The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-24
ITEMS OF STITE NEH,S.

"A meeting of the stockholders of the Che
raw and Darlington Railroad will be held IN
the town of Cheraw on Tuesday, the 18th OF
November.
The Presbyterian Synod, Rev. MIR. Hughes,
of Camden, Moderator has becn IN session for
the past two days. The different churches
throughout the State are generally repre-
sented.
The Abbeville Press says: son Saturday
last, company of about fifty soldiers, under
the command OF Lieutenant Miller, we believe:
belonging to the 9Th regiment q. S. a., arrived
at this place, and pitched their tents near the
railroad depot.
The Chester Standard says: "Our commu-
nity wns visited last Wednesday, 14th instant,
by Company E, 9Th United States Infantry,
Lieutenant Snider. commanding object
of which, as stated in General Orders, No. n,
posted on tue courthouse door, is to preserve
peace and quiet during the approaching Presl-
Dental election.
The Yorkville Enquirer says: "On Thurs,
day evening last, O company Of the 9Th Unlted
States Infantry arrived in Yorkville, by rail
road. The company is under the command OF
Brevet Major W. 8. Worth, and numbers about
forty men, These troops are hero IN obedlencc
to an order issued by General Meade, dlstrlb-
uting troops throughout his department., for
the purpose of repressing any disturbance
that may occur during the approaching elec-
ton. The order referred to, assigns one com
pany to each of the Districts of Chester, Union,
taurens, Abbevillo, Newberry, Edgeheld, Beau
fort, Georgetown and Darlington"
The Yorkville Enquirer says: James
Brian. ESD, Of this District, has left at the
ENQUIRER Office several branches Of cotton stalks
taken from one of his fields, which are lite, ally
covered with worms. All Of the leaves and
small twigs have been stripped of, and the
fhn Of laIn
The worms are about two-thirds Of an inch in
length, of dark color, encircled with several
yellow stripes, and are said to be of the same
species of those which swept The cotton fields
of Florida and the West. At the suggestion of
Mr.. Brian, we placed the worms in common
glass tumbler aud kept them covered for two
OF three days, when a number OF winged in
sects made their appearance, very much re-
sembling the common candle fly. The Worlds
on entering field commence their attacks on
the leaves, twigs and small bolls on the cotton
stalk, and continue their work while vcstige
of either remains. They have, as yet, done no
injury to any other kind OF vegetation, but con-
fine their depredations to the cotton plant"
The Abbeville Press thus describes an oc-
currence already noticed in our special teIe-
grams: "On Wednesday morning, about two
o'clock, the barn and stables of General
MCGOWAN, together with very valuable horse
and some provender, were entirely consumed
by fire. The flames had made such progress
before it was discovered as TO render it impos.
sible to save the building. 1t was the work of
an incendiary. About the same time at which
the torch was applied to the building, some
unknown person entered the dwelling house
OF General MCGOWAN, through window, rad,
after preparing the way for his exit i'll cIse of
alarm proceeded to ransack the house, and
went to the bed-chambcr of Mrs. MCGOWAN,
who was alone, save the presence of two small
children, and forcibly carried her out OF tho
house, some distance in the yard, where, an
alarm being given by her little daughter, she
was thrown to the ground, and the villain made
off. In the darkness it could not be ascertain
ed whether the perpetraror of the deed was
white or black"