The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Greenville's new factory is booming.

Greenvllle'S new factory Is booming.
Turpentine farming is on a boom in the
low counties.
Laurens seems determined to build cot
ton yarn mill.
The Bamberg smallpox scare turned out
| to lie q false alarm
Aiken has more visitors at present than
| for three years past
The prospects for tire Oraugeburg street
railway project are good.
All OF the shares of the Edisto Savings
Bank at Orangeburg have been subscribed
in two days
Greenwood is on her mettle, aud strong
effort is being made to have cotton mill
| built at once.
The military of Charleston are thinking
| Of having general exodus to Jacksonville
during the festivities there.
DIR. S. ]. NJ. Cox has sold his pla7 tation,
two aud half mile south of Johnston, TO
| Gamewell Smith. The price paid was
| $1,000.
The ate convention of the Young Mems
| Christi Association will be held in Green
vile, from April II to A. at the Baptist
| church.
DR.. Woods, the paster of Columbia's
First Presbyterian church, has decided to
accept the call from the Second church OF
| Memphis
Blind staggers is prevailing as an api-
demic amongst the horses of Florence
county, six or seven having died within
the past few weeks
One mandatory in Columbia has been
making well buckets for fifty years, some
of their make being still in use after twenty
years of hard service.
G. E. fucker of Union, has an Esquimaux
dog named Java that he values at 5000. 1t
1 vu-rNA - ~ -
about seventy five pounds.
A Gree vile Plymouth Rock hen has
| just laid an egg that measures ~ inches
| in circumference the longer way, e.
| inches tue other. and weighs five ounces
| The steam dredge Columbia. to be used in
| phosphate mining, was launched in Charles
| ton Wednesday. 1t is the largest ever
| built, and was entirely constructed in
| Charleston.
| The wife of J. H. Donahue of Charleston,
deceased, has brought suit for $50, 900
against the Enterprise Street Railroad
| Company, alleging that her husband was
killed by kick of one of their horses
| The New Brighton hotel on Sullivan's
| Island, has been sold to j. P. Kennerlv and
| other English capitalists now in New Y rk.
| In addition to rebuilding the casino, the
| hotel will be reopened this summer and inn
| proved in many ways.
Eighty hands are now at work in OAR
linRton county grazing the Huntsville rail-
road. The most difficult point TO pass is
| said to be a savanna, a mile in length,
| which Is situated about half way between
Hartsville and the terminus.
| The Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chi
cago can now be called a full fiedged road,
the Southern express having begun trans
| fers on Monday, and the daily mail service
having already been put In operation be-
tween Augusta and Edgefeld
The Mars Bluff section of Florence county
was visited a few days ago by terrific
storm Of rain and hail. During tho storm
a flash Of lightning killed mule belonging
to Elisha James, who lives at Claussen.
The oat crop has been seriously damaged.
c. M. Douglass, state organizer of the
Sons Of Temperance of South Carolina, will
| leave Columbia TODAY or tomorrow to
begin the work Of reviving and strengthen
ing the divisions OF the order in other sec-
tions. His mission will be mainly in the
| upper counties.
A fatal type Of disentery has again set in
few miles north of McCalls store in Flor
ence county. Nine negroes have dfed with
it in week. Geo. Mccall has child dan
gerously Ill with the same malady. The
| physicians attribute it to the large amount
of surface water forced into the wells by
| the late rains.
! At Gree willie Thursday three small frame
! stores and dwellings on Bunoombe street
were burned The buildings belonged to
Mrs. Alice Freeman and s. V. Howard and
were fully insured. The stores were occu-
| pied, two by l.. w. Mcuuinn and one by
M. G. Batson, Jr. Loss estimated at 81, 900;
insurance 81, 200.
| At lumbia Thursday night the weight
of $500 sacks of cotton seed meal for the
| Edsto Phosphate Company, stored in the
warehouse of Jones, Robertson & CO.,
caused the flooring to COLLAPSE and the brick
wall to bulge ont The damage is $500 or
$500. The warehouse is the property of the
| South Carolina railway.
Hiram McAbee, Sr., was in Spartanburg
| recently with his famous mule, Pete. To
gether they are ia years old, and continue
to make l0-cent cotton. Mr.. McAbee says
! he has never bought any corn, unless special
seed packages; has never raid $50 interest
in all his life; has testified in court very
| few times, and has never had any trouble in
| courts
A. Seneca, Oconee county, A. N. Hay s,
| proprietor of a general store, has made an
assignment to j. w. Stribling for tho bene-
fit OF his creditors. His liabilities are about
81, 500 and his assets about 81, 900 Mr.. Hays
is regarded as an upright man, and no one
attributes anything wrong to him. The
last three or four years have been trying on
merchants.
The declaration Of the corporators Of the
Anderson Ice Company has Oeeu lle1 and
u commission issued by the secretary Of
state The capital stock will DO $4,000 in
shares Of 800 each. The corporators are
j. II. Townsend, n c. Townsend, G.. b.
| Townsend and j. A. Brock. The object Of
the company is TO manufacture Ice in the
city of Anderson.
Rev. william Ormistoa, d. D., LII, D.,
Of the Collegiate Reformed church Of New
! YORK city, accompanied by his wife, is In
Aiken for his health-sulfering from the
loss of his voice. DR.. Ormiston has been
pastor of tho oldest church in America for
numbers of years. but has recently been
compelled to resign his pastorate, owing to
the failing of his voice.
! Greenville has two colored curiosities
| One is n colored woman who was l2 years
| Of age when George Washington was in