The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-08
BRIEFLETS OF STATE NEWS.

BRIEFLETS OF STATE NEWS.
1t is proposed to establish national bank
at Ninety Six.
Beaufort is becoming popular resort for
excursion parties from Savannah.
Judge Northrop has made highly favora-
BILE impression at Laurens, where he is hold
ing court.
The total population of the city of Green
vile, according to recent census, is put
down at 5,75S.
Under the new schedule, the passenger
trains on the Greenville and Columbia Rail-
road meet at Ninety Six.
Judge Cooke has been holding court in
Lexington, and made himself quite popular
with the bar and the people.
Seven or eight prisoners, recently SEN
fenced by Judge Reed to the Penitentiary,
escaped from the Orangeburg Jail last week.
George Washington has been sentenced
from Newberry to one year in the Peniten-
tiary for larceny He couldn't lie out of it..
The Charleston Ne,us and Courier says :
''The present plan of the Anti Chamberlain
Republicans is to nominate Congressman
Wallace for Governor, and make Elliott the
successor of Senator Robertson"
A special communication of the Grand
Lodge of Ancient Freemasons will be held
in Charleston to-day, for the purpose of lay
ing the cornerstone of the Fort Moultrie
monument.
The Spartanburg and Union Railroad will
soon be known as the Spartanburg and
Columbia Railroad, branching off from its
present line near Aston and running direct
to Columbia.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Me,ps and Courier asserts that
there are between 800 and 1000 ex-convicts
| of the State Penitentiary now living in
Columbia and immediate vicinity. Are
they legal voters?
Larkin Holloway, colored, who was
drawn to serve as juror at the November
term of the United States Court at Columbia,
was one of the men lynched in Edgefield as
one of the Harmon murderers. He has
been summoned to ahigher court.
The Ninety Six Herald intimates that
efforts are making to have grand inter-
county pic mic at Old Cambridge on the
Fourth of July-the guests to represent the
reunion of old Ninety Six County, compris-
ing Abbeville, Anderson, Newberry and
Edgefeld.
We are pleased to see that the Young
Mems Democratic Club at Newberry has
taken its place as an active, Independent
organization. 1t holds regular meetings
twice month, has an increasing member
snip and an intelligent zeal, which ought to
make its impression.
The Abbeville Rife Club recently cele.
brated its first anniversary by target shoot
ing, Grafton and supper. Col. ]. s. Cothran
delivered the Grafton in his usual mastery
style of vigor and eloquence. We congratu-
late Capt. Hemphill upon the success of his
gallant organization.
DR.. Thomas G. White is preparing
sketches of prominent natives of Beaufort
County, which are intended for publication.
His material already gathered shows that
Beaufort can boast long array of dis
tinguished individuals who shed lustre upon
the earlier history of the State.
The Directors of the State Penitentiary,
after consultation with the Governor, and in
view of the present condition OF the State
finances have decided to hire about two
hundred convicts to work on the railroad
between Columbia and Alston-that is, the
convicts are to be employed on the Spartan
burg and Union Railroad, which proposes
to extend its line from point near Aston
to Columbia. The contract will be made as
soon as the engineers have surveyed the new
route.
Capt. G. w. Shell and his son Walter L,
Shell, charged with the murder of Joseph
Crews, were tried at Laureus week before
last, and were acquitted by the jury, after
half an hours deliberaiion. There was no
evidence whatever to sustain the charge
against them, and the whole affair looked
very much like political persecution. 1t is
now strongly intimated that several of the
prominent radicals about Laurens will be
indicted for the Crews murder. The evi-
dence against them is said to be conclusive,
and their actions since the killing have been
very suspicious.