Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-10
South Carolina Notes.


The stock law is being agitated in Edgeheld
county.
A difficulty occurred at Johnston, Edgeheld
county, Monday morning. between W. H. Boul-
ware and Ebert Padgett. in which knives were
used quite freely. Padgett got a cash eight or
ten inches long under the ribs and Boulware
was cut slightly under the arm.
Mr.. Nesbit. the manager OF the Dorm gold
mine, in Abbeville county, has already shipped
ore worth S34O ton, and has since found and
opened a vein which will yield ore valued at
$1,000 a ton.
A cOlOred boy was drowned near Chesterfield
on Sunday while in bathing.
There are certain persons travelling through
Spartanburg county selling whisky under
United States licenses received from revenue
officers.
Henry Thompson, colored, was arrested in
Orangeburg on Friday last upon a warrant
charging him with the burning Of Mr.. ]. H.
Felder's dwelling.
The Hampton Guardian says that Mr.. John
Clark who is well known in that section, left
the residence Of Mr.. W. T. Spencer, at Early
Branch, on the 18th Of last December. He was
seen at Yemassee, on the same evening, but
since then his friends have been unable to
learn anything Of his Whereabouts.
Miss Emma Burckhalter, of Barnwell, has
Just completed a handsome quilt in which
there are 9S5 patches.
John z. Peoples, OF Anderson, is the greatest
rag man in the State He ships annually from
$4,000 to 10000 pounds Of rags.
Mr.. VI. W. Watson, Of Ridge Spring, Edge
field county. recently sold ninety-sx acres of
land. one mile from that place, for $500.
There are five men in Hampton county,
neither OF whom have less than thirteen chill
dren. and some Of them as many as fifteen.
Chester county has dwarf who is fifteen
years old and is only thirty eight inches high.
He is white. weighs IS pounds, and is in excel
lent health.
There were returned in Hampton county
last year 16sS horses. which averaged GO each
1.193 mules, S67 each; 14,499 cattle, s. each
4.353 sheep, 81 each; RIGS dOgs S25 each
For seventeen months, says the Lexington
Dispatch. there have been only two Sheriff
sales and they were made nine months since.
Can any other county in the State make so
good a showing.
S. P. Croft's dwelling house In Barnwell
county. with all its furniture, was burned on
Sunday night. The fire is supposed to have
been kindled by an incendiary who wished to
burn the family, as the flames were first ap
piled to Mr. CrOfts sleeping apartment.
A serious cutting affray occurred at Camden
last week between William Rodgers and James
Chestnut, both colOred. Chestnut was severely
cut in the left shoulder and left hand. The
wound in the shoulder is some three or four
inches long and over an inch deep, while the
one in the hand nearly severed it in two from
the wrist to the fingers.
| General g. J. Rains, a prominent citizen OF
Aiken and a soldier in the Mexican war. died
/ very suddenly ct his residence in Aiken on last
Saturday morning at O'Clock On Wednes-
day he was in his usual health, but on Friday
/ he complained of shOrtneSs of breath and
rapidly sank until his death. It is said to have
! been probable that death enstted from awOund
! the General received in the Mexican war about
thirty-five or forty years ago.
The Legislative Committee on Constitution,
| lately in session at Greenville, have adjourned
They will propose several amendments to the
constitution at the next sitting or the General
| Assembly. Besides the amendments already
mentioned, changing the term OF county and
! State officers from two to four years, and the
Il election Of Judges for life or during good be
/ haviOr, the committee has agreed TO recon-
| mend a change in the time OF holding county
/ and state elections so that they shall not take
/ place on the same day with the national cleo
/ tiOns. Another change proposed looks TO more
Il clearly defining the qualifications OF voters
| In addition to what has already been mentioned
/ it is proposed TO make important changes 10
the educational department of the State.
/ On the Sd inst, as a party of two men and
three women going home from their work.
! were crossing the trestle Of the Charleston and
/ Savannah Railway over the CoOsawhatchie
| river they saw the hand car of section No. {
/ a0Out three hundred yards behind them They
/ made all haste to get over and mOtiOned to the
/ men on the hand car to slack speed until they
/ could get out OF the way The car was, how
\ ever, not stopped quick enough, and the entire
/ party Of pedestrians we're knocked from the
/ trestle into the marsh, fall Of fifteen OF
\ twenty feet. One woman was insensible Tor
/ ten minutes another was knocked speechle S
/ and the third had her arm run over by the car
l and her right hand badly cut One Of the men
had his leg badly mashed One OF the women
is still very Ill from the effects OF her injuries
| The present crop outlook is more unpromis-
| ing than at the last report Cotton has on y a
short time in which 10 grow fruit that will ma
/ ture before frost, and without favorable sea
sons and late fall il will fall far short OF a
| three quarter crop. Corn cannot be material
/ ly benefited by the most favorable seasons,
/ and will p Obably not yield much above the
/ present estimates, a fraction over a half crop.
| Rice in some sections has still tire for i'm
| prOvement. and the yield may be above pres
| ent estimates. Peas may yet be p anted Tor
| forage and this course is urgently recon
/ mended The State has been visited by the
| severest drought known in many years and the
/ farmers feel discouraged, but there is room
/ for hope. and favorable seasons for the next
| few weeks will make the prospects brighter
/ than are at present anticipated