The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-30
SATH C<IROLINd NEWS.


"A lodge Of the Knights Of Honor
has been organized i'll Chester.
'-Catcrpillars arc doing great dam
age to cotton in Beaufort county.
There arc at present eight va can-
cics in the Charleston police force.
There were twenty-five deaths in
Charleston last WCck-seycn whites
and fifteen colorcd. aErr
.a An Orangcburg farmer has twelve
acres Of cotton which, it is thought,
will yield twenty bales. .1#. r
There are thirteen active working
Divisions Of the Sons Of Temperance
III Anderson county. ,ash
>-Au Abbcvillc darkey had barely
gotten religion before he accidental lly
shot himsclfin the head and died. :
1t is currently reportedthat COM
pany is forming iii Grccnvillc, which
will erect q $50, 900 hotel in that city.
The Pickcns Sentinel is authority
for the statement that Governor Simp-
son will decline to be q candidate for
reelection. q
Jackson Wardlaw, colorcd, whose
age the Medium, puts at one hundred
and fourteen years, died III AbbeYillc
county last week.
"A colorcd couple living on Mr.. j.
Means Sanders place in Chester coun-
ty were married in 1865; but in order
10 be on the safe sido under the s'new
law they were married again last
week. .r..
"A telephone exchange has been
established in Charleston. The city
already has over thirty-five miles Of
wire and scventy-tivc telephone sta
tons, and the exchange is yet i'll its
infancy.
"A Charleston sculptor received on
Monday the largest block of South
Carolina granite that has probably ever
been taken to that city. 1t weighs
nearly 10000 pounds, and was quar-
ricd near Winnsboro. %. ..
The colored Baptists Of this State
have raised money enough to send a
missionary to Africa. The Rev. III. N .
Bouey left this country fl April last,
and is now labOring as missionary in
Monrovia. lie writes worry cheering
accounts of the success Of his labors
there.
The names of several mcmbors of
the Columbia bar have been mentioned
III legal circles in connection with fill
ing tho vacancy in the Office Of Re-
porter of tho Supreme Court, ocea-
stoned by the death Of Mr.. Richardson
-amomg others, Mr.. l.. L. LeConte,
Col. Il. W. McNIastcr and Trial Justice
Tickling.
The Abbcville Press and Bannc,
says that in Barnwcll county, one day
last week, a. lady was bitten on the
toe by q rattlcsnakc. Her husband
Immediately sucked the poison out
The gentleman was in Ills turn affect.
cd, his throat swelling to twice its
usual size, but both parties liave eli.
tirely recovered from the effects of the
poison.
iH--A number Of the leading citizcns
of Laurcns county are agitating the
question of extending the Greenwood
and Augusta Railroad to Spartanburg
The plan is to run it by way of'Lau-
rcns to Spartanburg, at which point il
will connect with the Ashevile road
The people of Spartanburg and Nortl
Carolina have determined to finish tho
Ashevillc road, and this will insure al
unbroken connection with tho great
Northwest. t..aa 1t.r
"A correspondent of the Yorkvillt
EaaQ,ti:'er says two mon, one named
Tomlct and the other Robert Upch hurch
were fishing in Broad River last Mon
day, lat a point near Blacks Station
known as the Nincty-Nine Islands
They attempted to pass among these