The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-15
State and Southern News Items.

There are 1000 colored Masons in
North Carolina.
"A Paris (Ky.) man is shipping blue
grass seed to Holland and France.
| Gen. A. c. Darlington has become
editor of the Greenville Daily Neus.
Rev. J. G. Hiden, D. D., has resigned
the editorship of the Baptist Courier.
The South raised 100000 pounds
more of tobacco last year than ever be-
fore.
The extra session of the Tennessee
Legislature, which lasted for eight days,
cost $l2, ,174S1.
- The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences in Texas, en-
bracing 1898 members.
- The Barnwell People calls General
Johnson Hagood, our present Comp
troller General, "our next Governor"
February will have five Sundays;
very rare occurrence, happening only
three times during this century-1s24,
1852 and 1880.
The question of forming new coun-
ty out of portions of Chester and Fairfield
is being agitated. 1t is proposed to make
Blackstock the county site.
spartanburg is to have cotton fac
tory with capital stock of S2OO,O
There ought to be an enterprise of the
kind in every county of South Carolina.
The Atlanta Consultation puts Senator
Hill first in the list of Georgia lawyers
who have received large fees. In one
case, he received fee of Sl4O, 900, of
which $50, 900 were paid in cash.
The Democrats of Newberry have
managed to get up split in the party
over the municipal election, and there
are now two tickets in the field, each
claiming to be the regular Democratic
ticket.
The Abbeville Medium says that Gary
| is gaining on Hagood every jump. Will
its arithmetician please tell us when he
will catch up? According to our calcu-
lations he is long ways behind and get
ting mighty tired.-Barnweu People.
= The proposed amendment to the
constitution of Mississippi providing for
| biennial elections and sessions of the
Legislature was rejected by the people at
the late election by the large vote of 3D.
s54 nays to 13,1ss yeas. 61,355 votes were
necessary for ratification. s.
&C. B. Clardy, middle aged man,
who lives in the Lathem neighborhood,
in this County, was found dead during
Christmas week. 1t is supposed he died
from the effects of heart disease superin-
duced by drinking intoxicating liquors.
-Pickens Sentinel.
"A worthy young man by the namo
Of Stephen ". Bush, about IS years of
age, was shot and instantly killed by w.
s. Bates, at party near Joyce Branch,
in Barnwell county, on the evening of
December oath. Bates surrendered him
self, and is now.in Jail Whiskey is said
to have been the cause of this unfortu-
nate affair,
Aaron and Tom Massey, colored
men living on DR.. Kilgore's plantation
on Enoree started out hunting during
the holidays. They got into dispute
about settlement of the proceeds of a
bale of cotton, and words multiplied and
passion grew higher and higher, until
Aaron shot Tom, from the effects Of
which he died.-Spartanburg Spartan.
There are eight prisoners in the
Walhalla Jail, only one of whom is serv-
ing his sentence, the remaining seven
being for trial at the coming term of
court. They are charged with crimes
from murder down. Besides these pris-
oners the county has four others in the
Anderson jail, charged with murder.
There are also several parties on bail.
This does not speak well for Oconee.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was lately
in Raleigh, and gentleman asked him
rather pointedly' why the Southern army
did not take Washington after the first
battle Of Manassas. Rising on his toes,
he replied: "There were two reasons
myself and the Potomac River. I had
reached that age I knew that an Ameri-
can soldier could not ford river mile
wide and eighteen feet Deep"
Mr.. Dwell Reeves, Jr., had little
daughter burned to death on Saturday,
Sd instant. 1t appears that the child was
left in charge of some smaller children
while the mother had gone to branch to
wash some clothing. The child gathered
some fuel for the fire in her apron, which
caught on fire in emptying 1t. Her cries
attracted her mother and others, but be-
fore she could be reached was so badly
burned that she lived only few hours
PicEeis Sentinel.
We regret to learn that Mr.. r. G.
Cook, who resided in the lower section of
this County, met with fatal accident at
his mill on the 23d ult. He was on the
race making some repairs when his foot
ing gave way, precipitating him to the
ground, some ten feet, the back of his
head striking rock, crushing his skull.
he fingered unconscious until the morn
ing of the 9th, when he breathed his
last. Mr.. Cook was an Englishman, and
had been in this country only few years.
-Piekens Sentinel.
- The temperance wave is sweeping
over various portions of Georgia. The
Drew revival continues in Atlanta, al7
though he is now 1aboring in Savannah.
Many persons are pinning on the blue
ribbon every week. There were many
families that opened their doors New
Years day and received their friends
and wine was not offered in not more
than half dozen houses, and the callers
touched even that very lightly. The
town Of Crawford has just elected a dry
| ticket: Decatur has placed the license so