Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-09


Mr. John y. Wigfall. of Aiken county. has
received two beautiful specimens of improved
cattle.
The assessment of real estate in kershaw
county this wear exceeds the assessment last
year hy Si9.1S5.
The turuip crop IN Fairfield county is re-
ported good-aetter than IL was at the same
date last year.
Mr.. W. G.. Jones, of DrcWry's Bua. Va,
has been elected principal of the graded
school AT Abhevillc.
The Cheraw and Academies society has
secured the services of Prof. Il. =. Pell, as
principal of the academy.
There Is no complaint about scarcity of cot
ton picScrs IN kershaw county this year. II
I~ all the other Way-ScarcitV Of cotton.
The business of BIackville. Barnwen county.
last year, exclusive of railroad. telegraph and
post office business. amounted To S65l.O6O.
The cotton in Anderson county is being
picked out rapidly. Some oi the farmers say
that It Will only take one more week To gather
thc crop.
The farmers of Lancaster county say since
they gathered their fodder that the corn crop
Is better than they had thought. Late peas
are a failure.
The Newberry county fair is near at hand
the l1th, 18th and 18th inst. Senators IIamp-
ton and Butler have been invited 10 be pres
cnt and make addresses.
\ negro named Andrew stanton got his arm
torn almost on 10y gin IN Marlboro county
last week. Large pieces of flesh were seen
hanging To the gin saw after the accident
one day last week Il little child of Frank
lnabinet. colored. who lives in Middle Town
ship, Orangchurg county. was burnt To death
while the parents were on at work in the
field.
While out 'possum hunting last week Au-
gust Heller, Of NeWherry county, had his foot
80 badly crushed by falling tree that ampu-
tatlon was necessary. from the effects of
which he died.
The Columbia Bicycle Club have sent in
NltatiOnS 10 the Wheelmen all over the state
20 participate in a grand bicycle meet and
commencing November II next.
Ia attempting to jump from a buggy near
Orangrburg last sunday, Miss Tylee had her
foot eutansled in some prrt Of the buggy and
bruised and injured by the fall.
The Camden JOvrud{ says: To judge from
appearances. our farmers intend to SOW
larger area in oats this fall than they did in
ISL. which was, up To that time. the largest
acreage ever sOwn In the county
\ negro woman passed through Greenville.
last week. ON her way to New York. with an
infant child with four arms and four legs
She WAS from Abbeville county, and was car
rying her 0ilsplng 10 New Ork for the pur-
pose OF exhibiting it.
At Columbia. on the 4th instant, colOred
man named Villa m johnson had his right
leg cut on above the knee and his left foot
crushed. He attempted To jump from the
platform at the junction to the construction
train, and missing his footing, fell under the
tram. He died at O'Clock.
\ new church of the PRESBYTERIAN denomi-
nation was organized in the town of Liberty.
Plckeus county. on Saturday last by COM
mission appointed by the south Carolina Pres
hytery. This church Will be known as the
Liberty Prc~hy yterlan Church
The Camden T0UyitIl SAYS: Our farmers
are complaining that the seed cotton this year
does not yield more than One-fourth lint,
where il ought To yield One-t third-that Is. it
fa y of gnf 10
produce 800 pounds of lint. where l.50O pounds
has heretofore yielded that amount
The Edgeield Adrertiser says: Even on
the splendid ~aIuda bottoms of eN-GOvtrnor
iagoOd's grass farm the corn Is a perfect and
absolute failure. Where he generally gath
eiS from 30 10 80 bushels To the acre. he viii
thle season not even send wagon. The
"Ndllcb stalks even are not worth gathering.
NJ Red Blu0, Marlboro county. last week.
'l.t V"iott,l person gave what he called q
festival, and during the evening a row oc-
cuIreI ln winch eight or ten colOred persons
were shot, though none. IL Is thought are seri-
/ "uslY wounded The reason SrvCraf of them
were not Killed Is said 10 DC owing 10 the fact
hrc pistols.
special to the Ne5rs AMI ,-,,,,.;e.. ,,.,,t.,.
8, from w alterboro, SAYS: The body of : q
Cooley concerning whose recent uvstcrio1l-
disappearance | wrote YOU "A few ,invs a.rn
was discovered yesterday afternoon in In
woods. about two miles from town in an nj
vauced state OF decomposition. The unforfu-
nate man, who Is generally supposed to have
been suffering from temporary alteration Of
the mind, had seated himself at the foot
of a large pine, being supported ON each
side by an OAK and a dogwOod tree. lie
had taken on his hat. and while in this
position had placed his pistol TO his head and
shot himself. His features were too much
swollen. discOlored and decOmposed for rccog-
milton. but his clothes, shoes and pistol easily
Identified him. \ jury of inquest was sum
moned by Trial Justice Joel Lariscy, who
viewed the remains and returned verdict OF
/ leath at his own hands. The remains were
placed III a coffin and buried with the regrets
Of all who knew the deceased. The family
have the siucerest sympathy of the whole com
widow ana her four little children
Mr.. j. W. Bowman, Savannah, Ga,
says; The only relief l found for my
dyspepsia was Browns Iron Bitters. 1t