Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-14

~ Eorcst tires did great damage in the state
last week. The destruction of dwellings bv
nre was also exceedingly great.
Col. George W. Croft is authoritativelv an
nounced as a candidate for Congress from the
! the second Congressional District.
/ The colOred people Of EdgedeId village are
/ thoroughly aroused on the temperance ques-
/ ton, aud viii vote for prohibition to-day.
Thomas Kennedy. Of Laurens county. has a
! pocket knife which was brought from Ireland
! tWenty-siN years ago. 1t is good knife yet.
/ The County Commissioners of kershaW
/ have settled the old Wateree Free Bridge
! debt bv paying 1896 on the notes and bonds
| which have been taken mp and cancelled.
! Manager Barron viii reliuquish the manage
l ment Of the Academy Of Music at Charleston
I shortly. and be- succeeded bv John E. Owens,
/ the owner of the theatre and celebrated actor.
I 7. +. Richardson, while out hunting near
/ Wedgeheld, sumter county. with some friends
last week. found six Young foxes under an old
| tombstone. He carried two home and gave
I them TO a cat, which straightway adopted
I them.
The largest purchase OF cotton which has
/ been made IN Columbia since the war was
effected Thursday bv D. Crawford q Sons
[ They bought from one man $50 bales' at III I
cents round, the cash paid being about
$4,000.
The Charleston Presbytery has been in
session at summerville for several days past
After an animated debate on the question of
admitting negroes as members of the church
! the question was virtually decided in the
negative.
Judge WitherspOOn has handed down de-
cision holding that Charleston is liable for the
fire loan bO8ds" authorized in 1866 and paw
ment Of which was lately demurred to on the
/ ground that the issue of the bonds was un-
| constitutional.
At Society Iill Friday the wife Of Timmons
/ Aston. colored. left her house to get wood and
/ locked in three children. aged months, 3 and
/ + years. In q few minutes the house was on
na rh ro.Nt 10,
/ gether with everything else in the building.
negro woman who was injured some
! time ago by falling bin board al the Green
/ vile opera house brought suit for $4,000 dam
! ages against BeltOn Gilreath. the manager Of
! the opera house. She settled the case the
other day for ten dollars. which was paid to
| her by 4lr Gilreath.
Lieut.. Henry T. Thompson, who has since
/ the reorganiZatiOn of the State Military
Academy at Charleston. filled the position Of
assistant professor at the Citadel, in cOnse-
! quence OF Ill health, has been compelled to
tender his res lgnatiOn. and il has been ac-
I cepted. He viii probably practice law at
| Darlington.
The Newberry O5sercer has published a
statement of the convictions secured at the
spring terms of the Sessions Court in the
/ several counties of the seventh Circuit in
1888 and 1884, respectively, from which it con-
/ ciutes that crime is on the increase in that
/ circuit, and that there is little hope that the
colored people are improving their opportuni-
The United States Circuit Court convened
at Charleston Thursday, Judges Bond and
BRYAN being OH the bench. District Attorney
Melton handed to the grand jury bills of in
dictment against Absalom A. Blythe late
United states Marshal; Albert ID. Phillippv.
late United States Deputy Marshal of this
cIty- and against James Turner and Charles
W. Cummins. eX-United States Deputy Mar
| shals of Plckens county The indictments
all charge a violation OF section 543S of the
Revised Statutes of the United States viz:
Presenting and causing to be presented false
! fictitious and fraudulent. claims against the
| United states Government while acting as
United states marshal and United States
Deputy Marshals in the State of South
Carolina. The grand jury had made no report
up to the hour Of adjournment.
In the Court of Common Pleas at Columbia
saturday the jury in the case of Lipscomb,
superintendent, vs.. Seegers, after being out
three quarters of an hour. brought in 4 YER
diet for the defendant. There may be an ap-
peal. The action was one brought bv
I. J. LlpscOmb. as superintendent of the
penitentl2ry against Mr.. John &. Secgers. of
this city. Mr. Seegers was the lessee Of thirty
c0nvicts during the year 1879. Five Of these
convicts escaped, and the plaintiff alleged
That the defendant, having negligently al
lowed their escape, became bound for penal
I ties OF Sl.l00, as provided by law, which
amount was sued for. The case was first heard
at the March term. 1882. The iurv found for
the pialntin for some of the escapes. An ap-
peal was had to the Supreme Court. and the
case was sent back for a new trial This was
jury Iallcd to agree upon verdict. The trial.
| which ended saturday, was the third which
the case has undergone, and this is probably
not the end of it.