The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-10
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Darlington floral fair takes place
Thursday.
The rice crop in the neighborbood of
| Yemassee is said to be very promising. The
early rice is now shooting.
The prospect for good cotton crop at APP
pleton has been cut off by the recent heavy
rains, which have caused the plant to rust
and shed, materially affecting the staple.
Rev. r. C. Oliver died Sunday morning
at the home of j. II. Oliver, near Cherokee.
| 1t is understood that he made will leaving
the bulk OF his property to certain mission
work that he started in Columbia.
Col f. T. Stackhouse, congressman from
the Sixth district. has Just harvested from
| an acre of oats l1S bushels and p pounds.
There were 10 acres In the field planted, all
of which made an average of 100 bushels.
The Enterprise Canning and Picking
| Company Of Johnsonville has commenced
operations. The capacity of tire company
is 700 cans per day, and our farmers are
turning their fruit and vegetables into
money.
Last Sunday about fifty teams with
scoops. etc, passed through the streets of
! Aiken. They had been working on the
South Bound railroad, and having COM
| pleted the contract, were on their way to
Augusta.
The dredge Oglethorpe, Capt Henderson.
| of the Beaufort Phosphate Company, has
| been returned to Beauforts waters again
| She was engaged for a long time in digging
in Bull river and vicinity, but is now work
ing near Cages Mill.
The corn crop this year in Nswberry
county will be the largest ever made. One
| Of the farmers will make 100 bushels on
less than an acre. More farming like this
would solve several knotty problems now
agitating the country.
The Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chi
cago railway for the month of May, by car
sum OF So, 402 70, against 81, S13 80 for the
corresponding month Of last year, an in
crease Of S7.63 per cent.
G. T. Wilson, who lives on Col. l. w.
Xouman's place near Allendale, killed
twenty-six snakes at one shot. He shot
water RATHER and upon disseoting her snake
ship twenty five little snakes came to light,
which were soon dispatched.
Palmetto Post: II the government will
give Port Royal q. 0o0, 900 we will build
city that will bring more revenue into the
! treasury from imports and exports than any
city on the South Atlantic, and not ask for
money to deepen the channel for fifty
| years.
The summer meeting Of the State Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Society, which
Glosed Thursday, has been signal success.
| There has hardly, il ever before. been q
meeting of the society so largely attended,
and one in which every one took such a
deep personal interest.
At a largely attended and most interest
ing meeting of the Survivors Association
of Richland county TIL ursday, the Rev
MIR. Joyner introduced a resolution looking
to the establishment in Columbia of state
confederate home for the benefit of aged
and decrept confederate soldiers.
During the thunder storm at Baruwell on
Tuesday the steeple Of the Presbyterian
church was struck by lightning. The bolt,
after utterly demolishing the steeple, passed
on down and tore away the front part of
the church, stunning two negroes who
were on the porch at the time, and killed
two COWS which were grazing in the vi
cinity.
Monday morning the railroad depot at
Yamassee was completely destroyed by
fire. The building was used by the Charles
ton and Savannah and Port Royal and
Western Carolina roads, and being at a
functional point, was one of Importance.
IL is believed that the fire originated in the
freight warehouse, which forms part OF
the depot. The loss is about 81 600, and is
covered by insurance.
Aiken recorder: The electric light works
are being pushed forward at Etheridge's
mill, and the Langley, Granitevile and
Vaucluse mills will soon be lit by electric
ity. Those mills will take about l 900 lights
besides the large lights for the villages. AS
soon as the work In these places is completed
the wires will be brought to Aiken ard tue
lights introduced here.
The will Of the late F. II. Dominick, who
died recently in Newberry county, has been
admitted to probate He ppssessed about
10000 acres Of land, being the largest land
owner in that par of the state. He made nc
requests, except TO his Eve children. although
he generously gave $40, 600 several years ago
TO the Lutheran college, at Canover, n. {.
His rule was never TO give more than 81 PEI
acre for land, and his ambition was, as he
quantity expressed it, to buy all the land
that joins my land"
The contract for building the new jail for
Beaufort county has been awarded to the
Pauly Jail Building and Manu-
featuring Company of ST. Louis,
Mo- The new Jail will be built
Of brick. and will be fitted with a sufficient
number Of iron and steel cells, and with feir
accommodations for the keeper. Upon the
completion OF the new Jail the material OF
the old building will be sold to defray Il
part Of the expenses. The proposed site for
the new Jail is on the outskirts of the town,
just south Of the National cemetery.
The following declarations have been
filed in the secretary of states office: The
Plain Speaker Publishing Company of
/ Orangeourg, y. 4. Capital stock 1000.
Corporators, E. c. Brown, D. Nj. Minus. j.
l. Grice, N. I. Bowen, J. A. Brown. The
Archdale Phosphate Mining Company,
erected at Archdale plantation in Collector
county. Capital stock $4,000. Corpor.
ators, George E. Gibbon, John A. Hertz
The Darlington Light and Water Power
Company has given the secretary Of state
notice of its issue OF $4,000 first mortgage
bonds.
Neios and Courier: Monday evening.
while the family Of w. H. Parker were sit.
ting on the piazza, they heard the report of
pistol, which seemed near. On investiga-
ton they found their son, Allen w Parker,
dying on bis bed in his room and a pistol
was on the floor. On examination it was
found that pistol ball had entered his
right temple and passed through the brain.
He was dead in q few minutes and never
moved after he was shot He was dressed,
and had only been In the house a short
while. He recently returned from Europe.
having completed his education.
Augusta Chronicle: Within the last
four or five years quite a number of Ander~
son people have turned their attention to
raising grapes for market. There are half
dozen or more large vineyards in and
around the city. The crop this yesr is very
1ne, and is now being gathered and shipped
all over the country, the larger part gong
north. There will be between fifty and
seventy-five tons shipped from that point
| this season. Andrew Brown who owns ma