The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-20
South Carolina News.

IL 10f1ner kllleu uOR Ut AlnSSCTee
last week weighing 1888 pounds
gross.
The Florence rioters will be put
down. Governor Hampton has at
tended to the matter.
Fine stabilized beef sells in the
Abbeville market at from six to
eight cents per pound.
Large droves of horses and mules
are reported in the up~country-
prices low and sales dull.
The Spartanburg Herald nomi~
natess Gen. Samuel MCGOWAN for
Chief Justice of the State Supreme
Court.
William Hardy. boatswain's mate
on the monitor Ajax, was drowned
last Saturday off Bay Point, Port
Royal River.
Sepes@ large fires have recently
occurred n the woods near Aiken,
doing considerable damage to
fencing, barns, etc.
There are now over forty prison.
ers confined IN the Grcenville Jail,
quite large proportion of them
being under charge of illicit distill-
ing.
Judge Cooke says that if Hamp-
ton is not recognized as governor,
he intends to be both Judge and
governor of the eighth circuit.
Mr.. w. Rosenberg, an excellent
merchant and q good citizen, left
Abbeville last week for Poland,
where he has inherited q large
estate.
The residence of Mr.. Jas. E.
Tompkins, about four miles from
Edgefeld Courthouse, was destroy
ed by fire on Thursday night last
The fire was accidental. There was
70 insurance.
Governor Hampton has commits;
stoned tho old officers of the
Hodges Rife Glib, Which now con
stitutes part of the State militia,
under the name Of the Butler Rifle
men.
Last week the Due West Mis-
sionary Society elected the follows
ing new officers: Rev. G.. I. Bonner,
ID. d., President; John l.. Pressly,
Secretary; ". H. NIillen, Treasurer.
Rev. DR.. Junkin, Charleston, has
AZ ce ted on invitation to deliver the
baccalaureatc sermon before the
graduating classes Of the Due West
Colleges neNtJuly.
The election in Barnwell county
passed of quietly, and Col. Il. j.
Counts was unanimously elected to
the State Senate, in the place Of
the late Senator Williams.
A special patrol, for the purpose
OF lookiug~ont for incendiaries, is
spoken of among the merchants Of
Camden. The plan is to organize a
company of young men, who will do
guard duty by turns.
A man by the name of Stacks, living
above Lees Shoals, on Rocky River
in Anderson county, was out in his
field last Friday, There was but a
single tree init and it was blown
down, falling on him and crushing
him instantly to death.
A considerable row occurred ct
Ninety Six on Saturday before last,
between a number of drunken white
mon and negroes. Pistols and
knives were drawn and some blood
was spilled, but nobody killed. The
town has no marshal and the row.
dies do pretty much as they please.
On the morning Of the 10Th inst,
Capt. Davis, who lives near Rock
Hill, found his fine COW, worth $50,
lying dead about half mile from
town with her back badly broken,
and in manner Indicating that
severe blow had been dealt her with
the blade Of an axe. Az yet there
is no clew to- Che perpetrator Of this
deed. aa rel ;, l@ I
Of the six attaches of the Spartan.
burg court~-one crier and five con-
stableB--~ever one was serving in
his present official capacity as far
back ae 1850, twenty>seven years
ago. These officers are John Moore,
crier, and Constables William Paris,
William Bennett Henry Abbott,
William Petty and james Holt.