Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-06-17
Here and there in the Sta Q.

Deaths in Charleston for the week
ending juno 3, 81; of which 5wcre
whites and 26 colorcd.
The members oe Saluda Township
Democratic Club, Of Lexington, will
meet on the fourth Saturday in this
month, Mt j. J. Wessingcr's store, at
9 O'clock +. NJ.
Less than two months from now,
Jerry Coleman, of Abbcville, may
pay the forfeit ot'his life on the gal
lows for the killing ofhis comradc,
Adam llackctt, some three years
ago.
a verdict for s25,7s6 hns been
rendered against the late [. N.
league, County Treasurer OF Barn
well. The bondsmcn will take an
appeal to the Supreme Court.
There is to be grand picnic at
Nncty-Six On the GLORIOUS Fourth"
The territory which made old Ninety
Six County, now embracing Abbc-
vile, q Anderson, Ncwbcrry and Edge
field, will be represented.
Abram DuBosc, John Tucker,
Dennis Calhoun and Henry Brown
were sent to Abbcvillc jail last Satur
day by Trial Justice Tolman because
they could not give bond to keep the
peace.
The prisoner that plead guilty at
the last term Of Marion court, and
was sentenced to the pcnitcntiary, is
still enjoying his imprisonment with
in the walls of Miles hotel. Cause
no money to pay his expenses to
Columbia.
The Right Worthy Lodge Of Good
fcmp!ars at It's annual session, held
ut Louisville, Ky, on the 23d Of May,
elected Rev. Fl. M. Mood to the Office
of Right Worthy Grand Chaplain Of
the order i'll the world.
On Saturday last, Mr.. David
Andrews, an old and much esteemed
citizen Of the Bethel ncighborhood,
IN 1!. Sumter County. quietly yielded his
life to Him that give it, and went 10
receive his everlasting reward. He
had lived beyond his three score and
then by two years.
Lem Guffin has begun the
campaign, and OH last Satur day ad-
dressed two crowds of colorcd men on
the Savannah, in Abbeville, number
ing about 500 persons. He bitterly
denounced Chamberlain and his poli.
cy, and urged the colorcd men to
throw him overheard in the coming
election.
Col. j. B. Peck, the efficient Super
intendent Of the Atlanta and Rich
mond Air Line Railway, has recently
made n change ofschedule on that
road, which went into effect on last
Sunday, making close connection and
shortening the time ten hours between
Atlanta and New York.
Mr.. AIcKewn Johnstono, Jr., has
just completed o map of Spartanburg
County, which he is preparing to have
Autographed. 1t is complete in every
respect, showing the boundaries Of the
different townships, the water courses,
the railr, ads, and the locations Of the
residences of citizens living at prom
inrnt points, &c.
A colored man was shot on Friday
night on the road leading from Due
West to Abbcville by an unknown
party. This fellow was from Georgia,
and claimed to be travelling through
the county for the purpose Of organiz-
ing Democratic clubs among the
colored people. He refused to give
his name, and has disappeared since
the shooting.
A colorcd woman, who had not for
somc time had enough to cat, was en-
ploycd last week on Mr.. w. 0.
Cramcr's place, i'll Abhcvillc, some
three or four miles from the village,
tohclp hoe out his cotton crop Owing
to her reduced condition from lack Of
food and the large amount eaten
when the opportunity presented its elf,
she died in four or five days.