The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22
SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
A new phosphate company is to be organ
lied at Columbia.
A movement is on foot to establish an oil
refinery at Abbeville.
The Edgefield Light Dragons have now
beautiful uniform Of blue aud orange.
The State Teachers Association was in
session at Columbia last week. About 100
attended.
man living near Spartanburg does his
plowing at night to escape the heat OF the
day. his name is Sherbet.
The locomotive for the Hartsville railroad
has arrived, and the road Is rapidly ap-
proacnlng completion. The locomotive IS
called the Pioneer and within the next
few days it \, i'll be used on the new railroad.
The American Agrfcultu,ist has offered
81 900 for the most productive acre Of corn,
Among the contestaDts are three gentle
men of Edgefield unity. viz: b. j. Day
of Trenton, w a Hill of Saluda, and
Henry Hill, four miles north Of the vii
lage.
The grand lodge OF the Independent
Order Of Good Templars Of the state OF
South Carolina viii begin its eighteenth an
nual session at Chester tomorrow. Chester
Lodge No. 1874 with which the grand lodge
meets, is in Furnishing condition, and has
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gates VINO may attend.
In the colored firemen's tournament at
Greenville Friday the l00-yards reel race
was won By the Neptune Company Of
Greenyille In PSI seconds. Prize, $50. The
grab race wa won by the Palmetto OF
Greenville. Time, 1915 seconds; prize $25.
Other contests and prizes were won by the
Neptunes.
The Greenville board Of trade held a
meeting Friday and sent a telegram TO the
State Teachers Association inviting that
body to hold its next annual meeting III
Greeny1lle. A committee was appoiutedby
the board to perfect arrangements for the
entertainment Of tae State Press Assocla-
ton at a banquet at the Paris Mountain
hotel ON Aug. s.
Gov. Richardson has commuted to one
month IN the penitentiary the sentence OF
William Henry Gard sner, who was CON
Vlcted at recent term of court for Barn
well county for bigamy and sentenced by
Judge Wallace to six months i'll the peni-
tentiary. Gardener is a colored boy, hardly
yet of age, and there are grave doubts a to
whether his first alleged marriage was
legal. The communication was recommended
by Judge Wallace and Solicitor Murphy
AT Groenville the primary election for
the nomination for candidates for mayor
and aldermen will b3 held on July 30.
Up to the present time two candidate for
mayor have been announced. One ticket
for twelve aldermen is also out. The can
dldates for mayor are eX-Mayor E. f. s.
Rowlev and James I. Williams, member
Of the present council. Both are prominent
citizens and have warm friends. The
regular election comes off on Sept 10, and
there Is much talk OF an Independent ticket.
Thursday afternoon the conductor of the
LaurenS train brought back TO Greeaville
with him from Laur9nS Susie DObSOn. a
small white girl, who made an attempt to
run away from her parents and go to Au-
gusta. The girl left this morning. but the
conductor of the train thought something
was wrong and would not let her go on to
Augusta The chief of police put her in the
station house until her father called for
her The ticket was given her by woman
IT Augusta. Susie D3bson is the girl who
caused a sensation three months ago by Civ
ing rise to a suit for abduction.
The cotton chopper patented by Taylor
Bolton of Camden and J. II. johnson,
formerly of Camden, now pastor of col
ored Methodist church in Coumbia, has
proved to be a great success Both of these
men belong to the colored race. and the
machine, OF which they are the patenteas,
shows marked ingenuity on their part.
Their chopper was patented some years ago,
but for want of money the proprietors have
not been able 10 manufacture it. After it
was tried near Columbia this spring, Mr..
Roche of Columbia aud AIR Kinwick
of Savannah, seeing the worth Of the ma
chine, bought an interest or. share in it
for $4,000 All the papers in the case have
been examined by prominent Camden
lawyer, and the transaction has been
pronounced bona tide. The manufacture of
the cotton choppers will soon commence
and the machines will be put on sale in
time for next season Belton'S latest i'm
ventionis self-Dumping machine, which is
almost perpetual motion machine The
contrivanee is put in a well and pumps
water from the time it is started until it is
stopped The principle has been shown to
your correspondent, but Bolton desires it
kept secret until a patent has been obtained.
In about a week model will be set up ana
the feasibility of the invention will tlen be
demonstrated to a select few. Those who
have seen Belton's rough drawings of this
pumping machine think the plan feasible,
aud one gentleman has offered to put up
some money 10 carry out the project