The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-18
SOUTH CAROLINA. NEWS.


tions of Darlington county.
Georgetown has u snip on the
stocks named 'Libcria."
Cotton in Chester county has suf..
fered severely from the drought, but
a magnificent corn crop is realized
Abbevillo people arc afflicted with
sore eyes, but deny that tho largo
crop of peach brandy has anything
do with it.
The residence Of Mr.. G. B. Rogers,
near Harris Gross Roads, in Darling
ton county, WAS destroyed by an
inccn liary fire on tuesday morning.
The new Adgcr College, at Wal .
halla, was opened on the 9th INST,
with eighty four pupils in attend~
ancc.
The governor has ordered a spe-
cial election for sheriff Of Oconee
county, on the goth instant. Tho
vacancy was caused by the doath of
the former mcuml bent.
Tho ninth annual meeting of the
York Baptist Association cons
menccd at Cntawha Church, five
miles south of Rock Hill, on Thurs
day
The colorcd people held mass
meeting at Rock Hill, recently, to
discuss the plan of II general Gml-
grafton to Texas. They don't like
Liberia.
Everybody about Georgetown Is
taking nn active interest in the
proposed lailroa1, and nearly all
will subscribe literally.
Rev. Harris Dcnnison, colorcd
preacher, while fishing at North
Island, near Georgetown was stung
in the foot by Il ray, and died of
.fetanus in loss than u week after
being wounded.
General f.. W. Noise will deliver
the annual address before the Barn
well Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, ut the next county fair,
which begins on the 21st of No
vembcr ncXt.
The committee appointed by the
Democratic ClVo Of Anderson havc:
under instructions Of the club, taken
out warrants for the whole of tho
| persons charged with illegal voting
in the late town election.
Ezekiel Muvhcw. q colnrcd MAJ
with some little education, and for
mcrly a school teacher in Cane Crccl
township, Lancaster county, left fol
Liberia on Monday before last. III
land, and is to roturn ard report hi.
observations.
MIR Garfield Powers, living il
Georgetown county, jumped bca,
on the 9th instant, but failed to xii
him, owing to an undue nervous
excitement. Mr.. S. j. Goudo was
more successful, and slew the animal
it is said, at the risk of his life.
A personal difficulty took place al
Nqwberry Oh Tuesday last, in which
Mr.. r.. G. Summorcl was seriously
shot by Mr.. S. D. Pelham. 1t i
claimed by the lattcr's friends that
the shooting wGs in solf-Acfensc
The wound is not necessarily dan
! gcrous.
EX-Treasurcr Watson, of York
county, returned home from Ohio On
Tuesday. On being informed of the
legal proceedings which had been
instituted against him, he is said to
have expressed himself as ignorant
OF any irregularities in his accounts,
and as being perfectly willing to
have his official conduct undergo
judicial investigation.
On Saturday night last, while the
good peol ! of Cartersyillc, Da1 ling
ton county, were at church, q
thirsty thief bored n hole through
tho warehouse floor and into tho
head of a keg of whiskcy and drow
ont the entire contents, twenty
gallons, with which he made off, to
onjoy good and free drunk.
The negro Joo Henderson, who
was to bo hanged at Edgelicld on
the 2lst instant, has been respitcd
by the governor for two weeks.
Iho day now set for his hanging is
Fridoy, October 5th This respitc
is granted while the governor has
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