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

Joseph II. Scarborough has patented a
double cotton planter.
Machinery is being put in place for the
Whitney cotton mill at Spartanburg
The Union Oil and Manufacturing Com
peny began operations on Jan. g and is
working day and night.
| The second annual exhibition of the Poul-
try and Pet Association will be held at
| Charleston, Monday, Jan. 81, and continue
through the week.
Steps are to be taken to have Ashepoo
| river from which is shipped a deal of phos-
phate rock, attached to the Beaufort collec-
ton district instead of Charleston.
The bill authorizing the town council of
Union to issue bonds to the amount of
$1,000 for the construction of public
school building has passed the legislature.
The Mormon elders still hold on to Spar
tanburg county. Their headquarters are in
the ueighborhood of Thickety mountain.
They are very quiet, and their influence
and following are limited.
The warehouse OF R. c. Stewart Of
Chester was fired by an inceudiary Satur-
day night of last week. By hard fighting
the fire was confined to the warehouse,
which was burned to the ground.
In various parts of Laurens county an
unusual quantity of "honey dew" is re-
ported to have fallen, and in some cases the
| phenomena of a shower of sweet water
| from cloudleSs sky caused not a little
| alarm.
The governor has offered reward of $50
for the apprehension and delivery to the
I sheriff of Barnwell county of Edmund
/ Stewart (colored), who is charged with the
murder of j. S. Brown, white man, on
Dec. 10.
The large dwelling house in Winnsboro
known as the old Frazer home, owned and
| occupied by Miss Matte Gather. was con-
summed by fire about o'clock Friday morn
| ing. The inmates of the house barely
escaped with their lives.
The supreme court has granted bail to
| the four negroes from Barnwell county
held as accessories in tho murder of James
5. Brown, near Midway on Dec. 49, Stew
art, the real perpetrator of the deed.
| escaped, but the others were arrested, and
have been held as stated.
| b. o. Jenkins, owner of q government
distillery near Earle's Station, nine miles
from Shelby, was shot through the body
and mortally wounded by j. H. McNeily,
storekeeper and gauger, at the distillery
Tuesday. The cause of the quarrel is not
known. McNeIly made his escape
The last spike on the last rail laid between
| Sumter and Charleston ON the Charleston.
| Sumter and Northern (Eutawville) railroad
was driven Wednesday morning, com
| pleting the connection with the old city bv
the sea. This gives Sumter a line direct to
Charleston, in addition to the road now in
operation.
Bob Brown, the last Of the negroes held
on suspicion for the murder of the unknown
railroad hand, who was killed and robbed
near Chester Christmas week, was released
Friday, the coroner having satisfied himself
that Brown was not one of the guilty. No
clew whatever has been found as to who
did the deed
edmund II. Blanton of Bowlingsville mas
IA emlnently proper opinion of the wicked
ness OF passing counterfeit money, but he is
| not familiar with the method Of working
| the green goods" game. He sends tbs
governor green goods" circular which he
has received, as he believes that such un-
lawful proceedings ought to be stopped"
Two negro boys and colored man were
drowned In Stone river, near Johns Island.
Wednesday night, while engaged in placing
lights on the phosphate dredge belonging to
l, B. Seabrook. They went out to the