Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-05
South Carolina Notes.

An alteration between Bob Mobley and Ed.
johnson, both colored, of Hazlewood, Chester
county, resulted in Mobley receiving pistol
ball in the foot while johnson was seriously
cut with an axe and severely beaten.
Last week a colored man named Jake Wesley
was carried to Winnsboro jail on the charge of
waylaying and shooting another colored man,
who was riding on the road Saturday night
above White Oak. The wound is said to be Sc
rious.
John Thomas, who escaped Jail about year
ago, having been sentenced to the penitentiary
for an assault and battery with intent to kill,
was recaptured at Parrot creek last week, and
safely lodged in Jail
There were four steamships and schooners
lying at the wharVes at Port Royal loading
last week. Three large steamships with cot
ton for Europe, and the schooner coastwise
with lumber and cross-ties
@. E. Brunei, Frenchman, his wife and
four children, living near Greenville, were
poisoned one day last week by eating canned
beef. They all recovered after having q mar
row escape.
A burning cotton bale was discovered in the
hold Of the British steamship Helios, loading
Iy removed and a serious conhagratiOn avert
ed
Cotton worms are doing great damage in
Richland county.
An intoxicated Russian was secured last
week in the public building in Port Royal
known as the jail. Some time during the night
the fellow tore up the floor Of his cell and dug
himself out by making trench in the ground
underneath the jail.
Mr. H T. Peake who will be Superintendent
OF the Central Railroad after its completion,
will begin shortly to Law the rails between
Manning and Foreston. 1t is believed that this
part OF the road viii be speedily completed.
Joseph Worthy, Of Broad river, Chester
county. was cleaning out between the brush
and condenser of a gin, when his loose shirt
sleeves got caught on the saws. drawing his
right arm in up to the elbow fearfully lacera-
ting it. His face was also drawn against the
saws, and ugly wounds made to the bone across
his nose and forehead 1t is likely that the arm
viii have to be amputated.
On last Saturday Mr.. Joseph Matthews, of
Darlington county, met with fearful death.
He had started to work q steam cotton gin,
and as he raised up the breast board OF the gin
on them, when he was cut 90 the knees and
thigh. An artery was severed in the leg. and
before medical assistance could reach him,
and within ten minutes after the accident he
was q corpse, having bled 20 death
The Camden Journal says: IAN appeal to
the Supreme Court has been taken IN the case
OF James Clyburn, now confined in jail here
under sentence OF death. AS the appeal can
not be heard before December, il is not prob
able that he will be hanged on October %, the
day set for his execution by Judge Cothran.
II the Supreme Court grants another hearing,
he will be tried again in February. II not, the
Governor will appoint the day OF execution"
The Augusta Eetus Of Saturday has the fol-
lowing dispatch from Aiken: "A serious IL
not fatal dificulty occurred in town yesterday
between Mr. John Green and James Hender-
son. both parties residing near Yaucluse. Hen
derson received a severe il not mortal wound
by the hand OF Green, the blow severing an
artery, which may cause death Henderson
has been unconscious since yesterday at 2 p.
m, and is now in a comatose state. Green
has been arrested and placed in Jail