The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-21

/ gave up the idea of lighting as insane. :"
shall not save France, y .thev said; zone mar
will not weigh much In the scalei' ana WIZ
i this reasoning they have grown fat when pool
Paris, .besieged by famine and cannon, sough
defenders on all sides. Fortunately, however
they; receive the universal contempt they de
serve.
ALL ABOUT THE STATE.
Newberry.
The old postofice building is to be razed
and handsome new structure put In its place
at Newberry.
Mr.. Z. w. Pegues retires from the, Camder
Journal, after connection with 1t forty
| years, either as publisher or printer John
tor.
We had hailstorm in Aiken, says the Jour:
i nal; by way y-of q variety, on last Monday eve.
ming. doing little damage In the toWn, but
| nothing like as sseyere asit was In the coun-
try. Mr. James Youngblood informs US that
The copslderes his cotton crop half gone, and
Mr. sJ@HgSattert sends.us some melons
| which are riddled in such q manner that the
hailstcnes must have been very large.
Lexington.
The Lexington Dispatch says: ''The new
route from Lexington Courthouse to Mount
| Wi.lings by Rocky Well. Drafts NH, Hollow
! Creek, West Creek, GermanVille, went into
operation: on Thursday, or rather the mail car
| Her made; the round trip, but found no post
masters appointed toreceiye the malls as yet.
| If those communities desire mall facllltiesi
they should at once petition to the postmaster
lgeneralIor appointment Of postHasters. The
/ regular trips of the mall carrier Will be con-
| 'tinued, and arrangements should at once be
made for establishing postoflces. By this
route the mall leaves Lexington Courthouse
Thursday morning, and arrives at Tr0tter's
Store or Mount Willing same evening"
Sumter.
+ The Sumter News says: 1--WE hear very dis
couraging reports in regard to the crops from
1.-the ras0nl about Bishoprille, and elsewhere
north of this town. Rain has not fallen iu
some places for three. iour and i've weeks,
|.and the crops have suffered accordingly
The Methodist district conference will meet
In Sumter on Wednesday, July rs. Bishop
Wightman willpreside. :.
The Sumter Watchman has the following
crop. news "In some portions Of Sumter
County the CROP the corn especially, Is now
experiencing severe injury from drought; In
the BishopVille region, we learn, 1t Is disas-
,trOns. The rains have been partlal-sOme
neighborhoods experiencing good average sea.
sons, whilst In others there has,been five or
six weeks drought. Insome places the cotton
is falling rapidly. Upon the whole the crop,
both. off cotton and corn, wall be. materially
cut short"
The barn of VIM. s. Howard, ST., living near
the Cherokee Ponds, Edgefeld, S. c., was set
on fire by lightning. July 9Th, during severe
rain and thunder storm. The re,Was ,discoy-
cred In time to save about hundred bushels
of corn and fifty bushels unthreShed wheat. A
freedman living on; the place, named Archy
Middleton, deserves mneh,credit for bis unttr-
ing efforts :on the occasion, he and;six Of bis
family bringing water until the deVourIng ele.
ment was su0dued. Only about hve bushels OF
wheat were burned. - ~ ~
.Mr: S.sJ. Tompkinsiof Edgeaeld, died on
Sunday last In the 25th year OF Shis age, at bis
residence In the Dark Corner Side ofthat cours'
.ty.
The EdgeHed Advertiser publishes the. fol-
lowing account Of o rape committed In that
county young white girl, about twenty
the district poorhouse, was brutally outraged
a few days since while. wandering in held
belonging to the .poorhouse farm. This wretch
ed girl Is idlotic and some what deformed-
which adds to the horrorand Nervousness OF
the deed. She AYERS that the perpetrator Is
one Andrew Burrow, negro fellow who was
drew Burrow has been arrested and lodged In
our jail. But he stoutly denies being guilty.
The outrage, however, was undoubtedly COM
mitted;. and as soon as ths. perpetrato orbe-
comes known let him be- 'hanged-be he who
he may !" -
Speaking ofsthe late colored Ku.Klux In
Barnwell, the Aiken Journal says: "0wen
8. Smith, the ringleader in. the Silver Bluff
tragedy, was delivered up by the Georgia au-
thorltles to Chief Constable Hubbard, on Fri
|rday last, and was carried of with Rev. Peter
Allen, another of the offenders, arrested by
Trial Justice Hayne, to Barnwell on Saturday,
and lodged In the Jail at that place. Soon
after Smith and Alien had been carried of,
three Of The women engaged also In the dilti-
that, threatening to assist. In killing the par
ties they werein search Of, they had accom-
panied the crowd to the scene of conflict
with axes in their hands, one Of them
breaking down the back door, where
brought i'm on a warrant issued against them
by Trial Justice Hayne. A number Of colored
persons, supposing that these three wo-
men. whose names are Molly Hr,i0ng, Savan-
nah House and Ellen Miller, were only wit
nesses, were very indignant that Justice
Hayne would not release them upon bail. but
the latter refused TO take any, and upon
threats being made,a sufficient guard was
placed around the town hall on Sunday night,
and Monday morning they were sent on to the
Jail at Barnwell-a portion OF the crowd who
| were anxious to rescue them following them,
we are informed, to the|strain. No others
than the above have been captured, but q
dllgent search is being made for them, and 1t
Is supposed that they Mill soon be arrested.
The citizens in the neighborhood of the mpr-
der are very much annoyed that all of the
lparty have not been arrested before this. and,
while everything is quiet at present, the
guilty parties are not brought to trial. it is
/ feared that there will be trouble, for no one