Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09

Aiken is to have twenty I've street lamps.
A large business is now done in cypress tim
Der up and down the Pee-Dee.
The taxable real and personal property in
Aiken county is valued at s4,SO4, l20.
A joint stock company, with a capital of
$4,000, is being organized for the building of
a hotel at MOntmOrenci.
Near TOwnville negro in passion at some
trivial Offense hOgged his young son so un
mercifully that the boy died in a few minutes
after receiving the ehastlsement.
Morris Island, s. c., is announced as
cautionary display station; it will repeat
Charleston signals. No night telegraphle
service will be arranged for or paid
While Gov Thompson's eldest daughter was
reading by CRATE in the Executive Mansion,
at Columbia, her clothing was ignited and
she was badly. though not fatally, burned.
State Senator Williams is the candidate of
the Georgetown county delegates TO the
sumter Convention to choose a successor to
fill senator Mackey's uneXpired term. Chas.
II. Sperry heads cOntesting delegation.
All the Oat crop in Aiken county that was
sOWn early in the fall is reported as a good
stand and looking well. The later sowings
were seriously injured by the severe cold IN
December and the stands are very defective.
At Lanes, on the Georgetown and Lanes
Railroad, young buck was found dead. The
animal got on the track. and as it could not
run as fast as the train il undertook to get
out OF danger, was struck by the engine, had
its throat cut and was disembOweled.
The Floral Exhibition of the South Caro-
lima \ Agricultural Association will take place
on the 18th, 10th, 18th and 18th of April, Easter
week. at Charleston. 1t is expected that the
tilt of the Charleston Light Dragons will be
held on the second day of the fair. Prizes for
floral displays VIII be offered.
A petition has been sent to Gov. ThOmpson
praying 4 cOmmutatiou of the sentence of
Wesley Butler to Imprisonment in the penl-
tentiary for life. Butler was convicted of
criminal assault on a cOlOred girl at the jan
uary term of the court and sentenced to be
hanged at Orangeburg on the l4th inst.
At auction. Monday, the somewhat notori-
GUS Red Top Church, in st. Andrews parish,
brought $l,525. The tract Of land measures
exactly half an acre, and is situated at the
junction of the old RantoWle's road and the
turnpike road near Johns Island Ferry. The
sale was made under decree IN the Court Of
Common Pleas.
The Hon. j. J Woodward has recently COM
pleted a handsome and cOmmOdIOus dwelling
for himself at MOntmOrenci, Aiken county.
He intends at an early day to construct
several neat and convenient cottages, which
he will furnish and rent to Northern visitors
at a reasonable figure. These buildings will
be finished in time for the next season.
Two sailors wanted as witnesses in the
Kennedy murder case at Charleston have
been held in prison since November p, cast
among all the criminals who have been in
earcerated there since that time. The dis
gracefulness OF such a state of affairs may
lead to an appeal to the Legislature to allow
the tars monetary compensation for their
hardships.
A decision has been arrived at by the ref
cree, John t. Rhett, Esq, of Columbia, in the
suit for $4,000 damages by the Bath Paper
Mil Company against w. c. Langley and
others. The testimony in the suit was taken
before the referee At Aiken some time ago
and the arguments heard shortly afterwards
at Columbus. The referee has found IN favor
of the defendants on all the issues in the case.
The committee of the Charleston City
Council on street lighting have invited bids
from the Gas Company and Electric Light
Company for lighting the city on the basis of
l,4O0 gas lamps foot buTners) or 200 arc lamps,
the lamps to burn all night, from sunset to
sunrise, and every night in the year. The
bids to be for stated amount per aDnum The
city to have the right TO increase the number
of lights or lamps, paying for the additional
lights or lamps on the basis OF the contract.
The bids to be received until March 20, u m