The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-19
SOUTH CAROLINH REW8.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Tho Grand Lodge Of Good Tom
p}ars will meet,At Sumter next month.
IA new National Bank will soon +.
eommeuee business in the town ofQarr
tngton.
Tho Rev. DR.. Bonner. Principal or
the Due West Female College, is Sc
riously ill.
The Comptroller General has can
celled 1926, 1890 of bills of tho Bank
OF the State up to the present time.
- Two men were recently arrested !
at Greenwood and fined five dollars |
each for carrying concealed weapons. |
AT q recent meeting Of the Facul-
ty, DR.. Ford, Priolcau was unanimous
~ elected Dean Of the Medical College
OF Charleston.
The. State Agricultural Depart
mcnt will pay into the State Treasury,
this year, S25,C00 from the tax Of tif-
teen cents per ton Oh fertilizers.
The Supreme Court has granted q
new trial to Dodson, Adam, Bates and
Burton, colorcd, convicted OF burning
the Opera House at Grecnuille.
The Pelzcr Manufacturing Com
pany, which proposes to erect large
cotton factory at Williamson, in An
derson county, has contracted for O.
100000 bricks at $3.50 per thousand.
On MONDAY last near Greenville,
Mr.. aud Mrs. Dill were riding along
the read, when the lady was wounded
IN two places in the face by shots fired
10y. some sportsuien in an adjoining
field.
-Municipal elections were recently
held at Hampton and Varnvillc. in
Hampton county. The issue in each
case was "wct" or "tlry." LII the for
MGR the. wet ticket prevailed; in the
latter the dry.
The Newberry Herald SAYS peti-
ton IS being circulated, in that county,
and is receiving Il great many sigma
lures. asking the legislature at its next
session to pass a law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale OF Splriluuus
liquors i'll the State.
Several citizens ofPickcus county.
who went to Texas last fall and winter,
nave returned, satisfied thai, taking
health and other advantages into con-
slucrutlon. this is Il better country han
Texas, and just as good as any other.
On Saturday last an election was
hcld in the city of Greenville. on the
question of subscribing Twenty-Five
thousand dollars toward building the
Grccnvillc aud Laurcns Railroad. The
result was 7C9 votes for subscription
and IA against subscription.
The Columbia people arc discuss
Ing plans to get rid of Thompson and
Maggie, who now have control of the
Columbia Canal, after which they pro-
Pose to build u cotton factory with To-
cal capital.
The Directors Of Campcrtlown
Mills have made an appropriation of
twelve hundred dollars for tic erection
ofa church on their premises in Green
vile, which is to he opened to the de-
II limitations Of the city. The Rev.
Landy Wood is looking to that particu-
lar field Of religious labor.
The Chester and Lcnoir Railroad
has Just added new passenger and mail
Coaches to the rolling stock of the road.
The first:claSs passenger coach was
built by the Jackson and Sharpe Com
pAny, Wilmington, Del. and is q hand
some car, capable otscating forty eight
passengers. The old cars of the road
have been run into the shops for the
--Scventv-eight Democrats of Barn.
well county have been arrested and
bound over for trial at the April term
OF the United States Court, in Charles.
ION, on the charge of violating the
election laws. fthis number three
were arrested on the charge of inter
icrlng with United States Supervisors =:
c1ght Tor Illegal voting; three for fl.aud
rs managers; iifly-cighl for obsiruct.
ing voters; and six for threateuinp
United States witnesses.
-hlr. Z. L.. Foster, from Pickcns
county, brought TO GrccnviIlc on We'd
ncSday the lamcntablc intellivcnce of
thc death of little John Carroll, aged
aootl iWclYc wears, son of Mr.. Lewis
carroll, who lives near Table Rock.
John had gone ont with some voun"
trends last Tuesday to hunt. and
whiist they were playing on Table
ROCK, .J"th lost his footing and was
precipltatcd to the bottom. q fail of
one thousand two hundred feet. In
fal1ng thtt distance, atmospheric con-
cussl"n must have caused death before
he touched the ground.
Judge jNilliam Henry Hunt, the
new rc9arN of the uuvy, is n native
OF ClaricsPn. He is the SON of thc
hon. ThonNs Iiunt, who was at ono
TIME the Batish Governor oflhc Ba
hanas, Wig, married Louisa Gaillard.
sister OF ehc Hon. Thco. G,lil!ard of
tnat city, ,and had four sons-Thcodor
Gaillnrd Hunt, who was n general Of
'''S;dcratfc PromireH in he ConicT-
crate Army; Ran'!a ilunl, who is
now pronlnent member Of the New
orleans 9ar; Thos. Hunt. diStin-
g4tished physician of New Orlcons and
"lll1am t!rnrN Hunt. the vuunuc>l
SON, who lcft Charleston at the aUc Of
SIX years, hna resided in Louisiana un-
III his renioVal'to Washington II few
years ago!
,,-tirlding Mcdowell was killed ON
Monday night, the 7th Instant. on Mr..
r. ;Nofkman'$ plnc", in New berry
county,. Ihc ''olorcr'S .jUry re- urncd
a.vc'rtrcf fiat :Sisnoii JohllSna did ,hr
killing. Hoh, Il brnihrr Of simon, Sa,s
u" (J"b)1s kIllfd Fielding IN sclt-dc-
tense. Jbh and r. i@lding lad been to
I"wi' tlnt dnu.. and were qunrrcliny
Ant ii@htiipg all the way home. boaI