Mr. Martin M. Arnold, of Dunklin, father of Col. R. B. Arnold, is quite ill at present. He is very old, being in the eighty first year of his age. Mr. D. H. Russell, the efficient and competent School Commissioner of Anderson County, was in the City last week. He visited the Graded Schools. William Dodson, colored, convicted of arson at the July term of Court for Greenville County in 1881, and sentenced to be hanged, has received a full pardon from (torn) Gov. Hagood had commuted his death sentence to imprisonment (torn) The prisoner was implicated in the burning of the Greenville Opera House, in which several lives were endanged, and for which three guilty parties were hung. Dodson was but 16 years old at the time, and his pardon had been recommended by the Solicitor, the Judge before who he was tried, and by Greenville's Mayor and Aldermen and also by Lieut. Gov. Mauldin, with over 100 other citizens. The Greenville Guards \This popular corps eleted officers on Monday evening, to serve the ensuing year. The result was as follows: Captain, J. W. Norwood; First Lieutenant, P. W. Seyle; Second Lieutenant, W. L. Bond; Third Lieutenant, J. C. Fitzgerald; First Sergeant, T. S. Mauldin; Second Sergeant, Walter Speights; Third Sergeant, R. N. Berry; Fourth Sergeant, W. W. Anderson; Fifth Sergeant, C. E. Edwards; Quartermaster Sergeant, A. G. Furman; First Corporal, F. P. Mimnaugh, Second Corporal, Eugene Hunter; Third Corporal, C. E. Hagood; Fourth Corporal James Goldsmith; Chaplain, Dr. J. A. Munday; Attorney, A. G. Furman; Surgeon, Dr. J. R. Wilkinson; Secretary and Treasurer, B. A. Morgan. Leigh C. Smith http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4730/index.html http://wallsoftime.tripod.com/index.htm