The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27

The department Of agriculture has re-
calved the agreeable notification from the
South Carolina railway that all exhibits
shipped to the department on that road VIII
be transported free of charge
Several new residences have been recently
completed and there seems to be general
feeling that Ander2on is beginning TO move
forward and up Nard. The brick are now
being laid down for the new hotel
The galvanized iron ceiling of the state
library Is now in pos tiou, aud it is ready
for the painter. This will probably be,
whom completed, handsomer than tho cell
ing Of t"e house or senate chamber
The new bank building at Greenwood is
steadily advancing. The other new brick
bindings will soon be completed. The new
ticket office and depot of the Columbia and
Graenville railroad is about completed.
Whil9 tina area OF sorghum has not been
increased in Snartanburg county this year,
| many new mills and evapora ors are going
| out. The people will be better prepared to
grind it mp this year thaI they were last
On Edstn island caterpilars have been
found in limited numbers several local
tiles, bat they excite but little apprehen-
sion, owl TO thc ripeuess of the crops
and the intense heat of tae past few weeks
A few weeks ago a negro man killed him
self by tho accidental discharge Of pistol
within the limits Of Greenwood. A few
days ago another negro, in the Phpnix
neighboyhooG, shot off the TOP of his sweet
hearts head, killing her instautly
The old gas company at Spartanburg has
been absorbed by new company, of which
A. II. Lcftsich of Greensboro, N. c.; H.
E. Heinish and A. t. Moore of Spartan
burg aro the incorporators and directors
| The stock has been taken, and the new com
pany has begun operations
| 1fvapc (f,oloradN who 4 l. Ia
wife near Ridgeville last November and
escaped. was arrested Wednesday at the
turpentine farm of Weeks & Milligan, in
| Clarendon county, by J. NJ. Rowe of
Orangeburg. A reward of 800 was offered
| by the governor for his arrest.
brennan & Gill have erected commodi-
Gus business house at Richburg The Rich
mond and Danville railroad company have
| just completed handsome depot Three
| depots have been burnt. and each time they
have rebuilt better one. Richburg is a
distributing point for five places
A convention was held Friday at Gads-
den for the purpose of electing delegates
| from Richlaud county to the Seventh
| district republican convention, which
meets at Lincolnville on Sept. IL. John f.
Lopez and Ellison NJ Weston were chosen
delegates, and resolution was unanimously
passed indorsing Brayton for congress.
| Brayton is in the field.
Mrs. Marguerite A. Cook, wife of ex-Judge
| Thompson f. Cooke, died at the latter's
residence in Greenville, Wednesday, after
| lingering illness, aged AZ. She was a
| daughter of David and Eliza Fortick, now
living in Lexington county, and was born
and reared in st. Matthew's parish, Orange
| burg. She had been IA member of the Bap-
fist church over thirty years.
State Chemist Philip E. Chazal has mott
| tied the commissioner of agriculture of his
| intention TO resign his position on the COM
| plotion of the analytical work of the pres
| ent season. Mr.. Chaz3I viii probably leave
| Columbia about DEC Eext, aud will pro-
| coed to Charleston, where he will enter the
| well-known laboratory of DR.. G. u. Shop
| ard. He has occupied the position of state
| chemist since May, 1888.
| A few days ago Mr.. Lyon of Branchviile
asked his son Richard, youth of about 10,
| to let him a letter that he happened to
draw out of his pocket in his presence. He
read it, and, to his surprise, found that it
| was from a gentleman from Charleston
thanking Richard for having rescued his lit
tie son from drowning while in bathing in the
| Edisto. / his happened several weeks ago,
! but hir. Ligon had never heard of it before.
| The Butler Guards and Greenville Guards
| of Greenville and the Mauldin Guards of
Mauldin have accepted the invitation of
the Plckens Guards Of Dacusville, in Pick
ems county, to participate in a picnic ct
| Dacusville on Sept. /. From forty to fifty
families of the best people of Pickens are
known to be preparing for the festive Occa-
| sion and great many Others will doubt
less join them. Many will go from Green
vile.
There have been two attempts to WI eek
the night train near the depot at Kngstree.
An obstruction, consisting of cypress lum-
Der, was first put across the track, but the
car wheels cut it in two without receiving
| any injury The next time eros sites were
| used, and would, perhaps, have proved fatal
but tor their discovery by a gentleman
passing by before traiu time. One attempt
| of a like character has been made near
| Lanes.
A very serious instance of poisoning hap
pened to the family of James Stokes, who
lives about five miles below Orangeburg,
last Sunday. Eight persons were
poisoned, all the members of the family,
two lady visitors, and two servants.
Mr.. Stokes himself is critically ill, and it
is not expected that he will recover, but tho
others are improving. Il is thought they
were poisoned by ice cream that they ate
last Sunday at dinner.
Rchburg had quite an innovation last
Saturday, in band of colored regulators
Calvin Hlcklin, a notorious character was
severely whipped with wagon whip by q
party of negroes numbering eight or ten,
about 3 o'clock on Saturday evening Cal,
win has been in several sorapes recently. On
Saturday morning he beat and cut one OF
his children severely This so aroused the
indignation of the negroes that they deter
mined to punish him.
Two unknown persons arrived in Sum
merville Friday, but information concern
ing them had already been received and
they found it impossible to obtain accomo-
dalton. They stayed about to Sn until the
S:35 train arrived from Charleston, bring
ing Detective James Hogan, who got on
to the suspected parties very suddenly, and
gave them a choice between leaving town
Immediately or spending fourteen days at
the James Island laZaretto. They preferred
10 leave the town, aud when last seen wore
| footing il toward Columbia.
Capt William Miles Hazard Of George
town writes TO the commissioner of agri-
culture from Ashevile, N. c., and reports
that black measles has broken out among
the negroes on his plantations on the Saat o.
| river, and has become an epidemic. Mr..
| Hazard states that thirty negroes have
| died of this disease on his two pantai ions
He asks Commissioner Butler 10 report the
matter to the state board of health for in
vestigation. The letter of Mr.. Hazard
was Immediately mt to Dr. Frazer OF
Charleston, the secretary Of the state board
of health.
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