The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-26
SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA
A cotton mill is among the possibilities at
| Batesburg.
| The indications are, says the NeCs and
! Courier, that Charleston will soon have
| another direct line of steamers connecting
| that city with the most important cotton
/ ports of Europe. Street Bros. have just
received letter from powerful European
/ steamship company Offering to place the
ships at their service Immediately If a
sufficient amount Of business can be guar
| anteed.
! At Greenville Thursday night j. Luther
| Trammell, bartender and former saloon
/ keeper. shot and killed Eugene Robinson, a
/ colored waiter in Rudolf Legon's restaurant.
/ Re said that the waiter insulted him and he
went to the kitchen of the restaurant and
shot him. He claims self-defense and says
| Robinson was advancing on him with a
knife. TrammelI surrendered. The coro-
1 ner's jury brought in a verdict Of wilful
! murder
| Alva Gage has added another to his long
| list OF generous donations TO worthy OBJ
! lects in Charleston. At recent meeting Of
/ the Unitarian Society of Charleston he sig
nifed his intention OF donating a parish
I home for the Unitarian church, and of
| course his magnificent offer was accepted
with unanimity and enthusiasm. The
| home will be erected on the lot adjoining
] the church in Arcbdale street, and will
| doubtless be an ornament to the locality
| IL will be handsome brick structure "a
! stories high. The lower floor will be ar
ranged for church entertainments and re-
| ligious meetings, and the upper rooms will
| be fitted up for parsonage. The plans fer
| the building have all been made, and, &C.
| cording 10 the present estimates, il will
cost about $4,000 Mr.. Gage is anxious
that the home lie built as soon as practical
BILE, and work will be commenced in short
while.
A serious cutting scrape occurred about
five miles north. of Cypress. Darlington
county, Wednesday, near Stokes bridge.
| Sidney Brooks was drunk and lying dywn
in the public road when Hsrvie Ballard
came along and found him in that oondi>
ton. Thinking that he would raise him up
and get him TO go home Ballard caught
| hold of him and shook him, asking him to
get up and go home, whereupon Brooks re-
fused and cursed Ballard. Ballard then
| LETT him and went some distance, but
| thinking that he could probably get Brooks
| up out of the road, he went back to
where Brooks was lying and shook him.
| de then asked him TO get up out OF the road
| and 60 home. Brooks rose with him, knife
! In hand, and cut Ballard two severe gsshes
| across the abdomen. He cut several of his
intestines. Ballard died from his wounds.
| DUH hhIbtSe are "1lko EusE. u6 u6CSAsbu
| was an honest, peaceable and quiet man.
| Brooks is a rowdy rutfisu without many
| friends. Brooks hes been arrested and
! lodged In the Darlington jail.
! At Darlington as 10;30 o'clock Tuesday
| night the fire alarm sounded and the one
story frame building Of c. Alexander in
| Pearl street was found burning. The fire
| originated In the interior Of the building,
and when discovered the smoke was SD
NhaA
| building was soon enveloped in flames and
was totally destroyed. Although a COM
paratively small building It was oe-
cupied by several firms: G.. Alexan-
der, bar; A. Hyman, general merohan-
| disc; Ed Sanders & Co.. butchers and
green grocers; Charlie Ford (colored), res
taurant Alexander was insured on stock
and building 81 $50; Hyman $4,000 on
stock, luckily taken only three days ago;
Ed Saunders 800. Alexander's stock was
total loss. Hyman saved some, and Saun-
ders and Ford will lose heavily. The
building was surrounded by brick buildings
entirely, which, with the work done, pre-
vented the flames from spreading. The
front Of the Cleveland hotel aud the stores
Of tie W einberg block were considerably
damaged. Nearly every pane of glass was
broken.
At ST. Georges, Colleton county, about
o'clock Friday morning the cry of fire and
TIE ringing of the bells awakened the resi-
dents OF the town. It was found that
flames were under Roadway in the upper
part Of Klauber's Palace store. With the
appliances at hand it was useless to at
tempt to extinguish the flames. Adjoining
this store was the general merchandise
establishment of II. Il. Harper, which was
soon ablaze on the roof, and the heat gen
Grated by the large building of Klauber's
rendered it impossible to stem the progress
of the flames. This. with three smaller out
buildings, was soon burned. The next to
go We're the postoffice on the north side
and the former law Office OF G. NJ Rumph.
The drug store of DIR. P. NJ. Judy was
saved only by the gallant efforts of the
citizens. Seven buildings were already in
flames, and the fine residence Of P. NJ.
Murray, known as the Sease house, was
saved only by hard and earnest work. The
losses, Appropriated, are: l.. A. Klauber.
house and stock. $4,000; insured for
So, 400. II. II. Harper, stock, 5000; small
81 500; no insurance. Postofilce building,
$500; no insurance. Out5uiidings, d. L.
McAlhany, Jr., $500; no Insurance. P. NJ.
Murray, damage by water, etc., $50; in
sured. Barber shop, 500; no insurance.
1t is claimed upon good authority that
some ladies in Charleston have discovered
in the person of a young negro servant the
possession or q voice winch Will win Tor lts
possessor possibly more than q national req.
utation. The young man. who is name,l
Daniel w jackson, is % years Of age Tic
/ was born in Alabama of parents who moveo
| there some years since from Sou /
| Carolina. After the death of his father
which occurred when he was quite
| young, the mother took the child
| back TO Aiken, aud there entered him as
student in the public schools. When be
was IA years of age he went to Charleston
and metriculated at the Avery institute. He
| was graduated from the institution year
| ago last Jne, having been elected the orator
| of his class. Last spring he entered the en-
| ployment of a Charleston family and &C.
companied his employers to the north fol-
the summer. After he had been in theil
service for some months they accidentally
| discovered that he possessed a remarkable
falsetto voice. He proposed to give a con
cert in CITY near the summer place of the
family in which be was emplo ped, and with
their assistance succeeded in arrapg ing fol
one 1t is said that the audience wss cleo
trified by his wonderful singing The must
cal critics who we're present pronounced
Jackson's voice not only to be an unusually
rare but exceptionally fine one, and the
manager of the theater the next day made
him an offer of handsome salary for a 81,
months engagement TO begin with the new
| year The ladies of the family in who's.