The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-23
State Items.

MORE WEATEER.-On Friday last we were visit
ed with severe sleet which covered the face o
creation with ugly looking cicles, for this season
and on Sunday night heavy frost, to the killing
fruit crop isconsderably lessened since this colo
snap. We have heard Of q few fast farmers wht
had corn up.-Nelcbe77y Herald.
THE WEATHER.-On Friday morning last, SNOW
commenced falling, and continued to fall rapidly
for an hour or two, when it gave place to colo
and q good part of the night On Saturday morn.
ing the trees and housetops were covered with
sleet and icicles. This was followed on Sunday
night by heavy frost, which has injured the for
ward gardens, and destroyed nearly all the fruit
We hear OF some orchards IN which few peaches
ore left but We doubt if it is not too badly injured
to mature. l.zrE,15-
The weather is still cold and cloudy, with good
prospect for repetition OF it's last weeks doings.
Camden Journal.
No PEACHES Tn1s YEAR.-The peach trees in this
District, which were all out in full bloom, have
frost Of the succeeding night. The result will
probably be scarcity Of peaches, if not Of apples
also; though the latter, being rather more back
ward than the former, may have escaped the
blighting effect Of the cold weather. The SLOW
covered ground, the pink blossoms Of the peach
trees formed q landscape not often Witnessed.
Had painter ventured to put scene like this on
canvas, he would have been severely censured for
his incongrulties by the critics. Yet this strange
comninglin1g Of icy 'drapery with spring flowers
And it certainly was q beautiful picture; though
our joy in beholding was not little aloyed by the
thought that there are probably no peaches and
cream in store for US this summer. The snow has
melted away; but cold rainy days still continue,
with but brief intervals Of sunshine.
YorkoMe Enquirer.
"A Jyro kt,n IL,
and four cars Of the down passenger train on the
Greenville Railroad ran of the track yesterday a
short distance above Chappell's. The cars we're
badly damaged, but luckily no one was hurt. The
up-train returned with the passengers, while a
freight train carried tho Greenvile passengers to
their destination. Columbia PhGni1.
HABEAs CoRpus.-G Godfrey Wallace, freedman,
who is charged with stealing cotton from William
Summer, Esq, Of Newberry, some time since, was
brought before his Honor, Judge Green, yesterday
morning, on writ Of hdbeas corpus, and after the
reading Of several affidavits, he was admitted to
bull in the sum or $500. Messrs. Bachman &
Waties represented the prisoner.-lbid.
ARRESTED BY THE Mn1TARY.-We learn that
Burkhead, ono Of the youths for whom the Gov
ernor has offered reward, and who WAS arrested
recently by the Sheriff at Newberry has been taken
INTO custody by the military, and was removed to
Charleston last week. His friends claim that bis
mind is temporarily deranged, superinduced by
utsossSo'-1itAefd doH Httct1t9eHCe'.
John Comlt and Monday Brown, freedmen con-
vcted of the crime OF arson, were sentenced to be
hung on the first Friday in May, at the recent ses-
sion Of the Court in Abbeville - -
HEAVY SLEET.-This section was visited, on Fri
day and Friday night last, by fall Of sleet which
covered the earth and clothed the tress with ice
The aspect Of nature was beautiful, almost beyond
description, on Saturday morning last. Our noble
evergreens, bowing humbly beneath their crystal
weight-the majestic oak, standing with body
erect, bat with tender -leaved branches drooping
and tricNing drops, as though weeping under its
affliction-the beauteous pe4ch-hlossom, smiling
through it's transp aren't coverings while yet telling
us not Of its fruit to come, and all nature glisten
ing in its icy robe, Pretty to look upon, but sac
to contemplate in its effects The peach crop il
probably destroyed, while the effect upon the
tender plants Of the garden has been sad.
(Sanater Watchnaan.
The Clarendon Banner, Of the 14th instant, con
tains call for public meeting OF the citizens o
that District ''to fake into consideration the I'M
poverishod and oppressed condition OF the people.