned to the
task of working up the cases. and
four drug store proprietors are now
under indictment.
- There was frolc at the home Of
Aaron Chavis in Orangeburg county.
After sort Of dull prelude the fire.
works were suddenly touched Oft.
When the racket was over it was seen
that seven persons were shot, two of
them being women. Two of the
wounded will die.
- The latest from Washington is
that the Port Royal Naval Station
is to be made the principal re-
cruiting station for the Navy. From
900 to 1000 young recruits will be
kept at the Station, and the altcra-
tions to the buildings looking to the
change are being rapidly made
- The new squad of dispcnsary
constables has arrived in Charleston,
and arc making things warm for the
blind tigers, seizing fixtures, counters
and contraband liquor This is, it is
presumed, the beginning of the dcs-
perate onslaught upon the tiger keep
er that will be mado in every city
where blind tigers exist.
- Mrs. j. j. Ballard, highly re-
spected lady of Florence, fell down
the steps of her dwelling and broke
be- neck. Mrs. Ballard was going to
th~ assistance Of Mrs. +. Y. Higgins,
who lives next door, and who had
found negro boy under the bed and
screamed from fright. She leaves
husband and several small children
- It is reported that Hon. J. j.
Hemphill will be candidate for the
U. s. senate next year. Mr. Hemp
hill is yet young man, just So. He
graduated at the South Carolina Col.
lege, was sent to the legislature from
Chester county in 1876 and twice re.
elected. He was elected to congress
in 1882, and reelected continuously
until 1892.
w. J. Craig, general passenger
agent of the G. g. w. G.. rail .oad hrs
issued statement in regard. to the
growth of towns in which cotton ..;ll;
have been built. Figures are shown
giving the population in 1890 and
1900. In twelve towns in South Caro-
lima the increase YES 1920. the pres
ent population 62,567. The towns
are Abbeville, Anderson, Gaffney,
Chester, Greenville, Greenwood, Lau-
rens, Clinton, Newberry, Walhalla,
.Spartanburg and Union.
- Samuel w. Mitchell, of York
County, has brought suit against the
Woodmen of the World for fifteen
thousand dollars damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained during
initiation March 22nd last. Mr.. Mitch
ell claims that he was made to ride
mechanical goat, and that careless
members made the animal cavort 80
violently as to bruise him badly. He
alleges in his complaint that g surgi-
cal operation Of a nature quite serious,
especially to him, will be necessary.
= The signal flag Of the Corfeder-
ate ram Chicora was presented Char
leston's council on July 9, by Col. w.
II. Davis Of Boyle's Town, Penn,
through mayor pro tenn Kollock. The
flag was taken by Colonel Davis from
the vessel on the evacuation of the
city in 1865, and during the recent
convention of the Southern Ind ustrial
Traders Association, at Philadelphia,
Colonel Davis gave the flag to DR..
Kollock to present to the city. The
presentation of the flag was accom-
panied with Gnch speech making on
the cessation Of all sectional feeling
and closer union betr cen the sec
tions.
A peculiar suicide occurred at
Blacksburg last Wednesday. G. L.