Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-02
SOUTR CAROLINA NEWS.

Rock Hill has town clock, and Flor
ence is to have Baptist church.
The young ladies of Aiken have
formed Tilden club. Ho! for the
| White House.
Caleb Demeese, q colored man of
! WinnsbOro, was recently killed by fall
ing off bis mule.
Ness Curry, Of Fort Motto, was recently
stabbed to death by T. Z. Woodward, iu
a difficulty about horse.
Eight pounds OF the testimony record
ed in the Hamburg inquest have been
forwarded to Washington.
John Kellet, of Lsurens county, while
| at work in his field, was shot and killed
by unknown persons last week.
The State Norman school expenses for
the past scholastic year amounted to
So, 500. the receipts being S., $40 IS. -
A flagstaff two hundred feet high has
been erected In Yorkville by the gar.
rison. The stars and stripes now float
IN the breeze.
At the trial Of negro thief in Union
county recently, one Of the jurymen was
q man who was out on bail, himself
awaiting trial for theft.
s. B. Dorley, an ex.member of the
legislature, has been arrested at Charles.
ton for forging the name of a school
trustee to orders on the county treasury,
A little negro girl about five or six
years old, near BarnwelI village, had
her clothing to take fire on Wednesday
last, and was so badly burned that she
lived tut few hours.
A negro of somewhat notorious char
~ n -
shot and killed at WiIliston by another
freedman, named George Tooie, who, it
is claimed, acted In self.defense. TooIe
has sought another abode.
In the possession of the Gibbes family.
OF Columbia, there is the original draft
of the temporary constitution of South
Carolina, dated March 26, 1776, The
document was drawn by John Rutledge,
and contains thirty-six articles.
The governor has granted reprisye
OF three weeks to Jerry Coleman, the
Abbeyville murderer, who was to have
been executed on Friday. This will be
disappointment to many of his colored
friends, who have been gathering for
several days TO witness his execution.
Charleston News ard Courier: Rep.
resentative T. E. Miller was severely |
OO7'Sh al CtdllUIu'5 SIOSS 60auS, on |
Saturday night. He had appeared as
an attorney in a case before Trial. Jus
tice Mulligsn, and secured conviction.
and after the rial he was set upon bv |
the losing party and his friends.
John Lilley, ex-member Of the Iegis.
lature from Chester, has again come to
grief. He was arrested on q charge of
cOW-stealing, while on his way home from
where he had Just been re-
leased from prison on a writ of hdbeas
corpus. AT the trial he was about being
let of, when fraudulent mule sale was
up and he was again jsiled.
A brutal negro official In Clarendon
'Tunty, ejacted Mr.. w. W. Glover, his
vie and daughter, from their house last
Saturday. Mr.. Glover was very iii, and
vas turned out at night in hard rain:
icing at distance from any neighbors.
md unable to walk, he was forced to re-
main exposed to the weather until as
stance could be orr ught. He has died ]
q consequence. Mr.. Glover was an {
ged and esimRble citizen, and native I
I Virginia. !
Charleston News and Courier: Mon.
sy last was a blood and. thunder day in
Seaufort. Two women ON the Green E
7ere the first to draw the oIaret, and \
len Two young men, one law.msker. p
sttled their orthodoxy by apostolic Z
lows and knocks, and about noon two