The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-22
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
The ladies Of Sumter are having ice er

The ladies Of Sumter are having Ice cream
sociables
-Bennettsville is advocating railroad to
that place.. = =.
;on the 10th instant.
The subject of narrow gauge railroad ls
being agitated in Edgefeld.
Watermelons are becoming plentiful in
Charleston att cents apiece.
Rev. S. A. Weber is the Masonic orator
for the celebration of st. Johns Day at Bishop
ville Sumter county.
= Jacob Cohen, Esq, prominent factor
and commission merchant of Charleston, died
on the 18th inst.
- An eagle was captured in Lexington, In
this State, a few days ago, measuring seven 1eet
from tip to tip across the wings. go,
A National Bank has been organized at
Spartanburg, with capital of S60,00O. Hon.
Gabriel Cannon is the President.
; "A tornado In Marion, on the 18th instant,
blew down several houses, uprooted trees and
caused other damage.
: ----;Ofr. Dillingham; the telegraph operator at
Rock Hill, was struck by lightning while sit
ting near his machine, on Thursday last
MIC. f. Hoist, a citizen of Chester, died
on the Sth inst, aged So years. He was native
of Copenhagen, Denmark, and settled at ohes-
ter in 1S444 -.
The Columbia Union says that the tele-
graph line along the Greenville Railroad IS
nearly completed, and will soon be ready for
active operations.
The State Penitentiary was reinforced by
fourteen arrivals from ,Newberry last week
Some of these were the County Commissioners
convicted of official misconduct.
IL e. W. Seibels, ESD, who was Secretary OF
the Executive Committee of the Reform party
last year, has been summoned before the Com
mittee on Southern Qutrages at washington:
Mai. l.. E. johnson, United States Mar
shall has thoroughly disproved the malicious
charges brought against him by political oppo-
nents and aspirants for his Office, and has been
fully re-instated. "a
. The Newberry Herald learns that MIR.
Elijah Tribble, while preparing to leave his
lot to do piece of ploughing, was thrown from
a mule, and becoming entangled in the traces,
was kicked to death. -.
-Claudius j. Pigues, who was shot at Cam
den two; or three weeks since by Trial j ustlee
Schrock, died on the 11th inst. His leg had
been amputated the week before. .Mr. Pigues
was % years old. 30
= Bishop Wightman is expected to- preach
the commencement sermon at the approaching
anniversary exercises of Wotford College, Spar
tanburg Gen.. John S. Preston will deliver
the annual address before the literary societies
= The Chester Reporter learns from an In
fluential colored Radical that AS. Wallace has
been sounding him on the subject Of support
ing him for Governor at the general election
in 1872 Poor South Carolina Has she not
suffered enough already? Is this in reserve as
her crowning indignity?
The Ku Klux Committee in Washington,
on Wednesday last, examined Hons. D. Il
Chamberlain and Reuben Tomlinson, OF this
State, both prominent Republicans. The tes-
timony of these gentlemen was unfayorabie to
the success of,the Ku Klux investigation, inas,
much as it gave very satisfactory account OF
the condition of social affairs in this State
/ = Ex-Congressman Bowen has been SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment in the penl-
itentiary, for the crime of bigamy., His last
wife, Mrs. Susan Petigru King, in vain request;
ed the Judge to punish her also. Bowen made
a brief speech before he was. sentenced, in
which he alleged that it was political enemity
against him. that induced his Radical brethren
ito prosecute the case SO vigorously and persist,
emily. IL jsef- - - ,sit. l-s . --st.'