Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
SOuth Carolina Notes

T. A. Conner, of Rock Hill. has sent to the
Agricultural Department splendid specimens
of white Australian wheat, the shocks five feet
high, with massive heads.
The Bureau of immigration is attracting at
tention in Germany, and letters of inquiry are
coming in from various p drtions of the empire,
notably from Hamburg and Schleswig-Hol
sein.
The phosphate license boom is growing.
The thermometer got up to 81 at s O'Clock,
and 95 at 10 o'clock, on Monday night in Column
bia
1t is explained that one reason for the COM
paratiyeIy small returns of residences in An
dersOn county in proportion TO population is
that many colored people occupy dwellings,
which. though suited to them and comrorta-
BILE withal, do not aggregate 500 IN value re
spectveiy.
Cow peas in Marion sell at 81 80 per bushel.
The residence and outhouses of Mr.. NJ.
or tlaherty, few miles above Columbia, wers
destroyed by fire a few days ago, together with
a years savings in provisions and money.
Arrangements are being made for building
an Episcopal chapel in Seneca. Pecuniary aid
is solicited.
Wade Hampton, a colored man of Clarendon
county. residing upon the plantation of Hon.
John Peter Richardson. who was married some
thirty years ago, is the father of seventeen
living children, fourteen who have grown up
and married. He is also the grandfather Of
fifty-three persons. Wade and his better
half" are ROBUST, athletic persons.
AT the recent court in Laurens the following
sentences were passed: Henry Ross, grand
larceny, two years in the penitentiary; Casper
BarmOre, carrying pistol. one year in the peni
Tertiary; Jasper Phillips. burglary, impriSon-
ment for life in the penitentary.
On Tuesday last Trial Justice Parish sent to
Sheriff Rogers, of Marlboro, black man, who
his captors believe to De the man nan who shot and
killed Mr.. William Cole, near Wards store, on
the Marion and Robson lines, on the 21st of
November, 1879.
Says correspondent of the Aiken Journal
aud RspietC: "lhere are over 20,t00,O0O acres
of land in South Carolina, and tax of five
cents an acre would yiSld million of dollars,
about the figure OF the taxes required. There
are those who say that taxation can easily
drive capital and skilled labor out of country,
but it cannot drive the lands away; they can
not move or be moved, or, what is more to the
purpose, be secreted; that il this State should
put itself forward the first State in the world
that had freed capital and labor from all taxa
tion. such an influx of these movable and prime
elements of wealth would take place that
great tidal wave of prosperity would flow over
our immoNable lands ana multiply their value
The fire at Foreston. CLARENDON county. has
at length been subdued BY tremendous effort.
The damages are: L. NJ. Ridgeway, all his
fencing, all of US outbuildings, all of his pro-
visions but about Eve bushels OF corn. His
growing corn crop Is almost CentlFeiy destroyed;
There were numbers of dead trees in his Geld
which were dry and partially rotten. They
ignited. and the wind scattered the burning
embers ia showers over the ground, scorch-
ing and killing the growing crop. Also his
rice and cott0n suffered il the same way,
but not so much. j. E. Haley Lost all his fenc-
ing and his crop suffered from the SANG cause
a. Nr Ridgeway'S. w. p. Roberts lost part OF
his fencing and all of his growing corn crop.
Mr. Mat HolladaF lost all of his fencing The
above are all the faFE1SFs who have lost any
thing, except their time in assisting 70 conquer
the flames. The damage to turpentine workers
cannot vet be estimated. The principal losers
are Messrs. Pritchstt & Co. and Mr. J. Z. Thig-
pen. Messrs Conyers Son have lost slightly.