The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04

carried in his pockets an entire camping
outfit, including co oking utensils.
The Bon Marche, the handsome store in
Charleston formerly occupied by the dry
goods firm Of Kohn, Furchgott q B snedict,
has been sold to s. H. Kohn of BROOKLYN
for 10000. The building alone cost $50, 900
In 1887.
According 10 recent reports of Mai. L. A.
Ransom Of Columbia, there are grown in
this state thirty-two varieties of apples,
Twenty-Five Of peaches, eight of pears. ten
of grapes, six of cherries. seven Of straw
berries, and six Of raspberries
Yorkville has several mineralogists who
came from the north prospecting, and are
so well pleased that some have leased and
bought lands and intend to stay perma-
nently. A railroad contractor OF means
was In town this weak trying to buy prop
erty.
Joel r. Abney of Edgefeld county has
bought the Jordan place at Greenwood for
| $500 and will move there in August. The
residence, which is a handsome and valu-
Bile one, is in the town Of Greenwood, and
| attached to it is 100 acres of Fl land lying
! mostly within the corporate limits.
Thursday Comptroller General Werner
issued, and State Treasurer Bamberg
cashed, a warrant in favor of Gen. johnson
Hagood, chairman of the board of visitors
of the South Carolina Military Academy,
for S25 900 to defray the expenses of re-
pairing the citadel buildings and rebuilding
the west wing The money was paid, in
| conformity with the act of the last session,
| out of the funds recovered from the United
States government for rent of and damage
to the citadel.
Cheraw still continues to improve. Build
| ings are going up, and everybody seems to
be seized with desire to paint his house
| and otherwise improve his property. The
| old town has changed so much during the
last two years in many ways that stranger
would almost be tempted to believe that the
| people who inhabited it a few years ago had
all moved away and an entirely new set had
moved in and taken possession. Everyone
seems to be imbued with a spirit of enter
prise and business.
Aiken Journal: A peach grower of Mont
| morenci told US recently that it had been
| his experience that the best peaches are
always produced from trees that bloom in
February, are more free from defects, firmer
and healthier. They are the surest crop and
| nearly always succeed. Whereas, peaches
blooming later than February are liable to
be either killed or injured by the April
| frosts and can be set down as failures. Feb
| ruary IS almost gone and not a peach bloom
| is to he So IN. 1t is to be hoped that our
| Montmorenci friends prediction will not
prove true this year.
At Beaufort the hungry republicans can
| not wait any longer, and number of them
| have gotten up petitions to send 10 the
| President-elect for appointments. Among
them may be mentioned ex-Congre 'smen
Bob Smalls and George Gage for collector
Of customs. Mr.. Gage was at one time COL
lector Of customs, and therefore thinks he
| can make an impression on the new ad-
M inistration. j. W. Collins, the prese 1t
lntendant of Beaufort, is also candidate
for the collectorship, and it is thought
among the knowing republicans that MS
claims for the place are good. If the as
pirants for the other FEEDER i offices have
gotten out their papers it is not known just
now except among themselves. 1t is
rumored that the jail bird political martyrs
will be carried to the Edgefield jail.
Laurens II raLd: We recently heard the
| following, whicI shows what a child can do
| under extra persuasion; A certain school
was taught by Miss Blodgett, at which it
| was customary to have prayers every morn
ing. One morning during pra er little
| fellow named johnnie was he I'd to laugh
| After the prayer Miss Blodget5 called up
little Johnnie and demanded why he
laughed. Little Johnnie replied: Il laughed
at rat come out on the stairs, To near Miss
| Blodgett say her PRAYERS" Being struck
with the reply, Miss Blodgett took up her
| switch and said; Johnnie. if you don't
make another rhyme as G BOD as that [ shall
whip you. Seeing he was IN for it, on the
spur of the moment Johnnie got Off the fol-
lowing: Here l stand before Miss Blodg-
EFT. She's gwine to hit and Pm & wine to
dodge it,"
A white man named Richard Henson,
who lives IN Cleveland county, not far from
Shelby, N. c., was shot, and it is thought
fatally wounded, by Augustus Daniels and
man named Sellers of Spar5anburg
county, South Carolina On The night in
question Daniels and Sellers, with a gang
Of five other men, followed Henson four
miles and charged him with stealing some
fodder the mig { previous from the barn of
Daniels, who lives on Thickety Run
| Daniels missed the fodder and supposed
| it was stolen by the accused, who
was returning home from visit
to Spartanburg in q wagon. Daniels
gathered the gang and started in hot pur-
| suit, without warrant or evidence TO con
Wet, and demanded of Henson that he sur
render. Henson asked that they show their
authority, and they replied: 1--WE have no
warrant. and don't want any" Then Hen
son resisted their arrest and began to run
from them, when the party cried out,
Shoot him." Daniels and Sellers both
opened fire upon him, and he fell to tire
| ground, having received bullets in the
breast, side and arms. 1t is thought that it
is impo sible for him to recover.