Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30
SOUTH CAROLINA,

are being talked of in AboeVille.
ID. G. Calvert. of Long Cane, is the prize
| pear grower OF Abbeville county.
The O'Clock movement comes to al
end at Greenwood next Wednesday.
The Charleston bagging factory shipped
| 1000 rolls to New Orleans Thursday.
The new school at Ridge Spring has
| been completed. 1t is a handsome struct.
ure.
The colored citizens of Newberry have
organized an industrial savings associ q.
ton.
The pedestal proper of the Calhoun
monument, at Charleston, Is being placed
in position.
JIM. Bates, of Batesburg, has an ex.
| perlmental patch of broom corn that Is q
decided success.
Subscriptions are still being solicited
for the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and
Chicago railroad.
A crane has been killed at EllIs' Mill,
near Abbeville, 8 feet high and feet from
| tip to tip of wings.
DR.. W. W. Smith has presented awe ei
toned, 400-Dound bell to the Methodist
church at Williston.
The yield OF wheat and of oats in York
| county this year has been much better
than 1t was last year.
Allen Weathersbee, of WilIlston, re-
Gently sold car of watermelons ON
which he cleared 5000.
Robert Harmon, colored, beat his wife,
Rose, to death near Prosperity, the other
| day. He has been jailed.
Samuel r. Lomax, an old and respected
citizen of Long Cane township, Abbeville,
died last Tuesday morning.
Lightning killed q six-year.old mare
and year-old colt belonging to John G.
Wilson, of Newberry, on Thursday.
The Mount Pleasant and Little River
railroad has been again resurrected
through the aid of Northern capitalists.
The cotton crop Is coming out wonder
fully in Abbeville and the farmers are in
higher spirits than they were few weeks
ago.
S. K. Strickland, of Anderson county,
has made fifty-two gallons of sorghum
from one-tfth of an acre OF cane of the
| early amber variety.
Two valuable gold mines have been dis
| covered on Maj. Nance's place, and one
on N. w. Kay's, near Due West, by a
| professional mineralogist.
The farming and turpentine negroes
| came together near st. Stephens on MOn-
day. One man was dangerously stabbed
and several others badly bruised.
Col. W. r. Davie, of Landsford, Ches-
ter county, has shipped several thousand
pounds of tobacco, which was grown and
cured on his farm at that place.
The survey Of the Chester, Greenwood
and Ab6eville railroad is progressing
finely. President Mills proposes to push
the work forward as fast as possible.
The Centennial Troop of .Granam,s
have passed complimentary resolutions
| of respect to the memory of the late
Adjutant and Inspector General Mani.
gault.
The Spartanburg Board of Trade are
endeavoring to get the railroad authorf-
ties to build central passenger depot
there. Their prospect OF success is said
to be good.
There was a competitive examination
at Yorkville on Aug. "a, for an appoint
ment to the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, from Congressman Hemp
hilPs district.
A. G. Heriot, who is experimenting the
cultivation OF the experimental tobacco
crop In Georgetown county, says that il
IS IN admirable condition and presents a
beautiful sight.
Walter Hazard, L. p. Miller and W. ST.
j. Mazyck are candidates for the Legisla.
ture in Georgetown county. 1t is said
that f. W. Macusker will run as an in.
dependent candidate.
Rev. Mr.. Ezell, pastor of the Baptist
church at W oodrutf, baptized eight con-
verts In the baptistry within the church
last Sunday, as a partial result of meet
ing lately closed. All OF them but one
were children from Tie Sunday school.
DR.. 7. Hayward Hayes, OF Charleston.
mas Deen appointed medical missionary TO
the Presbyterian mission at Bangkok.
SIAM He was reared in the Charleston
Orphan House and reached prominence
through his own industry and perseyer-
ance.
Over $500 has been subscribed for the
purpose or erecting monument to the
Confederate dead of Clarendon county, at
Manning. Five thousand one hundred
dollars is wanted, and there is at present
every reason to believe that it will be COL
lected.
DIR. K. L. Avery, who was selected by
the State Agricultural Department to ex-
pertinent In the culture of tobacco in
York county, has commenced TO cut and
cure his crop. He has aires DIV cured one
barn, and is preparing for another. His
crop ls'Yery fine and has been well at
tended.
Quite number of people In Colum bia
seem 10 De under the impression that the
Secession Convention was held in the old
Baptist church in Columbia, and that the
Ordinance Of Secession was signed at Co.
lumbia. A representative OF the bureau
was recently requested to ascertain posi-
lively the place and date Of the signing Of
that ordinance, and 1t may be OF Interest
TO those who are not posted upon this his
torlcal point to know that the Ordinance
OF Secession was signed in Charleston on
Dec. 20, 1886. The convention metin Co
lumbia In the large Baptish charch on
Plain street on Dec. II, bat Immediately
adjourned to Charleston on account Of
smallpox having broken out at Column
bia. and there the Ordinance OF Secession
was signed on the 20sh.
At Batesburg, In the early part of last
April, Maj. Levi Lybrand heard noise
among his fowls after they had gone to
roost and went out into his yard to sec
what was the matter. He saw u stran ge
dog near the hen roost and attempted to
run 1t away from the yard. The dog ran
under the house and would not come out.
Maj. Lybrand went under the house and
attempted to drive it out with q stick.
The dog jumped upon him and bit him
several times and then escaped. The
wounds were painful, but were not con-
sidered necessarily dangerous. Some
days ago, however, he was attacked with
hydrophobia. He suffered continuously
tuesday night with shocking madness
and violence and died at O'Clock We'd
nesday morning. Maj. Lybrand was