Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-09

The Greenville and Laurens Railroad has
been organized, with DR.. W. L. Mauldin as
President
Mrs. Hughes, of Edgefeld, was recently
robbed of her mules, provisions. and every
pOr able article in her dwelling. by five ne
groes. who have since been captured.
Capt. Townsend. of Howard Drake fame.
has gone North to arrange for the purchase of
a steamboat to be placed on the inside route
between Charleston and Savannah He pro-
poses to put on this line a handsome and COM
modious craft, if he can find enc suitable for
the purpose.
Professor Baird says if he meets with his
usual success on Cloud river this season he
will furnish Commissioner Butler 100000 Cali
fornia salmon and also liberal supply of trout
and land-locked salmon.
The excavation for the foundation OF the
Bellemonte Cotton Factory at Sumter has be-
gun Mr.. Davis, the contractor, is making
every effort to have the building completed as
soon as possible.
Over hundred and twenty-five hands have
left Sumter for Foreston, where, under the
direction of Mr.. NJ. H. McLaurin and others,
they wil'commence work Immediately upon
Ella Sheorn, the wife of Alex. Sheorn (who
was killed at Camden by S. Z. ClYburn on July
10). has been recommitted to Jail as an accom-
plce in the murder. Gen. j D. Kennedy and
Capt. T. H. Clarke have been retained for the
defense of the css9.
The Darlington Ne1rs has heard from nearly
every section in the county. and is constrained
to believe that the cotton crop Will fall so per
cent. below an average. There will be scarcely
any corn at all made The pea and potato
crops are a failure.
There has been a cypress tree felled in High
Hill creek, Darlington county, by Mr.. N. b.
Jordan which measures twenty five feet in cir
cumference at the butt Two good axemen
were four hours and fifty minutes cutting it
down. Mr.. Jordan intends making shingles
of it.
The saw and grist mill of Messrs. Patteson &
Montgomery, located in the upper part of
Kershaw county near Flat Rock, together with
10000 feet of lumber. have been totally de-
S roy ed by fire. The loss is estimated to be
not less than S2,5O0. The fire is thought to
have originated at the hands of an incendiary.
Two colored boys were drowned in the
Wateree recently, about twenty miles below
Columbia. Neither of them could swim One
tried the depth OF the water, and, suddenly
getting into deep water, sank. The other went
to his rescue, and sank also third boy, who
was sitting on the bank, ran to the neighbors
ard gave the alarm. One of the bodies was
recovered. The drowned boys we're about eight
or nine years of age.
Ths Abbeville Medium says: Tuesday the
cars brought in another week rations for the
farmers of this section. consisting of 25 600
pounds of bacon, 4O0 bushels of meal, .0O0
bushels of corn. and a mixed load of flour, to-
baccO and light groceries. Still some farmers
complain that nothing is done for them. In
our opinion everything ia done that could rea-
sonaby be expected The merchants certainly
are doing their share in keeping them from
starvation"
Ellis Alexander, colored, has been arrested
in Camden and sent to Jail for trying to obtain
advances upon horse which he had already
mortgsged to another party. Upon further
investigation il turns out that he had already
given five liens to different parties on the same
animal (which was worth not over fifty dollars,
and had obtained nearly five hundred dollars
worth OF goods, and he was trying to negotiate
the sixth lien when he was caught in his raS-
caliy.
A colored man named Mack Perry, living on
Governor Jeter's plantation in Township No. 3,
Fairfield county, was found dead in his bed a
few days ago, having received a gunshot
wound. There was nobody st the house that
night and there is as yet no clue to the muir
derer Mack had had some trouble with his
wife, and had year or so ago been in Jail for
beating her Efforts will at once be made to
apprehend the slayer.
It is now believed that Mellow left the State
for the West two days after the killing of Bray
ton. II is stated that be spent the night with
a relative in Ocoftee, near the Tugaloo river,
and left early in the morning for he Wes-
He was travelling in a buggy in company with
another man. McDow's relatives in that sec
ton circulated the report that he was barTi-
caded in his dwelling IN Pickens One thing is
certain, a man answering to McDow's descrip-
ton passed through Oconee going Westward
at the time and in the manner above indicated,
and there is little doubt that he was the man.
The Coosaw Phosphate Company have made
a report of their operations during the month
of July to Mr.. E. L. Roche, the special as
sistant of the Department of Agriculture.
The total amount of crude rock shipped dur
tons were shipped to foreign. and 1888 tons to
domestic ports OF the latter shipment, GIG
tons were received at Charleston One hun |
dred and sixty tons were shipped TO st Louis, |
Mo, by the Port Royal Railroad. This IS the |
first shipment Of the kind ever made to thai |
point. and may result in greatly enlarged |
in the future. The total amount /
realized by the State in the July operations OF |
the Coosaw Company was So ,2SO.