The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-04-03

and lodged in Jail Tuesday last.
The Newberry Herald says that
the amount Of insurance recovered
by thesdfferets by the late fire is
$48, ,OS6!72. .~If--the property d.
stroyed was worth $150,000, as es-
timatod, then The not loss to New
berry by the fro is over 100000.
The fine dwelling house, furniture
and valuable collection of-books ut
Belle Reve plantation on the Peedee
River, in Georgetown county, belong
ing to j. Harleston Read, Esq, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday night,
the 22d ultimo. The house was
unoccupied and has been for months.
The first discovery of the fire was
the bursting out ut the roof, and in
an instant the whole building was
enveloped in flames, which made it
impossible for anything to be saved.
Mr.. James Carter, a young white
man and resident. of Darlington
county, was run over and is supposed
to have been crushed to death by
tile night express train on the Will
mington, Columbia and,,RAugusta
Railroad, near Lynchburg, last
Friday night. When found, his
body was mutilated beyond recogni-
ton, and his identity was only ascer-
tanned by gun found near the
mangled remains, which the deceased
had borrowed from his uncle, ,hhfr.
McElveen. on the evening bef3fe.
One of tho hardest rains ever
KIN own in that section fell on Sunday
before last in Abbeville county. It
came down i'll perfect torrents for
l.outs. All the water courses were
very much swollen, and fences and
footlogs we. swepts&way all ever
the county! Thos6'i6f the furme 8
who were eager to get in their bot
tom land Gre ps will have at leas: a
part of it to do over again.
On last Saturday morning the
body of an unknown white man, very
much mutilated, was found on the
railroad track, near Lynchburg in
Sumter county A flint and and
steel gun, and a flask with the ini-
tials /. NJ, were found ne the
body. At last ACCOUNTS no one had
been able to identify the body, and
it is supposed that the deceeased
wss stranger.
Mr.. lambeth, an old gentleman
living in the Pleasant Hill section of
Lancaster county, was called to his
door on the night of Sunday be e'ore
last, and was shot down without
warming severol bocLehot en- ]
his person, but he is not considered
fatally wounded. Suspicion attach
es to certain white men rs having
been engaged in the outrage, and
warrants have been issued for their
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Last Saturday afternoon while
the engineer on the branch road was
shifting the freight cars on the
switch Mt Abbeville, Master John
Hampton Martin, son of Mr.. r. 4.
Martin, attempted to cross the track
in front of train which was heing
backed, when he stumbled, falling
with his head across the track. The
train was 80 near him he hid not
time to get away, and the wheels of
the cars passed over his neck, nearly
severing his head from tho body,
and killing him instantly.
Some excitement was occasioned
in Columbia last Friday by the ar
rival of q farmer from the country,
having in charge an infant which he
had found in n basket two miles
from the city, on the Camden road.
Considerable interest was excited,
from the fact that the furniture of
the Basket and the child's clothing,
together with it's aristocratic fea-
tnres, all betokened gentle origin.
The clothing was of fine linen, and
the founding wore besides quilted
cap and an old opera cloak The
only possible clue in the basket
was q copy Of the Union- Herald of
Sunday before last. The little incog.
is of'the femme gender, and about
ten days old. Several hundred peo.
pie called to see it, The finder, Mr..
Midlin, has adopted it,
A very sad suicide occurred on
Thursday at the river bank near
Columbia. Mrs. Jnla Wehner left
her husbands house in that city in
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