The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.
Sumter True Southron Mrs. Corrie E.,
wife of Rev. G. G. Brown, pastor of the
Baptist church, died on the 18th instant,
after brief Illness. The store of Mr..
j. E. Schwerin, at Wedgefeld, WAS de-
stroyed by fire, with the entire contents,
on last Saturday morning sometime after
midnight. He awoke only in time to get
out of the house in his night clothes, and
did not save his books or anything else.
He estimates the loss at 81 500 or So, 900,
and WAS insured for $1,000. The fire is
supposed to have been incendiary.
Marion Merchant and Farmer :: Six res
licences were burnt in this county during
the past week......Mr. A. P. Edwards.
near Mullins, had little child, two years
old, burned on last Friday so badly that
it died in few hours......D. G. Waddell
ESQ.,, cashier of the Bank of Marion, will
leave for Ashville, n. c., this week, to
take charge of bank at that place;
Spartanburg Herald; New dwellings
are going up in the suburbs. Nothing
except one bale of cotton was sold by the
Sheriff on last saleday. Can any County
beat this ?......Nine gentlemen bought
the Cleveland lots on the square, and as
a company propose building nine stores
on them.
Spartanburg Spartan A negro child
was burned to death last week at Gaff.
neys. There was no criminal careless.
ness......A few stray shot struck Mr.
Alfred Moore, son of DR.. A. L. Moore, OF
Williford's, while out hunting last week.
Very slight injury......Jim Stevens, re-
spectacle colored man, was badly cut at
party last week at Reidville. Sunday
he was thought to be in dying condi-
ton. Two of the persons cutting him
are now in jail.
Kingstree Star Mr.. ]. B. Moore has
on exhibition at his shop in this town
several specimens of welded copper, in
the shape of forks, rods, plates and
rings, which shows that he has unmista-
kably discovered the art of welding cop
per rs certainly and effectually as iron.
Mr.. ]. M. Staggers has resigned the
Office of Intendant on account Of his
private business. Williamsburg coun-
ty is without an Episcopal Church OF
congregation throughout its whole e1-
panse. And there are not more than
eight members of that church in the
county. Religion, however, is by no
means lacking, nor are churches want.
ing.
Abbcville Medium Hubbard, the
great detective fraud, has got down to
his proper level at last, and is digging
gold in Col. ]. r. Cochran's mine in
Oconee coun.y......James A. Spencer, q
member of the Mackey mob from this
county, is said to be driving dray in
Charleston for living. g......A serious cut
ting affray took place at Ninety Six last
Saturday between DR.. A. ]. Watts, of
Laurens county, and Mr.. Thomas Q.
Pucket, in which the latter was serious
ly, perhaps mortally, injured. IA bold
and successful raid was made on Mr..
Visanski's jewelry shop in Due West
last Wednesday night, and yaluables
taken to the amount Of fifty or sixty dol
lars. The burglars effected an entrance
through the rear window by the help of
an auger and chisel, which were left be-
hind, and may lead to the apprehension
of the guilty party......A negro. two or
three years old, fell into Mr. J. D. PAGES
we'll, near Hodges last week, and was
almost miraculously delivered from a
watery death by its mother. The we'll
was forty feet deep, and the child fell to
the bottom. The mother was some fifty
yards distant from the we'll at the time
of the accident, but rushed to the rescue
and climbed down into the we'll, holding
to the wall rock and the piping of the
pump. The child was found clinging to
the pump, up to its mouth in water, and
beyond lhe pugcr Of gpeech. The Yo.
man placed 1t in q bucket, which had
been lowered to her in the we'll, and with
this load on her head safely climbed back
to the surface again. But few such in
stances as this of miraculous escapes and
motherly devotion ever occur, and as
such it is worth recording.
Port Royal Advocate Mr.. j. II. Mil
ton, the lnasier car-builder Of the Port
Royal and Augusta Railway shops, has
been presented by his fellow-workmen
with a handsome testimonial in the
shape of double case gold watch......
The freedmen are said to be playing sad
hapoc With the wooded lands belonging
to the government schooi l4tms ard other
reservations on the adjacent islands.
They cut and transport the wood to Beau
fort and 10 the phosphate works for sale.
The sea island cotton crop made in
the vicinity of Beaufort has been q very
large one, 1t is n pity thRt nearly all
the seed is shipped to foreign countries.
The mills this yenr are doing q paying
business, buying the crops in the seed at
Fl cents. The seed il worth about $50
per ton.....The orange trees on the is
lands and even in the city have not been
injured by the la.e cold spell, as they
would doubtless have boon it slcet nau
accompanied it.
Newbcrry HeraM:. The total amount
of tax delinquencies on property the past
year was only ~ ,olo.Vu' lHe uuhIoei VI
polls assessed jE the county is 3,94l. Of
this number 1,020 paid promptly. AboTt
$500 have been collected on executions.
-. The meeting Of the Newberry Con-
ference, South Carolina Synod, has been
postponed to Friday before the fifth Sun;
day in March. The meeting will be held
lt Grace Church, Prosperity...... .Nessrs.
W. l.. Gray and John W. Fowler, OF
Laurcns, carried UP load of conyicts
from the Penitcntiary to Laurens county
They had sixty-seven on
board; i(ly-ai4 men and eleven women,
rhcy got them 10 ditch and R9rf lands
IN Warrior and turbin creeks. The
contract with the State is for one year,
he State clothing the conFictj ana J., tne ne
,irers feeding and paying 49, .'" F''0'
| head per month for them. The con-
'icts were all colored, were we'll clad and
n ane spirits.
Pickens Sentinel; Mr.. Samuel Suther-
and, an old and respectable citizen of
township, died at his resi-
lence recently. 49,. The dwelling house of