Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-09

lowed long projecting limb, which con-
Quoted the electricity into the stall.
Spartanburg's cotton mills are running
smoothly, and without any disturbances
whatever, and the profits that are made
go to the employees, for the stockholders
do not see any dividends worth speaking
OF.
Last Saturday night about 9 O'Clock
Mary Fulton, 9-year-old daughter ofJane
Fulton, colored woman OF Manning,
caught fire from the turning over OF
Kerosene lamp, and was burned almost to
cracking.
d. H. Ellis, OF Hampton Court House,
produced In his garden a cabbage weigh
ing twentv-one pounds and measuring
three feet and ten inches in circumfer-
ence, with the outer leaves stripped from
the stalk.
Governor Sheppard has pardened John
Baker, white, who was convicted at the
November term of court. 1877, for Rich
land county, of manslaughter, and SEN
fenced by Judge Townsend to lmprison-
ment in the penitentiary at hard labor for
10 years.
By the death of Mrs. Parker at John
ston, Edgetield county, last week, DIR.
Parker and his sons and daughters have,
or Will soon, come into possession OF a
large property, consisting In part of 40
houses in the city of Chicago, valued at
$4,000 each.
At a negro frolic near ROhertsville.
Hampton county, few nights ago the
whole party became involved in a general
fight. One OF The women was severely
wounded by pistol shot, and the man
who did the shooting received several
gashes with knife.
In the immediate neighborhood of
~ low 1lNr NA.or No-fgalI ID nN.
close to the State line, upon the planta-
ton Of Thomas 5. Myers, an alteration
occurred between Peter Leak and Bill
Rodgers, both colOred, when Leak shot
and killed Rodgers Immediately.
On Tuesday last the railroad commits
siouers examined the Savannah Valley
railroad from Mccormick to Anderson
court house, and finding the requirements
of the law complied with and the road in
excellent order, they authorized it's open
ing for public use on and after Aug. 4.
A colored lad by the name of Samuel
Washington, aged 16 years, fell from the
steps leading to the light at the Hunting
Island lighthouse, on Tuesday last
breaking his neck. The iall was 100 feet.
The boy was in the employ of Nat. Holli-
ger, at Brick Yard, in Beaufort county.
A large female bear was killed one day
last week on Santee, on the plantation OF
X. n. Richbourg IN Clarendon county.
| The bear was attracted by the crying of a
child and came very near the house, but
was scared off by some persons, until a
cOlored man named Lawrence Thomas
could procure his gun, when the bear was
soon killed.
The trustees have not yet made ar
rangements for Spartanburg's graded
schools for the coming year. The city is
| like the rest of the State. one Vpar behind
in taxes, and this interferes very much
with the efficient management of schools.
| Prof. W. 5. Morrison, being candidate
| for county school com missioner, will not
apply for the uperintenden;sp place again,
| as it is supposed that the duties of the
two offices conflict. $685."
! The 7-year-old daughter of Peter Stukes,
! colored, was accidentally shot by her
| 9-year-old brother Thursday on the plan
tatiOn OF F. +. Johnson, four miles from
Bamberg. An older brother had loaded a
hOrseman's pistol with turkey shot and
carelessly laid it away in an old trunk,
and wnell left alone the children obtained
il for a plaything. The load struck the
forehead and glanced upward, fracturing
the Uranium badly. The wound Will prob
| ably prove fatal.
Henry Gibson, cOlored, an employe on
the Santee steamer Farmer, while the
latter was lying at Santee bridge on last
Wednesday evening was returning to the
steamer in small bateau from the bridge,
where he went in quest of miscellaneous
articles. When within few feet OF the
steamer, while endeavOring to throw a
rope on board. he suddenly lost his bal
ance, fell overheard ana was almost in
stantly drowned. A careful search was
instituted for the recovery of his body, but
all efforts have proved futile so far.