Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-15
snrrH CAROLINA.

Cctt0n pickers are plentiful in Darlington
county, aud get 40 to so cents per 100 pounds
opo davI last week Dick Mccall, of Marl-
1,oTo county had tue good luck to muster a
force sufficient to gather him l5,025 pounds.
CIV. Cromer, of AbbeviIle county, planted
this ne made $50 gallons of line syrup, which
at so cents per gallon would make S'9' Ihere
is money in such farming.
MIR. :. V. Massey. Of Oconee county, is max
ing success by. tobacco growing. lie mas
placed on exhibition in Nalhalla one stalk SIX
feet high. containing twenty full sized leaves,
each OF which measured twenty-five inches IN
width and thirty seven inches in length.
John A. Reeves, of Anderson county, re-
Gently captured on his plantation IN Centre
Vile township a snake with fOrked neck
with two distinct heads. 1t was about the
size Of a mans little finger and about twelve
inches long. Many who saw III say that IL ID d
king snake.
About two weeks ago a valuable horse be-
longing to John A. Crawford was Killed IN
Abbeville county by lghtRlng. There were
no marks about the dead animal except that
her ears were singed. The sun was shining
at the time OF the stroke and there was no
cloud near the house at all.
q. Wanner, OF Walhalla. has brought down
from Jocassee Valley over sixty specimens Of
mountain timber 10 be sent to the New Or
leans Exposition. He has specimen Of chest
nut two feet long and seven feet in diameter
and weighing l,6OO pounds. lie mas lew
other specimens equally as large or larger.
Camden Journal: The effect Of the drought
during the past three or four weeks upon Inc
late crOps IN this vicinity has been very severe
indeed. Scarcely any cotton mas Deen maue
during the month of August all the young
bOils and forms shedding OF as soon as the
flowers Opened. Up TO Aug. tne prospect
was as fine as we have ever seen, ana IRON
half to three ee-quarters OF a crop had Deen
made by that time. None worth speaking OF
has been made since, hence the yield ior thls
wear in this section viii not average more
half IN three quarters OF good CROP
Reanfort correspondence Of the MORNING
NEWS Sept. 10: Court has been sitting here
this week, Judge Hudson presiding. Ihere IS
10 q in the very air VOu breathe. The streams
of ssbrothers in black 1Owing TO the court
house all day long have an air OF busy I'M
pOrtance, as il the affairs OF tne nation were
hanging in the balance. All DAY long the
ssyyeary lawyers endless tongues are Wag-
riDr. and no doubt the Judge. Ike the one IN
sMaud Muller" longs for peace and quiet
BY the way, next to a funeral,, thefs Is
nothing so enhancing to tho cofored mind as
having n lease in court" There is something
go important in being called INTO court anu
having 10 testify, etc. ADout the qlllE sa csdss
which does pQt enjoy court mere Is the uhiVl-
| tunate set Of beings known as the PACK hOfses.
! The labOrs Of the poor ghosts, Il possible more
| ghostly than ever. are QOw redOuDea,
! Tor not only must the phantom chase
/ after phantom passengers be continued
with tie same diligence as hereto
| fore, but to that is superadded the daily con-
! yeyance to and from court. OF the colored
brethren who frequent the balls of justice
/ ffrom early morn to dewy eye.--We are to
I have a new monster OF the deep over here in
Our Writer'S sOOn-One OF mans invention,
however-in the shape Of seif-propelling
- tge, or drudge as some one suggest
IL u he generic name OF the article BIZ.
Tl ~ as 4 n, ne, Of the Hume Chemical Works,
has S gone % owe. to Scotland to see about ttt lts
coming over Thee is 80 tsstieh on ~ TINS =
side OF the water. instead O. .inn WIN a
lever, it has an endless ai "a, ooS TStST1ss sorse
Fewer. Hume Bros. h u E8tsnded their
WORKS over to Battery creek, 1870 the crude
phosphate sent over there is = SnufactGFed
(, TO the fertilIZer.-There is another improve
melNt going on, too. down at the Wilson PhOs-
nhates Works, 3n the shape Of an elevated rail-
vyVav on which donkey engine is to run, to
transfer, the phosphate from one side over to
the other, where it is dumped on to be dried.
we are Drt1gressing.-Some OF the progressive
citizens want a street railway. Certainly, as
a rnessure Of humanity. it ought TO be sup
,,oyted. as il would run OF all the hack horses
from competing, and enable them, or some Of
fj,eTn At least to have a peaceful end, by dy-
no in their beds, which they don't have
/. chance of doing at present,