Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-19
South Carolina Notes

Barnwell jail.
Dr. John F. Brocklnton, a prominent nhvai.
clan. died at Kingstree on Sunday.
In Marlboro county, last week. Tony
Scott shot and killed his brother. Oliver Scott
The parties are colored, and the canse ssid 20
be Jealousy. Tony has been arrested and is
now in Jail.
The Fort Galpin Centennial win come Off at
Silver Bluff on Saturday next. Col c. C.
Jones, OF Augusta, will be the orator Of the
day. The Port Royal Railroad will issue ex-
cursion tickets The fare from Augusta Is
seventy cents by boat and il.
There are one hundred and twelve students
at Newberry College. Lieut. Gov. Kennedy
viii address the literary societies in June.
Wheat, from accounts, is promising and
other small grain crops look well in oconee.
The locusts have made their appearance
about Walhalla in large numbers. They can be
heard through the day in the trees.
A serious accident happened to Mr.. B. Frank
Sloan and daughter, Of Seneca City, on Tues
day OF last week They were in a buggy &C
companied by Mr.. Sloan's nieces, the Misses
Lewis. on a visit to WalhalIa. When descend
ing the bill this side Of Mrs SteeIe's one of the
shafts came on. The buggy was overturned
and Mr.. Sloan's thigh broken in two places. IL
is stated. Miss Sloan was also injured. but not
seriously. The Misses Lewis escaped unhurt.
Jack Williams. of orangeburg, is in the Co
lumbia jail. He is the assailant of Miss Hughes.
the young glrl who was brutaly assaulted some
days ago. The Sheriff of Richland will hold the
prisoner until he gets an order from the Circuit
Judge to deliver him.
The Bel emonte Cotton Factory Company Of
Sumter has been organized, and is moving
quietly but surely onward to success A COM
mittee composed of Messrs. D. James Winn, A.
]. China, NJ Moran and H. Hardy has been ap-
pointed to ascertain at what price three hun
dred thousand brick can be purchased. Mr. D.
James VIM. who was elected President and
Treasurer, has gone North in the interest of
the factory.
The British ship Bonanza, from Liverpool,
has unloaded at Port Royal steel rails for the
Georgia Railroad. The revenue duties on this
cargo alone amounts to S42,6OO
Captain Cruise has just returned from the
North, having purchased machinery for
steam saw mill now in course of erection on
Black river.
Mr.. Huff. of New Jersey, foreman of Mr. Di-
bert. is in Columbia, experimenting the put
ting up OF the machinery in the shoe factory
at the penitentiary.
The receipts of cotton in Columbia for the
week ending Friday, May 10, amounted to 474
bales. Total receipts since September /, 1880,
81, 1863 bales
During storm Sunday afternoon lightning
struck brick slOrehouse on the public square
in SpartanburR. passing through the roof and
tearing off a part of the ceiling of the Masonic
Lodge room in the second story OF the build
ing.
The Beaufort Crescent says: 1.-THE fair given
by the ladies Of st. Helena Church at the
arsenal on Wednesday evening was a success
both financially and otherwise. 1t was given
for the purpose OF trimming the parsonage,
and Sl6O were the net proceeds"
Says the Augusta NeIcS: Beaufort is loom
ing up again as a summer resort. There is no
more pleasant spot near Augusta as a summer
home than Beaufort. The people here have
tried It."
The peach crop in Oconee county will not be
failure, though u Is spotted. In some sec
tons the trees did not bloom. and in other
places the fruit was killed. while in others the
trees are full The apple crop is very good.
Columbia Register: San examination of the
funds Of the Theological Seminary showed that
over s 600 had been received as donations
and over so, 900 in payment of old debts. The
present amount Of bonds is Sl35. 600 for the en-
dOwment, the income OF which is for the sup
port of professors. and over $4,000. the in
come of which is for the help Of INDECENT stu
dents. The library fund is about $1,000"
A passenger from Jacksonboro states that on
Friday, about O'Clock. party of gentlemen,
who had gone out for the purpose of finding, if
possible, some trace of Mr.. I. IL. Stokes, who
mySIeriouSly disappeared from that place on
Monday last, discovered the body of the miss
ing man in thickeU about two miles from the
public road leading from JacSsonboro to
Round o.. The unfortunate man had evidently
walked into the thicKet with the intention of
committing suicide. He had placed his hack
against a tree, and. when found, there was a
mirror resting in his lap and revolver in his
right hand, while a bullet hole was discovered
p ssing through his right temple and coming
out of his left eye. There were no other
wOuads or bruises on the body, nor any m arks
Of a struggle around the place which would
le4d to q suspicion of foul play. The general
opinion, from the position in which the de-
ceased was found, is that he used the mirror to
be sure of his aim, and fred the fatal shot with
suicidal intent. DIR. Eugene Williams held
post norton examination. and a CorOner's
inquest was held. the verdict being that the
deceased had committed suicide.
The GEORGETOWN Times says: "Mr David
Risley' new saw mil is certainly big thing
| for Georgetown. Ii is perhaps the most valua-
has been made to the town in many Yeas.
/ Day and night it presents a scene of busy life.
Everything moves like clock work. !"
Reports from Oconee say that farmers have
/ a
| looks thrifty, though generally heavy crop
/ of grass has come with the cotton. The work
| Of cleaning and chopping to a stand has begun.
| Says the Winnsboro Nslrs and Herald: Mr..
| James NJ Stewart has completed his maps and
| charts OF the LaudsfOrd water power the
| Catawba, recently surveyed by him. They are
/ not mere surveyors plats, but are go ten up
in the best engineering style. TIE Catawba
river at that point is about five or six hundred
| yards wide, but by means OF an island a dam
/ can Oe made much shorter than that. The eX
fsting canal is ,sy5 feet in length and IA feet
| Wide with two locks giving total fall of 80
| feet The projected canal is to be 50 feet wide,
/ giving fall of fifteen and half feet at five
| thousand feet from its head, twenty-four feet
at seven thousand feet. and thirty feet at the
| end The supply of water is practically un=
| limited Two surveys previously m Ade give
| three inches less fall than Mr. Stewart makes
| it, but they were made when tue river was a
| triie lower. This power is about eight miles
| only from a railroad. The property is owned
| jointly by Col Dayie, Capt. Allen Jones and
| DIR T. c. Robertson, Of York, and Col Edward
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