The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-17
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SOUTX CAROLINA NEJYS,

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SOUf1F CAROLINA 4IEJYS.
Capt. Jno. r. Gardner, of York
willie, has been appointed to = position
on the staff of Goneral Coward, Of tho
Sth Brigade.
Several negroes have been detected
by the Anderson police in gambling,
and they have been sent up for trial
in the Court of Sessions.
-Gllddcn Cooper, an energetic,
wcll-t0-do colorcd farmer, who lives
eight miles north of Rock 1lill, has q
field Of most excellent May wheat,
almost ready for the scythc, which,
strange 10 say, was not sown until the
10Th of February.
The Masonic fraternity of Lancas-
ter will celebrate tho oath instant, st.
Johns Day. Judge Mackcy has ac-
copied an Invitation extended him to
deliver an address. His subject will
be " Masonry and Masonic Grimes and
Punishmcnts." ..... ..
"A difficulty occurred in Flat Creek
township, Lancaster county, last week
between two colored men, Allen IIough
and Alexander Gay, which resulted in
llongh having his skull fractured aud
an arm broken. The wcal,nM used was
II singlc-barrcl shotgun.
Mr.. r.. Iovat Fraser, well known
young citizen ofCcorgctOwn, and for
merly editor Of tho Times, committed
suicide on Thursday morning last
The coroncr'S jury found that the terri
bic deed was committed While Mir.
Fraser was SIN state of mental aber-
ration"
Tie inspection Of volunteer troops
at Columbia, ordered for July 4, is
postponed until The week Of the annu-
al agricultural fair in November. 1t
expected that some valuable prizes
will be offered for competition.
Some patches of wheat in Andcr-
son have made very iino Yields.
Among them arc the following: DR.. s.
NJ. Hollands, II acres, Sd busncls; Mr..
+. W. Byrum's, II acres, Coz bushels !;
Mrs. '. Burress', II acrcs,,3l bushels !
Nlr; =. Spellman's, ID acres, G34
bushels.
Joe Arnold, the colorcd man that
had been coptincd in Jail at Anderson
ior several manths past, charged with
having been connected with the muir
der of the Frank'ins, near Nincty-Six,
SOME time ago, was tried in AbLcvillc
week before last and acquitted.
"A 'tCourtenay Democratic Cam
paign Club" has been organized in
Charleston, for the purpose of procur-
ing, through the Democratic, organiza-
ton, the nomination Nnd election of
Capt. Wm. A, Courtcnay to the may
orally of the city. The election comes
otfin December. ..'..
The board of directors Of the Char
lottc, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
held their quarterly meeting in Colum-
bia on Friday. The reports submitted
show an increase Of the net earnings of
the road for tllc past eight months,
ending 3lst Of May, 1879 Of S7+,OOU
ever the net earnings for the same
period last year. It's good timo to
raise the freight on cotton! @ d..
AS Mr.. James Bowen, ofAbbevillc
county, was on his way home from his
field one day last week he came in con-
tact with q mad. fox. When he first
saw the fox it was about twenty feet
from him. lie stepped back and lickod
up Il stick, at which the fox became so
cluagcd that he sprang at him, seiZing
his pants and held OH to them until Mr..
Bowen killed him. ri; ' ...
On Friday last a colored man
: named Scipio Wright was killed l5. Mr..
f. NJ. Rogers, one of the most respcc-
table citizens of Darlington county.
Scipio was an employee Of Mr.. Rogers,
and being rcproved fOrnoglcct Of duty
became insolent,: made an assault on
Mr.. Rogers, and threatened to take his
life. Mr.. Rogers ordered him off the
plantation, and In his effort TO Qaforcc
his order shot Scipio. -.
i "A man seeming to DO desperate
!. character was arrested near Rock
Hill on Saturday before Inst by order
Of Trial Justice Fcwcll, for brandish-
ing a pistolin his yard and using vory
violent and threatening language to the
ladies ofthc house when asked to quit
tho premises. His name is reported
to be John Thompson Wylic, formerly
! of Chester county. In default of bail
he wont to jail. Tho sheriff of York
} had in his possession several other
warrants for tho arrest of the same
man. naa
Sumter has had sensation. Mrs.
Strother, wife Of y. p. Strothcr, elop.
ed with one Sam Wilson, taking her
son, twelve years of age. Tho party
were arrested in Augusta, at tho i'll
stance of Mr.. Strotlicr. Mrs. Strother
said that she was going to Houston,
| Texas, to visit her sisters, and as viii
son was on his way to the samo place
she had simply put herself under. his
protection, and that thcrc was nothing
wrong whatever. Wilson said the
samc thing. Mr.. Strothor, on being
notified Of tho arrest of tho parties, in
structcd tho police to let tthom 90, pro-
yiding they sent his son homo. This
arrangement was agreed to, Mrs.
Strother and Wilson left at once for
Texas, and the boy was sent back to
his father.
Tho Baltimore papers report q
quiet but very general revival: Of re-