The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-12

ings baye becii keps strictly secret.
I favored opening the South Carolina
University upon the plan adopted by the
last session Of our Legislature. It will
30 opened free ofCharge for tuition to all
the white youths OF the State. We need
at the present time practical aud scIcn-
tific education, system applicable to
tho poor boy and his poor fathers Gen.
Gary in his Charleston Speech.
Greenyile has lost as puTe a man ms
ever breathed within her borders, in the
death of Rev. John furdine, who depart.
ed this lie on Tuesday night, at iOl
o'clock, In the seventy ninth year OF his
| age. The deceased was minister of the
Protestant Methodist Church, and led n
| particularly exemplary life. He passcd
| away as peacefully hs a child to sleep,
and like Joseph of old, he gave COM
mandment concerning his body, which
by his request will be laid away in the
family burying ground in Anderson
County.
A crowd Of about forty infuriated
negroes visited the tnrpentine still of
Measrs. Exum 4 Co.. in Orangeburg
County week before Inst and fired several
rounds into the commissnry store, wound
ing Dir. Daniel Iolin. the keeper. There
were several colored people in the store
at the time, but all escaped without
injury. Several buck shot passed
through tho building, which indicates
that the mob meant to kill and destroy.
No cause can be assigned for this outrage
unless it be tho killing on the previous
Saturday night of a colored boy by some
of the hands.
Cornelius Scott, n penitentiary convict,
who escaped from th Laurcns detail,
was shot and killed near Acton on last
Sunday night while resisting arrest.
Scott had been sentenced to five years,
from Richland County. He is described
as most desperate character. Whom
captured he had in his possession re-
volver and knife. The guards, howev-
er, kept him covered with their guns and
disarmed him. While attempting to tie
him, he declared he would die before he
would be carried to the peni!entiary, and
broke away from them. Whereupon
they fired and killed him.
On the night of the 3lst ult., Mr.. JEFF
ferson Gates, respectable citizen of
Edgefield county, living. some eight miles
beyond Ridge Spring, near Providence
Church, was shot and killed. 1t seems
certain negroes on his place were having
frolic, and, difficulty arising among
them, Mr.. Gates went out to the house to
stop it. The melee became pronniscuous
and furious, and in the midst of it Mr..
Gates was shot through the body and
killed. He was using neither harsh
words nor measures, and was not known
to have an enemy in the house. Two
negro men, Tom Watson, jr., as principal,
and John Brooks as accessory, have been
arrested and lodged in Jail. One or more
witnesses swore before the jury of inquest
that they eaw Tom Watson fire the fatal
shot. Mr.. Gates was n young man of
twenty-eight or thirty years, and leaves o
wife and several young children.
Nine negroes, two men, o woman and
six.children, were roasted alive in cabin
on the plantation of Capt. George Swy-
gert, Il miles from Columbia on the
night Of Tuesday, 80 instant. The fire
originated about 10 o'clock, and was first
discovered by colored woman who ran
to the burning building and pulled of o
board, when she heard one Of the children
attempting to awaken its father without
success. Before assistance arrived the
cabin and its occupants were burned up.
The chimney was q crude afT:;r, made oi
clay end sticks, and is supposed to have
ignited while the negroes were asleep.
The cabin had but one door and no
window. @. d. Lowndes, .colored, coro-
;;oT ofthe county, Immediately repaired
to the scene of tia disaster and impauel-
cd q jury of inquest, which, after hearing
testimony, rendered verdict that the
deceased came to their death by the &C.
cidentai burning of the house In which
they were alceping.
"A writer in the Keo,oec Courier nomi-
mates Col. w. O. Keith, of Oconee, for
Governor and Gen. John D. Kennedy
for Lieutenant Governor. He ssys this
ticket will give general satisfaction and
eliminate from the Democracy any ten
deney to. party rupture, that these gen.
tlemen are in the prime of life and fully
abreast of the times, that Col. Keith is
tho strongest man north of Columbis,
full of energy and progress, catholic in
his notions and without sectional bias,
that no was warm advocate of the
Charleston and Columbia canals, greatly
Interested in the completion of the Blue
Ridge Road and possessed of unques-
toned legal ability. Gen. Kennedy the
| writer regards as at present the .iae qua.
atofs for Lieutenant Governor being able
to ill that oficewith more general good.
will and enshnaiaam than any other
man, while at the same time he Is pos.
esssed of great foresight, prudence and
ability. LISA very good ticket. and We
intend 70 vote tiff placed in the field by
the Democratic State Convention.
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