The Fort Mill news. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1890-1892, 1891-09-02
ton last week.

The following epitaph is in Iauesboro:
Here lie' Jane Smith, wife of Thomas
Smith, marble cutter. This monument
was erected by her husband as a tribute
to her memory and IA specimen of his
work. Monuments of this same stvle
$3.50
Edward Van Oden is suing the CITY of
Charleston for $46,i6J damages for in
iringement of Ii = patent ON feed water
heaters for steam lire engines.
Col. Thos. w. Holloway. the 81 retarv
OF the Safe Agricultural and Mrc' anicnl
Society, of South Carolin. has inst had
printed the premium list lor the coming
Fair.
The records OF the war department
show hat there are buried in the two ma
uonal cemete les ia South Carolina -
2Sl federal soldiers. Tie largest is that
at Beaufort. where the utermentS num-
ber 0219. of which 4.i59 are classified
MS known" and 452O rs unknown
In the cemetery at Florence there have
been 3,OOI interments, only goo being
known, while 2,199 are unknown
AT meeting of the South Carolina
agricultural and Mechanical ASS ,ciation.
tons were unanimously adopted i'm favor
of greatly divcrsiGying agriculture and of
reducing the area usually devoted to
colt N. A committee of % extensive
planters with Ex-Governor Hagood as
chairman, was appointed To attend the
cotton growers convention at Alabams
next month
DIR. Woodrow, president of the South
Carolina University. left Monday for
trip up North. He said that he would
not resign the bank presidency until
few days before October The object
of the trip To the Nor II is two old
First for recreation and second To make
personal inquiry into the methods of
physical culture at the Northern colleges
OTHER STATES.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner,
Walter Bragg, of Alabama, died Friday
nj Spring Lake, n. j.
Alfred G6ldyhwattr;- on New orieaus,
one of the council in the celebrated
Gaines case, has been stricken with
paralysis.
Cordele, Ga, has two-lc legged billy
goat that walks upright like a chicken, sits
down like Il dog, is very intelligent and
great pet among the children.
Sheriff O'Connor, of Augusta, has call
ed on the white troops To do guard ohl-
ty at the execution OF Frank Danforth.
the negro wife murderer, on the Scptem-
Der 4th, but the officers of the white
company think ii unnecessary TO serve us
the sheriff has made similar request upon
the colored troops
The Florida Fibre Co., of Jacksonville.
capital $4,000 owns l $40 acres near
Fort Lauierdale, in Dade county ON
this land it has pat out 200, 900 siSal
plants which it is now cultivating, and
at the same time ii is procuring its ma
chinery for fibre making and is building
houses and shops.
Governor Northen, of Georgia, has
called IA meeting of the road congress of
that State TO assemble at Atlanta. October
2S, 1T 10 O'Clock II. IN. In compliance
with the request of the vice presidents of
the congress from all the districts of thc
State, he has issued I'M invitation for "A
road congress of all the Southern States
TO assemble at Atlanta the following day.
The Suwanee Canal Co is the name of
Georgia corporation of which Captain
Henry jackson, OF Atlanta, Is president
which has purchased from the State 24O,-
900 acres of land in the Okefenokee
swamp and proposes TO obtain still more
Then the Suwauee canal will be con.
structed which will drain this vast
mOrass and at the SAINT time furnish
transportation for the splendid timber
that covers it.
On the 10th inst. the people Of Texas
adopted five amendments To the State
constitution. One Of these indicted the
popular interest in education. for it
authorized the legislature TO take one per
cent. from the permanent school fund
and add it to that Immediately avail
able. Another of prime importance pro-
vides that the lega! rate of interest shall
in no case exceed 10 per cent, and that
III contracts where no rate is stated il
shall he per cent. The fifth amend
ment provided for the creation of ad-
ditional courts Of appeal, borh civil aud
criminal.