Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-12
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The wheat crop of Oconee county, az a
rule, IS late, but the plant is healthy and
the stand good.
The Charleston Presbytery meets in the
Presbyterian church at Orangeburg on
Wednesday evening, April T.
Henry A. Cunningham died at Beau
fort W ednesday. lie served throughout
the war IN the Beaufort Artillery.
The amusement season in Cheraw has
been 5ingularly dun one, as oaly one
| troupe was on the stage during the
I season.
The case OF smallpox recently reported
as being in the neighberhood Of Mount
Carmel, in A0beyille county, proved to be
poison oak.
The majority Of the gates in Florence
are hung 40 as to open on the streets. The
Town Council will be asked to remedy
this nuisance,
The sales Of commercial fertilizers in
the ate from Nov. / 10 April / have
amounted to l04,jSl tons, against l09, j0f
tons asst year.
1t ia against TIE law 10 hunt turkeys,
partridges, paeasants. doves and wood
cock alter April /. Hunting can be re-
sumsd on Nov. /.
a little more tobacco will be planted
this year in OcOnee county than usual,
nut the people have not entered heartily
INTO the experiment.
At Lancaster Wednesday night Robert
Berry was shot through the heart and
killed by William Blakeney in a dispute
about game Of dice.
A. W. Jones, OF Abbeyille, is expert
mentlug in raising an early crop OF water
melons. lie covers the plants with empty
cigar boxes TO protect them from frost.
Alexander Ramsey, of Seneca, has a
SOW that narrowed IL pigs last wear. He
gave away , pigs, sold g for $36 and has
tat hogs now in the pen awaiting slaugh-
ter.
The Governor has granted SanchO Will
liams, convicted OF rape, a respite until
Friday. July 80. 1886. The nature Of the
newly discovered evidence is such as TO
be unhtior publication.
IL is confidently predicted that the i'm
pvoyements in Anderson during the year
1886, Notwithstanding the general depres-
sion, will be far greater than that OF any
one year 10 the history OF the place.
At sumter the Town Council has recent
ly enforced the law relating 40 screens in
/ barTOoms ana other places where liquor Is
retallcd. Every bar in That town Is now
/ fully exposed 10 view from TIE street.
Negotiations are now IN progress look
| ing 20 the opening OF TWO more gpIo mines
in kcrshsw county. one OF them Will be
ABOUT Il miles from Camden. The com
pany is composed OF Northern cauitalIsts.l
The Harmony Presbytery, composed of
I twenty-seven ministers. two licentates.
i've candidates, about 1000 church mem
bers aud covering ten counties in the
eastern part OF the State, meets IN Dar-
llugtOu APRIL g.
Columbia believes that sue has IN the
I person OF a deceased BAKERS son the on
/ ~ heir TO the great fortune lett by Stieg-
/ llt1. the great Russian banker who re-
/ Gently died. Charleston also has an al
/ legged heir 90 the same estate.
The state House Commission is reported
I 70 nave contracted win q Baltimore hrm
for ,J,OJoiectoi lumber for the State house
root at SIS per 900 feet. Charleston
dealers claim that they can furaish the
/ lumber required for Nl1 so per 900 feet
laid down at Columbia.
Dr.. }. r. Butler, oil Oraugeburg. picked
mp near MS house on Wednesday morning
a male N0J-ander or Merzauser, "a species
/ OF migratory duck OF the genus mprgus. an
inhabitout OF the northern regions. Later
/ 10 the day several others were found i'm
different parts OF the town.
Last week Randolph Bosuck, coored
lad of Able vile, killed TWO large horned
owls wita one rock. They were lighting
when the hoy brought the trst one down
Win the stone. The second cuuldu get
his claws loose from his dead antagonist.
nut ich to tine ground with hiu, when tho
boy easily made short work OF him.
G.. r. Haryin is building tram road
from Dudley's Station. on the Central
railroad, across Pocataligo river 20 new
saw mil be Is putting mp. The tramwav
/ VIII be about three miles long. Mr.. llar.
vim has ordered large engine and ex-
! poets 10 DO a big business. lie Will put a
/ railroad locomotive on the tramway next
| fall
Peter QUITS, Of Meeting street,
/ Charleston, has an OLD deed
/ Of grant TO large tract Of land
| that was given TO bis grandfather, Peter
QUITS. before the Revolutionary war, by
Charles II, King Of England. Mr.. QUITS
has bad this grant ever since his fathers
death, and u Is over 100 years old and can
scarcely be read,