Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-21

Putnam county will be represented at the
state republican Convention at st. Augustine
gy Ihe following delegates: II. r. Teasdale.
D. +. Ienney, Thomas Hind and W. II. Mann.
Green Cove Springs Spring: "The steamer
sylvester has departed for New York where
she viii be prepared for her summer business.
Inc HancOX has taken her place on the
route"
/. r. HapgoOd. who has recently located at
Otter Greek. will soon commence the manu-
facturc at that point of orange aud vegetable
crates. He proposes 10 make crates on the
same principle as those brought from Bangor.
Maine-cut thin.
AIauatee Pr0gress: ssThe dredge broke her
crane Monday. the eth. and was compelled TO
discontinue work. She is now lying at War
ner's, undergoing repairs. VIII probably be
at work by the 18th, and viii complete the
contract by the 22d."
Starke TelegraDh: "Work on the new NJ. f.
Church has commenced in good earnest and
in a few days more the frame will be up.
There Is nothing more certain now than that
sJarke VIII become famous for her schools
and churches. We have already the schools
well established and the erection and COM
pletiOn Of two handsome new churches is
only question now OF a brief space Of time"
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Col. John B. Palmer's land loan association
has advanced $4,000 to farmers in Lancaster
county.
Elijah Martin, of Anderson, has a basket
that was made in lS47, and has been in almost
constant use ever since.
The public schools in Anderson county gen
orally were closed the last of March. Some
of them viii he reOpened in july ard others
not until November, they having exhausted
their pro rata of public money.
J. NJ. Hagins and Essex Truesdel, of Ian
caster, commenced gardening the 2Sth OF
January, and now have cabbages in their
gardens twelve and a half inches across the
top. and their collards are thirteen inches
high.
NJ. b. Heller, of Anderson county, has in
vented a combination plOw which can be
easily changed so as TO use il as dOuble-f foot,
side harrow or cultivatOr. Experienced
farmers who examined 1t pronounce it to be
very superior plOw.
Capt, Wade II. Reed, of Barnwel county,
is a successful grower of peanuts. Last wear
he made - bushels to the acre. lie plants in
checks four by three and a half feet, manures
with 900 pounds Of wood ashes to the acre.
and cultvates just as ne does cotton.
Last January Miss Marion. OF Chester
county, went to Laurens to teach school. For
some unexplained reason She was anOnv-
mousiy ordered 10 leave town. She did not
go. Inceudarism was then resorted to bv
her enemies, and three school houses have
been burned. Rewards have failed to lead to
the arrest of the prosecutors, but the Young
woman continues teaching despite n recent
threat that the torch viii now give way to a
bullet.
The Wadesboro IateHigeneer saws: sAIr.
Coward, the hapiess victim of Cash's random
shooting still fingers on the verge of the Un-
known, with no possible chance of recovery
and with no immediate prospect Of removal
To another scene of existence. His eNtremi-
lies, and IN fact his entire body below the
wound. continue paralyzed. with no improve
ment. The wound. at the points where the
ball entered his body and where it was cut
ont, has healed over and seems healthy but
there are several black looking bed sores on
his person which portend no good. Strange
as lt may appear, the unfortunate man is most
cheerful. and gives expression to no word Of
complaint at his ill-fate or of malice toward
the murderOus hand which reduced him to
hls present condition. Col. Cash, it is said. is
exceedingly sOlicitOus and attentive to the
wants OF the sufferer, and it is said will bear
all the expenses consequent upon his Illness"