The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-21
SOUTH CAROLINA

AS toe result or prOtracred services held
at the Bethel church, about eight miles
below Sumter, twenty converts were bap-
tized there last Sunday.
Application for a charter for the Pine
Forest Inn Company the old Dorchester
hotel, Sumter, S. c. has been made by
Capt F. W. Wagner and George A. Wag-
ener OF Charleston. Capital stock $50, 600.
The Pres5yterisns Of Sumter have already
begun to make preparations for the nesting
of the synod Of South Carolina. which will
be held In that city next month. Ample
and comfortable accommodations will be
provided for all who come.
The telephone line of T. E. Rembert, from
Sumter to his store at Hagood, about twenty
miles, has been completed, aud it works
well. The work was superintendent by the
Rev. C. C. Brown, who has been experi-
menting with telephones for several years.
Adj.. Gen. Farley has now under cousid
Grafton the court-martial proceedings in the
case of Capt. Bean Of the National Guards.
VINO IS charged with an assault and battery
upoh Col. J. j. Young, diversion Of funds.
and also offenses uubecoming a gentleman
One of the proposed improvements and
aids TO the treatment of lunatics at the
state asylum is an industrial school. The
details have not yet been arranged, but the
school will DO established. The idea is to give
~ oAApAOy tatcit0 us u IOTIGl OF treatment
which has been found to work well.
At the request of committee of the
Southern Historical Society Secretary Of
State Findal has made a diceit of ali his
torical records OF the state in the office of
the secretary Of state for the period from
I12O to 1890. This compilation was mailed
to the committee last week. Ii il an iuval-
liable compilation aud is complete, and a
great part Of the records refers to Charles
ton and vicinity.
A special to the Charleston Ne,cs and
Courier from Sumter says: The action of
the negroes, reported from Privateer town
snip, threatening to whip any of their fell
lows who would pick cotton for less than 80
cents per hundred need not cause any alarm.
The same thing has been tried in other sec
tions OF this county several times before.
but 1t did not amount to anything The
general price for picking cotton has been 50
cents per hundred. though in good many
cases planters have been able to get il
picked for less.
AT Sumter some time ago when the rob
berries OF the furniture warehouse Of Belt
ger q Spann were brought to light among
other things found in the house Of Joe
johnson, the robber, was a parlor organ.
This was an object of strong suspicion, aud
the suspicion was strengthened by the fact
that the organ was whitewasned, but as
there was no report of an organ having been
lost or stolen, this organ was not taken from
Johnson by the authorities. After school
term every summer the buildings of the
Sumter Institute are closed up. That was
the case this summer. In one of the school
rooms on the premises there was left. among
other things, Darlor organ. When the
bnildinRs were opened uD @ few davs 400
preparatory to the opening OF the school.
the organ was not there. Investigation has
disclosed the fact that this organ and the
whitewashed one found in the possession OF
Joe johnson were one and the same
A colored man named Harry johnson was
run over and instantly killed by the east
bound passenger train last Monday morning
at Sixty-six, on the South Caroline railway,
The following facts were developed: De-
ceased was employed as a train hand on the
material train. He had come out to the
railroad crossing to take the east-boupd
| train TO go to bis work at BrancnviIle A
| colored woman named Louisa Martin saw
him few minutes before train time iSine
upon the track, and advised him to get up
telling him he was hunting his death )
| After passing him she turned and called e
him, telling him the train was coming
and that he'd better get up. He replied
~ see it," She said, "No you don't. bui
you see the smoke and won't on, Tbi.
was the last seen of him alive. The train
was coming at high rate of speed, and in
few minutes the engine was upon him
The engineer did not see him till be was un,
der the engine and beyond assistance. The
body of the unfortunate man was horribly
mangleo, the head. hands aud feet being cut
off aud the trunk dragged along the tract
for about seventy-fve yards and beaten ant
crushed into shapelese mass Of broker
bones and bleeding flesh. The indication.
are that be was asleep when struck by the
engine. The verdict Of the jury was to tn,
eff ct that his death was the result of hi
own cnrelessness, and entirely exouerates the
engineer from blame.