The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13

dredge, which was anchored in ths river, in
a small boat. and while returning the wind
! sprung up. anu in the dark they were upset
and drowned.
A gentleman Of Greeuville received a few
| days ago q circular letter from a town in
Arkansas, which stated that the writer
would like 10 sell counterfeit money. It was
the same old gamen Of the green goods"
man, and the gentleman gave the letter to
| a NetCs reporter to expose the swindler.
| The address given was y. f. Hall, Wheat
ley pOstofiice, Ark
r. II. Ferguson Of Buffalo, n. Y, writes
the department Of agriculture that his
efforts to induce the poorly paid Iaborers of
the northern cities 10 move southwark and
| engage in agricultural and mechanical pur-
suits are bringing forth fruit. He has now
| several families who are ready to come to
/ South Carolina with their families, settle,
and make homes for themselves.
John Martin. an old white man, whose
| hands, so be says, were not made for work.
has for some time seen happiness as an in
mate Of the Kershaw county pOor-house.
| Friday he became provoked at the keeper
| for trihing cause and assaulted him with
| fist and knife. Sinclair, the keeper, is now
| hardly fit to attend TO his duties On Satur-
| day a sheriff's constable transferred John
Martin from the poor-house to the jail.
A prominent colored Charlestonian has
received a letter from labor agents at Fort
Worth, Ark, and several letters from
agents in Oklahoma, who are DESTROYS of
obtaining colony Of colored laborers from
Barnwell county. The company in Okla
homa wishes to use the b)rers in railroad
work and promises to furnish all who
promise to COLOMBO in that dis
trlct with new homes and to pay all trans
portation charges
The secretary of state has notified the
pension board of each county that the gen
eral assembly at its recent session appropri-
ated $4,000 to pay the pensioners of the
state, one-half on March -, and the other
half on June Is, 1890 With his notice he
sent list of the pensioners of the county,
and asked that meeting Of the board be
called at once, to be held on the third Mon
day in January, 1890, to revise the list of
the county and indicate to the state board
OF pensions, by March l, those pensioners
who are found to be in actual need.
Sunday night Of last week mob entered
the house of Green King (colored), at West
Greenville. where "Packn Thomson (col-
oredl was living, and, after numerically
clubbing and whipping the latter. took him
to the swamp near by and gave him another
severe drubblng. Thompson was left in the
swamp all night, and reached Kings house.
faint from loss of blood, just before day
next morning. The mob was composed Of
colored men dressed like White Caps. The
cause of this ku-klux affair is that Thomp-
son had been too intimate with Kings wife,
and several times gave King a whipping In
his own house.
During the holidays party of negroes
were rabbit hunting, and by accident dis
covered, about three miles from Laurens.
what seemed to be cave. After many
IN Twin fhorr
mysteries, when, to their utter astonish-
ment, they found themselves in a whisky
dlstillery. On a tract of land belonging to
MIR. Leonard of Spartanburg county, barely
three miles from Laurens, this dlstillery has
been established, how long no one knows.
w hen discovered, the distilling apparatus
had been removed, but the place bore evil
dence OF recent occupancy Several DAYS
later, the deputy marshal and a number of
men from town went out to view the scene,
but no trace of the owners could be found.
John G. Pitts, father of Section Master
Pitts, was killed Monday morning about
three miles from Newberry. Section
Master Pitts was going with his force on
his push car to his work below here, and
about three miles from here his car collided
with a special or extra freight. The fog
was heavy, and while Pitts was on the
lookout for an extra he could not see far
ohOusu dnedu, anu IL Une Whistles Tor the
crossings were sounded he failed to hear
them, and he did not see the freight until
very near him. His force succeeded in
getting the push car nearly off the track,
but the engine in striking the push car
threw off some tool, possibly the track
gauge, which struck J. G. Pitts in the head
causing almost instant death.
Dave Barton, while out hunting about
mile and half from Montmorenci, one day
last week, came across the dead body of a
white man in the woods. The man had
evidently been dead for some time. as the
body was badly decomposed. The coroner
was notified, and an examination and in
quest held and verdict was returned that
he came to his death from natural causes.
There was nothing to indicate violence. He
had in his pockets two newspaper wrap
pers with the address: Lewis
Seebold, Lock Box 454 Washington. d.
c." and $50 "a together with some coins
that could not be made out, and copy of
the Aiken Recorder and Boston Herald.
He was neatly dressed, and his suit was of
navy blue. After the inquest the body was
buried near where it was found This
makes the second myster ious death that has
occurred within the last few months be-
tween Montmorenci and Windsor.