The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-02-02
Stste News.

DIR. W. Il. = E.chards0n OF Aooe'll!e
county, killed home.raised hog this
season that weighed 7l5 pounds.
= A project looking N the establish.
ment of an ice factory has been started
in the Town Of Chester.
The grand jury of Picken, County
pay the pas: Indebtedness. OF the county.
= The receipts Of lumber a, Port
Royal for the week ending January %
were CSC, 900 feet.
= Ninety-si shipped $4,000 worth
Of oats last year, which proved al inva!-
liable snpplcinen. to tho short cotton
crop.
a Lodge of Knights of Honor was
organized at Barnwell on the 18th Janu-
ary. with twenty-five members.
= There are only seven prisoners in
the Barnwcli Jail. All are co!orcd.
4 very severe and destructive wind
storm passed over Barnwcll county on
the 2lst, leveling trees and fences i'll lis
path.
= The merchants Of Ninety-Six, says
the Saluda -1rgu., enter the new year
clear of embarrassment and with cnccur-
aging indication OF thrit and prosperity.
= The residence Of Mr.. J. A. Brooks,
at Brooks mill, near Wauenton, in Alb
bcyille county, wss burned GU the 18th.
The dwelling and its contents were
total loss. No insurance.
= The County Treasurer Of York has
Issued 2,042 executions for delinquent
poll taxes for the last fiscal year.
Marcus Campbell, colored, died in
Sumter, Oh Tuesday last, from convul-
sions superinduced by over. eating, after
fasting for some time.
= The contract for timing the roof of
the Pclzer Factory has been awarded TO
y. j. Sproles, of Greenwood.
- 1t costs SO to whip wife in Green
Vile, if the Mayor gets hold of the
offender.
Warren McCray, colored, was run
over and killed in Charleston Thursday
By the cars of the Charleston Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
A barber named Artist fell from a
train at Port Royal Friday and had his
arms mangled.
= The gin house OF Mr. E!drcd Grice,
about two miles from Ridge Spring. was
destroyed by an inccndiary fire on Satur-
day night, the 2lst. Gin head, running
gear and considerable quantity of cot
ton seed were destroyed with the build
ing.
"A public meeting Of the citizens of
Langley passed resolutions denouncing
the stock law, the registration Lill and
the prohibitory liquor law. The citizens
Of Beulah township, in the same (Aiken)
county denounce the stock law and con-
slider the present Legislature "a hum
bug"
= II is estimated that fifty per cent.
more Of small! grain than ever known be.
fore has been sown in Chester county.
With favorable seasons on this crop there
will be no scarcity of food for man and
beast after the middle Of June.
= The Chester Reporter has been in
formed by the County Auditor that thers
is only one tract Of land in Chester coun-
| ty on which the taxes have not been
| paid, and that is Il tract the title to which
is in litigation pending in the Supreme
| Court.
= Mr. Andrew Burckhalter, we'll
known citizen of Aiken, informed us
yesterday upon our solicitation, that he
had made during the past year from two
acres of garden truck and two acres of
melons 5000 in cool cash This is de-
cidedly better than wasting ones nervous
and physical energy on planting cotton
and coming out at the end of the year in
debt for provisions and guano. Mr.. B.
runs successful cotton farm also, but
his margins are small on this part of his
investment, although he makes as fine
! crops as anybody ken Recorder
= The mill dam of Mr. &. P. Seigler,
twelve miles from Aiken, was cut on the
nigh. of :!io 18th by parties unknown,
| but supposed to be the same who fred
his gin house short time since, destroy
ing S3,505 worth Of property. Such
| devils incarnate should be ferrc,ed out,
and when found subjected to the extreme
| penalties Of the law. Mr.. Seiger is q
young man only twenty seven years old,
but one of our largest and most enter
prising farmers, running not less than
! twenty four plows.
- Isham Raiford, one of the mos.
prominent colored men among the emf
grants to Arkansas, has written a letter
to Captain" Gary Harris, nf Edgefield,
i'll which he gives glowing account of
that region OF country. He writes from
| Little Rock and says lhat land can be
purchased there on long credi, and at
moderate price. He urges the colored
| people TO come TO Little Rock, and stakes
his religion upon the statement, that Ar
kansas is the best place for negroes this
side OF Heaven.
- The Methodist Church was burned
at Florence Friday morning at o'clock.
1t was set on fire under the south corner
sill, ne flames catching between the
weather boarding and lathing Sha-
wings saturated with kerosene were the
combustible material used, as was dis.
covered by the parties first on the spot.
No motive can be assigned for the act.
The parsonage, only fifteen feet distant,
occupied by the pastor, The Rev. w. s.
Martin, was saved by the steah fire en.
gine, the first time it has been used
since it was bought. The loss on the
church is $500; insurance $500.
Damage to the parsonage $500; insu.
rance 500.
1t has been rumored Upon our
streets that the tody Of Mr.. Thomas
Baskins, who has been missed from his
home for the past eight or ten days, was
found in one Of the pits of the Huey
gold mine with his throat cut. 1t seems
that Mr.. Baskins had beer to Monroe to
sell cotton, after which he left and had
got rs far rs the mine when the horrible
deed was committed tho norro,ro,or,