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

Abbevillc: The trustees Of Erskinc
College at their recent meeting resolved
not to put out any more of the college
money on real estate security for the
present. Public securities arc now so
much enhanced in value and the inter- ;
thereon so much moro promptly paid
that they thought best to change their
plan of nvestment.......M NJ. Erwin
received from the State Fair seven pre-
miums on six head of cattlo exhibited by
him. The premiums aggregated ninety
dollars in gold...... The county poorhousc
last year cost the county more than tie
Jail and about three times as much as all
.he trial justices put together.
Barnwell: A little boy four years old,
son of Mr.. Thomas Alexander, who re-
sides four miles from Barn well, while
playing near the fireplace, accidentally
slipped into the fire last Saturday and
was painfully burned on the side and
hips.....On Monday morning of last week
Mr.. Matthew r. Kearse, who lived near
Blackville, rose in the night at the pecu..
liar striking of the clock in his house, and
while standing before it became nausea
ted, and in about an hour was dead
man. lie leaves wife and several chill
iren. More fruit trees havo been
bought in Barnwell this fall than in any
previous season ..... The handsome build
ing of the Paramount Cotton Factory has
been completed and tho machinery is
placed in position.
Chester Mr.. J. Fl. Campson, miller at
Mr.. T.. Fl. BARRIERS mill, attempted to
commit suicide by shooting himself with
q pistol. The wound is serious. Tho
discovery of irregularities in his accounts
is given as the cause of the rash act.
Darlington: The public schools i'll the
county open OIL Monday next. ...The
residence, with its entire contents, of MIR.
Ezekiel Galloway, Of the Cypress neigh
borhood, was consumed by fire on Tues
Galloway are invalids confined to their
bed, the latter not having been able to
walk for two years. Their loss is estima-
ted at SI.5OO, with no insurance.
Edgotield: On Sunday last, in Church
Conference, the Rev. w. T. Hundley was
formally called to be the pastor of the
year,. The total amount Of claims for
services, dsc., against Edgefield County
curing tho fiscal year just ended amounts
to S9034 g.; and of these claims the
amount of 81 ,636.73 was allowed and ap-
proved by the board Of county commits
sioners.
Georgetown: A beautiful and imposing
monument has been erected by the Ma
rion's Men Of Winyah, over the grave OF
the late DR.. Alexis NJ. Foster. ... The
rivers and fields are filled with wild
ducks.
Lancaster It is rumored that move
n1ent is on foot to establish journal at
this place, which is to be published in
the interest of the colored race. a meet
ing of the colored population of the coun-
ty, says the Rcriew, is to be held OH the
first Saturday in December to raise funds
for that purpose..... Last Monday six
year-oid child of Mary Mobley, colored
woman living on Mrs. Lucy Vaughn's
place in Pleasant Hill Township, was
burned so badly by its clothes catching
fire that it died in few hours.
York On Monday last, June Massey,
colored, was committed to jail by Trial
Justice Fewell, of Rock Hill, on tho
charge Of killing Allen Hall, also colored,
ear that tow n, on Saturday. The accus-
ed claims that he and Allen were scuffling
with each other in play, and he acciden-
tally struck the deceased on the throat
with the coupling bolt of a wagon, which
he happened to have in his hand.
Union: Last week while Ephraim
Kelly and Major Jeter, two negroes,
were at work hauling cotton on Mrs. D.
e.. Gees plantation near Santuc. q dis
pute arose between the two, which re-
suited in Kelly's almost instant death by
a pistol shot from the hands of Jeter, the
ball entering the region just below the
heart and going entirely through the
body. Kelly spoke but very few
words after receiving the fatal shot. I
understand that they were drinking at
the time the difficulty occurred, and that
Jeter became angry at Kelly for teasing
him about something and deliberately
pulled out his pistol and shot him: Jeter
claims that it was purely accidental.
Jeter is mere boy, only eighteen or
nineteen years of age. He was arrested
aud lodged in Jail to-day to await his trial
at the noxt term of the Court Of General
Sessions. Frank Jeter, colored break
man on the Spartanburg, Union and
Columbia Railroad, was struck on the
head by bridge as the freight train was
passing under It. It is thought he will
die tonight from the effect of tho
wounds