The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-09

- The work Of rebuilding the de-
stroyed mills in the Pacolct valley is
progressing rapidly.
- If ell the negro men who are
tramping around the towns with gui-
tars and bauioes were put to work,
there would not be such scarcity
Of labor in the the cotton fields.-Au-
gusta Chronicle.
- A cargo of three hundred tons Of
whale meat has been shipped frem the
Erie basin to Charleston to be used ia
the Charleston fertilizer factory 20
prepare the Southern cotton fields to
produce bigger crops.
= There is Q movement on foot to
have the salaries of South Carolina
State officials increased. t. ought to
BE done as the demand FOR their reduc-
tion would furnish good campaign
issue in about two years.
= The dwelling of NE. Henry Cri-
der ct St. Matthews was struck by
lightning this week and burned.
Several other buildings in the neigh
borhood were set on fire by the light
ming. There was no fatalities.
= A two million dollar company
has been formed to develop the water
powers in and around Greenville for
the purpose of driving the hundreds
of factories ir the Pied mont. The
capital stock Of the company is $2,-
100000. The details are not yet
| accessible.
= Ed Moore and Mark Taylor, both
white carpenters, Of Columbia, be-.
came engaged in an altercetion on the
streets of Columbia Saturday night
and Moore was stabbed to death. It
| appears from reports that Moore was
very drunk and that he was the ag.
gressor. Both men had families.
Taylor has been arrested and will be
tried for murder.
- Charleston will probably make q
bid for the establishment Of the pro.
posed home for the infigm members,
widows and orphans Of Odd Fellows Of
South Carolina which the last session
Of the grand lodge decided to erect.
Tpe home ill cost between 10000
| and $50, 900 and will be erected where
/ the most favorable inducements are
| offered.
- Dispensary oonstables raided two
wagons near Hamburg recently, and
captured 4S0 bottles Of lager beer, a
lot Of playing cards, poker chips. etc.,
which were being taken to Langley to
be disposed of on the mill pay day
there. This is the largest seizure
ever made in Aiken county. No one
would claim the stuff and there were
no arrests.
- Passenger train No. Is, north.
bound, on the South Carolina and
Georgia Extension railroad, formerly
the Three C's, now operated by the
Southern railway, went through tres.
tie SO feet high over Fishing creek,
three miles east OF Yorkville, about
11.30 o'clock last Thursday, killing
six men and. injuring "a, five Of whom
will likely die. Three Of the latte,
are negro passengers.
= The legislature has plain duty
to perform ct It's next session. Oul
Yorkville correspondent notes: "It il
G well-known fact shat at almost every
cotton mill in this State and else,
where there are strong, able-bodied
men. who have large families Of chill
dren, and thas these men do not pre-
tend 70 work at anything, but depend
entirely on the earnings Of their fami
| lies in the mills for q support" Il
should be practicable 20 provide good
wholesome work on the roads fnz
| every such delinquent.--News and Con
| rier.
- Robert Dobson, young whit.
man, he's been lodged in the Jail q,
| Spartsnburg upon the charge Of arson
| He was given preliminary hearing at
Duncan, and was accused OF eettinT
| FIRE to the barn and stables Of hi!
uncle, Jacob P. Dobson who lives in ,
| few miles Of Greer's. The era tool
place Saturday night and the loss wal
| 800, including three wagons, twt
buggies, carriage, large quantity Of
| provender and seven mules with barr
and stables. Young Dobson hal
threatened injury to his uncle on ac
count OF trouble or;ss::.::....::..s o-sr hif
selling liquor TO the farm hands, 70,
(which he was fined.
- a Columbis business man yht
made trip through some Of the New
k1gland states last week declares that
i %" m0uy SCoab CuAmueyb IRON
which no smoke was issuing. The
textile mills Of that section are olearl.
outclassed by the mills in the South
and in the matter Of buying cotton
they are ab q serious disadvantage
for Q gentleman who came la from The
up-oountry yesterday brings an entire
| IL different statement from the millt
Of the Piedmont section Of South
Caroline. Erom every chimney alone
the Columbis and Greenville road
smoke ia boiling, and tho busy hum
! OF spindles comes 70 che ear Of skt
passenger. The dividends paid by
mills, OF some Of them, IRE increased
over last year. l<
Special ofioar Knox, Of the n,ill
district, has been quite sotive in ap
pretending Law breakers, and one O,