The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-20
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.


Mr.. C. Y. Richardson died of sunstroke
in Charleston on Saturday.
= The semi-annual examination of the
Reidville Female College took place on Friday,
June 30th.
The Union Times of Friday last says the
Ku Klux committee were expected there from
Spartanburg on that day.
= Rev. Mr.. Shierenbeck has been elected
professor of the German language and litera-
ture, in Newberry College, located at Walhalla.
- Fifteen thousand water-melons, from the
famous melon patches in the vicinity of Angus
ia, passed through Charleston last week to New
York.
The Greenville Enterprise says: The tele-
graph will soon reach Greenville, when we
shall be in talking communication with all the
other cities of the globe.
Judge Willard has issued a peremptory
writ of mandanlus to compel Jillson, the State
Superintendent of Education, to draw an order
to pay the public school teachers of Charles
ton.
At the Langley Cotton Mills, near Aiken,
S. c., tornado was experienced on Wednesday
last, which did some damage to the main build
ing and smaller structures around. The wind
and rain for time came with great force.
"A little girl, named Emma Atkinson, FIVE
years of age, and Dempsey Cline, a boy eleven
years old, were drowned in the canal at Gran
iteville on the 18th instant. The boy jumped
into the water to save the girl
- John G. Reister, of Chester, has resigned
the office of Clerk of the Court, and the same
has been accepted by Gov. Scott The duty oi
filling the vacancy devolves upon Judge Thom-
as, of that Circuit.
= Col. Myers, of the 7th U. S. Cavalry,
stationed at Spartanburg, died on the llth
inst. at that place, after brief illness. His
remains will probably be sent North. He had
been in the United States service about forty
years. -,
soon be introduced in this State. 1t is in con-
temptation to run a line of that kind from
Newberry to Laurens; another line is also
proposed across Lexington County, connecting
the Greenville and Augusta Railroads, uia
Lexington c. H.
- several counties, where elections have
been ordered for County Commissioners to fill
vacancies, We notice Drotusion OF candidates
indeed "thick as leaves in Vallambrosa' u
This is the banc of South Carolina politics
Every man thinks his claims for office are the
best and rrlshes his name into print, signed
"many friends" 1t is disgusting and nonscnsi-
CAL
= The Edgefeld Advertiser announces the
death of Col. Stewart Harrison, gallant and
popular citizen of Edgefeld, who will be deep
" and sincerely mourned by large circle oi
friends and acouaintances. Col. Harrison de-
parted this life on Saturday, 9Th of July, in the
44th year of his age. He was prominent mi
litia officer in early life, held the office of Clerk
of the Court for two successive terms, and was
devoted and gallant leader in the late war.
= The Charleston Courier understands that
the recent decision of the Supreme Court OF
this State, that the bills of the old Bank of the
State are not receivable in payment OF taxes
will be carried before the Supreme Court o1
the United States for final judgment. The
Supreme Court of this State have announced
simply their conclusion. The opinion upon
which this Judgment is founded has not yet
been published, and, therefore, it is impossible
to state the reasons by which this conclusion
was reached. In this condition of the case
therefore, all that can be stated is that the
question is still in abeyance, and awaits for its
ultimate determination the Judgment OF the
Supreme Court of the United States. ,.,
= The Greenville liountaineer, of the l2tt
inst, has the following paragraph Wiley
Bishop (white) was brought before United
States Commissioners, Capt. John F. Porteous
at this place, yesterday, on charge of forgery
and violation of post office laws. The evidence
against him proved that he had received
letter for Mrs. Trammell, had broken it open
and finding therein check for twenty-fou
dollars on the United States Treasury Office al
Charleston, requiring Mrs T.'ss signature, he
forged her name thereto and sold the check tc
one of our merchants. Being unable to raise
the necessary amount of bail, he was sent tc
jail to await his trial at the the next term o.
the United States Court. Bishop was elected
to the Legislature in 1868, by the Republicans
of this County; his term expired in 1870"