The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gleanings from our State Exchanges.

Abbeville: The first boil of new cotton
in Abbeville County opened in July ~.
There are thirteen prisoners in the
Abbeville jail......The board of trustees
of Erskine College upon the petition of
the students for the removal of ProfH.
Young and Lowry at their meeting last
week resolved to continue Profs. Young
and Lowry at an annual salary OF live
hundred dollars, and to employ an asss-
taut teacher. for each of these Professors.
Greenville: Mr.. John Barber, an ex-
perienced cotton spinner from Lancashire
England, is forming company for the
erection of q factory near Greenville......
Luther NJ. McBee has been elected CASH
ier of the Greenville National Bank in
place of Mr.. J. J. Blackwood, resigned,
and Henry T. Poe, of Seneca City, as
sistant cashier. 1.-The expenses of the
recent term of court, which was in ses-
sion for seventeen days, was 81 ,099,N.
The man run over and killed on the
Air Line Railway on Monday night was
harmless lunatic named Nep Day,
whose father resides in Anderson County,
near the line of Oconee and Pickens......
A Greenback Club has been organized in
Greenville County composed of ten ne
groes and four whites. .....W. d. Lender
man, white man, has announced him.
self as a candidate for the Legislature on
the Greenback ticket.
Aiken: Reports from various sections
of the county give an encouraging &C
count of the condition of the cotton
crop. by the late census Aiken Coun-
ty has 2,S17 white and 1924 colored
voters.
Newberry: The Newberry Agricultu-
raj Society will hold its Annual Fair on
October 6, 7 and With population
of 1850, there are only At white men in
Newberry County who are 70 years old.
NATHAN Brown struck Jane Stevens
behind the ear with stone last week
and broke her skull. Brown has been
lodged in Jail. The girl will die. Both
of the parties are colored.. 1.-The Town.
Council is preparing to build City Hall
100 by so feet on the lot where the OLD
Council Chamber now stands. The plan
will be drawn by G.. L. Norman, of Spar
tanburg, and the building will cost about
$4,000. 1t will contain a council cham
ber, several Offices and large and hand
some hall for public entertainments.
Spartanburg: A new railroad from
Spartanburg to Greenwood, by way of
Laurens Court House, is now being agi-
tated. A public meeting to advance the
project will be held at Cross Anchor on
August IA, and will be addressed by q
number of influential railroad men, and
it is expected that three counties will be
largely represented. Tom Shipp, ff-
teen years old, was accidentally shot in
the face by Ike Clawson, another negro
boy, last week. There are some pro.
fessional stamp thieves in Spartanburg.
Several Offices have been robbed lately.
1.-THE trains on the Spartanburg
and Asheville Road are crowded every
day with passengers en- route for the
mountains. The number of passengers
has been over 25 per cent. greater dur
ing this month than the same time
last year.. While working in saw mill
at Cowpens on Monday Mr.. S. Elliott
was struck by the wheel band and BE-
verely injured. His lower jaw was frac.
tured in two places, his right arm crushed
near the elbow and his right foot bruised.