The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Charlestoa's second crop of Strawberries
| is now ripening.
The thirteenth state convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association met at
Orangeburg Friday.
The Richland Volunteers of Columbia
Will attend the unwilling Of the Lee nonu-
mens at Richmond, Va.
A meeting of the Fruit and Melon Grow
ers' Association of South Carolina will be
held at Blackyille, s. c., on Thursday,
April IS.
Charleston presbytery. which has been in
session for several DAYS at WATERFORD. ad-
iourned on Thursday night after a harmoni-
Gus and important meeting. The presby-
terry will hold its next session at Allendale,
on Oct. Z.
Messrs. Chatfieli & Croft are making
preparations to est ibIsh and operate big
saw-mill on the Ian irun plaza, near Baus-
kett's mill, on the Cumberland Gap rail-
road The daily output is expected to be
10000 feet.
The marriage of Collector Robert Smalls
at Beaufort Wednesday took place in the
First African Baptist church, of which Rev.
A. Waddell is pastor, who performed the
marriage ceremony. The bride is formerly
OF Charleston, but late of Savannah.
Thursday while Della James, lcolored)
was walking along the road in Marlboro
county her clothes caught fire from a spark
from the pipe which she was smoking, and
before assistance could reach her the flames
had so badly burned her that death resulted
IN few minutes
The citizens of Lexington are mad be-
cause Willie Leaphart, who was to have
been hanged there Friday for crininally
assaulting Miss Rosa Cannon last January,
has been respited by tie governor until
May 9. Ii Leaphart were still in Lexing-
| ton there would be a lynching, but the anger
or the citizens was intensified by the fact
that Thursday he was spirited away and
now lies in the Richl2nd Jail.
A very singular accident occurred at
Westminster a day or two ago. A man
named Warren Wilson was sitting astride
his horse at the depot whea a train rolled
up, at which the horse became so fright
ened that he backed upon the rotten plank
| covering of an old well, which broke and
let both horse and rider through. An old
rail was sticking in the muddy bottom, on
which the horse was impaled. His struggles
| were fearful, and his rider who, strange to
say, did not get unseated, had narrow
| escape from being crushed to DEATH AS it
was he was severely hurt before being
| rescued. The well was forty feet deep and
the horse died before he could be pulled out.
Johnston Monitor: The latest good
I
Johnston lady, who, with party, visited
Augusta last week and stopped at the
| Arlington. In going to their room the
lord" among them led the way 10 the ele-
vator and quietly seated himself ON the
| settee. The lady looked about for a moment
with a greatly dissatisfied expression of
countenance. and then gave expression to
her thoughts by saying: Il don't like this
room bit; it's too small" Just then the
| elevator began too move upward, when the
lady screamed and started to jump from the
animated enclosure, but she was caught IN
| time to prevent au accident. Explanations
followed and she now thinks the Arlington
is just too too utterly.
There was filed in the secretlry of states
| office Thursday aconveyance to the state by
| Richard w. Simpson, executor of Thomas
| g. Clemson, of the Calhoun homesteadGa at
Fort Hill, and the other property devised
| by Mr.. Clemson for the founding and main
| tenance of the Clemson Agricultural Col
| lege. The consideration named is IS. The
| conveyance is made to the state Sin trust
| for the purpose of founding upon the said
| Fort Hill plantation an agricultural college
| in accordance with the views, limitations
and conditions set forth, contained and ex-
pressed in last will and testament and
codicil of said Thomas G. Glenn
son, and of holding the balance OF
| said property as an endowment of said
| institution under the terms and conditions
| in said last will and testament and codicil. -
| The conveyance is dated March u, $780, and
| is signed by Richard w. Simpson, executor
| of Thomas G.. Clemson, and witnessed by
| Miles III. Hunter and Paul H. K. Sloan, Jr.