Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1875-07-17
State News.

comnotion in the st. I'aul's section
Of Darlington county.
Mr.. John III. Adams, one of the old
est and most esi cemcd citizens of York
county, diod OH the Sd instant.
Died., on the night Of the s,h inst,
Mt Greenwood, S. G., the Rev. T. II.
Popc,. after an illness of only a few
weeks.
When the lyccum is completed
Aiken will possess the finest hall iii
the State outside of Charleston and
Columbia.
~ Money can now be Ind in Walhalla.
Tho bank has begun its operations,
and is making loans, receiving dcpos-
its, and selling exchange.
:, From our State exchanges we gath
er the information that the crops
throughout the State are doing we'll,
and promise a full yield.
W H Henderson, of Laurcns, has
obtained eighty stalks, with thirty-two
hundred grains from grain Of wheat
which he found in quid of tobacco.
Within little more than a month
eight children have been born to four
women in the Millway section of Alb
bevillc county.
The society for tho prevention Of
cruelty to animals was organized on
Monday night at Hibernian hall,
Charleston, by the election of James
I. Welsman president.
Greenvi]le is filing rapidly with
company en- route for the mountains
and shows q commendable spirit of
Improvement and enterprise. Ground
has boon broken for the new cotton
factory, and several handsome iron
trent stores are going up.
During thunder storm on the 7th
inst, the lightning struck ninc-room
house in Graniteville, splitting raft
or and entering one of the rooms in
which Mrs. Rachel syfort lay sick.
The electric fluid played immediately
over tho bed on which she lay, but
did her no injury, and after flashing
around the room vanished through
tho window.
Mr, Edward Zimmerman, of Green
vile, while taking the bride from his
horse some days since was rendered in
sensible by a stroke Of lightning.
which set fire to his stable and killed
his horse. Stable and contents were
entirely consumed, and but for the
ssaSS sssie.sapfsh given by- f,iz wife,
~ German would have been
burnett to death.
OnSunday morning last Aiken was
startled by the announcement of the
death of Daniel Met ronuell, ESQ, late
proprietor of the Mcconnell House.
Savannah, Ca, and few weeks AGO
the purchaser, Of the Aiken Hotel
here. Mr. Mcconnell it seems had
drank ir1q 4, some cider on Saturday in
Augusta which disagreed with linn,
and sRI! caused Al him to feel quite unwell,
but no one supposed his indisposition
would terminate so fatally
Mr.. Caldwell Robertson, who lately
graduated with such distinction at
Georgetown college, son Of Senator
Robertson, is Il constitutional demo
era. OF the Calhoun school, and sticks
to- the Old time teachings. He is
studying law and promises to fulfill
the high expectations raised by his
college. success. It must be source
Of great pride and satisfaction to the
senator to be the father of such n son,
even though, he is democrat.
On Saturday the 3rd irst., Al.
Water Valley near N1ontmorenci de
pot, Allen ~ 2, R1oden, young celored
man, shot and instantly killed a color
Cd woman the wife of John Page. It
seems pleasure gathering was in
progress at the house of the latter, at
which the nan Rodcn was present in
an intoxicated condition. His be
haybr became so violent and disgust
inganthat Mrs Page ordered him from