The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-19
ceiver, the case win probably be carried to

the United States court.
Cotton Is opening rapidly In Clarendon
county aud the farmers f1ud no trouble in
getting it picked. Tho low price, however,
has dampened the ardor Of some Of the
larger planters in the cultivation OF the
staple, and they speak OF cutting down the
acreage more next year than was done this
A good provision crop will be made though,
and the outlook is not 30 gloomy as it might
be.
Columbia Register: The reports from
the various counties of the winners of the
scholarships to the State Military Academy
ars beginning to como In. Beaufort county
| 10 entitled TO two, but a letter from the
| county commissioner OF education states
that there were no applicants In Able
| vile Edward ]. Rogers OF Ninety Six and
w. a. Hill of Abbeville were awarded the
| places. In Charleston the winner ia C., e.
| Flshbourne, and in Sumter, George Lee
Dickson.
Charleston NetDs and Courier: James IA.
Seignious has at his office sample of high
gradeito5acoo raised by Capt P. l.. Breedeu
of Bennettsville. s. C. 1t is as pretty q
specimen, perhaps, as was ever brought TO
Charleston, and is Of the quality used for
covering" Capt. Breeder, who, by tho
way, is one OF the leading planters of the
| Pee Dee, has twenty-five acres planted in
| tobacco, from every acre of which he gath
ers /, 800 to $500 pounds OF leaf He under
| stands the art OF tobacco culture thor
ouShly, and those under him are experts in
curing It, as is evidenced by the sample
shown by James Seignious & Son.
Columbia Register School Commissioner
John T. Green yesterday fled his annual
report OF the schools of Sumter county with
the state superintendent Of education in this
city. That document is very compliment
AIRY 10 the management of the schools, and
shows that they are in highly prosperous
condition. The total enrolment for the
year was S.025, of which 2,303 were white.
5 ,722 colored, 1897 males and 4,028 fsmales.
The average attendance w0s, whites 1.675
and colored 3,3l6. Number of months in
session four and half. Three school houses
we're erected during the year. There were
seventy-four white and seventeen colored
teachers employed during the year.
Columbia State: That trouble about Gibbs
the North CRrolinIan, who was arrested in
this stats by constable of this state. and
alleged to have been forcibly brought back,
has been causing considerable correspond
enoe between the governors of the two
states for some time. 1t Is now under the
investigating eyes OF the attorneys general
OF uhe respective states, and Is furnishing
some interesting developments. Saturday
all the facts of the case as gathered in
Spartanburg, by the order of Gov. Tillman,
ecutive department and at once, together
with the papers from North Carolina,
placed in the hands Of the attorney general
for his opinion of the merits Of the case.
Charleston Neus and Courier: There is
not, perhaps, any member OF the animal
Kingdom that takes 80 high q rank as the
goat History abounds with stories of how
he has destroyed numberless stove pipes aud
dlgested countless telegraph wires, to say
nothing Of such small things as tin cans,
barrel hoops and celluloid collars. IL re-
manned, however, for Charleston goat to
take the initiative in ruthlessly devouriug
asphalt pavements and otherwise damaging
the pleasure grounds of the upper wards.
A large and eupercillous creature, with
vicious look In his left eye and a knowing
expression of oountenance, was taken before
the recorder recently and fined 81 for fol-
lowing the natural bent OF his inolinAtions
and nibbling the pavement on Marion
square.
Sumter letter 10 the NeiDs and Courier:
One OF the numerous tribe OF defeated oan-
didAtes in Sumter county has lette. in the
Waterman and Southron to- day, in which
he says that there are 2, Ills votes promised
him that he did not get, and he can prove
IL by the forty odd defeated candidates. He
does not know whether IL was because the
people didn't vote, or whether it was the
managers or the returning board, or the
lies told TO him or the lies told on him, or
the lies told by him. At any rate he did
not get the votes, and there is something
wrong and he can prove it by Mr. Thomas.
He now calls upon the forty odd 'defrauded
and bereaved candidates. to meet in general
assembly on Sept 81 to organize a new
party or a new county, he doesn't care
drat which, and not TO tamely submit to
the mistaken decision of the misled and
errIng voters" The wstchword and battle
cry or the new organization Is to be: "No
more defeated candidates.
Charleston NeWs and Courier: Already
the question Of the autumn truck crop Is
beginning TO occupy the attention Of the
! farmers. Many Charleston people think