The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
oieanlnsD atorn our state Exchange

OieapingB ffom our State Exchanges.
Abbeville Press ard Bdansrt last Thurs
day j. Y. Jones, eS.Bheriff OF Abbeyille
County, refunded TO his bondsmen the
full amount which they had advanced for
him as sureties on his official bond. Sev.
cral days ago he paid largo official
claim which had not previously been ad-
justed, and now this payment, it ie pre-
sulnod, winds up the whole matter and
responsibility on his official bond. aud
| tulfils TO the letter his promise TO save
them whole in the end. ....,, Yesterday
| evening, 18th instant, ct half-past
O'Clock, died at his fathers house In Alb
beville, Thomas ID. Parker, Oldest survi-
wing aon Of DIR. Edwin Parker. The
| county treasurer has collected 3i5,7I8 OF
| tho current taxes, Si2,335 OF which (the
| State taxi has been forwarded TO the State
| Observation-Disclosures Is great improve
| mont In the Ahbevllle market, both as
| regards the price and the number OF balee
evening 1901 bales had been sold being
fully 1000 moro than was sold at this
| time last year. The cheering PROSPECT
will be increased when IL In Remembered
that the r rice has averaged from SO TO S15
! bale higher than last season. 1900
bales at an advance Of eI0 q bale would
| make $4,000 moro than our farmers had
| received at this time last year, TO say
nothing OF the thousand bales In excess
Of last years .... Rev. II. p
| Franks has purchased the valuable plan
| tation OF Mr.. Henry Latlmer for $1,000
| cash. Mrs. Frarks has recently fallen
heir to SIC. 900 by the death OF rich rela-
tive, and Mr.. Franks has invested the
r oney in Abbeville County real es-
| tate. 1.-THE colored agricultural society
nave changed tho time for holding their
fair to the Sd, 4th and 9th OF December.
Chester State Bulletin: Since the 1st OF
September II 800 bales of cotton have
beon shipped over the Charlotte, Column
bia and Augusta Railroad from this place.
1.-The truck of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad has beon laid TO the river. Pas
senSers and malls are now transferred at
that point. A depot has been built on
this ,'de of the river, and Mr.. +. NJ. Hick-
lin Has taken charge as the railrOrd
agent. The place Is known rs Catawba
Station.
Newberry Herald The total valuation
Of personal property in this county, in
Guiding polls, fs s072, ,285-the number OF
polls Is 4,340...... Newb berry seems to be
ters. Over half Of tho two weeks Court
that closed Saturday was taken up with
the trial OF criminal cases. The Common
Pleas Court was not opened till Tuesday
afternoon. Tho Judge found himself
confronted with throe hundred causes,
OuO hu0 VI luctIl OH
tho July calendar; some of them have
been on tho dockets for twonty terms Or
more. Each year, instead Of reducing, is
adding to the Dass OF "cases." The
Court can't get the cases off as fast as they
are put ON, and Nowberry people are not
specially lltigious either. The trouble Is
we have dozen or two negroes to try Mt
every term OF Court.
Pickens Sentinel: jeff. Arnold who
was cut by Mr.. Orr two weeks ago, Is on
the streets again.. Easloy Is one of
the most go-ahend towns on tho Air
tho past month. 1.-The County Commits
sioners havo ordered an election in Lib
erty on tho 18th proximo for the mo
fence.". ...... There were fourteen loaded
cars on tho side track at Easley ono day
last week awaiting shipment; also lots
Of cotton on the platform: ;::.... Captain
Kirk has shipped q car load Of vice from
Easley to Charleston and expects to ship
another soon. How Is that for high ?....
There are about 400 6elinquenis in the
county, upon whose tax the penalty Of 10
per cont. has been added, and against
whom executions will be issued at the
proper time If they do not pay up. Tho
total am-.unt Of taxes collected Is as fol-
lows: State txes Ss,177.77.7; ordinary
county tax IS, ,465.3 .35.7; railroad tax S0,-
24S.46.2: school tax 95,3l0.s4.0; poll tax
$1,56S; penalty collected $3.50 9.20.4; aggre-
gate 929, ,ld5. .75......At corn -shucking in
tho Dacusville .neighborhood, In this
county, about the first OF this month.
several negro es got into u difficulty,
which resulted in the killing Of Elias
Hunt by Will Wilson. Hunt was stab
bed by Wilson i'll the abdomen with
pocket knife, severing one of tho intes-
tines half in two in two or three places.
DIR. Anderson dressed the wounds but
Hunt died on the 10th instant, after lipger.
ing nine or ten day.. Wilson is now In Jail
at this place. From what we learn about
the affair, the murder seems to have been
entirely unproyoked. No white men
were concerned in the difficulty.
Laurons Herald: Work on the railroad
bridge at this place Is progressing satis~
factorily, considering the unfavorable
weather for the past three or four days.
.."..A correspondent writes: Our usually
quiet section (Dinl township has had an
other incendiary iire-this time the barn
Of Mr. Joel Vaught, nm honest, industri-
GUS and good citlzen-dcstroylng, besides
tho house, all his provender. This fol-
lowing the burning of DIR. Wolff's resi-
dence, with It's entire contents, and DIR.
Fuller's factory, o loss 20 the proprietor
of about $4,000, and TO tho county val
uable enterprise that can DO lily spared,
all In tho Same neighborhood, has arous-
ed n sentiment of Indignation that will be
hard - queil. Whom these parties are
spotted by the thinking men of tie COM
nunlty II will b9 difficult to stay tho
arm of Judge Lr..ch and If those who
give them shelter and employment
do not desist and discharge them--in-
duced by public sentiment-are they,
too, not guilty in o measure of the re-
spons'bility? And should they not be
placed in tho list of et il-doers and suffer
the penalties Of snch?
Union Tim-s: We learn that on Friday
night last the steam mill and gin house
of Messrs. Sinclairs, five miles above
here on the Meanwhile road, was robbed
of 8 large quantity of seed cotton. The
thieves drove two horse wagon up to
the building, opened the door OF the gin
house, deliberately struck number OF
matches in the cotton room, then filled
colored man was sleeping in the build
Ing, who says he did not hear the thieves
ut work.
Keowee Courier We have cherry tire 81
omparatively white with blooirs......F :.
r. s.. Rutledge, of our county; infnrnnn
us that he has the second crop of apples
upon his apple trees this yeaI..... We re-
SFoss 70 ..essEi; that Mr.. John e. Lowis wee
seriously injured by fall from the cars,
ut Anderson, or his return from the State
Fair......Corn thieves have been nume-
rous this fall. Several persons around
Walhalla have lost from five to twenty
bushels from the field at night.... Dogs
are killing sheep near Walhalla at night.
a large number of sheep have boon
killed In this way, and, also, some goats.
The law Is that dogs of this kind may be
killed.....We tender q hearty welsonlc to
Capt. Whaling and family, Of Virginia, to
our town. Captain Whaling comes for
the purpose of educating his boys In Ad-
ger College. The young .,en viii enter
rian Church was organized at Flat Rock,
about four miles from Walhalla on last