Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-15

The Gilbert Hollow Meas, of May q,
publishes card signed by fOrtv-four
citizens and members OF st. PauFs
church, gsgretting the preparation of an
outrage upon the Rev. C. II Bernhein,
whose horse was shaved and buggy torn
| up and carried Off by unknown parties.
The extensive saw mill, together with
| the engine and machinery, belonging to
| Dratiin Bros, near the town of Lancas-
/ ter, was burned few nights ago. The
1re was causedby incendiaries, who satu-
| rated the building with Kerosene oil pre-
! paratory to applying the torch. The
authors of the crime have no. yet been
| apprehended.
| A colored child in the lower portion of
| Mayesvire township, Sumter county,
/ died on June 3under somewhat suspicious
| circumstances, many of the neighhors be-
| ing convinced that its death resulted from
a blow accidentally given il by it's father
while having a tisticutf with the mother.
Ii was finally determined that it died from
natural causes.
Judge Aldrich, in his charge to the
| Colieton grand jury last week, said that
| he was panied to see so many children
/ brought before the courts charged with
crime, many of whom should be punished
| at home instead of being disgraced by in
! generation In prisons. Tue necessity for
the establishment of refOrmatOry schools
became to him almost every day more ap-
| parent.
Berkeley Gazette: Henry Laurens,
whose ashes are buried at Mefkin planta-
ton, on the Cooper river, in Berkeley
county, was cremated. BY his will his
body was 10 be wrapped in twelve yards
OF tow cloth, and to be burned until it
was entirely consumed. This request
was literally complied with in the pres
ence OF many Of his friends. His ashes
were then collected, and, being deposited
In an urn, were placed in the family
sepulchre. W. n. Mitchell, who lived at
Fairfield" plantation, near BroughtOn
swamp, was also cremated. MANY years
before his death, which occurred in 1926, he
purchased his own coffin, which was of
iron, and kept it by HIM. After his death,
according to the instructions contained in
his will, his body was put in this coffin
and was consumed to ashes in it. 1t was
then properly secured and locked and the
key thrown into the middle of Cooper
river. There was another provision in
his will that his remains were not 10 re
buried, but to be placed somewhere above
ground in the woods, on two brick piles,
with brick enclosures around it. This
wish was complied with. His executors
placed his coffin in the pine land near his
former residence, about two miles west of
the 2S-mile stone on the Monck's Corner
road, where it may be seen at the present
day.
A sanguinary riot occurred on Sunday
at negro camp meeting at Mount Zion
Church, York county, about nine miles
from Yorkville. Whisky and a spirit of
rivalry between town and country ne
groes were at the bottom of the trouble.
The country darkeys had announced that
they did not desire the presence of the
town negroes at the meeting
putin on airs" and the town
negroes had boosted that they would
go down to Zion and teach the rural dar-
keYs lesson in etiquette. Besides the
knives and razOrs and cheap pistols
which go to make up the negrO's defen-
sive outfit, each party was well supplied
with whisky. The Zion wor-
shippers had sent messages to
the town negroes warning them not to
come to their meeting, as their presence
might create trouble, but the warnings
only increased the determination of the
town negroes to attend. Hardly had the
first town contingent arrived on the
ground before hOstilities began. The con-
hlct ragged for over an hour, Mt the end OF
which time the country negroes were in
| possession of the field and tbe town dar-
keys in full retreat. The Casualties, as
near as can be learned, were one man
killed, two men fatally wounded, and at
least twenty others more or less seriously
| injured. The meeting closed without the
formality of a doXOlOgy, and frightened
negroes of both sexes and all ages scam
pered of in every direction.