The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-09-14
SSatC News.

The Sumter Advahce was filed
las. week with graveyard talk.
The Town Council of Seneca has
decided to issue no more liquor
licenses.
The annual Greenville County
Fair will be held on the 18th day
of October next, and will continue
four days.
The Rock Hill Cotton Factory
(Steam) is running 6,240 spindles,
spinning up from 25 to 80 bales OF
cotton week.
Eleven hundred and eighty-seven
bales of cotton were received in
Charleston Friday, the 9th, by the
different railroads.
It is asserted that twenty-five
acres, on many plantations in Ker-
shaw County, will not make more
than one bale of cotton.
James J. Clyburn, white, was
convicted of the murder Of a Mr..
Sheorn, white, at Camden last week,
and was sentenced to be hanged.
Mr.. Creswell Darlington, Of Lau-
rens, has sent the largest and most
varied collection of minerals yet
contributed to the department OF
agriculture. y
The Union Times says: 1--WE
think we cen safely say that, with
out any further disaster of any kind,
not over half crop of cotton can
be made in this County. In some
parts it vii, take from eight to ten
acres to produce a bale"
Track on the Augusta and Knox.
vile Railroad has been laid from
Augusta, Ca, to Meriwether, S. c.,
nineteen miles, the intermediate
stations being Mayville, Snead and
Woodlawn. Grading is in progress
between Parks and Dorn's Mine,
SIX miles. Track will be laid to
Greenwood on the Columbia and
Greenville Railroad, seventy miles,
by January, 1882.
". ". Ward, white, 62 years of
age, convict, died suddenly from
appoplexy in the Penitentiary the
5th instant. He WAS formerly a
respected citizen of Williamsburg
County. and at one time Sheriff.
He was tried last year for forgery,
and during the trial created sen
sation in Court by firing several
shots at the principal witness
against him. He was sentenced
for seven years.
Citizens of Anderson County met
the 5th instant to elect delegates to
a State Temperance Convention,
which meets in Columbia the 9th.
The following resolution was adopt.
ed by the meeting:
1st. That it is the sense of this
meeting that the laws now on the
Statute books on the question of
the sale of liquors are sufficient for
all present needs, and that any fur
ther agitation of the question OF
Prohibition at present is unwise.
James P. Moore, Esq, lawyer
of Greenville, committed suicide
on account of business irregulari-
ties. Among the charges against
him are, O that he embezzled
about $500 placed in his hands
by Miss Janney, of Columbia, for
investment, (2) that he sold a claim
for four months salary as Clerk Of
the County Commissioners to four
different persons, having already
drawn the amount himself, (3) that
he has appropriated to his own use
about $3.50 from rents of public
Offices and rent of the Court House
to =. S. Court, and az that he ap-
propriated S340 due to Messrs:
Walker, Evans & Cogswel], of
Charleston, for books bought by
the County Commissioners. He
was found dead in his bed the morn
ing of the Sth. He had hitherto
stood we'll in the community, hav-
ing held the Office Of Commissioner
in Equity, Legislator, &c. His
troubles are said to be the result Of
gambling.