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Intelligencer. Published every Wednesday. I. F. CLTNK8CALEB, \ EDITORS AND C. G. LANGSTON, S PROPRIETORS. IJSKMS) ONE YEAH. - - - - $1 50 SIX MONTHS, - - - 75 _ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. Solicitor Julius E. Bogga definitely announces he will be a candidate for congress from the third district in thc primary uext Bummer. Ilia Krui nt- solicitor expires in MOG. -?. pi There will certainly bc hot times in the politioal arena this summer. We are to elect a United States Senator, Governor, State and County officials, yet judging from tho present calmness one would think al! politicians dead, but they will soon begin popping out thick and fas;. When they once start they will doubtless come in droves. -a. ? ii Governor Heyward takes a very reasonable view of the special court cuesti?n. As the legislature refused to make an appropriation to pay tho judges who preside over these extra terms he should not incur expenses that he cannot pay. What is needed is not so macy extra terms, but promptness in the dispatch of business at the regular terms. If there is to be any increased acreage this year, let it be of oom, sorghum and other food crops. There is not much danger of ?n overproduc tion of these foodstuffs; and if you happen to have tho good fortune to raise more than you will need, there will bo no tiouble at all about dis posing of the surplus to your foolish cotton neighbors, who are planting ail the ootton they can. Hon. U. X. Gunter, Attorney Gen eral of tho State of South Carolina, died at his home in Batesburg last Sunday morning, aged about 30 years. He had been in feeble health for sev eral months and his death was expect ed at any time. Mr. Gunter was a man of high character ana ability, and was highly esteemed by a wido circle of friends throughout the State who deeply regret his death. Horace M. Emerson, general traffic manager of the Atlantic Coast Lice Railroad Company, died last Saturday evening at his home in Wilmington, N. C., of organ io heart trouble. Mr. Emerson was born in Preblo County, Ohio, and was in the forty-seventh year of his age. He had been con tinuously in the service of the At lantic Coast Line for more than thirty years, and was a most excellent gen* tleman._ Amerioans are noted the world over as an extravagant raoe. Economy is surely a virtue about which thc people of thia oountry care little. But in no other reepeot, perhaps, are Americans more wasteful than in the use of coal. This brand of fuel is consumed ata frightful rapidity. Judged by tho way in which they are turned into ashes it might be supposed that every hill from Maino to California were bursting with uomined anthracite or bituminous. In round numbers the * United States burns 350,000,000 tons ^ of coal every year, which oosts thc oonsumers approximately $700,0(i0, 0Q0. This is a moderate estimate, although while householders pay up wards of $7 a ton for anthracite in the eastern cities, the great bulk of b'itu ni&v?? VVBU tbs consumer Isss than $2 a ton. There is nearly five times as much soft ooal burned aa hard coal. The United States Geological Survey is now carrying on a series of investi gations withs view to H topping the needless waste of this precious fuel. -;- mm ? -'? The annual reunion of the Confed erate veterans in New Orleans next month again brings to mind the sad thought that auch gatherings will be held but a few more years. The ranks of the veterans in gray arc being thinned very rapidly nowland each reunion witnesses fewer and fewer old heroes in attendance. Not until within the past few years has this de crease in numbers been noticed very perceptibly, but tho veterans are, dy ing off very rapidly now. The aver age age of th? Confederate veteran' now is about sixty-five. Ten years hence there will be . very few of them among us, as the average will then be. seventy-five years and few men live to that age. It is possible, that a few may be living "thirty or forty years hence, but not probable. Io view of the fact that ;heir ranks aro thinning ' so rapidly, it ia well that they be given every opportunity to meet in these remuions. They enjoy them in tho highest sense, and all help should be given them from year to year to get to'these reunions and ei-5oy them selves. Whenever a veteran wants to go tad hasn't the money the g?nerons people of bia city; ot neighborhood . should - make it up for him, hot as a charity but as tho payment of a debt of gratitude; The passing of this noblest.Of soldierly types from our Cv.'midst- is the. oau.se of much sorrow ; when St . is contemplated how/ tuon they will bo - gone- While they are yet among us they (bauld be. made' ,.- to enj^y themt?lves io e.very possible (jen. Wilie Jones, chairman of thc Slate Pi mocratic Kxeeutive Uoinniit tee, lia? called a meting of the com mittee to Le held in Columbia on Thursday, April ."uh, to consider mat iers pertaining to tho approaching cam paign and to issue the call for the State Convention. The meting of the Democratic clubs will be held on the last Saturday iu April, thu -Sch, ami the County Conventions?, ruade up of delegates selected at thc club nioi?tiog*. will assemble on the ii ria t Monday in M.ty to elect delegated to the State Convention, a county exe cutive committee and a member from each county of thc State democratic Executive Committee. The State Convention will be held on tho third Tuesday in May. Profitable Investment. GoHton County, North Carolina, lian voted throe hundred thousand dollars to oui id macadam