The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23

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Mrs. James G. Wilson OF Campbellton
tried to use kerosene in lighting fire. An
| explosion followed, aid she is dead
The South Carolina railway has made an
| excursion rate of cents a mile for the
round trip for visitors to the state fair.
Mrs. G. E. III ymes, the ell-known pro-
| prietress of the Darlington hotel at Oar
| lington, died very suddenly Thursday of
cerebral apoplexy.
The town authorities of Union have at
last taken steps to prohibit the sale of
| liquors on Sunday. Heretofore the bars
have made no secret of their Sunday selling,
| keeping almost open doors.
| Capt. N. f. Walker has furnished the in
stitute building at Cedar Spring with water
| by means Of a hydraulic ram. The state
appropriated 81, 500 for this purpose The
| spring is a large, bold one, about 800 feet
from the building.
The Button Wharf Company has lust
received commission to form q company
to erect strong and serviceable wharf at
| the head Of Calhoun street. in the town of
Button in Beaufort county, and to do
such bust as is natural to such an enter
prise. The capital stock of the company is
| to be $500, each share being $l0
1t has always been recognized that ramie
| could be easily and extensively raised in
South Carolina, but as there is no sale for
| the product there has been no occasion to
| plant i5 for market. There are now several
| progressive farmers who have good crops
of ramie from which they are obtaining
seed, in the hope that the plant will soon be
used.
] OF the thirty four railroads now in
| operation in the state but twenty six have
SO far filed their annual reports with the
rail oad commissions. The law requires
thai these reports be filed on or before
Aug. 81, the penalty for failure
| being not less than 500, nor more than
$4,000 in each case. It is important that
these reports reach the secretary as soon
| as possible, as they enter into the report
submitted to the legislature.
AT Orangeburg the court was occupied
| Wednesday in the trial of Frank w Smith
| lwhite), charged with the murder of Isaac
Berry (colored) on Jan 81 last. The colored
man was a too ardent defender of the repu-
| tation of his race and made murderous
assault upon the white man, whom he ac-
cused Of improper conduct to ward colored
| woman. The white man defended himself
and the negro was killed. The white man
was acquitted on the states own showing.
A charter was granted Thursday to the
Globe cotton mills of Rock Hill, the third
ESTABLISHING of the kind organized in that
pulling and prosperous town. OF the capi-
tai stock of 500, 900, $50, 900 has been sub
scribed, and 20 per cent. of the latter
| amount has been paid in. The directors
are John r. London, w. l.. Roddey, A. r.
Ruff, A. T. Smith, A. Friedheim, ]. N.
Tanner and W. E. Trainer. John r. Lon
don is president and pro tenn secretary and
treasurer.
At Laurens Wednesday, the trial of Ian
ford for the killing of Langston on Aug. z
began. The case, as made out by the state,
seemed to establish manslaughter at least
Two witnesses made it self-defense Four
witnesses testified that Laug,ton had moth
ing in his hand when the shooting occurred
but the other witnesses say he had a plank
The defense will bring out some slauderous
reports said to have been circulated by the
dead man concerning the prisoners 19-year-
old daughter.
At Orangeburg, Friday, the court of gen
eral sessions was treated to the luxury of a
dog case-not ''yallern dog but a white
cur dog was the casus belli. Mack Brown
colo edl was indicted for malicious sly shoot
ing the d g Of James NJ )orer (coloreD. Mr..
Summers represented the accused, and sew
eral hours were consumed in the trial The
dog was valued by different witnesses at
from 81 to So, aud was rated from a coon
catcher to suck-egg cur. The jury, after
declaring that they could not agree, finally
found verdict of guilty. The accused
was sentenced to pay $l5 and costs or two
months in jail.
/ OCNSAAOi ANlCuaIuSOH nus appointed
beAefciaries to the Medical College of South
Carolina, in Charleston, the following
young men, for the term lSS9-9O, one such
beneficiary being allowed from each Of the
SIX congressional districts as tie state was
divided in 1858: First district Robert s.
Beckhain, Beck hams, Lancaster county:
Second district, J. Mercier Green II
Charleston; Third district, Edgar A. Hines.
Brunson's, Hampton county; Fourth dis
'trict, Hugh X. Aiken, Cokesburg, Abbe-
vile county; Fifth district, j. B. George.
reaPpointed, Easley, Pickens county; sixth
district, G. D. Clarkson, Eastover, Richland
county.
Blackville was crowded Friday by the
wa ons of members of the farmers slli-
ance, who brought $40 bales Of cotton TO be
sold at auction at the alliance warehouse.
Buyers were present from Charleston and
Augusta but Simon Brown Of BlackYine