Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-17

Mr.. I. Weatherly. Of Marion was acci-
dentally shot by his friend Frank Rogers last
week and painfully wounded.
Mr.. X. J. Taylor's gin house and saw mill.
IN Aiken county. were burned down on Mon
day. The property was insured for s.. 900.
Dennis Jeter, colored, was shot in the head
by Lum Petty. cOlOred. in a row at Spartan
burg last week. Four other persons were cut
in the same fracas.
The Florence lines says: "Under the pres
ent levy every real estate owner pays 25 per
cent. more taxes than he should. as ordered
by the Board Of Equalization. And this fault
make the reduction
William keegan, white lad about Is years
Of age. was drowned in the dock of the old
Marine and River Company. on Ashley river,
at Charleston on the 18th. The lad was en-
gagged at work on the wharf. and while walk
ing backwards approached too near the edge
and fell overheard.
Sea IsIdRd Ne,cs: ''Oncer John Green
arrested man named Hugh Crum. ch arged
with having shot a man at the Magnolia
Mines, near Charleston. He was captured at
the Chemical Works near Port Royal Satur-
DAY lie Is now IN jan awaiting the orders of
the Charleston county authorities"
The First National Bank Of Sumter was
organized on Monday bv the election Of the
following Directors: K. NJ. Wallace, Horace
Hardy. y. }. China, j. &. Wilson. A. y. Free
land. l. j. Tourney, X. {. McFadden. J. K.
MuldrOw. T. Il. Johnston. Mr.. Wallace was
elected President, and as soon as the neces-
sary details are completed the bank will 20 to
work.
The public school house for the whites in
sumter Is sand to De in a bad plight. Nearly
every transOm light Is broken. the stOve-pipes
extending through the sides have been
Knocked down, nearly all the ink wells have
been taken away. some Of the hat hooks ear
ried or the Stats in one of the windows
wrenched out and the glass broken. good deal
Of the yard fence torn down and a general
state of decentralization all around
Ae5cs anil Courier ''SanfOrd Ferguson.
cOlOrcd, pestilent Republican politician of
Berkeley county. was committed to iaii yes
terday by Trial Justice Gleason. in default Of
S4uO bail, for trial on the charge Of obtaining
goods on false prcntenseS. several months
ago Ferguson, representing himself as 4
farmer. purchased goods from several mer-
chants in Charleston and paid for them with
drafts on factOrs in whose hands, he said, he
had several bales of cotton. ON presentation
Of the drafts they were found to be worthless,
and on lnquirlng for Ferguson II was found
that he had left the city. He did not return
until last Saturday. when he was arrested.
He had sold out his property near PinOpOlis
and WAS passing through Charleston on his
way 10 one of the islands near Beaufort when
caught
Under the head OF ~ Model Farm" the
SeI I,fglid AelCs says: ''MesSrs. COnant Il En-
mons have just finished harvesting their third
cutting Of long forage upon their model dairy
farm. In spite of the unfaVOrable season for
grass ON account of the drought, in addition
To the ravageS Of the grass worm that almost
grass, their several crops in routine consist
ing Of the first harvest of vctch furrOwed in
MAY. followed by the second harvest of Ber-
muda grass in July, and this third and last
moving of Bermuda, they secured an average
of a ton of yctch and ton and a half of
Bermuda hay to the acre, ON an lS-acrc field
throughout the season. The ground upon
which they gathered fifty barrels of Irish pO-
tatOcs IN May was Immediately sOwed down
ln German mlllct, which produced a ton and
a quar- ter per acre. that was cut in August.
The third crop on the same ground and. which
D. now a beautiful sward Of COW peas nearly
ready to cut. was sOwn in August after the
mIllct was cut. VIII turn out about ton to
the acre ON a 2-acre path. They have also an
Oat field OF y acres harvested in Nav and
sown in COW peas, from which they will
gather an average Of a ton per acre. The
fertility and prOductiveness of the repeated
crops of grass and forage ON their fields seems
NOT 10 be diminished under the iudiciOus cu-
ture Of Messrs. COnant Il EmmOns. who feed
the land after each successive crop with COM
post from their COW pens, brOad-casted upon
the land -