The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-26
State News and Notes.

II "a Coius/1 tuAu Wtso hsfiPustu EuReueiC
! County last week q. she falling of d ts&g
top durihg q heavy gale. s3
| The Plckens people are jabilants oYe,
the prospects, OF scon having railroad
4 communication With the rest Of the
| world.
i There are fifteen prisoners In edge,
field jail-all colored. The Court, which
commenced there ON Monday, has its
hands full.
4 There, are fourteen prisoners in the
Waihalla Jail awaiting trial at the term
of Court that begins next Monday.
Seven are charged with murder.
We wish some OF those delinquent
subscribers of the Lexington Dispatch
would furnish the editor of that jonrnal
with 500 pounds of foddef,i and thereby
relieve us In our search for State news Of
reading that standing local notice that
has appeared in the last half dozen is-
sues of that paper, commencing, "5,o0ib
fodder syented q! this Office"
An old man by the name of Sawyer
from Massachusetts,, died in Camden on
on Saturday night, 18th instant, from the
excessive use Of whiskey. he was drink
ing for wager, aud after swallowing
eight large glasses within very short
tlr7a was turned out upon the street,
where he was found dead on Sunday
morning, lying within few feet of the
door Of the bar room in which he did his
drinking.
A young man, named Cox, met ter
rible death on the Congaree Bridge, near
Kingville, on the 8. @. II. II. on Monday,
10th Instant. He was engaged in screw
ing up some nuts and otherwise repair.
ing parts Of the bridge of the South Caro-.
lima Railroad over the Congaree, when
he lost his balance and fell from his per-
ilous position on the structure. In falling,
hia head struck on projecting scantling
with such force that his skull was bro
ken and the brain5 dashed out. His
body falling into the swollen and rapid
stream beneath, was carried away and
has not been found Cox Is q young
man, between % and 90 years of age, and
was married only two weeks ago. His
father lived at Graham's Turnout, ON tho
South Carolina Road.
The Laurensyille Herald gives the fol-
lowing account of fatal difficulty in
Laurens County on Valentine day: "a
most unfortunate difficulty occurred at @
Valentine party at the residence of MIR.
James Shell, of this County, on Saturday
night last, which resulted in the death of
Mr. w. T. Parker, and the serious If not
fatal wounding of Mr. Judson Martin.
From the evidence before the Coronor's
Jury it appears that the difficulty origi-
mated between the deceased, Mr.. Parker,
and young man by the name of Dogan
Putnam, at or near the gate, short dis
tance from said residence. AS to how or
who caused the difficulty between said
parties the evidence Is unsatisfactory,
and It Is quito singular that out of half
dozen or moro persons present TO one
could be found to tell who was to blame.
The party, it seems, had broken up and
The participants we're about starting for
their respective ht mes, when the fatal af-
fray began. AS TO the nature of the
wounds, DR.. Patton tea,ifes before the
Coronor's Jury that he found seven in
ciaed wounds upon the body of the dc.
ceased, two OF which were on the front
part of the chest, four upon right arm and
enc upon left shoulder; that oil had the
appearance Of having been made with u
knife. Either one Of the chest wounds
Ee, considered mortal. Also mortal, one
on the right arm and one on the left
shoulder. We learn that Mr.. Judson
Martin is in o critical condition, being
shot through the lower part of tho neck,
the ball entering on left aide and ranging |
little downward, and, at last accounts |
had not been extracted. not being found. |
Tho verdict Of tho Coronor's Jury in the |
casa Is substantially as follows: That
the deceased, William 4. Parker, came |
TO his death by divers wounds inflicted |
By . knife ia The il7.,as Of Dogau Put z !
man and chat Judson Martin was present |
aiding and abetting in the 50 me.p
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