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

The Abbeville boys had merr,
time last week, rolling the citizen
in the snow.
The county officers OF Pick en-
have All filed their bondr, mono o
which have been rejected
A negro shot and killed himse]
by accident on the Chalmers place
IN No"berry county lapt week.
8frs. II. A. Davis, of Graniteyille
is looking for runaway son who
left his home some days since.
The Sumter 2rue .eoutAron men
tons not less than two dozon gin
house robbciics in that county with
in q week.
The keotoee Courier congratu-
lates It's readers on tie absence Of
cases Of Sunstroke in tie Ocouee
community.
Two town lots soil in George
town lately for sixty dollsrs--one
ior twenty-five dollars, und tho 9th
er for thirty-fivc dollars.
The cotton house Of j. j. Dalo, Of
Ladies Island. Beaufort county.
was burned down quite rccently'
The cause of the fire is rot known.
Nearly five hundred dollar . worth
OF goods were stolen from the va
liou6 merchants Of N N.wberry on the
Saturday J. fore Christmas,
The taxpayers of Sumter county
ncld mass meeting On the lst Of
january. Those of Marion will
hold one ON the 9Th Of January
Ihoy are going to decide who to paw
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 in regard to tho payment Of
taxes
On tho 21st ult. the Sin Of Mr..
William II. Stein eyer, near Brad
tord Springs in Sumter county, took
hre by accident, while in operation.
ana the Sln-house with iss contents
WAS destroyed
On Saturday, the Gard ult., q man
by the name of Campbell was as
saulted in the upper part Of Armion
county by two negroes, who beat hiln
with clubs go that he died the next
day. The murdelers have been ar
rested
On Chris tmas day q difficulty
arose between MacCorrhac, enc OF
the so!die.s stationed at Marion. and
colorea man named LIosos, in
which the latter cut. tho soldier With
q knife. After being severely DUN
lshed, Moses took to his hools and
ran away.
e man named Meckcr was recent
" run over and killed by train on
the Air Line Railroad, near Liberty.
1t l. SAID t:.at this unfortunate mon
had singular prediction, when
intoxicated, to lie down Oh the mil
road track, and it is supposed he met
his death in that way.
A wagon loaded with whisley was
recently attacked near pcndleton by
party of negroes, the waconcrs
htoly beaten, and the whiskcy stolen.
The whites, on learning of this out
rage, made up a party and visited
summary punishment upon the
thieves. One negro was shot in the
hip and thigh, end another in the
nrm.
a serious shooting and stabbinp
aifray occurred at Uranchville on
tho 26th ult., in which a colcred
man named Stephen Rigsby was
shot and killed, another named
Warren Wilson shot in the leg, and
a white man named J. ". Fairy
stabbed in tho thigh.
II. G. Judd, clerk of court Of
Beaufort county, holds the fort. He
refuses to surrender his Office to the
canary-colored Bampfield and it is
SAID that the rest Of the Off ers will
hold the fort with him. The reason
assigned is that there is no law for
an election of county officers on the
7th OF November. All the contest
ing parties are Radicals.