The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-25

i'll the vacancy caused by the death of II.
II. Lesesne.
Dirt is being broken preparatory to lay
ing the foundation to the town hall at Edge
field. This building will consist Of three
stores underneath and q hall above, which
is to be surm0unted by acupola with town
clock.
DIR. Griffin has been removed from his DO.
sition as superintendent Of the lunatic asy-
lum, the principal alleged ground Of his re-
moval being the possession Of key to the
female wards by one Milne. lame crank,
at once an inmate and employe Of the
asylum.
Capt. John A. Westmoreland Of the Simp-
son Rangers has sent in his resignation,
which has been accepted. Capt. West-
morsland also sent in the following names
for commissions: r. T. Newman, captain :;
B. 8. Cox, first lieutenant; B. K. Garrett,
second lieutenant; ]. E. Garrett, Jr., second
sergeant.
T. K. Oglesby, in one Of his letters to the
Montgomery Advertiser, said ''the only
woman on record who was the wife OF a
governor. the sister OF governor, the neice
Of a governor and the aunt and foster
mother Of governor was a southerz wo-
man." In bis pamphlet he gives the name
OF this woman as Mrs. Richard Manning of
South Carolina.
A fatal accid ent occurred Tuesday on the
Greenville end Columbia railroad at Saluda
river, between Dysop's and Chappels sta
tion. about sixty-eignt miles from Colum-
bia, where the company is putting up a
new iron bridge. One Of the hands, while
at work. fell from the bridge into the river,
which Is some fifteen feet deep at that
point, and, being unable to swim, was
drowned.
Kingstree County Record: Daniel I.
johnson xii led an eagle in the Hebron
neighborhood few days age. 1t was seven
feet one inch from the tip of one wing to the
tip of the other, and two feet six inches from
cad OF beak to end of tail, and weighed nine
pounds, although it was very poor. 1t had
killed a goose in Mr.. Johns0ns field He
made blind near where the eagle left its
prey, and when it returned to get another
mess OF goose it was shot and killed. 1t was
a fine specimen Of the American eagle.
A party Of deputits went from Troy last
evening to arrest a negro. Jack DeTlin,
staying on Wideman's plantation, who
broke into Wideman g. Pressley's store in
December last. They broke into his house
and on entering the door he shot at them five
times. One shot hit Robert Crawford in
the calf OF his leg. making a very painful
wound, but not a severe one. Tho negro
then jumped out of the back window aud
escaped under fire. 1t is supposed that he
was not hit, although he fell once, but got
up and continued his race
At Sumter Tuesday the house of John
Blackwell was struck by lightning and his
wife received very severe shock, but soon
rallied and sustains no permanent injury.
AT st. Matthew's lightning struck and
Killed Solomon Grant (colored), who was
working in U. s. L. Herlong's field in the
suburbs of the town. At Beaufort during
the prevalence of thunderstorm about 10
O'Clock Monday night Isabella Scott, while
sitting at window entertaining number
or Other W men was str lck by lightning and
instantly killed. The lightning also pros
trated number of people in the house, but
no one else was fatally hurt The lightning
is supposed to have been attracted TO the
place by number of galvanized wires
which were used as clothes line and
stretched across the yard.
A few days since the country adjacent to
Liberty Hill, in Edgefield county. was the
scene OF spirited shooting scrape, the par
t1oipants being p. W. Cheatham and Jack
WhatleY, both active and progressive young
farmers and belonging to prominent
families. 1t appears that bad blood had ex-
listed between them for a considerable time,
and this led to frequent quarrels. and finally
1t was agreed to meet at a certain time and
place and shoot 1t out" Accompanied by
friends the parties met as agreed upon,
measured their distance, aud at the word
opened fire, the one upon the other. Mr..
Cheatham shot eleven times to Mr. What
ley's i've. Strange to say, neither party
was seriously hurt, each receiving a slight
wound. IL is reported that they were to
have met again ito have It over" but this
has not been done.
young man by the name of B. r. Sulter
was arralgned before J. L. Ward, trial JUS
tlce, Wednesday, for an attempted outrage
upon a married woman, Ms. w. c. Neil,
who lives about two miles from louisville.
The woman's husband is a tenant on the
Misses Whitlock's place and has lately
moved to Union county from York county.
The defendant is from Chippewa, Wiscon-
sin. He says that be is an intinerant clock
and machine repairer, and has been in the
south about two years. His parents are
living in Chippewa. The defendant was
stopping q few days at Mr.. Nells house and
had been drinking pretty freely. While
MIR. Neil was in the Geld at work Mrs Neil
says the assault was made. After hearing
the evidence of Mrs Neil, who was
the only witness, the trial justice discharged
the defendant. The decision of the trial
justice was approved by nearly every one
who heard the testimony.
A thunde torn, which lasted about half
an hour, visited Kershaw Tuesday. accom-
panied by lightning and hail. During the
storm lightning struck the turpentine depot
of John r. Ashe and set it on fire. The en-
tire buildings and platforms were destroyed,
together with about 3, 100 gallons of turpen-
tine, 2sO barrels of rosin. 8 tons of hay, rs
barrels of molasies, one carload of flour, rs
barrels of lime, lot of hoop iron,
tools, scales, etc, amounting to about
$4,000, on which there was no in
surance. When the turpentine tank fell
it spread q lake of liquid fire all over the
street and on the railroad track. The fire
was kept under control on the street without
| much difficulty, but succeeded in DESTROYING
about rs or 100 yards of track and three
box cars loaded with rosin before it was
| controlled on the railroad. The South
| Bound freight. due here at $50 o'clock D. M
was cut offsuntil about 10 o'clock at night
| The rails were warped and twisted out of
shape and new ones had to be put down.