The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-23

Rear Admiral Gherardi and officers are
being entertained with characteristic
Charleston hospitality.
Hampton has a new bank building and
now wants a cotton factory. The Metho-
dist church there will be dedicated on the
fifth Sunday in this Month by Rev. w. D.
Strickland, editor OF the Christian Aduo-
cate
Each day Spartanburg adds another to
its death record. The latest is the death OF
James Geddes, one of the leading dry goods
merchants of that place. Mr.. Geddes was a
ncble-helrted man and was very much be-
| loved.
TIE lease Of the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens railroad to the South Carolina
| alway Company, by whom the road has
| been here ofore operated, has expired and
! the read has reverted TO the control OF its
| owners
/ John Pittman, who lives at Reedy River
| factory in Greenville county. has little
| 3-year-old son who is the subject Of a great
| deal OF attention. He has SIX well-devel-
| oped fingers on each hand and can freely
use them all.
The annual meeting Of the oil mill men
| will be held at Florence on June Z. There
will be present representatives Of all the in
! dependent mills in this state and Of many in
| Georgia. 1t will be a large gathering of the
most prominent men of nearly every county
In the state.
A little colored girl, the daughter of a
woman namsd Montgomery living at
Columbia, died Wednesday In great agony
from lock jaw. It seems that the little girl
on the night before got her foot caught In a
Jagged board and the nail was torn entirely
off her "big" toe.
The controller generals Office is getting
out statement OF the insurance business in
this state. The companies doing the largest
tnenranCA hVIQ In ba tata ha
following: Equitable. $240, 900; Mutual Life,
$199 900; New York Life, $4,000 Mutual
Fund Reserve, $4,000.
A day OF two ago a negro youth, Romeo
Adams, aged 81 years, shot and instantly
killed Jim Bond, young negro boy 10
years old. The killing occurred about If
teen miles from Columbia, in Lexington
county, near the postoitice known as Senn's.
The circumstances show the same old story
OF the unloaded gun.
Secretary Of State Tindall last Wednesday
granted commission to 7. G. Willoughbv
and ID. j. Pepkin as the corporators of the
Ladder Publishing Company in Williams
burg county. The company will be con-
trolled by the Williamsburg county farm
ers' alliance. Capital stock 81 900, divided
into shares of IS each.
An Edisto Island special to the Netcs and
Courier says: 1.-THE long continued drought
has become a serious matter. Leaving out
the injury to the cotton crop, much Of which
from this cause, has not come up, truck of
all kinds has suffered severely Cabbages
are heading up very slowly, and the yield
in potatoes will be materially decreased"
J. Whitfield Rast of Orangeburp has In
his possession penholder which is made out
Of a splinter that was knocked from a man
telpiece In Fort Sumter during the war
The splinter was secured and saved by
Frank Rast, the father of the present
owner Of the relic the last named gentle
man being stationed at the fort at the
time.
George Head, one of the prisoners who
escaped from the county jail in Greenville
over month ago, was captured a dey or
two ago by Deputy Sheriff Gilreath in the
mountains of Oconee county. The man
who escaped with Head was an Oconee
county moonshiner, and the two went from
Greenville by q roundabout courss to the
moonshiner's house.
In Greenville John and Frank Morrissey
were arrested Wednesday by Chief Of Police
weeks Tor an assault on +. Cardarelli.
Chief Weeks says that Cardarelli received a
message from Mrs. Cusick Tuesday night,
saying that she was sick and wished him to
see her. On the way he was assaulted and
given a terrible beating The accused are
under bond and admit the assault.
1t is reported through a very reliable
SOuICo Ilub CERTAIN allldQC9Inen OF Union
county are trying to work up new deal
by which some of their party are to BE- left
out. Their plan is to get all of the sub
alliances 60 pledge themselves to Gov. Till
man and all his measures and to indorse
certain men Of their party for certain
offices before any nominations are made.
The Grand Lodge of the 1ndepsn lent Order
OF Odd Fellows of South Carolina was in
session at Columbia last week. There were
An0nE thirty Of
subordinate lodges in various portions of
the state present. There are only GAS mem
bers Of the order in South Carolina but
they are enthusiastic workers and in the
next year intend to greatly increase the
membership of the order.
Tuesday night last the Atlantic Coast
Dispatch shipped north eighty carloads of
vegetables. This is the largest shipment Of
truck which has been made Out of the city
of Charleston this season and the Atlantic
Coast Line Dispatches fast vegetable train
had to leave the city in three heavy sections
In order TO handle it, The eighty carloads
were made up from three points, as follows:
From Young's Island thirty-two carloads,
the largest single days shipment made from
that point this season. From Florida via
the Charleston and Savannah twenty-six
carloads, and the remaining twenty-four
carloads from the immediate vicinity of
Charleston.
The stockholders OF the newly organized
bank Of Columbia met THURSDAY in re
Commercial Bank building and completed
their organization by the election OF the
following board Of directors: George w.
Williams of Charleston, W. T. Martin, W.
H. Lyles, Fl. P. Clark, J. A. Willis, J. s.
Muller, D. A. Childs and F. s. Earle. The
directors at a subsequent nesting elected
the following officers: President, w. G..
Childs; vice president, W. T. Martin;
cashier, T. II. Gibbes; teller, Martin Stork.
The capital stock Of the bank is 800, 00O.
and the character OF the management in
sures it fine share Of the rapidly increas-
ing banking business Of the city.