The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30
STATE NEWS.

More than four million dollars arc
on deposit in tho four banks of Green
vile.
Greenwood County is en- her good
behavior, as there is but one trans
gressol in Jail.
An incxh:Gasstti5io quarry OF tho
finest marble has been soand Mt Cross
Keys. Laurens county.
Two vessels sailed last week from
Georgetown with over million feet
OF Carolina lumber consigned to Bos-
ton.
= The press of the State was nearly
unanimous in it's nnnnnition to the bin
extending the time for the payment of
taxes.
Owing TO the good financial condi-
tion of the State Fair Association,
State appropriation will not be need
ed this year.
The Excelsior Knitting Mill of
Union will shortly double it's size. 1t
will then be the largest mill of it's
kind in the South.
4 Gen. j. w. Moore has been elect
ed to the State senate to succeed w.
II. Mauldin, deceased. General Moore
mas before served in the senate.
Oconee is one of the smallest coun-
ties in the State. Under Senator
Sheppard's bill it gains representa-
tive, giving it three. EdgeGeld loses
one.
Tho Vesta mills of Charleston will
be move to Gainesville, Ga. This was
mill that experimental with negro
labor and found it unsatisfactory in
the cotton mill.
w. G. Flenniken, very promi-
nent young business man and society
leader of Columbia, accidentally shot
and killed himself while getting ready
to go bird hunting.
For many years there has been an
inter-denominational church on Sui
livan's Island, NIL using it. Recently
the government has bought the pro.
perty and the island has no church.
The city council of Charleston
sent condolences to London on hearing
OF the Queens death, Her message to
Charleston on the earthquake calamity
is fondly remembered in Charleston
Members of her family visited Char
lesion in 1880.
President Mckinley has granted a
pardon to John Hogan, who was con-
victed of forging q postal money order
while secretary to the postmaster of
Orangeburg. He was serving a sen-
tence of two years in the United States
penitentiary at Albany.
| - The governor has received reports
of smallpox in the counties of Oar
lington, Beaufort and Newberry, oil
new. He has followed the usual course
and referred the reports to DR.. James
Evans of the State Board of Health,
with the request that he look after
them.
- The report of the Secretary of
State is out. Anew feature is the pub
lication of tho names Of every officer
from United States senator to notary
public, the date of their appointment
and the date of the expiration Of their
terms. 1t will provo q great conven-
ience to all concerned.
/ j. c. Chandler, who lives n few
miles from Walhalla, is gentleman
Of family" He is 43 years of age and
tho father of eleven children, the old
est being 10 years of age. Mrs. Chan
dler is "a years of age. Four of the
children are boys and seven girls-all
living, hale and hearty.
Capt. =. FL. Brooks, member of
the house from Greenwood, is q brother
of the Congressman Preston Brooks,
vino caned United States Senator Sum.
ner, which came near precipitating the
civil war year or two earlier than it
commenced. Captain Brooks repre-
sented EdgefeId in the house in the
session of 1866, but has not since
been q member until this session.
In view of the change made in
the date for the holding of the general
annual reunion Of Confederate yeter-
ans at Memphis, Tenn, General Wal
keI has written the governor suggest
ing that the date for the unveiling of
South Carolina monument on the bat
tsafield of Chickamauga be changed to
| May 2S. July 1 had been selected as
the date. A stop-over will be arrang-
cd for those going to Memphis.
- Wednesday evening, Jan. a3rd,
several of Mr. Lewiston Lewis chill
drcn who live near Magnolia in Sumter
county, were playing together in one
OF the looms of his home, when tho
o-year-old son picked upa gun which
was standing in the corner, and point
ing it ut the crowd, pulled the trigger.
The gun went off and one of tho chill
cren was killed instantly, and another
painfully wounded. Of course the
little fellow did not suspect tho gun
was loaded.
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