The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-20
SOUTH CAROLINA.

There is some talk of establishing an ice
factory at Anderson.
Capt F. NJ. TRIMMER, for the last twenty
years clerk of the court, died at Spartan
burg Friday.
During the tournament, which ended at
Columbia Thursla the sportsmen shot
away 2,2s2 clay birds.
The county commissioners of Georgetown
borrowed $1,000 recently for current ex-
penses Most of it has been spent.
J. E. Wannamaker refuses to yield to the
request of many of his friends to become a
candidate for the state senate from Orange
burg
Gen. Edward McCrady, Jr., of Charles
ton will deliver the address at the meeting
of the Fairfield survivors association, in
Winnsboro, on Sept. l.
The Hon Leroy +. Youmans has been re-
tanned to conduct the suit that will he
brought to break the Clemson will. The
Lees evidently intend to break the will if it
can be done.
The State agricultural department has
received from Paul Mabus and John Rey-
nolds Of Batesburg some superb 'Bucking-
ham, apples, three of them weighing to-
gether two pounds.
Cumberland Gap road was shipped from
Lakeview on Aug. Z, and consisted of two
| carloads of sandstone, consigned to B. p
| Chatfield, Aiken, S. c.
Tie declaration of the Magnetic iron and
| steel manufacturing company of Blacks,
York county, was filed Friday in the office
of the secretary Of state and a commission
was issued. The capital stock proposed is
| $4,000
The republican convention of George
| town county met Friday and ratified the
compromise ticket with the democrats.
| Four delegates were also elected to the
| Seventh congressional district convention,
with instructions to vote for I. E. Miller or
| Beaufort
The Spartanburg gas, electric light and
power company, having filed its declaration
with the secretary of state, received COM
mission Wednesday. The corporators are
Alexander II. Leftwich of Greensboro, n.
| G., and Andrew f. Moore and H. E. Helm
| itsh of Spartanburg. The capital stock will
| be $50, 900, in shares of $50 each.
At Columbia Friday O squad of convicts
began the work of digging the drains in
which the sewer pipes from the state house
will be laid. These drains will be about 8
feet Deep and will begin from the walls of
| the building on each side of the front steps,
and will meet at the lead of the drain
already dug from the state house to Gervais
| street.
At Prosperity the Norman drug store
was entered on Friday night, Aug. 10, and
| jewelry and goods were stolen to the value
of $3.50. The thief or thieves evidently had
a regard for time, as seventeen watches
We're stolen valued at $50, and other jew
| elry, valued at S25, with tobacco and pock-
etiniyes. valued at IS. Some of the same
| jewelry was stolen about two months ago
! and was returned.
The little town of townsville has made a
wonderful Improvement in its business
| during the last ten years. Ten years ago
the postoilics only paid about SO per month,
| and now it pays more than Sl2 per month.
| Ten years ago the town shipped only about
| 200 bales of cotton; during the last season it
Slipped over 1000 bales. The town, too
has improved in many other respects. Tho
business men are enterprising, aud thg little
place is continually improviugyJ ''fllD
Isaac Heatherington, "a white inmate of
the county poorhouSe- 40 urangeburg,
| wandered away from there on Tuesday OF
last week, and could mob DO found till the
! following Friday, when be was discovered
| in rice field about mile from the poor
! house, dead. An inquest was held over his
body, AMI The corouer's Jury rendered the
| verdict: THAT deceased came to his death
| from natural causes Heatherington was
very recently declared an imbecile by two
physicians appointed to make an examina-
ton as to his alleged lunacy.
West irwin was shot ana instantly Killed
by LIE, Anderson Wednesday on Mr.. II. r.
Wright's place, four miles east of Edgeiald
T weapon used was u shotgun loaded
with No. 2 shot. From the character of
the wound the parties must have been
within few feet of each other, as tho en-
tire load was emptied i'll the left breast OF
| the deceased, producing fearful wound.
| One report has it thGt the shooting was ac-
| cilenta, while ano her says fight was in
! progress between the parties. Anderson
has left the scene Of homicide. All the par
ties are colored.
The superintendent and the physician of
the penitentiary returned a day or two ago
! from visit OF inspection to the convict
camps on the Eutawville railroad. At SUM-
merton, in Clarendon county, there have
been two camps on this road occupied by
over 100 men, and it was found that there
was an epidemic of dysentery prevalent at
] one OF them. Many Of the hands were