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 In
1880.
JANUARY.

|. Gen. Grants reception in Beaufort.
7. Congress reassembled Capture of
whale in Charleston barbor. Enlarge
ment OF the Weekly. Ne,cs.
8. Transfer of Arsenal to II. g. G.. In
stitute Commissioners of Charleston
Ship Canal appointed.
10. First ripo strawberries in Charles
ton.
~. Laying Of cornerstone Of Holy
Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church,
Charleston.
I3. 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 Of Preston ID. Mood ut
Manning.
24. Water turned into the Meeting
street mains, Charleston.
&c. End of the long drought in Char
lesion.
81. Governor Simpson calls m 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.
3. Meeting of the State Grange at
Charleston.
/. Spring meeting Of the South Caro-.
lima Jockey Club at Charleston. Rob
berry and outrage in Orangeburg County
by band of negroes.
5. Nino negroes accidentally burned TO
death near Columbia.
6. Gen. NJ. w. Gary serenaded at
Charleston. First session of the Reform
ed Episcopal Convocation in Charleston.
10. Extra session of the Legislature
convened.
Il. Wm. Parker and J. +. Martin
killed at the house Of J. II. Shell, Lau-
rens County.
1S. w. s. Bates convicted of the mur-
der of Stephen Bush Mt Barnwell.
19. Capers S. Bowers convicted Of the
murder Of Marion Sullivan at Barnwell.
20. Extra session of the Legislature
adjourned.
81. beginning Of the Kings Mountain
Centennial celebration.
&c. Reese Conelly killed at Hampton
by A. j. Gill.
90. Close of Revival services under
DR.. Inskip, Trinity Church, Charles
30. Suicide of j. L. Southern at Green
Vile.
/. Louis Kinder lynched at Waterloo
for an outrage on lady. The Speer-
man tragedy at Silver street. VIM. Ste
7enson, killed at Winnsboro. Work
commenced on the South Jetty i'll Char
lesion Harbor.
8. Consolidation of the Augusta and
Greenwood and Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad.
8. Burning of Joyncr's Hotel, Colum-
bia.
10. Meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
IL. Capture Of incendiarics ut Green
Vile.
16. Destructive fire at BranchvlIe.
II. Formal opening Of the Cincinnati
Southern Raiif:,ad.
20. County Board OF Health organized
at Walterboro.
81. Heavy frost in Pee Dee section.
2S. Easter Sunday.
80. Cold snap in Charleston. Their
naometer IL degrees.
2. Opening of the Barnwell and Black
Vile Railroad.
5. Work commenced at Easlcy ON the
Atlantic and French Broad Railroad.
Tornado i'll Edgefield County.
Z. SchutZenfest ut Aiken.
8. Amos Wooten hanged at BENEFITS
vile for arson. Snow in the eastern Sec
tion of the State.
IL. Dedication Of the new Catholic
12. Meeting of State Survivors Asso.
citation at Charleston. Bloody ARRAY at
Edge6eld, BLAND Clisby.) Inaugural
tion of the Mayor and Aldermen elect of
Columbia.
Is. Sale ofthe Greenville and Column
bic Railroad.
il. w. S. Bates hanged at Barnwell
frr murder.
IS. Arrival of excursionists from Gin
cinnati at Charleyton.
20. Meeting of the South Carolina
Medical Association at Columbia.
%. Alexander Williams hanged ut
Lexington for murder.
20. George Cailabackcr killed in the
Lunatic Asylum by another inmate.
26. Schutzenfest mt Charleston.
81. Republican State Convention at
Columbia.
". Three laborerS suttocatcd i'll fire
we'll. Charleston. Destructive tornado at
Columbia.
80. Judge Press!y decides that impris.
onment for the non payment of the poll
tax is unconstitutional.
I. Confederate Monument at Darling.
ton unveiled.
s. State Convention of Colorcd Bap-
fists met Mt Greenville.
9. Dedi1attio.i of the new Catholic
Chuich at Aiken.
II. Supreme Lodge knights of Honor
met at Charleston. Formal opening Of
the new Opera Hopse, Spartanburg.
II. Episcopal Diocesan Convention at
Charleston. Water first turned into the
Reservoir Of the Charleston Water.works
Company. Election of Professors of the
Agricultural College at Columbia.
IA Thomas White executed at Spar
tanbnrg for murder.
20. Meeting of.he 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.
through the hydrants in Charleston.
%. Organization of the Charleston
Amusement Association.
81. Levi Folk committed suicide at
Newberry. Killing of Thos. NJ. Blease
at Edgeheid.