Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-08
There were about ninety deaths and forty

Three negro prisoners escaped from the JAN
IN Camden by prizing the bars out Of WIN
Mr.. Leonard :. Biakeney has resigned his
position as one Of the wardens OF orange
burg.
The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company have finished their lines 70 Beaufort
and vicinity.
one negro killed another with knife in
Marlboro county a few days ago. The muir
derer is In jan.
From the last of September to December 25
q negro man and a white boy in York county
killed l02 rabbits.
Quite a number Of Indian relics have been
found within the site Of old Fort Pickens, in
AbbevIlle county,
Edgefeld county is nearly out of debt, the
total indebtedness Of the county now only
amounting to S4,S00.
\ little daughter of William Carlos, Of Cam
den. drank a lot of concentrated I've last week
and can hardly survive.
The Town Council Of Georgetown will i'm
pose "a license tax this year on all kinds Of
business and professions.
Mr. and Mrs. James McLees, of Anderson
county, celebrated the iftieth anniversary Of
their marriage last week.
A. G. Welch's dwelling house. near New
berry. was burned last week. The loss is
$500, aud the insurance $ 800.
The Piedmont Manufacturing Company, in
Greenville county, has paid its usual semi
annual dividend OF per cent.
The telegraph offices at Richburg and Bas-
cOmville, on the Cheraw and Chester Rail-
road, have been discontinued.
= bald eagle, measuring eight feet from tip
10 tip of its wings, was killed in Laurens
county last week by ii. I. Price.
Sempy Bennett, an old colored man, was
instantly killed by falling tree in Pickens
county on the day before Christmas.
Two hundred and ffty-three transfers of
real estate were entered in the Auditors Of
fee for kershaw county last year.
Several bids for the mail routes in George
town county have been sent on to the depart
ment in Washington by colOred men.
The saloons in West Union, a suburb of Wal
halla. have been closed on account of the pas
sage OF the prohibitOry law in Oconee.
Col. r. NJ. Wallace, President of the Ma
tiOnal Bank of sumter, has moved his family
there. The bank will soon be in readiness.
Mr. Mat. Mathis. Of Edgefeld county. has
Young horse only Is months old that weighs
500 pounds and makes mile in four minutes
The shad season at Georgetown will soon
commence, and as that place now has such
capital shipping facilities, prices will rule
high.
Trial Justice Henry II. Blease, Of Newberry,
/ has been arrested on a charge of oppression
and official misconduct. His trial VIII take
place next week.
Choice Herndon, cOlored, was killed by
John Boundtree in Union county on Decem-
Der 20. Roundtree was foollng with pistol.
which ''went Off,
The Town Council of Darlington have fixed
Il
as it was last year. Application has been
made for ten licenses.
The iewelry store OF Mr. z. c. Stain. in
Chester. was broken into by burglar on the
night Of December 26, and robbed of goods of
the value of 500. Louis Broomfeld Is sus-
pected as the thief.
The Conference of the NJ. E. Church south,
at its recent annual session, constituted a new
circuit, to be known as TOwnville circuit, and
to embrace five churches. All these have en-
tirely new houses Of worship.
fatal stabbing affray between twonegroes
took place on Chancellor JOhnsOn's plantation
in Marlboro county last week. The names Of
/ the parties are not given One of the negroes
has been lodged IN jail for trial.
The Charleston cable connecting Morris
Island with Charleston has been leased to the
southern Telegraph Company. A. l.. Parry
has been placed i'm charge, and vessels Will
hereafter be reported by telegraph.
While Caesar Clarkson's tcolored) 7-year old
/ daughter was piaying around a fire in a field
in kershaw county, her clothing took fire and
she was so badly burned that she died in
few hours
There has recently been a great deal Of il
licit traffic in Union. Last week the Town
Council tried three cases. Two parties were
convicted and were sentenced to pay a fine
of $50 and be imprisoned for twenty days
each.
The warehouse of +. c. Simkins, at Troy.
Abbeyille county, was burned on last SUNDAY,
together with five bales of cotton, a lot of coli
ton seed, etc. The origin Of the fire Is un-
L.
perty.
The Town Council of Newberry has licensed
seven saloons Including two drug stores) at
! $500 each, and it Is thought that the number
I VIII reach ten. Last year license was granted
/ 10 twelve saloons Including three drug stores
at $500 each.
It is understood that Col. 7. d. Gillespie
/ who has filled the position of division super
( mtendent of the Southern Express Company
Z in the Charleston district. has resigned, and
/ that he has been succeeded by 0. NJ. Sadler,
| late route superintendent.
Z. $. T. Giles, Of Asheville, y. c., and Miss
Annie Shadrach, of Greenwood, Abbeville
/ county, were married last week They had
/ never met each other prior to the Monday
night preceding the marriage, but had ar
ranged all the preliminaries by letter.
While a five year-old son of Mr.. w. 5. Nc
/ Donald, Of Rossyile, Chester county, was
/ playing with other children on the side of a
/ hill, log, which was lying on the hill. was
started, and rolling down the hill, passed over
| the body Of the boy, killing him almost in
stantlv.
/ Mrs Adam f. Cromer, OF Townville, died a
/ few days ago. \ few weeks ago the Younger
/ Of her two only daughters died. few days
after this the elder, during fit of melan-
/ cholia. attempted to end her existence by cut
/ ting her throat and otherwise mutilating her
person with a knife, from the effects Of which
/ she now fingers on the verge of the grave.
/ several days ago Milton Cantrell, white.
| while under the influence of whisky, at
/ tempted to walk over the railroad trestle and
/ bridge across Broad river, near Blacks sta
/ tiOn in \ ork county. Losing his balance he
/ fell distance of forty seven feet. His head
struck a rock, from the conclusion of which
/ death was almost instantaneous.
! At meeting last week of the stockholders
I of the Chester Fair Association the following
officers were elected for the year: President,
] Gen. John BrattOn; Vice Presidents. Col. j. 5.
| BrattOu of Ork, Gen. j. b. Erwin of Lancas-
/ ter, Jesse II. Hardin of Chester, Mai r.
/ Woodward of Fairfield; Directors, K. T. At
1 kinson, K. \. Love, John II. Hardin, S. Moore
/ Wylie, W. ii. Nance; Secretary and Treasu-
/ rer. j. X. Henry.
/ The Ser Island Ne1cs. published at Beaufort,
I SAYS: ''SOme of the finest oranges raised in
/ the South are raised in this county, where the
| soil and climate is adapted to their growth.
/ We are in receipt Of fine specimens from the
/ grove of Mr.. DeGOlyer, on st, Helena Island,
! which takes the prize in the way of size,
/ wei ght and flavor. One of these weighs over
I pound, and he assures us that he has good
4 many equally as large in the crop gathered by
him this year,
The Orangeburg Times Gqd Democrat says:
] Barn burning Is becoming entirely to COM
/ mon in our country to be the result of acci-
dent, and rs much as we dislike to believe it,
| band of ineendiaries operating in concert in
this section. They must be hunted down and
/ brought to Justice. In the last month not less
I than five barns have been burned within our
borders, entalling heavy loss on the owners of
I them. Last week the Governor offered a re-
/ ward in four cases, and since then another
/ barn has been burned. What we need is a
strict enforcement of the law on these rascals
when caught, and the people all over the
country ought to organize to catch them. In
/ this way it can be stopped, and in no other
/ The remedy is with the people and they should