The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-05-24
South Caroliila News.

circuit, will reside at Spartanburg.
Memorial Day was appropriately
celebrated in number of counties
in the State.
Glenn Springs, favoritc summer
resort, will be ready for visitors on
the Il. st Of next month.
Col. Beniamin II. Wilson. a prom
mont citizen Of Georgetown, aud
widely known in South Cnrolino,
died in Charleston Oh the 10Th
inst.
The grand jury of Ncwbcrry. Mt
the last term of tho circuit court,
presented the board Of county com
lnissioners for several ucts of official
misconduct.
Stealing is going on at fearful
rate ail over Abbeville county, anl
everything in the eating line has to
be kept constantly under lock and
key. SO says the Wedi"w
Gen. John S. Preston, of Column
bia, will deliver the annual grafton
before the literary societies of the
Carolina Military Institute at Char
lotte, North Carolina.
Mr.. John S. Harmon and lis wife,
living about ten miles from Grcon-
wood depot, in Abbcvillc, were
found murdered in their bed on the
morning of tho 18th inst. The muir
dcrcrs attemptc | to burn the house.
Alph Ruff. ono of the gang who
robbed and murdered Mr. Hayne
Reid at Pomarit last Deccmbo:, was,
strangely enough, convicted of man
slaughter, and was sentenced by
Judge Northrop to twenty years in
the penitentiary.
There arc five hundred and eleven
tracts of land advertised for sale in
Beaufort county, for non payment
of taxes. This does not include
those casos in which bills of the
Bank of tho State have been ten
dored in payment.
, Three Democratic newspapers.
tho Charleston Nems and Courier,
tho Sumter lF"tchnun and the
Clarendon Press, have expressed
the opinion that it would ho unwiae
10 Oppose the re election of Govern
or Chamberlain.
Thc:o aro six hundred anl forty
one pieces II rall ,tltc 1va.tised
for sale by the auditor of Charleston
county for noE-paymcnt of taxes.
Doubtless large number Of these
are cases i'll which bills of the Bank
Of the State have been rendered in
payment.
There was quite disastrous fire
ut Darlington g. II. on the morning
of the l4th inst. A number of
stores and dwellings, wore destroyed,
the entire loss being estimated at
one humdrc thousand dollars. There
was comparatively little insurance.
Alfred Rush, colorcl, a member
Of the Legislature from d arlington,
county was recently, shot AMI kille.l,
while on his way to his home in Il
buggy. The pcrpetrntor of the
murder is yet unknown. A reward
Of four hundred dollars has been
offered for lis apprehension.
The trill of William Alexander
Lowry. negro, charged with the
murder of Mr.. John Murphy, of
Sumter county, came off before
Judge Shaw IL few days ago. A mol.
pros. was entered as to two others
charged. and Lowry was arraignel
and pleaded not guilty. The jury.
consisting of two white and ten
colorcd men, returned verdict of
guilty.
The Fort Moultric Centennial
celebration, which is to take place in
Charleston on the 2Sth Of June.
promises to be Il grand ntf,ir. Mill
taly companies from Boston, New
York, Augusta, Columbia, New Or
leans and North Carolina will par
ticipatc, and the Charleston compa-
Mes will Of course turn out in full
force. George W. Williams, ESQ.
the well known merchant, is chair
man of tie Senior Committee IL
most excellent selection.
A. Fl. Howard, colorcd legislator
; from Marion, deems himself insulted
by the par ;graph going the rounds
that he sits with his former master
: in the Legislature, and then goes
, homo and works rs carpenter and
. oats III his kitchen. Isc slys: CAS-
> far as am concerned it makes but
very little different with me what
my friends say about me wher i takes
my meals nor how take them thank
, god that have lived to see to day
!, when some of my ris to cratic friends
are glad to take there tools and go
II long by my side to urn there daily
bread j dcnigh this for hav ben
; home tcrday to my farm evry sense
/ the legislator hav adjurncd." Fine
: literary effort for lnw-maIer !
Tooml>s has given to patent
medicine man q certificate that the
nostrum has cured him of "an OBJ
stirAte affection of the throat. I"
Whoroupom the Lynchburg News
asserts that the vendor of the
madeleine O,1rht to he Indicted No q