Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-28
South Carolina Notes.

In the Supreme Court at Washington on
Mond Y argument was heard on the motion to
dismiss the supersedeas on the appeal of the
syndicate in the South Carolina Railroad case.
The decision was reserved and will not be ren
dered until Monday next.
5 epney Sweat, in Jail at Columbia, under
sentence of death for the murder of his wife,
is manlfesting symptoms of insanity, whether
fefgned or actual is not known.
Major McSweeny, OF the Hampton Guardian,
secured batch of the sixty-one immi grants,
who arrived at Columbia on Sunday for Mr..
J. W. Gooding. of Hampton county.
State treasurer Richardson will represent
the State at the meeting of the stockholders of
the Augusta and Knoxville Road in Augusta,
day 4th The State owns $4,000 of the stock
Of the road. received for convict labor.
r. S. Pringle on Monday took twenty convicts
from Columbia to Gregg's Phosphate Works,
on Ashley river.
The directors Of the Charleston Manufactur-
ing Company have selected a site for the pro
posed new factory. 1t is located in Hamp-
stead, and is bounded by Columbus, Drake,
Blake and Bay streets. It measures six
hundred feet from north to south, and two
hundred and eighty-four feet from east TO
west. The company have also cured a tract
of marsh land opposite, three hundred and
eighty by two hundred and seventy feet, run
ming to the Northeastern Railway, and
bounded on the south by Bay and the west
by Columbus streets. The work will be pushed
with vgor. and it is hoped that a portion of
the new cotton crop may be worked up there.
A movement is on foot for the formation of
a new county with Williamson as the county
seat. II is proposed to take the townships of
Williamson, Belton, and part, If not all, of
Honea Path. in Andersen county, and the por-
ton OF Greenville county, extending south
from Piedmont village and east TO heedy river
ON the Laurens line The Saluda river runs
nearly through the centre of the proposed
county. and the Columbia and Greenville Rail-
road as also the French Broad Valley Road,
run through WILLIAMSON, which lS.much more
acces ible than the present county seat viii
liam ston il is, gets large part OF the trade
Of lower Greenyiile. Anderson contains 469,-
6Ol and Greenville a. O0J square acres. and it is
thought the new county can be spared.
The BsrnweH Sentinel pointedly remarks:
1T is true that the State desires al convlcts TO
while serving out their terms. This IS right,
but when it comes to bringing them into the
country, Nhere their presence amounts to rob-
bing the honest tradeSmen, We regard lt an
evil which should be checked. as in nearly all
instances white men are the sufferers.
The new base for the Pitt monument, which
is to be erected in the City Hall PARK,
Charleston. has been conveyed thither
Ii is made of Fairfield county granite,
and is five feet and six inches square
BY one foot and three inches thick
The monument, which has stood for number
of years in the Orphan-house grounds, was
taken down on Saturday. and Will be removed
TO the new park as soon a. the work upon the
base of the monument has been completed
VIM. Lowry, a penitentiary guards lying in
iaiI at Columbia, charged with cOunterfeitng
frritad States coin The arrest of Lowry has
brought to light a well kept plot on the part Of
the negro clnviets in the peDitentiary to effect
their release. The Columbia Register gives the
fofIowipg details: aCOlonel Lipscomb, the Su-
Derintendent had some information which led
him 10 suspect that some of the convicts were
making plans to escape, and, II pursuing his
invesIf9ations into that matter, caused
one of the white prisoners to Sc
crete himself under the bed OF one
Of The suspected negro convlcts. While
there, other convict z came IN ana engaged IN