road? throughout the County. Rockingham, M. C., will on May 12 vote on a bond issue of three hundred thousand dollars for road building'. Mecklenburg, N. C., ha? now 150 miles of excellent graded and macad am roads. Land values over the entire country increase in proportion as graded and macadam roads are built and extend ed. Good roads give farm lands a value they could not otherwise have. This is especially true of counties hav ing factory development. With good roadHall fruits, vegetables, lire wood, milk, butter and other farm prodacte have a daily cash value. The income from these can be made as great in the aggregate as the value of the cotton crop. Without good roads the factory hand and the city merchant, and all that increasing industrial population have to buy freBh meat from Chicago and canned goods, from the North, whereas the farmer might get the money for all ments, vegetables, fruit and other perishable farm products if only he had a decent roadway from his farm to the factory town or city where cash purchases are numoorus and increasing. It is said there are farmers' daughters in Mecklenburg County, N. C , who hate developed ex cellent busineKS in milk, butter, chick ens, eggs, fruits and vegetables. Good roads are good investments. They give business and social oppor tunity and enhance the value of farm lands. In this connection it i? of interest to note that Gaston County, above refer red to, has devised a way to eat its i cake and have it too. Tho proceeds of the three hundred thousund dollar bond issue will be used to build 100 miles of good roads throughout the I county. '1 he county is now collecting I rond taxes which aggregate $20,000 a year. This money is used to buiid new macadam roads and it builds I about ten miles a year. At this rate it would tuke fifteen years to get 150 j miles of graded and macadam roads. Instead of waiting lifteen years for good roads tho county issues $300,000 la 1 per cent, bonds. The interest amounts to $12.000 a year. This is taken out of the tax money and $8,000 of tax money is still left tor a sinking fund for the bonds and some surplus to put into repairs. Thus Gaston County will bavo built immediately three bundled thousand dollars worth of good ronds and not pay a cent more taxes than they have bean paying without them. It ie thought that tho people of tho county, especially tho farmers will be greatly benefited. There are 20 to 80 cotton mills in the county. The good roads will p it the .farmers in close touch with the people working in these factories and the working people and the merchants can bny home farm producta instead of having to buy canned goods and bacon i from afar. I There is a lesson in this for every county in South Carolina-for every county in the South.-Greenville ' News. Pennsylvania's Dead on Vicksburg Field. Vicksburg, Miss., March 24.-Sur I rounded by their staffs in brilliant nt I tire, and hundreds of veterans in uni I forms of blue and gray, Gov. Samuel i W. Pennypacker. of Pennsylvania, and I Gov. James K. Vardo man, of Missis sippi, today unveiled and dedicated ? the monument erected by the State of I Pennsylvania in ,the Vicksburg battle park xn memory of Pennsylvanians i who participated in the siege and cap ture of Vicksburg by Gen. Grant in 1?G3. . Five thousand citizens and a regi ment of State militia were massed I about the monument site while dis I n?j??ishe? citis?5a nf half a d^aen States ocoupied seats on the speakers1 i stand. The ceremonies were opened ! with a parade through the streets pro fusely decorated in the national colors, and lined by cheering thousands. A feature of the ceremonies in the park waa ?he singing of patriotic songs by 400 school children, each of whom car . ried ti miniature American flag. Among the speakers were Governors Penny? packer and Vardaman and General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. - Mrs. Susan Doole is dead near Danville, Va., from blows alleged to have been inflioted by her son. James. Ten days ago, she, old and infirm, was attacked by her son in a drunken - fit. She was resoued by neighbors and has been hovering between life and death Bincp. Tho old lady died Wednesday night. The son is iu custody. He was a former convict. STATE NEWS. - A negro io tho Yorkville jail, on the charge of an attempt of as sault, lias a severe case of Htnall pox. - Seven murder cases have been docketed for trial at the next term of ees-jioos court to be held at Chester. - Greenville ha-i deeded laud for the purpose of a hospital site, and *7,diji) toward the building had been raised. - A jury has given a verdict of 000 to a man in Abbeville against ?he Seaboard railroad company for the IOMM of a leg. - Charleston to have a big ferti lizer plant. It in beiieved that thc purpoue of this organization ?H to buck the so called trust. - Representative Aiken has intro duced a bill for the erection of a monument at Clemson College to thc memory of Gen. Andrew I'lckcns. - Tho semi-centennial of New bery College will bo held in a few w jeks and Governor Hey ward has been invited to bs p?eoent ca that oc casion. - The Stato dispensary has $277. 