The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Glea,iIngs from our State Eiclianecs.


Bsrn,$ell ySitiasl:: BaFrivweii Is clearer
Of lonfets and iilars than has been known
f6f len years. Nearly every one has
something to do.
Barnwell People: The Republican
Club at Barnwell holds two or three noe
turnal meetings every week. Fed Nix,
Jr., is generally present to counsel and
instruct the faithful,
Chester Reporter! 1t will take several
thousand bales of cotton to pay the in
debtedness of the farmers of Chester
County for gtiano and Supplies this year.
.uu.The net receipts of the Chera% and
Chester Railroad for the two months
ending April 10th were at the rate OF
s17 600 per annum. This s. of course
be incfhnaed With The track laid to Lam
caster. Iron for this work was bought
by the president of the road during his
recent trip to New York.
Darlington Nevs: The new council
have raised the license to sell spirituous
liquors Within tue forpdtate limits of the
toWh from $40 to sl00.
Edgefeld .4dvertiscr: The cold snap
and frost have done considerable damage
all over our county. The gardens gener.
ally have been badly injured, and it is
said that the fruit crop has been some.
what hurt. tornado near Saluda
Old Town twisted from the roots old oaks
which man could not span around
These trees, which we're Oh Gen. Ha.
goods place. were from sixty to one hum
dred years old.
Fairfield Ne,Us and HeraM:: We have
been informed by a gentleman who lives
neaf Wuodward's that tliefe are fieafiy q
thousand bales of cotton dt and in the
country around Woodward and Black.
stock still unsold. Some of the larger
planters have sixty, some ninety and some
more than hundred bales on hand.
Camden Journal: a so-called Green
back Convention is To be held in Camden
on the 1st of May. The Radicals send
one white and two black delegates to
Columbia. Presidential preferences not
stated. Our farmers are now putting
in their cotton as rapidly as possible.
The thermometer in Camden registered
90 degrees in the shade last Sunday.
The doves are playing sad havoc in the
rice fields of West Wateree. The rice
has Just been planted, and they are
scratching it up and eating it. They
congregate in the fields by thousands.
Camden Gazette: Adolphus Fraley,
colored, while being conveyed to prison,
on last Saturday inoriiing, by Constable
PEBBLES, under warrant for larceny, at-
tempted to escape from custody, and was
shot by the constable, the ball entering
in the back near the shoulder, and lodg-
inx in the breast. He will recover.
Lancaster Ledger: We learn through
gentleman living in the Waxhaw Sec
ton, in this county, that Mr.. Jonathan
McElwee, of Rock Hill, professed
"Greenbacker," has recently been can
yassing that portion of the county
in the interest of the Greenback party.
1t is stated that lie makes bis home among
the colored population, and from appear
apces is endeavoring to stir up strife be-
tween them and their white employers.
Pickens Sentinel: The stock law grows
in popular favor daily......The wheat
is looking promising. Ditto with the
oat crop.
spartanburg Spartan; Cowpens, on
the Air Line Road, has been incorporat-
ed, and now boasts of city government.
...,.J. w. Tillotson's house, furniture
and clothing were all burned last Friday.
He was absent from home at the time,
and his wife was at the wash place when
the fire occurred. 1t was supposed to
catch from cooking stove. Everything
thev had in the house was lost.......The
Radicals have elected two white and two
black delegates to the State Convention.
Presidential preferences unknown.
Marlboro Planter: Marlboro has not a
single company Of citizen soldiers in the
county.
Newberry Necs: The largest business
since the war was done this season in
stock. The drovers have disposed of be-
tween $50, ,0CO and $40, 900 worth of stock
in this county. -,
Orangeburg Democrat. The cattle in
several sections of the Fork and below
the town are dying rapidly with q new
disease which attacks the spinal cord and
Kills the animal in five or six days. No
remedy seems to avail.
Abbeville Press and Banner: Abbe-
Vile now seems on the high road to pros
perity. Our planters are actively at
work. Much new land has been opened,
large areas have been sown in small
grain, great quantities of wet land have
Reen ditched for corn and an immense
cotton crop is pitched. If our people d.
all the work which they have mapped
out they will prosper immensely.....:Ihe
commission created by an act OF the Leg,
islature for the investigation OF alleged
cruelties practiced upon convicts by the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad is now
in session at Greenwood. Numbers oi
witnesses have been summoned, and it is
quite probable that it will continue Its
work until the appropriation of 81, 900
made for the purpose is exhausted.
Nothing so far has been developed to
criminally inculpate the railroad author
tiles. The commission hold secret ses-
sion each day.
Abbeville Medium The gratifying
intelligence came to town yesterday that
the fend who fred the Rocky River
Baptist Church, few weeks since, had
been spotted. The arrest will be made
this week, and the case will be pushed
through at the approaching term of court
go. .McGaslan's storehouse, at Bradley's
Mills was burned down on last Thursday
night. The fire occurred about o'clock,
and was the work of an incendiary.......
Before going down to the Supreme Court,
last Saturday, Judge McGowan put
down five thousand dollars for nation