The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-21

oou SoifeSS was most interesting SSS
we'll attended.
- A disease known as black eye
has appeared among sheep in various
parts Of the State.
- Heavy rains are reported through
out the State and much damage to
growing crops he's bsea sustained.
= Edge6eld is making an effort to
secure connection with Augusta, Co.,
by means Of an electric railway.
"A sits has been purchased for the
hospital at Winthrop College to be
built by Captain and Mrs. w. L.
! Roddy.
w. II. Smith, Sumter farmer,
was so depressed by bad crops and
the poor outlook that he committed
suicide.
- Florence county has suffered to
such an extent from rains, that she is
forced to borrow $4,000 to repair
highways and replace destroyed bridg-
es
w. G. Ivey, editor of the Sum-
ter Freeman, has bean arrested on q
charge Of running a blind tiger in
Georgia several years ago. He gave
bond.
- The bleachery for cotton goods
at Aiken has started up. This has
been an enterprise long wanted in
South Carolina and in the South gen.
orally.
- Water will be supplied the Char
lesion exposition by three artesian
wells over 400 feet deep. A salt
water system is provided for fire pro-
lection.
- It is said that William NJ. Bird,
q prominent and highly esteemed
wholesale merchant of Charleston, will
be appointed postmaster Of that city
through Senator McLaurin' influence.
- The suit to settle the validity of
the old Blue Ridge bond script will
be brought in the United States court
in Charleston. The suit has been
filed. It is III. S. Robinson vs. r. B.
Lee.
= A negro woman living on the
plantation Of Mrs. Sallie Dicks, in
Ellenton, gave birth, few daya since,
to five children, the aggregate weight
Of which was AZ pounds. All are
alive and thriving.
- South Carolina last year made
20, 900, 600 pounds Of tobacco and an
English firm which handled a total
Of 30,000,000 pounds say their best
hosshead Of tobacco came from South
Carolina. This is encouraging news.
= The municipal primary election
IN Greenville resulted in the choice
of DR.. G. G. Jones for mayor without
opposition. He will succeed Mayor
James T. Williams, who has served
four terms and declined to run again.
- The Governor has received a
letter from some one in Ohio saying
that if sold One Eye" meaning our
senior Senator, goes to Ohio and talks
of lynching as he did in Wisconsin
he would be sent back to the State in
a box.
- Letters in the interest Of the
pardon of Col. W. A. Neal continue
to be received at the executive oifise.
Gov. McSweeney has not yet taken
the matter up formally: 40 no appli-
cation for pardon has yet been. re-.
ceived.
The patients of the late DR.. r.
b. Rhett of Charleston will raise $50
600 to take care Of his widow and OF.
phans and to erect q fitting memorial to
his memory. It is proposed to en-.
dow room IN one OF the city hospi-
tails in his name.
- Assistant Attorney General
Gunter has handed down an opinion
that school trustees cannot employ
a teacher beyond their term of Office.
That ls, it q trustee s time expires on
the Both of June he cannot employ a
teacher to teach beyond that time.
= Hon. W. D. Evans, of Marlboro,
has been appointed trustee of Glenn
son college vice Hon. Stackhouse re-
signed. This appointment has met
with very general appreciation. Mr..
Evans was one of the earliest work.
ing friends of this college and of in.
dustrial education generally.
IT. J.. Cunningham has been
elected phosphate inspector, to sue
ceed the late Colonel Vance. There
were about eighteen candidates and
the commission balloted thirty-five
times before the election was had.
Mr. Cunningham is we'll known in the
State and was formerly president of
the State Agriculture and Mechanical
society. The position pays $1,000
year.
. The Charleston council has pass
ed an ordinance practically re-euacting
the dispensary act and providing for
the trial and punishment of the vio-
lators in the recorders court. The
bill was passed unanimously, and at
the meeting in September the act
will be ratified and it will then be in
order for the police department. to
take an active part in the enforcement
of the law.
- Othello Fuller, of Columbia,
once well-to.do, now a pauper, declares
that his wife, Alice, is the daughter
of q sister of Josiah Wesley Fuller,
the Australian who has left $50, ,00O,-