The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
SOUTH CAROLINA.

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Rice was under water at Oakley at last
accounts.
There is some talk of organizing mill
, tary company at Cheraw.
A charter was issued Thursday to the
Nonpareil Kaolin Company of Aiken.
Subscriptions for the new Al per cent.
State bonds are coming in pretty freely.
Leitch, the evangelist, has taken Cheraw
by storm Business is suspended while he
breaches.
commission has been issued by Secre-
tary of State Marshall to the Anderson
Cotton Mills"
The total omount of taxable property in
Aiken county in 1888 is 81 .53l SO This is
an excess Of $4,000 over the returns for
1887.
The Governor has appointed James c.
Mullins, NJ. D., of Marion, regent of the
asylum, to fill the unexpired term of DR.. j.
j. Ingram, deceased.
Mr.. Mannheim, the proprietor of the Com
mercial Hotel of Georgetown, has made all
arrangements to open hotel on the now
famous sea island watering resort, Pawley's
island.
The Department of Agriculture has added
to its collection Of stuffed birds several rare
specimens, among them remarkably fine
specimens of the wild swan and the cor
| mOrant.
Nearly all the owners of the district burnt,
over by the recent fire at Georgetown have
concluded TO rebuild their brick stores, and
one may expect better and improved build
ings to be erected
The school trustees Of Greenville have ac-
| copied plans for the new graded school.
| The building will be handsome one of
brick, tin-roofed, and with four large recita-
ton rooms. 1t will cost 1900.
The Town Council of Georgetown has
| given out the contract for opening new
streets ia the suburbs of the town, extend
| ing the town to conform with the amend
ment of the charter made by the Legisa-
| ture.
company in New York has decided to
erect cotton compress at Georgetown, and
the machinery Is now on the way. Mr..
Graves, Superintendent of the Georgetown
and Waccamaw railroad is at the head of
the enterprise.
A few days ago two colored women were
drowned i'll Winyah bay. 1t seems that
four mon and two women were in small
boat and squall struck them, upset the
boat, and the men chung to the boat, but the
women through fright gave up and were
| drowned
Miss Juliet Earle was drowned while at
| tempting to cross a Spartanburg stream on
| Monday last. She was a daughter of Rev.
| I. j. Earle, Baptist minister of Gaines
vile, and was in buggy with her brother
| Wnen the vehicle was swept away by the
current. He was saved.
A check for $4,000 has been received by
Maj. b. A. Muunerlyn, Of Georgetown
Treasurer of Prince George Council, Amer
lean Legion OF Honor, in payment of the
benefit certificate of Capt w. j. l.. Upte-
grove, late member Of that Council. The
check was received in two weeks after Mr..
| Uptegroves death.
few days ago, T. H. Davis, young
man about 10 years of age, was drowned
near Cartersville. He had taken his horse
into the water, but had taken off the bar
ness and put 1t around his own neck While
| trying to swim, the horse threw the man off
into the water and he became entangled in
the harness and was drowned.
The Town Council of Georgetown has
adopted resolution forbidding the storing
OF gun powder within the corporate limits
Of the town. The Standard Oil Company
has also been notified. through its agent,
that the storing of oil in the old warehouse
at the corner OF the Red Store wharf and
Front street must be discontinued.
John X. Ashe, of York, brought to
| Columbia Thursday, specimen of a stone
which admits Of high polish, is hard and
considerably heavier than granite. 1t is
| found In large quantities on a certain place
in York county. Mr.. Ashe WAS on his way
to Charleston TO try and have the resistance
to pressure of the substance tested
The commencement exercises Of Furman
| University will begin on June 10, and CON
tinue through June IA. The sermon will be
preached by the Rev. J. w. Ford, d. D., of
Charleston. The Rev. G. B. Moore, of
| Darlington, will deliver the literary ad-
dress before the societies, and Senator E.
B. Murray will deliver the address before
the Alumni Society.
At the request of the Commissioner of
| Agriculture, p. II. Loud, of Williston, has
furnished tho department statement show
| ing tho acreage in water melons along the
line of the South Carolina railway in Aiken
and Barnwell counties, for the years 1887 aud
1883, from which it appears that the num-
Dor Of acres planted in 1887 was 1868,
and in 1888 it was 1928, an increase of 430
acres.
Anderson is greatly excited over the
numerous fires there lately, which are be-
lieyed TO have been the work of an incendi-
airy. Monday the name of Mrs. M. T.,
| Reese proprietor Of hotel was connected
with the incendiary work. Five gentle
men, acting rs a com 'uittee, heard the sto-
RIGS Of Mrs. Reese and others, and decided
that Mrs, Reese was suspected without sutfi-
! cient evidence
Mrs Willie Hancock, widow OF the late
| Horny Hancock, who was a soldier in the
war of 1912, died at her home in Lancaster
county May IS. at the advanced age of 50
years and s months. Mrs Hancock has
been drawing pension for the past twenty
years, and would have suffered for the
necesSaries of life had IL not been for the
bounty Of the government She was the
last pensioner of the war of 1912 in Ian
caster county.
Nathan Williams, a middle-oged negro
man, who was employed rs "A workman at
the saw mid Of Herring & Howard, located
some fifteen miles southeast of Ed seiied. in
some way became eutangled in the ma
chinery day or two ago, and In his efforts
| TO eXtrcate himself was thrown upon a
saw, which played havoc with his person.
cutting Off his left arm at the shoulder and
almost severing his body. Immediate death
was the result.
Tho Commissioner of Agriculture has re-
ceived letter from the botqnist of the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture regard
ing the curious weed sent from Andersen
county by Major A. S. Todd. saying that
tbs weed Is botanically called silene antii-
rnina, Or, in common language, tho sticky