The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
1s. Fireman's Tournament at colum.

~. corner stone OF Tile hIuS o1Ouu
tain monument laid. Regatta at Char
lesion. Meeting Of the National Demo
cratic Convention.
a. Gen. w. S. Hancock nominated fol
President by the National Democratic
Convention.
so. dwelling of the Confederate
monument at Newberry.
JULY.
1. Defalcation of A. G. Laughlin
bills of the Bank of the State) discov
cred. Organization of the Municipal
Gas Company, Charleston.
5. w. ". Shannon killed in duel by
E. B. G. Cash. Cyclone at Columbia
portion of the Penitentiary blown down
6. State Dental Association at Char
lesion. First train from Charleston to
Wadesboro' over the Cheraw and Sauls
bury Railroad.
Z. Hugh Ferguson appointed sheriff oi
Charleston County. Incendiary burning
of the store of j. W. Peoples near
Lawtonville.
9. Daniel Washington hanged al
Charleston for murder.
II. Escape of convicts from the stock
ade of Cahill g. Wise near Charleston
Work commenced on cotton factory at
Rock Hill.
13. Isaac Boston, colored despefado,
shot and killed by policeman In New
berry.
27. Ground broken for the erection OF
the Agricultural Hall, Charleston.
2S. Interstate shooting match at
Hendersonville. Grand Division Sons
of Temperance met at Columbia. ]. T.
Robertson's residence at Abbeville de-
stroyed by fire.
AUGUST.
2. Democratic mass.meeting at Ben.
nettsville.
8. Meeting Of State Grange and State
Agricultural Society at Darlington,
Opening of the State Normal Institute at
Spartanburg.
S. Sixth Regiment Survivors reunion
at Blackville. Lexington Survivors
Association.
s. Decision in South Carolina Rail
road cases filed.
7. Survivors, reunion at Winnsboro.
s. G. W. Harrell murdered in Marion
County.
9. First bale of new Georgia cotton
received at Charleston.
10. w. G. Beck commits suicide at
Columbia.
II. Laying of the cornerstone of the
Agricultural Building at Charleston.
IL. Concert in aid Of the German Con-
federate Monument, Charleston. Bloody
ARRAY in Union County; Bullock killed
by his father. First bale of new crop
South Carolina cotton received in Char
lesion.
IA. John Warren killed by B. NJ. Riley
st Brunson's.
10. Twelfth Regiment reunion, York
vile.
20. Joe MCGOWAN killed at Trenton
by - Mobley. Destructive fire in
Georgetown.
p. Drowning of F. P. Elford, Charles.
ton. Dorsey aud Pru Grier lynched in
Laurens County for an outrage.
26. Interstate glass ball shooting
match at Spartanburg.
SEPTEMBER.
l. Meeting of the Republican State
Convention in Columbia. Hon. T. B.
Jeter entered upon The Office of Governor.
Isaac Hall killed at Aiken by Andrew
Scott.
4. Steamship Charleston ran ashore on
Charleston bar.
z. State Democratic campaign opened
at Columbia. Senator Thos. +. Bayard
speaks.
8. Laying the cornerstone of the new
NJ. f. Church at Branchville. Survivors
of lost steamer Vera Cruz arrived in
Charleston.
9. Quackenbush Flour Mills burned at
Charleston. The Mark Lane, first
foreign steamship Of the cotton season OF
1880, sailed from Charleston.
10. The steamer NJ. S. Allison burned
at Charleston.
IA. Richland County Democratic pri'
maries.
%. Formal opening of the Wagner
building, Charleston Water-works trans
ferred 10 the Charleston Water Company.
"a. Democratic primaries in Charles
ton Convention VS.. primary plan.
Is. Final decree in the South Carolina
Railroad case filed.
27. Democratic County Convention,
Charleston, adopts The Convention plan
of nominating candidates. PEN Guffin
killed at Abbevile by Chas. McClung.
%. Greenback State Convention at
Chester. L. w. R. Blair nominated for
Governor.
OCTOBER.
/. Mrs. Fanny Easterling burned to
death at Georgetown.
4. Centennial celebration at Kings
Mountain. The Clyde committee made
the first payment of purchase money for
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
under Judge Hudson's order.
7. Laying the cornerstone of the
Cowpen's Monument at Spartanburg.
Destructive fire at Manning. Jack Oden
killed Ly F. Covington in Marlboro
County.
10. Burning of the old Calhoun resi-
dence in Pickens County.
l3. High School of Charleston reor-
ganized.
ii. Charleston County Democratic
Nominating Convention. Supreme
Court decides in favor of Chief Justice
Simpson. Radical riot in Aiken. Lu-
theran Synod met at Leesville.
II. Destructive cotton fire at CONNER
ciaI Wharves, Charleston.
%. w. P. Russell & Co.'S new rice mill
opened in Charleston.
25. Democratic torchlight procession,
Charleston.
NOVEMBER.
2. Election day.
t. Death of A. r. LaughliD, Incendi-
ary fire in Hampton County, Isaac Col
son murdered near Lawtonville.
5. Increase in capital stock of the
Charleston Bagging Factory.
8. The county treasurer OF Barnwel'
robbed.
10. State Fair opened in Columbia.
II. William Mattox murdered in Alb