The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1877-01-04
South Carolina News.

The Abbovi!le boys had merr
time last week, rolling the citizen
in the SNOW.
The county officers OF Pick en-
have All filed their bonds, mono O
winch have been rejected.
A negro shot and killed himsel
ny accident on the Chalmers place
IN Nowberry county lapt week.
blrs. II. A. Davis, OF Graniteville
Is looking for a runaway son who
left his home some days since.
Tho Sumter True .eouthro7s men
tons not less than two dozon gin
house robbclics in that county with
in 4 week.
Tho keosoee Courier congratu-
lates its readers on tie absence OF
cases OF SunstroEe in tie Ocouss
community.
Two town lots soll in George
town lately for sixty dollars--one
ior twenty-five dollars, und tho 9th
er for thirtvtivo dollars.
The cotton house Of j. j. Dale, Of
Ladies' Island. Beaufort county.
was Iurned down quite recently.
The cause of tic fire ia rot known.
Nearly Ave hundred dollars worth
OF goods were stolen from the va,
liouH merchants Of N wberry on the
Saturday before Christmas.
The taxpayers Of Sumter county
held mass meeting ca the lst Of
january. Those of Marion will
hold one ON the 9Th Of January.
Ihoy are going to decide who To pay
taxes to.
Anderson county follows Charles
ton. Tho Democrats are called to
attend mass meeting on Monday,
tho Sth Of January, to take some
action i'll regard to tho payment of
taxes.
On tho 21st ult. the gin Of Mr..
William II. Stcinmeyer, near Brad
ford Springs in Sumter county, took
lire by accident, while in operation,
and the clubhouse with it's contents
WAS destroyed.
On Saturday, the 23rd ult., q man
by the name Of Campbell was as
saultcd i'll the upper part Of l1m ion
county by two negroes, who beat hin
with clubs go that he died tho next
day' The murdelers hnvo been ar
rested.
On Christmas day difficulty
arose between MacCorrhac, enc of
the soldie. S stationed at Marion, and
colorod MN numel LIosos, in
which tho latter cut tho soldier With
n knife. After being severely pun
lshed, Moses took to his hoois and
ran away.
e man named Meckcr was recent
~ run over and killed by train on
the Air Line Railroad, near Liberty.
1t - SAID that this unfortunate men
hai a singular prediction, when
intoxicated, to lie down on the mil
road track, and it is supposed ho met
his death in that way.
A wagon loaded with whiskey was
recently attached near Pcndleton by
a purity of negroes, the wagoncrs
htoly beaten, and the whiskcy stolen.
The whites, on loarning Of this out
rage, made up party and visited
summary punishment upon the
thieves. One negro was shot in tha
hip and thigh, end another in tho
nrm.
A serious shooting and stabbing
ai1ray occurred at Bronchville on
the 26th ult., in which q colored
man named Stephen Rigsby was
shot end killed, another named
Warren Wilson shot in the leg, and
\ white man named J. w. Fairy
stabbed in the thigh.
II. c.. Judd, clerk Of court OF
Beaufort county, holds the fort. He
refusos to surrender his Office to the
'anary-colored Bampfeld, and it is
said that the rest OF the Off C ers will
hold the fort with him. The reason
is that there is no law for
IN election of county officers on the
7th OF November. All the contest
ing parties are Radicals.
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