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

State News aud Notes.
The militia Of Hampton county will be
reviewed on the 26th.
Sumter has shipped during the pas
fiye months $3.50 bales Of cotton.
The Lexington Dispatch wants Hon
d. Wyatt Aiken returned to Congress.
James Powell, colored, froze to death
in Edgefeld county last week. Whiske,
did it.
There Is fig tree ON st. Simon;
Island that bore in one year 80 bushel.
Of 6gs.
Barnwell had a $1,000 fire on the 18th
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. GaTy's race.horse dropped deat
on, the Washington race course In
Charleston week before last.
Abbeyille County sent ten convicts to
the Penitentiary on Tuesday, three ol
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.. C.P. Jackson for sl9, 400.
Eli Wilcox and Jim Black, both col
ored, citizens OF Marion, got into dis.
pute on Monday, 9th instant. which re-
suited in tho killing Of the forrer by the
latter.
A volume entitled "Truth for the
People, z by Rev. ". 8. Plumer, D. D.,
Of Columbia, has been translated into
modern Greek and printed at Athens,
Greece.
The bursting of a kerosene lamp mt
Bormean's, on the Northeastern Railroad.
on Wednesday, l1th instant, caused the
destruction of o store and dwelling house
by fire.
the Georgetown Tines and Comet ssys
that the first candidate who t'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 Sap.
list Church at Camden, was accidentally
poisoned last week by eating some canned
Tomatoes, but hes entirely recovered from
the evil effects Of the poison.
The Columbia Rsyisterstat thas lands
in the counties Of Sumter, Marion, Cla 4
andon and williamsburg, In this State,
which eighteen months ago vera offered
without purchasers at 90 per acre, are
now selling fIsely ct $40 p. acre.
TheAgricnltural Department 1t Wash.
8ington has .ecat Col. Butler, tto Ssttats
gararnissioner of Agriculture one thous.
aEs packages Of tobacco seed, which, With
ali other eeeds that may como to him,
VIII be sent to the County Auditors for
distribution.
The County Commissioners Of Green.
vile haye let out fifteen OF tho twenty.
ssthres sections Of fanco to ha hnllL be-
tween areenyills ard spartanburg, at
psiccs ranging sEoal 81 20 SEQ PEI. sec
sion. The total cost Of che fence uillbe
about q, coo.
The Spartanburg Spartan Of last week
gays that Sit is a cauae Of rejoicing tbas
our county sesns 20 DO getting on the
high road 10 prosperity. Land Is adyan-
sing, money Is becoming moro plentiful, |
and new enterpsiseB arc apripgina up |
hero and there sa
] Ptsl yyaEKInss OF Greenville, pur.
chased q barrel oS kerosene the other day. |
for the pnrposa Of sending II to Laufens,
and LEFT IL ID hias yard over night, and
next morning IL waa discovered that tha
egistSlita Of tho barrel had been
eE.pticd iutc hiswell.
Messra. Thoulpson and lgeagle, tbe pro-
rioters Of the Colptnbis Canal sealme.
ars confident of tlie slccesso 81 the enter.
prise; and say that parties Ia Englaad
have ed j wfllingnes, If the
schens II found io,be be likely 10 anses
shoifexpe ticns to invest a7O, ,0O0.
Saa see tbs notorious Radical ard
ex speaker ote tEie Housa DC Representa-
fixes nHdm the Moses adninisS Sasion.
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