Savannah morning news., 1886-05-10
SOUTH CAROLINA.


i'll at Columbia. The Senator has come
from Washington to his bedside.
j. H. Anderson, living two miles from
Barnwell, died from injuries which re-
suited from being thrown from a horse
day or two ago.
Fifteen out of the IS railroads in the
State have made their reports for March
to the Railroad Commission, and taken
together they show an increase in earn
ings over March, 1885, of $4,000.
The Hampton County Commissioners
have offered a reward OF $500 tor the ar
rest of and proof to convict the safe rob-
bers who broke into the safe in the Treas
urer's Office in 1882, and have asked the
State to offer a similar reward.
The MethOdsts of Anderson will let out
the contract for building their new
church In few days. The plan which
they have adopted is very handsome, and
when the house is completed it will be
one of the most elegant in the city.
Henry Isear, of Beaufort, alleged to be
an abscOnding debtor, returned to Beau
| fort Wednesday to fix up his business, he
says. He speaks of renewing business.
He says that he didn't go to Georgetown,
but went to Savannah, and denied that
he carried off $4,000.
The following officers of the Lake City
Light Dragons, of Williamsburg County
"a command recently reOrganized-have
| been commissioned by the State: Fl. ID.
| Snow, Captain; j. II. Blackwell, First.
Lieutenant; r. d. Rollins and w. ID.
Fitch, Second Lieutenants.
A joke among the penItentiary guards
in relation to case of measles in the in
stitution has led to the prevalence of a
| report that smallpox existed there. OFF,
GERS Of the penitehtiary emphatically
] npnU the which ia for
in the preceding statement.
Maj. W. z. Leitner, of Camden, has
written to the committee who requested
him to deliver an address on ''The Con-
federate Soldiers" at the reunion of COM
panv d, Sixth South Carolina cavalry, TO
be held at Edgefeld on the fourth Satur-
day in July, and accepted the invitation.
Col. P. c. Gaillard, the treasurer OF
Charleston County, made a settlement
with the Comptroller General Friday.
Total State tax charged, S144, ,S33 30: COM
missions and deputies and clerks sal
aries, $2,014 80; abatement by ComptrOl-
Ter General, $1,072 04; nulla bona, S1,126
So; delinquent to State, 1895 05; execu-
tiOns to be accounted for. $405 10; amount
paid State Treasurer, $139,574 80; over
payment refunded, $254 80.
The State Superintendent OF Education
has addressed a circular TO the School
commissioners or the several counties, in
which he says: "The following resolution.
adopted by the State Board of Examiners
at it's meeting on May 5, is submitted for
your information and guidance: RE
SOlUed, That the times for holding county
examinations be changed from January
and July, as at present, to the first Fri
day in April and October, or to such other
days in these months as the State Super
intendent of Education in his discretion
may direct In consequence OF this ac-
tion no county examinations will be held
in July next. You are hereby authorized
to continue in force until October all GER
tificates and licenses which expire in
July
DR.. William A. FahnestocK. a we'll
known physician of Walhalla. died there
a few days ago. He graduated from
Pennsylvania University In 1921 and
practiced medicine at Lancaster. Pa, for
over half a century with eminent success
His practice was thoroughly allopathic,
but he was led by his investigating turn
Of mind to adopt in a measure, in later
life, the homeopathic system, which. un-
der his management, was attended with
great success. With a mind ever active
and searching after new methods and
practices, be invented the sector tOnsiL-
LdruDt, which is now used by all phys
icians Of note throughout the world. His
death was as remarkable as his life,
Knowing that death was near, he made
every preparation to die easily and
quietly, going so far as 10 superintend the
building OF his own tomb. With such
preparation, at the age Of 81, on Thursday
last. be passed away in his chair at his
writing desk, without an apparent pain.