The morning news., 1889-05-06
SOUTH CAROLINA.

| The Newberry cotton mills are In pros
| porous circumstances.
The first anniversary Of the GreenvilIe
Young Mems Christian Association was
celebrated at the Baptist church Friday
nj yht.
In the votes cast in Oconee Thursday for
prohibition the total was ,334, as follows:
Dry" 922, wet" 492, giving a dry" ma
jority of 400.
From the work done on the survev of the
line between KerShaw and Lancaster coun-
ties, it is evident that the village of Ke7-
shaw will be partly in both counties.
A bronze statue of Washington was placed
IN position at Columbia Tuesday, at the
| northeast corner Of the state house, near
where the confederate monument originally
stood.
Bricklaying has feen commenced on the
new cotton mill at Spartanburg, 1t will
be pushed with great energy, aud the walls
will go up as fast as brick can be fur
nished.
State Senator NJ. L. Donaldson, of Green
vile, has been selected as delegate from the
Farmers State Alliance to the meeting of
the National Alliance in Birmingham on
May Is.
John Fielder was born near Lynchburg,
Va, May IL, 1880 and died in Laurens
county, South Carolina, April IL, 1899.
He therefore lacked one month of being lO9
years old.
At Greenville the purchase money for the
site for the new United States court house
and postothce has been received by Assist
ant District Attorney Furman. The price
paid for the lot is $4,000.
The fourteenth annual conference of
Florence district Of the southern Methodist
church met at Cheraw last week in the
Methodist church, with the Rev. VIC.
Power, presiding elder, in tle chair.
The reunion of tho soldiers of the
Holcombe legion at Woodruff on
Wednesday was a delightful gathering.
Many of the old confederates assembled
with their families and spent the day to-
gether.
At Eutawville a few days ago, a beauti-
full present was given to Col. !. W. Fowler
by the employees Of the Eutawville railroad.
The present was "A silver tea service. beauti-
fully designed, with his name engraved on
the waiter.
The wife of w. D. Jacobs of Greenvile.
who killed one Turner three years ago, and
who at present is in the penitentiary, is in
Columbia for the purpose of interceding
with the governor in behalf of her husband.
She will remain in the city until Gov,
Richardson returns from New York.
commission was issued at Columbia,
Tuesday, to the Carolina Buggy Company
of Yorkville The capital stock is $50, 900,
divided IN 100 shares. NJ. c. Willis and
Walter b. Moore of Yorkville are tho cor
porators. The objects of the company are
to manufacture buggies, Wagons, carts and
other vehicles.
j. w. Holleman. treasurer of Oconee
county, has made final settlement with
the comptroller general, which is hard to
surpass. TIE total state tax levied for
Oconee county was sll ,S35 50, and of this
amount only Sc 0S was returned as nullo
BONA, all the rest being collected and paid
into the treasury.
A prominent republican In Columbia,
who has aspirations in the line of the district
attorneyship, stated the other day tha5
+. M. Brayton was not applying for that
position, but for one in the treasury depart
ment. and that his mission at Washington
was an advisory one as chairman of the
republican state executive committee.
Work on the hotel at Anderson is going
right ahead, very much to the regret OF the
strikers, who stand about and look discon-
certed. The strikers, it is said, threaten TO
deal with any negroes who should come
here from distance to work on the hotel;
but nothing OF the sort has happed so far
The work on the factory is also goi ng right
ahead.
e. M. Averill, train dispatcher Of the
York to make arrangements with commits
SION merchants for the shipment Of vege-
tables and watermelons during the coming
season. He states that from the $500 acres
planted in melons in Aiken and Barnwell
counties he expected the railroads to carry
north about 1000 carloads Of fruit
The contractors are going ahead with the
cotton mill at Cowpens. They laid the
foundation last fall aud raised the walls
about S feet high, and suspended for want
OF brick. They will soon be ready for the
roof, and expect TO begin spinning early in
the fall or by Jan. l at furthest. This,
when completed, will be the cheapest mill,
according TO the number OF spindles. in the
county, If the same economy practiced up
20 this time is continued.
A remarkable character died ia the
southern part of Spartanburg county
few days ago N. V. Van Patton came
from New York and settled on Enoree in
his early life. Hs got an interest in one Of
the primitive cotton factories of the county.
He purchased the property known as Van
Pattou's shoals a fine water power on Emo
rec. Years ago he began to work at per-
petual motion and his time and means were
spent in endeavoring 20 get up a self-pro-
pelling power. He was a quiet, good man,
with considerable information, but his life
and usefulness we're dwarfei by continual
work at the impossible.
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