The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-30

gives the value Of real estate at s544. 7O5,
against S544 O35 last year. Personal prop
erty 1857, 953, against s440,0SO last year.
Number OF houses last year 40, this year
400.
Capt. Montgomery is pushing work on
the spartan mills at Spartsnburg. They
are nov setting tine window frames for the
third story, and will soon be ready to place
tie sleepers for the fourth floor. They hope
to have the vail Of the main building fin-
ished by Nov. /.
The board Of trade of Columbia, at re-
| cent meeting, received and referred to a
special committee a letter from Secretary of
State Blaine, asking fO- COlnmbia's views
as to the Importance of establishing trade
with South and Central America. An
answer has beea sent
The last OF the pension money will be
paid 10 pensioners this week. The warrants
for the money could not be made out until
tie board decided upon the amount of the
checks which was determined at the meet
ing On Tuesday last The amount 10 each
pensioner is IS 40, aud this exdausts the
present appropriation.
A commission was issued Friday by the
Secretary of State to the Peoples Bank of
| Graham, Barnwell county. The capital
| stock Is to be 81, 600 divided into shares of
10 each, of which IS per cont. is payab. on
the banks opening, and the balance in three
equal install nents The corp orators are:
j. T. Steadunan, s. D. II. Guess, II. G. Rice,
L.. L. Rice, j. G. H. Guess and j. W. Crum,
all of Graham.
Three Mormon "eldersn have recently
been disseminating the pernicious doctri les
OF their church in Western York. On last
Friday night about 100 unmaSked men
made ddlgent search for the missionaries,
but failed TO find them. They gavea white
woman who had been harboring them and
white man who professed faith in the
Mormon doctrine sound thrashing. Had
the missionaries been found. they would
nave met with warm reception.
The town council of Yorkville have had
physician arrested and tried preliminarily
before Trial Justice Boil for improperly
using physicians prescriptions for intoxi-
callng liquors. Several cases against the
physician were submitted. but four cases
were sent up to the court Of sessions for
trial Arrest warrants have been sworn
out against another physician charg ed with
the same otfense. ne town council have
also found druggist guilty in three cases
OF selling whisky without a prescription,
and imposed a fine of $50 in eacn case.
A prominent and wealthy rice plantsr of
Georgetown. William Miles Hazz ard, seems
anxious, II permitted, to plant 1000 acres
with oysters 10 anu around Winyah Bay.
The plan Is to have the locations for the
propagation Of oysters selected from scien-
title standpoint, which is claimed to bs the
only successful and paying method. Mr.
Hazard IS anxious to receive the privileges
OF Winyah Bay before Oct. /, as he can now
secure the apparatus and seamer which
has been engaged in planting oysters for
parties in North Carolina and Georgia.
Ladson Lawrence F aver, one of the old
est and most estimabie citizens of Sumter
county, passed almost impesceptibly away
from thus life on the eveal0g of Sept 81,
aged So years 5 months aud days. When
but 10 years old he was married to Miss
Hannah A. Boone, who was IS, Their
welded life continued for sixty years. They
were the parents of ten children, all Of
who n were alive at the mothers death
Eight of these children, one of whom Is
Judge 7. B. Fraser, thlrty-six grandchi-
dren and twelve great-grandchildren sur
vive him.
A Barnwell special says: Barnwell tops
the county on alliance cotton. Friday the
streets we're throngel with wagons loaded
with cotton, which was covered with cotton
bagging, with the exception of few bales.
Col. Mike Brown offered 10 CO ITS for the
whole lot of cotton. Toe alliance men held
several secret meetings during the day, and
seemed to be tussling against accepting the
offer, and tried to get 101l cents. They
held out until late Ia the evening, when he
whole lot was boaght by Col. NJ Brown at
10 cents, his first offer. He handled and
paid for about Goa bales.
Edgefeld Chronicle: The stockholders
of the Parksville, Node and Elgefeld
Telephone Company held a meeting at
Modcc on Friday last. The money to build
the line from Modoc to our town has been
raised. The line is already in operation be-
tween Parksville and ModJc. The extended
line will come to Eigefieid Court II )use via
Red Hill It will be in full OPP rati IL
before the cotton season reaches its climax
From Parksvilie to Mo loo, thence t,
Edgefield Court House, thence to Nesting
Street, Trenton and Johnston, Johnston to
Gin onward and Batesburg. This is
splendid
At Bamberg, Tuesday night, the store of
h. g. Folk x Co, dealers in general mer-
chaudise, was entered by burglars and
goods to the value of from $500 TO 500
were carried away. An entrance was
effected rough one of the front wiadow
by breaking aud removing a portion of one
of the large panes of glass. The m oney
| tills were broken open, but fortunately
| only 81 so or 81 in small change had bael
1 left in them. This was, of course, taken.
TAe town marshal and J. NJ. jennings had
| suspicious, and a search warrant was OBJ
| tanned. Their search was rewarded by the
finding of ab)u5 $3.50 or S175 worth of
goods on the premises of Martin Halman
colore j, who resides about two miles from
town, and developed the fact that his son
Butler was one of the burglars
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