Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-11
South Carolina Notes.

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South Carolina Notes.
Amelia Chatham, colored, was found one day
last week sitting dead In a chair in her bouse
In Edgeheld.
The upper part of GreenviIIe county was Wis
tied by severe hail storm last week. The
cold was so marked that overcoats were COM
Portable.
Two negroes, recently convicted Of assault
and battery in the orangeburg Court, escaped
sentence owing to the indictments not con
Guiding against the statute.
The total taxable property of Orangsburg
county amounts to three million seven hundred
and seventy four thousand seven hundred and
twenty dollars
MI John Dlntzler S gin house, 10 Orangeburg,
was struck by lightning and burned last week.
Inc sentence of Monroe White, a negro, con.
Victed In March. et Spartanburg of burglary,
has.oeen committed by the Governor from life
Imprisonment to confinement for one year in
the penitentiary
Two negroes, named Wells and Young. got
into difficulty at Columbia on Saturday.
Young was severely cut. Wells was arrested.
Eleven families are en- route by steamer
first immigrants to arrive via the seaboard.
Prof. II. P. Montgomery. Of Virginia, has
been engaged to take charge of the colored
normal institute, which will be held about the
middle Of July.
The South Carolina Dental Association met
In Cheraw last week and adjourned to meet in
Charleston in May next Twenty-one physi-
clans and dentists were present. The pro-
ceedings were of an interesting character, and
the delegates were treated with marked hos
pitality by the people OF the town
The South Carolina State Educational and
Missionary Convention of the Colored Baptist
Church met in Cheraw last week About one
hundred and fifty ministers and delegates were
in attendance.
The entire Fourth Brigade, with the excep-
ton of the Irish Rifles, who are unavoidably
prevented, viii attend the Cowpens Centennial
to-day.
J. Henry Johnson, notorious character of
old Radical times. die1 in the neighborhood
of Old Wells Edgeield county, on Saturday
last
The Me,hodists contemplate erecting new
church at Bamberg.
Up to date Bamberg has shipped over 1900
bales Of cotton, an average of $50 bales to each
buyer.
General Bamberg sold in the winter of 1879
353 horses and mules. The number will run
much higher this season.
Fully six thousand gallons OF whisky have
been sold at Blackville since last November.
Col C0thrau is again working the Dorm Gold
Mine, in Abbeville. He is very cheerful and
hopeful of big results.
The Town Council of Aiken have purchased
five hundred feat Of new hose for the fire
department
Christian Hartlif, a German. recently work
ing at the Palmetto Mills, Georgetown, was
arrested on Tuesday last and lodged in Jail on
a charge of lunacy. When taken in charge he
had an axe and a Ratchet, and was disposed TO
have free fight" az one time. After being
shut up he managed to knock down the parti-
tons, and was disagreeaby ugly for while.
William Henry Priester, who killed his father
| at Allendale, has been arrested in Greenville
He arrived by rail from Charlotte He took
room at the Exchange Hotel, and requested
| that his presence should not be made known
He shortly repaired to a livery stable to secure
a team to convey him to the house of his
father law, W. 7. Long, about twelve miles
from the city. Several parties recognized
him, and es he was about enter
ing a buggy he was arrested. The
Sheriff Of BarRwell was apprised of his cap
ture. Priester attempted at first to pass for
his wifes brother. His wife, who had gone to
live with her people, was permitted to see him
She is conyince1 that he is insane. and from
her statements it appears that the father
shared he's belief.
The new Catholic church at Anderson was
dedicated on Sunday, Bishop Lynch officiating,
With reference to immigration to the Pal
metto State, the New York Herald remarks:
1 South Carolina is IN a fair way to get 1mmi-
grants. Even citizens long naturalizsd will be
casting about them for some way Of getting a
Southern house and lot for nothing, and free
| transportation to them.
Saws the LaurensFille Herald: San old sa-
bre. one Of 'Potter's Blades, with which the
whole OF Marion's Brigade were armed, was
examined the other day by some of our citi-
to have place in the Goa pens Centennial.
This old reIic was owned by General Brandon,
and used by him in the battle of Cowpens.''
The merchants OF Camden have agreed to
close their stores at o'clock IN the afternoon
during the summer.
Julius Dunlap, colorei, was killed by light
ming in the Hyco section Of KerShaw county
last week.
Mr. o. P Williams, the oldest member of the
Colleton bar, died at WATERFORD on the 2Sth
uitimO.
An organized band of thieves is going about
the Cedar creek country robbing the premises
| of farmers in Fairfield county.
The fair OF tae Winvah Indigo Society. of
| Georgetown, was held last week The net pro-
ceeds amounted to about Sl,0JO.
Mr.. J. w. Woodward. who has the contract
for building the court house and jail at Aiken,
has determined TO build a railroad from the
freight depot to thu site of the court house,
for the purpose CT transporting building mate
! rialS with facility and expedition. he Will be
furnished by he South CarOlina Railroad Com
pany with iron necessary for the track.
The Jail at Spartanburg has been empty of
prisoners for the last two weeks. and there has
been no sales by the Sheriff for the last three
months.
! The longest cotton row in Spartanburg eoun-
ty, or in the State, perhaps, was laid off by Mr..
L. B. Huff, who works land of John H. Mont
| gOmery. Esq, two miles north OF town. 1t is
| 9.760 yards long, and the rows being three and
over two and one third acres. Its length is a
| little more than five and half miles. 1t would
require about six hours to run round this one
row of cotton.
Influential friends OF the road from Spartan.
burg TO Augusta have been busy for the last
few days getting up petition TO the County
| Commissioners to order an election in the
county as to the subsci pton of $4,000 in aid
of that road. Up to this time there are about
500 signatures to the petition.
| Quite a large number OF negroes came to Co
lumba Friday to witness the execution of
SteDney Sweat and Joe Thomas, who were to
have been hanged, but whose sentences are
These people were visiting the jail in small
squads during the morning. They came from
| ali directions some even from as far as Gre en-
VILE and il is estimated that their numbers