The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.

Pickens Sentinel; Mr.. James Lewis,
of this county, had a valuable horse stolen
lastSaturday night. .....On Monday night,
the goth instant, E. G. Denton, white,
stole mule from Mr.. William Payne, of
Ger raj; in this county. Mr.. Payne, and
Nj. r. G. Gains started Tuesday morning
in pursuit, and overhauled him near
Webster, N. g., brought him back and
turned him over to the Sheriff on Thurs
day following. Denton appears to be
about 20 or 21 years old, and says he
came from Briston, East Tennessee.
Enterprise and Oiountaiaeer:: A drove
of Tennessee mules has been sold in the
city during the past ten days or two
weeks. The prices ranged from $125 to
$3.50.
Ninety-Six Guardian: The Ninety
Six and Aiken Railroad, chartered by
the last Legislature, has been begun under
good auspices. The engineer has sur
veyed and located the route, and their
report is cheering indeed. A careful es-
innate, all the details, shows that the
distance is 2Ss miles; with contract labor
it will cost for grading and trestling,
S27 ,546; an average Of $962.14 per mile !;
with convict labor it will cost for same
1,027, or an average Of S3S5.15 per
mile. The figures show that the road
can be built very cheaply.
Yorkville Enquirer: Captain Gardner
informs us that the other day he bought
bale of cotton, ginned by Mr.. Crawford,
of Bullock's Creek township, weighing
805 pounds.
Rock Hill Herald: A garded school
has been organized under encouraging
auspices, with Captain B. P. Alston, Miss
A. b. Stoney and Mrs. Caroline Neil as
the corps of fteachers......Mum has been
q prevailing disease IN our town for
many months. 1t is thought it will soon
disappear for lack of material. ....Quite
q large drove of Tennessee horses and
mules passed through town yesterday.
Prices are higher, the range for this lot
being from 500 to S125 cash. I'VE learn
that many of the Lancaster farmers are
still picking cotton. This is owing in
part to the prevalence of chills in the fall,
in part also to the immense crop with
which that section was favored. ......Mr.
Henry Massey, who resides seven miles
north of this place, lost q number Of hogs
recently from the effects of acid phos-
phate, which the animals had eaten after
burglariously making entrance in the lint
room of his ginhouse where the stuff was
stored.
Darlington Ncws.. There is more home
made provisions in Darlington County
this year than any year since the war,
and still the cry Of hard times is heard
on every side......The present Town
Council have paid q debt of several hun.
dred dollars, kept up the streets, and
have fund on hand still without taxing
property, and yet some people are dis
posed to grumble at them......Mr. John
II. Schmid, who has returned from Lake
City, Fla, where he has been engaged in
business, says that twenty-seven crates of
green peas were shipped from that place
last week by single firm. Mach Cad
den, who killed Jack Sanders, about the
the 4th of July last, and for whom a re-
ward of $50 Was offered by the State, was
arrested, together with his concubine,
Julia Harllee, near Florence last Satur-
day, and the happy pair have suit of
rooms at the brick house n the corner.
Florence Times: 1t is currently report
ed that Louis Richardson, who left with
a party to work turpentine in Orange
burg, has killed his wife......A colored
man recently declared with emphasis too
many of his race are idle in Florence,
and that is the cause Of great part of
of the stealing, and the fighting between
wives and their husbands.
Lexington Dispatch: DR.. B. R. Wyse
and Mr.. Wade Caughnan have captured
in the Saluda River up to date over 100
wild geese. Several gentlemen of the
county have tanned flocks around their
premises. .....A negro woman was burned
10 death last week on the plantation Of
MS. Henry Geiger,, in Sandy Run. It
is supposed that she had gone to. sleep
befo-e the fire in her house. from which
hS clothes caught,