The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-09
STATE NEWS.

The aggregate losses by fire in the
city of Columbia for the past year were
$1s3,819. |
The Crescent cotton mill, Rock Hill,
has been sold to the Charleston Saw
ings bank for S33,5OO.
- Prof. John l.. Presley has been
lately elected to fill the chair of Greek
and German Mt Erskine College.
Tine Charter mill of the State starts
out the now year grinding we'll. A
dozen. charters were granted on New
Year's Day.
- Rock fiiii mas an anti-spitting OF
dinance and the first offenders to be
caught were Aldermen Kerr and Hall
and Mayor Walters.
"A negro woman in Chernw was as
sassinatcd in her home, u bullet through
the window entering her side and caus-
ing dangerous wounds.
Governor McSweeney has refused
to grant @ pardon in the case of Emma
Odom, the white woman of Marlboro,
convicted Of violating tho dispensary
From the time the privilege tax
ON fertilizers was provided for this
tax has yielded the State $700, ,890.18.
The largest amount received was
dnring the past year, it being @73,-
! 5t0.94.
The Governor will appoint sue
cessor to the deceased sheriff of Abbe-
vile county as soon as tho legislative
delegation from the county names the
man. 1t is understood that the dele
Cation viii leave it to primary.
The News and Courier has pub
lished the death list Of the whites in
Charleston for the year 1900. There
were 346 white persons above the age
of 81 who have died there the past yeer,
most of them at an advanced age.
A we'll which will probably be ZOO
feet deep is being sunk at Glover, York
county, by the cotton mill company.
There is 30 much granite in that sec
ton that shallow wells do not af-
ford a genuine or satisfactory supply
Of water.
DR.. H. Baer died ut his homo in
Charleston on the Bird inst, aged 07
years. DR.. Baer was one of the lead
ing men in the Methodist Church in
this State, and trustee Of Wofford
College. He was Hebrew by birth
and highly educated, we'll read man.
1t is understood that the inaugu-
ration of Gov. McSweeney isNp be fixed
for January 18. The heinauRuration will
be merely matter Of form, of course.
1t will take place in the hall Of the
House of Representatives at noon on
the day named. The Governor will
deliver brief inaugural address.
Chairman G. s. McColl, of the
county commissioners of the Charleston
exposition, has issued call to the
commissioners of all the counties to
meet and organize ut once and notify
the secretary. and to get down to work
for the exposition 80 as to make it of
the greatest possible good to the State
and to each county.
- Camden has had a special shoot
ing scrape between Mr.. w. D. Good
ale and Mr.. Allen Deans, in g store.
The trouble grew out of n previous
difficulty. Both men fired and Deans
received q wound in mis- mouth. Good
ale was not hit. There are conflicting
reports as to who fired the frat shot.
Both arc gentlemen of high standing
in the community.
- The venerable age of COlumbia's
honored and oldest white citizen, Mr..
Hugh McElrone, presents an unique
feature, in that the good old man
passed into his third century on JAN
uary 1, 1901. Starting life in 1898, he
witnessed the closing of the eighteenth,
lived usefully through the nineteenth,
and now. beloved patriarch. he halls
the twentieth century.
Jan. Sheriff p. d. Gilreath re-
tired from the Office Of sheriff of Green
vile county after serving twenty-four
years consecntively. At II o'clock the
Bar Association of Greenville county
met and after short speech by Capt.
j. A. Mooney presented Sheriff Gill
reath with solid silver loving cup,
also unanimously eleeting him an hon
orary member. j. ID. Gilreath, son of
the old officer, is now sheriff.
= The Rev. A. Teemer Porter, D. D.,
the founder and until now the princi-
pal OF the celebrated military academy
in Charleston which bears his name,
has retired from the management and
control of that institution. DR.. Pcr-
ter, in addition to being old and in bad
health. is losing his ey csight, and these
are t.'o reasons for his action. The
academy passes into the hands the
Episcopal church of South Caro- \.
= There is nm old Indian mound in
the sand hill section of Crooked creek,
fifteen miles north of Rennettsville,
were skeletons and Indian relics were