The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-01
STATE NEWS.

The election for town officials at
Port Royal last week resulted in the
choice of Andrew McFall for town treas
urer and II. II. Clapp for marshal.
"A number of violent Republican COL
ored leaders at Ridgeway, whom the
farmers preferred not to employ this
year, have made afidayits pledging them
selves to support Hampton's government
and to pay taxes to his appointee.
The catalogue of Newberry College,
at Walhalla, shows corps of FIVE pro-
fessors, thirty-6ve attendants in the col
legiate department, and sixty-slx in the
preparatory. A liberal course of study is
pursued, and library of $500 we'll se-
lected volumes is at the command of the
students.
The denomination known as Chris
tians are fitting up the second story OF
the Masonic Hall in Newberry for the
purpose Of holding regular services there.
Rev. Mr.. Lamar, of Augusta, and other
ministers will preach for them occasion
ally. Newberry has nine churches, seven
white and two colored.
= The people are paying their ten per
cent. contributions to the Hampton Gov
ernment promptly and cordially, notwith-
standing the scarcity of money. AL
though the weather has been bad, and
the roads almost impossible, about 81 ,0C0
was paid in by the honest yoemanry Of
Spartanburg in few days after the open
ing of the books, and the "cry is still they
come" No one in Spartanburg County
has yet paid any tax to the Chamberlain
collector.
- Probably the most interesting pic
ture to be found in Darlington is in the
house of Mr.. A. E. Woodham, near
Stokes Bridge. The subject Of this pic
ture is the grandmother of Mr.. Wood
hams wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Abernathy,
with four generations of her posterity,
making a representation of five succeed
ing generations in the one photograph.
The photograph was taken on the one
hundred birthday Of the old lady, and
was exhibited at the Philadelphia Cen
tennial.
- Col. Thomas Perrin's residence, in
Abbeville, was entered on Monday night
and a number of articles stolen, by a
negro named Daniel Cowan. On being
arrested he made full confession of his
guilt, and seemed to look upon the affair
as a pretty considerable joke. He enter
ed the house while the family were at
supper, secreted himself, and after things
had got quiet, carried off his booty
about three bushels of meal, a lot of bed
clothing, &C., on Col. Cothran's horse,
which he took for the purpose.
- Whittemore and his brother wor-
thies harangued their faithful few in the
Court House at Darlington on Monday.
The speeches were of the same old style
burn, steal, rob, plumber, kill and hold
the fort for Hayes and Wheeler and
Chamberlain. Jordan Lang, in referring
to the land question, advised his hearers
to stand firm, and if the white people un-
dertook to put them off their lands to
"shoot 'em down same as rabbits"
Whittemore referred to the serenade he
received as he passed Timmonsville, and
said that place was nearer than any
place he ever saw.
- An action has been commenced
against Cardozo and Dunn, claiming to
be treasurer and comptroller respectively,
to restrain them from drawing any war
rants or paying out any money from the
State treasury in pursuance of the So
called appropriation bill, passed by the
the Mackey House. 1t is claimed that
the bill and all collection of taxes, or
payments under it, are illegal, as the
Mackey body was not the legal House.
The action is brought in the name of the
taxpayers of South Carolina, by E. j.
Maxwell, as their attorney. A prelimi-
nary injunction, issued by Judge Mackey,
was served on Dunn and Cardozo on Fri
day last.
"A colored woman by the name of
Phoebe Lowndes, with her son, a boy
about II years of age, left her home in
the lower end of Richland County, on
Saturday, to visit Columbia and make
some purchases of provisions. When
they reached Hampton's mill pond they
embarked in an old batteau. The woman
failing to return, her husband instituted
search, and found the body of his wife
and child at the bottom of the pond. 1t
is supposed that the batteau leaked and
that the woman and child were drowned
by the swamping of the boat. The coro
ner of Richland held an inquest upon the
bodies Sunday, the jury returning a ver-
dict of accidental drowning.
- In business point of view the Town
of Aiken has considerably improved of
late years. New buildings have gone up.
old structures improved, and business
generally received q new impetus from
the increasing demand from the surround
ing country for staple articles of trade.
There are not now so many persons, in
yalids and others from the North, as there
was last year and during the previous
winter seasons. The business men ap-
pear to be generally satisfied at present
with the management of the town and
county affairs, and all are confident that
the only rightful State government is that
ever which Governor Wade Hampton
presides, and all the taxpayers of Aiken
are willing to pay their taxes to the
HomOton onvernmnnt