The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-09-28
I,EMs OF STATE NEWS.
Capt. Moses E. Cox, an aged and respe
j a;4;aar &c Mnrlhnra died ON the 1ith

Capt. Moses E. Cox, an aged and respec-
ted citizen of Marlboro, died on the 18th.
-Kingstree is mourning over weeping will
low a century old, just fallen a victim to the
axe.
-silas ingram, Jr, of Chesterfield county,
last week stabbed and kiuedJ c. Newman. In
gram is at large.
A colored man was whipped by persons of
his own color for stealing corn in Marlboro
county last week.
Hon. John Quincy Adams, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, was
in Columbia last week.
1t is reported that Gen. Wade Hampton is
about to go the way of all the Confederate
Generals, and become life insurance agent.
= Mr.. Francis Davenport, of Greenville
County, has raised specimen of cotton plant,
the bolls of which contain twelve and thirteen
distinct compartments or burs.
The young men of Darlington County
propose to have tournament on Friday, the
9Th of October. The lists will be open to
knights from all parts of the State.
"A great temperance revival is in progress
at Chester, S. c. The Division of Sons of Tenn
now numbers nearly one hundred members.
= The Edgefeld Advertiser reports fire in
that place on Saturday night, 18th inst. The
stable belonging to Mr.. S. S. Tompkins was
burned down, and at one time the public square
seemed doomed to destruction.
= A fellow calling himself Fitzpatrick re-
Gently stole mule from Col. S. Fl. Cox, of
Oglethorpe county, Ga, and is making his way
to this State. Be on the watch for him. He
is of good address and very plausible.
= The Charleston News understands that the
Mills House is about to be re-opened for the
coming season, under the auspices of well
known dry goods merchant of that city, who
was some time since one of the partners i'll the
management of the Charleston Hotel.
! David Gist, of Union county, and Clayton
Camp, of Spartanburg county, having failed to
answer the summons by appearing before the
authorized to report them to the Senate, re-
questing their arrest for contempt of the au-
thority of Congress.
= On the 18th inst, about ten miles from
Yorkville, John Gardner, special deputy
sheriff of York county, shot and killed John
Hemphill, while attempting to arrest him on a
bench warrant. Gardner surrendered himself
to the sheriff. and is now in Jail to await the
examination by the coroner of the facts.
= The Marion Crescent says: Mr.. John
Blackman, an inofensive white man, was, on
Saturday last, stabbed in the back, by one Ste
phen Turner. By what we learn MIR. Blackman
was not disturbing any one, but was stabbed by
| Turner before he had any warning of what was
to come. Turner has been arrested and Is IN
Jail.
Mr.. Robert Mckenzie, who died few
days ago at McKenzie's Station, near Florence,
was man of large means, and extensively en-
gagged in the turpentine and lumber business in
this State and North Carolina. He employed
a number of persons paid liberal wages, and
was ever regarded as friend to the poor and a
public benefactor
= The State Lunatic Asylum is so crowded
with patients, that the Superintendent, under
date of September 9th, has issued circular to
the Judges of Probate throughout the State,
requesting that no more orders for the admis-
sion of lunatics, epieptics or idiots shall be
given until they have ascertained by proper in
auiry whether they can be received
= That portion of the Grcenville and Column
bia Railroad, with the telegraph line connected
Herewith, so far as lies between Columbia and
Fairfield line, has been levied on, and is adver-
tised for sale by the sheriff of Richand Coun-
ty, on the first Monday in October next; also,
the locomotives R. K Scott and James l.. Orr
and passenger car No.1 The suits under which
these levies have been made are in the names
of Edward S. Bailey and G.. III. Manson.
The Greenville Mountainecr chronicles the
formation of a company, composed of several
energetic and wide-awake citizens, for the pur-
pose of establishing wholesale pottery. The
parties have already secured very suitable
location for their works, and are now engaged
in supplying the works with skilled labor. In
few weeks at farthest, the establishment will
be in vigorous and successful operation, pre-
pared to supply the home demand, as we'll as
that from abroad.
The Ku Klux Trials in Raleiuh, N. c.