Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27
sOurH CAROLINA

There are 81 pupils in the Newberry Female
Academy.
The free schools in Newberry county will
open Nov. 10.
The Baptist State Convention will meet at
Marion on Nov. 20.
The public schools in Kershaw county will
be opened ON Nov. 3.
The woods in Darlington county have been
on fire the past week.
The delinquent town taxes Of Newberry
amount to about Sl,O,O.
Three -fOurths of the cotton in Marion
county has been picked out.
The Southern Express Company has estab-
iished an Office at Georgetown
Barnes is the name of a new post Office re-
Gently established IN Marion county.
The Palmetto Lumber Mills at Georgetown
will be put in operation in few days.
Thousands of wild geese have come South to
spend the winter on the Wateree river, near
Camden.
There are lOI public schools in Lexington
county this scholastic year, with total num-
Der Of 1901 pupils.
A little negro, while playing near the depot
at kingstree last week, was run over by the
freight train and both legs cut OF.
George McDunie, a negro, was killed on oct.
81. at Mr.. ID. W. Alderman's mill near Null
Inns, in Marion, by being caught in band
wheel.
J. NJ. Adams, a dealer in tInware and house
furnishing gOOls at 1Orkvllle, made an as
tlAUllEuk ttAs AZ 10 u W - AAdIhs III AdNuI hl
all his creditors. His liabilities are not large.
John Z. jenkins, Of Pickens county, while
going home from Anderson on Saturday last
was thrOwn from the mule he was riding, and
30 seriously injured that he died on Saturday
night.
The schooner William F. Marscher was
launched at Port Royal on Wednesday. 1t
was built by Capt. Z. w. Duval, and IS 20 feet
long. IA feet beam. feet depth OF hold and
viii register about 90 tons.
vasr old SON of Mr. John W. A POr-
ter, OF Lancaster, put cookie burr into his
mouth last week, and while talking acciden-
tally sucked il into his windplpe. lt was ne
cCssary 70 cut his wlndpipe open TO get 1t out.
The total collections Of taxes in ork cOun-
ty Oct. 20 aggregated S45,927 90, OF which
amount SlO,ilO 80 was paid during the May
collection. The amount yet unpaid is So, 242
-. and the number of receipts yet to issue is
about 2,oOO.
The Halle gold mine, in Lancaster county,
already the most extensively worked mine in
south Carolina. North Carolina or Georgia,
viii, during the next feW months, ada ISO,OOO
tons OF new machinery to its present capacity.
It Will give employment 10 about $50 miners.
One night last week a negro named Nose
Burris, living near Yorkville. attempted to
kill his wife by shooting her with pistol, and
inflicted a wound on her chin The next night
he repeated the attempt, this time inflcting
flesh wound with'a pistol ball in her arm. He
has not yet been arrested.
The students of the Greenville Female Col
Iel-e have appeared in their new winter uni
forms. The dress Is made of blue black cash
mere, and has plated skirt with Overskirt
and basque. 1t has a vest front OF velvet.
The hats are high crowned and trimmed with
velvet. The gloves are Of tan color.
Nearly 80 gin houses must have been de-
stroved by fire in different parts OF the State
within the past eight or ten days. consid-
erable quantity of cotton. cotton seed and
other property also consumed. The
total loss will aggregate many thousand
dollars, on which the insurance Will not eN-
coed Oue-fifth.
While Jack Adams, colored, of Cokesbury,
Abbcville county, aged about u years, was
lighting a lamp last saturday night, IL eN-
plOded-the cause of the explosion being
small sized wick in large sized burner, the
blaze passing down and igniting the gas in the
lamp. The oil was scattered over his clothing,
and he was so badly burned that he died in
few hours.
The Brewer Normal school for colOred chill
dren at Greenwood, Abbeville county. is un-
der the control Of the American Missionary
Society. and is chiefly a normal school for the
training Of cOOred teachers. There are usu-
ally about lbs pupils in attendance, and about
half of whom are being prepared for the bust
ness of teaching. Prof. j. ID. Backenstose, of
New York. has had charge Of the school since
its organization thirteen years ago.
The work OF dredging out the channel at the
mouth of Samplt river VIII be inaugurate in
a few weeks. The depth Of water on this
| ehOal never exceeds nine feet at mean low
tide and loaded vessels are at present COM
pelled TO lie inside the harbor until high tide
/ before attempting TO pass ont into the bay.
| The removal of this obstruction to navigation
/ will be Of great advantage to the shipping in
| tercsts Of Georgetown. Lieut.. Reid WhitfOrd
| will have the supervision OF the WORK.
! Last sunday Jack KilgOre, colored, was shot
! and verv danCerouslv wounded by Startling
/ Baldwin, also cOlored, in Sullivan township
4 Laurens county. The two met at sunday
/ school, both being youths OF about Is.
/ There Is said to have been an old grudge, but
| NilgOre seems to have forgotten it, as he
/ walked up to Baldwin in a friendly way and
/ jOkingly jerked a handkerchief from the outer
/ breast pocket OF his coat. Baldwin imme
/ diately drew a pistol and shot KilgOre. the
/ ball penetrating the lower part Of his abdo-
/ men, inflicting wound which will probably
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