The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-12-21
South Carolina Nows,

Eggs are thirty five cents dozen
in Cheste
OATS aro actively in demand in
Edgeiieid ut from sc 10 &C cents a
bushel.
-Four companies of the LIST United
States artillery have recently arrived
in Columbia from Florida.
Senator Cochran, of Anderson, q
Republican, has been voting with
the Democrats since the commence
ment of the session.
Mr.. Isaiah Mines, a soldier of the
war of 1912, and ono of the oldest
citizens of Clarendon county, died a
few days ago.
The editors of the Pickens Sent;-
mel have been indulging in an extern
slve hunt efter deer and wild tur-
keys, with excellent success.
There was tremendous wind
storm in Pickens, few days ago,
creating no little apprehension in
the minds OF many for their person.
al safety. ...... ..'
There WAS collision on the South
Carolina Railroad last week, through
tho cnroIcssness of tho engineers,
by which two engines wero in
jured.
A considerable number of wells in
the town of Newberry are either
very low Or completely dry, and
that place seems in danger of q
water famine
The cold WAS so intonse in New
berry week before last, that the
ponds were frozen over, and skates
were in demand.
Mr.. J. Walker, who lives on Coop
or River above Charleston, was pain
fully shot by colored burglar few
nights ago.
MIR. james p. Newton, one of the
Oldest and most respected citizens
of Horny county, died recently of
paralysis, after IN illness of but a
few hours
A slight earthquake was felt in the
city of Charleston last week. Win
dow sashcs ratified, and other evi-
den"es OF such u convulsion were
distinctly felt.
Senator Il. j. Robertson has do
cllned to be q candidate for Senate
rial hOnors, upon the ground that
tho Radical House is unconstitution-
al.
AT Leosvillc, Lexington county,
the other day, Allen Lot, colored,
shot and killed Marshal Harris, also
colored. Lot has not yct been cap
tured.
a colorcd woman by tho name of
Daily Thompson hung herself seven
miles below Anderson village on the
9th inst. She was at times insane,
and had on several occasions threat
ened to take her own life.
Mr.. ". II. Pcako and Mr.. James
Wldeman, residents of Long Cane,
in Abbeville county, had a difficulty
last week, in which the former shot
the latter in tho thigh.
Due West owls, snys the Abbeyille
Medsuna, are rather bad on poultry
this season. They mako their raids
by the coopful, and leave the coops
in the college campus as a warning
to bad boys.
The smoke house Of Mr.. John G.
Douglass. Of Abbeville, was broken
open a few days ago, and about
three hundred pounds Of bacon
stolen. The thief has not been cap
tured.
The gin-house of Mr.. w. w. Mil.
ier near Saluda Old Town, in New
berry county, was burned last week,
with twenty-five bales ofcotton. and
the seed from one hundred bales.
His loss is about $4,000. Kerosene
on the posts clearly pointed to- in
cendiaries as the cause Of the fire.
The clubhouse of Mr.. O. w. D.
Russell, OF Chester county, together
with fourteen bales Of cotton and
the gin house Of Mr.. Blewet Worthy
! 0f tho snrne county, with eight bales
OF cotton and eight hundred pounds
OF cotton seed, we're burned by incen.
diaries not long since. /,
+. Austel, aDemocrat who was a
surety on the official bond of J. n.
Ostendorff, the newly elected Radi.
cal clerk of court for Charleston
county, has formally Withdrawn his
name from the bond, convinced that
he could not do his county worse
injury than to give aid to Republi-
can office-seekers.
Col Samuel Fl. Mortimer, an old
and highly esteemed citizen OF
Charleston, died on the 18th inst. at
the residence of his only son in
Barnwell county, in the SEVENTEEN
year of hisage He was a native 81
Charleston, and at one time repre-.
RanEaH that niof,,ok -.