The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
HlcnnInss from our state Exchanges.

Aiken T1nricr ,J0uiHdi.: There are
now fiity-f five persons on the poor list of
| Aiken County. We learn that the couIl-
| ty commissioners have determined to buy
Il piece of land somewhere near town
and will build d poOrholise on it, and arc
now taking steps in that direction.
| Aiken Reric,c: A difficulty occur ed d
few days ago OH the turpentinc farm OF
Owen Alderman, near Langley, which
resulted in one of the hands getting q
couple Of loads Of sihhl shot. The un-
fortunate man was painfully though no,
seriously wounded.
| Abbeville Press and Bunacr.. Green
Callahan, respectable col0rcd man OF
the Bordeaux section, was in town, last
Saturday, paying taxes. He WAS the
| first TO pay last year. He is now the
sole owner of GAO acres of land, which is
assessed at $4,000, which was bought
and paid for since the war. He has done
this and supported large family. Let
us hear no more of the unprofitableness
of farming in Abbeville county.
Abbevllc Medium: Up to and includ-
ing Monday the county treasurer had is
sued two hundred and sixty-onc receipts
and collected more than So 900 in taxes.
Chester Buhetin: Heavy rains fell
throughout our county last week. Far
mers complained Of the excessive fall OF
the watcry element, Ploughs were stop.
ped for short time. Crop prospects are
generally good The vicinity of Rich
bNrg was visited with hail storm on last
Friday. which did some damage. Mr.. !.
Martin Mcdaniel w:ls one of the princ.
pal sufferers. His cotton in some places
was so badly injured us tn ncccssitate re-
planting.
Chester Rcporter: There WAS no meet
ing of stock holders of the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad Company, ut Newton,
on the 10Th instant, II majority of the
stock not having been represented.
UP TO Wednesday about $4,000 of the
May instalment of taxes had been col
lected.. ....Since the first of tanuary last
there have been received at the railroad
depots of Chester 1888 tons g,iano and
acids. The receipts last year, we are in
formed, were something more than 200
tons, showing an increase in favor of this
year of 400 tons.
ELgefeld 4Wonitor: a severe hail
storm passed over the Turkey Creek sec.
ton on Saturday last, doing considerable
damage to the crops. .....At the annual
meeting Of the corporators of the Edge
field Branch Railroad, held in the Court
House on the Sth of May, Capt. Lewis
Jones was unanimously elected president,
and Nj. A. Markert, Gen. NJ. w. Gary.
). w. Niclolson, B. +. Mays, 4. j. Nor
ris md Dr. j. w Hill, directors for the
ensuring year.
kershaw Gazette Several portions of
this county, near Camden, were visited
by hail storms on last Saturday evening.
No damage to crops......The total valua-
tion of the taxable property in the COIN
" ls 81 ,6SO,S9l upon which is assessed
Tor all purposes II tax of $24,i54 q.
The average value OF lands in Kershaw
County, outside Of Camden, is 81 50 per
acre.
Lancaster Rccicr:: Mad dogs cause
inuch CONSERVATION throughout certain
sections OF the county,. .Severae fatal
cases OF pneumonia are reported in the
Iaxahaw neighborhood.. ....Air ]. f..
Bailey had twelve acres of fine corn
ruined by hog last week Bud
worms in the corn and cut worms in the
cotton all over the county.
Walhalla Courier: The recent rains
have brought up good stand of cotton,
while corn Is looking me, having been
pl"ughcd out and the grass taken away.
The warm sun is drawing it up rapidly.
Charleston Ne,cs and Courier: Friday
afternoon, at about 2 o'clock, Mr.. II.
Berkmann went into his room, in rear of
iiis clothing and dry goods store, $50
King street, and lay down as he has been
in the habit of doing. The attention of
some members of his family being at
tracted to him, he was found to be in
sensible. Physicians were Immediately
sent for, but one arrived only in time to
see the patient die. A paper which had
contained morphine, found near him told
the story of his sudden death. There is
no explanation obtainable of the act, the
deceased having, 80 far as is known,
given no one reason to- anticipate it.
AIR. Bcrkmann WAS native of Wock-
eych, Poland, and came to this city in
1865. "
Pickens Sentinel: Corn is scarcer in
this section ut this time than we have
known it for several years, and sells
readily ut ?5 cents cash, or one dollar on
time.......The wheat crop in this section
70 promising, anu if no disaster beiaiis it,
breadstuffs may decline somewhat when
the crop is harvested. The area sown is
as large ~ usual Good seasons of rain
have fallen in this section, and cotton,
corn and all kinds of vegetation have
been greatly benefited thereby.
Orangeburg Democrat The wheat crop
is being harvested and the largest in this
county for years. 80. There is an unusual
amount of sickness among the citizens OF
our town for his season of the year.
The county treasurer has thus lar collcc-
ted 81 ,374.S5 of the current taxes.
Orangeburg Times. A salmon 81
inches long was caught in n trap b, ii.
j. Livingston, Mt Colonel ID. Livingston's
mill, on Big Beaver Creek, on last Tues
day morning. Is this one of the crop
placed in the river by the fish commits
sioner?
Darlington Ne,cs: Small grain crops
are reported AZ generally very good in
this county......A hail storm visited the
upper and lower parts of this county last
Saturday, passing over both Flore ce
and Society Hill, and damaging young
corn and cotton very seriously i'm some
places. The Timmonsville people are
g:tting up an excursion to Washington.
They want to see the Congressional
elephant.
Florence Tmes On last Thursday du-
ring the heavy rain storm the barn and
stables oi hir. Reddin Lewis were struck
Sy lightning, One ho1Se WIS killed and