The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gieanings from our state Exchanges.


| kot, were burned last Wednesday night.
1t Is supposed to hayo boon incendiary.
| a negro who stole wheat from him SOME
| TIME since has been arrested for tho Of
fence, and no doubt Is entertained as to
| his guilt.
town counc' were reelected on Monday
last. .....Jour Foster, aged 20 years, died
mt his homo In Whito Hall Township
last Monday night..... Five young men,
| sons of tho Tolberts, left Greenwood last
Saturday for Adgor College. ....Numbcrs
OF farmers are paying so cents per hun
dred for picking cotton......A farmer in
Greenwood Township who few years
| ago had place valued at eighteen hum
drod dollars. we'll stocked and In good
| state OF cultivation. has had all his pos
session. personally and realty, absorbed
by liens, and Is this year paying six TO
eight bales of cotton rent for tho same,
the titles having entirely gone out of his
hands. ..".. Hon. d. Wyatt Aiken Is Ilay-
ing erected large and handsome dwell.
ing, anu making many other valuable
improvements OH lIis place.
Aiken JOiUnal nud RericU Mr.. John
Staubcs, Sr., an old and highly respected
citizen OF this place, while practicing at
target shooting down at tho Platz last
Wednesday af rfnoon, was stricken with
paralysis, and is now lying in q critical
condition....;..Up to Saturday last about
ton had been bought in Aiken zee. The
following municipal ticket was elected on
Monday lasts For intendant, Henry
Hahn. For wardens, B. w. Moseley, w.
q. Davis, Is. p. Chatiield, Z II. A. Oak
10y; John Phillips, W. i. Cormick.
election on Tuesday the following city
fathers wero elected: Intendant, John S.
Brown. Wardcns-A. =. ManviIlc, j. /.
Brown, NJ. g. Tobin. 80. There arc twelve
persons IN Jail awaiting trial-murder,
adultery, arson, fornication and assault.
evening pa bales of cotton had been re-
ceivod at Blackville. On Saturday only
03 bales came In.
Chester State Bulletin According to tho
report of President Palmer of tho Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
South Carolina.....About3 80 bales of now
crop cotton have been sold in this mar
ket.
Chester Reporter: AS wo go to press we
learn TINT Capt. II. NJ. Sanders's residence
was burned late Tuesday afternoon. Ori-
gin or tho firo unknown. Tho timbcrs
for tho cotton factory at Cedar Shoals
have been carried down." Senator But
Ter has accepted the invitation TO deliver
tho opening address at tho county fair ON
on tho 20th OF October.
Darlington News: Thoro is great deal
community ......In lower Darlington,
where rico is cultivated to a considerable
extent, tho crop IL unusually fine.
Nowberry Herald: Tho Laurons Rail.
road began its full and winter schedule
Monday. Tho train now runs every day,
arriving mt Newberry at 1920 A. NJ, and
and leaving at =. NJ ..... .Chills and fover
are prevalent in some sections of the
county. Tho health of tho town Is excel
lent.
Pickcns Sentinel A negro engaged or
working the roads committed an un-
provoked assault upon Mr.. Alexander
near keowee last week, wounding him
In the head with hoe AIRS. Ann
Couch, over 100 years old, died near Eas-
ley last week. She was known as
Granny" and before the war accumu-
lated considerable property as the pro-
prietress of cnko and ginger boer stand.
......The police OF Central Station raided
gambling den in that place last week.
Rock Hill Herald: Typhoid fever pre-
walls in two families in Ebonezor. It Is
not thought to be of a dangerous type in
eithor case...... Mr.. Daniel G. Steye.son, a
prominent citizen OF Rock Hill, diod cl
the 10th inst...... Tho train on tho Chester
and Cheraw Railroad Is now running to
Fort Lawn, and town lots there arc be-
ing sold.
Hell Island writes: 1--WE have had
ao OF rain, just tho weather for cate-
pi rs, and they arc not idle. Tho fod.
dei -.eason is over and q very short CROP
Is made. A petition has beon sent into
the Board ofCounty Commissioners to lay
out o dirt road from Beaufort to the rail-
ROAD depot, about o milo from town, to
run parallel with the present turnpike,
now controlled by chartered compa-
n.y."
Darlington !Southcrner: We ha-o heard
several farmers say this week that their
cotton Is not turning out Us we'll as was
expected. owing to much rust in tho
fields s...... There wore sixty-eight persons
baptized at Cedar Creek, New Hopewell
Baptist Church, colored, on last Sunday
morning, by Rev. Charles Jones Of Soci-
ETY. Hill. Tho baptism consumed ono
hour ana three quarters, and was wit
messed By about ono thousand persons,
white and colored.
Florence Times: Tho Wilmington, CO.
lumbiR and Augusta Railroad Company
have recently erected a large and COM
modlous dancing hall ut Waccamaw
venionce and accommodation of pleasure
seekers, who make Pennington q sum-
mer resort. They have also commenced
building another house on the banks of
this beautiful lake, rs restaurant and
refreshment building.
Edgetleld 44drertiSer In our Immediate
section cotton picking is in full blast.
The crop will be small. 1.-THE building
In tho rear OF the Advertiser office, occu.
pied by 8. B. Griffin, wns partially dos
troyed by Iirn on 9th instant.
Georgetown Times aud Comet: Diptheria
is reported in tho Santee section. ...... White
corn Is selling at seventy cents per bush
el...... MI. Denny caught upwards 1870
mullots one day last week. For the year
ending August 3lst ultimO 1852 bales
Of cotton wore shipped to Charleston via
Georgetown by the river steamers from
a. SQntQo hn1
Hampton Guardian: From the lst of
September to date % bales OF cotton and
% cars of lumber have been received at
Varnville fer shipment, the total value of
freights being $780,. .59.... Col. G. II. Hoo
yer has trnct of ton acres of land near
here, on which he raised last year eleven
bnlcs of cotton. From the same tract this
year he has already gathered i've bales,
and expects to get In all ten bales and
ever. The election at Hrnnaons result
cd in tho choice of tho following officers:
Intendent--Dr. H. w. @. Folk. Wardens
w. Williams.
Kershaw Gazette: Capt e. s. Notifies,
chief of police OF Camden, has resigned.
....At meeting of the Korshav Guards,
hold on last Thursday evening, the fol-
lowing officers wore elected for the pres
johnson, first lieutenant; p. II. Viilepi-
que, third lieutenant...... There were sew
en- deaths in Camden during the month
OF August, 1879, all colored.
Kershaw journal: One day last week
Mr.. James III. Vaughan ginned out ten
on sixty-saw gin made by McCrelght
& Son, OF Camden. The staple wa2 OF
superior quality, and brought l0Ic. in
this markot...... Tho drought that has
been prevailing in this section for tho
e. .wo tnIov wsoks is doi,-; .gruat