Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-14
SOUTH CAROLINA.


A negro hackman in Port Royal has
two wives, one white and the other col
ored.
On sept. ! the Southern Express Com
pRny commenced the free delivery system
in Anderson.
The Piedmont Association will meet at
Mountain Springs church, in Anderson
county, on Tuesday, Sept. %.
w. A. Carnes, of Lancaster, recently
hsd about 60 feet square of patch OF
cotton completely killed by lightning.
Judge Kershaw will preside at the next
term of court for Lancaster, which con-
Venes the fourth Monday in this month.
During the cotton season beginning
Sept. !, 1884, and ending Aug. 81, 1885,
1854 bales of cotton were shipped from
Anderson.
The Anderson Military School opened
on Tuesday, Sept. l, with fifty students.
and the next day the number was in
creased to sixty.
Gen. j. g. Davant, of Barnwell, has re-
signed his position as Brigadier General
Of the Third brigade, South Carolina
volunteer troops.
r. S. Galloway has one of the largest
brick kilns ever burnt in AbbeYille coun-
ty. There are 10000 brick in it, and it
has sixteen eyes.
The Board of COuncilmen OF Newberrv
mas passed an ordinance requiring that
all births and deaths that occur in the
town shall be registered.
Henry George, who resides near Car
ter's post office, COlletOn county, picked
a peach from one of his trees measuring
10 inches in circumference and 4 inches
in diameter.
Col. T. j. Moore, OF Spartanburg
county, has about thirty-five acres planted
In tobacco, and says that thus far it has
given him no more trouble than an equal
arceage of cotton.
The election in Kershaw county last
Tuesday for Representative TO I'LL the
uneXpired term of Mr. BOykin resulted In
the choice of Z. Ii. Nelson, bis name being
the only one presented to the people.
The Agricultural Department has re-
county, a curiosity in a section Of a sweet
gum tree showing the union of the two
nam branches after wide separation.
One of the agricultural reports from
Berkeley county gives the rate OF wages
at l5c. a day with and 25c. day without
rations. The average rate for the county
is 4Sc. for men and 38c. for women, with
out board.
John Miller, of Lancaster, has on exhi-
bitiOn an egg which measures 81 inches
In circumference one way and inches the
other. The egg weighs 80 ounces, which
is One-twelfth as much as the hen weighs
that laid it.
Joseph A. McEschern has eight acres
a mill pond of the finest rice ever seen
in Marion county. 1t will average six
feet high, is well headed, aud good judges
estimate that it will yield from so to 100
bushels per acre.
The Adjutant and Inspector General has
returned from Edgefield county, where
he inspected the Edgeneld Hussars and
Edgeheld Rangers. He found them well
mounted, uniformed, equipped and drilled
and credit to the State. The inspection
was the most satisfactory in the cavalry
service ne has ever made in the State
militia.
The subscribers to the Columbia tele-
phone exchange are generally indignant
at the attempt of the exchange to in
crease its annual charge for telephones
from $50 TO $50. The exchange now has
over 100 subscribers, and the original ones
understood that when the 100 mark was
reached rates would be reduced. In
stead Of this, there has been almost an
annual increase.
A cOlored fisherman named S. NJ. Cork
er, while fishing on the banks between
Forts Sumter and johnson, Friday,
hauled up on his line human skull. 1t
was taken to Charleston and turned over
to g. q. Leslie, for whom COrker fishes.
Mr.. Leslie presented it to the college mu-
scum. One-half Of the skull is petrifed.
and the whole of it is in good state of
preservation. 1t was probably the skull
of one OF the numerous soldiers who were
buried on Morris island during the war,
and was probably washed into the river
by the recent cyclone.