The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-06
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.


- Lewis Covar and Pickens B. Ryan, prom
inent citizens of Edgefeld, died recently.
= Mr.. Robert Kirksey, of Pickens county,
died on Thursday of last week, aged seventy
one years.
= The National Bank of Newberry is sue
cess. The stock has been paid in, and banking
operations will commence at once.
= Gen. E. NJ. Law will deliver the opening
address before the Fair, which will begin ct
Darlington on the fourth of October next.
= Wednesday, the 2Sth of june, the ami
versary of the battle of Fort NIoultrie, in 1776,
was appropriately observed in Charleston.
w. Bonneau Murray, a respected citizen
of Sumter, died on the 18th inst, near States
burg, of apoplexy. lie was forty-nine years
of age.
Mr.. E. NJ. Hix of Laurens, met with a
sad accident while at work with his planning
machine, last Tuesday, by which his left hand
was caught and cut in two
"A colored man named Jefferson Davis,
an escaped convict from the Penitentiary, has
been re-arrestcd by the Sheriff of Greenville
county, and will be sent back to durance vile.
The clerk of the Mansion House in Green
Vile, a Young scotchman, disappointed in a
love affair, attempted suicide OH Sunday-frst
by drowning, and afterwards By poison. He is
in dangerous condition.
w. J. Magrath, Esq, President of the
South Carolina Railroad, has gone to Europe
ON a business trip. Henry Gourdin, Esq, one
of tho Directors, is acting President during the
absence of Mr.: Magrath.
= The depot of the Air Line Railroad, in
the city of Greenville, has been located about
one mile from the Court House. The Moun-
taineer thinks it probable that the workshops
of this Company will be located in that vicin-
ity.
= Two of the negroes accused of the muir
der of Mr. Daniel.F. Driggers, at Adams Run,
Colleton County, in January last, were SEN
fenced to death at Walterboro on the 26th ult.
Their names are Andrew Doyley ahd Charles
Mechanic.
At the recent session of the Southern
Baptist Convention Mt St. Louis, it was deter
mined to remove the Baptist Theological Sem
mary, now located in Greenville, to some point
in Kentucky, probably Louisville or Russell
Vile. Efforts are being made to raise an en-
dowment of 100000.
1t is expected that the telegraph line
along the Grecnville and Columbia Railroad
will be placed in operation to Helena and
Cokesbury during the present week. Mr.
Jabcz Norton, an experienced telegraphist, has
been appointed chief operator of the line, and
went to the above stations on Tuesday to be-
gin work.
r. w. Dawson, Esq, of the Charleston
Neps, has arrived safely in England, but his
continental tour is interrupted by neglect to
take his naturalization papers with him. No
naturalized American can obtain passport
from the American minister to England, un-
less he can show naturalization papers or GER
tilted copies of the same.
The Laurensville Herald learns from q
priya:e source, which it deems reliable, that
the sale of the Greenville and Columbia Rail
road to the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company has been corsummated. Rumors to
this effect have been ahoat for several weeks.
The statement is denied by the railroad officials
in Columbia, however.
Tho Chester Reporter says: The small cir
cumstance OF some fifty disguised men having
gone into Ilutherfordton about ten days, or
rather nights ago, and having gone through
Republican printing office, putting it in such
condition that another paper would not soon
issue from its press, and at the same time took
out Mr.. Justice, an eX-member of the Legis-
lature and gave him a pretty severe thrashing,
was the occasion of the cavalry, stationeds at
Chester. being ordered to Rutherfordton, ". C.
: On Saturday last, twenty-five armed ne
groes went to the plantation OF Angus hed, IN
Barnwcll County, S: c., about twelve miles be-
low Augusta, on the Savannah River: Ar
irving at Reds residence, the party fired q
volley into it, killing Thomas A. Lowe, and Sc
riously wounding Red and his wife and mother.
After disarming Red, the negroes returned to
Paul B. Hammonds plantation, where the
deputy sheriff tried to arrest them, but without
success. MS they refused to disarm- The ne;
groes, however, promised to &c. to Aiken, and
stand an investigation. One of the parties I'M
plicated was arrested in Augusta on Monday
evening. His version is that Red and Lowe at
tempted to chastse q negro for stealing from
the premises of the former; that the negro
escaped from them and returned with the
armed band, who did the shooting, by way of
retribution. The affair caused uneasiness and
alarm. The party arrested in Augusta repre-
sents himself as school teacher, and says he
was on his way to Aiken to deliver himself up
to the authorities.