Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-14

Manuel Afford has been elected one of the
town marshals Of Marion.
out Of the tax levy for the town of Marion
only 70 remains unpaid to date.
Newberry has organized a musical club en-
bracing her best musical talent.
The Mount Carmel camp meeting. in Collie
ton county, VIII commence on Oct. 10.
The water supply at many of the mills and
gins IN Barnwell county is fast failing.
The state campaign meeting at Laurens
court house has been postponed to Oct. 81.
The Good Tcmplar organization now has
LOO members in Greenville county alone.
The cotton mill at Langley, Aiken county,
Is now giving employment to 80 extra hands.
Congressman John IL. Evins has returned
20 Hpartanburg from an extended Northern
tour.
Cotton pIckers are plentiful in Darlington
county, and get 40 to 50 cents per 100 pounds
for picking.
The Spur Branch hunters in BarnweIl
county have killed ten deer and caught four
teen foxes since the hunting season opened.
An effort is being made to organize a Ben
Butler club OF Aiken county. Several prom
inent Democrats are engaged in the move
ment.
Herrod Johnston, of Lancaster county,
saws that he stood in one place in his corn
Geld and touched 6S ears of corn with a four
foot stick.
ClOugh Garner broke into the house of John
Conner, in Union county. on Friday night last
and tried to Kill Conner, but was himself killed
by the latter.
The Southern Express Office at MOntmOrenci,
Aiken county, has been closed, the company
paying so small salary that the agent would
not keep the Office.
On L. /. PattersOn's place in Red Oak
township. Barnwell county, there is pair of
twins, colOred pigmies, IS months old, that
weigh respectively and pounds.
II is said ex-senator Callison. of Edgefeld,
VIII apply To the next Legislature for a char
ter Tor narrow gauge railroad from Augusta
TO NeWberry, NINety-slX or Greenwood.
Col. Robert Aldrich has been appointed by
the state Democratic Committee Presidential
eiectOr FOR the second district, to ill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Gen. Ha-
good.
The sixth annual fair Of the Chester, York,
fdlrneld ana Lancaster Agricultural, HOrti-
cultural and Mechanical a Association will omen
at Chester on Tuesday, Oct. 2S, and continue
four days.
AT a meeting of the Laurens bar last week
10 was determined to petition for an extra
term of court, TO begin on Tuesday after the
first Monday in December. There is no doubt
the petition viii be acceded to.
The EdistO Baptist Association, including
y churches in Aiken county, has adopted the
call for the County Prohibition Convention at
Aiken, on Oct. Is, and indOrsed the address
recently published as the official utterances of
that body on the question of temperance.
Two dogs, belonging to Campbell Sanders,
Of COlleton, We're caught mp by a cOwcatcher
the other day. while chasing a deer on the
track OF the Charleston and Savannah Rail-
way, and carried some hundred yards and
thrown OF without receiving any material in
jury.
DIR. r. r. Darwin left at the Office of the
Transcript, at Blacks, y NOrk county, the other
day for inspection, several specimens of gold
ore, which were gathered from the plantation
belonging TO himself and two brothers. The
plantation Is about eight miles from Blacks.
The ore is pronounced very rich. What little
is gathered of the surface of the earth is said
70 pay 81 per hand per dav.