The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-16
''s' %. Floral Fair, Charleston. Grand

Meeting of mortgage and non-mortgage
bondhoIders of South Carolina Railroad
! Grand Division Sons of Temperance an
nual meeting, Charleston.
J 25. Jeff David convicted of the murder
of the Franklins, Abbeville County
, State Convention Y. NJ. G. A. at Sumter.
! &c. Senator Butler moves for apprcpri'
alton for Charleston jettics.
] MAY.
! l. Visit of Washington Artillery to
Savannah.
Q. David Harrison killed in Kershaw
County while resisting arrest by deputy
sheriff. Eleventh Annual Convention
of the Lutheran General Synod of North
America, opened at Newberry.
6. Turnverein tournament in Sayan-
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.
8. 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 Hall on the phos-
phate question.
II. Wrecking of a train OIL the Port
Royal Railroad at Camp Branch. Peter
Cooper passed through Charleston on
visit to Limestone Springs.
13. Visit of the German Fusiliers to
Savannah. Opening day of the Charles
ton Schutzenfest.
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 Carolina College at Columbia.
10. Arrival at Sierra Leone of Libe-
rian bark Azor.
20. Beaufort County Democratic Con-
vention met. Annual meeting Of 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 Frenchy's bar-room, st. Philip
street.
IS. 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. Governor Colquitt preached at
Trinity Church Charleston. Grand mil
itary Mass at st. Mary's Church.
28. 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 at Monrovia of Libe-
rian bark Azor.
4. Sale of the Preston Mansion, Co.
lumbia.
S. 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
murderers.
9. Amos Ladd killed by revenue off,
cials in Greenville. Destructive hail
storm in Anderson.
10. Municipal election in Summerville.
Appropriation for Charleston jetties
passed the Senate. Frcnchy acquitted Of
the murder OF Corporal Dolan, Charles
ton. Commencement Wotford 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 Claain Univer-
sity at Orangeburg. Governor Hampton
addresses the colored students.
l3. Bill restoring the Citadel Academy
buildings to the State passed the Senate.
l6. Conservation Of the new Catholic
Church at Barnwell c. II. by Bishop
Lynch. Dedication of new Free
Church at Port Royal.
II. Gus Harris Killed at Edgefeld by
Norton Booker.
Is. Celebration of the 97th anniver-
sary of the battle of Ninety-Six at the
battle ground. Commencement Colum-
bia Female College.
10. Commencement Furman Universe
ty, Greenville.
20. Walter Fraser committed suicide
near Aiken. Jesse Terry murdered his
wife and then committed suicide near
Ellenton.
%. Commencement Newberry College,
Newberry. F. w. Weathersbee fatally
stabbed near Ellenton by Prince Wash.
ington, colored.
81. Commencement Williamson Fe.
IS. Democratic Convention of York
County met.
&c. Commencement Adger College
| Walhalla.
81. Grand jury of Pickens County find
a true bill against the murderers of Amo:
Ladd.
2S. scventy-eighth anniversary Of the
Beaufort Artillery. A Ne,os and Courie'
reporter interviews Redmond, the ont
law, in the mountains.
JULY.
l. Commencement Due West and Ers
kline Colleges, Abbcvillc.
3. Motion before Judge Kershaw a
Greenville for transfer of Ladd murde
case 10 U. S. Court.
4. Reunion of the Survivors of Hart
Battery at Blackville.
6. An unknown tramp murdered a
Hardeeville. Collector Baldwin chloro
formed aud robbed at Columbia.
8. Marion County Democratic Conven
tior.
9. VIM. Springs, revenue official, con
victed at Greenville of larceny, sentence.
to three years in the penitentiary: L
w. Dinkins killed near Beaufort by Johl
Sunday.
IN Gollcton C,ounty Democratic Con