The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-18

! candidate This is not certain, however.
and Mr.. Wilson may have an open field
and no opposition.
John Claim, a son OF the founder Of Claim
| University at OrangeburR, has been In
spectiDg Claim aud other colored educa~
tional institutions in South Carolina be
was we'll entertained in each town be WIS.,
tied, the mayor and city officials Of Colum-
hia showing him through the capital city.
Dr. J. B. 0. Landrum of Spartauburg is
writing history of Spartanburg county.
About two years ago he began the preparA-
ton of q series OF sketches for the Spartan,
but he found the work growing in bulk aud
increasing in interest until he concluded to
make volume. He mas been working at
this for months
The state phosphate board held its con-
Guiding session Tuesday. Licenses to mine
In the Coosew territory were granted the
Coosaw Mining Company, the Oak Point
Mines Company, the Sea Island Chemical
Company and +. w. WAGNER q Co. The
Farmers Mining Company did not apply.
All these companies come into the tel ritory
under the old regulations.
The case of Ida Kaphan of Columbia is
an interesting one. She is niece of Bar
ney Pollock and joint heir ~ the prop
erty sold by Mr.. Pollock on which the
Ursuline convent Is now built. Miss Kap-
han is suing for her share of the property
on the grounds that she did not receive her
share, and that one Of the old deeds to the
property had no seal on it.
gentleman of Newberry received on
last Monday a check for 300 as q token Of
kind act done forty-fYe years ago. The
gentleman who sent the check was young
man then, and was taken sick while visi-
tor in Newberry. He was tenderly nursed
by Newberrian-long since gone to his
reward-who then occupied q house where
the opera house now stands, and his son
who now receives the token Of a generous
heart was then a 6-year-old. The gentle
man who sent the cheek lives in the lower
part Of the state,
A special from Columbia to the Charles
ton heiCs and Courier says: THE report
from Washington that there is a rumor to
the effect that the South Carolina delega-
ton to the national convention will dem md
recognition of the Ocala platform, and, not
receiving IL withdrew from the democratic
convention, is genuine news here. While
such plan is not altogether improbable,
in view of certain recent actions, it is be-
lieved that the alliance and democracy are
more closely allied in South Carolina than
in most other southern states. Columbia
is not very much of an alliance headquar-
ters and those few leaders who reside here
were out Of the city to-day"
j. Y. johnson, sentenced at Newberry to
the penitentiary for two years at the March
court of 1891 for assault and battery with
intent to kill, is a free man. Soon after his
conviction petition for his pardon was
gotten up by his attorneys, Blease &c Blease
but it did not receive the Endorsement of
the judge nor the solicitor in the case, and
Gov. Tillman refused to grant the petition.
The Factory Democratic Club took the case
in hand on last Saturday night and their
action accounts for subsequent events. j.
Gaf1 Nad aT1h1 N aok Of
resolutions asking the governor to grant
the petition for the pardon Of Johnson. The
resolutions we're unanimously adopted, and
Harry H. Blease, one of the attorneys for
johnson aud a member Of the club, was
commissioned to communicate the action
to the governor in person, which he did on
Monday. johnson returned to Newberry
on Monday night, and it is presumed that
the governor granted the petition for his
pardon as Endorsed by the club.