Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-28
SOUTH CAROLINA.

A board of trade has been organized in
Spartanburg, with Geo. COheld as presi-
dent.
Between Sept. 1. 1884. and Sept. 1, 1885,
10, 592 bales of cotton were sold in Ian
caster.
The site has been selected and the plan
laid out for an academy at Mccall, MARI
boro county.
The regular meeting OF the Kershaw
County Medical Society will be held in
Camden on Oct. 10.
A Mr.. Reynolds, of Edgefeld county,
has peach tree which this year has borne
two crops Of fruit.
A trial justice in York county has de-
cided that stealing watermelons from the
vine is not larceny.
Col. j. @. Marshall, OF Columbia, will
deliver the address at the army reunion
at Anderson next week,
A cOlOred man in Anderson has raised a
sweet potato "a inches in circumference
and weighing % pounds.
Mrs. A. r. RADON, OF West w ateree, has
80 grandchildren, and Mrs. John Hinson
has 81, all of them living and in good
health.
The amount Of fines imposed in Marion
during the year 1884 was $52 30 against
1851 65 for 1888, the last year OF the ''wet"
regime.
Bamberg is getting to be something of
a cotton market. There were about $50
bales shipped from there last Friday and
Saturday.
Mr.. w. G.. Smith, OF Anderson county,
from One-sixteenth OF an acre expects 70
make about 100 pounds of good tobacco,
which at % cents a pound, would be
worth S25.
OcOnee, Anderson, and Pickens, the
counties formed out OF old Pendleton dis
trict, have challenged the rest Of the State
for 500 TO surpass them in any exhibit OF
colts under three years old.
Capt. b. K. TiIlman and w. l.. burst
have been appointed as Commissioners
for Edgefeld county at the exhibit OF the
State Agricultural Society at Charleston,
opening on Nov. %.
gentleman OF Columbia will prepare
bill 10 be introduced in the Legislature
providing that all legal hangings in South
Carolina shall be done within the walls Of
the penitentiary by regular execu-
toner, TO be elected or appointed.
There were four applicants for the ca
detship appointment 10 the Citadel from
Colleton, j. NJ. Patterson, b. II. Whitsell,
A. II. Carter and j. Il. Padgett. The
former received it, with only 22-40 differ
ence between him and young Whitsell.
A little child OF Mr.. David McNab, OF
Aiken. was recently found playing under
the house with huge rattesnake, which
had encircled the little toddler's BODY,
but did no injury. The reptile was after
ward killed and found 10 have 10 rattles
and button.
Master Luther Smith, aged 10 years,
son Of j. l.. smith, Of Saluda, picked 1,22I
pounds OF cotton in five and one-half days
last week. an average OF 222 pounds a
day. Levi Britps son Willie and col
Ored boy picked together In one day last
week CAT pounds, In Edgefeld county.
Asa coincidence in the death on Tues
day evening last, OF Mr.. j. M. Henley and
his son, William Henry, both OF whom
lived In Chester county, II may be men,
toned that In 1861 the widow OF j. N.
Hefiley buried her first husband, John
Ferguson and two children in the same
grave, all having died on the same day.
Gov. Thompson has pardOned Wylie
Steel. oolOred, who was convicted at the
February term OF court, 1885, for Lam
caster county, Of assault and battery with
intent to Kill, and sentenced BY Judge
Aldrich TO two years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. The petition for Steers
pardon was signed by many OF the lead
ing citizens In tho community Ia which
he lived.
Alta meeting OF the creditors Of J. NJ.
wv a Co., Of Rock Hill, a resolution vast
adopted that the assignee and agent be
instructed 10 sell the residence Of Mr.. Ivy
and an It's contents, together with nine
aud hall acres Of land adjacent 10 The