The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-09
-AFFARS IN THE STATE.
Sumter.

gular sheriffs sale-day, Sumter was crowd
ed with people. The freedmen turned out en-
n8sse, each man wanted . mule or horse,
wherewith to raise crop OF cotton in the COM
these poor people of prosperity to ceme-alas,
We much fear that these hopes and anticipa-
tions are doomed to disappointment. Many a
mule and horse will die for want of proper
food and attention in the hot months-aud
many small crop of cotton will grow to grass
and be lost from the laziness and slothfulness
Of the tolored people.
EdgefeId.
MIR. A. J. Norris, arespected citizen, has been
appointed magistrate by Governor Scott. >-s
Mr.. John Glover, a respected citizen Of the
Beech Island section of Edgefeld, was found
dead in the public road about two miles from
his residence, on Thu sday last. He had left
his house on the day before. 1t is supposed
he died in a sort OF fit, as no marks of violence
whatever we're found upon his person. The
deceased was about forty-seven years of age. Z
Andrew Ramsey, clerk of the court in Edge
field, has been served with & notice that the
South Carolina Railroad Company will make
application to set aside the verdict of the jury
given on Saturday in the great railroad case.
Mr. +. X. Durisoe is now the sole proprietor
OF the Edaefeld Advertiser having purchased
the interest Of Mr.. Elijah Reese. Mr.. j. Il.
Bacon retains editorial control.
UcoAee.
asMr. W. G Keith, in graceful salutatory, as-
sumes the editorial chair Of the Keowee Cou-
rler. MIR. Whltner Symmes, (who, by the WY,
has been married,) continues his connection
with the paper as associte editor.
About the first Of December last, o man by
the name Of Experience Moe, hailing from New
Jersey, arrived in Walhalla, and set about pur-
chasing land, offering in pay therefor bonds Of
company entitled the Brooklyn Steamship
and Emigration Company, aud succeeded in
making several trGIes with unsuspecting citi-
zens. Suspicion batiag been aroused as to
once in Naw York and other cities, when it was
ascertained that no sue. bonds wsre known in
r..-'-At. A paragraph in NC-ss0rh paper
mentions thar .he same individual, under 49,
name Of Talmadge, has Peen arres'eoIor peing
concerned in robbery.
York.
Colonel A. 8. Busord, rresident Of the Geor-
eia and South Carolina Air Line Railroad Com
pany, will by special invitation, address the
peop,c Of York in r"c.erence to this enterprise
at Yorkville, on Wednesday, the 18Th instant.
or sale-day In YefkSiite The Enquirer says:
ComptroHer:ao :aohefal Eeagle having Temporal
rily prohibited the sheriff from selling prop
erty advertised for taxes, the latter officer had
but little to do, and only disposed OF two
small parcels Of land under execution.
lrsct peiouRlnS ~ tno estaSo VI uiAP W.
iama, deceased, containing nine hum
dred and forty-seven acres, was sold for
$110, and tract Of twenty acres, belonging to
J. B. Pankey, was bid off at fifty dollars. The
sheriff sold, for the Judge OF Probate, house
and lot or Main-street, known as the Davis
Mcclure" lot, belonging to the estate OF George
Steele, deceased, at twelve hundred and hfty
dollars, on credit Of twelve months. We
conversed with number of persons from
various sections Of the county, and were much
pleased to find that the majority OF our people
are hopeful Of the future, and that the good
time" 30 long expected, IS believed to be near
vt hand.
AbbeviIle.
It is announced that Judge Vernon will hold
Q session of the Court OF Common Pleas
and General Sessions for Abbeville District,
month.
The death of Joseph F. Black Jr., promis-
ing young citizen, formerly citadel cadst,
is announced in the Abbeville Banner.
A meeting OF the Democratic Clubs of Abbe-
vile District was held on Monday last, for the
purpose OF concerning measures which would
best secure the peace and good order Of the
community, and express the public disappro-
baton of oil acts OF laWloss violence. William
Il. Parker Esq, president of the district club,
assumed the chair. and ". A. Lee Esq, was
requested to act as secretary: Resolutions
after being advocated by himself, Colonel Fair
and others, were unanimously adopted. They
deplore and denounce 10 the strongest terms,
all excesses and breaches Of the peace, whether
exhibited in incendlary harangues, midnight
burnings, or open violence, express an honest
and unreserved acquiescence. in the present
political situation, and conclude as follows:
1.-THE recent heated political excitement being
now over, and the bureau and the garrison
having been withdrawn from AbbeviIe, gradu-
ally producing quiet and restoring the COM
posure OF the community, we invoke all good
citizens to use even more than ordinary efforts
to maitain peace and secure order, and thus
repel in the most effectual manner, by their
conduct, the false charges brought against,the
whole community of violence and lawlessness."
Colonel r. A. Fair, Rev. W. T. Farrow, Dr.. J.
W. Hearst, A. c. Hawthorn and James McCas-
lin, ESQ.,, were appointed committee to lay
the resolutions before his E1cellency Governor