The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-07-09

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er scarc, @ CANE came tito town ii Is te,l abouts
IT," Thc Infant was dressed in awhile
shirt, coarsely, ,sewed togethelS with q
calico dress also sewed very coarscly
with white thread. lii the basket was
a pillow, made of q material that had
ut one time been nice dress, filed
ers." 1t had q pillow-slip with a ruff
shawl and uiiother that had had rents
in it, but these had been sewed up.
The infant, a female, had been put
there during the night, and had been
carried on horse back. It. died that
dav. Trial Justice Elkin summoned a
jury and with DR.. Bdnaumds repaired
to P0stcIl HarrisOn's residence. Tho
jury found verdict in accordance
with tho aforementioned facts.. Or.
Edmontls says lie docs not think tho
child could have been more than day
or SO old. Postcll Harrison SAYS lie
knows nothing about. it and cannot i'm
asine how it was carried to his house.
The crops in this section generally
are l!oor, almost ruined by u drought,
which set in about tie middle Of April.
Gardens ure burned up, and vegeta-
blcs scarce. Fruit. what there is of it,
is only half the usual size. There is
zone above here, however, which
reaches within q mile 1r two Of this
point, where the condition Of vegcta.
ton is quite different. Within this
area, the two boundary lines of which
are not more than two and half miles
apart, commencing northwest. o
Itidgeway and extending in south.
easterly direction, can bc seen some
promising crops. had the pleasure
last week of riding over the bottoms Of
Mr.. Preston Rion, and upon them saw
some promising corn. I also rode
over the entire crop Of Mr.. II. NJ.
Rembert, and found his cotton thor
oughly worked fully up to time, and,
without some unforeseen drawback,
promi:i G "A heavy yield. The corn on
his bottoms, some iorty acres or more,
green, growing and graciously good.
The field is full of luxuriant pumpkin
vines. lie has flourishing patch Of
German millct. Il flne garden ofgreen,
r,pening esculents, and Ii living corn
and peas, on land from which an out
crop had been gathered. Others who
live within these parallels have good
crops, such az "makc the heart glad"
need not say to YOU that the news
Of tho attempted I hope the word may
prove prophetic) assassination Of
President Garfield, quite mortified our
thinking citizens. Earnest expros-
sions Of sympathy may be heard on all
sides, and the sincere " ish that lie
may recover is uttered generally.
There Is d deep and strong undercur-
rent of suspicion, that the vile criminal
was prompted to the act by the base
spirit which aaimates tho Stalwart
branch OF tho Republican party. I do
not believe that General Sherman is
sued al order to burn Columbia, but
he perfectly understood the anirnus Of
his troops, and they had heard OF and
knew the expressions that lie had set
forth In Ills letters to General i,aileck,
and the absence of any orders to his
invntting army was but n publication
OF the fact that any act Of that kind,
| 7DoHin DE rinkeoi ut. English history
teaches us that Henry H., tho most
powerful prince Ofhis age, never is
sued an order for Thomas a-Beckct to
b. killed, but he uttered in certain
nrescnces certaih expressions, and
Thomas n-l}ccket was murdered. Was
it ever said in the hearing OF Guitteau,
that Garfield was the only obstacle in
WV WY Oifto fiSfSiiASS 1AlIlJut DCr
coming President? Echo a,iBwc crs,
"Was ii evcr?'
Professor D'Herradoro is giving les
sons III writing. He has a class at tbi.
place and one at the Park Hill schoU!
at Mr.. RrnibcrLs.
Ridgeway has large planning mill.
with all modern Attachments, in full
blast.
Ridgeway and its environs can boast
| OF four octogenarians. l snw tne of
tue iadies this morning sitting in the
piazza, sewing with agile fingers, and
without spccta:les, and another sitting
in her room, busy with her needle,
! also without spcctaclcs. Anothef lady
not far from ltidgcway, is in her
eighty-nnth year, and Mr.. John Rob
ertson, not far from here, is in his
eighty-cightil year. Ilc can mount
horse with the activity of man of
thirty. The first lady mentioned is
in her cightyiiIth Year, and the other
in her eighty-third.
[ need hardly add, with tl1e tlicr-
mometcr at SO degrees, that the wealth
CT Is very hot for SENEx.
p. S.-Am irrcprcssiblc mad dog
made his appcaia ancn a week or SO ago.
Dog days are approaching. y.
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