Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-09
South Carolina Notes.

Redmond, Kelley and Moore left Greenville
on Saturday for Auburn penitentiary, where
the first viii remain ten years, the second
two years and eight months and the last two
years.
Ex-Probate Judge Sam Lee, of Sumter, got
his left hand very badly lacerated by the saws
Of cottin gin. 1t is feared that one finger
may have to be amputsted.
The depot at Varnville, Hampton county, is
crowded with cotton and freight, and every
business man is kept at his place.
An ice factory will shortly be started in
Greenville by New Jersey company. The
present consumption of ice in Greenville is
about 60, 600 pounds week during period of
three months
All the public wells in Florence have been
deepened five feet to furnish an extra supply
OF water for the new steam fire engine.
The recent advance in the price OF provisions
in the West is beginning TO be felt in Ander-
son. Flour has advanced 81 25 per barrel,
meat u cent per pound, and corn 20 cents per
bushel, and it is expected by business men all
over the country to go even higher still
The gin. ginhouse, mill and other buildings
Of Mr.. H. L. Taylor, in Orangeburg county,
we're destroyed by fire last week. The fire was
entirely accidental, resulting from the catch
ing of a match in the lint room in the broad
light Of day. The loss will probably reach
four or five thousand dollars, and there was no
insurance.
The coIored Baptists Of Batesburg have
lately purchased a lot, and will soon erect upon
it comfortable church building.
Bacon is selling in Winnsboro for twelve
cents cash, and meal from one dollar and
fifteen cents to one dollar and twenty cents.
An effort is being made to erect g Catholic
Church in Walhalla. About one thousand dol
lars have been raised for this purpose there,
and much more has been pledged from
other sources.
The drought of the past GUNNER has had a
serious effect upon some Of the wells in York
vile. While several have completely failed
and afford no water at all, the water in others
is lower than it has been known for years.
Mrs. Clara Dargan Mclean, of Yorkville. has
recently received from relative in Georgia q
pewter plate which formed part of a service
known to be at least 1O5 years old. The plate
belonged to the widow Dargan, RevolutiOna-
ry ancestor, who, to aid the Continental cause,
sold her silver and appropriated the money to
her country, substituting for her fine service
the pewter so much in use at that time.
The Augusta Ecening Netcs says: ''Mr R. j.
SOuthalI, Trial Justice at Langley, s. c., was
arrested a short time ago, charged with
gambling. A preliminary examination was
held before H. L. Ford. Trial Justice, and he
was bound over to the Court of General
Ses 'ions in September in the sum of one thou
sand dollars. A petition numerously and in
huentially signed for his removal has been for
warded to Governor Hagood. Affidavits from
several persons accompanied the petition, set
ting forth on the knowledge of the affiants that
he was an habitual gambler"
W. w. Ward, ex Sheriff of Williamsburg and
prominent Mason. died suddenly in the peni
tentiary Monday night of apOplexy, with which
he was taken at supper. His remains were
taken to his home. He was sentenced last year
to a term of seven years for forgery, and the
case made a sensation at the time on account
OF Wards shooting the prosecutor in the court
room during the trial. Ward was sixty two
years old.
negro named Gaoe Anderson is under ar
upon Mrs. Joseph H. Roberts. near Piedmont
innocence, but Mrs. Roberts is confident that
he is the man. When attacked, Mrs. Roberts
retained a sufficient presence of mind to de-
eide upon the stratagem OF calling her usband
in such manner as to make the negro believe
that Mr. Roberts was not far off. Her strata
gem had the desired effect, the negro becom-
ing frightened, relinquishing his hold upon her
and running away. as he ran she called loud
ly in the same tone, shoot him as he crosses
the road" The negro did not slacken his speed
The affair was kept quiet amongst the family
Of Mr. Roberts and the neighbors with the hope
of ferreting out the identity of the villainouS
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