The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04

There will be an effort made to sepd from
Edgefield to the Congressional Convention
twelve delegates who will support Cleve-
! land-Mills bill DEMOCRAT to represent the
| Second district in the next Congress.
a difficulty between Mr. J. Frank Keilar,
white, and Thornton Hughey, colored,
occurred Thursday on the outskirts of
Greenwood, in which Hughey was dangcr r
ously shot by kellar in the thigh and face.
TIE Rev. J. Thomas Pate, pastor of the
Southern Methodist church at Florence,
has recently declined tempting offer from
a large Northern publishing house to take
charge Of its business in the Southern
States.
Barney Garrett, son of the widow Of
Ihos u. Garrett, died at Greenville, sud
DENY, few days ago, Of neuralgia, super
induced by an aching tooth. Some suppose
the young man died of an overdose of an
an@Sthetic taken to allay the pain.
A son of R. G. Sims. Of Lancaster county,
was recently walking through bis fathers
| fields. and while not looking he stepped on
| snake. He was bitten twice before he
uld jump out of tire way, but fortunately
nothing more serious than swelling resulted.
While a party of gentlemen were SEEMING
! in heedy river, near Greenvllle, a few DAYS
! ago, Allen Smith got into water over his
head, and was drowning. when Calvin
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! clinching him around the neck, both were
! drowned
The Rev. ]. w. Wolling, formerly of the
! South Caroiina Conference of the Southern
! Methodist church, who has been spending
! the past several years in Brazil as a mis-
| Sionary, has been forced to resign his posi-
! ton on account of bad health, and is now
| en- route home
Mrs. Lewis Wingo, near Wexford, was
killed by lightning Tuesday afternoon while
| she was sitting near this fireplace Two
children were in the room at the time but
were not hurt The husband and the other
children We're in the field at work, and had
taken refuge in an clubhouse.
The following ara the nineteen varieties
of cotton with which experiments are being
made Mt the Darlington station: William
son, McIver, Peterkin, Allen long staple,
Truitt, Chambers, Rogers, Southern Hope,
| Crawford, Miles, Mccall, bearing, JEFF
! Welburn, Excelsior Grassland, Winters,
| Herlong, Eureka, and Black Prolific.
State Treasurer Bamberg announces that
the floating of the 100000 of the new Az
| per cent. bonds is practically completed.
| Sufficient bids have been received to cover
the whole amount, but bids will still be re-
ceived for $4,000 or $4,000 more in case
! some of those who have already bid for the
bonds may fail to comply.
| The commencement exercises of the New
! berry College will take place on June 1919.
The address to the graduates of the Theo-
| logical Seminary will be delivered by the
Rev. II. S. Wingard. The alumni address
will be delivered by Burr James Ramage,
of New York city. Prof. F. Z. Woodward,
| of Wofford College, will deliver the literary
address.
A terrible tragedy occurred day or two
since near Wilkinsville, in Union county,
A negro man named Ben Cunningham was
working on the farm of William Byers one
of the largest planters in that section, and,
becoming enraged with Mr.. Byers, swore
he would eXterminate the whole family
Next day, meeting young William Byers,
the l6-year-old son of his employer he hit
him in the head with an ak, killing him.
On Oct. 81, 1856, there were rs companies
l. OF State volunteer troops upon the rolls; a
year later there were 81, and now there are
80, six old companies having been reorgan-
lied during the last few months. AS the
volunteer troops of the State are limited by
law to 100 companies, young men contem-
plating the revival of old corps, or the Or
ganization of new, have only ten chances
left. 1t is possible that companies at Cam
den and Lancaster will be revived soon.
If the militia appropriation of $500, 900
passes Congress, South Cardinals share will
be between Sl2,0 900 and $4,000 The cost
Of uniforming company of forty men with
the United States regulation uniform, OBJ
tanned at cost from the War Department,
will be about $500. At the present rate of
assistance rendered by the general govern
ment, all the South Carolina companies as
yet unprovided for will be fully uniformed
in the course of couple Of years without
cost to the State provided they adopt the
United States army uniform. This, it
seems probable, will be done. The militia
now have very fair equipment of arms.
A case of fatality from the use of faith
cure is reported from Darlington county.
Some weeks ago Annette, the daughter Of
w. NJ. Maness, a well-to-do white farmer
was stricken with dysentery, but the disease
soon yielded to the treatment of a regular
physician. In the meantime corps of the
Salvation Army came along, and with it
Miss Matte Gordon, faith cure physician.
Miss Gordon appeared at the girls bedside,
and soon induced her to leave off the doc
tors medicine and adopt the faith remedy.
The mother protested, but the child was
firm in her convictions, and refused to take
the doctors medicine. AS a consequence
the disease took hrmer hold, and with
nothing to check it ragged with more vio-
lence than ever Day after day it Slapped
| the substance of the victim, and with moth
ing but faith to sustain the system, she con-
tinued to sink. Finally, the physician was
recalled, and he called in other doctors in
consultation, but all their efforts were fruit
less, and the victim of the faith cure doc
trine breathed her last.
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