The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-29
State News and Notes.

The town of Chester has q debt of
s5,4S2.7O.
There. are 1856 patients in the State
asylum-1S2 males and 20S females.
Two colored children were burned to
death in Abbeville County last week.
The colored watchman at the post
office at Columbia gets $50 per month.
A colored man of Hampton County
made $500 clear of all expenses this year
farming.
Twenty-Five law students were admit
ted to practice by the Supreme Court on
Friday, 14th instant.
Mr.. VIM. Gaskin, Of Kershaw County,
was run over by q loaded wagon on
the Goth instant and instantly killed.
At the examination for school certif-
Gates for Abbeville County "A whites and
46 colored candidates were successful.
T.B. Crews, Esq, editor of the Lau-
rensville Herald, has been elected 1nten-
dant of Laurensville on the "wet ticket"
A fire occurred in Charleston on last
Thursday which destroyed the car shed
and large number of cars of the South
Carolina Railroad.
Ben. Hunt, colored, was caught be-
tween two cars, at Central, on the night
of the 18th, while attempting to couple
them, and instantly killed.
The Hampton Democrat, published at
varnville, Hampton County, has been
purchased by Rev. E. w. Peoples, who
will convert it into Baptist weekly.
There are sixteen prisoners in the Alb
beville Jail, fourteen of whom are await
ing trial at the next Court, the other two
being State witnesses in important case.
The Winnsboro Neps and Herald says
that the democrats of South Carolina
are foolish if they expect to carry the
State this fall without severe struggle" J"
So large is the number of primary pu-
pills attending the Due West Female
College this year that the authorities
have found it necessary to employ an
assistant.
There is but one Grange in working
order in the whole of Barnwell County.
They need little of the enterprise down
there that characterize their brethren in
Anderson County.
The Spartanburg Spartan advises the
farmers to buy their fertilizers at once,
and not wait until April, when they may
have to take an inferior grade. 1t is ad
vice worth considering.
The Camden Journal says that it has
been prosperous year with the turpen-
tine men in the lower part of the State,
and from "all indications the sanity
goddess of plenty is with them."
The Abbeville Press and Banner nom-
mates Col. J. S. Cothran, Solicitor Of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, for Attorney
General. He would fill most any Office
in the gift of the people ably and accep-
tably.
The revenue force, which has been
stationed at Walhalla for some time,
were heavily reinforced recently. Un-
der command of Col. johnson they are
now securing Rabun County, Ga, on a
hunt for illicit distillers.
The Greenville Chronicle, q weekly
paper of % columns, made its first ap-
pearance on Thursday last. Mr.. A. NJ.
Howell, a gentleman of considerable ex-
perience in the newspaper business, is
editor and business manager.
The Rev. Donald Mcqueen, forty-three
years a minister of the Presbyterian
Church at Sumter, died on Saturday last
after lingering illness of many months,
aged 70. He was educated at the Tbeo-
logical Seminary of Columbia.
Five prisoners broke Jail in Spartan
burg on Saturday. They cut through
two feet of solid rock wall. They were
preached to on Friday by Miss Painter
and Rev. R. G.. Oliver. They were
waiting trial for grave offences.
A Columbia correspondent of the
Beaufort Crescent says that Senator Lips
comb, of Newberry, will no doubt be the
next nominee for Secretary of State.
Some people have a wonderful tact at
finding out things that are to be.
The Lexington Dispatch says that a
disease similar to the black tongue is
prevalent among the cattle in the lower
portion of that county on the Orangcburg
line. 1t is proving very fatal, one gen.
tleman having lost ten head in one week
Death ensues in two days after the at
tack.
Hon. Armstead Burt, of Abbeville, has
been suggested by correspondent of the
Greenville Enterprise and Niountaineer as
suitable person for Governor. Mr..
Burt is an able lawyer, and has many
friends in the State who would be glad to
see him occupying the gubernatorial
chair of South Carolina.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad is undergoing thorough repairs
since the new management assumed
charge. There is nothing so wholesome
sometimes for both public and private
enterprises rs change of management.