The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
General News.

Thomas colored, near bellon luesuas
week.
Two of Rev. J. B. Brigman's little
boys were killed by lightning Monday
week at Vaucluse.
The rains have done great damage in
Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
RI. Lane, President of the Abbing-
don, (Mass.) National Bank, has been
arrested. Short $4,000.
Mrs. Rose Merkihoffer of Brooklyn
gave birth to a baby boy which had
whiskers half an inch long on each
side OF its face 1t died three hours
after being born.
The Seminole Indians in the South
ern part of Florida take great glory in
their superiority to the white nen in
being still allowed to hold slaves, while
it is forbidden to white men.
The Cotton States Life Insurance
Company Of Macon, Georgia, has come
to grief. There have been grave
charges brought against it, and a bill
asking for the appointment of a re-
ceiYer has been filed.
Jenkins Wright, colored, who muir
dered his wife and threw her body into
the fire, was hanged at Hampton Fri
day. His own child was the principal
witness at the trial. but he denied his
guilt to the last.
Accounts from Eastern North Caro-
lima and the lower Counties Of Virgil
MIA regarding cotton and other crops
are discouraging, owing to the recent
heavy rains, which have, it is thought,
done much damage.
a hen, crossed between Cochin China
and Plymouth Rock belonging to Mr..
H. L. B. Wells of Sumter, has laid an
egg measuring 724 by Ga inches and
Weighing 81 ounces. The hen has lail
number of such eggs.
Near Cypress, Darlington County, Il
colored eXhorter, Townsend Stevens,
was caught in barn where he entered
with a false key. Mr.. Stuckey, who was
on the watch, turned The fatal key on
the reverend gentleman.
Rev. Father J. +. O'Sullivan, former
ly Catholic priest in Camilius, n. Y,
found guilty Of outrage on Abbie
O'Connor, formerly a domestic in his
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in Auburn State prison.
Charles Johnson, colored. was shot
and badly wounded, near Walterboro
recently, while ploughing in his field.
His assassin was in ambush, but is
supposed to have been the owner of
some hogs taken up several days before
by Johnson.
\ mans thigh bone, broken in three
places, and a part Of his jaw, contain
ing five sound teeth, were washed up
on the railroad near Lancaster by the
recent rains. They are supposed to be
an Indians as Indian wares were found
near the same spot.
Henry Freer, colored, who was shot
by Peter Henderson, colored, in negro
gambling house in Charleston last Sum
day morning, died on Thursday morn
ing last. The difficulty was over
game of cards for a glass of beer, with
outside bets of ten cents.
Postmaster Frank Brown, of Balti-
more, is much concerned about $1,000
additional salary. He is worth nearly
100000, but cannot let that extra
nibble pass. The richer some men get
the more pertinaciouS they become in
running down the last farthing. ..
The terrible black diptheria has in
vaded the towns of Ecorse, ,SpringWells
and Royal Oak, near Detroit, and is
carrying off large numbers of victims.
Children are taken sick without warm
ing, their throats swell and in few
hours they die in great agony.
An inquest over the body of Mrs.
Clara Rhoden at Vaucluse, June 21st,
resulted in the finding that the deceased
had been murdered. X. Rhoden, the
husband of the deceased, was thereupon
arrested and lodged in Jail at Aiken,
charged with the murder of his wife.
At Nanticoke, Pa, on Thursday last
Edward Boyliss murdered his wife for
being criminally intimate with John
p. Puckey, one Of the leading business
men of the town and pillar in the
Methodist Church. Only two Sundays
ago Puckey led prayer-meeting at the
church.
Said Il member Of a recently drawn
Georgia grand jury: eve can hardly
he expected to indict men for carrying
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part of the jury themselves are ballast
ed to their seats during their delibera
tions by the weight Of pistols in their
hip pockets"
Tie Palmetto Post says lightning
struck Il clock on the mantclpiece at
the house of r. y. Wright, colore(l,
Tuesday evening" and smashed it to
pieces, the pieces falling into the lapof
the owners wife, who was sitting near.
The grass in the vases WAS set on fire.
No one was hurt.
Jimmie, son of Mr.. James b. Cole
man, of RidgeWay, was in bathing
several days since and while in water
three or more feet deep, was bitten on
the foot by a snake which he had step
ped upon. 1t has been thought that Il
snake could not bite in water but this
instance diSprovcs it.
Muscular Christianity seems to be
popular in Chicago. y few nights ago
the pastor of the West Side German
Evanpplical Church and his assistant