SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - NEWSPAPER - Spartanburg Herald 1875 ********************************************************************** SCGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed SCGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Contributed to The SCGenWeb Archives by: Nancie O'Sullivan 23 Jan 2001 ---------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875. The editor, Col. FARROW, is absent from his post this week, having been called to Laurens by the illness of his mother. A new post office has been established at Mountain Ridge, Sptbg Co. and .D. DAVENPORT appointed postmaster. We regret to learn of the death of a little child of MR.GEO. COFIELD, Cashier of the Sptbg. National Bank, which occured here last Thursday. The streets are all being put in good condition and the Town Council request that all the citizens have the sidewalks in front of their residence swept on next Saturday. Gen. J.B. KERSHAW has accepted the position of orator at the centennial of the Battle of Fort Moultrie, June 28, 1876. The rice planters on the Pon Pon, Ashopoo and Combahee rivers report the crop in a promising condition. GLENN SPRINGS This fine summer resort is now fitted and furnished to receive guests. The cottages have been raised a story, a new ten pin alley and a croquet ground leveled off. WALKER SENTENCED TO BE HANGED Alfz WALKER the man who killed the REV. MR. MILLER of Union Co. a couple months since has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the 5th day of AUGUST. ACCIDENT AT THE CROSSING As one of the engines on the Spartanburg & Union railroad was backing some box cars up the track, the front box car struck a mule and wagon crossing the track on Main St. There were three negroes in the wagon , two jumped out and escaped unhurt , but the other was badly bruised, being carried by the mule over a hundred feet. The mule was also badly bruised and the wagon injured. J.K. WHITE has opened a New Bakery and Confectionary , on the public square, just below POSEY & BROS. FANCY GROCERIES; Canned salmon, canned tomatoes, sugar corn for table use-very nice. Roasted coffee. T.G. MASSIE April 13, 1875. A new lot of FINE CLOTHING-Boots, shoes, and Gents' furnishing goods. I. MANN April 12, 1875. SHERIFF'S SALES FO JUNE, 1875. I will sell before the court house door the following property; one vacant lot in the town situated on the north side on main st. , twenty-five feet front by 100 feet in depth bounded by lots of A.H. KIRBY, and H.H. THOMPSON, levied on and to be sold as the property of T.O.P.VERNON at the suit of M.S. WOFFORD and M.N. & N.SMITH. 295 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS, LYING ON MIDDLE TYGER RIVER BOUNDED BY LANDS OF JAMES NESBITT, JACOB GRIFFIN, and others, levied as the property of NATHANIEL SMITH at the suit of ROBERT P. SMITH and others. 117 acres on the north by the NC State line, west by THOMAS MILLER, south and east by R.E. CLEVELAND, levied to be sold as the property of J.P.F. CAMP at the suit of THOMAS A., J.L., & G.W. Finch. 1500 feet of sawed timber to be sold as the property of J.J. GOFORTH at the suit of JAMES DILLARD. JOHN DEWBERRY, Sheriff's Office May 10th, 1875. GENERAL MERCHANDISE- my motto is to pay for cash! O.F. CHEATHAM. MR. P. ORR MILLER, has been appointed bt Gov. CHAMBERLAIN, Census Taker for Sptbg. Co. MR. GEO. M. EPTON, has opened a new stock og goods one door below MR. McMAKIN . MR. DANIEL MELLAN, one of the oldest citizens of this county died on last Sunday, at the age of 106. REV. C.T. SCAIFFE of Arkansas will preach in the Baptist ch. next sabbath. FINE STOCK-MR. THOS. M. JOPLIN treated us to a pleasant drive behind his fast trotting grey mare a day ago. No one can complain of not being able to get fine stock in Sptbg. A letter from a lady in Sptbg. states that last Friday an earthquake was felt at night , nine miles above Sptbg. Court House. Houses were shaken by the shock and great fears were entertained. The shock was felt in Henderson and Asheville, NC. April 21, 1875. HON. W.D. SIMPSON of Laurens is in town attending court. All owners who wish to escape the penalty had better have a ladder ready to get to the top of the houses when the Town Marshall comes around. UNION CO.-announces the death of MAJ. J. STARKE SIMS, one of the oldest citizens, he was " a gentleman of the old school", few of whom are left surviving. We are shocked to learn that JAS. K. MEANS, 15 yr.s/o CAPT. S.C.MEANS, accidentally shot himself while out hunting on his father's farm about 10 miles below Sptbg. March 2, 1875. MARRIED on the 6th instant, by REV. L.C. EZELL. MR. JESSE LEATHERWOOD and MISS SHADY WATERS, all of Sptbg. April 25, by REV. H.M. HAYNES, MR. A. HARPER to MISS SARAH TUCKER, all of Sptbg. on the 21st by REV. G. LEE, MR.DAVID F. MOORE and MISS WILLIE CALCUTT ,allof Sptbg. LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING UNCLAIMED at post office, April 17, 1875. L.S. BISHOP, JOHN HOWELL, MESSRS. KEEN & KENNEDY, REV. JOHN S. MARTIN & W.J. ORR. MR. MORTIMER CLOVER & MR. G.W. WHITEHEAD of Orangeburg died last week. Died in Greenville Co. on the 15th of June, 1875, MR.M.C.WINGO formerly of Sptbg. member of Baptist ch. ACRES OF SKELETONS UNEARTHED IN TENNESSEE- The high waters at the recent flood washed about four feet of earth from ten to fifteen acres of land lying along the Tenn. River near Louisville in Blount Co., Tenn. When the water subsided a strange spectacle was presented. The whole of the denuded area was covered with skeletons. Some were straight, some reclining, some doubled over, and some in sitting posture. There were forms of children, infants and full grown persons over 1,000 forms having been counted. Persons from the area have never known of this mysterious cemetery for more than half a century. The skeletons are not found in a mound, nor in what appears to be artificial formation of earth. **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************