Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-13

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The Anderson county Sunday school
conference OF the Methodist Church will
be held at Providence church on July %
and 80.
The real estate and personal property of
The United States Electric Illuminating
Company of Charleston was sold at auc-
ton Tuesday.
William Laugford has made n contract
for the erection of a large cotton ware
house at Newberry, to be finished in time
Tor the next season.
The next annual meeting of the Lau-
rens county Sunday school convention
VIII be held at Chestnut Ridge church Oh
Wednesday, July y.
A meeting of the survivors of compa-
MES Z and | Of the Twelfth regiment, S.
| =. ", Will be held at the court house in
Winnsboro ON July IL.
The Rev. II. l.. Baggott. OF Giddy
swamp, Aiken county, has cat which
mas adopted rabbit and is raising it
along with the rest OF her litter.
The Edisto Rifles have received their
new Springfield rifles, forty stands, to-
gether with complete outfit Of new
equipments and accOutrements.
Charley McFall, who resides in Fish
Pond township. Barnwell county, went
killed SIX mudfsh weighing 80 pounds.
1t is proposed by the Camden Journal
to have the census of that town taken aud
| placed under the cornerstone of the new
opera house for matter of interest to
| succeeding generations.
The members of the Roman Catholic
church in Darlington contemplate erect
ing chapel. 4 considerable amount of
money has been subscribed, and a suit
able lot is being looked for.
The Board of County Commissioners of
Clarendon county met recently and paid
out % per cent. of the ordinary county
claims of last year. This puts about $500
in circulation and leaves about$l 800 still
due on last years claims.
william Rivers, of Mount Croghan
township, Chesterfield county, is over
80 years of age, and is still very active
for man of his years, and has every
tooth that he ever had, save one, and all
In perfect state Of preservation.
President Duncan, of the State Fair AS.
ISOLATION, has been invited to deliver an
address at the annual convention Of the
State Agricultural Society of Alabama,
which will be held at the State Aqricul-
tural and Mechanical College at Auburn
on Aug. 3.
Since Jan. / the Rev. X, Carroll,
| cOlOred, has received 10 new members
into his new charge at Greenvllle, Barn
well county, built parsonage that cost
| $500 and furnished 1t handsomely. His
congregations on Sunday nights average
over 1000 hearers.
James Hutchinson, well-to-dO. cOlored
farmer. was killed on Edisto island, July
| + by Fred. Barth, a stOrekeeper. Barth
! put in an appearance at a cOlOred picnic
and was ordered to leave by Hutchinson.
| In rough and tumble fight that folio wed
/ the negro was shot and killed.
The oldest man in Kershaw county is a
| negro named Ned English, who formerly
/ was the slave of Benjamin Perkins.
! father of the late Charles and BENJAMIN
/ Perkins. He has lived for three-fourths
! of a century within nine miles of Cam
| den, and is about lilo years old.
| A lady died last week in No. IL town
| ship who had lived all her life, about 80
! years, within mile of Ashford ferry
! She haG never been to the ferry, and had
| never seen railroad and had been to
| Newberry court house only once. She en-
| ioyed ordinarily good health, but had no
desire to so about.
Henry Brit, young lad of Barnwell,
owns a large hog, which he has trained to
draw a cart made TO suit his size. He
uses him to amuse his fathers children
| bushels mile and half distant; besides,
the hog is under perfect control, and has
been taught many amusing tricks.
The Charleston collectorship case is
| about to come to a head. The appoint
I meut may be made in day or two. The
| President has called for all the papers on
| file bearing on this matter. At the
| Treasury Department it is said that Sena-
tor Hampton has strongly recommended
/ Theodore d. Jervey as compromise
man, and the latter will probably be CON-
missiOned.
S. T. SnOddy, of Pickens, who shot a
| young man named AddingtOn in that
/ county several months ago and fed. has
died ia Louisville, Ky. His father, r. p.
SnOddY, had succeeded in settling the case
with young AddingtOn, who has recOy
cred from his wound, and had gone to
! Kentucky to bring his son home, but
/ reached there only in time to see him die.
1 The remains will be brought back.
! Supt. LipscOmb has completed the
! granite work of 1870 of the $50 cells of the
new prison building at Columbia, and
! that section will soon be ready for roofing.
/ There is no money available at present,
| however, for the purchase of roofing.
| Thirty stOnecutters are at work getting
| out granite to finish theremainder of the
! building, which is much needed on ac-
count Of the crowded condition of the in
! sttutlon.
The walls of the new factory building
at the penitentiary at Columbia have been
| completed, and the iron roof is now being
/ put on. The structure is built into the
west wall of the yard, and contains two
/ full stories, basement and an attic. II
is 100 feet long by go feet wide. The
| Columbia hosiery mill has engaged the
/ building with the exception OF the base
ment, and viii soon move into it. Two
! hundred and twenty-five hands can be
| worked in il.
The arrangement TO have a union insti-
! tute tor the white teachers Of the counties
/ OF Chester and Fairfield, TO come of this
/ summer at the former place, has been
I abandoned, owing to the fact that the
/ commissioners have been unable TO secure
! the services OF principal. There will,
/ therefore, be no institute this year In
/ either county for white teachers. The
/ cOlOred institute Tor Fairfield county will
be held at Winnsooro some time in Au-
! gust, and viii be under the charge OF Prof.
Dart, of Columbia.
At Columbia Arthur Hayes, a member
OF the legislature from Fairfield county,
is suing Policeman Clarke and Mr.. z. l..
Hitler for $4,000 for false imprisonment.
Several months ago MIR. Hayes came TO
Columbia with drove of cattle. In that
drove there was cow which he had
| bought from negro several weeks before.