The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25
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10th inst. did much damage in various
sections Of the State.
~ John F. Gordon picked some
thing like a bale of cotton from his
farm, four miles north of Yorkville,
last week.
= Gypsy bands and it%inerant horse
traders will be required to pay an an.
nual license of $500 to de- business in
this State.
The report comes from Charles
ton that the guano movement is very
heavy. The outlook is for the sale If
400, 600 tons.
Gov. Aycock, of North Carolina,
has been elected to deliver the liter
airy address at the Newberry college
commencement in June.
Senator McLaurin says he does
not know where he will live or what
he will do after the 4th Of March,
when his Senatorial life ends.
- DR.. G. B. Waller has returned to
Clemson after a two weeks stay at
Vanderbilt university, where he re-
Gently took his Phi. D. degree with
distinction.
J. lizard Middleton, of Baltimore,
has presented to the State through
Governor Hayward a copy of q por.
trait of his grandfather, Arthur Mid
dleton, one of the signers of the Dec
laration Of Independence.
= Columbia is discussing the mat
ter of inviting the Confederate veter-
ans Of this State to hold their an
nual reunion in that city the present
year, and it is said that Spartanbu.g
will become its chief competitor.
= At Columbia, at a dance a young
lady's dress caught fire. She was the
least excited of any one in the ball
room, and after her dress had burned
from her body, she returned home,
and re-appeared and resumed dancing.
= The South Carolina Inter-Colle-
giate Oratorial Association will hold
its annual contest in Greenwood April
"a. 1903. The following colleges will
be represented: Clemson, Clinton,
Erskine, Furman, Newberry and Wof.
ford.
- Governor Hayward has announ-
ced the appointment of U. B. Ham
met, of Barnwell, as chief constable,
under the recent act creating this inn
portant Office. This appointment will
probably be satisfactory. Mr.. Ham
met is we'll known and is held in high
esteem.
= A big power plant is to be estab-
lished at Meals shoals on Broad river,
twelve miles from Union, for the
generation of electricity for running
the Union cotton mills and for supply
ing power for other factories in that
city. T. G. Duncan is at the head of
the enterprise.
DO not go to Columbia to hire
mill hands. The, have a city ordi-
nance charging SIS a day for one who
s%olicits laborers. On failure to pay
the ine is SIC. r. 3. Of
W%innsboro, was arrested down there
last week and put on trial for violat.
iug the ordinance.
= The W.alhalla Cotton Mills have
recently purchased IT'S new Lowell
looms and five thousand spindles,
which will be installed as soon as the
machinery is received. This will
make the plant a $4,000 spindle mill,
and will call for a considerable in
crease in the operating force.
- Hog cholera has made it's appear
ance at Greers, in Greenville county.
DR.. Nesom, the veterinarian at Glenn
son College, has made an examination
Of the affected hogs and pronounces it
cholera. 1t is supposed the disease
was brought to Greers by hogs ship
ped to that place from Tennessee.
Union has decided to accept An
drew Ca.negie's offer Of SIS, 600 for a
library, the condition being that the
city must pay $4,000 a year to keep it
up. Nearly S., 900 has been raised
for this purpose, and the city council
has agreed to donate a site for the
library and $1,000 a year for it's main
%tenance.
- The barn and corn crib of Super
visor Stephens, who lives a few miles
West Of Pickens, were entirely de-
etroyed by fire one night last week.
A horse and a COW besides all his fod-
der, &C., and a crib of corn were burn
ed. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin. There was no
insurance.
= William White, a negro, claiming
to. be from Washington, has been
placed in Jail at Spartanburg for col
lecting money from un~suspioious
negroes, telling that he was an emf
grant agent and would take them to
Washington, where they could marry
rich white and walk with them
on the streets with their arms locked.
Last Friday morning near Co.
lumbia, William Austin, Charles
Young and Charles Washington, three
negro laborers at the Stewart quarry,
were instantly killed by the prema.
ture explosion of forty pounds Of
dynamite. The explosion occurred
about nine O'Clock, and although the
quarry is over two miles from the CEN
ter of the city, the shock was distinctly
felt in the buildings, and the window
panes ratified from the conclusion.
The noise was heard for miles.
Last Thursdav morning MT OI;f-