Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-29

The cotton receipts at Greenviue this year
Mr; Henry W. shul. Of Lexington. has
Aiiied a hog weighing S44 pounds-his own
Charles Haines, colored, of Newberrv. has
caught 81 'possums and killed l,OOl s0uirreIs
during the past six years.
Dennis swerlngin inflicted a fatal wound
Win knife on the person Of Frank Postell
All eoi0red, IN Abbeville, last week
About 1880 has been subscribed for the
construction Of an ice machine in Greenville
~ Will take as much more to get the machine
in working order.
About fifty negroes from the neighborbood
OF Hawthorne post Office, about ten miles
above ElentOn, have packed up their goods
and departed for Beaufort
A negrO's house on Mr.. s. Z. Nelson's plan
tatlon, near statebnrg, sumter county, was
burned last week. Four children. aged from
to lS, were burned to death.
The Chester bulletin has been sold bv its
proprietor, Mr. L. W. ClawsOn, Sr., to Messrs
r. 4. Morgan and +. l.. WhitlOck who will
hereafter conduct the paper.
The Charleston Driving Park Association
has very properly offered a reward of $50 for
evidence 10 secure the arrest of the miscreant
or miscreants who disfgured = horse in the
stables Of the association.
Mrs. Annie Gordon, living near BIuffton. is
III years OF sge. She Is a member of St. Mat
thew's Baptist Church of that place. and
walks four miles to church to partake of com
munion on the first Sunday Of every month.
At Chatham Church, near Moncure, on Sun
day night. Mrs. Oliver Gunter. so wears of
age. and her daughter and granddaughter
were murdered with an axe, each of Them
being struck several times. The community
Is thoroughly aroused. The murderer had
not been caught up TO the last reports.
Last week Deputy Collector Ensor in COM
Bauy with Deputy Marshals Casey, Jarrett
Townsend and Fisher, cut up a fifty gallon
still near GOOdwin's, in Saluda township
This still had recently been in operation On
Sunday the same raIding party cut up a
seventy gallon still near the Block House
and not far from the North Carolina line.
The Columbia Register says that a widow
lady living in the dark corner of Edgefeld
was engaged 10 be married to a neighbor. but
her son objected to the performance of the
ceremony, and he brought his shotgun into
use to prevent it. The son shot the groom and
his mother, but only slightly wounded each of
them. 4 surgeons services were called i'm,
but no serious result Is expected.
some months since, says the Charleston
-Aelcs and Courier, Mr.. ). D. Trenholm in
vented and patented an automatic car cou-
pier for freight cars. This coupler is of SIM
pie mechanism, prompt action. cheap con-
structiOn and great durability. IL has been
IN use for four months on the South Carolina
Railway. and is iudOrsed by that road as 1.-THE
best freight car coupler that has been tried
A correspondent at YOrkville reports that
during the past week he saw 200 Jugs and
kegs of whisky pass through the streets of
that town. The law prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors outside of any incorpo-
rated town, city or village, does not keep the
York county people from getting ali the
whisky they want, as the county borders on
CASTOR county, y. c., where there are twenty
or thirty distilleries, and the people can get
any quantity they want from quart up.