The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges

Abbeville Press and Banner: Nearly
half the town has gone to Cesar's Head
on a tramp......Seven prisoners are now
in the Abbeville jail. The cotton crop
around Greenwood is seriously threaten
ed with rust, some fields being already
blighted and the prospects of anything
like fair yield destroyed. The forms
are also rapidly shedding from the stalk.
Abbeyille Medium: New crossties
have been put on the railroad from this
place to Hodges. The telegraph line has
also been repaired and new posts suppli-
ed......Typhoid fever is prevailing in the
vicinity Of Due West and Donnaldsville.
No fatal cases have yet been reported,
and the sick are improving. .Erskine
College has received q splendid gift of
nine boxes of books from Col. D. Wyatt
Aiken for the college library. The
freight on the boxes to Donnaldsville
amounted to forty dollars. TIE books
will make very fine addition to the Ii
brary, which has not received any gifts
of this sort for many years and has not
kept up very we'll with the new publica-
tions in any line of literature.
Barnwell Sentinel: There are some
cases of chill and fever in various por-
tions of the county.
Barnwell People,: The work on the
Barnwell Railroad is progressing. Mr..
Woodward has hired large extra force
and is pushing the work rapidly forward.
By the last of the week over a mile of
the track will be laid......A committee of
the grand jury of Barnwell County is
now sitting at Barnwell during vacation.
There is no authority for such a body
known to our law, and we are sorry to
see the valuable time of the gentlemen
composing it thus wasted.
Chester Reporter: Chester had two
companies in the regiment which enlist
ed in 1861 under Capts. Culp and Beatty
and surrendered at Appomattox in 1866
under Capts. Edwards and Stevenson.
These companies lost ninety-three men
during the war. The survivors will have
a reunion at Chester on the 18th inst......
About one mile of track has been laid
on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, be-
yond Fishing Greek, and the work is 60
ing on steadily.
Edgefeld Adrertiser: Our colored
friends are to be highly commended for
the spirit and liberality with which they
build and sustain churches. Tho Baptist
Church in our town, Macedonia" has
been very much elaborated of late, and
is now being painted within and without,
while the Methodists are building large
and comfortable church ediice, which,
we understand, is to be plassered and
painted before being used.
Greenville Enterprise and Mountain-
eer: The house of Mr.. James West, SON.
in-law of William Goldsmith, Esq, sit.
uated a mile or two beyond the city lin
its, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday
night. Loss about $500, which was COW
cred by insurance......The municipal
election will take place on the 11th in
slant. There is but one ticket in the
feld-the Democratic. The Independ-
ents, under the name of "workingmen, u
attempted to get up an opposition, but
most of their nominees declined. 1t
savored too much of radicalism.
Lexington Dispatch: We learn that a
white girl Is years old eloped last week
from Sandy Run section with q negro
and married him in Columbia, where
they now are......Mr. Spires, living on
Congaree Greek, killed on last Thursday
a rattlesnake feet long and 5 inches in
diameter, with q rattles and a button.
1t bit his dog which died in five min
utes.
Newberry Herald In 1853 Newberry
paid total tax of $15,006.9O. In 1879
she pays s22737.49.
Spartanburg Herald: There are about
one hundred guests at Glenn Springs, in