The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-04
State News.

tive of South Carolina, but had spent the
greater part of his life in Kentucky,
where he was very prominent citizen.
He was member Of the State Senate
when the war broke out, and was once
brought out as q candidate for Governor
Of the State...... Three thousand ono hun
dred and thirty seven bales Of cotton
were shipped from Abbeville last month.
...... Mr.. +. E. Bowio, who lives few
miles from Hodges, made this year on q
two-horse farm 33 bales of cotton, III
bushels of wheat, 700 bushels of oats and
200 bushels of corn. 1t is difficult to SEQ
the logic in abandoning farming fo1 other
business when such results can be OBJ
beautiful specimen of upland rice, grown
by Mr.. J. T.. Spriggs, of New Market.
On one-fourth OF an acre he made twenty
bushels of rice in the rough. In Ander.
son the farmers are paying some atten-
ton to this grain, and find it the most
profitable crop which they can grow.
Let our people look into this matter, and
| divide their attention between cotton and
other profitable crops""..We have this
year the best crop ever produced in Abb
beville County. The farmers have more
| money, and the merchants are buster
than ever before. If the present rush
continues the present supply of goods
will be entirely exhausted long before
Christmas. All classes and conditions of
people are prosperous.
Georgetown: A colored man named
Sam Gailard was fired upon last Satur-
day night on the Sampit road from shot
gun loaded with buckshot. Gailard was
wounded in six places, though not dan
gerously. He says that he can identify
EI,o fo1 ftn
negro who about fortnight ago, men,
aced him in most savage manner.
Greenville: Aleck Sherman, colored,
was shot by John M. Scott, white, in
Greenville, on Monday night, and pain
fully wounded. Scott was drunk....A
skating rink has been opened in Green
ville..... During the past week 1892 bales
of cotton were received in Greenville, an
average of 4SS bales per day. The total
receipts so far this season have been
within fraction of II 900 bales, or an
average of over 1,70O bales per week.
Horny: Mr.. James Woodward had his
arm badly mangled by cotton gin last
week...... While two colorcd boys were
trying to swap pistols last Sunday one Of
the weapons was discharged, the ball
lodging in the chee, of one Of the negroes
and inflicting painful wound.
Kershaw: On last Thursday night Mr..
T. w. B. Smith, living below Camden,
went out to look around his cotton fields,
ard soon came upon two negroes busily
engaged picking his cotton. He succeed
ed in persuading them to accompany him
to his barn, where they were locked up
until the next morning, when he pro-
Marion The steam gin of Mr.. Joe
Thomas, near Dothan, was burned last
Thursday.
Newberry: The Clubhouse of Mr.. P.
Clark Smith was burned Wednesday
evening last, together with five bales of
cotton.
Oconee The assessment of personal
property OF Oconee County shows all in
crease over the assessment Of 1879 of
$36, ,1S9. .......T The cotton crop of our coun-
ty has been an unusually large and ex-
ceptionably good one...... Mr.. e. Turner,
who lives in the neighborhood of Battle
Creek Postoffice, had his house burned
down on October 19......Mr. Burdett, Of
Oconee County, is now los years old, and
voted his first Democratic ticket in Edge
field County oyer eighty years ago, and
has voted the Democratic ticket ever
since.
Richland The grand jury of Richland
County have recommerel that the county
commissioners be instructed to issue
liquor licenses at the old rates to expire
on December 3lst, 1880; after that no IL
cense to be issued for less than five hun
dred dollars per annum.....T There are
forty-five students in tho Agricultural
College at Columbia.
York In the negro church at Rock
Hill, Joseph Gooch, a colored boy aged
about II, was shot and killed by another
colored boy of 13 named VIM. Rawlinson
on last Sunday night. An inquest was
held by Trial Justice Fewell, and the
verdict of the jury was that the shooting
was accidental .... Anderson Watson,
oolored, died from over eXertion on last
Thursday. The sheriff of York County
had warrant for his arrest on charge
of cow stealing, and OH Thursday while
out serving other papers Thomas H.
Glenn and J. E. Carroll, acting as deputy
sheriffs pursued the negro, firing at him
three times. The negro fell from ex-
haustion and died. No wounds could be
discovered on his person, and the physi-
clan who examined him gave it as his
professional judgment that she came to
his death from over exertion."
Lancaster: A car load of cotton, twcn-
ty-two bales, belonging to j. W. Hassel.
tine G. Co., was burned on the Cheraw and
Chester Road..on Saturday, 23d ult. The
President of the road came over on
Monday and paid over to the firm the
full amount of the losses. Such prompti-
titude is worthy of notice by our mer-
chants and farmers. The fire originated
from spark from the engine.... The
depot Pineville, on the Charlotte, Col
umbia and Augusta Railroad, was de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday evening, 25th
ult. About 900 bales of cotton were
burned. Loss about $1,000. The origin
of the fire is supposed to have been from
spark from the engine.....Colonel Bax-
ter Springs, of York County, lost his gin
house, together with about forty bales Of
cotton, on Sunday night, oath ult., tho
work of an incendiary. IA young white
child, about five years old, was burned
to death on the farm of Mr.. John Harper
in this County, on Tuesday Goth ult.
The child's mother, Miss Simmons,
went out enrly in the morning to pick
cotton and built fire in the field, at
which she left her child. While she was
engaged at her work in distant portion
ofthe field the clothes of the child caught
fire, and before she could render aid the
child was so severely burned that it died
the following day.
AuuI6uSs 1lo (ICfutl
of a recent difficulty in that county: ut
seems that the negroes came to town on
said occasion in threatening, bantering
manner, with large hickory sticks swung
to their wrists, mounted and very noisy.
The whites came in peaceably, except the
usual hurrahing, and repaired to the Col.
lege Campus to rendezvous, nearly half
mile from the place of the negro meet
ing. About the time the speaking COM
menced some difficulty occurred between
white man and negro at the place of
meeting, in which the negro struck the
white man with stick. A pretty gem
eral fight with clubs then commenced,
the whites having provided themselves
with sticks after seeing the negroes thus
armed. Finally pistols were resorted to,
and in the general melee negro by the
name of Jim Griffin, from, the neighbor-
hood OF Cross Hill, was killed. 1t seems
that Griffin anticipated difficulty, as he
told his wife and family that be never
expected to return alive. Griffin was
captain of one of the negro companies