The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-07

A con. mission las been Issued by the Sec
rotary Of state for the organization of the
/ Wamoaw Land and Lumber Company of
Berkeley county. The corporators are j.
] -. Morrison OF Berkeley county aud II. 7.
/ Morrison Of Charleston county, and the
principal place of business will bs az lie
Clelianvllle. Tae general purposes Of the
company viii be to buy aud drain land,
using it for purposes of cultivation, stock
raising and pastnring, to resell lands for
profit, TO cut timber and manufacture lum-
Der, TO raise, catch and can oysters, fish,
terrapln, etc. 20 mine ami to manufacture
products The capital stock will be So 900
in shares OF $50 each.
Constable John Anderson of Edgefisld
went Co arrest negro n few days ago,
charged with an ass 8ult upon young
negro girl He succeeded in making the
arrest and was proceeding TO jail with his
prisoner, when the later made lungs for
the woods. and, although handcuffed, sue
ceeded in drawing a pistol from his pocket,
which had been secretly furnished by
friend, ard fired upon the officer, the ball
taking effect in his right arm. Anderson
returned the fire and inflicted a severe
| though not dangerous wound on the body of
the bellIgerant prisoner, who is now in
charge of a physician only to have his
wound healed before being committed TO
Jail.
NOhbi Oiioi-O0ue-di STuor Wetlb. 10 (ueS-
ter Thursday and made his first settlement
| of county taxes under the new law with
County Treasurer McFadden and the county
commissioners of Chester. The total amount
| of county taxes was..$36, 94S So all of which
was accounted for. The collection was a
very close one, and after paying all claims
balance of 81, 1853 70 remained Inland for
general county purposes. He also made
with the school commissioner and treasurer
of the county a settlement of the school
funds received, amounting to S2l AL II.
The law being "a new one, the controller
general will visit the several counties per-
sonally TO initiate the work of making the
settlements.
Joe Haddon. who was sent to this country
from England in 1888 to run the first loco
motive over the old South Carolina rail-
road, lives in the Saluds section of Edgefleld
| county, and has lived there for the last
twenty years. His postoffice is Butler,
Edgeheld county, South Carolina. The old
man Is now well up in age, having reached
his S5th year. He is = a comparatively de-
/ tltnte condition, having accumulated little
II any of this worlds goods, and is entirely
| dependent upon the charity of tie good
people of that section, and what little he
can make in repairing machinery. 1t has
been matter of surprise to his friends that
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
| has not sought out this old veteran and
| given him helping hand.
Two hundred delegates, representing
| forty-eight suballiances, were present at the
quarterly meeting of the County Farmers
Alliance held at Greenville Friday. The
| nesting was enthusiastic and transacted a
large amount of important business. 1t
| was decided to establish in that city q
! farmers warehouse and banking company,
to build large storage warehouse for the
use of the alliance members in the county,
and to do general banking business. The
company will have capital of $3.50, 600 in
| $40 shares, the stock to be subscribed by in
| divldual members of the alliance. The ware
house will be built during the coming
summer, and will be ready for business
by the opening of tho next cotton season
! A resolution was adopted providing for
| the establishment of a cotton seed oil mill
by the county alliance, the mill TO be of
| twenty tons capacity and t. be established
with capital of $4,000. A proposition to
| start an alliance store was defeated. The
| county business bureau was abolished on
account of the location here Of the head
Office OF the state exchange. 1t was decided
| to invite State Lecturer W. j. Taloert to
deliver half dozen lectures through the
county IN May The Vance sub-treasury
scheme was indirectly Endorsed, and resolu-
ticns against the compound lard bill were
passed. The only sensational feature of the
meeting was 40 attempt to have the body
indorse the action of the recent farmers
convention. resolution to that effect was
offered, but withdrawn in the face of a
storm of opposition