The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04

A correspondent from Peterson's Saw
! Mill says: I'VE have church, g school,
/ p1sUotfice and grst mil all in slgnt OF
eac other, but do not put on city airs,
or raise up dudes to cucumber the eartn."
The gross earnings Of the Barnwell rail
road for he year ending December 81, 1885,
were $i3,225.34. Net earnings, S6.l7I27
Earnings for the Blackville, Aston and
Newberry road were, gross, SsO,5I3 Is. Net,
81 1885.
Robert Graham, a negro, killed another
darkey, BAN Butler, on Edisto, Tuesday,
| without the slightest provocatlon. He split
his victims head open witt an ak, and then
tried 10 kill his SON.. The mu derer was
caught by the negroes OF the vicinity and
| narrowly escaped lynching.
At Aiken Tuesday the coroners jury
brought in verdict to the effect that j. A.
Gunter came to his death by pistol in the
hands Of Nathan Boddie, and issued war
rant for murder. Bcddie is in the county
jail. He says he is sorry that he shot Gun
ter, and that he did it in fit Of passion.
Ross Mcneil a white brakeman on the
Chester and Cheraw Narrow Gauge rail-
road, was knocked down and killed by an
overhead bridge on that road Friday. The
accident occurred near Lancaster, and Nc
Neits body was taken back tJere for an in
quest His home was near Cornwel, in
| Chester county.
iohECOuiS %f6WS una COUFbSfs botO ~
quite curiosity on exhibition in Sims book
store. 1t is a most peculiar animal.
| 1t is ~ feet long, and about the
size Of a knitting needle. and looks almost
like piece of cord. Its of grayish color,
and keeps continually moving around in
the water in large bottle in which it is
placed. 1t was found by q. A. Bair IN the
Fork, in puddle Of water in the road.
| WHAT is itl
CHARLES Colston tcolored), was arrested at
| Rock Hill Thursday charged with murder
ing W. c. Alternately in his store, at Ca
tawba junction, on Friday night last. He
| has confessed being one Of the party VITO
committed the deed and implicates six
others. John Feaster (colored, the ring
| leader, has been arrested. The others are
| still at large. There is intense excitement
and talk Of lyncaing. The prisoners are
closely guarded.
After a long period of hopeless illness Col.
I. ID. Gillespie died at his home at Columb a
| Thursday His health had been bad for
years past and at last his constitution
yielded to combination of diseases. He
was born in Charlotte N. c., sixty years
ago, and entered the express service in 1862.
After holding various positions of response
bility, he was twenty ye rs ago appointed
| superintendent of this division of tht South
| ern Express Company.
At st. Mathews last week B. jacobson &
Son made an assignment to j. II. Loryea
| { II the benefit of creditors. The liabilities
are estimated at $22, 900 to $27, 600. The
| failure was complete surprise, all suppos-
ing them to be strong. 1t is said that their
| troubles date back to 1881. They were
carrying a heavy debt aud have paid
$4,000 interest to one Charleston horse j.
F. Bronson also closed up, with liabilities
of about 5000 and assets of about 81, 900.
At Greenville a company has been formed
to manufacture and push the sale of Kings
automatic railway signal, a device recent y
patented by II. O. King, of that city. This
machine is designed for use in depositing
torpedo signals on the railway track in case
of accident to a train, and is contrived to
run any required distance along a single
rail, place the torpedo signals and throw
itself off the track aud out Of the way
The company starts with capital of 81 ,0OH,
to be increased H. o. King, H. c. Beat lie
and J. F. Richardson have been appointed
to apply for q charter.
1t is the town talk ct Spartanburg that
the trustees of the city schools will is ,ue a
mandamus against the city council to COM
pei them to order the election on the in
dorsement of the school bonds. Taxpayer"
in one of the local papers, indicates that
sucl an Endorsement would be invalid, as
the corporate body exists for certain pur-
poses only, and that it has no right or
power to contract a debt for the aid of
another corporation. Even if the citizens
by their vote should lndorse these bonds
and the city council should levy a tax to
pay the interest. it would be gal. The
trustees think there is nothing in the way.
however, and that it is clearly the duty of
the council to order the election.
At Orangeburg Thursday, a deliberate
attempt was made to burn the building
occupied by Mr.. Cunningham, Of the Spec
tGtor, but by mere good fortune in early
discovery the town was saved a great CD .
hagaton. The building is owned by Y. NJ
Wolfe and is situated on Russell street. OPP
poslte the Times and Democrat Office. 1t
is built of wood and almost surrounded on
three sides by old wooden bIildi7gs. The
front part is used as printing office of the
Spectator and Mr. Cunningham a ID fam
| lily occupy the upper story and the back
part of the building. At 3 o'clock this
morning Mrs. Cunningham was awakened
and heard roaring noise in the back part
Of the house Chat portion Of the building
being only single story. She no flied Mr.
Cunningham; he ran down and found the
int ior Of the kitchen room in blaze, He
called his young men, printers on the
paper, who slept in the building. They got
buckets Of water and soon extiuguished the
flames, and thus averted big fire.
\ Two lawyers Of Spartanburg had claim
against certain unmarried defendant. De-
string to make their money they got judg-
ment and advertised his property for sale.
The defendant began to skirmish around to
see if there was not some way Of saving
himself. With the assistance of able coun-
sci he concluded to marry, and to take
unto himself family that would need the
aid and comforts of a homestead. He
left his attor ey last Friday, and
before Saturday night dark the
sheriff received notice from him that
he would claim homestead, aud he
asked tnat he send out and have it laid of
for him, inasmuch as he was not willing to
see his wife and children placed in a condi-
ton Of want and suffering. 1t is tolerably
evident that he must have hitched on to q
buxom widow who lad made a good start
in the family business, as be speaks of his
children The plaintiffs attorneys have
given notice to the other side that they will
apply to the court to set aside the marriage
as illegal, having been contracted to hinder,
delay and defraud the creditors out of their
just and lawful claims