The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-10
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Ool. y. y. Dargen OF sumter county has
been suggested as good man to send to con-
gress.
Work on the Edgefeld Ginning, Milling
and Fertilizer Companys works will be
begun soon.
W. P. Calhoun of Abbeville will be a
candidate for congress from the Third con-
greSsional district.
The matter of establishing a farmers
loan and savings bank at Edgefeld is being
vigorously pushed.
Liquor is now sold in Harlin City. One
oarroom Is in full blast, with others soon to
open. The city license is $500.
Hon. John C. Sheppard's name is men
tlonei In connection with the next guberna-
torlal nomina ion. He lives at Edgefeld.
The citizens of Chester have decided to
have connexions town hail, AID are
expected also to build file school house.
Senator R. NJ. Smith of Spartanburg has
announced it as his intention to enter tie
race for congress in the coming campaign
The members of the bar and the court
officers OF the county gave an elegant ban
quet at the Orangeburg hotel Thursday
night. complimentary to Judge James F.
III II.
Scientists and manufacturers are much
| interested in the recent discoveries made in
) nth Car lima in regard to the availability
Of the okra fiber as a substitute for jute and
hemp.
On Sunday night last the barn of j. D.
Rickenbaker of GoOdby's township, Orange
burg county, was accid ntally destroyed by
fire. All his corn. fodder and farming tools
were lost.
Tresband Canady was found dead in his
cabin near WATERFORD d y or two ago.
Owing to disappointment in love he had
hermit His
death resulted from natura causes.
Sixty colored emigrants from Newberry
are en- route to Arkansas. They say they
are seeking richer lands and not better
white people or higher wages. Another
crowd will follow from Newberry this
week.
The boiler of Smith & Dantzler's saw
mill in Goodby's township, Orangeburg
county, about four miles from Harlin City,
burst wednesday, killing Z. Clemens. tde
engineer, and slightly injuring Bill Mooser
| (colored).
The state board of agriculture was in
session at Columbia Friday. President Ha-
good was reelected. Several phosphate
| licenses were granted, the experiment sta
tons were provided for and the scheme for
a national board of agriculture was in
dorsed.
At Orangeburg last week, the coroner's
jury OF inquest impanelled to inquire into
the couse of the de tn of Conductor Raw
enel, returned a verdict that the deceased
came to h death on Feb. l, $780, from in
JurIes received while coupling cars at Or
augsburg on Jan. 25, 1890
The secretary of state has issued a COM
mission to N. w. Hardin, M. r. Reese, j.
I G. Black, and William NJ. Jones of Blacks
burg, and Frank Hammond of GreenvilIe
for the organization Of the Magnetic Bank
of Blaczsburg, with a capital stock of
81. 900 in shares Of $50 each.
The check for $500 issued to q. J. Drake
Of Marlboro by the department of agri-
culture as prize for the largest yield of
corn IN the world, was presented at the
state treasury Wednesday and paid. Pho
tographer Reckling has made photograph
! OF tAe warrant as an agricultural trophy.
Robert Norman, who was confirmed by
the United States Senate as postmaster at
Newberry Monday, shot and killed Lee
Schultze, the wel.-known railroad con-
tractor, at Fish Dam. Norman had
been employed by Schultzs as Time keeper,
ami recently they had disagreement about
the settlement of accounts.
Sam Wedlin, suspected of burning the
barn and stables of DR.. Fort, on the Star
farm, In Union county, in October, 1888, in
| which two horses and two COWS prrisned
has been captured AMI lodged in Jail at
| Union. There were threats that be would
be rescued by his friends, but no fears are
entertained by the authorities.
The first detachment of colorei emigrants
from Barnwell didn't reach the promised
land of Arkansas. Transportation gave
out" in Mississippi, and the entire party has
| gone to work for one planter. The letters
received a. Barnwell say they are pretty
well pleased Men get SIS a month and
ratlons. But they don't eat any idle bread.
Commissions were issued by the secretary
of State Wednesday for the organization of
the follow compa les: The Palmetto
| Cypress Company of Georgetown, capital
! $4,000; the Georgetown Barrel Manu-
featuring Company of Georgetown, capital
| $4,000: the Lexington Manufac uring
| Company Of Lexington, C. H., capital
$50 600
The following is the substance of the as
| stgues'S report in the failure of n. 7. Purdy
q Co. of Camden: Assets, including ock
OF 81 ,O24 Is and the cash in bank of So
264 56, amounts to $685. %. The liabli-
ties are S56, 276 03. The assignee has re-
ceived no directions other than to dispose of
the business in the best way he can for all
| concerned.
Tuesday night about 10 o'clock, at Flor
ence, s. 1. Burch, coroner, shot and ki led
negro man whom he caught in the act of
stealing potatoes from his yard. The man
attempted to escape, aud when about jump
| ing fence Mr.. Burch shot him and he fell
| dead. Mr.. Burch immedia ely gave him
self up to the sheriff, aud was released on a
writ Of habeas corpus and on bond for
| $4,000
the remains of the Hon. William w.
Boyce, accompanied by Capt. II. W. Gall
ard and wife. of Alexandria, Va, were
brought to Winnsboro Thursday and buried
Mr.. Boyce was a brilliant lawyer and a
very prominent man in South Carolina be-
fore and after the war. Soon after peace
was restored he made Alexandria, Va. his
home, and lived there until his dea h, which
occurred last Monday morning, in the list
year of his age. He was a member of the
confederate congress during its entire ex-
istence, and was for eight years a repre-
sentative from South Carolina in the fed
eral congress at Washington.
A dispatch from Barnwell to the Netos
and Courier says: "Dave Ready, the white
man who, while drunk, took William Black,
negro prisoner, from the officers near
Robin Station, and tied him to a tree and
shot his head off, on the Tuesday after the
wholesale lynchi & here has been caught.
Sheriff Lancaster received telegram from
the sheriff Of an Alabama county saying
he had Ready, the right man. and asked
him to send for him. The sheriff also got a
telegram from a Florida sheriff saving be
had Ready, who is wanted for the murder
Of Rlaok GhariR TancaStav hoe tal Sta,,s