The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-21
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Srartanburg is TO be lighted by electric
ity.
Williamsburg county.
A company to manufacture car couplings
has been organized at Prosperity.
The School superintendent Association
of South Carolina was in session &C COlum-
bia Friday and Saturday.
Col. /. q. McKissick of Union will be a
candidate for congress in Mr.. Perry's place.
Col. MckiSsick 10 1870 led forlorn hope in
the district, but was counted out
Work was begun at Pslzsr Friday on the
addition 70 mill No. 3 of the Pelzer com.
psny's factories. The new addition will
have capacity Of 5000 spind.es and $50
looms.
At Fountain Inn, a small town on the
Laurens railroad in Greenville county,
Thursday afternoon Jim Berry colored)
attacked Allen Forester, also colored, and
severely stabbed him. Berry was arrested
and put in the guard house. Thursday
night party headed by whits man, the
employer of Berry, broke into the guard
house and released the prisoner. The affair
created a sensation 10 the town.
A full meeting Of the board Of trustees Of
the Clemson Agricultural College was held
at Pendleton Friday, all the members bel az
present except Col. B. w. Edwards and j.
= u.
The board met to prepare fer beginning thu
actual work of establishing the colleg.. 1t
was decided to begin first the work on the
| buildings Of the experiment station and the
laboratory, the intention being To have the
station in operation before the other build
ings are completed. Work will be begun as
soon as possible.
The South Carolina Melon Growers As
ISOLATION met at Blackville last Thursday.
They have secured a reduction OF rates
| from As $40 cents per 100 to Sc cents This
makes the cost of Transporting carload TO
New YORK $50, against sos IS last year.
| The South Carolina crop will be small this
year Wen informed gentleman say that
| the acreage will not be- more than half
what it was last year. Those who do make
good melons will be likely to get gilt-edge
prices, as the failure Of the fruit crop will
make the demand for melons strong up
| north.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor,
IN session az Columbia last week, elected the
following officers: Past grand dictator, w.
w. SImons, Charleston; grand dictator, ?.
X. McCully. Anderson; grand vice dicta-
tor, w. II. Lockwood, Bsaufort; grand as
Sistant dictator, Gen. J. w. Moore, Hamp-
ton; grand guide. j. c. Sheppard, f ige-
field; grand reporter, G. w. Holland New
berry; grand treasurer, J. T. Roberi sou,
Aboevllle; grand guardian, n. w. Trump,
| SS4uinDlts bE6ul cudDlalu, ~. ~.
| batesourg; grand sentinel. j. l.. Addison,
! Eigeheld; grand trustees, j. A. Henneman
| Snartanburg; F. II. London, Rock Hill, and
A. H. Ryttenburg, Sumter. It. was resolved
to hold the next annual session in Columbia
on April 3, 1891.
The trustees Of ClaAin College met at
Columbia Saturday and made the following
report: 'The trouble between one of the
professors of Claflin College and the students
| IF H..
are clearly in rebellion against the author
lty of tue college, coming before the trus-
tees: IL is resolved, That the students be
| ana are hereby required to raturl to their
| classes under Prof. DeTreville at once and
that every student falling to comply with
this resolution be expelled from the college,
and whereas, IL appears that the rebellion of
students grew out of the grave misconduct
Of two of the professors, beginning in the
faculty NEE ing and ending on the college
campus; resolved, further. that it be re-
| ferred to committee of three, to be ap-
| pointed by the chairman, TO report what
action should be taken by this board in ref
ereDce TO the offending professors" The
| committee consists of MeSsrs BUST, Coker
aud McIver The board of trustees will
hold special meeting on April so, and
will then consider the report.
In pursuance OF the act of the general
assembly approved Nov. 81, 1889, K. w.
| simpson, executor of the will of the late
Thomas q. Clemson, has turned over TO the
state treasurer the money, bonds, notes,
MORTGAGES and titles to real estate devised
by Mr.. Clemson TO the Clemson Agricultural
| College. The property is held by the state
treasurer for the purposes of the college
1t includes the following: Nine city of
Columbia bonds " ST. 900 each, face value
| $4,000, assessed value at 90, $500. Two
South Carolina Brown bonds of $500 each,
face value $1,000, assessed value at
"a per cent premium, sl,025. One
| South Carolina Brown certificate of
stock for Sl4, 500, assessed value at 2J3 per
cent. premium, $l4, 1862 80. A batch of con-
federate bonds, par value $l1,000 assessed
as of no value. Deed for Fort Hill prop
erty, $4,000. Cash, SS,0S3. Thirty-sight
oil paintings and one iron safe. construct
lively but not actually turned over; the
paintings not appraised: the safe valued at
S135. Sixteen notes and mortgages, two of
which are appraised as CD value; face value
$3.50 80, assessed value $1S,767 "A. 1t ap-
pears, therefore, that the total face value
OF the property turned over TO the treasurer,
including the Fort Hill place, is 1871, 52S so,
and its assessed value s69, 0S3 "a.
Samuel Jeffries of Gaffney City, one of
the richest men in that section OF the state,
IS now under arrest at his home, charged
with the muir Ter of DR.. Alexaude. White
i'll August 1865. His arrest has created a
sensation on all sides Jetfries is an old
man aad a retired farmer. At one tins he
was the largest landowner in Union county
Since D.. White was murderei it has been
current rumor that Jeffries was inn
plicated in the crime. The story Of
the murder and of the facts lead
Ing to Jeffries arrest reads like romal ce.
DR.. White was said TO bs in possession OF
damaging evidence against Samuel Jeffries
for toe murder of Shelton Sparks, for
which, at the time of the killing of Me-
White, Jetfries was about to be tried,
aud for which he was afterward
tried and acquitted. While nursing III
mo5herless child White was shot from am
bush by unknown parties. The child was
unhurt, and when his father fell dead with
the blood spoutiug from his body the boy
sat down beside tire murdered man and
dabbled unconsciously III his fathers life
blood. There the child and his fathers BODY
were found. The murderer or murderers
escaped unknown, and although every
search was made, no one was over arrested
for the crime uatil Thursday Suspicion
attached to Samuel Jeffriss and man
named Medlin. a few years ago Medlin.
who had moved Co Texas, died and made
confession on his death bed declaring
Jeffries to be the murderer of DIR. White.
and his dying declaration was given to the