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

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%. Corner stone of the Kings Noun.
tain monument laid. Regatta at Char.
lesion. Meeting of the National Demo.
cratic Convention.
"a. Gen. w. 8. Hancock nominated fo.
President by the National Democratic
Convention.
80. Unwilling of the Confederate
monument at Newberry.
JULY.
l. Dcfalcation of A. G.. Laughlin.
bills of the Bank of the State) discov..
cred. Organization Of the Municipal
Gas Company, Charleston.
5. w. NJ. Shannon killed in duel by
f. b. G. Cash. Cyclone ut 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.
7. Hugh Ferguson appointed sheriff of
Charleston County. Incendary burning
of the store Of j. w. Peoples near
LawtonviIle.
8. Daniel Washington hanged at
Charleston for murder.
IL. Escape of convicts from the stock
ade of Cahill & 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.
%. Inter State shooting match Mt
Hendersonvile. Grand Division Sons
of Temperance met at Columbia. J. T.
Robertson's residence at Abbeville de-
stroyed by fire.
2. Democratic mass meeting at Ben
nettsville.
3. Meeting Of State Grange and State
Agricultural Society at Darlington,
Opening Of the State Normal Institute at
Spartnnburg.
S. Sixth Regiment Survivors reunion
ut Blackville. Lexington Survivors
Association.
6. Decision in South Carolina Rail.
road cases filed.
7. Survivors reunion Mt Winnsboro'
8. G. w. Harrell murdered in Marion
County.
9. First hale Of new Georgia cotton
received at Charleston.
10. w. G. Beck commits suicide at
Columbia.
IL. Laying of the cornerstone of the
Agricultural Building at Charleston.
II. Concert in aid of the German Con-
fedcrate Monument, Charleston. Bloody
afray i'll Union County Bullock killed
by his father. First bale of new crop
South Carolina cotton received in Char
lesion.
II. John Warren killed by B. NJ. Riley
at Brunson's.
10. Twelfth Regiment reunion, York
vile.
20. Joe MCGOWAN killed Mt Trenton
by - Mobley. Destructive fire in
Georgetown.
%. Drowning of +. T. Elford, Charles.
ION. Dorsey aud Pru Grier lynched in
I.aurens 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.
Jetcr 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. f. Bayard
speaks.
8. Laying the cornerstone of the new
NJ. F.. Church at Branchville. Survivors
of lost steamer Vera Cruz arrived in
Charleston.
0. Quackenbush Flour Mills burned at
Charleston. The Mark Lane, first
foreign steamship Of the cotton season Of
1880, sailed from Charleston.
10. The steamer H. -. Allison burned
at Charleston.
Il. Richland County Democratic pri-
maries.
%. Formal opening of the Wagner
building, Charleston Water-works trans.
ferred 10 the Charleston Water Company.
24. Democratic primaries in Charles
ton Convention VS.. primary plan.
25. Final decree in the South Carolina
Railroad case filed.
81. Democratic County Convention,
Charleston. adopts The Convention plan
of nominating candidates. Penn Guffin
killed at Abbeville by Chas. McClung.
%. Greenback State Convention at
Chester. L. w. r. Blair nominated for
Governor.
OCTOBER.
l. Mrs. Fanny Eastcrling burned to
death at Georgetown.
4. Centennial celebration ut Kings
Mountain. The Clyde committee made
the first payment of purchase money for
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
under Judge Hudson's order.
z. Laying the cornerstone of the
Cowpen's Monument at Spartanburg.
Destructive fire at Manning. Jack Oden
killed ly +. Covington in Marlboro
County.
10. Burning of the old Calhoun resi-
dence in Pickcns County.
13. High School of Charleston reor-
ganized.
IA. Charleston County Democratic
Nominating Convention. Supreme
Court decides in favor nf Chief Justice
Simpson. Radical riot in Aiken. Lu.
theran Synod met ut Leesville.
II. Destructive cotton fire ut CONNER
ciai Wharves, Charleston.
90. w. p. Russell & Co.'S new rice mill
opened in Charleston.
%. Democratic torchlight procession,
Charleston.
NOVEMBER.
:. Election day.
4. Death of A. r. Laughlin, Iucendi-
airy fire in Hampton County, Isaac Col
son murdered near Lawtonvile.
s.. Increase in capital stock of the
Charleston Bagging Factory.
3: The county treasurer of Barnwell
robbed.
10. State Fair opened in Columbia.
II. William Mattox murdered in Alb
beville County.
81. Rev. w. S. Bowmans farewell ser.