Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-28

conversation with the negro about the Mot and
iet out much OF their proposed plans or opera
tions, all OF which was reported nv the man
uIueL e lle 9e1 S 70 the authorities of the peni-
tehIlary. colonel Lipscomb had fifteen or
sixteen OF the implicated convicts brought IN
and confronted with the proofs against them
when they found that they were detected
IN TINS matter, they began to ac-
cuse each other, and If came ont
that forty of them had made their
atIanS sI eilleEes I'm s 70 overpower the
gu1Iu on sunday morning, the first day OF
May. take their guns away and break out of
confinement. In the course of their confe3-
slons, they accused certains convicts Of having
couhterIeit money, made in the penitentiary,
silver dollars were found in the possession of
some of them Investigations being pushed
still further, two of the dies were found in the
room OF Inc %1ne guard Lowry, and this led to his
arrest Inc conVlets particularly implica-
ted are George James and Alexander
RODGERS Ootn colored James is from Ches-
Iernsld ana ms sentence is for thirty years. for
murder. Rodgers is from GrsenyilIe and his
sentence was for two years. for larceny. and
he has about six months to serve The dies
We're made OF plaster of paris. Two dies were
a quarter of a dollar die The latter Colonel
Lipscomb thinks has not been used 4 third
die was thrown into the canal.
DR.. E. II. Boykiu, the newly elected Suner-
4teh9ehI OF immigration, has returned from
New 1Ork. He spent a week in the metrOpolis
examining the practical details of his work
and viii prepare plan of operations to be
submitted 70 the Board of Aaricult ire. In an
interview with representative of the Column
bia Register he adverted to the family relation
as calculated to give permanency to the settle
InenI OF immigrants in any place, and seemed
to think it would be better for this State to have
large proportion of the immigrants brought
here composed of families and not exclusively
OF single men. He expressed a sense of the
importance OF having the fun cooperation Of
the people Of the State in his effort to intro
0uc6 the most SiraniR of inn,
giving them employment Offering them homes
on easy terms, and in many other WAYS which
VII suggest themselves as occasion arises
win this cooperation he feels confident of be-
ing able to accomplish all that can be desired
A lady of Brooklyn, New York, has sent
note and wreath of flowers to the Mayor of
Cokesbury {. c., with the request that the
flowers be placed upon the grave of Gen NJ
Northern lady to the memory of a brave man.
A beneficiary scholarship has been establish
ed at Erskine College, which is named in MEM
ory of the late Duane Mower of Newberry
The amount of the endowment of this scholar
ship is not to be less than $4,000. The follow
ing sums have been pledged to it.: Mrs Mower
OF Newberry, s. G.. 81 600; Mr.. r N. Hemphill,
BlackstOck, Il. c 500; Mr.. Joseph Wylie
Chester, S. c.. $500; Mrs Ann Wallace, of Ken
tucky (paid before her deathl, $500.
The statement of the operations of the
Granitevllle and Vaucluse Mills during the past
year, ending February 1S showed that the
b9l IA, and the NaucluSe Mill S31, sos 65 The
expenditures of the Graniteville Mill were S42 =
2ib 90, and the Vaucluse $4.U56 "a. The net
profits from the two mills was therefore 800
S93 As The dividends paid were S4SOO0
Amount carried to profit and loss S42 S93 as
Amount at credit of profit and loss March l.
1850 Sl25,6i9 76 Amount at credit of profit
ana loss March l, 1881, S16S,543 81. The earn
tngS amount to about Is per cent. on the capi-
tai stock, per cent. being paid to the stock
holders, ana the balance carried to the profit
and 1sS account. The requisite machinery has
been introduced for making and printing flour
sacks and other kinds of bags out of the cloth
manufactured in the mills This experiment,
the President says, has proved a success, ard
gives grand promise of becoming valuable
source of profit and an important market for
the consumption of a large portion of the pro-
duction of the mills. The working of the two
mills during the year has been sati factory and
nothing of mo ment has occurred to interrupt
the good order and harmony of the communi-
ties
Mr. Van Miller, of Munich, has informed the
Ladies' Memorial Association of Charleston
that the figure and plates for the proposed
monument in Magnolia Cemetery will be COM
pleted and shipped not later than October.
The E 'gefleld AdUertiSer says: The ap.
pointment of the Hon. Samuel w. Melton as
United States District Attorney looks more like
reconciliation than anything done by Repub-
lean President in twenty years. Judge Melton
is perhaps the very best selection that could
have been made by President Garfield and the
people OF SOuth CaFOlna VIII recognize IL as
such"
The subscribers for the stock of the Belle
monte Cotton Mills, of Sumter, S. c., will elect
directors on April 80 Last week about So, 600
was added to the stock.
Mr. Daniel Fry and Mr.. ]. W. Fry, of Lex
ington county, were brought before United
states Commissioner Stoeb3 ar last week at Co
lumbia. on a charge of voting both in that
county and in Richland. The witnesses for the
prosecution being absent the defendants were
bound over to appear again on the 29th in
Stant.
There is considerable talk of the Centennial
of Fort Gaphin. or as the British called it,
Fort Dreadnaught-' This fort. situated a
few miles above Ellenton, on the Savannah
led by Light Horse Harry Lee, the father Of
Gen. II. E. Lee, on May 2I, 1871. The good peo-
pie of that and adjoining communities have
determined to celebrate the one hundredth an
niversary OF its capture by military parade,
snReCh making etc