Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-01
souTH CAROLINA.

closing at 6 p. IN.
The turpentine business is booming at
Pine Plains, Colleton county.
The picnic and tournament of the Horny
Hussars will come off on July 4.
Joseph NJ. Ward, of Clinton, is an appli-
cant for the consulship at Jamaica.
An effort Is being made to drain the low
lands on Fair Forest near Spartanburg.
There is now but one barroom in Edge
field county, and that is at the county
seat.
j. W. Seigler, of Ridge Spring, ships
$4,000 feet of lumber from that place every
week.
r. E. Foster is missing from Spartan
burg with nearly $4,000 in borrowed
money.
Opposition to the removal of the Aiken
passenger depot to the freight depot still
continues.
There are now 500 patients in the luna
tic asylum, against $50, the maximum
number last year.
A Greenwood man the other day sand
papered the horns of an old COW and sold
her for young one.
Business is phenomenally dull in
Georgetown, and there is no prospect Of
its revival before fall.
Some of the best stands of cotton and
corn in the State are to be found around
Simpsonville, Greenville county.
The Governor has appointed John II.
Pearson, of Columbia, Judge of Probate,
vice Judge Mcdonald, deceased.
Representative Padgett. of WATERFORD,
has four acres of corn from which he ex-
poets to realize yield of6O bushels to the
acre.
Barnwell's crop of nut grass is sufi-
GENTLY large for all the gOphers of LeXng-
ton county to Craze on for the next six
months.
There have been 1922 liens filed and in.
deXed in the Clerks office Of Edgefeld
county this year. Last year the total
number filed was 2,47S.
VIC. Benet, of Abbeville, has accepted
the invitation to deliver the Grafton before
the Winyah Indigo Society at its next an
niversary meeting in May, 1885.
James G. Calhoun, a grandson of the
late John A. Calhoun, a young man of
promise and law student at Abbeyille,
died Wednesday after a painful illness OF
a week.
Ex-Cadet Whitaker was one Of twenty
one young lawyers admitted to the bar
by the Supreme Court at Columbia Tues
day. Three other cOlOred men were among
the number.
One of the cOnvicts employed on the
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad, at
the big Fill" named Nose Becktan, col
ored, was killed on Monday, May Is, by a
falling rock that had slipped out of the
mouth of the excavation.
Society in the Georges creek section,
near Barnwell, has been considerably
shocked by the elopement of a thrifty
farmers wife with a worthless young
white laborer by the name of Morris, who
belongs to the same locality.
In the red bank section of Edgefeld
county, on Wednesday night last, two
negroes named HilrOy Mobley and Wade
Griffin, got into a difficulty, during which
MObley drew pistol and shot Grifin,
killing bin instantly. The quarrel was
about a woman.
Talley r. Holmes, colored, of Columbia,
who was recently appointed to a first
class eIerkship in the United States War
Department, and who is a graduate of
the law school of Allen University, Co
lumbia, has been admitted to practice
law in the District Courts in Washing
ton.
The famous "Jackson vase" which
was taken from Columbia by Capt. W. b.
Stanley, its custodian, to be displayed for
period in the South Carolina department
of the New Orleans Exposition as a me-
mento of the valOr of the Palmetto Regi-
ment in the Mexican war, has been re-
turned.
Wander Dozier, a colored man, who
came originally from Marion county, was
committed TO the Berkeley county jail
Thursday. by Trial Justice E. t. Legare,
to await examination on June 3, upon the
charge Of numbering Belle Lopez, colOred.
The killing was done by shooting. There
is good reason to believe, however, that
it was unintentiOnal.
Carolina Spartan: Mr.. Lindsey has a
gun TO repair which bears the marks Of
age. 1t was originally rife and then
was changed to smooth bore. On the
grease box is this Inscription: "Peter
Decker, 1I77." The gun belongs to bir.
HallOck, and he says II came down from
his ancestors. The stock is curled maple,
and is well preserved.
John Robinson, colored, who accident
ally killed Thomas Hardy at a dance near
the Roman Catholic Church during the
Christmas holidays, died at the City Ball
in Greenyille on Tuesday. He had been
sick ever since his release from Jail. His
friends had been looking after him until
the morning of his death, when they
turned him over 10 the city authorities for
the purpose Of having him conveyed to the
poor house.
Mrs. William Choice, of GreenvIlle, has
an old Revolutionary gun that was picked
up on the battlefield OF Kings Mountain
by relative Of Mrs. Choice during the
battle at that place. As this battle was
fought in 1880 the gun is now over 100
years old. 1t is in good repair. The old
style flint and steel lock is attached, TO-
gether with a large powder pan. The
bore in the muzzle Is about one inch in
diameter, and the barrel seems very thin.
Allen Gaillard, colored, at whose house
near Bolton, Ia Anderson county, the
poisoning OF seven other cOlOred persons
recently took place, was waited on by a
a committee OF white and cOlored men
and ordered ~ leave the country. IL was
believed that Gaillard did the poisoning,
but as sufficient evidence 10 convict him
could not be- procured, this method OF get
ting rid Of him was adopted by the citi-
zens Of the neighbOrhood. Gaillard has
accordingly lett for parts unknown.
The annual meeting Of the stockhold-
ers OF Fishing Greek Manufacturing
Company WAS held at Chester Wednes-
day. Capt. II. II. Barber was reelected
President and the old Board Of Directors
was reelected, with the exception OF Col.
j. ;. Wilson, who has sold his stock 10
j. n. Whitesides. AIR. Whitesides was
elected a director. The report Of the
President showed the company 70 be in
good condition. The net earnings during
the Daet wear were anpnt in adding 10 the