The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-24
State Items.


State Items.
The Laurepsville Herald announces
that Capt. r. E. Richardson has been
elected Clerk of the Court for that
District.
The same paper, speaking of the
cool weather, says:
That royal delicate plant called
cotton, what with the floods, the cold
and the winds, grass-fed mules and
unappreciative freedmen, is having a
hard struggle to square itself to the
worlds view.
In the meanwhile, we have favor
able reports of the wheat crop, which
Is said to be an average one, and is
now in great part harvested. Let our
farmers (planter is now obsolete)
garner it at once, and not jeorpardize
1t in the fields, as breadstuffs are
scarce-corn for man or beast-like
the avocation characterized in the
above parenthesis.
The Herald learns from n gentle
man from Abbeville that difficulty
occurred at that place between Mr..
James McCravy, formerly Of this Dis
trict, (neighborhood of Clinton,) and
a Mr.. Taggart, in which McCravy
was shot three times. McCravy
IS thought dangerously wounded,
though hopes of his recovery was en-
tertained.
The Lancaster Ledger says: We
are glad to hear that there has been
manifest improvement in the crops
since the warm weather has regularly
set IN. Upon farms which have been
worked and managed we'll, It is said
that the prospect for crops of corn
and cotton is much better than it was
a short time ago. Where farms have
been neglected, by tho freedmen re-
fusing to perform their contracts, the
crops are, of course, inferior. Wheat
Is now being harvested, and it is said
that the yield is better, generally.
than was anticipated The present
and prospective prices of all kinds of
produce should stimulate farmers to
employ all their energy in the effort
to make good crop.
The Greenville Mou.iuiueey has the
following items:
The property claimed by the United
States at the State Works in this
place, consisting Of old cannon
wheels, unfinished guns, material for
arms, etc, was sold yesterday ut auc-
ton. The sum bid was inconsidera
bic, but as much us the cash price to
be obtained for rather useless lumber
IN these peace times, so-calIed-if
Stevens X Co. will let it be even that
much.
We are gratified at being able to
state that President Hammett has
already inaugurated measures to stop
"the plundering of packages" be-
tween Columbia and the upper ter
mini of the road. We are inclined to
think that this great evil is already
checked, and that hereafter there will
be as little complaint of stealing ON
the Greenville and Columbia Rail
road as on any other in the State. if
not less.
The Barnwell Sentinel says: We
have had an abundance Of rain since
the month OF June set in. For seye
raj days, we have had delightful wea-
ther, and, at night, blankets were not
uncomfortable. Notwithstanding such
weather is calculated to injure the
cotton crop, we learn that it is look
ing we'll, and that blooms and bolls
are numerous. The corn crop is look
ing remarkably well, and everything
IN the shape of vegetation, in the
early part of the week, promised well,
even the grass crop.
The Georgetown Times says: We
understand that 120 Of our colored
brethren and sisters were baptized,
last Sunday, by Rev. Edward Koux,
the pastor of the African Baptist
Church, i'll this place 1T is reported
That I'M some of them got drowned, in
Maccamaw bay, i'll returning to their