The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-19
State News.

State News.
- A barkeeper in the city of Green
Vile was arrested on Wednesday for sell
ing liquor to woman.
= The new Methodist Church of Wal
halla is rapidly approaching completion,
and will be grand improvement on the
old building.
= A petition is circulating in Chester
praying the passage Of law prohibiting
the sale of spirits within the town of
Chester.
- There are over 200 bales of cotton
stored in the town Of Chester. and it is
estimated that there are 5000 bales yet
unsold in the county.
:. The "wet" ticket was elected at
Greenwood on Monday, ath inst, by
net majority of twelve votes.
= Mr.. ]. Gittelson, of Abbeville, has
made an assignment. Liabilities $4,000
nominal assets $1,000, actual assets
$1,000, preferred creditors $4,000. b. S.
Barnwell, assignee.
= Charlotte Fleming, colored, who
died last week at Elias Thompson's, near
Spartanburg Court House, was supposed
to be llG years old.
= Several cases of typhoid fever are
reported in the vicinity Of Abbevillo
Court House.
Large shipments of cotton seed ire
made from Abbeville.
= The Medium SAYS that James S.
Wilson, the young man who go unac-
countably went away from Abbeville
short time ago, was in Washington on
the 9th and called on Congressman d.
Wyatt Aiken. He will doubtless be back
with his excellent wife and children in
few days.
The election for Intendant and
Wardens of Rock Hill on Monday, 9th
inst, involved the issue whether fertil-
izers should be allowed to be stored in
the business portion of the town, or re-
quired to be confined in warehouses to
be built beyond the incorporate limits
The nti-guano ticket was elected as fol-
lows: Intcndant, J. r. Allen; Wardens,
r. j. Hagins, j. w. Fewell, Il. G. Beck
ham, ]. G. Witherspoon.
= Mrs. Lizzie Gray, wife of Mr.. L. l..
Gray, while making straw broom, near
| Gainesville, Darlington county, went too
near the fire and caught fire, and before
help came her clothing was entirely con-
sumed. She lived about thirty eight
hours, suffering intensely, and rational
until few moments before her death.
tShe leaves husband and one child.
Early in the morning of the 18th
inst, in Chester, as Deputy Sheriff W..
Z. Walker was making his round in the
Jail, he was seized by two prisoners, Joe
Weldon and Bill Washington, who were
confined for larceny. After desperate
struggle Walker succeeded in getting his
hand on his pistol and shot one Of the
prisoners in his back. The other rushed
down stairs, but was overtaken by an
other pistol ball, which settled the com
bat. Both prisoners, are in a critical
condition.
,- Forty colored emigrants, most of
them women and children, passed
through Greenyillc on Thursday last.
They were under the leadership Of S. T.
Cook, came from the neighborhood of
Chick Springs, and were on their way to
Little Rock
= I:rine II. Phi!pot, ex- Probate Judge
OF Pickens county. was tried on Tuesday
at Pickens G. H., before Judge Aldricb
and convicted of malfeasance in Office.
He was sentenced to one year in the PEN
lsens!"ry aiiii 10 pay d hnc Of 500.
- Calvin Bird, colored, the driver of
Messrs. L. w. Wagner Il Co.'s heavy
truck, fell off on Saturday and was run
over by the truck, receiving injuries from
which lie died.
= Five negroes escaped from Newber-
ry Jail last Tuesday night by breaking a
bolt and letting themselves to the ~ iound
by blankets. They had been sent up for
trial next term of Sessions on the CHARGES
of assault, bigamy, burglary and larceny.
Their names are: Jake Bowers, Jim
Clary, Bella Bonds, Warren Kinard and
Jordan Kinard
= Col. d. F. Bradley of Pickcns. is
just now being prominently mentioned
as candidate for Secretary of State. and
Is regarded MS strong candidate for that
position by his friends in Pickens and
others outside of that county.
- Edward L. Sisson, agent of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, has been in
terViewed Mt tChaltanooga about the South
Carolina exodus. He says that of one
hundred people enrolled at Newberry
only fifty could pay their fare to Kansas
after selling out all they possessed. He
says the railroads have mado no special
efforts to induce the emigration, only
responded to calls, and adds that The
western farmers who wanted the colored
labor are now stocked with it, and the
= A dispatch from Kansas City, dated
January l6 says: This morning q