The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-12
SOUTH CAROLINA.


issue a volume Of recollections.
The late w. Elmore Ashley OF Ellenton
left an estate valued at $50, 600.
The farmers of Edgefied will hold con-
vention at the court house on Nov IL.
j. +. Shand of Bishopville has recently
obtained patent on pea and corn planter
A new Catholic church has just been
built at the Mine creek section OF EdgeneId
county.
J. Smelling of Rel Oak, Barnwell county,
made 900 pounds of seed cotton on one acre
this year.
NJ. A. Thomas has been employed TO sur.
vev the lipes of the proposed county OF
Florence.
DR.. w. s. Reynolds, who died near
Backville on Nov 5, left an estate valued
at $l50,00O.
There is some talk of building a cotton
factory at Grants mill, seven miles from
Chesterfield.
Ernest f. Cochran of Anderson has been
elected an assistant to Gen. Del hemper III
Adger college
The question of electric lights is now agl-
tatiny the city of Laurens as probability
in the near future.
The ladies of Orangeburg have collected
81, 545 81 for the purpose OF erecting con-
federate monument
Seven bales of cotton were consumed by
fire on the plantation of Mr.. j. Clinton rat
rick, OF York, on Nov. 3.
The district parsonage of the Chester dis
trict of the Southern Methodist church has
been located at Rock Hill.
The gin house of Mr.. j. D. Whitesides, Of
York county, was destroyed by lire on Nov.
1. Loss 1000; no insurance.
Capt. J. P. Mi kler of Walhalla made
a. - In
his garden 80 Il bushels OF corn.
At Chester at the clerks sale for No
vambsr, three tracts of land, aggregating
40 acres, were disposed of at fair prices.
The Wateree Bridge Company has de-
clared a dividend of per cent. each for
the two quarters ending July and Nov. !.
Norman Richards, who has been clerking
ut the store of n 7. Purdy & Co. at Cam.
der, has opened general merchandise store
at Liberty Hill.
The fist shipment of cotton from Chester
over the new road was made last week by
W. Holmes Hardin & Co., one hundred
bales being the amount.
A. c. lizard has been appointed soliciting
agent for the South Carolina division OF
the Richmond and Danville railroad, with
headquarters at Rock Hill.
The usual special tax, of "a mills was
VOJeu On ny Gue ldApdy VI Iuo
Chester school district to continue the
graded school another year
Calvin Nelson, a young white boy of
Laurens county, was arrested the other day
on the charge of counterfeiting. A bung
ling attempt at nickels was his offence.
The Indian doctor near Bolton is eoorted
to have beel robbed of about 81 600 last
Friday night. Several persons, both white
and black, are charged with the crime
The Rev. NJ. j. Kreps has resigned the
pastorate of two Lutheran churches in Or
angeburg county to accept call to church
IN Virginia. The Rev. j. d. Bowles has
been called to the churches in Orangeburg
In Kershaw county, few days ago, J. B.
Osteen, a young farmer of Privateer town
ship, was married to Miss Fannie +. Pack,
who is well known throughout South Caro-
lima as the blind lady reader and musician.
FL. M. Ross, of Chester. lost his barn, farm
implements and eight bales Of cotton by
fire Tuesday night. There was also a slight
fire in town few nights ago, small negro
tenement belonging to E. p. Moore having
been destroyed
TIE national department of agriculture
las applied to the South Carolina depart
ment for the loan of their rice exhibit, now
in place at the Augusta exposition, the pur-
pose being to take it to Paris and display ii
w. A. Miles. of Walhalla, has pig 10
months old, of the Red Jersey stock, which
weighs now 60 pounds gross 1t measures
in length six feet three inches, hight two
feet four inches, girth around shoulaars i've
feet eight inches around the loin FIVE. feet
eight inches, around the middle SIX feet,
around small part of neck four feet.
John Harden (colored), who killed Ebert
Harden on Beach island in 1873, was ar
rested in Leesburg, Fla, on Nov. 1 and
brought to Aiken. He managed t0.fSnBpe
after his crime and lived for many years
without his whereabouts being known, but
the old saying, Murder will out" seems to
have proved true again in his case.
The following commissions to state volun-
teer troops have been issued: Second cav
airy, Springtown Mounted Guards, Barn
we'll county, first lieutenant. w. B. Kitsell !;
second lieutenant, George j. Besslnger
battalion of infantry, Fourth brigade, sur
geon, First Lieut.. I. B. Mellow.
The governor has pardoned Thomas Cor
ganus (colured), who was convicted before
Judge Aldrich at the October, 1883, term of
court of Horny county and sentenced TO in-
prisonment in the penitentiary for one year,
his offense being housebreakIng and lar
ceny The petition for his pardon showed
that the prisoner was q boy IL or II years
old. He had been IN the county Jail for
several months previous to his trial, and
was in very bad health.
A big riot occurred at Starr, on the Sa-
vannah Valley railroad last week Sunday,
| in which about thirty shots We're passed.
John w. Bowie and a negro got
slightly wounded, but no one was killed.
| The negroes came to the station armed to
kill John w. Bowie's son, but were pre-
vented by those present. Young Bowie
and a negro had a fight few days ago,
and this riot is the consequence. Seven
negroes were brought to Jail by posse
well armed with guns
The ticket elected in Kershaw county is
| as follows: For the House of Representa-
tives, w. ID. Trantham, G.. w. Moseley and
W. K. Thompson; for probate judge, e /
ward M. Boykin; school commissioner, b
| b. Clarke; county commissioners, c. w.
Berchmore, S. r, Kelley. r. w Hammond
sheriff, James l.. Haile clerk of court,
William Ciyburn; coroner, j. r. Goodale.
| There was no opposition TO these candidates,
nor to Nelson for solicitor Of the Fifth circuit
and Hemphill for Congress from the Fifth
! district.
Just as the federal polls at Lone Town
Wells precinct was being closed some ne
| groes, who were making themselves numer-
Gus around there. get to cursing a white
man. A fight casued, and the negroes
pulled their guns aud opened fire, The first
| shot took effect in the knee Of Willie Tur.