The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
General News.

ported bv municipal taxation, furnish
education for over 5000 pupils, white
and colored. "
w. G. Mitchell. who resides near
Batesburg, found genuine diamond
on his premises, which chemists assert
is worth fully SG5,GOO
THE names of Hons. W. c. Benet, of
Abbeville. and B. T. Whitner, of An
dersOn. are mentioned as successors to
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken.
THE childred of the late VIM. Gilmore
Simms, Esq, are about to come lntopos
session of $40, 100000, through the death
of relative in England.
On March % Rock Hill decided to
subscribe $4,000 to the Cincinnati
Charleston and Chicago Railroad. The
vote stood, subscription 636; opposed
124.
ALDERMAN Henry Douglass, Laredo
Texas, was killed in a saloon by a man
named Menlv. There is much excite
ment and threats of lynching are freely
made.
4 cyclone in Bullock County Alaba
ma, struck a negro church in which a
funeral was going on; the building was
blown down, four persons killed and
ten badly injured.
Four or five Thousand persons are
thrown out of employment by the Key
West fire. Provisions are scarce and
much suffering is feared. Insurance
was less than $4,000. -:
A young man named Madison, from
Alabama, either attempted suicide or
was mortally wounded near Asheville,
n. c., few days ago. There is consid-
erable mystery over the affair.
A number of railroad strikers have
been arrested throughout the West and
will he prosecuted to the fullest extent
Of the law for felony, conspiracy and
interfering with the running OF trains.
\ sheet-iron "bagging" for covering
cotton bales has been patented and as it
will be us cheap as common baggiDg
and protects the bales much better, it is
claimed that it will soon be in general
use. ..
A fire at Bronson, Michigan, destroy
ed new block Of brick stores. Mrs.
Timothy Hurley, wife Of baker, with
her 15 year old daughter, were burnt to
death, and the father and three children
badly burnt.
THERE are probably more convicts
in the Penitentiary now than at any
previous time, LOIS being controlled by
the Penetentiary authorities. Between
900 and 1000 of these are either leased
or employed. Z
THE Kingstree County Record says:
"Mr. J. &. Tisdale killed a coal black
wild turkey gobbler and white wild
turkey hen few days ago on Black
river. Wild turkeys have brown plum
age, we are told, and wild white turs
key is Ta7a a0iS, -.'.. ..''
Lucy Moore, an old colored woman,
while returning from the funeral of
ner daughter At Simpsons Turnout,
on the G. G. and A. r. r. on Tuesday,
fell in front of passenger train while
trying to cross the track and was
ground to pieces.
Mr.. John Carey, a school teacher, who
lives in West Wateree, KerShaw coun-
ty, shot himself dead on Monday. His
mind had been effected from i'll health,
and it is supposed he was insane Wtesz
he committed the tragic deed. He was
useful and respected citizen.
MRS. PAUL TRUE, aged ninety-five,
of Pittsfield, n. H., very foolishly omit
ed the whooping cough from her list of
infantile ailments, and is now down
with that disease, but expects soon to
be about her work again. This is q
pretty tough story, but it's true. -
Richard Singleton, colored eX-con-
vict, who had been arrested On a charge
of burglary and grand larceny in Col
Teton, made his escape and upon resist
ing arrest was shot and killed by a
colored constable. \ mixed jury re-
turned a verdict of justifiable homicide.
NEARLY $1,000 has been raised for
rebuilding the Baptist church at Gran
itville recently destroyed by fire. The
new church will he erected on Mont
gomery street, most desirable lot
having been presented for that purpose
by the Graniteville cotton mill compa-
ny.
A dinner pot containing $4,000 in
gold and silver was ploughed upa few
days ago by Mr.. Joe Caughman, while
working in field on Mr.. Godfrey Har-
mons place on the Saluda river in New
berry county. y tradition has long
existed of buried treasure in that Sec
tion.
BUTLER Malone, son Of the renegade
Virginia senator, has been convicted at;
Washington Of an assault against
colored man at whom he fired Il pistol,
and fined 800. He WAS acquitted of
assault with intent to kill on the
ground that he was too drunk to form
an intent.
TIE acreage in melons along the
South Carolina Railway, Augusta Di-
vision, will be largely increased this
season. The returns, so far received,
show that four thousand acres will be
planted between Aiken and Midway.
No fear is entertained that the North
ern and Western markets will be gIut-
ted.
DESTRUCTIVE floods occurred last
week in Tennessee. Alabama and North