Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-24
SOUTH CAROLINA.

There is not one law student in Chester
at this time.
Gen. G. A. Washburn is spending the
winter at Aiken.
Several new residences will be built
in Williston within the next six months.
Only about ten special delivery stamps
have been sold at the post office in Abbe-
vile.
Ten shares Of the Winnsboro' Ma
tion Bank stock was sold at auction for
81 2O1I.
The town council of Darlington have
purchased a fire engine at cost of
$4,000.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Erskine college now numbers fifty
three members.
The expense of running Barnwell
county during the present fiscal year
amounts to $17,667 81.
There is a walnut tree near Darlington
that measures IA feet in circumference 6
inches from the ground.
MIR. Clarence S. Wallace, the son of the
composer, William Vincent Wallace, is
teaching music at Aiken.
r, Bannister, of Orangeburg, has a
pocket knife containing % blades, and
which is known to be upwards of $50 years
old.
DR.. o. d. Faust, of Barnwell county,
has fifteen acres planted In pecan trees
which are flourishing and promise a large
revenue.
The Rev. &. D. Watson, the evangelist
of Kentucky, accompanied by his wife,
and Mrs. Bangs, Of Philadelphia, is hold
ing holiness meeting at Newberry.
A meeting OF the survivors OF Company
B, Twenty-fourth Regiment South Caro-
lima Volunteers, in Marlboro county,
will be held at Smyrna Church on
Nov. q.
Sandy MOravian and Collier Reubens,
colored, were squirrel huntingin Darling
ton, when the accidental discharge of the
gun killed the latter. Sandy surrendered
himself and is now in jail.
Cain Cooper, colored, OF Williamsburg
county, had his Clubhouse, three bales Of
cotton and all his cotton seed destroyed
by fire Nov. 16. 1t occurredin the day.
time, and is supposed to have originated
from a match in the cotton.
The Mccormick Manganese Mining
Company is crushing ore at the rate OF 40
tons per day. Gen. StOvall, formerly of
Augusta. Ca. and now of England. has
purchased 5000 tons of ore, TO be shipped
direct 10 Beaufort. S. O., and thence to
Europe.
The authorities OF the Winnsboro Ma
tioual Bank say that the deposits at pres
ent are not more than half what they were
at this time last year. They attribute
this shortness to the fact that large
amount of cotton is being held by men in
the country.
Mrs. Mary f. Rhoden, wife Of @. IL.
Rhoden, and daughter OF the Rev. WIN.
BROKER. of the Blackvile section, Barn
we'll county. has an unfinished quilt con-
taining 10. 400 patches without any bor-
derine. There are about 1900 patches in
tbs dailt which show only about half an
inch. sd. .s
tits said that petitions will be circu.
lated in short while for the purpose or
ohtalnlne she signatures Of those in favor
~ rApe3iing the act by which Barnwell
vyss made dry county. These, IL Is said,
will be presented 10 tue Legislature with
View to having them work for the law 8
rereal.
The survivors Of Company b, Second
sotith Carolina artillery, Q. 3. A., Will
boid n reunion az BlackVille on Dec. 10.
NAIL. r. Izlar viii deliver an Grafton.
Che Survivors Will be treated TO basket
pienic. TO which are invited the friends
ofthe survivors throughout the late Con-
federate states.
The negroes in the Elmwood section OF
tions kpo Fr ias the "Young Men OF Hon
or D the ohiectof which, they say, Is 70 ca.
ncate and eleyafe the morals OF the colored
race, but IL seems TO be having a contrary
effect. There has been more thievlng IN
that neighborhood recently than Tor some
time.
John Benson. alias John Vinson, who
was sentenced 10 be hanged at Laurens
Friday. was respited by Governor - = ou ~
Solicitor OF the circuit, setting forth Az
ditional evidence in favor Of the prisoner