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

There are only six paupers in the
Orangeburg poor house.
The Columbia Register, has advanced
in its price ofsubscription from ST to 50.
The Sea Island Me,cs reports cotton
blooms in the month of January on the
Bermuda plantation St. Helena.
One thousand tons Of granite has re-
Gently been sent from quarries near Col
umbia, to Washington City, to be used
in some of the public buildings.
On Thursday night last little negro
girl about four years old, on Mr.. J. S.
Green's place, seven miles from Ellenton,
was terribly burned, from the effects of
which she died within few hours.
The Register says that the Asylum farm
now produces enough potatoes, vegetables
corn and milk for patients and atten-
dants. Under the late Radical admins
tration the milk and a good deal of other
produce had to be purchased outside.
Congressman Evins, ofthis State, has
introduced bill in Congress appropria-
ting 10000 for bronze statue ofGeneral
Morgan, to be presented to the State and
erected in anticipation Of the celebration
ofthe battle of Cowpens, at spartanburg.
A negro child died at the house of
colored man in Lexington on Saturday
night, S1st nit. On Sunday evening the
child was buried, and on Monday night
the occasion was celebrated by regular
brake-down dance, which ended in q
drunken row.
The Beaufort Sea Island Ne,cs of the
7th has the following: "On the steamer
Saratoga, which left New York on JAN
uary 18th, was a passenger named By
erly. When off Port Royal he jumped
overheard and was eaten by shark that
was following the vessel"
Two negro men visited the home of a
Mrs. Berry, about two miles from Orange
burg, on the 2Sth January, and demand
ed all the money in the house. Failing
to get any, they took Mrs. Berry and Mrs.
Bird, an aged lady who was confined to
her bed by sickness, out into the yard
and beat and abused them shamefully.
What the South, the Northwest and
in fact the whole United States needs is
more money; currency sufficient in
volume to meet the demands of agricul-
ture and commerce. We have e great
and growing country, and We must have
more money for its proper and future
development.-Gen. Gary in his Charles
ton Speech.
On Saturday morning, 31st ult., about
four miles from Johnston's, in Edgefeld
County, the dead body of newly-born
male white child was discovered lying in
ditch very near the railroad track. 1t
was wrapped in piece of white cloth,
which was profusely smeared with blood,
and bloody handkerchief lay near it.
The child was large, fine and fully de-
veloped.
Capt. Charles B. Hammett lost his
mills on Pacolett creek in Spartanburg
County on Sunday night, the 1st instant,
by fire. There were corn and wheat
mills, saw mill and four cotton gins in
same building. Six bales of cotton, and
about fifteen hundred bushels of seed,
with some grain, were destroyed. The
mills had been lately improved, and they
were in fine condition. The loss was
about FIVE or six thousand dollars.
ct. B. Crews, Esq, editor of the Lau-
rensville Herald, has been elected Inten-
dant of Laurensville on the wet ticket
-Anderson Lpteligencer. "True enough,
but not in opposition to dry ticket, for
there was no such in the ield."-Laurcns-
uile Herald. And if there had been a
"dry" ticket in the field, the fact that you
we're elected on the "wet" ticket would
not have injured your character or
brought discredit upon your good name.
The Charleston Mews and Courier and
Columbia Register urge the extra session
of the legislature to pass a registration
law. The Mews and Courier wants every
one to be able to write his own name be-
fore he is considered competent to vote,
while the Register contends that any
such law would be unconstitutional. The
matter will be considered by the extra
session, and no doubt a law requiring the
registration of all voters prior to elections
will be passed.
The special committee appointed by
the Legislature in December, to investi-
gate the alleged charges of cruelty to the
convicts, on the Greenwood and Augusta
Railroad, were in session all of the last
week, and adjourned on Saturday until
after the extra session of the Legislature.
They will be prepared to make their re-
port at the meeting of the next regular