Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-19
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The new lodge of Knights Of Pythias at
Columbia has sixty members.
During the month OF June there were
three deaths in the town of Camden.
Tx. Cunningh CHAM, Of Lancaster, made
222 bushels of wheat on eight acres of
land this year.
The annual convention of the Aiken
County Sunday School Association will
be held in Aiken on July %.
The next session OF the Florence Dis
trict Conference of the Southern Methodist
Church will be held at TImmonsVills.
The old oak that stood at the crossroads
near Wexford has been cut down. 1t was
known to have been over $50 years old.
Copies of GOV. Sheppard's proclama-
ton. issued when he assumed the duties
of bis office, have been sent to the Gov
ernOrs of all OF the States.
Efforts are being made to have a church
erected at Hampton Court House for the
Joint use of the Methodist, Baptist and
Episcopalian gregations.
The farms OF Marlboro county contain
2S2, 900 acres and are owned by / 1920 par
sons. Nearly One-thrd of the voters of
the county are land holders.
Congressman Hemphill has ordered a
competitive examination to be held at
Chester on July y to decide who shall 20
to West Point from his district.
From Sept. l, 1885, to July /, 1886, the
shipments of cotton from Chester
amounted to 80. 300 bales, againet $4,000
bales tor the same time last year.
The total value of all the property in
Oconee county, according to the latest
returns. is $2.20OO00, which is an in
crease Of $4,000 over the returns of last
year.
John c. Strotber, of Coleman, was re-
ported to have found $4,000 in an cd
chimney about two weeks ago. 1t is now
reported that itwas only % cents that
was in the tin box.
The Department OF Agriculture has re-
ceived from Miss 5. A. Brailsford, of
Clarendon, very pretty plume made
from the pith of grass or rush in imita-
ton of an ostrich feather.
At Barnwell Wednesday night Miss
Connolly was serenaded at the Patterson
House By citizens from the section where
she resides, in honor Of her heroic action
in shaving her slanderer and for Joy at her
acquittal.
Paul Smith, coored, has been going
around Providence township, in Orange
burg county, pretending TO be consta-
bic and arresting women upon whom he
attempted to commit criminal assaults,
A reunion of the survivors of Company
E, Sixth ). G, v, infantry, and OF Com
pany g., Ninth ;. G. v, infantry, will be
held at Hartsville, S. G., on Thursday,
July %. Gen John Bratton has been invited
to deliver an address on that occasion.
June Campbell colored, stabbed Ed
ward Mclean, colored, while In a dispute
about trivial matter on July 6, at the
plantation of Mr.. George l.. Riddle, of
York county. Mclean died almost in.
stantly. Campbell is in Jail awaiting
trial.
A mans thigh bone, broken In three
places, and part OF his jaw, containing
five sound teeth, were washed up on the
railroad near Lancaster by the recent
rains. They are supposed to be an lndl-
ans, as Indian wares wore found near
the same spot.
Nancy Bradley, colcred, Of Florence,
recently entertained a colored man, who
was travelling with his wife. Her hospi-
tally was rewarded by Der guests steal
ing her best clothes and then abducting
her daughter. Nothing has heen heard OF
them since they left Florence.
When the Savannah Valley railroad Is
completed, Capt. Wadley and his force OF
hands will 20 10 Alabama 70 work on
another prong Of the Georgia Central sys-
TEN, reaching out from Columbus. Ca, to
Birmingham, Ala, about ninety miles of
which nave been in operation for years.
At Columbia during the year ending
June 1, 1886, there were 80 white births
aud 15l colored, making total OF S06.
During the same period there were Sc
white deaths and 1862 colored deaths, be-
sides there we're So deaths in the lunatic
asylum and 10 in the almshouse, making
q total Of 300.