Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-10
SOUTH CAROLINA.

There is some talk of building a town hall
in Abbeville.
Williamsburg is now out Of debt, the last
check having been ordered paid.
VIM. IL. Hobbs, of Lexington county, was
fatally crushed by cars at Columbia the other
day.
orange Admore. colored perjurer of
Berkeley county, has been bound over for
trial
Manuel Iseman, of Marion, has made an as
signment to julius Evans for the benefit of
his creditors.
Judge Kershaw has decided that goose is
a domestic animal subject to the provisions of
the stock law.
Joseph Howard has been convicted of the
murder of simon Gasklns at sumter. He Will
doubtless hang.
The bells of the town hall and of the colored
churches of Georgetown were tOlled last week
for Congressman Mackey.
David Shealey died at Leesville, Lexington
county, last week. lie was 81 years of age,
and the oldest inhabitant at Leesville.
The State Grange held an interesting
session at Charleston this week, and adjourned
Thursday. The next annual meeting viii be
held in the same city February 5, 1885.
Joseph Sampson & Son. of Georgetown, are
now proposing to settle with their creditors
at S5 cents on the dollar. 1t is not known
whether or not the proposition will be ac-
cepted.
4. b. Williams. editor of the Greenville
NelCs, has been elected by the City Council
chief of the Greenville fire department, vice
r; II. Kennedy, who declined to serve longer
without pay.
1t is said that the South Carolina Railway
COmpany's officers have offered Mrs. Jennings
Owens, whose husband was killed at Langley
last week, the sum of $50 per month as long
as she remains a widow.
Beck Green, 4 cOlOred woman living on the
Waccamaw, in Georgetown county, was re-
Gently caught in the betting at Nesbit's
threshing mill, and so seriously injured that
she died shortly afterwards.
The dedication of Bethany NJ E Church
South, at SummervIlle, which was to have
taken place to-day. has been postponed in
consequence OF the illness of Bishop Wilson,
who was expected to Oficiate.
The Aiken Recorder charges that the re-
turn OF sales made by several of the Main
street merchants in that place is an incorrect
exhibit Of their business and a shameful ir-
justice upon the taxpayers at large.
A number of the creditors of Mrs. A. T.
Westfeld, Of Greenville, have begun suit to
set aside the deeds made by her to lands
valued at $4,000, on the ground that the
papers were made for the purpose of defeat
ing the creditors.
On Friday last, during an afTray between
L. NJ. Roberts and J. II Outz, at Granite
vile, Aiken county, the latter was danger
Ously cut with knife across the neck and
chest. The large arteries of the neck were
severely lacerated, and Mr.. OutZ now lies in
a critical condition.
The personal estate of the late Hon. Armis-
ttdQ DuTl was sOll at ADDtNlllt idsL week
and brought s4I25. Among the articles
sold were two pistols, one OF them his
torical weapon, it having been the frearm
which established the law that a woman is
not liable to indictment under law for car
rying concealed weapons. Kitty McKenny,
a cOlOTed woman of Abbeville, being indicted
for carrying concealed weapons, the de-
fense was set up that the law did not ap-
ply to women, which view was sustained by
the court.
The members OF the LongshOremen's Pro-
Jectlve Union of Charleston are on q strike
consequent upon an alleged insult offered to
the PRESIDENT OF the union by Thomas Young
a stevedore. 1t appears that the President of
tne ASSOCIATION, who Is a negro, and Mr..
Young had some words, during the course of
which Mr. Young angrily shouted that he
would break the negrO's I'D neck'' If he
didn't leave the ship HYDE, which Mr.. Young
was loading with cotton. The negro there-
upon ordered all members of the union num
bering 200 or 500 hands, to strike and remain
idle until his wounded dignity had been an
peased by an apology from Mr.. Young An
the shipping in the harbor is affected by the
strike, and the conduct of the negro in thus
reVengiRg petty personal spite on the whole
city is the subject of bitter comment.