Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-25
j. 81. EsTILL, PROPRIETOR.

At the Edgefield term of court last week
number OF prisoners were sentenced to fine
and imprisonment for various offenses. and
Joe stevens, colored, who killed Andy Richard-
tried twice and found guilty each time, and
had appealed Tor still another hearing, which
was not granted, was sentenced to be hanged
on the fourth Friday in April next
On Saturday night the store of ]. R. Nc
Donald an the post office at st. Helena Island
were oToken open. The burglar succeeded in
g+Gtlng ABOUT twenty dollars in cash from the
post once and new suit of clothes and a
Vahse Iul or linen The thief left his old suit
OF clothes In ditch about twenty yards from
the store and thus led to his Identification as
eolored man named Lockwood, a young man
about seventeen years old He crossed the
ferry to Beaufort early Sunday morning and
told the ferryman that he was on his way to
Chicago.
The Town Council of Rock Hill has extended
the time FOR the sale of whisky at that place to
May l, IN accordance with compromise made
at the time of the municipal election to this
erect The dry ticket was elected by a ma
Jority OF only one vote. The whisky men,
claiming that there was some irreguIarity in
the election, thought Of eontesting judiciaIiy
tne validity or the election Not RnOwing
what might be the result, the new Council
sIoer consulting large number of citizens,
oecloed tnat It was b SC to avoid judicial pro-
ceedlngs by accepting a compromise which
gave the barkeepers unto the 1st of May to sell
out the stocks OF liquor held by them.
anderson IateUigencer: ''The coal vein In
this county, owned by Mr. P A Masters on
Seneca river, has been examined to some ex-
tent by Capt. A. @. Laughlin, representing the
department of Agriculture. but as it appears
that there are two or more veins in close prox-
unity 10 each other, a further Investigation Of
the locality is necessary, on q larger seaie, in
order 20 md its true extent. Capt. Laughlin
VIII make further examination very soon,
when large quantity, if it proves valuable
viii be excavated and taken to Columbia to be
tested for gas. former test having given very
satisfactory results. The sample of the coal
which we have seen, however, does not give
promise OF very valuable results. 1t is too
gritty, and appears to have very little COM
buStable material in il. There is a possibility,
however, that the quality will improve as the
vein is followed below the surface"
During the present season 514 car loads or
5,363Pf tons of fertilizers have been recei ed
at Greenville, which at $40 per ton would be
worth S2l4,5i0
Diana Singleton, a colored woman about 20
years OF age, was so badly burned last week
near Beaufort that she died of her injuries.
Parties who came on the passenger train of
the Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Tuesday afternoon reported fall of snow in
South Carolina, extending as far as Granite
vile.
There are now thirty-nine engines in active
operation in York, the larger number of them
employed for agricultural purposes.
The Spsrtanburg police made a raid on a
coloret gambling den in that place last week.
The Herald saws that gambling is openly done
by white men in Spartanburg, and that the po-
lice should not make any distinctions on ac-
count of color.
In their recent presentment the grand jury
OF Oconee. county recommended the vigorous
prosecution of all white and colored persons
living together
There will oe heavier amount of criminal
business before the next Circuit Court for
YORK county than there has been at any re-
cent previous term. There are now In the Jail
sixteen persons awaiting trial on various
charges, from larceny to murder. OF the lat
ter crime there are two cases pending, in one
of which tthe recent killing of the Catawba In
dian, Harris) three persons, all white are i'm
phcated, and the other, June Massey, colored,
is charged with the killing of another coored
man at Rock Hill, last winter