The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-24
VOLUME XXXVI---NO ID
STATE NEWS.

g. DIR. j. D. o. Lnndrum, of SDar.
tanburg, the author of several local
histories Of repute is dead.
DIR. w. p. Gibbes, health officer
at Beaufort, was assaulted by a negro
man and woman in that city and
severely beaten.
The dispensary ut Sumter has
been robbed. 1t seems ms if small
child was let through the transom to
open the door ou the inside.
il. b. Suldnt!. was c;;;,yi,;,.,, o7
murder in Greenvillc and was sentenced
to tho penitentiary for life, the jury
having recommended him to mercy.
e A large Cuban exhibit has been
secured for tho Charleston exposition.
Gen. Leonard Wood. governor general,
has ordered it sent from Buffalo there.
A State summer scho u for negro
teachers will be held in Columbia he
ginning i'll June and continuing
month. Tho teachers for it will be
white.
Governor McSweaney has issued a
requisition OH tho 90 .ernor of North
Carolina for tho return Of the gold
brick swindlcrs who "did up" Mr..
Wheeler, of Newberry, for $1,000
= a woman's edition of the News
and Courier is to be brought out by
the women who are Interested in the
exposition work soon. The rcccipts
will be used for the exposition fund.
An cight-ycar- old negro boy went
to sleep on the railroad track near
Dawkins on the Southern between
Columbia and Spartanburg and train
ran over him cutting off his head and
his arms.
= Gen. +. NJ. Bambcrg has already
paid over the $1,000 which he subscrib-
cd to the Carlisle Fitting School ut
Bamberg. This is II very generous
gift and one that will result in great
benefit to the School.
= There is fight on between DR..
Brimm. Presbyterian minister, and
Charleston presbytery, to which he
used to belong. Dr. Brimm has hetcro-
dox views Of divine Healing and refuses
to obey the order of the prcsbytcry to
stop preaching them.
- The Board of Regents of the State
hospital for tho insane have decided
to build an open mir pavilion for tho
use OF the harmless patients Of the in
stitution during the summer months.
Herein dances, etc, will be held during
the sweltering period.
= M. X. Reese, one Of the principals
in celebrated murder case mt Blacks
burg, has been arrested in Oxford, Miss.
He with Daniel Luckie were charged
with killing C. Il. Williams and they
made sensational escape from tho
York county Jail in 1907.
= Gen. Thomas w .::Carwilc. of Edge
field, has been appointed chief marshal
| of the day ON the occasion of tho un-
yelling of the States monument to her
Confederate dend on tho field of Chick
amauga May 27. General Carwilo was
himself gallant and CONSPICUOUS figure
in that bloody battle.
- A woman died in tho aims house
in Charleston the other day aud was
buried as pauper by the city. An
Investigation of her effects after her
burial showed that she had been o
miser and had bank account. The
city will get her money if no heirs
claim it. 1t is about $500.
= South Carolina made silk will be
shown Mt the Charleston exposition
next December. The silk culture COM
mlttee of the woman's department. is
now engaged in active promotion of
the interesting industry and expects to
make very full exhibit Of the process
and its product at the exposition.
= Tho Maryland State Building at
the Interstate and West Indian Ex-
position. Mt Charleston, will be one of
the handsomcst State structures at the
Exposition. The site selected for the
building is an admirable one, and will
show the building to iii advantage.
The building will be 140 feet long, in
Guiding semi circular portico and
will be 45 feet in height.
A Darlington merchant is being
jokcd by his neighbors. but he doesn't
laugh heartily. A negro bought from
him pair of shoes for 81 so and hand
ed him $50 confederate note, in its
original state. The merchant gave
him S18 90 in change and didn't know
the difference until he went to the bank
to deposit his cash, and the teller de-
clincd the Confederate States govern
ment's promise to pay.
We have been shown All old cotton
bill that was found by Mr.. j. H. Rod
ger in his fathers old papers that
names prices astonishing to people of
this day and time. The bill is dated
1865. 23 bales wcre sold to n New
York firm by Mr.. Rodger at an average
price of 39c per pound. The bales
averaged Ala pounds and tho amount
of money paid for them was $3,42429
LIE cotton Mnnld hrinD fhnsa finuraa