The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-28
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JANUARY 28, 1889.

ridges at one shot with shot gun. Miss
Maud handles the gun like an expert marks
man, and we DOUBT If there Is another
young lady in South Carolina who can
boast of killing three birds with one shot.
Newberry Herald: Elijah Martin killed
two hogs of the red Jersey breed last week
that Melted hun 704 pound Of pork, one $50
and the other 354 pounds. They were four
teen months and ten days old each. He has
four more TO kill eleven months old, that
WIZ net now over 250 pounds each. Mr..
Martin believes in raising his hog and
hominy at home.
Under the terms Of the act of the last
session the State pension board will call
meetings Of the confederate survivors of
each county, on some day next month, to
elect five Of their number to act in con-
junction with the county examining boards
after such boards have passed upon pension
claims. The survivors will indicate which
OF the applicants are the more deserving,
and these will be given the preference in
receiving pensions.
Walter Miller, deputy sheriff, while
trying to arrest a negro named Jowles Pat
terson, shot and killed him. 1t appears
that the negro was wanted for having
robbed the premises Of John Moody, a
prominent farmer living twenty miles west
OF Edgefield, and that Mr.. Miller, armed
with warrant, went TO make the arrest,
which was resisted by Patterson in such
violent manner as TO make it necessary for
the deputy to use his pistol, which he did
with the serious result above mentioned.
From the number of drunken men to be
seen at Chester now, it may safely be in
ferred that whisky flows more freely from
bar than from a drug store. The town
council hav fixed the licenses at $500, and
have already granted four at that figure,
and it is said will soon issue two more,
making six in all. This will bring in an
annual revenue Of nearly 5000, whereas
the total cost Of the town government, as it
has been conducted for several years,
amounts to but little over half that sum.
Columbia has just had real live duel
not, however, with pistols and coffee for
two-but with fists unadorned The diff
Guilty was brought about by some sort of
personal disagreement, two young and we'll
known citizens being the principals.
Through the mediation of friends notes
were exchanged. but, instead of allaying
the hostility, only served to widen the
breach. Next a challenge was sent, which
was Immediately accepted. To make the
matter more romantic the police got on TO
the scheme, and consequently one of the
most public places in the city, almost under
the walls of the city hall, was selected for
the dark and bloody ground This was
done to throw the peace guardians Off the
SCENT which proved successful 1t was the
last place in the world they would have
looked for such an encounter. Accom-
panied, therefore, by friends, the two met
at the spot indicated at $50 o'clock
and, by the dim uncertain light of
secret-keeping moon, fought out their
differences. OF the set-to itself, the
LEICESTER says: without much attempt at
scientific sparring, these two young men
punched and hammered each other as hard
as they were able, and the 'claret' soon
flowed from that portion Of their facial
anatomy which in Il fight seems made on
purpose to be tapped. The under man at
the close is said to have had two blackened
eyes aud a generally disdgured countenauce
to show for his participation, while the
other had swollen cheek, a damaged
hand, and some other injuries for his share.
Neither were visible yesterday, and it is to
he hoped that this will be the last of such
affairs, which must be confessed are the
reverse of creditable to the participants