Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-21
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Ihe pupllc roads IN Orangeburg county are
in dreadful condition.
An alligator three feet long was captured
near Camden last week.
Charlotte Cant, a cOlOred KQman, said to be
les years old. died in BarnWen last week.
The sixty first annual meeting of the Able
Vile District Bible Society will be held on
July 30.
swimming in Little river, Abbeville county,
on sunday last.
\ New England syndicate has signed the
contract for building the road from GafIney's
To RutherfOrdton.
Mai. John d. Adams, of COkesbury Able
vile county, is about 90 years of age. He is
hale and hearty, without pain or an ache.
Mrs. Drucilla Aiken, of Abbeville, who has
lived to see five generations, is now over 90
years of age. with mental faculties unimpared
and her physical condition excellent.
A petition has been sent to the Post Office
Department asking that Beaver Pond Office,
in Lexington county, be reopened at the old
Harmon HuttO place, with Mr. Columbus
HuttO as Postmaster.
A cOlOred boy called SOrely Is years of age,
preferring death to work, committed suicide
at Alendale, Barnwell county, on Tuesday
by shooting himself in the stomach because
his mother had aDprenticcd him to p. B. Nc
knight, carpenter.
On July Mr.. John Gregory. of EdgeGeld,
through mistake, gave his little daughter,
aged Il wears, dose Of morphine for quiuine
He had purchased II for quinine from cOun-
try store. and. without noticing the label on
the bottle, administered it freely.
Newberry Herald: About a month ago
Il year old white girl in No. 10 township gave
birth to a child Of mixed blood. and last
Saturday party Of forty white men visited
the house of Jim kinard, cOlOred, the reputed
father Of the child, gave him two hundred
lashes and told him tOleave the county, which
proposition he acceded to.
Bishop Turner, OF the 4. NJ. f. Church,
spent last sunday in Abbeville. In the morn
ing he attended preaching in the Methodist
Church where. over forty years ago, he was
baptized and received into the church. At
night he preached in the cOlOred Methodist
Church. Several Of the white citizens went
10 hear him, and they all spoke highly Of his
sermon.
The following figures show the earnings of
the railroads running into Spartauburg, for
the month OF May. as compared with Nav of
last year: Asheville and Spartanburg, 1888,
S2.422 Il; 1884, $2,s62 L: decrease $50. Ashe-
vile and Charlotte, 1888, $7l,992 5S; 1884,
S72,SlS 63; increase 81 ,S26. SpartanbuTg, Union
and Columbia, 1883, $4,9i5 81; 1884, s4,6l7 %;
decrease S42S 20.
Mnlie Miller. cOlored, was drowned in
Sugar Greek, in Indian Land township. in
Lancaster county, on Saturday last. Mille
was on a visit to some relatives in that
county, and on Saturday afternoon started to
return TO her home in York county. The
creek was very high, and it is supposed that
she fell from or was washed of the log on
which she attempted to cross.
The subscribers to the telephone in George
town having refused to contribute to pay the
expense of renting an Office and the salary of
q person 10 manage the central station. the
telephones now in use viii probably be taken
down and our merchants deprived Of the use
OF this valuable adjunct to their business.
There are seven telephones rented here, and
they yield an annual revenue of $3.50 TO the
Telephone Company.
On last Wednesday the assignee of Mrs. B.
Mlchalowssi. of Georgetown, declared a final
to the previous dividend Of p per cent, makes
a total percentage of so 22-l00 paid to the
creditors Of the estate. The total amount Of
liabilities was S9,637 IS; assets $S,549 %. The
expenses OF the assignment, including COM
missions were 1886 L., leaving. as the net as
sets, the sum OF S2,9i3 35 for division among
the creditors.
The annual meeting of the stockholders Of
the Georgetown Rice Milling Company was
held on Monday afternoon. The following
officers were elected to serve the ensuing
year: President. +. W. Hazard; Directors,
II. kaminski. &. X. CongdOn. W. Nj. Haz-
zard. b. a. Munnerlin. X. +. Fraser and r.
Ton LOwndes. Mr.. Geo. X. COngdOn was
elected superintendent at a salary of $4,000.
No dividend was declared. 1t is expected
| that this year the toll on all rice pounded at
| the mill viii be fixed at ten cents per bushel,
instead of per cent. on the turnout of the
| rice.
After a suspension OF about a year. work
/ has been again resumed on the SummervIlle
I
was made at the last session OF Congress. the
/ exact amount OF which Is not, however. defin-
itely known. but In the opinion OF Mai. ar
dell. the superintendent OF the farm, 1t VIII
\ b sufficient to meet the present pressing ne
/ cessiliess The area under cultivation Il about
/ six acres. and Notwithstanding the difficult
l ties under which the enterprise has lab0red,
I the plants have attained an average height of
\ about three feet. At present the crop is al
/ most chOked with grass and weeds. TO the re-
/ moval Of which the work is now being direct =
/ ed. IL IS understood that Senator Butler and
| Congressman Aiken have expressed them
/ selves favOrably in regard to the support of
| the enterprise.
Charleston Nelcs aud Courier: For several
months the people OF Greenwood, South Caro-
I the Office Of Postmaster at that place and who
/ should fill it. Lewis Waller, an oficious and
! impudent negro, was appointed Postmaster
| some time ago, but could not give the requisite
| bond The question has been settled at last,
| however, by the removal OF DR.. F.. q. Parks
I and the appointment of Il. Z. Tolbert. Toll
bert = not a resident of Greenwood. Is about
| twenty-five yeaFsOI age, and is Republican
I DR.. Parks was appointed Postmaster at Green
| wood in ISL. At the beginninanpf the war he
| resigned. After its close the Zee was again
I rendered to him, provided he would take the
iron-clad oath, which he positively refused tC
do. There was a man who did take it by per-
inring himself, and in a short time he wai
aeiaulter 10 the amount Of Sl,500. The de-
partment again offered DR.. Parks the Office
through special agent, to whom he replied
i VIII take the Ofhee. but not the OATH
Having implicit confidence in his honesty anC
ability he received the appointment ANYHOW
ana has held II up to the present time Not.
wIthstanding he has grown gray in the service
ana IS now too old and afflicted to practice hi
profession. and IS possessed Of only limited
means, yet he will not accept position a
assistant nor clerk under Tolbert, both O
which be has refused.