The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-04

blown open and $500 sccured II ~
known that there were three thirvos
one very tall. Their track indicates
d 4 they went toward Bolton. This is
uouotiese me same gang that operated
The Stockholders of the Orr Cotton
Mills met last Wednesday and dec;d".i
unanimously to increase tho cor;toi
stock from $780, 600 to $500, 900 and add
$4,000 spindlcs and 100 looms ON fin"
goods. The installmcnts will be call
ca IN DetWeen March list, 1903, and
January, 9th. 1901. i'll five payments.
The mill will be capitalized nt Ri On
per spindle, and offers IN excellent in
1t is running now satisfnc-
toriiy with II thorough Organization
and excellent prospects. All cotton
needed for the milf. and of excellent
quality, can be bought here, thus saw
iHs tTaisits, and iIcip has been album
Iant since organization. $325, 600 of
inc now STOCK has been subscribed, and
the balance can be subscribed for MT
par and paid in rs needed for the cree
ton OF the plant. President jas. l..
Orr or Secretary Calhoun Harris viii
DC more than pleased to receive your
subscription.
On Friday night last, about 10 o'clock.
nre destroyed the barn, with contents,
OF Edgar Hall, whose home ia nhout :;
miles west of Anderson. The buildinp
was new and roomy. In the stalls
were SIN mules, II horse. twelve
COWS, gear and IL twO-horse wagon.
Inc upper part was filled with rough.
nees and cotton seed hulls. When dis
covered the fire had made such head
way that 1t was impossible to release
the mules and cows, and five mules.
Inc morse and two cows were burned to
death. Ono mule made his rscane Inv
breaking through the weather hooriy.
ing. Ten COWS broke their halters md
escaped, but one or more of them were
badly blistered. The roughness and
hulis, gear and wagon were burned
with the barn. Mr.. Hall had $500 in
surance. but it covered other outbuild-
lngs with the barn, and the loss is.
practically speaking. complete. No
theory, as to the origin has been ad-
vanced.
Allen Caudle, white, and David Sher-
ara, negro, employees of the Standard
vi Company. were arrested Thursday
morning under n warrant charging
them with obstructing the U. S. mail.
Commissioner w. II. Frierson by
henry IIescSt. mail carrier OF pcndlc-
49, SONtO NO. J.. io UTGlIDll00rV
trial was held Saturday. The testi.
moDy developed the facts that Dave
Sherard was in charge of the four
horse team while young Caudle had
charge of the oil, collecting. Trescot
met the team in the public road near
Five Forks. Trescot asked them to
drive out of the middle Of the road and
allow him to pass. The negro replied
with oaths, and when told he was do
tanning, the mail again cursed and
s,wore nc would stay in the middle of
the road. He finally drove to one side
aud allowed TrescOt to pass, after
having been spoken to by Caudlc.
The Commissioner released Caudlc but
sent the negro to Jail, fixing bail ut
5000. The negro has the reputation of
being very insolent. Henry Trescot
ID n son OF VIM. Henry Trescot, who
was n prominent citizen of this county
living at HazelwOOd, near pendlctOn.
lie was twice made Envoy of the
anu then to Chill and Peru, and it was
he who wrote the inscription which was
chlseled on the Confederate monuments
which stands in front of the State
House in Columbia.
1t is rather an unusual thinx for
dividends to be paid or the capital
stock OF a cotton mill, or any other
Industry, for that matter, before the
industry is completed and set at work;
but this has been accomplished in An
d!erson by some of her %farseeing tinan-
ciers. Twelve or thirteen years g
some Of our citizens determined to
build a knitting mill and Col. Joseph
n brown was elected President and
Treasurer. The amount OF capital
stock had been determined upon, and
something like 800, 600 was paid in.
Before the building was entered upon
It was determined at q meeting of the
directors to abandon the scheme, as it
was thought by some to beinexpendient
just at that time. The stockholders
Endorsed the action of the board of
directors and q resolution was adopted
authorizing. the return of the money
paid in. This was done and the stock
holders were surprised to receive O
handsome dividend on their money for
the time it had been out of their pos
session. The President had not allow
ed the money to be idle a moment. He
it's relation to money, took advantage
of it and earned a dividend when most
men would never have dreamed of it.
1t is in this kind of school the young
business men OF Anderson are being
trained, and in q large measure ac-
counts Tor the success being made in
the various industries of the city. If
any other city in the State can make a
better showing We would like to hear
from it.
Fire at 2 .3Oo'clock last Monday morn
ing destroyed the big barn, the proper
ty of the BrOgan Cotton Mill, which is
located just outside the city limits,
west, on the property recently purchas-
ed by this mill. The barn was former
ly known as the Lyon barn. A blaze,
about the size of a mans hand on the
top Of the barn. was discovered by the
Waterman, but he was unable to get up
to it. He gave the alarm and began
the release Of the animals, quite a
number of which we're confined in tho
barn, and all were saved. This build
ing was very largo, covering at least a
quarter of an acre, and n part of it was
three stories high. In it was stored n
large quantity of roughness, Gotten
seed and cotton seed bulls; also four
wagons, q lc: Of harness, gear, farming
implements and 81, 1000 feet of ceiling,
sixteen barrels of oil and the tools of
the wOrkmen engaged in the erection
of the big mill. All was q complete
loss. The alarm of the Waterman was
ooocpdoI hv fbn b;n fro hn1l which