The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Wild " vengeance.
And now they are clamoring for
railroad between Laurens and
Spartanburg.
The school trustees of Lexington
county met last week to improve tho
system of public education in thier
county.
Two little negroes were recently
burned to death at Helena, New
berry county, by a kerosene explo~
sion.
Hirsch of williamsburg is the
only Radical solicitor in the State,
since Buttz and Lee have been
shelved.
A Ninoty-six lady says her baau
is SO timid that when he comes to
Sec her she has TO sit on his knees
to keep him in the house.
Twelve thousand dollars were
subscribed ut recont mass meeting
for the Chester and Union Narrow
Guage road. A hundred thousand
are required.
Kershaw won't Democratic on tho
2Sth ultby five hundred ajority Mr.
3. 9. Clyburn was elected clerk, and
Messrs. John Burdell and Allen
McCaskell county commissioners.
Hon. Judah P. Benjamin writes
from London that he can find no
traces of the alleged jennings estate
which was to make so many South
Carolinians millionaires.
The annual fair will come off in
Anderson this year on the Oath,
25th and Goth of October next, and
the premium list of last year will be
offered again this year.
Fourteen of the m utinous militia
who threatened to rescue prisoner
from the civil authorities of Dar..
lington, together with their guns,
have been captured.
Judge = sNTackey will address the
Mexican veterans Of the United
States army, in the city of New
York, on tho 18th of September
inst.-tho anniversary Of the capture
of the city of Mexico.
The Columbia military companies
are endeavoying to raise prize of
tive hundred or a thousand dollars
for the best drilled company in the
United States, the contest to take
place in Columbia this fall.
Colonel Coward's fayorite mare
Celeste, that bore him gallantly
through the war, and received throo
wounds, died last week in Yorkville
at ripe old age, and was awarded
christian burial.
The Greenville county fair will
be held on the 10th, 18th and 18th
of October, and arrangements will
probably be made with the railroad
authorities for an excursion train
from Charleston during the week of
the fair.
| Tho Rock Hill merchants deny
the charge that they intend this
winter to deduct twenty-five pounds
from every bale of cotton for bae>
ging and ties. This was recon-
mended at the Liverpool Inter.
national Cotton Association, but has
not been adopted in America.
Owing to the number of cases on
the docket at Lancaster, in which
Judge Kershaw has been concerned
as counsel, an exchange has
been effected between him and
Judge Townsend, for the ensuing
term of the court there, with the
assent of the Chief Justice.
A man who hel d complimentary
ticket on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad waved the
train down as it passed station the
other day. The train did not stop,
however, and the man has enter ed
suit against the company for $1,000
damages.
The tax for Pickens county this
year aggregates $37,629. OF this
amount $17,557 is levied to nav
Judgments on railroad bonds. AS
these cases have been appealed to
the supreme court of the United
States the people of Pickens prefer
to wait till October to pay their
taxes.
A correspondent of the anderson
!ntetIage'acer argues forcibly that