The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30
STATE NEWS.

- The 1876 State banks in South
Carolina have $40, 900, 900 in savings
on deposit.
- The cotton crop of this State
will bring about S50,O00000, includ-
ing the value of the seed. That is 90
small matter.
= Rev. E. II. Anderson, colored,
was fred at on Sunday night as he
was entering the door OF his church
at Cokesbury.
- Alex Joseph, a IL year old negro
is in Jail at Rock Hill charged with
two cases Of arson. He was caught
setting fire to q farmers b;rn.
= The agitation for new county
to be taken from portions of Able
vile, Edgefeld and Greenwood, to
be known as Calhoun, has begun
again.
IN. W. Matthews, Of Pittsburg,
Pa, ia on q visit to Charleston and
the low country with a view to pur-
chasing large tracts of land for rails
ing cattle.
= Under the new State constitu-
tion the terms Of the State Senators
and members of the House Of Repre-.
sentatives begin on the Monday fol-
lowing their election.
- The Varnville artesiau we'll,
after reaching o depth Of 800 feet,
began to flow at the rate Of 100 gal
Ions minute and shooting the water
several feet in the air.
- Carroll, the 11-year.old son Of
J. W. Hook, of Batesburg. died on
Friday night Of hydrophobia, having
been bitten by mad dog about two
months ago. He was sick only four
days.
Joel Covington, rich Marlboro
farmer, aged 75, has had graves for
himself and wife dug and cemented
and marble tombgtones made with all
inscriptions except the dates of their
deaths.
A remarkable election bet is
said to have been made in Union,
when one man put Up check for
$500 on wager "Lhat Roosevelt
would beat Parker by at least 500
electoral votes"
= It is peculiarly beftting that the
county named for Wade Hampton in
this State should have been one of
two counties in which not repub-
lican vote was cast in the last election.
Fairfield was the other.
= Tne city council of Columbia,
n O voacooH roooIrkso~
any turkey raffies within the city
limits. The former council Issued
permits to any who wished to indulge
in this sort Of gambling.
= The expenditures for river and
harbor work during the fiscal year
have been made. The items relating
to South Carolina are the following:
The Great Pedee river, $56, 900; Win
yah bay, $4,000, Congaree river,
$75 900; Charleston harbor, $50, 900.
Will Culbreath, the negro ao-
oused Of completely with w. L. Hen
derson in the murder Of Matt Morse
some weeks ago, was shot and killed
while plowing in the field in Ssluda
County by Nit Morse, S. D. Gillion
and others, who, it is said, had gone
to arrest him. They say he attempt
ed to run.
The Spartanburg Gun Club has
taken up the matter Of enforcing the
game law, prohibiting the sale OF ex-
posing for sale partridges during the
open season and warrants have been
sworn out before Magistrate Paslay
against two we'll known citizens charg-
ing them selling psrtridges in viola
tion of the game law.
The Abbeville Medium says Mr..
w. @. DuPre has turned one Of the
great, poplar trees on his place near
Latimer into shingles. He made So
600 good shingles out Of the tree.
The shingles sell at 1915 per thous-
and, and Mr.. DuPre has realized the
neat sum Of $500 from one tree.
- The tax returns for this year
sent out to the county auditors con-
tain the word automobiles in the
personal property list. This is given
ia addition 90 bicycles, which was
rat in q few years ago by lie Comp
troller General. Tho nnm5sr OF ma
ahines in the State is constantly in.
oreasing and the auditors have here
tofore had to write it out in ink.
= Meichers &c Co.. large grocery
and fice firm Of Charleston, will with
in the next two weeks ship cargo of
5000 pounds Of the best quality Of
Caroline rice to Seattle, Wash. It
will be the FIRST and only cargo OF
rica that hea heen ahinnod frnr,, nbo,
lesion across the Continent, but the
cargo will &C. take the shortest route,
but. will 90 from here to New York
in q car and then be sen. around Cape
Horn and up;the Pacific to it's des-
tipation.
The Daughters Of the Confed-
sracy Of the Spartanburg Chapter are
devoting much Of their time to the
work Of raising funds for the purpose
of erecting o monument to che Con-
federate soldiers Of that county.
Already more than. s400 has been sub.