The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-19

About LUZ visitors from all parts OF
Abbsville county, with a sprinkling from
other sections, gathered Thursday by
rail and road TO attend the celeb ated
annual stock show Of the Ninety-Six Fair
/ Association. The exhibit Of stock and cat
tie was remarkably fiue, and indicated an
increasing interest in the raising of fine
animals.
Chester county had an abundance of
rain, and all the lowlsnd crops are mate
rally damaged. On the Pes-Dee river the
| crop Is a total loss. Heavy rains have
fallen every day since July 20 TO this date,
with the exception of five days. A large
area of cotton will be short because Of a
failure TO give it the last working on &C
count of the rain
Near Columbia, while the gang Of con-
victs were on their way from the peniten-
tiary 10 their work on the canal, Wednas-
day, about q O'Clock, two of them, Henry
/ Wells, alias Rucker. and Wesley Jones
Graham, both colorei. made a desperate
att.mpt at escape Wells was shot dead
and Graham was recaptured-
Sheriff Sally Of Orangeburg came to Co
lumbia Wednesday 70 draw the reward of
| 500 offered for the arrest and delivery of
| George z. Boyet, who killed Ace Bissell in
Orangeburg county last June. The money
will 60 TO two travelling detectives, who
read of the reward in a detective newspaper
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At Brunson. Hampton county, Messrs.
Youmans and Williams, water melon grow
ers, pressed out the juice of forty melons,
a few days ago, from wnicl they obtained
80 gallons Of cool syrup. They We're 50
well pleased with the result that they have
gone regularly into making syrup. This is
found to pay better than shipping the
melons, on account Of the exorbitant
freights charged.
The report comes from PendletOn thai
| during the recent meeting of agTiculturists
there close conference was held between
| Messrs. Ben Tillmal, G. ". Shell, d. K.
| Norris and Others Of the farmers movement
| leaders, and that 1t was determined to ruu
Capt. Tillman for governor and Mr. Shell
for secretary Of state. Capt Ben. it is
stated. declared That ne could clean up
John Sheppard in his own county"
At Beaufort Thursday, fro broke out at
the Baldwin fertilizer works, and before the
flames could be subdue several tons of fish
scrap and the building in which it was
stored were destroyed. Ithappened that the
wind was toward the south and nothing
else took fire About five years ago the acid
| chambers OF the same factory were de-
stroyed by fire, being a total loss of $3.50
OJJ. The loss in the fire Of Thursda Az night
is very light.
At Chesterfield last Friday evening about
| uhA n 4DOJ 4hOOTS tCOlOF6Il OF mount OrO-
CHAN went to the house OF his stepfather
Scott Timmons, to raise racket Scott
came out when Bob Callel, accompanied by
| Andrew Moore, brother of Bob. As soon
as Bob attacked them Scott ran off, when
Bob closed in with Andrew and stabbed him
through the heart and killed him instau tlv.
There is said to be a woman at the bottom
of the trouble
The mmission If he Union Oil Reiin-
inn ffnr1 IL.
principal place Of business is to be at or
near Charleston, and the object of the com
pany Is to buy, sell, refine aud manufacture
oil, make soap, etc. the capital stock will
be $4,000, divided into 800 shares Of 500
each. The incorporaturs of this company
VIII represent the mills in their various
sections and localities, and the stock will
be owned by the cotton seed oil mills.
which the incorporatOrs represent.
John Wanamaker's black negro postnis-
tress for Chester received her commission
and demanded possession of the pos.office
last Thursday morning. Miss Craig
promptly turned everything over to her
Now the people have to go from one to three
times before they can get their mail q she
does not know how to assorb it. There have
been but few letters mailed here since the
change, and the few have been mailed by
the coored people No white man will
mall any letters in the Office as long the
people are thus afflicted
The Younce case having been continued,
the work of the sessions court in Eigefield
was concluded Tuesday by theconviction of
George Shaw, Yeldell's brother-in-law. of
malicious mischief His offense was killing
two mules, and he was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary. This suggests a
comparison of the value of a mule and a
human life. II was Shaw's arrest which
led to the disco very of Yeldelps hiding place
i'll Pittsburg. He had letters on his person
from the Rev. E. f. Flemon of Pittsburg.
who was at once suspected of being the
missing Yeldell.
From now until Jan. l the governor will
nave no money to pay the expenses for the
extradltlon OF criminals, or to paw rewards
for their apprehension. For ten years the
legislature has been making the contingent
fund OF the governor smaller and smaller.
while at the same time the counties have
been relieved of the expense Of extraditing
criminals, and these claims have to be set
tied out of the governors contingent fund
which for this year was So, 900. and this is
now exhausted Twenty odd reuuis.tions
have been issued by the governor sincs
JAN l. and the expenses of two of them
consumed more than a third of the appro-
priation for extraditions a1d rewards. The
governor will doubtless make an effort to
obtain money, until the legislature meets.
to enable him to carry out the law There
are several cases for requisition in his office
| now