Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-05

6reenVllle's cotton recelOtS up TO Qale
for the season are u, T73 bales.
The school girls of Troy have military
company and base ball nine.
There is good deal of sickness report
ed throughout AbbeVille county.
After April the merchants of Marion
Will close their stores at o'clock.
An unexpected frost killed the peaches
in and around Dunkhn last week.
William Ederington is writing some
"reminiscences of Fairfield county.
The farmers around Cedar Grove have
all their lands broken and terraced.
Cabbage beds in the northern part of
the State Will have to be planted over.
The wood and iron shops OF MIR. G. w.
Price, of Barnwell, are being extended.
There is good deal of sickness report
ed throughout the country around Green
wood.
West q Black have recently put up
fine saw mill at Etheridge, in Edgeheld
county.
An alligator cooter was recently caught
in Kershaw county that weighed twenty
five pounds.
A religious revival, conducted by
Messrs. YOunge and Key, is in progress
at Williston.
~ pGIlblOu LAS beSu lOl WhlQG W NChs
Hazen asking that a signal station be es-
tablshed at Aiken.
A Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized at WlllistOn, with /.
A. BlantOn as president.
There are three murder cases to be tried
at the term of court which cOnvenes for
Aiken county on April II.
A movement looking to the building of
a hotel at Troy this summer on the joint
stock plan is assuming shape.
over 1000 acres of the best farming
land between Aiken and Midway Will be
planted in watermelons this year.
Mr.. r. l.. Pratt, of Ninety-six, has in
vented an improved device for holding
buggy shafts to the aXletree OF the
vehicle.
The farmers of Lancaster are thor
oughly aroused to the necessity of having
an enthusiastic county convention on
April D.
Peach trees in Fairfield are full of
blossoms and the present indications are
that there will be an abundant crop of
peaches.
Reese James, colored, of Clarendon
county, who was severely injured some
time ago, by tree falling on MIN, died on
March "a.
ne new III. DlOtu mas SbIfGu tue
Cedar Springs and Long Cane churches,
Of AbbevilIe county for thirty-seven years
as pastor.
T. j. Rogers, of Bennettsville, has gone
to Florida to defend young man from
Marlboro county who is accused with
embeZzlement.
The Baptist congregation at Due West
nave succeeded in raising sufficient
money to complete their church in a
handsome style.
The body Of Peter Chambers, colored,
who disappeared in December while
hunting, was found in creek near Cher
aw few days ago.
The location of the Maple Cane post
office in ColletOn county will soon be
changed and j. w. Gruber, Jr., will be ap-
pointed Postmaster.
Austin McGowan, cOlored, who went
through the late war as the body servant
of Gen. Samuel MCGOWAN, died in An
derson on March %.
The election to determine whether Ker-
shaw county shall subscribe $4,000 TO
the Chicago. Cincinnati and Charleston
railroad will be held on April "a.
The farmers of Anderson will hold a
county convention on Monday, April 3,
for the purpose of electing delegates to
the State convention of farmers.
A farmers club was organized at Lam
bert's store, in johnson township, w il
liamsburg county, on Saturday, March
20. Twenty-Five names were enrolled.
The Lancaster Greys, at a recent meet
ing, concluded to disband. new mill
tarY company will be organized by the
young men of Lancaster at an early day.
Thursday the jury, after an absence of
five minutes, came in with verdict OF
not guilty in the case against Charles
GOOde, for the murder OF Nash. in Column
bia.
}. X. burst & Co. propose to give
Greenwood what she very much needs
and has never had before-a first class
hall, with good stage and comfortable
seats.
W. A. Farmer, OF Allendale, has re-
Gently built two perfect miniature loco
motives. He has made an improvement
in the trucks, for which he proposes to
get patent
Senator John B. Moore, of Anderson,
has taken his family on a visit to his
brother IN California. He will be gone
about two months, but his family Will
spend the summer there.
The ninth annual convention of me
Young Mems Christian Association of
South Carolina, Will be held in Columbia
from . p. III. euuesudy, ApIu 10, u0Jll
10 p. m. Saturday, April Is.
The annual meeting of the survivors Of
che Fairfield division, Sixth regiment, 5.
G. ", will take place in the town hall Of
WinnsbOro on Saturday, April 10. Gen.
Bratton will deliver an address.
Mrs. Mary Booth, of Sumter, few days
ago lost her dwelling and most of her fur
nture by fire. The dwelling caught on
fire from a stOvepipe. The loss was part
ly covered by an insurance of $500.
Forest fires have been doing great dam
age to the timber and fences in Sumter
county. The dwelling of Mr.. Broughton
was saved with great difficulty and the
Jordan school was burned to the ground.
The suit of the administrator OF Jen-
ming A. Owens against the South Caro-
lima railway, for killing the latter while
coupling cars at Langley, resulted in
verdict for the railroad at Barnwell last
week.
There are probably more convicts in the
penitentiary now than at any previous
time, l,Ol5 being controlled by the peni-
tertiary authorities. Between 900 and
1000 OF these are either leased or en-
ployed.
The mail rider on the route from Cam
den 10 Tiller's Ferry has been arrested for
carrying concealed weapons. he gave
bond for his appearance at the June term
Of the Court OF Sessions for kershaw
county.
A live chess game il tho latest a nnraa-