The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-09
sOuTH CAROLINA

| plumbers IN accepting the books or assistant
assessors without investigating them.
l. SOUTH CAROLINA.
I. F. Greneker of NewberFy, a we'll
known journalist, died Tuesday.
Cheraw's prohibition election last week
resulted in victory for the anti prohibi-
tionists.
The first conviction for murder I'm Edge
field county of white men in forty years,
was that of MurrelI and Carpenter, and they
broke jail.
1t is rumored that Gen. John Bratton Of
Fairfield, and Col J. b. Humbert of
Laurens. will run on the farmers ticket for
| governor and lieutenant governor respect
lively.
| F. G. Behre writes the department of
agriculture from Walterboro that there is a
fine body Of forty-seven men there, Ger
/ mans and French, who seek employment as
| farmers, vine growers and mechanics.
A man named Stephen Wallace, from
Arson county, was run over and killed by
the Palmetto train on the Pee-Dee trestle,
near Cheraw, Tuesday. Wallace was drunk,
and it is supposed he had gone to sleep on
the track.
At Edgefeld the case of James Hart
against the Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
gusta rail way for the killing of his horse,
person, was decided IN favor of the plaintiff
TO the amount of $500.
Capt. q. j. Drake of Marlboro county has
just made on one acre of upland 254%
bushels of shelled corn The acre is high,
dry and sandy soil that five years ago
would scarcely have yielded ten bushels.
Capt. Drake has used $3.50 worth of ferti-
lizers.
Chntonward, Edgefeld county, was Wis
tied by destroying flames ON the night Of
Nov. %. Two stores were burned to the
ground. Mr.. Youngblood aud Mr.. Ward,
two young men, were sleeping in a room
between the stores. They escaped only
partly clothed.
A commission has just been issued to the
Due West Publishing Company of Able
vile county. The capital stock is $1,000,
with the privilege of increasing to SIS, 600
The purpose of the company is the printing
and publishing of one or more newspapers
and other periodicals and other job printing.
The president of the junior alumni asso-
citation of the South Carolina University
appointed Col. John G. Haskell and the Hon.
Z. j. c. HutsOn in the House, and the Hon.
A. I. Smythe in the Senate, as the commit
tee requested to memorabilia the legislature
to pass such bill as will empower the asso-
citation to select from the alumni of the
university one member of the board or
trustees of the university.
George Long. a negro man living ON Mr.
Allen Eltheridges place, ON the Saluda
river, in the southeast portion of Davidson
county, shot Jim Lee on Sunday, Nov. II.
with a double-barrel shotgun. The load
took effect in the head aud shoulders. There
was an old grudge between the two. Les
shot first, five time, but did not hit Long.
The unfortunate affair resulted In the death
of Lee on Thursday night last
At Buford's Bridge Monday Matte
Weekly, son of DR.. John N. Weekly,
went into one Of his fathers fields and got
into an alteration with a negro. Robert
Anderson, about his rent, which ended in
a shooting match. Another negro. Charlie
Kearse, who was not in the difficulty, was
killed, and young Weekly had his skull
broken with the stock Of a gun, and seven
buckshot are in his body. He is not ex-
pected to live Anderson is at large.
Florence Times: There is considerable
Inconvenience and trouble occasioned in
this state by the holding of the United
States court 10 Charleston and GreenvIlle.
The state should be divided into three sec
lions, and Florence should be the center of
this third division. The United States
| authorities should erect public building
| in Florence in which the postoffice could be
| put, and where the regular terms of the
United States court could be conveniently
held.
President Mcbride has returned from
Darlington, where he carefully investi-
| gated the losses by the recent fire at the
| experimental station. The net loss will
| only be $4,000 or $4,000, insurance cover
| ing the rest. A few accounts were burned
but no records were destroyed, and the re-
| suits of the experiments will be available
| for publication. Arrangements have been
mazda w hn
tendent OF a house closely adjoining the
| one burned out, and all the work of the
station will go on as usual.
An inquest was held Thursday bysWill-
| lam Fauling, trial justice, acting as coroner.
| over the body of one Margaret Jones (col-
oredl, living on DR.. Taber's plantation,
known as Pinckney. From the testimony
ELECTED it appears that Margaret, on her
| return from the spring with bucket of
| water, was met by her stepson, Amstead.
a boy Is years old, who shot her with a
shotgun. As she cried for help he felled
| her with the butt end of the gun, breaking
| the gun, and deliberately beat her head into
| a jelly. In order to conceal his crime he
carried the body about forty yards from
| where the deed was committed for burial
| Her cries being heard, the trail was fol-
lowed and Amstead is now in jail His
| brother John was also arrested as accessory
| before the act and committed
Several days ago young man arrived at
| Chester and soon made the acquaintance of
the president of the newly organized Young
Mems Christian Association at that place,
introducing himself as George F. Howser,
| secretary Of the Cincinnati Young Mems
Christian Association. Before he had time
to do any harm it was discovered that he
was an impostor who has been working many
towns. Chief of Police Marshall was now
sent for, and when he arrived he COM
menced a search of the prisoner, which
resulted in some interesting finds, one of
them being long dirk in his inside vest
pocket number of letters were found
which seemed to indicate an abundance of
aliases. Several checks, all for amounts
ranging from SIT 80 to $25, were found, two
on the old Boston National Bank and one
on the East Side Bank of New York.
William E. Sewall, John Ward and Charles
E. Milford were some of the names appear
| ing on the these checks. A number of pa wn-
brokers' tickets were found, calling for
diamond pins, silver watches and the like
Later developments showed he had been
| swindling a boarding house In Monroe
where he called himself Sewall. He is in
Jail.
Some time during the night of Nov. 90
Isaac j. Wilson, who resides at Wedgefield.
was awakened by his wife. who informed
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