The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-03-28
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
STATE NEWS AND NOTES.

Senator Tillman has been elected
anniversary orator Of the commence
ment of ErskIne College in June.
{ ]. Joshua f.. Hobbs, the Newber-
ran who was formerly king of one OF
the South Sea Islands, is now associate
editor Of the National Provisioner of
New York.
II is said 200 worth of new re-
sidenccs are Immediately in prospcct
IN Columbia, ami work has commenced
on some OF them. Several wholesale
stores are also being built.
The fertilizer shipments from Char
lesion during February broke all re-
cords Two hundred thousands tons
were sent out in the twcnty.eight days.
| This was handled by all the roads lead
ing out of the city.
Thomas L. Brcclen, a member of
Il prominent family of Marlboro C0uu-
| ", committed suicide on the 18th inst.
llc was sick with grip and pneumonia.
lie Killed himself by cutting his throat
and then shooting himself.
Space at the Charleston Exposition
has been set aside for exhibits from the
some valuable and interesting relics
| from these historical isles will be on
exhibition at this exposition.
The carnival to be held in Anderson
April to is exciting much oppo.
Sliion in religious circles, that being
Holy Week. Protests and petitions
are beng freely circulated by the
Catholics and Episcolmlians.
The Governor has received letter
from Ada Dominick, at Prosperity.
asking return of two gallons of whiskcy
seized by the Constablcs. She says the
whlskcy is for use in sickness, but her
husband is suspected Of wanting it for
blind tigcriny.
The final reports from the county
superlntcndenis of schools for Bam-
hcrE, Chesterfield, Uorry, Spartan
burg, Union and Williamsburg arc still
missing. Unjil all Of these reports are
IN hand the 500 900 of dislcnsary
| money cannot be distrbuteu
j. :. Blalock & Son have made q
wonderful tram Information ab,u, Gold
NliIe' Ihc new cotton mill of 5 900
Splh"lcS Is nearly completed. Electric
'iHh'S are now tclnG put in, anu bv the
llrsl OF May, perhaps sooner the mill
Will nc IN operation. The new 15-
room hotel was opened on Monday.
1t is kept by Mrs. Atkinson from
G ccnvilIt.
In looking over the old records in
the state House NJ. Jesse II. CAN'T
found an original survey, signed by
Pat Calhoun aud w. Anderson The
| II a n n 81 In
between "Ahhcvilln County and Edge.
helc C"untY.' The survey was made,
uhdrr Legislative authority, between
The Saluda and Savannah rivers. A
road is shown on the map going to-
wards "Augusta." The survey is dat
cd September %, !7H3.
The State board of pension commits
sioncrS will meet on the Isl of April.
IT. VIII then npportion The amount of
INC pension fund to go to each of the
classes and take up such matters as
come before it. There are six counties
from which no report has yet been re.
cciVcd, and II the reports from these
counties, long since due, are not re-
ccIvcd, the unfortunate pensioners
may not get anything on account of
the delays Of the county boards.
II s understood that the Carncgie
steel company, which recently went
INTO the Morgan combine, has selcc-
tea Charleston as It's port for exporting
business. The president of The steel
company recently visited all the sea.
port iowrs IN the South, Norfolk in
cudcd, for the purpose of selecting a
port through which to do business with
foreign countries. After visiting
Charleston the president of the com
pany was impressed with the shippinn
facilities and selected that port.
Mr.. J. G. Garlin. ton, editor Of the
Spar'anbrrg Herald, has undertaken
to prepare and publish a handsome
volume that will be of incalculablc
value to many classes of South Caro-
llnlanS. No library of the period can
be complete without it. is to be en-
titled " Men of the Times" and is to
be " Biographical cmc> clopcdia Of
contemporancOu South Carolina lead
crs." The scope Of the volume will
include South Carolina authors, archi-
lccts, artists, agriCuturaisls, bankcrs,
, composers, divincs, DOCTORS, engineers,
I educators, investors, journalists, ,jur-
g lists, manufacturers, mncralOgisls, phil
[ anthropiStS, poets, politicians, states
7 men, travellers and warriors.