Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
SOUTH CAROLINA.

No license Is required for selling melons
in the Newberry market.
The Newberry cotton mill has cotton
enough on hand to run it until September.
During the month of June 266 bales of
cotton were shipped from the depot at
Chester.
The Piedmont Elders and Deacons'
Association will meet on Aug. at Pick
ems Court House.
During the year ending June 80
there were % deaths in Camden-white IL,
colOred 10.
CONGRESSMAN Tillman has awarded the
naval cadetship to Marcus A. Stokes, of
Hampton county.
The survivors of the Palmetto sharp
shooters of Anderson talk of making
pilgrimage to Manassas.
Allen Penn, former slave of Judge
ONeall, died in Newberry county last
week at the age of so years.
A Newberry county man found pre-
served frog in mOlasses barrel that he
had purchased at Prosperity.
The officers OF the Richland Volunteers
are working 10 get up an interstate prize
drill in Columbia next May.
Two young hunters in Newberry county
went hunting one day last week and killed
II squirrels in ii shots.
An effort is being made to have bridge
built across the Little Pee-Dee river at
Kinds ferry in Marion county.
The citizens OF Darlington are forming
company for the Improvement of the
Darlington Tallulah mineral springs.
There will be reunion of company G,
Fourth South Carolina cavalry, on Sat
urday, Aug. !, at PIckens Court Rouse.
A new line of United States mail from
Bambergt to BrunsOn has been established,
and the mail now arrives twice week.
During the past six years $54,925 has
been expended in building improvements
in the town of Prosperity, NewDerry
county.
The survivors of company F, Twenty
fourth regiment, S. G. ", Will have a re-
union in Anderson county some time
during the present summer.
A homing pigeon that was turned loose
in Spartanburg on June 20, for flight to
Philadelphia, was captured IN Chester
county by W. IL. Wylie last week.
Fl. NJ. Jones. white citizen of Green
vile county, mas been committed to jail
for live days in default Of So line
and cOsUs for neglecting to work the pub
lie road.
There will be reunion of company X,
OrT's regiment, at HOnea Path on Aug
Is. Addresses will be delivered by Judge
j. 5. COthran and Hon. John b. Moore, of
Anderson.
The tables indicating the relative fire.
quency Of consumption in 32States OF the
Union prove South Carolina to have fewer
deaths from this dread disease than any
State except Georgia
The Democratic executive committee OF
kershaw county VIII meet on Aug. TO
.glgs AZ la Z ha fags
Legislature, caused by the resignation Of
Col. 4. Miller Boykin.
During the six months ending June 30
only sixteen persons were arrested by the
Camden police. OF this number seven
served terms in the station-house and
eleven paid fines amounting 70 S34.
Ellis Major, a c0lored boy, while bath.
ing In Cochran a. Burrss' millpond, on
Generostrse creek, in Rock Mills town
ship, Anderson county, on July 10, was
drowned. He got into deep water and
sank before his companions could reach
him.
The Rev. Henry Jones, a colored preach
er. of Horny county, was Indicted last
week on charge of cruelty % animals,
plead gullty.and was fined SO and cost or
thirty days in jail. He paid up. This is
the first case OF this kind ever tried in
Horny county.
Candice Alsobr0ok, very old colored
woman living on the plantation Of Mr.. u.
n. Redfean, NJ Chesterfield, while sitting
in the door Of her house very early ON the
morning Of July 20, suddenly fell back.
wards and died almost instantly. The
cause was no doubt heart disease.
The report that there are 40 cases Of
fever among the operatives OF the New
berry cotton mills Is quite n mistake.
There are only or Z cases, and none OF
these are considered serious. Out OF a
population Of $50 this Is quite a small
proportion-only about ? per cent.
During a thunder storm IN williams
burg county on Monday, July 20, light
ming struck kit Hampton and the mule
he was blowing with, killing both IN
stantly. This was on A. w. Thames