Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Johnston is to have bank with 500, 900
capital.
There are 100 free schools in Spartan
burg county.
The Cheraw Exporter is born, with j. N.
Stricklin as editor.
The grapes in York county are said to
be rotting very rapidly.
The Methodist quarterly conference will
convene in Gaffney City on July %.
Abbeville is working up it's county
school for teachers to open July p.
Hampton county is growing fast in
wealth for a ne~vly formed territory.
Michael Burts and Joab Hall, old
citizens OF Anderson county, are dead.
There were four deaths from scarlet
fever in the town or Fort Mill last week.
Company G, Orr's Rifles, c. S. A., will
have reunion at Abbeville, on Aug. 7.
The Abbeville Rifles have made arrange
ments to go into camp on the Savannah
river for week.
The Rock Hill Herald says that there
are Al unmarried ladies and rs marriage
able men in that town.
Mccormick wants new county formed
of portions of Edgeteld and Abbeville,
with Mccormick as the county seat.
There are 40visitors at Glenn springs,
about three times the number that were
at the springs at this time last year.
On July 10 kiln, containing II 900 feet
of lumber, belonging to r. W. Draffin &
Co., of Lancaster, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire.
Three men who wanted the Walhalla
post office decided the matter by a prima-
ry election. The people will now recon-
mend the winner.
A YooiI ,-o1ta hoe boo,, -
tween Chesterfield and Huntsville, in
Darlington county. The carrier made
his first trip last week.
There will be a reunion of Company c,
Fourth South Carolina cavalry, on Aug.
l at Pickens Court House. All members
are requested to be present.
The Rev. H. L. Baggott, Of Giddy
Swamp, Aiken county, has a cat which
has adopted rabbit, and is rearing it
along with the rest of her litter.
Susan Crosby, colored, has been lodged
in the Lancaster jail, charged with killing
her infant child. The woman said she
buried the child, thinking that it had been
born dead.
Kit Hampton and Peggy Brunson were
killed by lightning in Clarendon county
Monday. Hampton was killed on A. W.
Thomas plantation, and Peggy Brunson
NJ. G. Stone, of Massachusetts, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Pacolet
mills, at Spartanburg, in place of Mr..
Joel Smith, who has been appointed Su-
perintendent of the King mills, at Au-
gusta, Ga.
The congregation of Cumberland A. NJ.
K. church, at Aiken, have seeded from
the African connection. IL has employed
the Rev. r. Winston Taylor to fill the
pulpit. and now styles itself the Independ-
ent Methodist Episcopal church.
The board of trustees of the Prosperity
high school elected Prof. A. S. Sheetz, of
Maryland, and a graduate of Pennsylva-
MIA Normal College, principal. W. d.
Simpson, DR., son of the Chief Justice,
was elected to ill the position of first
assistant.
The total receipts of the State Treasury
for May and June, 1884 and 1895, as ascer-
tanned upon inquiry at the Comptroller
Generals office, We're as follows: May,
1884, $37. 1874 80; May, 1885, $50 800 As;
June, 1854, $l67 469 80; Juno, 1885, Sl7S.-
4i0 70; total, 1884, $204,654 81; total, 1885,
S2lS,331 IS.
Gov. Thompson has pardoned Jesse
Douglass, cOlOred, who was convicted at
the September term of court, 1877, for
Chesterfield county of arson, and SEN
I'm the penitentiaTy for thirty years. Per-
jury on the part OF witnesses. whose testi-
mOny convicted him, was the ground on
which the pardon was obtained.
BY the direction OF Gov. Thompson
Supt. L. j. Lipscom6 sent DIR. Pope 20 the
convict camp on the Savannah Valley
railroad last Tuesday to ascertain the
general condition of the cOnvcts and 10
lind out whether their condition bad been
improved since the last visit paid to that
camp. He reports an Improvement in
various respects since bis last visit.
The resignation Of Gen. Edward Nc
Grady, Jr., commander Of the First d.
vision Of State volunteer troops, which
has been in the hands OF Gov. Thompson
for some time past, was accepted Tues
day. This VIII, in all probability, lead 20
the promotion Of Brig. Gen. James W.
Moore, who is the senior Brigadier Gene
raj Of the State volunteer troops Of that
division.
Secretary Holloway corrocts an erro-
neOus impression as 70 the number OF
delegates from each county 20 the agri-
cultural meeting at Bennettsville. He
says each county can send as many dele
gates as IL chooses, representing either an
agricultural society or grange. No dele
gates have been appointed by any OF the
county organizations from Edgefeld or
Aiken.
The Sinking Fund Commission has
about $4,000 on hand now which Il is uu-
able to invest IN the purchase Of State
bonds, because the bonds command so
high premium, and the commission has
established the rule Of buying at par, with
an allowance only for accrued interest.
Hereafter provision will have % be made
for the payment Of premium on the
bonds II extensive purchases are 10 be
effected.
A number OF the citizens Of Red Oak
township, with Leroy Molair and
W. NJ. Cone as managers Of the occasion,
aot apart last Wednesday as a day 81
general rejoicing ia view OF the splendid
crops In sight. The citizens assembled at
saltkohatohie Bridge, and there part0ok
OF an elegant barbecue, supplemented by
the more delicate Refreshments Of the sea-
son. Among the party were an editor
and several limbs OF the law.
The crops along the line OF railway from