The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEJYS.

giving as many liens this year
heretofore.
The Rock Hill graded school has
opened with very flattering pros
poets.
In Sumter county, there are six
candidates in the field for State
Senator for that county.
The graded school at Chester is
working very satisfactorily. 1t
numbers ono hundred Ind fourteen
pupils.
Lancaster county bonds issued
in aid of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad are selling at sixty conts
on tho dollar.
The supply of homemade pro
visions in Darlington county this
year is greater than any year since
the war.
Kingstreo has had it's fourth
annual incendiary fire. It occurred
on Sunday last, destroying the store
and stock of the Messrs. Benjamin,
valued at $4,000.
Rev. Jacob Burris, one of the
oldest Baptist ministers in the
State, died in Anderson on the 4th
instant, aged eighty-eight years.
The South Carolina Railroad is
said to be doing a thriving business
at every point along the line.
Receiver Fisher is managing tho
affairs of the road in very satisfec~
tory manner.
The Anderson Aste11igencer says
the guano combination in that
county could not stand the pressure
The prices have come down, some
of the companies selling for the
same price COTTON option) as last
year.
Tho treasurer of York county has
received the sum of three hundred
dollars from the Peabody fund,
which had been appropriat ed to the
free school at Rock Hill for the
year 1878.
Only three miles of the Green
wood and Augusta railroad remain
to be graded on the Georgia side,
and Notwithstanding the temporary
complications on this end of the line
there is no foar as to the speedy
completion of the work.
Mr.. William Thomson, of Ian cas-
co unity, while experimenting tho
ter cutting of some timber, met With a
painful accident. He was standing
by the tree, and as it fell it struck
an old log which was lying on the
ground" throwing it from the stump,
striking his leg and breaking it in
two places.
A cane-brake in Union county
has been appropriated as a roosting
place by the robins, and as many as
three thousand have been killed in
one night, torches and long poles
being the outfit of the sportsmen.
The highest number taken by one
man is 1856.
Gus. McI.ees, son of Rev. John
McLees, Of Greenwood, met with
serious accident last week. He and
a number Of other boys were out
hunting, when q double barrel shot
gun in the hands Of Robert Tarrant
was accidentally discharged. the
whole load going into the face Of
Gus McLees. 1t is said that he
will probably lose his eye-sight.
On Thursday last the Sumter
grand jury found a true bill against
Sam Lee for official misconduct as
judge of probate. He Immediately
fled, and diligent search has failed
to find him. Lee had recently
complimented Judge Mackey on his
impartiality, but when his own trial
was imminent he adopted his usual
tactics and has run away.
While Flora Lane, a colored
woman living on the plantation Of
Mr.. John @. Sellers, in Marion
county, was nodding before the fire
last Sunday, her clothes caught on
fire, and in her efforts to extinguish
the flames the building caught on +,
fire, and before assistance came to
her rescue the house was burned
down, and one of her two children was
also badly burned. She died from
the effects on Monday morning.
At meeting of the farmers Of
Mari2n county, held at Marion
on last sales-day, twas resolved
that the discrimination in
,,riooa Of oonono arnial rfilizara