The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-10
Items OF State News.


We find the following items in the Marion
papers .a....
q, daughter of Mr.. Reaves Hays was, on
Monday, the 31st ult., bitten by rattlesnake
having fifteen rattlcs. She died tho next day.
A difficulty occurred last week between John
C.. Allen. Esq, and a freedman named Jack
eight buckshot.
went 10 the residence Of Duncan Mcclellan, a
few days since (McLellan being absent), and
robbed tne house Of three hundred dollars in
money, several articles Of b d clothing aud
.other valuables. The cookwoman was the
only person present, and says she can identify
one OF the scamps.
"A fine specimen of gold rice. the same as
that cultivated in the low country rice fields,
is before us, the product OF Cypress creek in
Marion. fourteen miles south Of this place, and
was the work OF George H. Simmons, colored
man. The heads of this rice are twelve inches
long and well filed with grain. This shows
what can be done on our high lands.
"A friend writing to US from Cool Spring,
Horny District, informs us that Miss Dolly
Jones, eighty-six years Of age, got lost on
Tuesday, the 25th Of August last, near Turf
Camp Bay, and was found on Thursday follow
ing in the head Of Chineras Swamp, but was 30
exhausted by fatigue and hunger that she
could not be saved. She was conveyed to MIR.
Robert Aliens, and died the night after she
was found.
The Columbia Phoenix says: A jury Of
inquest was held in Hamburg, on the morning
of the 5th, by Benjamin Baird, Esq, magis-
trate, acting as coroner, on the body OF Spen-
Ger Sales, a freedman. It appears, from the
testimony, that Spencer, on the 9th ult., at
three o'clock A. NJ, went in the garden OF MIR.
Samuel Sharpton, where he cut off some cab
bages. Mr.. Sharpton, without knowing who it
was, shot at him, and wounded him in the
head and arms. After suffering severely from
the wounds, he expired Monday night, at ten
o'clock. The verdict Of the jury was that
Spencer Sales came to his death from gun-shot
wounds, beieveu to have been fred by Sam
uel Sharpton, and that they regard the said
Samuel sharpton as justi6able before the law.
HORRIBLE HISTORY OF GLUTToN.-Grena-
der Tarare, who died recently at Florence,
was one Of the greatest gluttons Of modern
times. He devoured, in the course Of twenty
four hours, q whole quarter ofa beef; break
fast prepared for ten or twelve persons he
would dispatch in very few minutes. He ate
fell into his hands. A favorite food OF his was
snakes, which he relished better than the fat
test cells, He devoured the largest snakes he
got hold Of alive, without leaving anything OF
them. When he was once employed as assist,
ant in hospital, he seized largo tomcat, and
was already occupied in tearing it alive when
DR.. orenzi, chief surgeon OF the army, was
sent for. Tarare held the cat by the neck and
tail tail and nc tore its belly with his Teeth sucking
tie tie blood, and soon leaving nothing of It ex,
cept the bones; whereupon he gnawed, IKE e, a a
beast Of prey. at the skin, to the horror Of the
hospital assistants, who witnessed the repul,,
sive scene. These assistants SAID tney nau aiia
IL H., 1kt,anO
blood Of patients that had been bled, and
others caught him in eating pieces out OF the
corpses at the charnel house. When it finally
anpeared that this cannibal bad devoured the
whoe corpse of child was dismissed from
the hospital, where he filled everybody with
unspeakable horror. He died twenty-Nl4 years
old OF a putrid d1arrhoea, resulting from mt ORTIZ
fication of his bowels.