The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-07
JorTINGS ABOUT THE STATE.

Sumter has already paid in fifty thousand
dollars for taxes.
Governor Moses has appointed j. &.
White, of Marion, deputy surveyor.
The TAX receipts in Abbevllle, go lar,
amount to one hundred thousand dollars.
The town commissioners OF AbeeVllle are
still investigating The cause OF tne late hre re-
acres, belonging 10 o. v. Metts, was pur-
chased by N. c. Whitestone, for $il0.
Mr.. Samuel Lee, OF Sumter, has bee
appointed to position on the police force al
Washington, D. G.
Mr.. g. J. Lockwood, OF Spartanburg. the
printer who was shot In New York, is said to
be recovering.
A. W. Petigrew, of Anderson County, has
been acquitted of the charge OF killing his
brother, about Christmas.
The young ladies of Ninety-six are to
have hot supper there or the l4th instant,
tor the benefit OF the Academy.
Rev. w.. D. Rice, formerly pastor OF lne
Sumter Baptist Church, has accepted a call
from the Baptist Church at Newberry.
The NeWberry Herald furnishes the pe0-
pie Of that town with reading-room In ils
printing establishment.
The ginhouse belonging to Mr.. VIM Riley,
living on the Saluda River, was burned on the
2oth ultimo. Loss twelve hundred dollars.
The exercises of the Cokesbory Masonic
Female College opened on Monday last, under
favorable auspices
-Mr. Lewis N. Asbll. of Ridge, Edgeaeld
County, has been granted a patent by the
patent office for gin filling machine.
The February term of the Court OF Gene.
raj SESSIONS and Common Pleas for Abbeville
County commences on next Monday week.
-Spartanburg was crowded on sales-day,
and the small amount of property offered for
sale by the sheriff brought good prices
A fatal disease is killing of numbers OF
the canine tribe at 6partanburg, and several
very valuable ones have died during the past
week. ni.2t Z. :, .H ..
-Mr. Thad. G. Andrews, auctioneeer, sold
on Monday last, In Orangeburg, 26ss acres,
the property OF Colonel A. D. Fredricks, slt-
uated II miles from town for $S,S0l.
In Newberry, on sales-day, the sales OF
real estate were as follows: l2S acres. $500;
s2lI2 eighth acre and store at Rros .eVe .Ssa.
5s9, $7l0; l2O, $1,000.
.-Sales-day In Lancaster passed of very
quietly. Two tracts of laDd and lot OF notes
were sold as follows: One tract, seventy five
acres, $675; one tract, one hundred and hlty
acres, $3.50. Five notes, amounting to ss45 20,
brought IS 10.
Columbia, on Monday, the following property:
Two lots on Richardson street south OF Lady
street, for 81, $50. One lot -four acres) IN the
southern end of the city .lor $475, and tour
lots containing sne.fourth acre each, near tne
canal. q.
The policy-holders In the Cotton States
Life Insurance Company, of Georgia, held
meeting In Abbeville on sales-day, and formed
an advisory board for Abbeville County. as
follows: J. D. Chalmers, president; Jonathan
Jordan, vlce-presldent; John A. Wler, secre-
tary and treasurer, and DR.. 7. ]. Maory, medi-
Cal adviser.
The treasurer of Abbeville County has
collected 100000, remitted s65,000 to the
State treasurer, paid $ll, 900 on the new court,
house and $4,000 of school claims, and turned
over the tax books to the county auditor for
the afixing of the penalties. Oh the sl00, 200
collected $4,000 was paid In county claims;
$4,000 vet remains uncollected, which will De
largely reduced by the correction OF errors.
SOn sales-day, in Abbeville, the real estate
OF VIM. Smith, deceased, was sold in separate
tracts, and found ready purchasers at low
price. One tract Of 455 acres was bought oy
;. F. Kellar for $l3ss 81; another, containing
l31 es, at $l3l Al; tract, l46 acres. to W. b.
Marshall, $477 go; tract, I'll acres, to James
Anderson, Sl2s5 so; mill tract, 81 acres, to W.
8. Marshall, $40l; tract 81 acres to same ps J,
sl75; Adams tract, 2ls acres, 10 v. B, Hinton,
1898 81.