The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-14
General News Summary.

- The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor
of South Carolina meets at Yorkville,
April 10Th.
There are only three colored men
on the petit juries of the q. S. Circuit
Court now in session in Charleston.
The cotton factory investments in
South Carolina during the past four years
have paid from III to 25 per cent.
The Washington, D. O., Presbytery
has refused to censure the Rev. Mr..
Ramsdel who married Catholic lady.
- Owens and McDufie, on trial at
Yorkville last week for killing the Indi.
an, Harris, few weeks ago, were acquit-
ted.
The residence of MIR. Galloway,
Marlboro county, was burned recently,
and his child, three years old, perished
in the flames.
The anniversary meeting of the
Fairfield Survivors of the Sixth Regi-
ment S. G. ", will be held at Wins.
boro' on April II.
The name of Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line is to be ignored, and the branch
will be called, with the rest, Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
- Governor Long has appointed
ex- United States Acknowledgement De.
vens to seat on the Supreme Bench of
Massachusetts,, in place of Justice Soule,
resigned.
. Capt. E. G. Henry, an intimate
friend of President Garfield, will be Mar
shal of the District. Fred. Douglass
will get good place; but Garfield wants
a white man at the White House.
Poor Matt Carpenters dead body is
still lying in vault at Washington wait
ing formal burial; but the live Malone
is of more importance to his Republican
brethren than dead Emperor.
- The cooking main between South
Carolina and Georgia terminated in Char
lesion on Thursday. Sixteen fights were
fought, and the South Carolina won
the main by score of nine to seven.
The Abbeville Medium says: "The
poor old crazy negro, Abraham Martin,
who was convicted at the last term of the
Court in this county, for numbering his
wife, will be hung on the 22d of this
month.
- The widow of John Brown, the
individual whose suspension at Harper's
Ferry is historical, called on Gen. Gar
field on Wednesday, but he was too busy
to see her. She is destitute and seeking
assistance.
On Saturday, second inst, Elisha
Strickland was killed at Pages store, in
Marion County, by Peter Page, the owner
of the store. Strickland is said to have
been q bad, boisterous man. 1t was q
case of aelf-defence.
- At the municipal election at Pick
ems G. II. on Monday, 4th inst, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: For Inten-
dant, P. Med. Alexander; Wardens, j.
T. Price, J. E. Boggs, j. B. Newberry
and G. W. Taylor.
- Work on the tunnel under the Hud-
son at New York is still going on. Forty
feet was finished last week. Two hun.
dred and twenty men are employed, and
this number will be increased to three
hundred by May.
- It is said that Mr.. Conkling has
offered the Southern Democratic Sena-
tors, if they will assist him in his opposi-
ton to Judge Robertson's confirmation,
his influence in securing to them the
Federal patronage in their States.
"A colored convict at Raleigh, N. c.,
had roommate who died. The survi-
vor hid the body under bed, introduced
himself into the coffin, was taken with.
out the walls, frightened away the color
ed grave diggers and escaped. He has
been recaptured.
- The Edgefeld advertiser says: 1--WE
are delighted 10 say that the new con.
cealed weapons law seems To be working
decidedly we'll in Edgefeld. Since the
beginning of the year the few scrimma-
ges we have had, on public days, have
been entirely of the fist and skull order"
"A fatal accident occurred on the
End instant in Clarendon county. Two
negro men, Colclough and Charlie
Rhame, brothers, were coming out of the
field. ColcIough was riding horseback
and had gun in his hand. 1t seems
that they began to play and Charlie
attempted to wrest the gun from Col.
clough's hand. when it accidentally fired
off. The shot entered Charles neck,
breaking the bone and cutting the jugu-
lar vein. Tee verdict of the jury was
that he came to his death by accident.