The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-12
GOSSIP FROM GREENHILLE.
Morc Incendiarfsm-A Valuable Gin
House Burned-The Weather and the
Crops.
iFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
GREENyII.LE. g. c.. March

House Burned-The Weather and the
Crops.
lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
GREENvILLE, s. c., March 8.
The pin-house of Captain Wm. Goldsmith,
one of our best men and most enterprlsing
farmers, Just upon the outskirts of this city,
was burnt down on Friday, the 7th instant, at
about four o'clock A. NJ. II was unquesliona.
bly the work OF an incendiary, as the gin had
not been used for weeks. He had In II four
bales of cotton, FIVE hundred bushels oi cotton
seed, seven tons OF Wando fertilizers and
mnch else that was valuable. The loss is at
least twenty-five hundred dollars, and 1t was
moi insured. II Is hard 10 discover THESE In
cendiaries, and thus the hard and honest earn
ings Of good citizen are all destroyedi no
one knows whose giu or dwelling-house Will
20 next, and all are kept anxious ana un-
happy. ,.a ,s,,
season, and the eupply will not be sufficient.
Al least fifteen hundred IONS will be sold mere.
which will amount 10 $4,000, and 500, 1000
worth could be easily sold. There is now out
Que opinion of their incalculable value. Tney
are carried to the foot of the Blue Ridge, and
there cotton Is raised by their means. The
roads In every direction from the city are
alive with wagons hauling fertllizars. Ihey
are The best anli-emlgration society we nave
or can have, and the best immigration society.
Farming with fertilizers will pay, and every
body wants now TO stay al home. M moving
10 the West. And soon people will mOVe IN
TO share the profits of farming.
The weather sluce Christmas has been very
dlsarrpeabl cold, wet and cloudy. No larm
work has vet been done, and the roads have
been almost impossible. The thermometer
on Monday morning, the Sd instant, slood at
twenty degrees below freezing, aud on Ines-
day, the 4tb, at twenly.tnree degrees below
freezing. 1t has, however, been an uncom-
monty healthy season.
Land on Main street. In desirable locatlons,
IA selling at one hundred dollars per foot on
the street. and hard to get at that. Merchants
and farmers are both making money. AS
capital increases eur people are anxious to er-
gage in manufactures, and much would nave
been done in establishing factories thls year
had the Legislature passed the bill before
them relieving manufacturers from TAX lot
ten years. Now, those about TO estaollsh lac.
tories are Disconnected, and, perhaps. Will
wait another Year until The bill !s passed; and
thus The wheels of progress will be arrested
| whole year In this respect.
The literary and theological institutions
here are doing very we'll. The Literary Cllb
ia in successful operation. II furnishes ior
FIVE dollars two hundred dollars worth OF the
| best English and American reviews, and tnus
an abundaEt and cGeap literature is furnlsneo
TO all it's members. You pay little and get
much.
The churches here are all we'll supplied and
well attended. There Is some special interest,"
in the Baptist Church at !hls time. The Good
Templars are very active, and many Soutn
are uniting with them. They do much good.
S0MERS