The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-12-23
STATE NEWS.

W. D. Morgan has been re-elect
ed mayor Of Georgetown for the thir-
teenth term.
- The South Carolina Meth odist
conference decided to meet in Darling
ton next year.
- The latest reports estimate that
the Chinese cotton crop will be 20 per
cent. Of the average.
= Mendoza Higgins, of Hodges,
sold SO turkeys in Greenwood on Wed
nesday at 10 cents o pound.
- The earnings Of the railroads in
South Carolina amounted to over thir-
teen million dollars for the year just
ended.
- The Winthrop College girls will
have only one day for Christmas, but
an abundance of cake and pickles
will be theirs.
= Under the finding ofgshe supreme
court in the Spartan mills case the
mills will have TO pay sum of about
100000 in back taxes.
- The state dispensary broke all
records in whiskey buying, and has
been shipping out more to county dis
pensaries than ever before.
Gov. Hayward has revoked the
commissions Of number Of notariee
public in the lower part Of the State
for fraud in insuranoe cases.
"A negro has been sent to the
psnitentiaFy for twenty years from
Bamberg county for whipping bis
sick child, q daughter, 80 that she
died.
= A writer in the Aiken journal
and Review, signing himself "J. M.
b." has nominated the Hon. Frank
B. Gary, Of Abbeville, aa candidate
for governor.
The Spartanburg Journal says
an Indiana clergyman has sent cir.
cular letter to his friends asking them
to help him find SO good wife who has
few thousand dollars"
The barn Of III. s. Lipsoomb. at
Pacolet, together with 18 horses and
two mules, two COWS, three hogs and
$500 worth Of forage were DESTROYED
by fire last Thursday.
A negro on trial in Saluda coun.
ty last week for murder wanted to
plead guilty but was not allowed TO
do 80 by Special Judge Weloh. The
negro went on trial and was convicted
only Of manslaughter.
- The boil weevil has made its ap.
pearance in the Pinewood section.
Mr.. r. Fl. Wttherspoon was in town
last Monday AMI he told us that on
lis piiso6 tho pest mas gotten in it's
work.-Manning Times.
- Capt. John G.. Capers still re-
mains the boss in Republican politics
in this State. The protest Of Deas
and others against him as member
or the national committee was con.
temptuously TUNED down by the com.
mittee.
Merchants OF Charleston are
aending large shipments of shoes to
Snmmerville by express as matter
Of economy, the freight rate between
these points being 33 cents per 100
pounds, while the express rate is but
30 cents.
Calumet Manufacturing Com
pany, of Liberty, has applied for .
charter. 1t is to do. o cotton manu-.
featuring business on capital Of
5l0U, 600. II. Ii. Clayton, B. H.
Callahan. J. 8. Wilson and e. G..
Shirley are corpcrssors.
. - Billy Harris, of the Catawba In
dian reservation, has written to Comp
troller. General Jones asking that the
annual appropriation FOR the Cstawbas
be increased " $4,000. Billy does
not think that the stipend OF $500
which the State allowsAannually5 goes
fer enough.
~ At meeting in Columbia last
Thursday the sinking fund commis-
sion disposed Of 500 acres OF land in
Piokens county TO G. G. Drake FOR
sixty-five cents On acre. This land is
up near the North Carolina line and
the strange fact In connection is that
II has never been granted anyone nor
has there ever been any claim filed for
IL by any individual Whioh gives an
idea 90 TO les value. The land was
found 60 be in che States possession
some time ago by Secretary Cent and
Land Agent McLsurin on o rssurvey
OF the county. .3s
- The vault Of the Courseney Man.
ufasturing company nc Newry, aboat
four miles from Seneca, was blown open
Monday night. 14th inst, By pTofes-
sional bnrglsrs, who secured some-
thing over o2, 500 in money and de.
stroyed many valuable nnpars belong.
ing 20 the company. There 10 no clue
TO the guilty PARTY or. parties. 3 It 10
supposed 70 be three or. .f0uri In 4 gang.
or an organised band Of the cafe Blow.
era that have been operating So ths
State for tho past year. TIE auppo-
sition is that the veult was blown open
With nitro. o.Etycerire 90 no one on The
factory hill heard the explosion, and
there are several houses within 8 few
yards from che ofdce where tho expio-
sion occurred. Sl.5
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