The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-15
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bOUTN Carolina NE VS..

Complaints Of drought aro almost
universal throughout tho State.
MFR. Hamilton McCandlnss, of
Bamwcll county, matlo this season five
hundred and fifty bushcls ofoats on ton
acres Of land. ..... ...
MIR. Hamilton Fuller, of Beaufort,
shot ut u crnno on the river, aud the
bnll glniiciifg accidentally killed n
colorcd man. .'I
An tho cases growing out Of tho re-
cont murder Of Mr.. John English by Po-
liccman Rose, of Columbia, have 'bcc,
postponed till October.
M T. /; JMStsh's sspss,sI e GIASrs"ion srs"i n,
t"""aRa sR"GG:S Gy tho h%a'"1{h aae%1{h Of Con- @ XnSSrsoS
Ono Of tho malo employees Of Saludn
Factory was prostratcd by sunstrokc at
tho tactory Oh Saturday and brought
to Columbia, where lie died during tho
day.
About ono hundred thousand
bushels Of wheat have bccn mado in
Abbovillc county this yunr--the largest
and best crop tho county has ever pro-
duccd.
In Columbia, on Thursday, there
Wero thrco sunstrokcs, one fatal; in
Charleston, on tho same day, they were
several cases Of sunstroko and three
deaths from the heat.
IA Survivors, Association, with
Con. Ellison Capors ~ president, has
boon opBani2cd for the purpose oforoct..
doad Of Grocnvillo county.
--The Barnwcll Agricultural and
Mechanical Association have passed
4 resolution to tho effect That no gumb-
ling, Of any description, will be por-
mittcd on tho Fair Grounds at their
next annual meeting.
Last fill Richard Romans, a
Democratic colorcd man of Abbcvillc
county, sowed two bushels and three
pccks ofwhcnt on six acres of land, and
has, just throsled out nincty-thrcc
bushels.
--.Lnst week, near Windsor, in Aiken
county, while little son Of Mr.. ID. B.
Dicks was plonghing hc WIS uccident-
ally struck III the sidc by tho plough
mndIos, from tho effects of which no
died Il fcw days after.
There Is little colorcd girl IN Cam
dnn that would pass very we'll in a
show by the sitto of Tom Thumb and
other Lilliputians. Sho is fourteen
years old, is thirty inches high, aud
weighs twenty-scvcn pounds.
--Onc James Gadstlcn, Lying on tho
RULER place, near Sheldon. in Beaufort
county, loadcd his gun to shoot a crow
When tho gun was discharged, lodging
IT'S contents In Gadsdcn's head, killing
him Instantly.
An employt Oh tho South Carolina
Railroad, whito man named Mike
ttaley, was overcome by the heat on Fri
day, and was taken from tho train nj
Orangehurg about two o'clock IN tho
afternoon, and expired almost immcdi-
ately.
"A small cyclone passed through
the country along tho Dorchester road
eightccn miles from Charleston on
"Wednesday night last. Tho track of
tho tornado was vc,y narrow, but its
torcO was severe enough to level larwe
number Of trees and tho crops tlro,,Th
which II passed. No houses were III
jured.
Tho Confederate survivors living
m Lexington county hold a meeting at
tho courthouse on tho 7th inst, Major
Godfrey Leaphart presiding. There
were forty survivors present, and affor
organi2ing, the meeting adjourned to
meet on tho first Monday In August, tho
object being tho formation Of 4 slrvi-
Vors' association. f'F
Tho Charleston committee on
streets, at 4 meeting held on Friday, dc.
Mded to put nM extra force Of ono hnn-
drcd men and fifty carts to work at
once, to secure still greater cleanliness
and maintain It. Tho committee scrms
determined that neither effort nor DELAY
shall DO spared to have the streets in an
irreptoachable sanitary condition.
Y Last Friday night as Mr.. John A.
Devlin's wagon, l0adeA with wheat.
was coming to Abbcvilie, two negroes