Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-01
South Carolina Notes.

Considerable hail fell along the Port Royal
road above Yemassee Tuesday night
GrahsmviIls and Hardeeviile are thinly po-
pulated at present, owing to the absence Of rice
planters.
A new passenger train, handsomely finished,
viii soon be placed on the Port Royal and
Augusta Railroad.
Rice planters along the Savannah complain
of damage to their fields by the recent
foods
There is considerable mortality among swine
in the neighborhood Of Grahamville and Har-
deeviIle from type of distemper.
Bull Run Grange, in Chester county, has a
membership Of one hundred
The South Carolina Railroad depot at Willis
ton, BarnwelI county, Will be enlarged to twice
its present size next summer
Petitions 20 the Legislature to pass law
totally prohibiting the manufacture and sale
Of ardent spirits in this State are being circu-
lated ameng the citizens of Marlboro.
TIE freshet in the Salkehatchie has swept
sesy the bridges On the c. ews' Ford Crossing.
in ColIeton.
Four negroes were fined five dollars each by
a Fairfield Trial Justice last week for refusing
to work on the reads.
steam furniture mandatory viii shortly
be started in Greenville The factory will at
first have capacity Of two hundred bedsteads,
and tables, sofas, etc, in like proportion per
week.
The Grand Lodge Of the Knights of Honor.
of South Carolina, viii meet at Yorkvile on
April 19
The total shipments of cotton from Chester
for the six months from September to March
amounted to @. $50 bales.
The recent freshet DESTROYED or damaged
great many bridges, mills and gins in Elge-
field.
Corn planting began in some sections of
Spartanburg county last week.
S n. Thompson, a clerk IN Gilmore's store,
in Darlington, accidentally shot colored man
on Saturday in the leg.
The liens recorded in the Clerks Office at
Orangeburg number 2. .s42, representing money
value approximating $40 OOO.
John Boatrigbt was convicted at the court
in COlletOn last week for stealing a horse from
Captain d. $. Cannsdy, on the Edisto river, on
july II. 1880.
The peaches in Pickens have been killed in
the bud. and the buds are falling off There
will BE- no peaches Of any consequence in that
county.
The recent rains in AbbevilIe have destroyed
the guanO already put on the ground, it is said
All the milIdams on Cedar creek, in Orange
burg. have been broken through, and much
damage done
Lumber has gone up In Charleston, and mill
men on the Edisto are running a good busi-
ness.
The attorney for Mr. Richardson commenced
taking testimony in the court houseat Darling
ton on Monday.
The sum Of $4,000 has been subscribed for
tr5d ha fare riV
at Camden The cost of the structure Will
amount to fifteen or sixteen thousand dollars
The fifth fall of snow in Camden this season
occurred on last Tuesday. Ii lasted only about
half an hour.
A meeting Of the colored citizens OF Darling
ton was held on last Monday TO advance the
dry ticket at the town election in April. The
Rev. VI. Middleton, OF the Colored Methodist
Church, presided.
Tomas Myers. colored. wss tried last week in
CIarendo county for breach of an agricul-
tural contracf. and hned one hundred dollars
or thirty days in jaII. He had entered into a
written agreement for the year.
The Town Council of Walhalla has passed an
ordinance requiring persons found on the
streets of the town betws en- the hours of 10 D.
m aud a. M. to give an account OF them
selves.
The Town Clerk of Newberry has collected
over a thousand dollars street duty since Feb
ruary. 1880. This is about four hundred dollars
more than was ever before collected for street
duty in one year.
WE. Gary. the United States revenue officer
who was shot in Pickeps county some time
since, is said to be rapidly recovering, and is
able to walk about
James J. Wagner, colOred, died at YORK
vile on Saturday night last. During the daVs
OF recOnN tructIon and the Radical regime he
was coUspicuous ssa local Republican poll
tfcian and uatil the accession OF the Hampton
Government held the Office of Trial Justice.
Last season there were recorded in Green
vile county 81 liens, averaging about $4o
each, making an aggregate OF $l0o, SO0 In prop
erty pledged by the farmers for supplies This
season thus far there have heen 972 Lens given,
about Is, making total OF $43,74O.
A reward of three hundred dollars will be
r,ajd for the discovery and apprehension of the
ipcendiary or incendiaries who attempted 10
fire The town of Edgefield on the night Of the
5th instant. OF this sum, one hundred dollars
is subscribed by the Town Council and the
remainder by reliable merchants and citizens.
Robert Bynum and George Harrall, colored,
we're convicted before Trial Justice at Ridge
way last week for stealing lot of tools from
Mr. Newman of Ridgeway, in May, 1915. Har-
raI was sentenced TO jail for twenty days, or q
fine Of five dollars aud costs, ana by mum 10
the same fine and costs or nfteen Gays IN jan.
Trndar the heading Of the arrival of a Par
5onad Convict the Aiken Journal and Re
,.is,n saws: ''The distinguished General Rob
srt SmsIIs. who so narrowly escaped the penn
tenriary by the Executive clemency OF GOV
ernor Hampton, arrived in Aiken yesterday
sfteruoon Sma'ls has gone into the election
Contest business and expects to make good
tbinO, ar This trade for the next two years,
.-hsft,er he refs q seat in Congress or not