The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-11
SOUTH CAROLINA MEMS.
GleanIngs from our State Exchanges.

100eclHe IIeQlunl: Governor JcIcr VIII
be required to act in the jeff David mat
ter. The next date fixed for his exccu-
ton will come during his short exercise
of executive authority......A new depot
is to be erected at Hodges. The business
of the place has increased 80 much dur
ing the last two or three years that new
house is necessary to accommodate the
heavy freights on the road. Three car
loads of old iron have been shipped from
this place to the rolling mills during the
last week, and there is enough left in the
county to start a foundry. The buyers
have been busy all the time receiving,
weighing, classifying and shipping the
iron. 1t is divided into two classes,
wrought and cast, and each class is in
term rated first and second class. The
average price paid in this market is
twenty-five cents per hundred pounds.
a reward of one hundred dollars has
been offered for the arrest, with proof TO
convict, of any person hereafter cutting
or in any other way injuring the cross
ties on the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad.
Chester State Bulletin: Mr.. John Simp-
son of this county has corn up. 1t was
planted on the 9th of January......Last
Saturday, on Mr.. Z. II. AbelFs place,
Mr.. Jessie Simpson, young white man,
was assaulted and painfully wounded by
shot from pistol in the hands of Jake
Williams, colored.
Greenville Advertiser: We saw four
bales of cotton yesterday that were
brought to market by Mr.. Lewis Aber-
crombie, of Babbtown, having been
raised in 1875 and held from year to
year in hopes ofbetter prices. In weights
the bales had shrunk IS or 50 pounds
each since first picked, and though it was
originally frst-class cotton it sold for 10!
cents, prime cotton now being worth 12l.
Spartanburg Spartan Last Sunday
night several young men visited the shan
ty in which sume section hands of the
Spartanburg and Ashcville Road we're
staying at Landrums. They enticed
them out, and without any cause cruelty
beat and bruised one of the hands. His
condition is truly pitiable. 1t is said
that these same young rowdies frequent
ly disturb the people of that community
at night.
Spartanburg Herald: The new Opera
House is rapidly approaching compile
ton, and we learn that applications have
been received from several parties offering
big prices for the first night.
Edgefeld Advertiser: The convicts,
under the immediate management OF the
company, are working steadily and we'll
some three miles beyond Trenton.
President Jones is now in Columbia per-.
fectirg q new contract with the directors
Of the Penitentiary......Up questioning
= half hundred farmers on Monday last
we found that all of them were buying
considerable more guano than ever be-
fore, and that their neighbors were doing
likewise. 1t is said that the fertilizer
companies Of Charleston are refusing to
take on any more orders at present, as
the demand cannot be supplied.
Edgefeld Monitor: The dwelling house,
smoke house and corn-crib of Mr.. Arthur
Still, in Dean Township, were entirely
destroyed by fire one night last week.
The corn.crib and smoke-house were
robbed and then set on fire, the flames
communicating with the dwelling, from
which very little was saved.
Camden Journal: There was only one
death in Camden during the month of
February, and that was tramp who had
imbibed too freely of the fighting whiskey
dealt out in some of the bars......lt is as
serted that one bar-room in Camden,
since the lst of November, has sold thirty
barrels of whiskey. At 40 gallons to the
barrel, this one bar has sold 200 gallons.
Multiply by the number of bar-roons
(12) in town, and we have the enormous
amount of $4,000 gallons Of whiskey
sold here in four months. This does not
include what is sold by the. wholesale
dealers. The guano business is of tre-
mendous dimensions this year. One
dealer in Camden says he sold l75 tons in
!: single day recently. TAX to be
collected in Kcrshaw County this year
amounts to 122 mills on every dollar.
The extra session Of the Legislature
didn't help lis any.
Kershaw Gazette: During the past
month there was issued at the Camden
postoffice 800 money orders, amounting to
$5,702.25, the fees on which were S!4.9o.
The amount Of money orlers paid out
was $5GGG6.
Lancaster Lcdgrr: Peach trees in
bloom all over the country......The acre
age that will be planted in cotton by our
farmers will be considerably mare than
it was last yrar..... During the two
months of January and February the
postoilice at this place issued 332 money
orders, aggrcgating the sum of S5,sI;Sl,
and during the same pcrind only S"lJ;'i3
was raid out upon orders issued "n til'
Office. This shows ~ balance ot exchange
against Lancaster County of s;9,36o.1l,
for the shurt period of two months.