The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
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A very large devil fish was caught at
/ Port Royal on Sunday. It measured
sixteen feet across and weighed two
TONS Is;
Mrs. Jackson, widow OF g 'Stouewalo
4 jackson, is ID Boston, where she and
lhsr daughters are the guests of Governs
or Butler. II
| Barnwell has gone dry. The munici.
pal election took place on Tuesday and
/ resulted us sollows: Dry ticket 20.
81 ct ticket 62.
r. Washington papers. commenting upon
4 the return of. the President from. his
Western trip. say that '.he is consider.
ably sunburnt.n ~ .
1 The New York Globe contends with
/ some truth, that .he Southern negroes
are not thriftless, butimprudent. They
make plenty of money, but spend it In
vice and glnttony.
!. A negro infant was recently found in
4 a corn field near Green Pond, York
Colnty, atwhich place camp meeting
Wac progressing at the time. 1t died
last Saturday night. There is no clue
as to its parentage.
Henry b. Blessing. an engineer, living
In st. Louis, so fatally shot his; brother
in>law on Monday night that he died on
Tuesday. On the same night and at the
same time. Blessing wounded his wife
and then cut his throat. ,Gause--jeal-
] ousY. $500. !. ~. -.
The Louisville Cou,ier-J Jou,7sazis about
! right in saying: ''In nine cases out of
ten the American newspaper reporter.
no matter what part of the country he
may be located III, represents the pro-
gress, Intelligence and poverty ofthe
country. W - =, ~. =, =: -
/ A colored prisoner confined in the: Jail
at Allentlalc set fire to the building be-
fore daylight Monday morning, iu order,
it is supposed. to make his escape, but,
before he could be rescued, the Jail was
entirely consumed and the prisoner. per-
ished in the flames. :. = :. :,
Senator Brown, OF Georgia, has Offer
ed the members Of the Legislature of
that State free ride to the Louisville
Exposition, whereupon the Columbus
Times significantly remarks that the
Legislature will have to elect q, United
States Senator. Naughty Joseph.
| at Erwin. H.. Saturday, an attempt
was made to kill the Rev. c. A. Obers-
haire, the organizer of polygamous
sect known as the ''Pilgrims". The
Pilgrims completed new church on Fri
day, which was wrecked with giant pow
der. Obershairc generally slept in the
building, but at the time of the explosion
was away.
The Echo. an organ of the colored
people in Savannah, Ga, says: s'There
are no less than thirty-fve houses being
put up by colored families in this city.
! Our people are accumulating wealth and
intelligence with wonderful rapidity."
1 This does not look as lfthe colored people
of Democatic Georgia are so terribly
oppressed.
! California furnishes case Of the
quickest courtshlp probably on record.
a wealthy widow of san Francisco,
and well known hotel keeper Of Oak
land met for the hrst time few days
ago, and in exactly fifteen minutes az
ter the meeting they were engaged to be
married. The marriage was solemnized
the next day, to the unbounded surprise
of their friends.
Rush Hall, living near Rocky Mount,
| n. G., parted from beautiful girl re-
Gently, the engagement which had exist
cd between them having been broken
| from a trivial cause. On Saturday he
saw her with young man, and followed
the couple until the girls companion
left her. Hall then struck her with q
club, fracturing her skull. She will
probably die.
The Camden Journal says: ''As an
instance of the. disastrous effect of the
drought, there is sforty-fve acre field
| of corn on the river below Caino,. that
will not produce peck of corn to the
acre, whereas the average crop on it
heretofore has been forty bushels per
ac1l. The corn stalks do not now aver
age more than two feet in height, and
most of them are dcad-dried up"
/ The oldest book in the clerk Is Office at
! Barnweli is the '.Winton Court Minute
book from October, l776, to FEBRUARY,
| 179l.' The backs are made of thin
pine board covered with several sheets
of newspaper, and an outside cover Of
green wall paper. The first entry is the
minute of the organization of the county
court for Winton county, Orangeburg
District, on the 18th October, l7S6.
Last Saturday evening, Lancaster
Bratton, colored, who lives near York
vile. sent his sons, Alexander and Ben
ney. to the field for some corn tops.
About half an hour after they left the
house a deadened tree in the field was
blown down and in falling it struck AL
exander on tue neck, crushing the bones
of his face and fracturing his left thigh
bone. Death resulted almost lmmedi-
atelY.
Trial Justice Blease, of Newberry,
has inaugurated new departure. After
the Jury had been drawn in lis Court
last week, he asked all parties to stand
up, and when they did so. he offered up
O fervent prayer asking among other
things, that the witnesses TO be sworn
in the case would rcmember their oaths
to ':speak the truth. the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.'' It was a
novel proceeding.
At Lexington, Ky, on Wednesday
morning, a fire broke out in the stables
of the Lexington Street Car Company.
Fifty mules, fourteen cars and the entire
lot of harness and stock of food and the
new stables were totally destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. Three
cottages and stable adjoining were also
destroyed, valued at $1,000; insured for
$3.50. The fire was undoubtedly the
work Of an incendiary.
A granite monument seventeen feet
high has been placed over the remains Of
the late venerable Lovick Pierce, D. D.,
in the.cemetery in Columbus, Ga. He
died November Q, 1879, at the age Of "a
years and 7 months. The inscription
on one face of the monument reads: "a
good man. a great preacher; he lived not
unto himself, but unto Him who is the
resurrection and the life." The shaft
was erected by subscriptions by his
friends throughout the State.
In the early part of the summer, a
man named Augustus Stephens made his
appearance at Dumford. Sumter County,
and went to work iu the turpentine busi-
ness of D: D. Kelly & Bro. He passed
off as single man and soon began pay
ing his attention to Miss Della Y. Stokes,
| q daurhtpr Of T. w. Stokes. who lives