The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-07

sOUTH O.ARoLKNA NEWS.

~ 4. ~ =
.. -tsa.5s Aa,f'' - '~ - n
Williamsburg county has cotton
With forms and shapes well developed. c
:--Camden has shipped 19,lH bales [
this season against i6,627 fo: the last t
one.
-Kershaw county has paid S2.-. {
426.59 III May taxes, against Sl,b49.4O
last May.
The peachca are dropplng'' from {
the branches in Union except those on
the old trees. !
Tho Rev. Thomas Ward White has :!
been elected president Of the l-'nrcns
Fcmale lCollcge.
John Friday. colorcd. WAS arrest
cd in Aiken on Tuesday by the sheriff
for carrying pistol
The Palmetto Rifles of Aiken have
resolved to go to the Yorktown Cen
! tcnniul. Twcnty-cight mcn have vol
.untccrcd to go.
Tho May collection Of taxes IN ;
! Chester county amounted to about
| $4,000. The collection for the same
time last year was about SO, 900.
1t is rumorcd that colored man
was killed at Williston, Barnwcll
county, by two white boys, one day
last week.
Mr.. Jas. NJ. Poe, of the Lower
Runs section Of Barnwell county, lost
his dwelling and its entire contents
last week by accidental fire. =.
w. G. Bcnct, Esq, of Abbeville,
has been chosen 10y the Literary So~
cictics Of Erskinc College, anniversary
orator at the commencement at Due
West OH the 29th Of June.
Mrs. Anna Fleming was found
. dead in her house near Rich Hill, in
Spartanburg county, last Saturday. 1t
: is supposed that she died during Fri
= day night Of epilepsy.
Salmon have recently lea caught
:. at Goochc's Ferry, Oh the Catawba
u River. Fish Commissioner Butler had
II thousands put in the river about two
l. years ago.
q Mr.. John Bradley, Of Pickens,
father Of Senator Bradley of that coun-
ty, died at his homo, about two miles
from Easley Station, on Monday. He
was eighty years old at tho time of his
ct death.
ys Mrs. Nancy McKcttrick, of Bor.
- deaux, Abbcvillc county, died sudden.
:" " last Saturday, aged about sixty
T. save one of the kindred Of George Nc
at Duffle, who still lives. She was the
hc daughter Of Mrs. Reese, sister O.
~, McDutfie, and Of course was his niece
-, Both the Lancaster newspapers
- and tho people Of that county gcner
IN ally, favor the lease Of the Chcraw ant
lie" Chester Railroad to the Richmond ant
mt Danville combination. The Chcstc
~ newspapers and the majority Of TIN
;n people of that county, arc opposed t.
M tho proposed lease.
o.Sv C. w. NJ. Williams, ESD. counse
III for the county commissioners in thei
nd examination Of tho countv's tinancia
,li- condition, informs the I'eoplnAtha
,lp Bnrnwell county will be better oAb.
at least SIG, 900 on account of II &n
vestigation. The report Of the s. ~
u commission will not be made pS
his until the September Court. q"
eds "A man and two women went ~
not the Crotwell Hotel, in Ncwberry/ w.
m . ordered dinner. In some way G.
lie suspicious Of the clork were Al! .
-, and on examination he found cfnS
'ai- his guests were colored and .seu
vii ordered out Of the hotel. thaI .
- that he had been imposeT Blcnsc.
lps ,ywee was n wbiie vIl e"ss tnsn. ThJGpon, fof-
,oa--S -Stfs A-sv.r, s,,in gFrsillegd rim if he
.nat he was iiot L.av.:t partTr kHftnllhHTHs lhTs
money was as good as anybodv's,
'Whcreupon Mr.. Bleasc assaulted linn
With stick, striking several blow g. |
Blease was arrested.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
as,se Is senamg blanks for data in regard to
sheep hnsbandry in the State, and re-
guests for specimens of native woods
to his correspondents, the secretaries
or oranges, and to shcep-growcrs
throughout the State, with the intcn-
tion OF preparing pamphlet on this
industry in South Carolina. The in
aormatlon already received gives the
assurance that it will be complete and
valuable. In the list Of products, of Of
which specimens were requested by
the commissioner for exhibition ot
atlanta, wool was left out. 1t is in
tended to make speciality of it and
contributions are very much desired,