The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
General News.
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Inc New 1 Oli tCuli 1oS1 to,oOO ouD
scribers by advocating Ben. Butler tor
the Presidency, and its dividents fell
off so per cent.
It's again reported that Sartoris and
his family are shamefully treating
Nellie. Gen. Grants cup Of sorrow
was full when he died.
\ negro woman was killed by light
hing in Newberry last Saturday. New
berry College building was also struck
by lightning, but the damage was only
slight.
Ex-Sheriff John Renoe, of Sumter
county, Tenn, was taken from jail at
Livingston on Tuesday by a mob and
hanged, for the attempted murder
of his brother-in-law.
A brisk snow storm Of about 10
minutes duration passed over .Po-
quoSine township, near I orktown, Va,
on Friday afternoon, much to the
astonishment of the natives.
Small pox of a very malignant type
has broken out at Santiago, Chill. The
disease, which is epidemic and becom-
ing worse every day, proves fatal in
10 per cent of the persons attacked.
Mrs. Caroline Benedict. well-known
woman, who for many years has re-
sided in the little village of Mottville,
in the town of Skaneateles, N. Y, died
recently after fast extending So days.
Tuesday morning Thomas M. DAILY,
an employee of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, was
killed in the Simpson street yard, in
Atlanta, while detaching freight car
from train. ..,..
Ben. Jones, colored, was found lying
bleeding and unconscious at the cor
ner of Vanderhorst and Rutledge
streets, Charleston, on last Wednesday
night. James Cough, colored, who is
suspected of the assault, has skipped.
The boiler of a portable engine ex-
ploded at Alton, Illinois, Tuesday and
injured five men, three fatally. Besides
the wrecking of the threshing ma
chine and the burning Of all the wheat
adjacent, three or four horses were
killed.
Serious rioting broke out on Tues
day between Catholics and Protestants
at Belfast. Many stones were thrown
and revolvers used freely. The mill
tarv was called out to restore order.
Many were injured and sent to the
hospital.
DR.. Robert Taylor, formerly associat-
ed with Or. L. A. Sayre, of New York,
reports the cure of case of traumatlc
tetanus, or lockjaw, resultant from a
wound, which is said to be the only
instance in which a fatal conclusion to
such an attack has been aVerted.
The Court of Charleston on Thurs
day was engaged in establishing the
legality of a marriage between Sarah
James and Henry James, both colored,
before the war. Henry is dead and
some of his relatives are disputing the
right of Sarah to his property.
Sarah Ginger, an eight year old
daughter of the widow Ginger, living
near Brunson, was playing Tuesday
afternoon with five other children on a
flying jenny, when the pin on which it
turned gave way, and it tell on her
causing instant death. The other chsl-
dren escaped unhnrt. -.
Prof. Treadwell, of Massachusetts,
has proved that half-grown robin
will daily devour more than once and a
half times its own weight in cater
pillars and beetles. A young brood
cannot live on less than 10 or 80 worms
day. A single pair of sparrows will
carry every week to the nest 1890
caterpiLlars or beetles.
The st. Georges News says huge
snake, of the coach-whip species, was
killed ON the farm of Mr.. Il. o. Meal
hany several days since. It made q
savage attack upon Sylvester Douglass,
one Of his hands, while plowing in the
field, and was promptly slain with a
fence Eail. 1t measured seven feet in
length, and was Of proportionate size.
Addison Boggs, of Liberty, lost a
SOW and eight pigs during the late
storm in the following strange way {:
The pigs and SOW sought refuge from
the storm in a hollow tree in the pas
ture, and pushed their way up said hol-
low, until the SOW became tightly
wedged, so that she could not 60 back,
and She and the pigs were found dead
in day or two.-Easley Messenger.
A Lincoln county, Nevada, farmer
has a COW which recently gave birth to
a hairless calf. The farmer is also
the owner of a turkey gobbler that has
a topknot of feathers which are over
three inches in length; has eve that
has four teats like Il COW; he is the
father of fourteen children, eight girls
and six boys, and is one Of the bestIciti-
Zens of Lincoln county.
On Wednesday morning while Trial
Justice J. Hamilton Knight was two
miles from Summerville driving rapid
ly into town, il colored woman stepped
into the road and pitched her baby
almost under the horses feet. Mr..
Knight reined in his horse in time to
save the child from being crushed to
death. The woman then coolly picked
up the child and walked off. 1t is sup
posed that she is crazy.
About two hundred active Republi-
cans from all parts of Massachusetts
met at Boston on Monday and adopted
resolutions asserting that the Republi-