The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.

On Saturday last Amos Barnes shot Peter
Mackey, colored, tn. ougn the shoulder while
they wer on toe high way, aoout five miles
below Lancaster.
Perry Bros, dealers in general msrchan-
disc a. Pied sIOnt, nave failed. DIR. j. II.
Donald IS their assIg zee. Toe as'ets are re-
por ed at s., 600 and liabilities $1,000. The
cause OF thu failure is unknown.
The company Of M.caiga capitalists who
have bought such al extensive reach Of
Santee swamp timber are building holsei
for their lum 0ermeI about ten mi es from
hsre. The Location Of their mill has been
decided upon.
The store Of w. s. Holiday, at Hickor y
Hill, in Clarendon county, was burned Fri
day morning about O'Clock. Nothing was
saved Of the stock. He is said TO have $500
insurance. No clew has been discovered as
70 how 1t happened.
The school superintendents of tho state
have formed an ASSOCIATION. A state meet
ing will be ned at Columbia April Is. Tne
object of the association is the discussion of
vial questions in scnool management and
the advancement of the schools Of the state.
The Presbyterian church is ths Oldest
church in Camden, and was built when box
pews and sloping floors were the hight
Of style. The pan now is TO begin at once
to remodel the old building. The sloping
floor will remain, but the old box paws will
be torn away and new style seats put in
their place.
The steamer John II. Cole Of the Con-
garee and Santee Line of the South Caro-
lima Steamship Company Is developing river
commerce in new direction, bringing loads
of cotton seed to point above CRANKY,
whence it is hauled to the Southern oil mill
ii Columbia, and taking retura cargoes Of
cotton ssed meal
J. b. Hill of Edgefeld has sent to the de-
partment Of agriculture a beautifully pre-
pc ed specimen OF Okra fiber, brighter and
stronger than jute, and with the beauty and
finish Of the ranlie fiber. MIR. Hill pro misses
TO post the department as t. his methods Of
preparation. He ha> been offered cents
per pound for the fiber by rope manufact-
urers.
At Lancaster, Christmas Eve, in the rear
OF Logs bar, j. L. Remington shot
Thomas Blackman through the Abdomen,
and in turn was shot by Blackman in the
shoulder. Blackman is ding very well,
and Remington, in jail, seems TO be suff sr-
ing but little from his wound. Remington
was tried at the March term OF court for
shooting John Bowers the previous summer
AT Summerten the store of S. r. Cole,
dealer in general merchandise, was ltered
on last Friday night. The thief with
half-inch auger TOOK out piece OF the fl Dor
near ehe front door, through which hole he,
it is presumed, put boy, vino opened the
front door. He bored thirty-one holes in
taking out the piece of flooring, and as pay
for his trouble got cents from the till. Mr..
ColJ has discovered no other loss.
The report of the earnings Of the railroads
of the state for the month of October, com
pared with the corresponding month of
1885, has been completed by NJ. 7. Bartlett,
secretary of the railroad commission. The
| figures show an Increase which is sub
| stantlal, although not as great as for the
! next preceding month. The Richmond and
| Danville lines in South Carolina sho we'd an
inc ease over October, 1888, Of 2 4S-100 per
| cent.
| The colored state fair, which will open il
| Columbia, Jan. /, and last until Jan. 5, in
elusive, is reported by President A E.
Hampton to be in promising shape. Entire:
of stock and household and art work are
being made freely, and he expects every
portion of the state 30 be well represented
The railroad rates, both as to passengers and
exhibits, are the same as were made for tn,
recent state fair on all roads leading to Co
lumbia.
commission was issued by the secretar,
Of state Friday for the formation of the
| Phoe nix Spoke and Handle Company OF
Mount Pleasant, Berkeley county. The
corporators are John j. Malonee and Rob
ert b. Lobby of Charleston, and Robert
Magwood of Mount Pleasant The com
pany is to have capital stock of $50, 900
divided into shares of $50 each, and viii
manufacture spokes, handles, and othel
wooden articles.
fla grippe, or something very like it, i
In Columbia. II made its appearance Fri
day in the female department of the stat
lunatic asylum, when six or eight case
were developed, and Saturday twenty per
sons in the institution were suffering on
it. The symptoms are stated to be "fullnes
in the head, tightness across the chest,
cough. and general soreness of the body.
The disease does not appear to be as severe
as the imported one, but it otherwise re
sembles it closely.
About seventy years ago country tavern
or roadside grogshops abounded in Sumter
county. One of these taverns stood JUS
below where the Privateer and Clarendon
line now runs, aud on a public road tina
leads to Charleston. The old building wa
standing until few weeks ago. when it wa
blown down. 1t had become nothing but {
mere shell of house, and no one was livins
in it. The appearance Of the old building
was singularly desolate and lonesome
From what aged people say it must hav,
been a rowdy place in the old times, wher
it was used as tavern. Drunken carousal
aud fights appear to have often occurret
there. Thus passes away an interesting