The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.

Barnwell People,: Major Sell and Capt.
w oodward, of the Fairmount Factory,
returned from their trip to the Piedmont
Section on Saturday. They were most
courteously entertained by our up-coun.
try cousins and have succeeded in selling
considerable stock in Aiken and Newber-
~ Counties. Three-fourths of their
capital stock has already been taken.
Kershaw Journal: Our turpentine
men are now experiencing their
busiest season of the year. The price is
a little better than it was few days ago.
Kershaw Gazette: The value of all
taxable property in the county is ST.
S77 7,957-real 81 ,24S, $50; personal, $685.
397.
Walhalla Courier Corn is scarce and
is selling on Tugalo at one dollar per
bushel. Western corn is worth eighty
to ninety cents cash.......We hear that
the Town of Westminster has elected a
dry ticket, and no licenses to sell liquor
in the incorporation will be granted for
the next twelve months. THE Masonic
fraternity of Walhalla have purchased a
lot and will erect large hall.
Yorkville Enquirer We learn that on
the plantation of Major Briggs, few
miles north of town, there was frost last
Saturday morning......We received a
call one day last week from Capt. J. w.
Seacreast, superintendent Of the Magno-
liza Gold Mining Company, of New York
who has returned to this county, after an
absence Of ten years, to engage in mining
for gold. The company he represents
uwn the Broad River and McSwain
Mines, situated in Broad River and Bull
locks Greek Townships, in this county,
and arrangements are in progress to thor
oughly develop these mines.
Greenville Me,cs: Mr.. G. L. Yates,
secretary of the Merchants and Cotton
Exchange, reports the number of bales
of cotton sold in Greenville up to May
18th, 28,79S.
Columbia Register The Committee on
Building of the Board of Regents of the
South Carolina Lunatic Asylum awarded
the contract for the new addition to the
asylum yesterday to Mr.. Clark Waring.
The job is to be finished for $4,000.
There were two other bids, one for $685.
700, and one for $2S,711. Mr.. Warnings
being the lowest his bid knocked the
persimmon......Sam Stewart, negro, sen
fenced to be hung on the 2Sth instant,
at Aiken, has had his sentence commuted
to Imprisonment for life. Colonel But
ler has received telegram from T. B.
Ferguson, one of the Fish Commission
ers at Washington, d. c., dated May %,
1880, saying that he would start car
with over million of shad the next
morning for South Carolina. Colonel
Butler proposes to place them in the Wa
teree, Little and Big Pee Dee, North and
South Edisto, Tugaloo, Catawba and
Great Saltkehatchie Rivers.
Charleston Ne,Us:: A horrible accident
occurred at Levy's near the Savannah
and Charleston Railroad, on Thursday
last, by which three colored children
| were burned to death. The children
| were left in the house by their mother,
who went 10 an adjoining field to see her
husband. During her absence the
house took fire and three of the children
perished in the flames. Mungeon New.
ton. relative of the family, discovered
the fire in time to save two of the chill
dren, but the roof Of the dwelling fell in
before he could rescue the other three,
and their bodies we're subsequently
| found, burned to q crisp.