The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-11
SOUTH CAROLYN NEWS.
Gleanlnss from, our state Exchange.

A6beriNe Medium: Governor Jeter will
be required to act in the jeff David mat
ter. The next date fixed for his execu-
tion will come during his short exercise
of executive authority......A new depot
is to be erected at Hodges. The business
of the place has increased so much dur.
ing the last two or three years that new
house is necessary to accommodate the
heavy freights on the road. ..Thrco car
loads of old iron have been shipped from
this place to the rolling mills during the
last week, and there is enough left in the
county to start foundry. The buyers
have been busy all the time receiving,
weighing, classifying and shipping the
iron. 1t is divided into two classes,
wrought and cast, and each class is in
term rated first and second class. The
average price paid in this market is
twenty-five cents per hundred pounds.
A reward of one hundred dollars has
been offered for the arrest, with proof 10
convict, of any person hereafter cutting
or in any other way injuring the cross
ties on the Greenyille and Columbia
Railroad.
Chester State Bulletin Mr.. John Simp-
son OF this county has corn up. It was
planted on the 9th of January. Last
Saturday, on Mr.. E. Fl. Abell's place,
Mr.. Jessie Simpson, young white man,
was assaulted and painfully wounded by
shot from pistol in the hands of Jake
Williams, colorec.
Greenville Advcrtiser:: We saw four
bales of cotton yesterday that were
brought to market by Mr.. Lewis Aber-
crombie, of Babbtown, having been
raised in 1875 and held from year to
year in hopes of better prices. In weights
the bales had shrunk rs or 80 pounds
each since first picked, and though it was
originally first-class ca.ton it sold for 10i
cents, prime cotton now being worth 12I.
SpaTtIiahu1I Spartan Last Sunday
night several young men visited the shan
ty in which some section hands Of the
Spartanburg and Asheyille Road were
staying at Landrums. They enticed
them out, and without any cause cruelty
beat aud bruised one of the hands. His
condition is truly pitiable. 1t is said
that these same young rowdies frequent
ly disturb the people of that community
at night. 58S4g Is saa.ca "a. .5s-
Spartanburg Herald: The new Opera
House is rapidly approaching compile
ton, and We learn thatapplications have
been received from several parties offering
big prices for the first night.
Edgefeld Adpertiser. The convicts,
under the Immediate management of the
company, are working steadily and we'll
some three miles beyond Trenton.
President Jones ia nowain Columbia per-
feeting q ne; with ith tiip directors
of the PeEitentiary.,...Upon questioning
q half hundred farmers on Monday last
we found that all of them were buying
considerable more guano than ever be-
fore, and that their neighbors were doing
likewise. It is said that the fertilizer
icompanies of Charleston afe refusing to
take on any more orders at present, as
the, demand cannot be supplied.
Eugcfieiu ifD..itor > Ino dwelling house,
smoke-house and corn-crib of Mr. Arthur
Still, in Dean Township, were entirely
destroyed by fire one night last week,
The corn-crib. and smoke-house were
robbed and then ses on; fire, the flames
communicating with Aha dwellinr fran
which very little was sayed.
Camden JoifrHai; There was only one
death in Camdsh during the month oi
February, and that ives tramp who had
imbibed too freely ofthe fighting whiskey
dealt ont In some ofthc bars. II is as
l.serted that ore bar-r0o,l in Camdan.
siEca the LIST OF November, has sold thirty
barrels of Whiskey. At 20, gallons to the
barrel, this one bar has sold i 200 gallons
Multiply by the number of bar,r0pms
| (l2) in town, ard We have the enormous
amount of $4,000 gallons of whiskey
sold here in fonr months. This does moi
inelgde what is sold by the wholesale
deS 'eys.. 1.-The guano business is Of tire
;uendous 6imens:5ns this year. One
dealer in CamGerl says lie sold 175 tons ii
q singla day Ffcently...... The tax to bs
collecfed in Rershaw County this yea
an1opnss to Il .4 mills on every dollar
The eHira session Of the Legislati,r,
didn't help MS any.
Kershaw Gdstite; During the pas
/ month tbnro was Issued ct the Sanldem
| iisosioffice $40 money orders, amounting Il
/ e5, ,702. 80, the fees on which were Ss4i4.9 95
The apn0int of money orders paid on
4 was $3.50. &c.
I Lancaster LEDGER. Peach trees Ii
| bloom all nyeF The country. Tho acre
age that viii be planted IN cotton by on
! farners will be considerably mora ssiaI
It was lass yeaF,... During tho tw'
months nj j 4iiifHfy anu February Sinl
/ past0tIice AZ this aAlaco Issued 332 mo-. $
! orders, sggreg egating the sum nj s5; 81
artd during tie same perios; only $9IA.3'
! was paid ont upon ottiers Issued on thi
oflice. Thisshows a balance OF exehaDg
| against Lancastei County Of 80 ,563s5i
| for the si,Srt period OF two months.