The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-07
SOUTH CIROLIN4 NEU.S,

- Nv ~" '"'oa "' A\CNUciiy Is pro-
crossing finely.
Tile drought has been general
the State.
Complaints of short crops arc gen.
eral In Abbeville county.
The State Board Of EQUALIZATION
met in Columbia on Monday.
Senator Hampton has returned
home from the Virginia Springs.
The second cargo Of iron for the
Chester IL Wudcsboro Railroad has
arrived.
= Mr.. Stanhope SadIcr, formerly of
York, died on the goth ut. at Gaines
vile, Florida.
"A young man in Chester dropped
his nimblc pistol from his hip-pockct
and the ball lodged in his leg.
The cotton crop of Chester county
will be gathered and ready for market
within the next thirty days.
MIR. OFT, ot Aiken, has growing i'm
his garden n tea plant Of the Oolong
variety which is now in bloom.
--Christy Ware, who threw her
child in the Saluda River short time
back, has been sentenced TO be hung
at Lnurcnsvillc in November.
"A colorcd man jumped from an
excursion train near Sumter last
week, and was instantly killed. The
cause of the suicidal act is not stated.
The new opera house in Spartar:-
burg is rapidly approaching compile
ton, and it is expected that when ii is
done it will be one Of the handsomcst
in the South.
A Newbcrry druggist has sold
more quininc this season than any
since 1872, when meningitis ragged So.
Chills and fever have been tho cause
Of the demand.
MIR. John G.. Brown, Jr., Of Ross
vile, Chester county, while out hunt
ing last week, caught thrcc-lcwUcd
'possum. 1t had only one forc-lcr,
and from appearances it was the only
one ever there.
Hon. John @. PRESLEY, q native
of Williamsburg county, has been
elected judge of the Superior Court
ed home. Judge PRESLEY, of Cali
fornia, is Il brother of Judge D. G..
PRESLEY, of this State.
The Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad was sold at auction
in Wilmington last week under o.
decree Of the United States District
Court, and was purchased by COM
mittce representing tho first mortgage
bondholdcrs, for $500, 800.
The Rcv. $. III. Hay has sent in
his letter Of resignation as pastor Of
tho Presbyterian Church at Camden,
to take effect Oh the first Of january.
Mr.. Hay has had charge OF this church
for upwards Of twcnty-cight years.
lie expects to remove to Virginia.
The Ncwbcrry UeruM docs not
join in the advice 10 farmers to plant
less cotton. 1t says: "This section of
the country is adapted to cotton, and
it pays our farmers better to raise it
than ANYTHING else. He has to take
tho risk of chort crops; but our cotton
crops are generally moro successful
than any other"
- After nearly forty-thrcc year: cor
ncction with the Sumter PRESBYTERIAN
Church, rs its pastor, the Rcv. Donald
Mcqueen has, on account Of his failing
health, rendered his resignation,
which, together with its acceptance by
the Session of the Church, was COM
municatcd 10 the congregation last
'l'i ''i's'
tunes bchnctf, charged with the
lnur'lcr oi ~ q. y. Horton, was tried
IT. i1",lcaS'cr iaSt week; lie was "cp-
resented by Col. John Wylic tile State
by the Solicitor. AS no one was pres
cnt at the time Of the killing but the
unfortunate actors, the case turned
upon 1he testimony or the defendant.
ne SWorc that when nc fired his p's-
tol the dcceaScd was beating him over
!!c nGaH WIN a stick. The jury be-
la"vfu .',',, MS testimony and consequently
rendered " verdict ofacquittal.
1t is reported that two negro men
living below Camden got into qual
rel recently; and nothing would salts.