The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-19
SOUTH CAROLINA.


dermen of Columbia will take place to-rnor-
| row.
The drift of opinion all over the State
seems to be in favor of two State conven-
| tions.
! w A. Sanders of Chester, will be a can
didate for Solicitor in the Sixth Judicial
! Circuit.
G. w. NJ. Williams is being urged to
run for the State Senate in Barnweu
| county.
1t is said that three members of the pres
ent State ticket are looking with longing
| eyes on the Governors chair.
In nearly all of the counties the scramble
! for office has begun, and candidates are
publicly announcing themselves.
The Oak Point Mines Company made
their return to the Secretary of State
Thursday and a charter was issued
The canvass for subscription to the Young
Mems Christian Association at Greenville
has succeeded in raising nearly 1900
Gen. w l.. r. Prince, of Cheraw, is the
only person thus far who has been suggested
as delegate at large to the National Con
vention.
There are five candidates for the State
Senate in Edgeield W. Scott Allen, James
Callison, G. P. Boozer, w. j. Talbert and
w. j. Ready.
There is strong sentiment in some of the
counties in favor of nominating Congress
men, Solicitors and the State ticket by
primary elections.
AS Senator Youmans, of Barnwell, does
not desire second term, his friends want
to run him for Congress against Hon,
George d. Tillman.
At meeting Friday of the incorporators
of the Greenwood National Bank it was an
hat oil nf "a
stock had been taken.
Thursday the Charleston Cotton Mills
filed with the Secretary Of State a notice
that their capital stock had been increased
from $3.50, 900 to 100000.
The Hon. Sampson Pope, who for four
years has been member of the Legislature
| from Newberry, has announced himself as
| a candidate for the State Senate
Some of the friends of ex-Gov. Shep-
pard desire him to run for Congress against
| Congressman Tillman, but it is said that he
has no ambition in that direction.
Lewis w. Simkins and j. B. Humbert are
| announced as candidates for the Senate in
| Laurens, and it is generally understood that
| Senator Crews will seek another term.
Shrewd observers of political events say
| that the Hon. ID. S. Henderson, of Aiken
can poll larger vote in a primary election
| in Edgefeld county for Congress than the
Hon. George D. Tillman.
Up to date 633 applications for pensions
have been properly filed In the office of the
| Comptroller General and are ready for the
action of the pension board, which will
meet about the end Of this month.
Col. II. Il. Farley, of the Third Regiment
of Infantry, has ordered an election for
Major of his regiment on Saturday, April
| IA next to fill the vacancy caused by the
| NJ mi A ~
vile.
The friends of Solicitor Duncan are anx-
| ious for him to make his run against Con-
| gre ssman Perry in a primary election,
| though they claim that he can enter a CON
vention with solid delegations from Spar
| tanburg, Union and Laurens, and in all
| probability from Richland.
Knowing ones say that Capt. George E.
| Prince, of Anderson, will lead off in the
preliminary skirmishes for the position
| of Solicitor in the Eighth circuit The
nomination will very likely be decided by a
| primary election, and it is expected that
several elections will be held before nomi-
nation can be made.
1t is rumored that there will be a cotton
| compress erected at Georgetown III the near
| future and inducements offered to cotton
| planters to ship their cotton to that port
| 1t is not great while off when Georgetown
will have line of steamers plying up the
| Pee-Dee river Negotiations are going on
now to that end and the scheme is backed
! by plenty of money.
1t is rumored that the Georgetown and
| Western Railroad Company has proposed
| to buy, or lease for term of five years, the
steamers owned by the South Carolina
| Steamboat Company. The object is to con-
troll the freight on the rivers centering at
| Georgetown, i'll the interest of the New
| York and Georgetown Steamship Line
The proposition has been declined by the
| South Carolina Steamboat Company.
The declaration of the "Acme Creosoting
| Company" of Charleston, has been filed in
the office of the Secretary of State, and a
commission was issued Friday The incor-
porators are: William NJ. Bird, Henry F.
| Welch and John Davis, all OF Charleston
| The business of the company will be ex-
tracing pine oil and dealing in the same
and carbonzing and dealing in timber and
lumber. The capital stock will be So, 900,
| divided into 26O shares.
Caldwell Jewell, son of DR.. w. b. Fewell
| of Ebenezer, is Il somnanbulist. A short
| time ago he left home to attend medical lee
| lures at Louisville, KY, and one night while
on the way he arose while yet asleep and
| deliberately walked out aud Jumped off the
| train This happened near Junction City
| The train was running at full speed at the
! time, but, STRANGE as it may seem, he
escaped without being seriously injured.
lie, however, received several cuts, one of
| which, four inch cash on the head, is a
| very painful wound.
Col. William Trenholm, Comptroller of
the Currency, the second honor man of the
| class of 1855 has accepted the invitation to
deliver the annual address at the next COM
mencement of the South Carolina College.
| The class of 1850, numbering sixty-six MEM
bers, was the largest ever graduated from
the institution. It's first honor man, C. w.
| Boyd, died in Europe while pursuing post
| graduate course of study. The class of
| 1919, of which Judge Simonton was honor
man, had sixty-four members, and the class
of 1850 of which Col. Rion was honor man,
sixty-three.
| Testimony is being taken at Greenville in
/ a suit brought by the heirs at law of John
| Timmons against the Elyton Land Com
| pany, of Birmingham, Ala. John Timmons
moved from Greenville TO Alabama in 1855,
and acquiring property there, died The
! property came into the possession of the
! Elyton Land Company. II now lies in and
around Birmingham and is valued at
| S4000 900. John Timmons' heirs live near
! Greenvillc, aud testimony TO establish the
| identity Of the deceased Tmmons and the
relationship Of the claimants to him is being
taken by commission.
At Columbia Friday the State House
mot "a ph opauN6 tho hide 9, 0sA