000 cash on hand. Thin is the result of the accumulation of funds since the dispensary investigating commit tee hold up the payment of bills pend ing its investigation. - Edmund i>,ss, of Darlington, Chairman of the State Republican Executive Committee, han called a meeting of tho Committee, in Colum bia on March 29. - The Stato Teachers' Association will meet at Ruck Hill early in July. Tho meeting will be held during the progress of the State Summer School for Teaohors, which r eots at Winthrop this year. - Edward Beckham, 30 years old, a brakeman on the Chester and Lan caster railroad, whilo coupling oars in the yard of tho company at Chester, waa caught between the "bumpers" and so badly crushed that he died of his injuries. - A verdict was rendered Tuesday At Lancaster against the Seaboard Air Lino in favor of John M. Yandie, of Oaeola, for $500 and costs. Tho ao tiou was fer damago? for searching the plaintiff's premises without a warrant for stolen goods. - The livery stable of B. L. Jones & Soo, of KdgeScld, waa consumed by fire Thursday. It was situated near the publie square and only tho fast work of the tiro department saved the business portion of the town. A horse perished in the flames. - The First National bank of Greenwood has received notice from the treasury department that that bank has been designated as a gov ernment depository and that a deposit of $25,000 will be made at once. Th? deposit will bo increased in the fu ture. - A young man in Marlboro Coun ty quit his wife some months ago and now the parents of the young couple are willing to let the marriage con tract between them be made void on the grounds that the husband is not cf i sound ssffid - - The chamber of commerce with the co-operation of the oity jounoil, sons of veterans and the daughters of the Confederacy, of Columbia, have invited the Confederate veteran*.' to hold their next reunion, i a May, io that oity. - The farmers of Bpariauburg County are paying considerable atten tim to sheep raising. Oat farmer re cently sold in the oity some ten or fifteen balea .of wool from his own farm, which netted him a much hand somer profit than if it had been cot ton. He declares that the wool was nearly all clear profit, for it cost him m ooh less expenso and troubla than to raise cotton. v - Gov. Hey ward has received an invitation to attend in New York the : celebration, by the Jefferson club of the 163n\ anniversary, on the 16th j of April; 1 of the great Demoorat, 1 Thomas Jefferson; and another invi tation to attend in Philadelphia on, the 17th, 18th and 19th the 200th an niversary bf the birth of Benjamin Franklin. rr.-_;.." T? ?iL - - a_T>_M - UOUI jr A?. .ii?iniii| SWtiSSSS i,2s road Commissioner, was found dead ina field oe his farm near Wedgefield Thursday eveniog. He had been absent from the house since morning and a searohlng psrty found his body, whioh hsd been dead several- hours. The eaubo of death was heart dis ease, from whioh he suffered for some time. - Governor Hey ward's last sot io the pardoning line was to release two )V<f term negroes from the penitentiary last week. The recipients of execu tive olemenoy are Richard Gallmaa, who killed Lee Alkea, another negro, at Prosperity on the 11th of Septem ber, 1900, and Tine Grap, who shot ?otu % negro's house at Laurens "to pcaro him" and killed him tu 1897. The jurors, judges and solicitors in eaoh case recommended pardon. J ri - Charged with wife beating, George Smith, a middle-aged whito man living in the Camperdown mill village in Greenville, waa tried before Mayor Mahon, convicted, and sent to thc chain gang. - Thc State Hoard of Pension Commissioners bas been hard at work on the pension reports. The state mcnts are in very much better shape than they have been in previous years, but ina number of counties thc work has been carelessly done and the reports will hara to bc eent back for correction. - Advices received from tho truck ing contera about Charleston show that the cold wave did considerable damage, being the most destructive in Uve years. Bean9, cucumbers, pota toes and strawberries are badly hurt, while cabbages will be delayed several weeks. Beans and oueumbers will have to be largely replanted. - Tho First Baptist Church, Ma con, Gs., of whioh Dr. J. L. White is ppstor, has four members each sup porting a missionary at $600, aggre gating |2,400. - Street disturbances in Chatta nooga resulted Wednesday io the shootiog of two white men. A race war was threatened, but the danger of it is probably over. Committed Suicido Became of Tooth ache. Freeland, Pa.. March 20-To mako a HUI*' job of it, Herman Ktckliog, em ployed aa u miner Kt the Crystal Ridge stripping of A. Pardee <S? Company, committed suicide this morning hy blowing hie head off with dynaniito. Heckling Buttered from a eevoro toothuclie yesterday, and that is the only reason his fauiily can advanco for his act. lie had tho molar extracted, but still suffered somo pain during the night. This morning ho went to a small opening iu thu stripping, and scating himself iu a comfortable position, with his head resting on a shelf of coal, he placed a stick of dynamite, to which lie had already attached a iute, on his temple. He then applied the match and in a minute the explosion occurred. His head wns literally ground to atoms. The decapitated trunk was found later in a sitting position. Dissolution of Partnership, The partnership nc roto for o existing between E. W. Simpson and John IL. Hood, under the name of Simpson ic Hood, ?tturneya as lew, waa thia dsy die no iv ed bv mntnal consent. Parties owlDg said firm may nettle with either party. R. W. 8IMP80N, JNO. K. HOOD. Anderson, 8. C., March 23,1900. March 28, 1006 41 2 HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS THE BEST. Now is the time your Stock need it. P. L. BARR & CO., HO North Main Street. Wo are selling tho most Famous line of ll^^j^^^ jjj^jj^l ^^^p^^^ ^^^^^^^^ i^sS^ in the City of Anderson. 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