The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-16

Society, Charleston. State Press Asso-
citation annual meeting, Charleston.
Opening Of Catholic fair, Charleston.
Meeting Of mortgage and non mortgage
bondhoidcrs Of South Carolina Railroad.
Grand Division Sons Of Temperance an
nual meeting, Charleston.
25. jeff David convicted Of the murder
of the Franklins, Abbcyillc County.
State Convention Y. NJ. g. A. at Sumter.
26. Senator Butler moves for appropri-
alton for Charleston jettics.
MAY.
l. Visit of Washington Artillery to
Savannah.
.. David Harrison killed in kershaw
County while resisting arrest by a deputy
sheriff. Eleventh Annual Convention
of the Lutheran General Synod of n orth
America, opened at Newbe:ry.
6. Turnvercin tournament in Savan-
nah. Democratic Conventions OF Aiken
and Sumter Counties met.
7. Meeting at Kingstree Of the corpo-
rators of the Georgetown and North Car
olina Narrow Gauge Railroad.
s. Eighty-eighth Annual Convention
Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina at
Charleston. The Court of Claims met
and organized at Columbia.
10. Memorial Day, Charleston. Mass
meeting at Hibernian Hail on the phos-
plate question.
IL. Wrecking of train OIL the Port
Royal Railroad at Camp Branch. Peter
Cooper passed through Charleston on
visit to Limestone Springs.
Is. Visit of the German Fusiliers to
Savannah. Opening day Of the Charles
ton Schutzcnfest.
Is. Republican Executive Committee
met at Columbia. Adjourned meeting
of South Carolina Railroad bondholders
at Charleston.
16. Meeting of Charleston Jobbing
merchants to organize an association.
II. Meeting Of the new trustees of the
South Carolipa College at Columbia. =
10. Arrival Mt Sierra Leone of Libe.
rian bark Azor.
20. Beaufort County Democratic Con-
vcntion met. Annual meeting c1 South
Carolina Historical Society.
81. Destructive fire at Greenville.
%. Meeting Of veterans Harris Battery
at Blackville TO agree upon reunion Of
survivors.
%. Corpl. Dolan, Fifth Artillery, kill
ed at Frcnchy's bar-room, ST. Philip
street.
25. Arrival Of Gate City Guard, Gov
ernor Hampton and Governor Colquitt
at Charleston. Grand review and in
spection Fourth Brigade. Hot spell,
thermometer 81 degrees.
26. Governov Colquitt preached at
Trinity Church Charleston. Grand mil
;tary Aiass at St. Mary's Church.
%. Columbia Schutzenfest opened.
20. Work commenced in the Charles.
ton Bagging Factory.
80. Annual regatta of the Regatta AS
sociation South Carolina ut Charleston.
JUNE.
8. Destructive fire at Rock Hill, York
County. Arrival a: Monrovia of Libe-
rian bark Azor.
4. Sale of the Preston Mansion, CO.
lumbia.
5. Darlington Democratic Convention
met.
6. Irish Festival, Charleston. Sale of
Port Royal Railroad to Union Trust
Company, New York. Judge Bryan
grants an injunction restraining the
judgment creditors Of the South Carolina
Railroad from impairing the security of
the first mortgage bonds.
7. Trial and acquittal of the Tripe Row
murdcrers.
8. Amos Ladd killed by revenue Off
cials in Greenville. Destructive hail
storm in Anderson.
TO- Municipal election in Summerville.
Appropriation for Charleston jetties
passed the Senate. Frcnchy acquitted of
the murder OF Corporal Dolan, Charles
| ton. Commencement Wofford College,
Spartanburg.
IL. Organization of the Underwriters
Association Of South Carolina at Colum-
| bia. Annual meeting Of the Charleston
Library Society. Anniversary of United
Episcopal Sunday Schools, Charleston.
| IL. Closing exercises Ciahin Univer-
sity ut Orangcburg. Governor Hampton
addresses the colored students.
l3. Bill restoring the Citadel Academy
buildings to the State passed the Senate
16. Conservation of the new Catholic
Church at Barnwell G. II. by Bishop
Lynch. Dedication of new Free
Church at Port Royal.
; II. Gus Harris killed at Edgefield by
Norton Booker.
lS. Celebration of the 9th anniver-
sary of the battle of Ninety-Six at the
battle ground. Commencement Colum-
bis Female College.
10. Commencement Furman Universi-
ty. Greenville.
| 4
| near Aiken. Jesse Terry murdered his
wife and then committed suicide near
| EllcntOn.
%. Commencement Newberry College,
Newberry. F. W. Weathersbee fatally
stabbed near Ellenton by Prince Wash
ington, coiored.
"a. Commencement Williamson Fe-
male College.
25. Democratic Convention of York
County met.
90. Commencement Adger College
Walhalla.
! 27. Grand jury of Pickens County find
true bill against the murderers of Amo.
Ladd.
%. Seventy-eighth anniversary of the
Beaufort Artillery. A NeDs and Courier
reporter interviews Redmond, the ont
law, i'll the mountains.
JULY.
l. Commencement Due w est and Frs
kline Colleges, Abbevillc.
8. Motion before Judge Kershaw a
Greenville for transfer of Ladd murde
case to U. S. Court.
i. Reunion of the Survivors of Hart
Battery at Blackville.
8. An unknown tramp murdered a
!; Hardeeville. Collector Baldwin chloro
formed and robbed at Columbia.
8. Marion County Democratic Convcn
tior.
: 8. VIM. Springs, revenue official. con
victed at Greenville of larceny, sentence
l TO three years in the penitentiary. L
w. Dinkins killed near Beaufort by job
/. Sunday.
10. Colleton County Democratic Con
raDtion Ga;nao, c.l,lo p;,o,