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Show A Sonth Carolina "Boom." New York, 3. The Tribune and Times have substantially the following follow-ing special: Charleston, S. C: Last Tuesday Frederick Nix, postmaster at Biackville, Barnwell County, was shot while in his office distributing mail. Nix was a colored man nnd had recently been appointed. He is chairman of the republican party of Barnwell County, and the most active and influential republican in the county. The shot was aimed to kill him, but did not. It pierced bis arm and passed across bis breaat. Ihe press of the slate have failed to men tion the occurrence. Another dispatch from Charleaton saya: There is terrible mortality among the convicts of the penitentiary peniten-tiary hired out to the Gresnwood and Augusta Railway, 100 out ol 225 having died during the year. |