Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-20
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The total assessed value of taxable
property in Aiken county is $4,079, 105.
Two c0lored children were accidentally
burned to death in Barnwell county last
week.
John Bargial, a Pole, committed suicide
at Anderson by shooting himself. He was
sick and melancholy.
A white man named Fuller Courtney
has been lodged in Jail at Edgefield
charged with coming counterfeit money
25-cent pieces and nickels.
Albert Foster, Enoch Foster and Tandy
Cannon, all colOred, have been arrested
and lodged in Jail at Spartanburg on the
charge of burning FingervIlle factory.
A white woman has been sent to Jail at
Spartanburg for ten days for forcing open
a lot and taking her COW home which had
trespassed on the premises of neighbOr.
The Graniteville and Vaucluse mills in
Aiken county are running on full time.
No superintendent has been APP
pointed; each boss runs his own depart
ment.
Mrs. J. II. Matthews, of Rock Hill, in
flcted thirteen gashes in her throat with
her husbands razor with suicidal intent,
but was discovered in time to save her
life. She was melancholy.
On May 2 an election will be held in
Kershaw to decide whether or not the
county, including Camden, shall sub
scribe 1928, 900 in bonds and the town of
Camden $4,000 to aid the extension Of
the Palmetto road.
At Darlington the post Office was
robbed, and money to the amount of about
$500 stolen. The police traced the thieves
in their flight. and on Wednesday one
was brought from Florence two,
from Cheraw. and two We're
caught at Darlington. About $40
has been recovered. The plan for the
robbery had been made about three
weeks, and those concerned patiently
awaited their time. They are all colored,
and hail from North Carolina. One OF the
burglars is boy not yet IA years old.
A coIored boy at Branchville monkey
ed" with a railroad torpedo Saturday.
He struck it with an ak. An explosion
followed. The AK was thrown about 20
feet away, and the boys face completely
laid open by a cash from the right temple
TO the point of the chin, his hand terribly
bruised, and deep and painful cut near
the Joint oi the right shoulder, besides
other small wounds upon mis- person.
Several other children who were with
MIN were slightly injured, and most OF
them were thrown to the ground by the
conclusion.
a negro boy named Peter Bowman was
killed by being run over by the engine
and tlat-cars on Capt. Browning's tram
road in Hampton county. In company
with another boy he was awaiting the
arrival Of some one, and they concluded
to consume the time in sleep. One
stretched himself on the ground in the
bushes, and the other reclined with his
head and one arm on the track. While
in this position the cars passed over him,
MASKING his head and arm into a limp
and quiYering mass, and killing HIM in
stantly.
It Is reported among the negroes that
Columbus Crawford, the negro who was
hanged IN the Jail at Yorkville, was re-
suscitated after being taken 10 his home
In the southwestern part OF the county.
IL is not probable that this report Is true,
as Columbus hung by his neck for more
than half an hour, although 10 was not
broken. and was pronounced dead by the
attending physician. The night after
Crawford was hanged the prisoners In
the Jail begged the Sheriff 10 allow them
10 have light. Long, the villain who Is
In Jail charged with bigamy, and who.
according 10 all reports. Is guilty, told
the sheriff that If he could get knife he
would cut his throat rather than stay In
the Jail without light.
A dead body was found in the Sanders
creek swamp, near HycO, kershaw
county, few days ago. A Mr.. Tidwell,
In walking over his place on Sunday
afternoon, noticed great many buzzards
in the swamp near by. and he went In
there TO see what had attracted them 70