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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. - A large sash, door and blind factory is about to be established in Spartanburg. - Governor Hampton is not expected to return to Columbia until about the 12th instant. - The Lancaster Ledger printing office, including the subscription list of the paper, is offered for sale. - By a majority of about eight hundred, Sumter county has voted in favor of a sub. scription to the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad. The first bale of was sold at Rock Hill on Friday, 23rd ultimo, by Mr. J. M. Williford. It was purchased by J. M. Ivy & Co. - A mass meeting will be held at Cross Anchor, Union county, on the 14th instant, for the purpose of taking steps looking to the formation of a new county out of parts of Spartanburg, Union and Laurens counties. - Attorney-General Youmans and Col. Treutlen have returned to Columbia from Massachusetts, whither they had gone, hoping to return with Kimpton. They are said to be "mum and grum." - A store-house belonging to Mr. A. G. Floyd, located at Graham's, on the Spartanburg and Union Railroad, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night last. - The Rev. James Rosemond, the colored presiding elder of the Methodist Church in Anderson county, has requested the ministers in his district not to meddle with politics, but to give their whole attention to their ministerial duties. - At a meeting of the stockholders of the Union Savings Bank, of Columbia, on Friday last, a resolution was adopted to suspend the business of the bank, and a committee was appointed to wind up its affairs. The deposits are small-about $10,000-and are supposed to be fully secured. - The work on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad is progressing. The iron will be laid down and the cars running to Fishing Creek, eleven miles from Lancaster C. H., within the next ten days. A depot is to be built at Fishing Creek without unnecessary delay. - The Edgefield and Pine House Railroad Company, have secured seventy-five convicts from the South Carolina penitentiary, who will be employed in grading the road bed. The road is but eight miles long, and it is expected that the line will be in operation by Christmas. - Governor Hampton is yet at Cashier's Valley, N. C., and is reported as not being well enough to attend to business, if, indeed, at all benefitted from his trip to the mountains. He, however, announces his intention of entering the campaign just as soon as his health will permit, and hopes to be able to meet every appointment made for him. - On Friday of last week, Miss Nannie Faulkner, a young lady of Lancaster, S. C., who was visiting the family of Mr. A. G. Reid, in Providence township, Mecklenburg county, narrowly escaped death by taking a dose of morphia under the impression that it was quinine. Her life was saved with great difficulty. - The Charlotte Home of Friday says: Mr. W.J. Anderson, near Clay Hill, S. C., who lives in the burnt strip which runs through Mecklenburg and York, reports that the outlook of the crops is not 80 gloomy after all. Five weeks ago, it did not look as if the inhabitants could make a living, but the rains have revived things wonderfully. In his field, standing in one spot, he touched on one row with a yard stick, 21 full ears of corn. - A mass meeting of the Democratic Workingmen of Columbia, is advertised to have taken place on Tuesday night last, for the purpose of nominating a full ticket for the various offices to be filled at the coming election, composed of persons in sympathy with the aims and objects of the industrial classes, and especially to have one or more representatives from the mechanical element of Richland in the House of Representatives. The County Convention of the Demo-
