The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05
SOUTH CAROLINA,

SOUTH CAROLINA.
Greenville has a new ice manufacturing
company.
Only PA liens have thus far been recorded
in the Clerks office at Lancaster.
Fourteen families of colored people re-
Gently left Newberry for Arkansas.
New machinery is being placed In the
| Dixie gold mine, of Lancaster county.
The Sunnyside Cemetery Company, of
Orangeburg, has declared dividend of Z
per cent
The Laurens Iron Manufacturing Com
pany have about completed their large ma
chine shop and foundry.
A signal station has been established at
Conway, with J. &. Rogers, publisher of
| the Horny Herald, in charge.
a town to be called Chaplin is being sur
veyed on the line of the proposed Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens railroad.
Chinch bugs are appearing in York and
Lancaster counties They are doing much
damage to the small grain planted last fall.
The new Methodist Church at Abbeville
will be dedicated on Sunday, March II.
The sermon will be preached by Bishop
Duncan.
A telegraph line has been completed to
| Conway from Bucksville. A telephone line
is also projected from the latter place to
| Port HARRISON
Representative Hemphill has recon-
mended the establishment Of a new post
| office at Granite, York county, with Samuel
| Hague as postmaster.
| Hon. j. S. Werner, the Comptroller Gen
| eral, has consented to deliver the commence
ment address at the commencement of Gin
ton College on June %.
Col. j. P. Thomas has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver the Grafton at the 183d ami
versary meeting of the Winyah Indigo So
ciety of Georgetown in May.
The building erected at Columbia for the
| Vienna Brentwood Factory and since the
| collapse of that concern unoccupied, is to
| be converted into cotton mill.
Mr.. Burnett, cashier of the National Bank
| of Spartanburg, was at Edgefield last week
voluntarily offering, upon reasonable condi-
lions, to establish bank at that place.
At Abbeville Thursday the residence of
| Mrs. Perrin was burned to the ground
| The house was insured for 81 500 in the
| New York Underwriters Agency. There
was no insurance on the furniture, of which
| very little was saved
The spring term of court for Horny
| county will convene on March 49, Judge
| Hudson will preside. There is but little
criminal business on the docket. On the
| civil docket there are number of cases of
! Importance, among others q suit for $40 900
| damages for Islander.
The Pelzer Manufacturing Company have
| begun work on the new mill at Peizef I'm adj
dition to mill No. 2, which is in course of
| construction, and which is now nearly
ready for the roof. Mill No. will con
sumo about 1000 bales of cotton annually.
Work was begun on it several days ago
C. l.. Rountree, of Dunbarton, is in
trouble. He has more corn than he has barn
room. Besides last years crop he has 200
bushels brought over from 1886 To
keep from building more houses he will not
plant any this year except for table use.
He hopes to reduce his surplus by Christ
mas.
At Anderson, a day or two ago, Jasper
Davis, the wife-murderer, who was con
| victed at the February Court of last wear
and whose appeal the Supreme Court had
failed, was re-sentencod by Judge Norton
| to be hanged on the 23d day of March, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock a. H. and 3
o'clock p. IN.
1t is suggested that as the State will need
permanent storehouse for its military sup
plies, it would be good plan for the Co
| lumbia military companies to unite with
the commonwealth in putting up a building
| which shall answer the double purpose of
State armory and company drill-room and
headquarters.
Az Obluulbit, u general rights
! license was granted the Oak Point Mines
Company. The application of j. b. Hull as
! agent for Hammond, Hull & Co., of Savan-
nah, for a general rights license was refused,
the applicants not being citizens of the
State, and therefore debarred by law from
| the privilege sought.
The Rev. w. L. Pegues, of Conway, met
with a serious accident Monday. While
cutting a gourd with a pocket knife, the
knife Slnpal and tod his 1aff
above the wrist, severing an artery. The
bleeding was profuse, but was arrested and
the artery lgatured by DR.. +. Norton. The
patient is doing well.
News has reached Edgefeld that Mrs.
James \. Holland, wife of James Holland. a
young and wealthy farmer of the Richard
sonville section # the county, has been pain
fully and perhaps fatally wounded by the
| accidental discharge of gun. 1t seems
that her young son, who was handling the
gun discovered that while il was loaded,
there was no cap on the tube and he sup
piled the deficiency with the head of q
match. He then rested the gun on chair
and left the room. His mother came in and
passed the gun. just at that moment the
match ignited and the gun was discharged,
the load taking effect in the left cheek and
eye. While il is hoped that life will be
spared, it seems almost certain that Mrs
Holland will lose one, if not both of her
eyes
AT Chester the talk of the town for sew
eral days has been the peculiar matrimonial
adventures of DR.. Dc Atkinson, druggist
OF that place. On Feb. 1, Dr.. Atkinson
went to Gaiiney to marry Miss Little, OF
that town, but returned home the next day
without his bride, having been disgruntled
at finding his intended off buggy riding with
another man. when she should have been
preparing for her marriage with him. A
correspondence followed which resulted in
a reconciliation, and an appointment to
meet at Black Station ton days later The
appointment was kept, and the two were
united in bonds that have since proved to
be anything else than holy. The
ceremony took place at the de-
cidedly original hour of 1 o'clock at
night. The newly married pair went TO
Chester and secured board at Nails Hotel,