The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-29
State News :, nd Notea.

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The town of Chester has debt OF
$5,4S2.7O.
There. are 1856 patients in the State
| asylum-182 males and 209 females.
Two colored children wero burned to
death in Abbeville County last week.
The colored watchman at the post
Office at Columbia gets $40 per month.
A colored man 9. Hampton County
made $500 clear of all expenses this year
farming.
twenty-five law students were admit
ted to practice by the Supreme Court on
Friday, 14th instant.
Mr.. VIM. Gaskin, Of Kershaw County,
was run over by loaded wagon on
the goth instant and instantly killed.
At the examination for school certifi-
Gates for Abbeville County "a whites and
4G colored candidates were successful.
t. B. Crews, Esq, editor of the Lau-
rensville Herald, has been elected Inten-
dant of Laurensville on the "wet ticket"
A fire occurred in Charleston on last
Thursday which destroyed the car shed
and large number of cars of the South
Carolina Railroad.
Ben. Hunt, colored, was caught be-
tween two cars, ut Central, on the night
of the 18th, while attempting to couple
them, and instantly killed.
The Hampton Democrat, published at
Varnvil!e, Hampton County, has been
purchased by Rev. E. w. Peoples, who
will convert it into Baptist weekly.
There are sixteen prisoners in the Alb.
begille jail, fourteen of whom are await
ing trial at the next Court, the other two
being State witnesses in important case.
The Winnsboro Ne,cs and Herald Gays
that the Democrats of South Carolina
are foolish if they expect to carry the
State this fall without severe straggle."
So large is the number of primary pu-
pills attending the Due West Female
College this year that the authorities
have found it necessary to employ an
assistant.
There is but one Grange in working
order in the whole of Barnwcll County.
They need little of the enterprise down
there that characterize their brethren in
Anderson County.
The Spartan1urg Spartan advises the
farmers to buy their fertilizers at once,
and not wait until April, when they may
have to take an inferior grade. It is ad-
vice worth considering.
The Camden journal says shat it has
been prosperous year with the turpen-
tine men in the lower part of the State,
and from "all indications the saintly
goddess of plenty is with them.'
The Abssyille Press and Banner NOM
mates Col. J. 8. Cothran, Solicitor of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, for Attorney
General. He would fill most any office
in the gift of the people ably and accep-
tably.
The revenue force, which has been
stationed at Walhalla for some time,
wero heavily reinforced recently. Un-
der command of Col. johnson they are
now securing Rabun County, Ga., on a
hunt for Illicit distillers.
The Greenville Cnron;soo!sss, weekly
paper of 90 columns, made it's first ap-
pearance on Thursday last. Mr.. A. III.
Howell, o gentleman of considerable ex-
perience in the Newspaper business, is
editor and business manager.
The Rev. Donald Moo forty-three
years o minister Of the Presbyterian
! Church at Sumter, died on Saturday last
after lingering illnesa .,f many months,
aged 40. he was educated at the Theo-
logical Seminary of Columbia.
Five prisoners broke jail in Spartan.
burg on Saturday. They cut through
two feet &c ss.:5. :si:a rock vail. they were
| preached to on Friday by Miss Painter
and ifev. II. Q. Oliver. Iney wers
waiting trial for gravs offences.
| A Columbia correspondent of the
Beaufort Crescent says that Senator Lips.
comb, of Newberry, will no doubt be the
next nominee for Secretary of State
Some people have a wonderful tact a
finding ont things that are to be.
4. The Lexington Dispatch says that {
disease similar to the black tongue il
prevalent a,s,t,i siie z.1ssssll :.hli love
tpCstion Of that county on the Orangeburl
line. Iti Is proving very fatal, one gen
tieman having lost ten head in one week
Death ensues in two days after the at
tack.
Hon, Armstekd Burt, Of Abbeville, hal
been uaggesled by correspondent of Ia,
Greenyille Eatapyiiss and 1iopaigiaesr q,
4 suitable person for Goyefnor. ASr
Burt ID an abla lawyer, aud has many
friends Ia She State who would be glad L
bee hiln occupying tho gubornatosiaI
chair pf sbnth Carolina.
! ss:.:ss as Charlotte. Columbia aud Ausuats
Railrona e undergoing thorough repairs
since the new management assumed
eharS There Is nothing 60 Wholesome
abmsanies FOR both public and private
enterprises ss . change Of management.
~ has proved as beneficial to the Green.