The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
THE EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
A Bird's-Eye View Of South Carolina il
1880.
JANUARY.

Bird's-Eye View Of South Carolina II
1880.
i. Gen. Grants reception in Beaufort
7. Congress reassembled. Capture ol
a whale in Charleston barbor. Enlarge
ment of the Weekly. Neacs.
8. Transfer of Arsenal to 81. G. G. In
stitute. Commissioners of Charleston
Ship Canal appointed.
10. First ripe strawberries in Charles.
ton.
12. Laying of cornerstone ct Holy
Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church.
Is. First frost of 1880 in Charleston
Municipal election at Newberry and
Marion. :,
10. Mass meeting at Charleston in aid
of Irish relief fund.
%. Fire at South Carolina Railroad
car.sheds. Suicide ofPreston D. blood Of
Manning. :,
"a. Water turned into the Meeting
street mains, Charleston.
26. End Of the long drought in Char
lesion.
81. Governor Simpson calls an extra
session of the Legislature, the supply
Act having been declared invalid by the
Supreme Court.
20. Home Insurance Company OF
Charleston winds up business.
81. Destructive fire at Chester: Meet
ing in Charleston for the revival OF the
Blue Ridge Railroad project.
FEBRUARY.
8. Meeting of the State Grange at
Charleston.
4. Spring meeting of the South Caro-
lima Jockey Club at Charleston. Rob
berry and outrage in Orangeburg County
BY band of negroes.
S. Nine negroes accidentally burned to
death near Columbia.
s. Gen. NJ. w. Gary serenaded at
Charleston. First session of the Reform
ed Episcopal Convocation in Charleston.
10. Extra session of the Legislature
convened.
Ia VIM. Parker and J. F. Martin
killed at the house of j. 81. Shell, Lau'
rens County. -,
18. w. s. Bates convicted OF the MUIR
der of Stephen Bush ut Barnwell:
49, Capers 8. Bowers convicted of the
murder of Marion Sullivan at Barnwell.
90 Extra session of the Legislature
adjourned
2l. Beginning of the Kings Mountain
Centennial celebration
26. Reese Conelly killed at Hampton
BY A. j. Gill.
%. Close of Revival services under
DR.. Inskip, Trinity Church, Charles
%. Suicide Of ]. L. Southern at Green
vile.
/. Louis Kinder lynched at Waterloo
for an outrage on lady. The Speer-
man tragedy at Silver street. Wm; ste
yenson, killed at Winnsboro.' Work
commenced on the South Jetty i'll Char
lesion Harbor. !,
s. Consolidation of the Augusta and
Greenwood and Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad.
s. Burning of Joyncr's Hotel, Colum.
bia.
10. Meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
II. Capture of incendiaries at Green
Vile. =,
is. Destructive FIRE at Branchville.
II. Formal opening of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad. !,
20. County Board of Health organized
at Walterboro.
81. Heavy frost in Pee Dee section.
%. Easter Sunday.
80. Cold snap in Charleston. Their
mometer Al degrees.
APRIL.
2. Opening of the Barnwell and Black
Vile Railroad.
5. Work commenced at Easley on the
Atlantic and French Broad Railroad.
Tornado in Edgefeld County.
7. Schutzentest at Aiken:
8. Amos Wooten hanged at Bennetts-
Vile for arson. Snow in the eastern Sec
tion of the State.
IL. Dedication of the new Catholic
Church in Charleston.
12. Meeting of State Survivors Asso-
ciat;on at Charleston. Bloody Affray at
Edge6eld, (Bland. .Clisby.) Inaugural.
ton of the Mayor and Aldermen elect OF
Columbia.
is. Sale of the Greenville and Colum-
bia Railroad. ;,
is. w. S. Bates hanged at Baruwell
for murder.
lS. Arrival Of excursionists from Gin
cinnati at Charleston.
20. Meeting of the South Carolina
Medical Association at Columbia.
22. Alexander Williams hanged at
Lexington for murder.
%. George Callabackcr killed in the
Lunatic Asylum by another inmate.
26. Schutzenfest at Charleston.
81. Republican State Convention at
Columbia.
%. Three laborers suffocatcd in fire
we'll. Charleston. Destructive tornado al
Columbia.
80. Judge Pressly decides that impris.
onment for the non payment of the poll
tax is unconstitutional.
MAY.
l. Confederate Monument ut Darling
ton unveiled.
5. State Convention of Colored Bap.
lists met at Greenville.
8. Dedication of the new Catholic
Church at Aiken.
II. Supreme Lodge Knights Of Honor
met at Charleston. Formal opening OF
the new Opera House, Spartanburg.
u. Episcopal Diocesan Convention at
Charleston. Water first turnel into the
Reservoir of the Charleston Water.works
Company. Election of Professors of the
Agricultural College at Columbia.
il. Thomas White executed at Spar
tanbnrg for murder.
20. Meeting of the Presbyterian Gen.
eral Assembly at Charleston.
25. Attempted duel between Col. De
Pass and Col. Cash stopped at Camden.
Miss Lille Glass burned to death at
Cokesbury.