The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our state Exchanges.

Aiken Comier-Journai:: During the
spring season just closed there were
1874 guests in Aiken......The Granite
Vile factory stopped operations for one
day last week. The cause assigned was
the scarcity of water. a heavy rainfall
Tuesday night remedicd the difficulty by
filling the ponds.
Edgefield AdrcT7iser In the old case
of the negro Joe Stevens, for the murder
of another negro, on the Ridge, the de-
fendant was again found guilty Of MUIR
der. Stevens was convicted before Judge
Aldrich, last June, of murder, and Mr..
Belts carried his case to the Supreme
Court, and succeeded in getting him
new trial upon some technical Irregular
ity in the drawing and empanelling the
jury. He has again been convicted, and
Mr.. Belts, in legal argument of great
force, made a motion in arrest of judg-
ment, but Judge Wallace overruled the
motion, and sentenced the prisoner to be
hanged on the first Friday in August
next. On Thursday morning last, the
Clubhouse, gin, &c, of our honored towns
man, DR.. NJ. w. Abney, ON his farm at
old Pottersville were destroyed by fire:
Yorkville Nc,cs: Cut worms are de-
stroying corn in parts of York County.
.....Another fatal accident on the rail
occurred Sunday morning at a point
about five miles below Chester, between
that point and Woodward's Station. The
victim on this occasion was Bob Miller,
a colored train hand, whose home is in
Charlotte, and who was run over by n
freight train and cut to pieces.
Spartanburg Spartan: MIR. Thos. z.
Storey, near Glenn Springs, has rifle
which was used at the battle of Kings
Mountain by his uncle Anthony Storey,
with which he shot from hollow chest
nut tree six or seven of the British.
Walhalla Courier: Mr.. Robert Kelly,
who resides near Walhalla, was bitten by
poisonous snake on Thursday last.
Liquor was used freely and the young
man is out of danger......Judge A. j.
Willard and wife are registered at Bic
mann's Hotel. They are no doubt on
their way to their summer retreat in the
mountains......M j.. B. Baldwin has
been appointed depot agent of the Air
Line Railroad at Seneca City, and has
entered upon the discharge of his duties.
IA special excursion train for whites
will be run on the Air Line Railroad
from Charlotte to Atlanta, on the 7th of
July. This will give excursionists day
in Atlanta. Fare from Seneca and West
minister and return about two dollars.
Charleston News and Courier: AS the
excursion train from Columbia reached
point about two miles above Summer
Vile last night the engineer discovered
just ahead of the engine man lying on
the track. Brakes were put down and the
locomotive was reversed, but the train
was going at such speed that it was i'm.
possible to stop before the locomotive and
several of the cars had passed over the
unfortunate man, cutting him almost in
two and killing him instantly. The de-
ceased was white man, we'll dressed, is
unknown, and it is supposed that he was
lying on the track in state of intoxica-
ton. The remains were left at Summer
vile.
Beaufort Mews: Thursday of last week
colored woman, Eliza Mikel, left her
home on the Wallace place, st. Helena,
to attend meeting at the Brick Church.
During her absence her aged mother,
who was blind and decrepid, set fire to
the house and was burned to death with
the destruction of the building. No in
quest was held.