The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-19
State News and Notes.


The militia of Hampton county will bt
reviewed on the 26th.
Sumter has shipped during the pas
five months $3.50 bales of cotton.
The Lexington Dispatch wants Hon
D. Wyatt Aiken returned to Congress.
James Powell, colored, froze to deatf
in Edgefeld county last week. Whiske.
did it,
There is q fig tree on St. Simon'
5 Island that bore in one year 80 bushels
of figs.
Barnwell had $1,000 fire on the 11tt
instant, caused by the explosion ofa ker
osene lamp.
The Marion Merchant and Farmer ha!
been reduced in size, and is now home
printed paper.
Gen. Gary's race-horse dropped deae
on the Washington race course ir
Charleston week before last.
Abbeville County sent ten convicts tc
the Penitentiary on Tuesday, three Of
whom are sentenced for life.
Under decree of foreclosure of mort
gage, the Lester Factory at Greenville
was sold on last Tuesday week, and pur-
chased by Mr.. G. P. Jackson for SlS, 400.
Eli Wilcox and Jim Black, both col
ored, citizens of Marion, got into dis
pute on Monday, 9th instant, which re-
suited in the killing of the former by the
latter.
A volume entitled "Truth for the
People," by Rev. W.S. Plumer, D. D..
of Columbia, has been translated into
modern Greek and printed at Athens,
Greece.
The bursting of kerosene lamp at
Bormean's, on the Northeastern Railroad,
on Wednesday, 11th instant, caused the
destruction of store and dwelling house
by fire.
The Georgetown Times and 0COmet says
that the first candidate who "puts him
self in the hands of his friends" this
year should be carried to the wharf and
dumped into the river.
Rev. A. w. Lamar, pastor of the Bap-
tist Church at Camden, was accidentally
poisoned last week by eating some canned
tomatoes, but has entirely recovered from
the evil effects of the poison.
The Columbia Register states that lands
in the counties of Sumter, Marion, Clar-
endon and Williamsburg, in this State,
which eighteen months ago were offered
without purchasers at 50 per acre, are
now selling freely at $40 per acre.
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has sent Col. Butler, the State
Commissioner of Agriculture one thous.
and packages of tobacco seed, which, with
all other seeds that may come to him,
will be sent to the County Auditors for
distribution.
The County Commissioners of Green
vile have let out fifteen of the twenty
three sections of fence to be built be-
tween Greenville and Spartanburg, at
prices ranging from $50 to $50 per Sec
tion. The total cost of the fence will be
about $4,000.
The Spartanburg Spartan of last week
slys that cit is cause of rejoicing that
our county seems to be getting on the
high road to prosperity. Land is advan-
cling, money is becoming more plentiful,
and new enterprises are springing up
here and there"
Capt. Watkins. of GreenviAe, pur-
chased barrel of kerosene the other day,
for the purpose of sending it to Laurens,
and left it in his yard over night, and
next morning it was discovered that the
entire contents of the barrel had been
emptied into his we'll.
Messrs. Thompson and Neagle, the pro-
moters of the Columbia Canal scheme,
are confident of the success of the enter
prise, and say that parties in England
have expressed a willingness, if the
scheme is found to be be likely to meet
their expectations, to invest 100000.
Sam Lee, the notorious Radical and
ex-Speaker of the House of Representa-
tiyes under the Moses administration,
spoke to large crowd in Camden on last
Monday night week. Of course hethinks
the chances for the party of thieves to
regain control in this State at the next
election are good.
The Rev. F. NJ. Kennedy, D. D., for
merly editor of the Southern Christian
Adrocate, died at Macon Ga, Satur-
day of apoplexy. He was one of
the most eloquent preachers of the
Methodist Church South, was member
of the South Carolina conference, to
which he sustained for the past two
years superanuated relation.
The Kershaw Gazette thinks that the
r..ce crop is destined to become the lead
ing money crop of the country. Many