The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-08-10
STATE ITEMS.


A large portion OF Barnwel county has
been visited by refreshing showers. E:
Pickens Courthouse has refused to license
any bar-rooms. This will prevent pickin' 5
and stealin's.
Bilious fever; is raging to some extent in
Darlington. Four deaths and many sick
within the last two weeks. r.. '.aae
The Rev. Luther Broadus will assume
charge of the Edgefeld Male Academy on
the 18th September.
NJ. NJ. Benbom, and ". P. Mcknight were
elected to the Office of County Commission
ers, in Clarendon, last week. ~
Doctor Davis Icolored) was shot seriously
in two places, by William Coker, in the Vi
cinity of Hartsyille, Darlington county, on
the 10Th ultimo. No Ku-Klux affair. Co.
ker has escaped. .....~.> y ~.g.
Richard O'Nail was fatally shot by Ben
NJ. Cullough, at Society Hill, last Sunday
night Cause, a faithless wife, appertaining
to Mccullough. 40
Various religious revivals have been pro-
crossing at Salem, Duncan Chapel, Brushy
Greek and Rocky Spring churches in Green
vile county, under very promising auspices.
Darlington was visited on Sunday last by
refreshing rains, and the drought is therefore
ended. More corn will be made than in any
year since the war, and the cotton promises
fairly. s~.+ . ri1..--,
Tie R;cbland Farmers Club met in Co.
lamb on Saturday. Much "talk" was had,
and a free :,,c; change cfoo:n;on took place.
Hears and heads were made lighter by this
means.
The Barnwcll Jail has So regular boarders
at present. Sam jenkins, one Of the Beech
Islandmurderers, was arrested near that vii
lage by colorcd man, Thos. Crawley, and
lodged r's r''-'
Last week, Court was held in Pickens, by
Judge Orr. Thomas and Robert Hughes
we're convicted of horse stealing, and sent to
the Penitentiary for two years. They were
the only "jail birds" in Pickens.
No rain of consequence has fallen in the
vicinity of Kingstree, for about five weeks,
and the crops in Williamsburg are suffering
very much, though in places, bountiful rains
have been had.
The Grcenyille District Conference Meth
odist,) met in Walhalla on the 26th ultimo,
sixty members in attendance. Rev. R. P.
Franks presided. Much zeal was manifested,
and great deal Of good done.
The crops in and around Anderson are
suffering intensely from the prevailing
drought. Wheat turned out badly, oats
were ruined by rust, corn is likely to be
greatly shortened in its yield, and cotton is
not thriving at all. Bad news that.
A weekly mail route has been established
from Johnson's, on the G. G. and A. r. r.
R. to Ncwbcrry Courthouse, via Mine Greek,
Mount Willing and Bouknight's Ferry.
From the lack of rain in and around
Greenville it is apprehended that the hith-
erto fair crop prospects will be materially
changed. Suffering among the farmers.
Mr.. Horton, Of York, has grown an Irish
potato vine, on the top of which thirty small
patatoes are to be seen, similar to those usu-
ally grown at its roots. Nevertheless, from
the roots of the same vine, he has gathered
twenty potatoes, as large, some Of them, as
mans fist Rather vegetable story"
j. Ward, Esq, who, it is presumed,
has been keeping watch and seard over the
local column of the Darlington lnder, has
according to that paper, taken "new de-
parture" for the mountains. 1t is supposed
he went to acard off the pressure Of legal
business, which had come to him as an
a-,card for his diligence.
The horses or mules about Greenville not
relishing "starvation party" prospect, have
been endeavoring to injure the property OF
that corporation, and become telo de SC, by
running amateur races up and down the
Main street. Results, one gas post shiv-
cred, two wagons damaged, and several sets
of harness broken, besides some skin rubbed
off.
A few citizens of Kings School District
met in Kingstree last Saturday to assess
tax for school purposes. After talking all
day upon this, and other subjects not under
consideration, some wise and doubtless hun.
cry individual made a motion to adjourn,
which was speedily carried.
John Perry, colored man, was killed on
on the 1st instant, in Orangeburg county
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