The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-06-26
STATE NEWS
y ND NOTES..


The chinch bug IL making its ap-
pcarancc on the corn in several sec.
tons Of Chesterfield County.
Immense quantities of granite arc
being shipped from quarrics about Co.
lumbla to Fcrnandina, Fla, for gov
crnmcnt jctties.
Chester IL going to build another
school house, the present one built in |
1892 at cost OF $l2 900 being insulh-
cicnt for the accommodation of the
children.
Ihc commencement exercises of the |
south Carolina Military Academy will
take place in Charleston, June 30.
'lhlrty-seVcn cadets are in the g,aduat-
ing class.
Reginald II. Grllith, former pro-
lessor OF furman University, has been
elected instructor Of English in the
University Of Texas over more than so
competitors.
Extensive forest fires RACED for about
a week in tho neighborhood of Iitt 10
Maintain, Ncwhcrry County. The
fire was left IN the woods by somc
berry pickers.
| The State hospital for the insane is
in great nced of more room to accom-
modatc its patients. The board of re-
gents Is trying to make some arrange.
mcnts to meet the necessity
Sumter Is arranging for big fire
mems tournament on tho 25Lh and 2Gth
OF this month. Many prizes ;uc
offered to contestants and reduced
rates granted OH all railroads.
Gen. Leroy Il. Youmans will be in
charge of the attorney generals office
until September while Attorncr Gen.
cral BcllinSer aud Assistant Attorney
General Gunter are conducting their
respective campaigns.
The comptroller general is now send.
ing out checks to the ntficiaries of
the artificial limb fund provided by
the General Assembly for one armed
and onc.lcgged Confederate veterans.
Each OF the benciiciaries gets $22. Us.
Theodore Kohn, a prominent mer.
chant Of Orangeburg and father of
August kohn, the we'll known news
paper correspondent, died at his home
on Monday night. Mr.. Kohn was 60
years old and leaves a widow and seven
children.
At the instance of congressman
Johnson, TulberL and Latimcr the
| United States government has sent
two surveyors from the agricultural
department to investigate soil condi-
tions in Abbevlllc, Anderson, Green.
wood and Laurens counties.
Mrs. Julia Ancrum Davidson, a
granddaughter of Colonel William
Washington, first cousin of George
Washington. died al her home in CHI
cago, last Tuesday, aged 81 years.
Sho was in Charleston when LAFAYETTE
was entertained there in 1857.
The Edgclicld County Democratic
executive committee has decided to
allow the county dispenser to be voted
for in the primary election. This ac-
ton is contrary to the instructions of
| the State convention, but is said to be
approved by the great majority of
Edgelield people.
Thirty-thrce young women were
graduated from Winthrop last week
and received their diplomas from G..
A. Woods, of Marion, q trustce of the
college. Twenty-one others were
given certificates for having completed
some Of the industrial courses. The en-
rolment for the past year reached 459.
The State board Of equalization of
railroad property has fixed the valua-
ton of all railways for next year. The
actual increase on valuation of ten
lines Samounts in round numbers to
q half million dollars. Three new lines
were also assessed amounting to 3d.
500 in the aggregate. The valuations
of all other roads were left the same as
: last year.
Mrs. Mary II. Melton, widow of the
late Judge Samuel w. Melton, died last
, week at the home Of her sister, Mrs.
DIR. o. A. Darby, in Columbia. Mrs.
Melton has for the past few years
!, !, been making her home in Charleston,
with her eldest son, Lawson ID. Mel
ton. She was daughter of the late
Joshua d. Goorc, of Yorkville, and
}. married Judge Melton in May, 1857.
:. She was about G5 years of age.
!" The many friends of Chief Justice
McIver will be delighted TO learn tina
he is rapidly improving under tn
treatment received at q Savannah
hospital, and it is stated that he vii
return home in week, ready to re
sumo his duties in the supreme court
I He first went TO Johns Hopkins fo
Treatment of q sore ON his tongue an
. received little encouragement, but tn
z Savannah treatment seems to hay
been successful.