The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.

Abbeville Press and Bd,.ner. Last Thurs-
day j. Y. Jones, eN-sheriff of Abbeville
County, refunded to his bondsmen the
full amount which they had advanced for
him as sureties on his official bond. Sew
eral days ago he paid large official
claim which had not previously been adj
justed, and now this payment, it is pre-.
sumed, winds up the whole matter and
relieves his sureties from any further
responsibility on his official bond, and
fulfils to the letter his promise to save
them whole in the end......: yesterday
evening, 18th instant, at half-past q
o'clock, died at his fathers house in ABB
beville, Thomas D. Parker, Oldest survl-
wing son of DR.. Edwin Parker. 1000. The
county treasurer has collected S45,7ls of
the current taxes, Sl2,39S of which (the
State taxi has been forwarded to the State
treasurer. ...... There Is great improve
ment in the Abbevllle market, both as
regards the price and the number of bales
sold in our market. UP to last Saturday
evening 1901 bales had been sold being
fully 1000 more than was sold at this
time last year. The cheering prospect
will be increased when 1t Is femebi bered
that the price has averaged from IS to Sl5
bale higher than last season. $500
bales at an advance of $40 bale would
make $4,000 more than our farmers had
received at this time last year, to say
nothing of the thousand bales In excess
of last years transactiors.."..Rev. II. +.
Franks has purchased the valuable plan
tation of Mr.. Henry Latimer for $4,000
cash. Mrs. Franks has recently fallen
heir to $40 900 by the death of a rich rela-
tive. and Mr.. Franks has invested the
money in Abbeville County real es-
tate. 49,. The colored agricultural society
have changed the time for holding their
fair to the Sd, 4th and 5th of December.
Chester State Bulletin Since the 1st OF
September II, 800 bales of cotton have
been shipped over the Charlotte, Colum-
bia and Augusta Railroad from this place.
The track of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad has been laid to the river. Pas
seneers aud mails are now transferred at
that point. A depot has been built on
this side of the river, and Mr.. +. NJ. Hlck-
lin has taken charge as the railrord
agent. The place is known as Catawba
Station.
Newberry Herald: The total valuation
of personal property in this county, IN.
Guiding polls, is $972, ,265-the number of
hopelessly in the mire in Judicial mat
ters. Over half of the 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. The Judge found himself
confronted with three hundred causes,
one hundred and thirty-four of them on
the July calendar; some of them have
been on the dockets for twenty terms or
more. Each year, instead of reducing, is
adding to the mass of ceases" The
Court can't get the cases off as fast as they
are put on, and Newberry people are not
specially litigious either. The trouble is
we have dozen or two negroes to try at
every term of Court.
Pickens Sentinel: jeff. Arnold, who
was cut by Mr.. Orr two weeks ago, is on
the streets again. Easley Is one OF
the most go-ahead towns on the Air
Line. Business has been very good for
the past month";. The County Commis'
sioners have ordered an election in Lib
erty ON tho 18th proXimo for the mo
fence.". There were fourteen loaded
last week awaiting shipment; also lots
of cotton ON the platform =. ..... Captain
Kirk has shipped q car load of rice from
Easley to Charleston and expects to ship
another soon. How is that for high ?......
There are about 400 delinquents in the
county, upon whose tax the penalty OF 10
per cent. has been added, and against
whom executions will be issued at the
proper time if they do not pay up. The
total amount of taxes collected is as fol-
lows: State taxes Ss,177.77.7; ordinary
county tax So, 1866. .35.7; railroad tax S6,-
243. 1862: school tax $5,3l0.S4.0; poll tax
Sl,56s; penalty collected 1859 .20.4; aggre-
gate $29, ,l45.75.....At n-shucking in
the Dacusville neighborhood, in this
county, about the first of this month,
several negroes got into difficulty,
which resulted in the killing Of Elias
Hunt by Will Wilson. Hunt was stab
bed by Wilson in the abdomen with a
pocket knife, severing one of the intes-
tines half in two in two or three places.
DIR. Anderson dressed the wounds but
Hunt died on the 10th instant, after linger.
ing nine or ten days. Wilson is now IN jail
at this place. From what we learn about
the affair, the murder seems to have been
entirely unprovoked. No white men
were concerned in the difficulty.
Laurens Herald: Work on the railroad
bridge at this place is progressing salts
factorily, considering the unfavorable
weather for the past three or four days.
......A correspondent writes: Our usually
quiet section (Dial township has had an
other incendiary fire-this time the barn
of Mr.. Joel Vaught, an honest, industri-
Gus and good dcitizen-destroylng besides
the house, all his provender. This fol-
lowing the burning of DR.. Woltf's resi-
dence, with its entire contents, and DIR.
Fuller's factory, a loss to the proprietor
of about 900, and to the county val
liable enterprise that can be lily spared,
all in the same neighborhood, has arous-
ed sentiment of indignation that will be
hard to quail. When these parties are
spotted by the thinking men of the COM
munity it will be difficult to stay the
arm of Judge Lynch; and if those who
give them shelter and employment
duced by public sentiment-are they,
too, not guilty in measure of the re-
sponsibility? And should they not be
placed in the list of evil-doers and suffer
the penalties Of such?
Union Times We learn chat on Friday
night last the steam mill and gin house
of Messrs. Sinclairs, five miles above
here, on the Meansville road, was robbed
of 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
their wagon. All this was done while
colored man was sleeping in the build
ing, who says he did not hear the thieves
at work.
Keowee Courier We have cherry trees
paratively white with blooms. Mr..
r. S. Rutledge, of our county, informs
us that he has the second crop of apples
upon his apple trees this year......We re-
gret to learn that Mr.. John E. Lewis was
Seriously injured by fall from the cars,
at Anderson, on 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.
are killing sheep near Walhalla at night.
A large number of sheep have been
killed in this way, and, also, some goats.
The law is that dogs of this kind may be
killed We tender hearty welcome 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 men will enter
the freshman class.....A new Presbyte-