The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-06-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A good~sized bear was killed il
Williamsburg county last week.

Williamsburg county last week.
jeff David, tho Abbevillo mur-
derer, has again been respited by
Governor Hampton. His execution
will not now take place until the
second Friday in July.
A little negro child Mt Due West,
some six or eight months of age,
came to its death last week by
hanging. It had been put to sleep
in u high bed and rolled out, it's
dress catching on nail in the bed
railing, causing death.
Alfred Whitley, very respectable
colored man, living in Abbevillo
county, was shot on the night of
the 9th instant by somo unknown
parties, supposed to have been
band of lawless negroes enraged at
his wife, who is said to be q
conjuror.
The bill to restore to the State
the Citadel buildings and grounds
has passed both houses of Congress,
and the restoration will be consum
mated ut early day. The State has
agreed to ask no remuneration for
the use of the property by the Uni
ted States troops since 1865.
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Hentz, of New
berry county, near the Lexington
line, had two fno young mu:es
killed by lightning on Sunday before
last. They were in separate
stables, but were killed by the same
stroke. A horse in the stable with
one of the mules escaped unhurt.
A severe storm of thunder, light
ming and rain passed ovor Now
berry on Sunday before last The
lightning struck in or very near
town, but the locality has not been
ascertained the shock was sensibly
felt in town. In the Liberty Hall
section there was considera-
bic hail, and much damage was done
to fences and grain, while the rain
made bottoms of upland.
The committee of the Abbevillo
grand jury, appointed to look into
t'le charges Of cluoity to the convic!s s
at work on the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad, state the result
of their investigation in the follow
ing words: "Considering that they
are convicts sentenced to hard labor,
and are to be guarded and watched
as we'll rs worked, and that they are
men hard to govern, we do not
think that the treatment, as far rs
we could ascertain. has been gener-
ally harsh or cruel"
Mr.. Charles A. Britt, of Abbeyille
county. whose mysterious disap-
pearance, on May 9Th, occasioned
much uneasiness, returned to his
family last week, after an absence of
about one month. After leaving
home he made his way through the
country to Flat Rock, North Caro-
lima, where he secured temporary
employment in farmers family,
and stayed until his return home.
He has been partially restored to-
health, although much wornout
with his wanderings.
They have in Marion county the
model colored farmer in the State,
the Rev. Silas Cook. He COM
menced when freedom came with
nothing except n large family to
raise and support, went to work
with a will, and attended to his
own business strictly. He has
bought and paid for two horse
farm, built frame house in good
style, and has to-day one OF the
best crops, both corn and cotton,
in the county.
Mr.. Samuel T. Pointer, Of Spar
tanburg, on coming up from Glenn
Springs on Sunday before last was
thrown from buggy at the narrow
place in the road at Golightly's
Gorge and came near being thrown
down the steep precipice. He fell
on the edge of the precipice, bruis-
ing his face badly. Had he fallen
two feet farther he would have gone
over n precipice of over thirty feet.
The attention of the county com
missioners has been called to the
dangers of this place by Judge
Mackey and they have been ordered
to have the road widened.
One day last week a number OF