Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-08
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On Oct. % the registered debt OF Clareu-
! don county for the fiscal year ending Oct.
/ 81, amounted to sass 10. In all like't-
/ hood, when all the outstanding aims are
approved by the board, the debt Will foot
! up in the neighDOrnood Of s. 600.
/ John Bishop, Of Spartanburg, son OF A.
! j. Bishop. found one of Morgan's old
] musket balls, taken from the heart of
plank sawed by Martin d edwards from
tree cut on the Cowpens battle ground.
| 1t is little mashed aud indeuted.
David Williams, an old and respectable
/ citizen OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS years
- avs that ne never took dose of medi-
! cine in his life-never went on credit
with merchant but for pocket hand
| kerchief and three yards of shirting.
! The new Methodist church at Spartan
! burg is nearly finished. The pu pit has
| been ordered and is expected in a few
/ days. The chancel raili < and few In
/ ishing touches on the outside remain to
| be done, which can be easily finished In a
! lew days.
Many persons OF Spartauburg county
| arr now posting their lands. They do this
because OpOssum hunters, in dry season
like this, often set fires out that destroy
| fencing and burn all the leaves on tle
land and XIII the timber. Dogs often COM
init depredatIons.
! A buck with a white head and white
spots on his body was killed on Wacca-
nav, Georgetown county, recently, by
| John LaBruce. The animate mead strong
! ~ resembled goats in shape, and the
| horns, which we're very snort, curved
! backwards to the neck.
W. Il. Nimmons met with painful &C.
! cldent the other day near the depot at
| alfalfa. He was driving mule to his
| hHggy, on his way home, and it became
| frightened and ran away, throwing Mr..
| Nimmons out, breaking one of his arms
| and Otherwise bruisInV him.
/ The gold fever has broken out between
! Glendale and Pacolet. W. A Under sold
a small tract OF land, 2S1s acres. to an
agent of Boston mining company for
| $1,000. The same party rs buying land
| from some OF the farmers around at 50 ;
| an acre. K. G. Willis made sale of hi,
! place for $3.50. Should payinE
mine be developed in the neighborhoOd 1t
will give things boom.
The Loan and Exchange Bank, opened
at Columbia one month ago, is pi Ospering
| TO greater degree than was eXpe ted. A
| gentleman OF Acknowledged business
! sagacity was so much impressed by the
! sol'dity OF the institution that he has Just
| subscribed and paid for block of $4,000
| OF its stock. increasing the paId-up stock
| sub scrptiOns o so, 900. The bank has al
| ready 100000 deposited. The deposits are
| expected to be increased soon to $50. 600
| a number OF excellent loans have been
| made.
! The prisoners confined in the dungeon
OF The county Jail at Greenville made an
| unsuccessful attempt to escape Wednps-
day night. The jailer discover ed Thurs
| day morning that the mortar holding 10
| place one of the larse ston forming the
| outside wall had teen removed, and thai
| the stone was almost ready to be push d
| cut of the wall, when DAYLIGHT put stop
| TO the work. Torrington Taylor, the hero
| Of multitarious burglaries in South Caro-
| lima and in Georgia, planned the scheme,
and was assisted by six companions.
! FiftY-one cOlored persons, large and
| little, emigrated from one of r II. Walk
| er's places in Barnwell county 10 Arkan-
sas. The earthquake ed them of.
| When the emigration agents started to
| lock the ears in which they were being
| carried off some few became a armed, de-
| serted and came back, preterring 20 risk
! present ills rather than go Wost undo
lock and key. 1t is estimated that over
| 100 colored people from the Appleton and
| Beldock sections have gone to Arkansas.
and that others are making preparations
| to leave at an early date. The cOlOred
| people around Baldoc have the Arkansas
| fever badly. They are selling their corn
al 40c. bushel, so anxious are they to go
to "tbe Rock"
| In 1880 John A. Arnick, of Lexington,
a Uni,ed States pensioner of the war o
| 1872, died. For three years after that Mr..
James Shelley continued to draw quar-
| terIy AruIck's pension money. To do
! this Shelley had TO sign the name of Jbe
| dead man, and these signatures were wit
messed and certified to by Joe Keesler, Jr,
| trial justice of Lexington. In 1883
| Shelley died, leaving keesler to be re
sponsible for the part he took in aiding H.
| the fraud on the pension department.
! The offense is set down in Sections 542l
| and 5,43S, Revised statutes OF the United
states. The United States grand jury at
| Charleston have found true bill AGAINST
! keesler, and Friday a deputy marshal
| passed through Columbia with a bench
! warrant for the arrest OF the Lexington
trial justice, and with papers to serve on
number of Witnesses.
A few nights ago tour brothers, named
| Holiday, one Cochran, a cousin of the
! Holidays, and couple of tenants. die
| appeared rom their home, several miles
| from GreenVilIe, leaving behind families
| and ndpbtedneSs to merchants in Green
vile OF over $4,000. The parties are all
young men, connected with long-estab-
lished fam and known here as we'll
| TODD farmers. IL now appears that they
gathered at their own gin by night and
selling il under false names, presumably
in preparation for flight. Besides seven
mules, they took with them five or six
new buggles and one or two wagons r.
Gently purchased IN Anderson, and for
which thew owe. The families OF the
missing men deny any knowledge of their
, whereabouts, and so far no trace has been
obtained OF them or their route, although
the police are working the case. Some OF
the parties are in debt to merchants in
| Pelzer and w lliamston, and 1t il nor I'M
probable that the total defaication will b,
at least $4,000. K. y. Hellans aud W. :.
Gray are the chief creditors OF the al
sconding debtors.
AT Charleston Friday afternoon, while
the worbmen were engaged in digging
drain on Queen street. IN front OF the
! Roper Hospital, they struck ghastly
! ind IN the shape ola pile of human bones.
| The bones were ell In heap, and were
| evidently those OF three or tour persons,
as there were more pairs OF bones than
are commonly worn by any single ind.-
Viduai, living or dead. For instance.
| there were three pairs of hip bones. " It'll
| fragments 81 arms and ribs. etc, TO match
! None of the skeletons were com plete. he
remains were all much decayed, and bad
! evidently lain there for n qpod many