The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-03-14
STATE NEWS.

are OF mild type.
! - the grand jury in Charleston has
advised a crusade against vagrants by
the proper officers of tho law.
! - The Charleston dcc;ors have
served notioe that their patients must
pay their bills or be put on the doc
tors bluck list.
John w. Inglcsby, of Columbia,
has been appointed lieutenant in the
Philippine constabulary, through the
efforts Of Senator l.atimcr.
j. g. Stokes is suing the city of
Columbia for $40 600 damages for in.
jurfes received in 1900 by falling
through defective street bridge.
- Thomas Harrison and Potter Row.
! ley, who were arrested on the charge
Of killing Ephriam Hall, a railroad
man IN Greenville, have been released
on bond.
- There is now thought to be very
little chance Of getting the new South
Carolina district bill through Con-
gress. The recently revived hope was
short lived.
- 1t has been published to the
world that there are three candidates
for Governor in Newbelry alone, to
say nothing of candidates for other
State officers from that city.
The Thornwell orphanago,
home and school for fatherless chill.
J dren at Clifton, now reports 80 teach
ers, matrons aud foremen, aud 25O
! pupils enrolled for the current year.
&C. Lum Ward, o we'll known
horse trader aud farmer living three
miles from Grecnville, was mortally
wounded by George Douglass on Wed
nesday. The trouble grew out of a
horse trade.
-. Orangebr:s County seems to be
Infested .with IL band of iucendiaries
and the local authorities having ex-
hnusted every effort to catch them
without success, ask the governor to
Offer reward for their capture.
- A. G. Kaufman, president of the
South Carolina branch Of the Nation
ii. i;ed Gross Society, has issued an
appeai in behalf of tho sufferers il
northern japan who are the victims
Of famine due to the failure Of the
rice crop.
- William Asheiaead Courtcnay
has given to the library of the Uuiver-
sity Of South Caroliaa Il portrait oe,
General Beauregard, painted by Mr..
Carter, of Virginia, which is an ad.
mirable likeness and will be most
highly priced.
Tho new board Of dispensary
directors promise to Investigate thor.
0ughiy the purchases Of the retiring
board. Ia askiug for bids the new
board asks for competition in both
Equality and price," having no fixed
prices as formerly.
- The penitentiary authorities
have received notice of the escape
from the Abbeville gang Few days
ago Of Joseph Drayton a charleston
negro thief who was sent up from
there six years ago to serve fifteen
years CO three uonvictionu Of grand
larceny. =. =,
Chief Hammett seized 95 pack
ages Of liquor, valued at about 81 ,O0O,.
in the express Office at Greenville and
shipped them to Columbia. They
had been. accommodating in the Office
for some time and were 80. closely
watched that the consignecs did not
take them out.
- The farmers of Marlboro County
have q mutual insurance company,
which is O SUCCESS. At the annual
meeting held few days ago, the re.
port of the past year showed that in
surance was costing the membero only
one'ffth Of one per cent. About
$500, 900 insurance is in force in that
county. .,.... .:.... ...r -.
- The grand jury of Darlington
County returned "no bill" in the case
Of Pegram Dargan. indicted for MUIR
der. He was charged with assisting
his brother, Robert Keith pargan, to
commit suicide, in that he bought the
oarbolio ao,d and mixed it with wbis-
key; and gave it to him. This no
doubt ends this sensational case.
Representative j. o. Patterson
has been assured of favorable report
from the committee Of merchant ma
rine and fisheries on his bill providing
for the establishment Of q fish hatch-
cry 10 South Carolina. An allowance
lof s25, 900 is to be made, and Mr.
Patterson proposes that tho hatoheries
shall be established somewhere in his
| district. = -. '... -.
- The first meeting Of the new par
don board. wilI be held today in Co.
lumbia whc1 the board will organize
under the direction of the governor
and ct once begin it's work. There
are . largo amount Of pardon petitions
| awaiting the consideration OF the
hoard, aud the manner in which they
are going to operate the pardon mill
is anticipated with interest through
out the State. - -. -. 49,. ::
- About q week ago a strange white
man brought q two.months.old white
baby to this city and left it with an
old negro woman. The child has since
been taken 10 tbe family Of Mr. Ed