The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
aleanings from our State Exchanges.

Kershaw Gazette: Our farmers report
good crops of corn and cotton all over
the county. The grain crops are very
fine, especially oats.
Orangeburg Democrat The oat crop
is harvested and the yield is fne-the
best ever known in Orangeburg. The
growing crops of the county are doing
finely and the indications now are that
good corn crop will be made, which
supplemented by large oat crop, will
give bread and meat to our farmers and
little to spare.
Darlington Nc,cs; A child twenty
months old, the son of Ferdinand Keith,
colored, and resident at this place, caught
fire by igniting a box of matches and
was SO badly burned, on Sunday morning
last, that death ensued in one hour and
a half afterwards.
Walhalla Courier: Corn in Walhalla
is selling at IS to 90 cents per bushel
cash, being higher than it has been in
several years. 1t is thought it will de-
cline after the wheat and oat crops are
harvested.
Columbia Register We understand
that the property of D. L. Hendrix, the
missing treasurer of Lexington County,
has been appraised and found to be
worth S4,000-much more than sufficient
to cover all deficiencies in his accounts.
This property has been levied upon by
the authorities to make good the loss to
the State. There is something very
strange about the affair altogether. The
conclusion to be reached from the rumors
and reports is that Mr.. Hendrix got
muddled in his bookkeeping, became
frightened and left. The treasurer's du-
plicate was turned over to him without
having the amount of taxes to be collec-
ted set down, and the treasurer figured
out the taxes for himself and made his
collections. Afterwards, we learn, the
book was properly arranged, and on
comparison, the treasurer discovering
that his collections would not tally, be-
came desperate and absconded. That
there could not have been any intention
to defraud is evident from the large
amount of money left in the treasury
safe, his directions where his assets were
to be found, and the fact that he even
left his best clothes-indeed, the most
of his wearing apparel--behind, taking
but small amount of money to deffay
his expenses. In the pockets of one of
his departure.
Union Times: Mr.. John Becknell
brought the first "turn" of new wheat to
the Union steam mill last Tuesday.......
On Wednesday morning last, Mr.. Ell. II.
Robinson. one of the board of county
commissioners, had his arm so dreadfully
torn by threshing machine it is feared
the limb will have to be amputated.......
The laborers employed by the contrac-
tors of this town are on a strike for an
increase of wages and the ten hour sys-
TEN. We thought there was some devil
try up, for the bells of the colored
churches have lately been heard at un-
reasonably late hours, O never failing
sign.
Beaufort Neucs.; There are twenty-one
prisoners at present in the county jail.
A heavy burden on taxpayers......Consid-
erable righteous indignation is manifes-
ted amongst school teachers of school
trustees failing to make the reports re-
ouired by law. The receipt from spec
ial taxes in this district of the internal
revenue department, in which MIR. James
NJ. Crofut is the deputy collector have
exceeded last years collection by up
wards of $4,000 This is sign of in
creasing commercial prosperity in the low
country of this State.
Lancaster Ledger: Good rain on Mon
day evening last in some sections of the
county north and east of town.. When
the report of the grand jury was read in
open court on Tuesday, that portion of it
which referred to the carrying of con-
cealed deadly weapons was well received,
as manifested by the applause of at least
three-fourths of the audience.