The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08

C. r. Spencer of BishOpville is now n
student at lie psic university in Germany.
The Aiken county loan and savings ba nk
will soon erect handsome three-story build
ing.
Col. ]. Otey Reed has retired from the
editorial management OF the ST. Georges
AelUs
TIE water-works for the use OF the Allan
tic Coast Line at Florence have been com
pleted.
Prof. j. L. Lesly has accepted the situa-
ton as principal of Mount Carmel High
School.
A new Baptist church will bs dedicated at
Trio. in Williamsburg county, on Sunday,
Sept %.
The business men in Florence are in ear
nest in their efforts to build handsome
new hotel.
The Lake City Light Dragons expect to
take part in the tilt at Charleston during
the gala week.
A county colored Farmer alliance has
been organized at Darlington, with MEM
bership Of 265.
Amity Lodge of Masons of Newberry
sent $25 to jacksonville in aid Of the yellow
fever sufferers.
Application will be made at the next
legislature for a charter at the Greenwood
Female college.
H. M. Chavis, a colored farmer of Orange
burg, has cotton i'll his field with sixteen
locks to the boil.
There was a very large increase in the
acreage planted by Clarendon farmers this
| year in sugar cane.
D. II. Russell has been appointed school
commissioner of Anderson county, vice
| Clinkscales, resigned.
| On the night of Oct. Ii the democrats Of
| Columbia and the surrounding country will
| hold big mass meeting.
| The fall meeting of the South Carolina
| Holiness Association will be held at Null
Inns, beginning on Oct. 0.
According to the account of W. G.. Peter
| son, SO 30 inches OF rain fell at Newberry
| between Jan. | and Sept. Is.
The Advertiser estimates the damage to
the cotton crop of lgefield county by the
| flood and freshet at S450000.
| The county commissioners think it will
| take 1000 to rebuild Abbevilles bridges
on the most economical scale.
| The Marlboro Democrat published a
picture of Doc Dargan, the colored boy re-
| Gently hanged at Bennettsville.
The Rev. N NJ Wood collected 81 600
around Rock Hill for the proposed Presby-
terra nfemale college at Columbia.
William Thomas, who lately died in Lex
| ington, Miss, left fortune Of $4,000,
which will go to heirs IN Pickens county.
The Flint Hill Farmers Alliance of
| Chesterfield county has determined to buy
no jute bagging unless the price is reduced.
The Rev. ]. A. Weston, rector of the
| Episcopal church at Orangeburg, has &C
cepted call to a church in North Caro-
lima.
The Baptists Of Pickens are making
strong efforts to huy the buildings of the
| Piedmont institute for q UNCONVENTIONAL
| school.
At Barnwell, Tuesday, Barnwell Still
was dangerously cut In the neck by john
son Black. There are doubts Of his re.
covery.
| A spring Of water has been discovered on
the farm OF the Rev. B. g. Covington, near
| Florence, the water of which is said to be a
cure for dyspepsia.
| A turkey gobbler belonging TO Newton
Candy of Darlington has recently Matched
brood of chickens from eggs on which he
set the required time.
The governor has offered reward of s75
| for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff Of
| Aiken Of John Harden, who, in 1873, muir
dered Ebert Harden.
| The governor has accepted the resignation
| of j. Nj. Whitmore, trial justice of Green
| vile county, and c. NJ Earle, q trial Justice
Of Spartanburg county.
The laying of rails on the railroad has
been completed to Edgefield, and the trains
now run within very short distance of
the spot upon which the depot is to be built
A reward of 800 each has been offered
for the arrest Of Thomas Smith and Wilkes
| Carter, who are charged with the murder
of Sam Comerall, in Chester county, on
| Sept. %.
The Rev. W. A. Potts, now pastor of the
Southern Methodist church at Graniteville,
has started the publication at Graniteville
of the Southern Youth, a journal for boys
and young men.
At Greenville, at meeting last week, the
| Butler Guards passed a resolution officially
accepting the invitation to attend the gala
week in Charleston. The Buffers will go
about thirty strong.
The position of librarian and treasurer of
the state university will be filed by the
| board of trustees at their meeting on Nov.
l. There are at present eight or ten apDli
cants for the position.
Sumter was struck by cyclone Tuesday.
The spire of the Episcopal church was
blown down, but did not hurt the church
at all, not even pane of glass being broken.
The steeple was not on the church itself,
but on separate tower.
w. T. Martin, a Columbia merchant, who
| has read OF the Willingness OF the republic
ans TO back up their man, asks the NeUs
| and Courier to announce that he has from
800 to $1,000 which says that Cleveland
will be elected, and that the money is ready
for taker at any time.
At Port Royal, Wednesday night, about
$50 o'clock, without premonitory indica-
tions, lightning struck the Live Oak hotel
SCATTERING the northwest corner and split
ting even the column and baluster on the
front piazza, a distance of fifty feet Mrs.
Fripp, an aged lady in feeble health, relict
of the late Maj. John Fripp, was so shocked
by the circumstances that she died Thurs
day morning Her funeral took place at
st. Helena Episcopal church, Beaufort.
Two little children met accidental deaths
in Anderson county, South Carolina, last
Friday. The 3-year-old son Of John Patter-
son was missed, and upon search being
made was found hanging from the beam OF
an old pair of scales in the cotton house. II
is thought he hung himself accidentally
while playing. The second death was that
of the S-months old child of Miles McGee.
The child overturned kettle Of boiling
water ON itself, which resulted in its death
in few honrs.
The Southeastern tariff Association raised
the rate OF insurance in Columbia 10 per
cent. because Of the city council increasing
the license of insurance companies $50 The
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