The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Judge Northrop is holding court
i'll Abbeville. "'
Anderson and Pondleton aro hay
ing base ball quarrel.
, Bishop Howe baptized one, and
confirmed five persons in Abbevillo
last week. ......
Chester had on old folks concert
On "Wednesday night. 1t is pro-
nounced grand affair.
The friends of Gen. Robert
Toombs will pit him against Senator
Gordon in the forthcoming sonato~
rial election Is. .. .....
Mrs. DR.. King, of Florence, who
was burned by the explosion Of q
korosene lamp somo days ago, is
dead. .-
Adjutant ,Gonoral Noise is on q
tour of inspection. He wants to
keep tho volunteer State troops in
good trim.
Commissions havo recently been
appointed for Chester and Claren-
don counties, to investigate the
past Indebtedness Of such counties.
The governor has granted com
mutation of sentence in tho case Of
Darling Ncvils, of Aiken, from death
to imprisonment for lifo in tho poni-
tentiary
A reward of fifty dollars each has
beon offered for the apprehension of
the parties concerned in tho recent
cowardly assault on MI. Wm A.
Moore, Of Cokesbury
The party that visited the noun
tains from Chester, in private convey
ances, have returned. They were
absent threo weeks, and had al en-
joyablo time.
Several Irish gentlemen Of New
York have presented Governor
Hampton with q blackthorn stick,
imported from Ireland. One of it's
recommendation is that it never
misses fire.
Nlossrs. james Armstrong and
Franz Melchers, worthy representa- =
tives respectively Of the the German
and the Irish citizens Of Charleston,
have been appointed aides-de~camp
to the governor. !.
At the recent municipal election
in Anderson, the Independent candi-
date for intendant won by two votes.
1t was proven that four illegal votes
were pollod for him, and the result
was reversed. ~ ,s.4s.j tE
Nincty-Six is red-hot for now
county, while the rest Of Abbcville
is on q howl over. the proposition.
"Many Taxpayers" arc taking Sena-
tor Maxwell to account for favor
ing the division. ~ ..'#
The Abbovillo Press and Banner
says the great Texas Preserving fluid
which, it is claimed, will prosorvo
moats and fruits till doomsday, and
costs five cents o barrel, is q hum
bug. J.,
Three thousand citizens of York
and Lancaster, and Mecklenburg
and Union counties, N. c., met at q
grand barbecue at Indian Land, to
celebrate tho Democratic victories of
the late campaign. Colonel Wylio
made fervid speech.
Mrs. Clara Dargan Mclean has
had a story in the Yorkvillo E,,quia'-
en- entitled "The Frozen Hoart." In
it she narrates tho story of q patriot
living near Doko, in this county,
who, reading Ices farewell address
to tho army, on the 18th Of April,
1866, foil forward upon the floor dead.
On examination, his heart was
found to be literally broken.
Ex-senator Y. J. p. Owens, of
Larrens county, died in Baltimore
on tho 9Th. Ho was ono of the
most graceloss Of all the Radical
scoundrels, and was to have been
arraigned by the Investigating cons
mittee for, tho fraudulent conversion
of 100000 Of detached coupons
into State bonds, n'.
+ A colored man living on Mr.,
Jones Aiken's place near 'Blpckstook
was stabbed last week by his wife.
They became engaged in O quarrel,
which was followed by the wife
drawing q knife, and plunging it in
the person of hcr husband, neal, tho
heart. He was still living at last
accounts, and may possibly got .woll