Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
SOUTH CAROLINA.

ally reported.
Lancaster people.seemed determined to
! have barloOms.
The Edgefeld Agricultural Society will
meet Wednesday.
Unusual mortality among horses pre-
walls in Edgefeld,
Much cotton remains in the fields
| around Mccormick.
Two prohibition violators were fined
| 500 each in Barnwell.
The railroad companies are building a
| large hotel at Florence.
A movement is on foot to reorganize
the old Lexington Guards.
! JOhntown promises good sum toward
building an iron highway.
Ten acres of land around Branchville
recently brought $50 per acre.
Numbers OF colOred people are leaving
| Fairfield county for Arkansas.
Merchants want representation in he
State Legislature from Barnwell.
Barnwell authorities promise good
streets and good order hereafter.
Barnwell has collected nearly $500 from
ordinance breakers since Sept. 26.
1t is proposed to extend the jurisdiction
Of the town of Beaufort so as to take in the
depot.
The Methodist church at Spartanburg
this year raised over $4,000 for church
purposes.
Canadian and Chinese orders are being
| filed by the Graniteville Manufacturing
Company.
Martha CASTOR, a colored woman of
| Chester county, fell dead on Dec. l as she
was praying.
D. noAdIfnO 1fCrrNW
around IN a kerosene can at 10 cents and
10 per drink.
An Episcopalian mission has been es-
tablished at Lexington. Services will be
held once a month.
The A., E. n. r. r. corporators have
been called by President Mitchell to meet
! in Edgeield, Dec. 81.
The Clinton bank building is nearly
completed. The bank will probably be
ready for business by Jan. 1.
r. II. Ross, of Darlington county, re-
Gently found turnip growing In his gar
den that weighed 15% pounds.
The tax books of OcOnee county have
been closed, leaving 800 or 600 delinquents,
representing only about 1,200.
Attempts to assassinate young Memphis
Culbreath, of Edgefeld, son of the party
recently lynched, are reported.
A merchant of Marion recently found a
rock weighing % pounds in a sack Of oats
that he had received from Texas.
The Columbia Register required two
DAYS in which to publish President CleVe-
lands extraordinary long message"
DR.. D. A. Cannon says that ne has
raised Sp nish tobacco in Newberry
county, and that it grows there to perfec-
ton.
Ford Knox, who killed viii Durant,
near Fort Mill, on Feb. 4, 1884, and fled
from justice, has been captured at Mon
roe, n. G..
Mayor folly, OF Anderson, has sent $40
to the Galveston sufferers A collection
was taken up at the churches on Thanks
giving day.
Pinckney Tindall, colored man, on
Nov. 30, killed bear in the Santee
swamp, in Clarendon county, that weigh
ed 800 pounds.
A canvasser is at work in Edgefield
county irving to raise $4,000 for the Au-
gusta, Edgefeld and Newberry Narrow
Guage Railroad.
Marx Barnett, colored, was arrested in
Charlotte, n. c., on Dec. 3, and charged
with the burning OF the depot at ROCK
Hill in March, 1884.
county this year 1,044 liens. aggregating
$47, 400, The largest amount ID for $500,
and the smallest is for S3 50.
The Sumter Library Association has
arranged fair TO be held on Dec. %. %
and "a, to raise money 10 establish Ii
brary and reading-room at sumter.
A tramp was furnished nights lodg-
ing in the guardhOuse at Winnsboro on
Dec. I. In return for the towns kindness
he attempted to carry of the blankets.
Sam Jackson. an escaped convict,
broke into the house OF Mr.. Harvey Rain
ev, of Greenyille county. He was found
by bloodhound and safely lodged in jail.
Al. Blackham. a white man Of Pick
ems. has been committed 10 jail for burn
ing the,house OF a cOlored woman. The
evidence against him is mostly oircum-
stantiakf Foh
Ann DuBose, Of Anderson county, has
been committed to jail for stahhing her
neighbor. Ida sewers Ida Sewers has
died. Jealousy was the cause Of the kill
ing. Both women were colored.
Mrs. Rachel Poore, of Anderson county,
was found dead I'm her bed on the morning
of Dec. .. She died OF paralysis OF the
heart. Her husband, sleeping by, ner side,
did not know that she was dead until he
awoke in the morning.
Daniel Mixson, colo ed, has purchased a
tract Of land from Joseph Ashley, Of -Four
Mile. Col. Ashley is the largest land
owner in Hatr@en county, owning nearly
90 600 here's. NILSSON is a thriving and
prosperous representative Of bis race.
A coodly num0Drof Beach Island farm,
ers have fnished cotton picking and
have sold as they gathered. Owing 20
continued rains throughout the fall the
quality OF cotton produced this season
has been OF a lower grade than last year
in that section.
A valuable discovery has been made ut
the phosphate works at Beaufort by some
of those employed there. who suffered
rom asthma. IL Is. that the fumes OF the
sulphurlc acid employed ia the manuiact-
IRE OF the fertilizer are a complete cure
fnr asthma. Two or three cures nave
taken place there.
A meeting to celebrate the ono hum
dredfh anniversary Of the south Carolina
Methodist Conference was heia ~ 'ee
Washington street Methodist churcn, ~
Columbia. Friday night. Ihis cnufch ~