The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-09
BRIEFLETS OF STATE NEWS.

Table Rock is just sixteen miles directly
north OF Pickens G. H.
A grist mill near Pickens c. H. ground
four thousand bushels of corn during last
year.
John ]. Dargan, Esq, has retired from the
editorial charge of the Sumter True So'tttron
His successor is not yet announced.
"The Black Monkey from Charleston" is
tho euphonious title bestowed upon Repre-
sentative Nesbitt by his sable colleague,
Representative Hamilton.
The Walhalla Courier state that Gov. D.
II. Chamberlain has accepted an invitation
to address the literary societies of Newberry
College at that place in June next.
A handsome young man, with stylish
turnout" has created sensation among
the fair ones of Pickens C. H. He broke up
the monotomy of that town in hurry.
Tho passenger train on the Laurens Rail-
road leaves Newberry on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, after the arrival of the
mp and down trains on the G. e. c. R. R.
1t is reported that E1-Gov. Moses will
shortly publish letter in reply to Gov.
Chamberlain's letter to Morton-an elabo-
rate production. telling all he knows about
the "true inwardness" of the Republican
party in South Carolina.
A young man named Lesley, living on the
farm of DR.. W. T. Field, in Pickens County,
while cutting timber in the woods, was un-
fortunately caught under falling tree, and
instantly killed. His head was horribly
smashed.
The Newberry PROGRESSIVE Age has been
progressing for three years with becoming
modesty and intrinsic worth, and now enters
upon its fourth volume with assuring pros
poets for the future. Friend Greneker has
our best wishes.
There is q Labor Reform Association" in
Laurens County, which bids fair to do much
good in the way of making labor more hon
est and efficient 1t embraces employers
and landowners, who are working in an
organized capacity to protect themselves and
benefit the country.
Col J. W. Ferguson has become associa-
ted with Thomas B. Crews, Esq, in the edi-
torial conduct of the Laurensville Herald.
This additional force to the meritorious
labors of our friend Crews will make the
Herald more than ever welcome visitor to
the homes and fresides of old Laurens.
A correspondent of the Chester Reporter
nominates Judge T. J. Mackey as a candi-
date for Congress from the Fourth District,
and says that Mackey is "a man of ability,
learning, energy, and fully possessed of all
the qualifications which constitute the
statesman" UGH
Geo. w. suepson, of North Carolina, has
bought the shoals on Conneross, known as
the Taylor property, and expects to have
mandatory established there. The prop
erty has been incorporated under the name
of the Seneca Manufacturing Company. A
bank has also been chartered for Seneca
City.
A majority of the colored members of the
Legislature, it is said, take their meals i'll
standing position at the stalls in the Colum-
bia market barn. It is further alleged that
they sleep six in q room i'll the boarding
novels about town, all of which goes to dis
prove Patterson's position that there are yet
"five years good stealing in this State" or,
perhaps, he did not include his colored col
leagues in the count. No wonder these
latter are throwing their white brethren
overheard, and that the colored members
are anxious for the State to redeem its ante
bellum honor by paying its post bellum rep
resentatiyes their six dollars per diem.