The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-04
State Ncws

VlRnbpore mas j markot, toWh CLOCK,
fire engine and street lamps.
In Anderson county tho delinquent
tax list foots Up SO, 3,S24.90.
Mr. S B Calcutt has taken charge Of
the Palmetto Hotel, in Spsrtanburs.
In Aiken thure isl branch of the
Augusta Schutzen Gesellschaft.
The Mansion House, in Grccnvlle,
was robbed by burglars on Friday last
The co!ored folks of Aiken h ave had
Il tournament.
The Abbcyi!lo M-lium had "pi' on
April the first.
The Greenvile races will come off tile
lG:a Of May.
The Enterprise aud .'lountainecr, Of
Greenville, is about to be enlarged
The wet weather has retarded the
planting OF corn iu m,ny Of the upper
counties Of the State
An election for intcndaut and war
dens Of Lancaster will he held the So
c"nd Monday in April.
Thirteen sheep, belonging to Mr..
James Ti,ums, near Winnsboro, were
kille by dogs last week.
All Of the German immigrants en-
ployed by Mr. B L Williamson, OF Darr-
lington county, have le It him
There have been numbor Of pts
at robbery in Barnwell during the past
two weeks.
Last Sunday evening tho barn Of G
w Cromer, of Abbeville. was burned
it contained 1000 bundles of fod,ler.
MIR. Biuscll, Methodist prcachc r,
was robbed of his ,tobucco on the high.
way at Cahouu's Mills, AbbeyilIc
county, 'ou last Tuesday.
Chester rejoices in the possession of
first class marble yard, where home
made ton,hstoncs can be had ut short
notice
The Columbia Onion menti,n+
runlor totl.c effect that Purker's" >
in that city, will Soon be cony erte iuio
cotton fa@prj-
he colurrd SIcthod xtS oil Ahbcviile
county are r.itin-, funds To opon ;he
college at Cokcsbury known II, ia, ne =
| Institute
I lie work on the new cotton flct,ry
| Of Grecnville is in progress, twsn.,
boxes, containing machinery. having
arrived.
Mr.. Simon Brown, of Blackville,
shipped .93 bales OF cotton. This is
probably the largest shipment ever
made from this place BY one person at
tiGe.
The work of gradiag on the Chester
and Deaoir Narrow Guage Railroad has
been commenced, and the stockhold .rs
are called on to pay up their install
ments.
Some Of the German immigrants who
lately settled ut Lowndesvile, Abbeville
county have struck for higher wages,
and, failing to obtaia an advance, have
| left for parts unknown.
The temperance cause is prospcring
IN Darlington. There are white and
colored temperance society, the form or
numbering sixty M mbors and the most
inveterate topers arc joining
The citizens Of Anderson county will
hold public meeting on the 9Th of
April for the purpose of instituting
measures to aid in the scheme of imtni
grafton, suggested by the taxpayers
convention.
Mr. Jacob A Caldwell, Of Fairfield
has entered suit against the town coun.
ell of Winnsboro' for fvo thousand dol.
lars dumages in consequence of a
sprained ankle from falling into an open
cistern.
A pelican of large size was killed
near Capt o A Wylio's mill on Fl shiug
Creek, Chester county, on Saturday last.
1t measured seven feet eight inches
from tip to tip of wings, and four feet
six iDches from point of bill to eud of
tail.
On last Sunday night, the 22d, tho
store of Rattereo & Daniel, at Rock