The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13
SOUTH CAROLINA,


DIR. p G. Rockwell, of Aiken, died day
or two ago.
IAN effort is being made to build an Epis-
copal chapel for coIored people in Sumter
county.
A charter was on Wednesday issued to
the Charleston Cotton Mills; capital stock
$3.50, 600.
At Lancaster efforts to build cotton
factory and to establish a national bank
are being made.
The Beaufort District Troop will send
squad to Savannah to engage in tilt there
on Washington's birthday.
At Greenvile the County Commissioners
have ordered an election on the question of
license or no license in the county for
March Ia.
E. r. White, of Charleston, and Frank
Niernsee, of Columbia, have been chosen
resident architects of the State capitol at
Columbia.
will be inspected by Adjutant and Inspector
General Bonham, and will be reviewed by
Gov. Richardson.
The long talked of transfer of the Colum-
bia and Greenville telegraph plant to the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
been consummated.
Isaac Nettles colored, who was convicted
of arson in 1873 in Darlington county, and
sentenced to life Imprisonment to the peni-
Tertiary, was drowned in Broad river at
Columbia Thursday.
A loaded parrot she'll one of the last
| relics of Sherman's visit, nearly twenty
three years ago, was dug up in Columbia
on "Wednesday. 1t buried itself in the soft
earth and had not exploded.
A commission was ON Wednesday issued
to tho Capital Cotton Mills of Columbia.
| The object of the mills is the manufac-
ture of cottou and similar goods. The
capital stock will be 100000.
The Spartanburg City Council has appro-
priated 81 900 for the entertainment of the
military encampment, provided Spartan
burg is selected. This will be heavily in
creased by private subscription if neces-
sary.
Some of SpartanburgIs business men are
talking about building another cotton mill.
| They went out Thursday with an engineer
to examine the shoal at Carriers mill, on
Lawson's Fork, two and half miles from
town.
Prosperity is to have bank, and it must
| be attributed to the firm of Wheeler d
Moseley. The bank will be private one,
under the management of the firm, and will
be opened as soon as the books are obtained
from the Walker, Evans q Cogswell Com
pany.
The Secretary of State has issued a com
mission to the Standard Cotton Mills of
Rock Hill. The business of the company
will be buying cotton and manufacturing it
into yarn and cotton cloths The capital
stock will be 100000, divided into 1000
shares.
1t is noted as an indication of the loss in
prospective colored voters which South
Carolina is enduring on account of the Ar
kansas exodus, that a party of negroes who
passed through Columbia the other day on
their way to the West consisted of two men,
four women and sixteen children.
Mrs. Phillips, a white lady some so odd
years old, made last year thirty odd bales of
cotton and plenty Of corn, peas and potatoes
on Capt. G. O. RileyS place, IN Great
Cypress township, Barnwell county. She
plowed an OK and did all the work of pre-
pairing, planting, cultivating and gathering.
This year she has bought a mule and is
already ready to plant.
At Columbia the foundations of eight of
the fifteen piers of the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens railroad bridge have been Se-
curely laid. Three Of the piers have been
completed, and four approach completion.
The greater and far In harder part of the
work on the piers has now been done The
piers will cost about $50 900, and the last Of
the superstructure will bring the figures up
~ "A round 100000.
At Abbeville last week Jesse G. Ellis sned
g. w Cromer for $4,000 damages for
SANDER. The defendant charges, or is al
legged 20 have charged the plaintiff with
alternating the affections Of his wife. Nis.
Cromer Is n lady of about 20 years ~ age
and Mr. Ellis Is young man Of about -
years Mr.. Ellis says he h almot an entire
stranger - Mira Cromer, having never