The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-03
SOUTH CAROLINA.

T. P. Alexander, under sentence to be
hanged in Pickens county on June %, died
in jail at Easley Friday. His crime was
the murder of his wife.
The department of agriculture has re-
ceived a report from McClellanville,
Charleston county, that the forests in that
section have been stripped of their leaves
by the caterpillar, the swamp5 and thickets
presenting midwinter appearance.
At Sumter, Friday, at a meeting of citi-
zens it was unanimously resolved to author
ize the city council to levy and collect an
additional tax of 2 mills for the plrpose of
establishing and defraying the expenses of
a graded school, to open some time IN Sep
tember next.
Pensions have been issued for those coun-
ties from which the rolls have been re-
turned to the state pension board. These
counties are Abbeville, Berkeley, Charles
ton, Chester, Edgefeld, Greenville. Ker-
shaw, Marion, Marlb no, Orangeburg,
Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter,
Union, Williamsburg and York.
Messrs. Edwards g. Etheridge, two citi-
zens of Graniteville, are starti a new
enterprise at Cotton Shoals, on Little Horse
creek, Aiken county, four miles from Gran
iteville They have already a saw mill and
planning machine in operation and intend
putting up a grist mill and gin and wood
working machines for the manufacture of
furniture.
Agitator Hoover is on deck at Spartan.
burg again. He states positively that he
does not Id secret meetings OF Negroes and
that he does not teac ince 1diary doctrines
He claims to be law-abidi e citizen, and
he states that he ADVISES the negroes to get
their living by hard work aud to save their
little earnings so as to be Independent and
self-supporting.
Thomas g. Poynton, an Euglishman by
birth, died at Cowpens last week, about 70
wears old. He had been living there about
four years. He had evids ,tly travelled
much and was fairly informed on many
subjects. As to his life and history he was
reticent, and this led people to think that
there was some secret history or some touch
ing romance connected with his life that he
desired to keep from Others. He was con-
sidered queer, eccen -ric, honest man.
The governor has committed to imprison-
ment to date the sentenc of jerry Weight,
who was convicted at the October, 1881,
term of court for Orangeburg county of
arson, and sente ICED by Judge Hudson to
be hanged. His sentence was soon after
commuted to imprisonment for life. The
final Communication is recommended by the
solicitor and scores of citizens. Judge Hud-
son reports that he has nothing to suggest
adverse to the exercise of executive
clemency.
At Beaufort F. G. Wilder, one OF
the old county commissioners who
was put il Jail for not turning
over the books and records of the com
missi ,ners' Office asst Feb uarv, has made
an affidavit to the effect that he knows
nothing of the books and records, and has
been released. 1t il said th 1t F. @. Brown,
the other commissioner who was committed
for the same offense, will make an affidavit
TO the same effec., and will be released il a
few days. It is also stated that WhippeI
will remain and keep company with himself
a while longer at least
Gov. Richardson has pardonedI Martha
Beckham (coloredl. who, with Adolphus
| Wheeler, was convicted at the summer
term of court 1888, for York county
| of the murder of john Beckham, her hus
| band. The two were sentenced to be
| hanged, but her sentence was commuted tc
| imprisonment III the penite atiary for ten
| years. Just before Wheeler was hanged
he made statement to several gentlemen
completely exc Grating the woman from
any participation in bis crime. This state
ment he reiterated on the scaffold The
pard IN was recommended by the judge
solicitor, the county officers. the bar OF
Yorkville and all Of its prominent citizens
La the injunction case of certain citizens
of GTeenville endeavoring to prevent The
city council from issuing bonds in payment
for the electric light plant, and also to re-
strain them from furnishing incandesce i
lights to private persons, Judge j. J. Nor
ton, at Waldalla, has made a decree contin
uing his former temporary injunction whil'