Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-06

! -ng before n with an open knife. When the
hog suddenly fell, striking Mr. Kelly's
arm and driving the knife into bis body,
almost disembOweling him. DR.. Dennis
sewed up the horrible cash and Mr.. Kelly
Is doing we'll.
Abbeville Press and Banner: Very few
OF our farmers cultivate more than small
fraction or their land. If the remainder
was put III pasture the profits would be
! more than doubled, Ii we were disposed
TO do 30 we could name farmer in a bbe-
vile county who bought u small farm
almost entirely on a credit. His farm Is
now clear OF debt, and this result was
brought about chiefly by raising colts and
/ selling good animal every year.
Marion Star: A petition is heing CIR
culated among the owners of land on Pee
Dee river for the purpose Of exempting
the swamp and lands contiguous thereto
! from the fence law. We hope the Repre-
/ sentatives will see fit TO support the dill,
/ ior large amount OF cattle WAS raised
IN the swamp previous TO the fence law,
| which helped support those living on the
river, especially in such years as this one.
! When all the crops were swept away by
the fresnets in the spring.
Anderson county is still ahead, and is
t bound to keep in the lead. After other
| places had produced trees that rained, she
came forward with tree that showed
| " do uOb 5uMCleUL. ana
! now she can produce a tree that bellows
ike COW. This tree 10 located few
miles north OF the city, aud was first dis-
| covered by little boy, who Informed his
| parents of 1T. Several persons have WIS.,
TIED the tree, and our Informant states
that they say 1T bellows at intervals like
a COW.
Palmetto Post: Ex-COngresgman Smalls
is evidently on a missionary tour through
Il nj
| informed that on Sunday last be visited
The Ladies' Island Baptist Church and
worked upon the feelings Of the assem-
| blage about $1S worth, that being the
amount reported collected by him for the
oetepslble purpose of contesting the right
cf the Hon. William Elliott to represent
this district in the Fiftieth Congress He
Is reported to have said that ne was not
making the contest tor himself, but that
the Repu blican voters might have justice
| done them, etc.
The thirty-eighth annual report of the
Commissioner OF the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Asylum shows that the building has
been completed according to the original
plans, and il now in Il flourIshing condi-
ton. During the fiscal year "a people have
been enrolled. The finances OF the in
stltution are in an encouraging condition.
| the receipts during the year aggregated
S12, 1913 50, of which $11,500 was from the
State appropriation. S5Si % from pay
pupils, and $l01 % from the balance of
the previous years income. The expen-
ditures were S1l,441 IA, leaving a balance
| on hand OF $757 "a. The board ask for an
appropriation for the coming year of
$l2,865,
r. d. Bolick, of Fairfield county, has
been experimenting in the cultivation Of
upland rice. When he planted his cotton
cr0n lH6t RprinU ha nj oHo
| 0ne-quarter OF an Gre in the middle of
one OF his cotton fields which was rather
sW2mpy. In this spot he planted upland
| rice at the came time he planted his cot
ton. He worked IL just as he did bis cot
ton crop, and when he harvested his rice
he found he had made about twenty-five
bushels in the rough. This, we are in
| formed, is worth about 81 SO per bushel
DE thinks that this crop can be grown
| successfully on our marshy lands, and
that 1t would pay far better than cotton.
At Columbia Thursday Mrs. Sallie F.
| ChaDln, in accordance with the instruc-
| tlOns OF the Woman's Christian Temper
| ance Union Convention, presented the lOl-
| lowing resolution TO the board of directors
OF the penitentiary. That as reformation,
| more than punishment, is the course to
| pursue with youthful criminals, the
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union Ol
| south Carolina do most respectfully zoe
| morialZe the Legislature, now in session,
In behalf of the juvenile criminals, that
| they may be separated from the older and
more hardened cOnvicts. and in bbhalf of
the women, that they may be accommo-
dated in a portion of the prisons set apart
exclusively for women. We leave all
| planning to the board OF prison directors,
asking their careful consideration 10 a
matter so vial TO our humanity, Chris
tlanity and civilization.
After the reduction OF Charleston
| (Which was at that time the capital OF
south Carolina by the British, on May II.
| 1880, the headquarters OF the State govern
ment were literally ia the saddle of Die
lator Jonn Rutledge. Ramsey, in bis His
| tory OF the Revolution in South Carolina"
says The tranquility that reigned
through every part OF the State gave an OPP
| portunlty OF ca ling an sssemblg =, the meet
| lnSs OF which lad been Interrupted ever
| since the reduction ofCharleston Many
OF the inhabitants who had never submit
ted to the British, and VINO had been
| lately delivered or exchanged In Virginia
ana Philadelphia, soon found their way
back to south Carolina. 1u their numb Der
were most OF the late civil officers
| of the State and N embIe
OF the Legislature. These favorable cir
! cumstaDces, In conjunction with the posi-
ton OF the American army, within 50
| miles Of Charleston, pointed out the pro
priety Of cOnvening the Legislature. In
the close OF the year 1881 Gov. Rutledge,
by virtue Of the extraordinary power
delegated TO him before the surrender OF
Charleston, issued writs for new cleo
ton. By the same authority
it was ordered that at an election the
votes Of such only should be received as
had never taken British protection, or
| who, having taken 1t, had, notWithstand-
ing, reJOined their cOuntrymen on or be-
fore Sept. -, 1881. A General
Assembly was chosen and convened In
January, 1882, atJackson borough, small
village, situate on EdIsto river. about 25
miles from the sea and 30 from Charles
ton"