The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-20
COLUMBIA AND THE FREEZE,

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COLUMBIA AND THE FREEZE.
A MEETING OF THE COLUMBIA, DUTCH
FoRK,) NEWBERRY AND LAURENS
RAILROAD CoRPoRATORs-
OTHER MATTERS.
Columbia Office ofthe HERALD AND News,
January 10th, 1886.
Columbia has never experienced a
harder freeze than that which she has
just passed through. On Friday eye
ming the sth instant, a chilling wind
from the northwest came with such
force as to blow down bill boards, fences
and to make man and beast turn into
shelter at an earlier hour than usual; it
continued to grow cold and colder. On
Saturday morning the thermometer at
Jackson'sDrug Store stood at l6; on Sun
day s; Monday s; Tuesday 4; Wednes-
Gay 6. Thursday it began to moderate,
Friday was better still, and on Saturday
the freeze was broken by heavy rain.
Sunday was one of the many charming
DAYS we have here in mid winter. The
oldest inhabitants say that this was the
severest freeze, and lasted longer than
any that has before visited the city. But
the great beauty of our Southern climate
! is that these blizzards do not come often,
and when they do, they soon pass away.
THE COLUMBIA, NEwBERRY AND LAU-
RENS RAILROAD.
A meeting of the corporators was held
at the Grand Central Hotel, in this city,
on the evening of the l4th instant.
There were present from Richland,
Messrs. John T. Rhett, S. A. Pearce, j.
w. R. Pope, T. T. Moore, and w. B.
Lowrance. Lexington, Messrs. G. Leap
heart, Isaiah Haltiwanger, G. 81. Counts,
Martin Chaplin and DR.. Eargle. New
berry, Hon. J. A. Sigh and Messrs. Geo.
S. Mower, 81. c. Mosely, L. S. Bowers,
A. G. Wise, and DR.. O. B. Mayer, Jr.
The following letter was read from
DR.. w. A. Stands, of Laurens:
CLINTON, S. c., January, 13, 1886.
Hon. j. A Sigh:
am very sorry thatI am unable to
attend the meeting of charter members
of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
Railroad. Have been quite unwell for
the past ten days. Our people are en-
thused with the new project or railroad.
hope you will not organize at this
meeting, and adjourn to meet at New
berry C. II. Please write me full par
ticulars of meeting.
Yours, &c.,
w. A. STANDS.
A Committee Of three, consisting OF
Messrs. Mower, McMaster and Sigh,
were appointed to prepare subscription
lists, to be forwarded to each County
committee. Senator Sigh then moved
that when the meeting adiourns, that
it adjourn to meet at Newberry c. H,
four (4 weeks from to-day, (Which will
be on Thursday, 11th day OF February,
when reports from the committees
would be received, and if the necessary
amount had been raised, and an organiza-
ton effected. Immediately after the
adjournment, the Lexington corporators
met and decided to call meeting in the
Fork, at Sinclair, near Bethel or High
Hill Creek Church, on Saturday the 23rd
instant, in the interest of the road, and
invited Senator Sigh to be present, and
address them. Newberry, Lexington
and Prosperity are prepared to move at
once. Laurens never fails, as the COM
pletiou of one new road during the past
two years, and active work on another
will testify, and it remains for Richland
and Charleston to say whether the road
shall be built or not. 1t is an opportu-
nitv for them to turn the trade of these
counties to Columbia and Charleston,
keeping the business in the State which
Augusta is now bidding for and will get
TO a great extent, if the Newberry and
Edgefield Railroad should be completed
and this movement fail for lack of help
from them. The route proposed is to
cross Broad River near Columbia, and
then through the heart of Lexington
and Newberry Fork to Prosperity. and
then along the line Of the G. & G. r. R.,
to Newberry, giving these points COM
petitive road, and opening up large
amount of ofcountry which is now hemmed
in between Saluda and Broad Rivers
with no outlet. Let the ball roll until
the road is builtand equipped.
Mr.. John G. Wilson attended the reg
ular monthly meetiog OF the Regents OF
the State Lunatic Asylum on the 18th
and 14th instants.
Mr.. J. n. Fowles, an old Newberry
man, is often seen with the business
men of onr city, and is looking remark
ably well.
In giving the sources from which the
State derives her revenue, and where the
money goes, last week l did not men
ton the sixty thousand dollars in labor
and money appropriated for the work on
the Columbia Canal. This labor and
money, if not used for this purpose,
would 90 into the State Treasury to re-
duce the tax levy. It is claimed that
if the conviets were not employed on
the canal, that there would be nothing
for them to do. Inreplyit can be shown
that with smaller number OF conYlcts
than is now in the pcnitentiary. The
Superintendent, the year before the
work was begun on the canal, turned
into the State Treasury from the net
earnings of the PenitentiaTy, forty
thousand dollars. That amount would
reduce the State levy of mill.
also omitted to state that the 81, ,5OS
received from the interest on Agricuitu-
raj College stock W., used to pay the ex-
penses in part OF the South Carolina
University and Che Clafilin Agricultural
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