The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-29
BRIEFLETS OF STATE NEWS.

The peach crop in Pickens is total
failure.
The immigration Society in Pickens is
thoroughly organized.
The debt of Chester County is increas-
ing, and will soon reach $4,000.
The wheat crop in Abbeville is three
or four times larger than usual.
There are thirty-seven prisoners con-
fined in the Yorkville jail-all are
negroes.
The Grand Jury of Colleton county
have presented the whole Board of Com
missioners of that county charged with
appropriating county funds.
Greenville is 100 years old. In 1776
Mr.. Richard. Paris, the first settler,
located there and gave his name to Paris
Mountain.
The Sassafras Gap Turnpike Road in
Pickens was so badly washed by the re-
cent rains that it is not even passable on
horseback.
Rev. Mr.. Lawton lost one hundred and
fifty sheep and forty acres of oats on his
plantation in Newberry county on the
Saluda river in consequence of the recent
| freshet.
The cotton, corn and other crops along
the line of the South Carolina Railroad,
through Aiken and Barnwell counties,
are in fine condition, and it is the same
on the roads leading back to the Edisto.
Mr.. E. P. Williams, of Yorkville will
soon obtain patents for two inventions,
one for fastening telegraph wires without
passing them round the insulator; the
other, a new fastening for lightning
rods.
DR.. w. G. Wylie, formerly Of Ches-
ter, now practicing physician in New
York, has received the Harvard Univer-
sity prize and three hundred dollars for
an essay on the construction of hospitals.
This prize was open to all the physicians
in the country.
Monday morning, one of the peniten-
tiary guard, named Andrew Harrison,
with two convicts, attempted to 60 to an
island in the river, to cut upland palmet-
to, when the vessel upset and they were
all dumped into the water. One of the
convicts, named Peter Johnson, and the
guard were drowned; the other convict
swan ashore and reported the disaster.
A real centennial relic, consisting of a
piece of colored linen window curtain,
nearly yard square, woven in 1852, can
be seen in the store of Kingsland & Heath,
in Columbia, who design framing it as a
curiosity and for preservation, for which
it is suitable, as the foreground is filled
in with pastoral scene of cattle grazing
on common. The figures 1852 are visi-
BILE in the distance. 1t looks like faded
embroidery.
J. F. Camp, ex-treasurer of Spartan
burg county, has been found guilty of
malfeasance in Office before Judge Nor
throp. He will be likely to spend term
in the Penitentiary if the Governor does
not pardon him, as the revelations OF
fraud were most glaring. tits ofa politi-
cal character, however, and i. he proves
as fortunate as his fellow official thieves,
he will not be long in securing immunity
from punishment.
Over three hundred thousand acres of
land are advertised for sale for taxes in
Beaufort county. Hundreds of people
are in destitute condition, and are
appealing at home and abroad for the
charities of the benevolent to obtain the
very necessaries of life. Where there is
such destitution the burden of taxation
should be withheld. If it could be done
in no other way, the Governor ought to
remove the Treasurer and Auditor. The
State should not add to the calamities of
this sorely stricken people.