The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-29

LAc FItcIlcu ullU ulcSS-llall or the
Sumter Institute woro burned last
week. They wore only partially
insured.
Con. A. G. Darlington, formerly
of Newbolry, and more recently of
Atlanta, Ga, has located in dreen-
villo.
From accounts in the newspapers,
it appears that the people all over
The State are taking moro than
usual interest in the public schools.
The annual meeting of the State
Grange will be held in Columbia
this year instead of Charleston,
commencing February s.
Two new military companies, ono
of infantry and the other of cavalry,
have recently been organized in
Anderson county.
While holding court at Chester
week before last, Judge Mackey
dismissed batch of bailitfs because
they did not arrest court~houso
full of men for laughing.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Anderson county, ut a
recent meeting, recommended the
different clubs in tho county to
adopt tho plan of primary elections
for nominating party candidates.
The ticket Office Of the Whining.
ton, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company, at Sumter, was
broken into last week, and the
ticket box, with the contents, was
carried off.
Pctor Cooper, OF New York, has
expressed determination to pur.
chase Limestone Springs, near
Spartanburg, for the purpose of
establishing an institute similar to
the Cooper Institute of New York.
Since the 21st Of December ncaro
~ one hundred colored persons, in
cluding about twenty families, have
sold their possessions and left
Lancaster county, with the view of
going to Liberia.
a serious difficulty occurred at
Aiken last week. Odum Kennedy,
Lewis Moore and Jim Slator, all
colored, who were at q frolic, got
into melee, when Slater drew q
large pistol and shot Kennedy in
the back, killing him instantly.
Slater made his escape, but Moore
was captured and lodged in Jail.
The assurance is positively given
at tho Charleston office of the
Liberian Exodus Association that =
ship has been purchased for the
transportation Of the cmigrants,
and will be at that port in the next
ten days or two weeks Supplies
of provisions, &c, for the voyage
are daily being received, and the
establishment is continually crowd
ed with the voyager expectant.
The old mill known as "Plowden's $
Mill" on ''Tearboat Creek" was
destroyed by fire few nights ago.
The mill was owned by Mr.. Lemuel
Bartield. The burning was not
accidental, Us no fire had been used
near the mill for some time before
it's loss. On the next night the
t1ood>gates were broken to pieces
by unknown parties. and the water
in the pond let of. Tho seed of
fourteen or fifteen bales of cotton
was lost. No clue, as yet, to the
incendiaries.
"A white woman by the name of
Prudence e. Tillotson, living near
Darlington @. H., was burned to
death on last Wednesday night
under very peculiar circumstances
She lived alone in little house
about four miles from town. She
had been asleep, and on awalsing
found the house and her clothing
on fire. She ran to neighbor's,
not far distant, but was SO badly
burned when she reached there that
she was unable to give any intelligi.
bic account Of the affair.
The Charleston Legislative dele
cation, acting as q special commit
tee, have agreed to the bill dividing
Charleston and Coileton counties
into four election and judicial dis.
tricts, to be called Old Charleston,
Berkeley, Edisto and Colleton. The
line is to be run from the conflu-
ence Of the branches of the Cooper
River to Saltliehatchie bridge. Old
Charleston will embrace st. Philips
and st. Michaels, Christ Church,
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