Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-03
South Carolina Not, s.

Darlington has double the number OF bar
rooms that Florence has, with less than half
the population.
The fly that was so destructive to wheat and
oats last year in Chester and York counties
still lives, notwithstanding the severe weather
OF the past two months.
Work on the Atlantic and French Broad
Valley Railroad in WILLIAMSON township is
progressing finely. A section Of three miles
will be flushed by Saturday night.
Captain n. X. Sullivan, Of Anderson. fell
dead from heart disease on the 22d. He was
more Familiarity known as MIN and was en-
excellent man and gallant officer of Orr's
Rifles during the war.
Abe Beeks. colored, Is or i6 years Of age,was
committed to jail at Anderson on Sunday.
after a preliminary trial, charged with the
burning of the stables AMI barn Of Mr.. B. w.
Duckworth, of williamson Township, last
week
Thirty eight persons have been granted GER
tifcateS to teach free schools in Clarendon
county by the board OF examiners and one re-
jected. There are now "a white and II colored
teachers.
There have been eighteen or twenty resi-
dences, one church, three school houses and
five or six stOre-rooms built in Anderson dur
ing the past year
Such has been the severity of the winter that
large numbers of cattle and hogs in Coneton
are diving OF disease induced from exposure
end neglect The deer in the ranges of coun-
try where there are large swampS are dying
of some unknown disease.
VIM. II. White, who on a few occasions has
been appointed a special United States Mar
shall. was arrested last Saturday on charge
of retailing liquor contrary to the laws Of the
Uni: ed States and in default Of bail was com
mitted to jail at Yorkville by United States
Commissioners Lstimer to await preliminary
hearing,
D. L. Martin and W. s. Martin, who claimed
70 be Atlanta drummers tried to leave a beard
ing house in Greenville the other day without
ises t. the ground BY q rope. locked the door
Of the room and went out OF the back window
but were arrested by the police and forced to
settle their bills.
The COlleton planters are very backward IN
their preDarationS for another crop. Inc cot
ton planters are at least one month behind
their usual progress at this season of the year.
The rice planters, although they have had
miserable time,are pushing things right aheao-
Labor is scarce IN KerShaw.
over one hundred liens were filed in the
clerks office at Camden on last Tuesday.
Mr.. Brasington's store at Camden was bro
ken into last week and forty dollars worth OF
bacon and tobacco stolen.
Louis Barton. colored, forged an order for
ten dollars on Mr.. ]. M- Williams, or Camden,
last week, and got the money. He fred two
shots at policeman who attempted to arrest
him and escaped.
The barn and stables OF Mr.. @. d. @. Adams
Of Bamberg, Barnwell county, were burned by
sn incendiary on Tuesday morning, about
O'Clock.
The Graham Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
Of Barnwell, bought for its members this
spring six hundred tons of various kinds of
7 fertilizers at cash outlay OF $50 0OO. and saw
| ing to the community about $1,000.
while the BarnwelI train was crossing Toby 8
creek one day last week. Felix, colored
| brakeman lost his footing on Il At car. and
fell to the bottom Of the trestle, a distance OF
twenty-eight feet. He was unhurt,
Mora roulez snd horses have been sold in
| Rarnwel county on a credit this year than
| during any previous year in ten.