The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-16
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State News

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! They atoto have daily union prayer
meetings in Wiunsboro' for tho suppress.
sion Of vice. iela IEli,,l. ;.li.
4 grange was organized at Richland
Academy. Oconee Cou+ty, last week,
with j. l.. Shanklin master
s1O,694,s6, were sent from Darling
ton in postofico money orders during
the past three months! is s:'
Mr.. Wm. Mahafoy, of Kershaw
County, was run over by loaded wa
gon near Big Lynche's Creek, and was
killed one day last week. t
/; A AccIDENTAL SMoor1Na.- Reports
from Timmonsvillo, state. that Mr.. f.
Ragsdale. accidentally shot himself in
a vital part ono night last week, and
now lies very i'll.
r. Thomson, brother Of II. II.
Thomson, Of Spartanburg, died SUDDENLY
on Monday night last, of mening tits, at
Baltimore, whore h0 was going to
school. .t.t3
DEATHS -Wm. D. Partlow; Esq, an
old citizehof Abbevie County, died last
Friday, at the ripe old ago of seventy
thre.. Mrs. ILouisa Hester died at her
residence, lin Abbevlls County, last
"Wednesday, from Pneumonia, aged
cighty-fous
BuRNEA TO DEAru.-On tho 2sth
ult., attho1placc of Mr.. A.3C, McGc Q,
near Grove Station, on the Groonvile
and Columbia Railroad, q fire occurred
which consumed log cabin aud those
who were in it at the time, three color
ed children, The father and mother
were workifg some distance from the
house, and the flames were not discov-
cred until tPo late.
Arthur a Glover, who .was indicted
for the killihg of Lovett Gomillion at
Edgcfeld Cburt house on the 10Th Of
o s.-~'1"s', Taa tried at tho Aiken court
last week. lie was represented by j en-.
1a,a y; y = Sgels|s us Nessr'; Curry & Gary,
John y. bSlAn. s. r. 'GriMn, J. 9.
Sheppard bY. Croft, white, and r..
b. Elliott inR >. J:sIea, coIored. lnc
jury brought in verdict of not gull
ty.
PARDoNED Upon the re rcsommenda
ton of the presiding Judge and many
prominent citizens of EIgefieli county,
the Governor yesterday, pardoncd
William L Murrell convicted of man
slaughter at tho July, 1870, term of the
Court Of General Sessions for Edge6cld
county and sontcrccd by Judge Samuel
w. Melton to ten years imprisonment
in the Penitentiary. And also, upon
the recommendation Of Judge L. j !.
Mackey, the Governor rardoned Isaac
Crawford, convicted Of prejury at the
present term Of the Court Of General
Sessions for Fairfield county, and sen
tenoed to six months imrrison in
the Pcnitentiary,r upon the condition
that he pay tho costs of prosecu-
| tion ~! e@ az hl 1a
fatal AccIDEsrIN NCHARLEsToN.-
During the movement Of the camp. mset
ing trains at the Northeastern Railroad
depot yesterday, Griffith Champlain
oolored, one Of the regular train hands
while attempting to got on tho COW :.
catcher of the engine Echo whilo in
motion, from trestla, miased his foot
ing and was SO badly injured that he
soon died. A policeman on duty in the
yard, seeing what tho unfortunate man
was about to do, warned him of the
danger he would incur To this he
paid no head, relying upon his skill as
train hand to accomplish his purpose.
One Of his legs was cut off and stomach
'shockingly laceratsd. The cornor ON
panueled a jury of inquest, which
adjourned to meet again on "Wednesday
when the matter will bo Investigated
Neus and COURIER.