The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-21
state Items.

WoFFoRp CoIIEaE.-At the District meeting
of the Cokesbury Circuit, September l. ana 10;
the report of the Chairman on Education eilGteu
from DR.. Whitefoord Smith remarks ABOUT WI
ford College that were heard with profound Inter
cot and excited great sympathy III her Dehalf. IL
was n deicat task, but he performed 1t well.
That College. once the prids and ornament OF the
Methodist Church, especially IN ms State, was
shaken to its foundations by the terflDe Dlasts VI
war: her endowment fund swep5 away by lts oeVas-
tatng flood; her faculty mpoVecseu i M .lo s;,, Svnn
eral crash But they did not give up the SNIP.
Men, good and true, they stuck by her. ana now the
almost certain probability is that she Will soon Dc
aAoat, caulked and pitched as strong as over, W TO
contend against winds and waves, anu 10 senu i0l.
many missionary to adorn human life, ana oc
cupy new fields of usefulness and labor. May Goa
bless Wofford and her noble, set-sacrlticlns iacul
ty. We will not obtrudc delicate family AFFAIRS on
the public, but this much we Will say that Mol-
ford College has imperative demands upon every
Methodist Of the State for her support and II snch
men as Shipp, Carlisle, and Smith endured prlVar
ton and want to stand by: her in the days OF
her trial. now that better times are dawmhS, IL her
people still refuse to come up to her holp, they @e-
serve Ignorant and badly educated children; me pc
District meeting had collection ana sent up "
Woford their mite OF S145.
An INcENp1ARY Aor.-Rey. I. J. Newberry, OF tins
District living about six miles from Iimmonsvlle,
met with severe loss, on Friday night last, by
the burning Of his new two-sioiy dwellnS-house'
which was nearly ready Tor use. MI. NeWpeii; III
forms us that comfoI table homo had long been
the desire Of the family, aid that he spent much
time and all his available means TO Greet such a
home as would prove 4 comfort and blessing to ms
family: that after the family had retired on the
above night, and it being late, he had occasion to
get up when everything seemed quiet, but that his
getting up had awakened his wife, who renamed
awake, and soon heard roaring nolse as she
thought of the night train on the Wilmington and
Manchester Railroad, some four miles distant; that
on opening the window she saw the new Dulldng,
which was some little distanceof, in light blaze,
and on his going there it too late to save any
thing, not even piece of lumber.
Darlington SCutherner.
RFeIsrRATIoN.-Reg istration i'll this District has
beeu completed at Benefits Shop, Carmel Hill,
and McAlileys Mill precincts. The aggregate re,
sults at these three precincts are GAG whites and
All blacks. AT Chester Court House and Lewis
Turn Out, the aggregate up to Monday evening
was 257 whites and s75 blacks. Registration has
not vet been completed at the two last-named
places YorkuiAe Enquirer
CHANGE OF WEATHER. Since the eclipse OF the
moon on Friday evening last, the weather has been
dry. and for the most part warm and sunny. Cot
ton bolls ought to be opening finely, and picking
should be going briskly ahead. Notwithstanding
the rain, the rust and the worm, we venture the
prediction that more cotton will open than VIII pc
picked Much, we fear. will be lost by inability TO
gather it. Too many nigger meetings on sun
shiny days More wool gathering than cotton
gathering. tgefetd Advertiser.