The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.

about Z 800.
Monetse expects to ship 10000 crates of
peaches this year.
The state teachers association meets IN
Columbia on July 10, 20 and 81.
1t is said that Edward Littlejohu (coloredJ
has been appointed postmaster at GatTney
| City.
The secretary of state has granted char
ter to the Orangeburg Brick and Tile Com
pany.
A ticket scalper was refused license in
Columbia by the city fathers Tuesday
night.
Editor J. c. Hemphil of the NeDs and
| Courier has gone to California on the edito-
rial excursion.
Prenitt had a shooting scrape Saturday in
which c. H. West was badly shot by Nor
gan Jeffcoat.
A negro boy while bathing near Sumter
last Saturday was bitten in two by a NOM
strous alligator and killed.
Dr.. Sampson Pope of Newberry an
nounces himself a candidate for congress
from the Third congressional district.
Orangeburg will have handsome monu-
| ment erected to her confederate dead. Mr..
Markwalter Of Augusta will do the work.
The opening OF the state camDa gn at
Barnwell on June will bring to that place
the candidates for the democratic nomina-
ton for state offices.
Mrs Hammond of Beech Island. s. c.,
offers for exhibit at Chicago bale of cot
ton raised with her own hands, and har-
vested and baled by her.
Mrs. Eugenia Hartman of Bouknight,
through mistake. gave her little babe
morphine for Dover's powder last Friday
and it died Saturday night.
The Lutherans Of Newberry are going to
] A,-s1l ,-lY, \ - A.. -.
| Work will begin as soon as the congrega-
ton adopt plan for the church.
Mrs. Tobie Fry of Columbia got on a
drunk Tuesday in Columbia and was arrest
ed When landed in jail she attempted to
hang herself by her apron strings
Rev. E. C.. Dorgsn, d. D., has resigned
his pastorship of the First Baptist church of
Charleston to ACCEPT professorship in the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at
| Louisville, KY.
James W James, who caused his father
to be murdered in Darlington in 1888, and
who was to hang on June 10, has been re-
| prieved by the governor. He will be sent to
the penitentiary for life.
| The Oil Mill Company has decided not to
| rebuild in Rock HILL but to rebuild at
| Norfolk, Va. This is great loss to Rock
! Hill and will be felt by ell; farmers, mer-
chants and the laboring class.
| E. J. Moriarity, the champion light
weight pugilist OF Delaware, and Fred
Stearns, the pressman Of the Columbia
| State. had fight to the finish Monday. re-
sultlng in the FRESHMAN getting pretty badly
| done up.
Bishop Hendrix will preside over the
| South Carolina conference, to be held In
Charleston next November. This Is his first
visit to the South Carolina conference, aud
he will receive Christian greeting from
| hie brethren.
1t has been suggested that the figure OF a
woman be carved on the confederate monu-
ment that the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton is putting up in Orangeburg In re-
| cognition of tha 1ble work of the women
Of the south for their dead
During the last few days. IN Prosperity,
tens OF sthousands Of tomato plants have
been transplanted to the fields by persons
who are raising them for the cannery
| About forty acres of tomatoes will be
planted for this purpose this year.
w. g. Smith, who has been connected
with the Clifton Manufacturing Company,
Clifton, S. c., for the past twelve years, has
accepted the position of treasurer and gem
eral manager of the new cotton mill at
Bamberg. which is just ready to begin
| operations.
After the close of the ball at Wiliston
last Thursday night an unfortunate diff
Guilty arose in which Lee Pagauhart was cat
| twice by Joseph Kelly of Blackville. The
wounds penetrated the left lung and are
quite serious, but at last accounts Mr.. Pa
ganhart was doing we'll.
H. E. Weatherford has been charged by
Mrs. Louisa R. Holman of Ornngeburg
with an attempt to criminally assault her in
| January last The preliminary hearing Of
the case was held last Friday before Trial
Justice Brunson, and Weatherford was
sent to the sessions court for trial. He was
released on bail.
On last Thursday night George W. Laney
a prosperous farmer living near Cash depot,
| lost his barn and stables by fire. Ten head
OF mules and horses were killed and large
q ount Of corn and forage destroyed. The
hs was undoubtedly the work of an incen-
diary and 1t is thought that the building
was saturated with kerosene before the
match was applied.
The little chapel Of the Holy Cross on Sui.
| livan's Island, Is now nearly completed. It
| has been suggested that q memorial fund be
| collected for the purpose of placing in the
| church a handsome stained glass window in
memory of Miss Benjamin, who lost her life
| seven years ago off Sullivcn's island in a
! successful attempt TO save young boy from
drowning. Miss Benjamsn was an earnest
| Episcopaliau.
! a South Carolina farmer is raising two
calves that are being brought up to help
themselves, and, as consequence, require
less care. They are kept in a barn, near a
well, from which water is taken by means
OF common cstern pump. The calves
have learned 10 operate the pump, and
whenever they want drink they pump it.
One pumps while the other puts his mouth
under the spout and drinks, and they take
turns about pumping.
Drs. Rhett aud Baker are in daily attend
ance upon the young white man who was
shot at Ashley Junction Sunday, and whose
name is Mappus. The ball entered the hip
and lodged in the abdominal cavity. 1t has
not yet been located and the patient is con.
sidered to be in a precarious condition,
danger of blood poisoning setting in. The
negro who did the shooting has not yet been
arrested, although the authorities have been
on the qui vive for him since the shooting
| occurred
The commencement exercises OF Converse
College will begin Sunday evening, June 5,
| at $3.50 O'Clock with a sermon by Rev. Dr.
Gaylor Of Suwannee, Tenn. Wednesday
evening following there will be a concert
recitation by members Of the classes In ex-
preston and music, Thursday morning at
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