The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-09
SOuTH CAROLINA.

Senator Irby is quite Ill with rheumatism
since his return to South Carolina.
Several mines have been discovered in the
north western portion of Union county.
Mccall is soon to have a cotton factory.
1t will begin to work in about ten days.
The oil mill men of South Carolina hold
their annual meeting in Florence, June :.
At the Presbyterian church in Spartan
burg last Sunday 5000 was raised for for
etgn missions.
Napoleon Lavelle. the wife murderer,
will probably hanfi, as the court.has dis
missed his app al.
Abbevile is fighting to have the shops Of
the Georgia. Carolina and Northern rail-
road located there.
j. p. Way is being tried in the Orange
burg court for the murder Of Elliott Whet-
stone at Prewitt's Christmas.
The phosphate men IN Charleston have
formed combination and will NOT cut at
one another in prices hereafter.
The annual meeting Of the Prosperity
Canning Company was held May 3. The
company is in most prosperous condition.
D. A. Henderson was shot in Newberry on
| Saturday night by George Hill, who Is a
| tramp, and has been working in the neigh
borhood since January.
| Rock Hill has bought a rock cvusher and
roller and is matchmaking not only her
| streets, but also the public roads for ten
miles in every direction.
Four money lending companies that had
| established agencies at Marion for the pur-
pose Of lending money to farmers, have
withdrawn from the state.
Adjutant aud Inspector General II. l..
Farley was in Charleston last week to IN
spect officially the First and Sec 0nd regi-
ments of the colored state militia.
| The raSulfa of f,,l aud axfapdad in,
quiry in regard to the cotton acreage in
| South Carolina this year shows il to have
been Diminished 20 or 20 per cent.
The Merchants hotel of Spartanburg is
nearing completion. 1t will be- when tin-
ished, second to no hotel in the state, and
inferior to very few in the south.
King q Rhodes two OF the most pro-
gressive merchants of Florence, will soon
| begin to construct a large and hand
some opera house, with seating capacity
| of 1000.
The Laurens Canning Company is adver-
tlsed for sale. The company commenced
| work too late in the season to procure sufi-
Gent vegetables last year, aud consequently
lost money.
The Canal Dime Savings Bank opened for
business Tuesday morning in Columbia.
The officers are: President, E. w. Robert
| son; vice president, DIR. A. l.. Gambert
cashier, g. NJ. Berry; clerk, A. G. Pearce.
The Chicola bingham mills is one of the
handsome new buildings of Chester. The
burning Of the Old building occurred in the
| latter part OF January. Four hundred
looms Will be put in operation by the mid
die of June.
Maj. George w. Earle, one of Darling
! tons most prominent citizens died Thurs
day in that city. He had been suffering
for some weeks past with carbuncle of
| the most malignant kind, and death was a
! welcome release from his sufferings.
1t is proposed to move the Charleston cot
| ton mill from its location in that city to the
Lockhart Shoals in Union county. The
| shoals are said to have the finest water
| power in the south. And another reason is
that in a city of $4,000 white people not
enough help can be procured to run a mill
The Oraugeburg correspondent Of the
NelUS aud Courier relates that the barn Of
Fred Conner. with its contents-S00 bushels
of corn and a quantity of fodder-was
destroyed recently by FIRE, and that the
colored person who was charged with being
the incendiary died the same night "of heart
| disease"
One of the most destructive fires in the
history Of Nlnety-Six occurred there the
other night. The entire row OF wooden
buildings on Hotel street, numbering Ave,
three OF which were stores occupied by ].
E. Shumate, w. w. Holt. grocers. and E.
| M. osborn, druggist. Inc origin OF the nre
was no doubt Incendiary.
Citizens in Greenville living near the up
per Camperdown mill are complaining
about the stagnAnt water IN the sewerage
trenches. The rain about week or more
ago filed the trenches and the water has
remained in them since. IL il said that
there are several cases of typhoid fever in
the vicinity of the trenches, and more cases
are expected IL something is not done.
~ ~ skafa
sion last Friday to the Anderson Savings,
Loan and Investment Company. The cor
porators are j. d. Maxwell, E. B. Murray,