The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-12-12
STATE NEWS.


erection ut Barnwell.
- Thanksgiving day WAS not generally
observed in this State.
- Mr.. Drury T. Vaughn, Of Elgeiicld,
died on the 10Th ultimo.
- Sixteen prisoners in the Aiken Jail,
10 of whom are negroes.
- The farmers of Barnwell County are
sowing largely Of small grain this fall.
- Mr.. +. w. Fraser has been appoIn-
ted clerk of the court for Colleton County.
- The cadets Of Adger College have
applied to the Adjutant General for
arms.
= The Grecnvillc Mcns is urging the
merchants of that city to erect cotton
compress.
- Several deaths from diphthcria have
occurred in Abbevillc during the past
two weeks.
In Edgcfcld it is becoming "thc
thing" to make boots with pistol pockets
at the top.
- Efforts are being made to establish
a graded school for white children in
Camden.
- The gin house of Mr. r. H. Walker,
of Barnwcl County, was destroyed by
fire on the End instant.
- Several horses have died in the
upper part of Spartanburg County re-
Gently of blind staggers.
: Col. r. L. Love, of York County,
died of apoplexy OH the 2Glh ult., after
an illness of several weeks.
- There are very few young men in
the Legislature. Middle aged and old
men principally compose the body.
=. The gin house Of Mr.. X. J. Tyler,
WHO lives about miles from Edgetield,
was burnt on the S0th ultimo, by acci-
dent.
= Rev. Toliver Robinson, of Laurens
County, an cstimable christian gentle
man, died on the Sd instant, in the 18th
year Of his age.
- An effort is making to secure sulii-
cicnt amount OF money to build an Asso-
ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church at
Abbeville G. II.
james Mayor, the Radical super
visor of elections at Aiken, has caused
the arrest of three lawyers, for intimida-
ton at the late election.
= Two sleeping mules threw the pas
senger train on the S. c. r. r. off the
track on the night of the Goth ult., and
came to their death thereby.
= The Poor House of Laurens is let
out to the lowest responsible bidder.
The County will pay S4.35 per month
for each pauper next year.
- Bishop Wightman is presiding at
the Methodist Conference in Newberry
this week. Bishop Pierce's health would
not admit of his attendance.
"A man by the name Of Plyler, living
in Chesterfield County, WAS thrown from
horse recently and received injuries
from which he died the following day.
One of the solid shot which struck
the State House when Sherman was be-
sieging Columbia, nearly fourteen years
ago, has been dug up on the Capitol
square.
= A cutting scrape took place at Will
liston, in Barnwell County, recently be-
tween a Mr.. Stansill and Mr.. Lott, in
which the former was severely stabbed
by the latter.
- An incendiary's torch destroyed q
store-house and dwelling, the property
of Mr.. n. D. Wright, at Hartsville, in
Darlington County, on the morning of
the 2Sth ultimo, between midnight and
daylight. i,
The whole amount OF the railroad
debt of Pickens County is about $l14 900,
the fourteen thousand being due for in
terest on the bonds, of which there are
one hundred thousand dollars worth, for
the past two years. :,
Over one hundred and fifty colored
children in the town of Camden are un'
able to attend the public school at that
place because they haven't the means
with which to purchase the new books
adopted by the State board of education.
The Sumter IFatchman wants the
Code Commissioners appointed by the
Supreme Court for the reason that "mcm-
bers of the Supreme Court are the best
Judqes of the qualifications of the law
yers in the State for this difficult and
delicate work."
= The revenue officers, fifteen or twen-
ty in number, have been securing Abbc-
Vile County for two weeks or more in
search of imaginary violators of the In
ternal Revenue laws of the country.
Several parties, we understand, have
been arrested, and lodged in the Able
Vile Jail.
a white man by the name of Eich-
elberger shot and severely wounded a
colored man by the name Of Watts on
Sunday 1st instant, in Laurcnsville, the
ball taking effect on the check, passing
through and lodging just under the skin
on the back of the neck. 1t is thought
he will recover.
- Mrs. James Anderson, of Smithville
township, Abbeville County, has sold
this year to Mr.. j. F. Riley, at the
Greenwood Hotel, three hundred and
sixty-fve pounds of butter. Up to
March only two COWS were MIXED, and
since then five have been MIXED. Be
sides the butter sold at the hotel, n fami-
ly of five were we'll supplied all the time.
- About three weeks ago Adam, a
distinguished colored Democrat about
Greenwood, was killed by the accidental
discharge of q pistol. The pistol fell
from the pocket of Mr.. +. a. Arnold,
striking the floor, discharging its con-
tents, taking effect in the bowels, from
the effects Of which he died in a few
hours. The deceased was . tenant of
Mr.. Arnold, with whom he was on the
best of terms.
- DR.. w. Y. Paxton died at his home
in Sumter on Friday, Goth ultimo, after
about one week sickness, from an alice
ton of the lungs combined with nervous
prostration. lie was about 90 years old,
and leaves a wife and four daughters.
DR.. Paxton WAS native of Charleston,
where he resided until the war, and was
proprietor of the Ercring Nc'cs. Hc re,
moved to Sumter during the war, and
has resided there ever since. He has
been connected with the Sumter Ipdtch-
man for the past eight or ten years, and
was a good citizen, being highly respec-
ted bv all who knew him.
- Capt. John B. Patrick, formerly
Professor OF Mathematics in the State
Military Academy at Columbia, and