The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Glcanings from our State Exchanges

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Glcanings from our State Exchanges.
Abbcville Medium: The Eupheman
Society at Due West has just laid down
splendid new Brussels carpet that cost
two hundred and fifty dollars. Mira.
Vincent Griffin died on last Saturday
from pneumonia after an exceedingly
painful illness of nine days......Some two
or three weeks since Joe Middleton, q
colored man, found a pocket-book con-
tanning ten or fifteen dollars. lie turned
over the property to the rightful owner
without question. Such rare Instances
of honesty deserve special mention.....
Mr.. Thos. B. Scott died at his home in
this county on February 18th, from con-
sumption, after a protracted illness of
eight or ten weeks. He was fify-ninc
years of age, and was man of great re-
spectability and much influence. 1.-The
farmers begin planting corn this week.
Things have been quite busy among
them for the past week or two, and
preparations have been made for plant
ing even a larger area in corn than last
year.....A negro girl on Mr.. James Bow
ems place near Wellington was burned to
death last Friday morning. She was
cooking breakfast over an open fire when
her clothing caught, and, terrified out of
her senses, she ran until her body was
wrapped in flames. She was SO badly
injured that death ensucd twelve hours
after the burning. Two loads of corn
were sold in town this week. The
strange thing about it is that the corn
was raised in this county. This is the
first occurrence of the kind since the
Medium was started.
Pickens Sentinel: Jason L. Kcll was
committed to Jail on the 9th ult.,
charged with grossly insulting and fright
ening the wife of Rev. John N. Wright.
Kell, we learn, was tramping around
over the county selling patent medicines.
......Mrs. Elizabeth O'Dell, wife Of Alb
ner O'Dell, died of pneumonia at the
residence of her husband, near Liberty
Station, on the Sd inst. ohm Frost
was committed to Jail OH last Monday,
charged with the stealing of mule on
the 18th of February last, from John
Hinton. Bill Frost, brother of the man
committed, was arrested in the "Fork,"
in Anderson county, and confessed that
his brother stole the mule and he ran it.
1--WE have not seen a sack Of guano
hauled through this town, though we
suppose some Of our farmers will use it,
but, we do not think near to the same
extent rs the last five or six years.
Newberry Herald: a year ago the Lii
IBERIA fever was at its height. This year
it is the Colorado fever. The darkies are
much concerned on tho subject, or at
least few of them are, and are trying to
agitate the question. A goodly number
of them declare their intention to 60 to
Colorado. A public meeting of the COL
ored people will be held in the Hoge
School House Saturday, the 18th instant,
to discuss the mattcr..... The barn of
Mr.. Jesse Dobbins, about four miles
from the town, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the Sd inst, together with
all its contents and four mules and one
mare. Incendiary. No insurance.
Greenyillc Ne1cS: Grcenville cotton
market touched 0 cents on Tuesday, and
low grades were in very active demand.
......From many sources we learn that
there has been and is still much sickness
in the country, and many cases Of pneu-
monia are reported, mostly among the
old and middle aged. recent
meeting of the Grcenville County Medi-
cal Society, the following doctors were
elected to represent it in the State Medi-
cal Association to be held in Charleston
in April next: DIR. w. r. Jones, DIR. j.
T. Dorroh, DIR. Waddy Thompson, DR..
r. d. Long, DR.. W. Hewell.
Darlington Ncic;: Guano is coming in
with o furry since the companies re-
duced the prices. Two hundred and
fourteen tons have already been sent to
this depot. Swapping horses on sale
days in Darlington has become so fire.
qucnt that it may be said that the thing
is fixed institution in our midst.
Florence Times: The lien business is
active and vigorous in Florence, and the
fertilizer sales better than at this time
last year. ..One day last week, the
dwelling house, kitchen, smoke. house
and barn Of William Widcman, colored
man, living near Old Eningham, were
burned to the ground. Nothing was
saved except tie clothes that he and his
wife and one child were wearing.
Chester Ecporir. On Monday, the
valuable mill seat and water power,
known MS Anderson's Mill, at Cedar
Shoals, was sold for $l,690, Capt. o.
Barber being the purchaser, as the rep
rescntativc Of joint stock company
which intends erecting machinery for
spinning cotton Us soon as arrangements
for this purpose can be ellected......It is
proposed to hold a meeting of cx-Fed-
cral soldiers and Northern settlers in the
Town Of Chester some time during next
week for the purpose of preparing for
distribution throughout the North
statement Of the treatment extended to
bona-lide settlers from the North, and
showing the advantages which Chester
County oilers 10 the many thousands all
over the North who arc seeking homes i'll
the South.
A special dispatch TO the Charleston
Ncps and C6uricr from Kingstree, S. c.,
under date of March 5, says: Pender-
grass, a prominent colorcd Radical in
williamsburg County, has beea con-
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