The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07

cOlOfe1 Methodist cluFc1 az Or1nEeDurg
last Sunday night, fell unconscious to the
/ floor in an apoplectlc fit. She remained in
j sensible for fifteen hours and died from
/ apOplexy in the morning.
The di -ectors Of the Congarse Construct
! ion Company, at their meeting wednesday,
agreed upon the terms Of q proposition 70
/ the management Of tie Columbia. New
! berry and Laurens railroad for the building
/ of an extension Of that railroad TO point
OF junction with the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern railroad.
The new desks for the House OF Repre-
| sentatives. which th5 secretary Of state was
| authorized to purchase, have been received
| by that officer. They are handsome single
| desks OF antique oak-one for each member.
They viii be ranged around the hail in
curved lines, after the plan Of the con-
| gresslonal arrangements.
The application for a charter for the
Newberry Alliance Warehouse Company
| was fled in the secretary Of states office at
| Columbia Thursday TIE petitioners are
| J. A. Sigh and other alliance men of New
berry county. The company propose to
erect ware iouses at Newberry and Pros
perity, and will have its principal place of
business at Prosperity
The declaration Of the PEOPLES Building
and Loan Association of Spartanburg has
been lied IN the secretary Of states office
aud commission issued for the formation
of the association with capital of $50. 900
in shares of 500 each, payable in monthly
lnstallments. Tne corpo ators are Joseph
Walker, A G. Floyd, j. H. Sloan, T. II.
Cannon, and j. T. Calvert.
William G. MILESTONE Of Bowersvlle.
who was shot on last Saturday by J. Phil
Sain, was married at Orangeburg Thurs
day to Miss Eugenia w. Colson of Charles
ton. Me- Whetst ne is not able TO sit I'D.
and had to be propped up by pillows while
the ceremony took place The marriage
was to take place one week later, but t1e
unfortunate shooting of MILESTONE changed
the date.
Manuel McCaskill (colored), who shot and
killed Aleck Mungo on Monday in Buffalo
township, is now in the Camden jail.
McCaskill is a quadroon, rather prepossess-
ing IN appearance, alb ut Is years old, and
weighs about 49, pounds. Aleck Mungo
was much older, possibly 35, and heavier
man. Mungo had Threatened to whip or
kill McCaskill, and the latter claims that he
fired in self-defense.
A special meeting of the penitentiary
board was held at Columbia, Thursday, for
the purpose of investigating cases of con-
Vlcts deserving of clemency, and several
| recommendations for Communication of
sentences were made to the governor The
directors this afternoon inspected the big
miles from the city, which they desire to
buy for the instituts when authorized by
the legislature
dummy was ordered to-day by the
Street Railway Company of Orangeburg
for thirty days trial on the road. Several
residents on Russell street object to the
running of the dummy on the road, BE-
cause they think that too much smoke will
EN- nate fro the engine and will prove
a RI
days trial which the dummy sellers allow
the road will probably settle the affair one
way or the other.
At Florence Thursday Capt. w. r. Hines.
freight agent of the Atlantic Coast Liue.
was experimenting the transfer of a car of
lumber, when very heavy piece of timber
slipped Off the car, struck him on the back
OF the neck and crushed him to the earth.
Ills left leg was broken Just above the
ankle and he was also severely bruised on
his side and back. He also sustained in
formal injuries which are most painful. but
are not considered dangerous by his physi-
clan.
At Greenvile the court Of common pleas
is at work on civil matters, and the only
two cases of any interest have been post
poned to the next term of court. One is
the case of c. Z. Randolph agai st
Christian Hahn-an action for $4,000
damages for SANDER. Both the plaintiff
and defendant are prominent and well-to-d)
citizens. The other is the case of w. A.
Dobson against Betty Cothran-an action
for $4,000 damages for the abduction of
Dobson's 12-ye lr-old daughter Susie.
The Florence sub-alliance met a few DAYS
ago and unanimously res lived to sell no
cotton seed to the Standard Oil Company
or any other mill in the combina-
ton, provided the home mills will buy and
pay a reasonable price for the seed. It was
also decided to make Wednesday of each
week alliance day for selling colt IN, and
urge upon all farmers to bring their cotton
in only on that day. BY this plan a large
amount of cotton will be placed on the
market at one time, thereby inviting buy
ers to come from abroad and put prices up
to the highest possible figure.
The state commissioner of agriculture has
received a letter from Poynant Louis
Champvoisy Dormans department of
Marine, Franco stating that he and two
other viticultuTists desire to emigrate to
some favorable territory and enter into the
making of wine. He says that they have a
capital of $4,000 francs (S16, 900, and, liv-
ing IN the champagne country, are ac-
quainted with the making of that "uni-
versally celebrated wine. They wish in
formation about South Carolina, its adapt
ability to grape growing and wine-making,
the cost of land, implements, animals, ETC.
The Commissioner will promptly furnish
the Information