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

session. They have. thus far, delibera-
ted with closed doors, and their proceed!
ings have beeh kept strictly secret.
I favored opening the South Carolina
University upon the plan adopted by the
last session of our Legislature. 1t will
be opened free of charge for tuition to all
the white youths of the State. We need
at the present time practical and scien-
tifc education, a system applicable to
the poor boy and his poor fathcrs.-Gen
Gary in his Charleston Speech.
Greenyille has lost as pure man as
ever breatbed within her borders, in the
death of Rev. John Burdine, who depart
ed this life on Tuesday night, at 1Ol
o'clock, in the seventy year Of his
age. The deceased Was minister of the
Protestant Methodist Church, and led
particularly exemplary life. He passed
away as peacefully ds 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 turpentine still of
Messrs. Exum & Co. in Orangeburg
County week before last and fred several
rounds into the commissary store, wound
ing Mr.. Daniel Bolin, the keeper. There
were several colored people in the store
at the time, but oil escaped without
injury. Several buck shot passed
through the building, which indicates
that the mob meant to kill and destroy.
No cause can be assigned for this outrage
unless it be the killing on the previous
Saturday night of colored boy by some
of the hands.
Cornelius Scott, penitentiary convict,
who escaped from the Laurens 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 a most desperate character. When
captured he had in his possession a re-
volver and a knife. The guards, howey-
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 penitentiary, and
broke away from them. Whereupon
they fred and killed him.
On the night of the S1st ult., Mr.. JEFF
ferson Gates, a respectable citizen of
Edgefeld 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 promiscuous
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 saw Tom Watson fire the fatal
shot. Mr.. Gates was young man of
twenty-eight or thirty years, and leaves
wife and several young children.
Nine negroes, two men, woman and
six,children, were roasted alive in cabin
on the plantation of Capt. George Swy-
CERT, Il miles from Columbia on tho
night of Tuesday, 80 instant The fire
originated about 10 o'clock, and was first
discovered by a colored woman who ran
to the burning building and pulled off
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 crude affair, made of
clay and sticks, and is supposed to have
ignited while the negroes were asleep.
The cabin had but one door and no
window. G. D. Lowndes, colored, coro-
ner of the county, Immediately repaired
to the scene of the disaster and impanel-
ed a jury of inquest, which, after hearing
testimony, rendered verdict that the
deceased came to their death by the ac-
cidental burning of the house in which
they were sleeping.
A writer in the Kco,cee Courier nomi-
mates Col. w. G. Keith, of Oconee, for
Governor and Gen. John D. Kennedy
for Lieutenant Governor. He says this
ticket will give general satisfaction and
eliminate from the Democracy any ten
dency to party rupture, that these gen.
tlemen are in the prime of life and fully
abreast of the times, that Col. Keith is
the strongest man north of Columbia,
full of energy and progress, catholic in
his notions and without sectional bias,
that he 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 sine qua
non for Lieutenant Governor being able
to fill that Office with more general good
will and enthusiasm than any other
man, while at the same time he is pos