Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-25
sOUTH CAROLINA.


There is some talk of making an effort
to organize a bank at Greenwood.
Cotton receipts all over the State are
very much behind those OF this time last
year.
Sixty persons Joined the Bethel Metho-
dist church in Lancaster county last
week.
A new camp ground has been estab.
lished near Hendersonville, in Colleton
county.
j. N. Bynum, of Anderson county, has
five acres OF corn that will make him 25O
bushels.
Capt. Witter, of Abbeville, has a pig
that weighs 175 pounds and is only six
months old.
Edgefeld county has twenty-one pris-
Oners in jail, whose bill last month
amounted to 1910.
The associated counties fair will be
held at Chester on Oct. 20, and will be
continued for tour days.
The citizens OF Walhalla are at work
trying to secure the proposed railroad
from Waihalla TO Anderson.
During this year 124 additions have been
made TO the membership of Chester CIR
cult of the Methodist church.
AS the result OF the recent term Of court
prisoners to the penitentlary.
j. w. Brodie, of Orangeburg, this year
grew a Buckingham apple that measured
1881 inches in circumference.
The farmers around Mount Carmel, in
Abbeville county, are taking steps for the
suppression OF the sale of seed cotton.
The stockholders OF the Orangeburg
and Lewisdale railroad will hold an i'm.
portant meeting in Orangeburg Oct. %.
In lot OF cattle recently shipped from
Walhalla to Charleston there were Two
steers that weighed over LOCO pounds
each.
j. H. Howe, of Bascomville, in Ches-
ter county, exhibits a tobacco stalk one
leaf of which is 30 inches long and 20
inches wide.
The Fork and Bethel Baptist Associa-
tons have been united into one assOcia-
ton, to be known as the Beaverdam Bap-
fist Association.
John A. Devlin, of Abbeville, has gath
cred $50 bushels of corn from a two-horse
farm, and will gather ten bags of cotton
from the same farm.
Invitations are ont for the State ball. 1t
will be held In Agricultural Hall at
Columbia this year, as the hall OF Repre-
sentatiVes is untenable.
r. L. Dunovant, of Edgefeld county,
from |, lis pounds of Peterkin seed cotton
got bale weighing 452 pounds--a little
over 40 per cent. of lint.
The printers Of Marion have organized
a Printers' Protective Union, with j. &.
Rogers, President, and James II. Evans,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The brickmasons have commenced lay
ing the foundation of the new Methodist
church at Anderson, and the walls will
soon be above the ground.
The congregation OF the Trinity Baptist
church at Florence has grown to such an
extent that new building is required.
The membership is now 1880.
A terrapin was picked up near Wood
wards, Fairfield county, few days ago,
on the back Of which J. Y. Brice had cut
his name with a pocket knife in 1869.
The letters are still plainly visible.
S. II. Cochran, of Abbeville county.
made 663 gallons OF sorghum moIasses
this season. On his own land he made
800 gallons, averaging about 100 to the
acre.
The Walterboro court house has been
examined and pronounced safe, though
repairs will have to be done to the plas-
tering. The jail has been pronounced
unsafe.
JAMES 4 uOuIpsoI, vi bue L lCkeub C6Utl-
mel, died at Pickens few days ago, aged
10 years. He was one of the oldest news
paper men in the State, having once
worked on the old Charleston Courier.
A difficulty occurred few miles from
Windsor some days since between Laza-
rus Wall and George Weatherford, which
resulted in tue latter receiving several
gunshot wounds, which are considered
| dangerous.
The Chester fair opens tomorrow. The
| attendance Is expected to be good, as the
attractions will be sufficient TO draw a
crowd. Extra trains will be run for the
| accommodation OF visitors from adjoin-
| ing counties.
The residence of Ex-Governor Manning,
| in Clarendon, has 100000 brick and con-
| siderable granite in its foundation alone,
and yet it shows the effect of the earth
| quake, several suggestive cracks being
visible in the porticO.
The blanks for the general election
! in South Carolina with instruc-
! tons for the use of the commis-
| sioners and managers of elections have
! been forwarded to the Clerk of the Court,
of the respective counties, by she Secrs-
| tary OF state.
Fire broke out in the general merchan-
! disc establishment of John Slattery, on
/ COucb sIItSt, GTeeuNllle. lew days ago,
and damaged the stock to the amount OF
/ $1,000 before 1T could be extinguished
| There was ST, 900 insurance on the stock.
! The origin OF the fire is not known.
The Synod of South Carolina assem- bic /
at Chersw Wednesday night in the Pres
! byterian church. The attendance of dele.
| gates was much larger than that on the
| FIRST day OF many previous synOds, a to-
| tai of So haying answered the roll call
! o. these 40 were ministers and 81 elders.
! Monday afternoon at 4 O'Clock the first
mail by steam between Laurens and
/ Greenville arrived at the latter place in
! charge OF the route agent, j. NJ. Keith,
/ and was distributed promptly at the post
| Office. Greenville can now communicate
with Laurens in two hours, whereas by
the old route mail required full day to
travel between those towns.
j. A. Mccullough. OF Greenville, has
| been elected President OF the Clari -ophic
! Society OF the South Carolina College.
/ MIR. McCulloueh will in June complete
! the A. y. and LII. h. course. He has
served as assistant editor and afterwards
/ editor-iE-chiet of the Collegian. and has
now received the highest honor that can
! be conferred by his society and fellow
/ students.
The State Democratic Committee held n
! short meeting at Columbia Thursday. The
/ committee found Democratic prospects in
/ the state as pleasant as they could wish.