The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-27
snrrH CAROLINA.

Dr. NJ. Rawlings Of the Spartanburg
! Presbyterian church has been ele ted presl'
/ dent Of a new university ut Clsrkesville
| Tenn.
The main building Of the new wagon fac
! tory at Timmonsyil!e is about completed.
! Machinery will be put in at once, aud the
| factory IS expected 10 be in full blast ny
! S d. |.
/ Senator Butler has accepted q challenge
! from Dr. StOses, president II the state al
/ lance. t. discuss the sub-treGsury az an
alliance picnic a. Prosperity on next
Wednesday.
Several thousand bales of last years cotton
crop are still in the hands of the producers
around Yorkville. i was tod by farme'
who wants to sell that the buyers il this
section and other surrounding markets
have declined t. Did on 1t.
At Cheraw the Atlantic Coast Line au-
thorities are aZitati1g the adyisabilIty Of
running the track on the Cheraw and Oar
llugton railroad up into the business part Of
the town. Two routes have been proposed
one up SecoAd street aud the other up
Front street..
Rev. II. 0. Lyon Of Anderson, who re-
Gently graduated from Wotford College, and
who had previously been licensed to preach,
has been appointed to supply Gatfney cir
cult in the SDartanburg district, in place of
Rev. A. A. Gilbert, whose failing health
will not permit him to fill his appointments.
Another case of fooling with the deadly
pistol occurred a day or two ago on tine
Isbel place, in West Wateree. A little boy
of the Isbel family was playing with a
4i-caliber pistol, and a little cJlored girl
was near by who, when the pistol acct
dcntally went off, received the oall in her
left chest, dangerously near the heart.
Kay Aldrich, a colored Baptist preacher
from Columbia, went % Spart4nburg some
time ago aud set about stablshing a church.
About two weeks ago he began TO revert to
the wild state and took up his a1ode in a
pile OF telegraph poles on the Air Line, away
out Of town. He always took to the woods
when any person approached him. He was
run down and captured last week, and
judged insane and sent to the lunatic asy-
lum on Saturday.
The following auditors returns were re-
ceived at the controller generals office at
Columbia Friday: Orangeburg county, by
Auditor j. b. Livingston: Total Increase
in real and personal property over last
year, 1929, 100. Berkeley county, by Audi
tor Harvey: Total increase over last year
in real aid personal property, S494, 6lO.
Union county returned LAST year real
and personal property, not GLIDING rail-
roads, amounting 10 81 ,GOS, l9J. The re-
turns for the same property for this year
amounts to "a ,29l $50. showing an Increase
over the previous year of 81, 5S3 $50.
An attempt was made to assassinate j.
Spratt Wright, who lives in Ebenezer
township, about twelve or fourteen miles
east fYorkville Tuesday. Mr.. Wright, who
had been to Rock Hill on business, was re-
turning to his home, and when about a mile
north of Ebenezer church someone concealed
on the roadside fired at him, the ball taking
effect in the base of the skull. When he
regained consciousness, or the next thing be
knew, he was at the residence of neigh
Dor. Jim Patton tcolored), who lives in the
vicinity Of Newport, has been arrested or
suspicion as being the perpetrator of the
deed. The motive Of the attack is supposed
to have been robbery. Mr.. Wright is
well-known citizsn, aud is a brother-in-law
Of Judge Witherspoon.