Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-25
Over the River.

The election for Colonel. Lieutenant Colonel
and Major OF the Palmetto Regiment has been
ordered for the 7th Of March. The election is
to be by ballot-each Of the companies casting
vote.
The Rock Hill Herald says the negroes who
left that place on few weeks ago for Texas
are very much dissatisfied, and several of
them have written to friends here to send
them money to come back.
TilIa Holiness a colored school girl Of Beau
fort. was so severely burned last week that
she died from her injuries. She was crossing
an old field which was being burned of, when
her clothing accidentally caught fire."
The body Of dead man was found washed
up on the beach near Old Fort, at Beaufort. ON
Friday. 1t is supposed to have been one of the
unfortunate sailors who were drowned from
the British steamship Alicia
Mr.. Mack Long was thrown from his horse
near Piraway Ferry on February 2 and so
badly injured that he died in a short time
Two stills belonging to Dusenbury and Sar.
yis at Socastee were destroyed by an incen-
diary fire on February2 2
Mr.. ]. H Vernon. of Little river. lost his
barn and contents, including five hundred
bushels OF peanuts and four hundred bushels
of corn, by an incendiary fire on the night Of
February 10.
Columbia Register: Monday afternoon
while Colonel g. H. Manson was driving along
the descent from Taylor's Hill his horse ran
Or leaDed across the ditch and threw Colonel
Manson out OF the buggy, breaking his left leg
below the knee. physician was summoned
and applied the necessary remedies The
driver was bruised about the face and the
buggy was considerably broken up. Colonel
MRnsOn's injuries have since neceSsitated ann
pufation, and he is now quite ILL.,
helUs and Courier: Dirt was broken at 4
O'Clock Monday afternoon on the Savannah
Valley Railroad. There was a large crowd, in
Guiding many ladies. Maj Whitner, one OF the
directors, made short speech. after which
the first dirt was shovelled by Stephen McCuI-
iy, one OF the Oldest citizens Of Anderson and a
veteran railroad advocate. Latimer threw the
second shovel and made short address A
great deal of enthusiasm was manifested
The Camperdown Mills Company, at Green
vile, have been compelled to relinQuish their
plan OF employing two hundred and fifty extra
hands, and running their factory at night. be-
cause the locality in which they proposed to
house their new operatives was infested by
women of bad charecter, and the owners of
the property failed to make ARRANGEMENTS to
get rid of them. 1t seems that one woman
wanted fifty dollars to leave, and for the lack
of that fifty dollars the enterprise fell
through. In the meantime circulars bad been
freely distributed in various directions, ana all
along the line OF the Atlanta and Charlotte
Railroad from Charlotte to Atlanta, which had
brought many persons TO Greenville to obtain
y.
had to be boarded and their expenses to and
fro paid. ~
Georgetown Inquirer: 'sDiligent inquiry
among the rice p anters OF the county shows
that 13 953 acres OF land were planted in rice in
1870, as follows: Santee 3, 125 acres, Sampit
1,020 acres, Pee Dee ?, 461 acres; Waccamaw
!, 8iS 0cres, Black river I. 500 acres The Black
river acreage is estimated, as we could pro-
cure no responses from this river The Weld
is estimated at sixteen to twenty five bushels
per acre-can il one tierce Of 6CO pounds or
thirty dollars. The cost OF planting Is certain
" not less than twenty five dollars if careful
account is kept OF all the incidental expenses
This gives an apparent profit Of five dollars an
acre, quite too small q margin OF profit when
the great risks are considered. A very trifling
accident would sweep It away and plunge the
planter into debt. The question arises how
can we Increase the profits; and the answer
seems to be. plant less land IA better condition.
High culture is necessary for good crops :"
Correspondence NeIrs aud Courier: Cotton
factories wi i pay, and pay well. IL properly
managed. The founder Of GranitevilIe told the
writer that it had averag~d over 1915 per cent.
dividends from its organization A Bostonian
Of worldwide observation said to me that the
best and most economically managed cotton
factory he had ever seen was ia Augusta Ga
Southern capitalists should, therefore, be en-
couraged to invest largely in such enterprises.
Cedar Creek. which separates Darlington from
Chesterfield, affords ample water power at this
point for q factory. There is plenty of labor,
as well as water, and abundant transportation
by rail and the Great Pee Dee to market.
Years ago the Williams Factory was a paying
Investment here There is not a single factory
IN eastern South Carolina of any magnitude.
We have brains enough 10 inaueurste q fac
tory successfully, but would like little more
money"