Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-30
SOuth Carolina Notes.

The total cotton receipts at Greenville to
April . were g, ,s47 bales.
Twelve hundred and ten liens have been
recorded in the Clerks Office at Lancaster this
year.
A colored boy named Gabriel Knox fell from
the tug Huger, on Back River, on the Goth
inst. and was drowned
J. K Davis. of Fairfield county. was fined
twenty-five dollars by Trial Justice Neil last
week. for hiring laborer who was under con-
tract with another person.
The residence of Mr.. ]. N. Moore, in the
Waxhaws, Lancaster county, was burned. to-
gether with considerable portion Of his house
hold furniture, on Monday of last week. The
fire was purely accidental. No insurance.
Loss about 81. 200.
C. F. Jackson, a prominent dry goods mer-
chant Of Columbia, has suspended, with liza
biities of about $1,000.
Colonel Boykin, the newly elected Commits
sioner of immigration, has entered formally
upon the discharge of mis- duties. He has his
Office in the State House at Columbia.
General John S. Preston, of Columbia, is re-
ported to be gradually sinking and growing
weaker daily.
Colonel E. w. NJ Mackey declares that he
/ will press his claims for seat in Congress
from the First district. If a new election is
ordered he says he will not be a candidate,
which would amount to a waiver of his claims.
should he be returned, however he would
abandon his contest and stand on the new re-
turns.
The Hon. Hugh s. Thompson, of Columbia,
State Superintendent of Education, will deliver
the annual address before the literary socie-
ties Of wofford College, Spartanburg, at the
commencement exercises in June.
Three hundred liens have been recorded in
the clerks Office at Hampton up to date.
1t is feared that General Hemphill, of the
Abbevilie Medium, will not be able to attend
the coming meeting Of the State Press Asso-
citation owing to illness in his family.
Mr.. 7. r. Drayton had three fingers cut off
while running an edging saw at Rowland's
mill, Sumter county, last week.
The track. layers on the Chester an Lenoir
Railroad reached the Carolina Central, one
mile below Lincolnton. last Saturday. The
tracks Of the two roads will run parallel, eight
feet apart. Passengers were to be delivered
and received at Lincolnton yesi erday.
Zlck Jones. colored, was committed to jail
last Monday, the charge being assault with in
tent to kill a white man named Frank Horton
and four negroes. Jones is represented as
bad negro, and is said to have killed man in
COlleton some time since.
Last week unknown parties made a raid
upon the grog shop located eight miles above
Lancaster (known as the Brush Heap, and
made clean sweep or the contents. The
empty barrels were found in the public road,
decanters turned upwards, and notice posted
on the door to wind-up business.
Edmund Wallace. one Of the negroes who
burned Mr.. John w. Peoples store in Hamp-
ton. has requested his attorney to withdraw
his appeal 70 the Supreme Court for new
trial saying that he might get new trial and
possibly fare worse. His sentence is sixteen
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
Some of the citizens along the line Of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad dumped" the re-
naming bales Of their last cotton crop, and
the entire lot was sold in Yorkvllle on Monday.
The lot was composed OF SIX hundred bales,
and represented the remnant OF the cotton
crop raised on and contiguous to the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad.
The prisoners in jail at Lancaster. three in
number, effected their escape on Sunday night
asst by making breach in the wall and let
ting themselves down by blankets tied together.
All of them we're colored and charged with
burglary. 1t is believed that they received as
sistance from friends. though the outer wall OF
the building never has been considered as Sc
cure.
On last Sunday night Mr. John R. Kay's store
at HOnea Path, Anderson county, was de-
stroyed by fire, which was accidental There
vas stock of goods in the store worth be-
tween five and six thousand dollars. on which
there was insurance to the amount of three
thousand collars. Inc DullQlnR was insured
for nine hundred and ten dollars. About five
hundred dollars worth Of goods were saved.
A meeting Of the Directors of the Cheraw
AID Chester Railroad Company was held at
Chester on last Thursday. The President re-
DOrted hat the road had freighted to Chester,
during the tnine months past, 9,O57 bales or
cotton. and carried from that point 1,719 tons
of fertilizers The receipts of the road from
All sources from July /. 1850, to April l. 1881.
period Of nine months, amounted TO $l9,223 49.
The crops In Barnwell county are doing finely.
The fruit crop viii be large. Very few oats
survived the severe cold. Corn IS generally up
and hooking finely. Cotton planting Is pretty
veil over and some of it is already up. There
seems to be little If any complaint ABOUT laoor
now Almost every farmer in the county has
had to buy corn and hay. Owing 70 the snort
oat crop, there will be great deal more corn
made than usual
Louis Patterson, colored, struck FRED won.
slow. colored, on the head with piece Oh
wagon body on Monday, the 18th inst, near
Lowndesvile, Abbeville county. A olood
vessel was ruptured. and the pressure OF
blood upon the brain produced death on the
following Sunday. Trial Justice Power held
the inquest. Patterson made no attempt TO
escape and was arrested and brought TO jail
Iast Monday. Both parties were common
deld Iaborers in the employ of Mr.. James NJ.
Tafinler Jr, on his plantation near LoWndeS-