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

GloanIngs from our State Exchanges.
Sumter True Southron Mrs. Corrie E.,
wife of Rev. G. G. Brown, pastor of the
Baptist church, died on the 11th instant,
after brief illness . The store of Mr..
j. +. 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 $500 or $4,000,
supposed to have been ia endiary.
Marion Merchant and Farner :: Six res
ideCces were burnt in this county during
the past week......Mr. A. P. Edwards,
near Mullins, had a little child, two years
old, burned on last Friday SO badly that
it died in o few hours. I'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 Dale 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
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
WiilIford's, while out hunting last week.
Very slight injury. Jim Stevens. a re-
spectacle colored man, was badly cut ut
a party last week at Reidville. Sunday
he was thought to be in dying condi-
ton. "wo of the persons cutting him
are now in Jail.
Kingstree Star Mr.. J. 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 etfectually as iron.
MIR. j. M. Staggers has resigned the
office of Intendant on account of his
private business. Williamsburg coun-
ty is without an Episcopal Church or
congregation throughout its whole cx-
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. j. r. Cochran's mine in
Oconee county,. james A. Spencer, a
member of the Mackey mob from this
county, is said to be driving dray in
Charleston for living. ......A serious cut
ting affray took place at Ninety Six last
Saturday between DIR. a. J. Watts, of
Laurens county, and Mr.. Thomas e.
Pucket, in which the latter was serious
ly, perhaps mortally, injured. "A bold
and successful raid was made on Mr..
Visanski's jewelry shop in Due West
last Wednesday night, and valuables
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. Pace's
we'll, near Hodges last week, and was
almost miraculously delivered from
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 poWeF Of gpeech. The Yo-
man placed 1t in 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.
Fort Royal Advocate i. mT.,J. &. NIL
ton, the rlnaster c9r-builder of the Port
hoyai and Augusta Hallway shopa, has
been presented by his fellow-workmen
with handsome testimonial in the
| shape of double case gold watch.
The freedmen are said to be PLAYING sad
havoc With the wooded lands belonging
to the government SCHOOL fsgpls and other
| reservations on the adjacent Islands.
They cut and transport the wood to Beau
fort and to the phosphate works for sale.
......Fhe sea Island cotton crop made in
the vicinity of Beaufort has been o very
large one. 1t is n pity TINT nearly ali
the aeed is shipped to foreign countries.
The mills this year are doing @ paying
business, buying the crops In the sssd at-
AZ cents. The seed j. worth about 500
per ion... orange trees On tho is
| lands and even in the city have not been
Injured By the late cold spell, as they
would doubtless have been If sleet hal
accompanied it. ali
Newberry Herald: The total amount
OF tax delinquencies on property the past
year was only 81, 1,Sl30O. The number of
polls assessed in the county is 3,94l. OF
this number 1,020 paid promptly. bout
$500 have been collected on executions.
1.-THE meeting of the Newberry Coii-
ference, South Carolina Synod, has been
postppneq 70 Eridsy before inc fhifthh fiji Sun
day in March. The meeting win be held
ut Grace Church, Prosperify,,,,M Messrs.
w. L. Gray and John w. Fowler, of
Laurens, carried up load of convicts
from the Penitentiary to Laurens county
Saturday. They had sixty-seven on
board; tlltY-siY men and eleven women.
They got them to ditch and work lapds
on Warrior and Durbin creeks. Fhe
contract with the State is for one year,
the State clothing the .conyictssi m anai !. the be
hirers feeding and paying @e s..s .siSAta ss'ua
head per month for them. The con-
victs were all colored, were we'll clad and
in ene spirits. it
Pickens Sentinel; Mr. Samuel Suther-
land, an old and respectable citizen of
Bumpkintown township, died at his resi-
dence recently. ...;The dwelling house of
DIR. 8. w. Clayton and nearly the entire
contents were consumed by fire last week.
The fire, it is supposed, originated from
n stove......The residence of Judge Field
was entered in tho night, some time
since, and robbed of 81 100 or 1850,