The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-17

for building purposes. The nugget is the
size Of an acorn and is perhaps worth 81.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The stock of goods of John Slattery, of
Greenville, was sold at auction Wednes-
day, under mortgage sale, bringing
81 900 The stock was bought by attor-
neys representing unsecured creditors
A 7-year-old colored boy. named Mccall,
was playing in his fathers yard, at
Greenville, Tuesday night, having an
open knife in his hand. He fell, sticking
the knife in his breast, and died from the
wound this morning.
The secretary of state has issued
commission to 1redell Jones, David Hutch
inson, William White, Fred Mobley, A
f. Smith, w. G. Hutchinson, Isiah Simp-
son and B. w. Craig, all of Rock Hill, as
corporators of a land company. The cap
ital stock is $40, 900, divided into shares at
! 800 each.
Governor Tillman Thursday forwarded
| a letter to Gen. d. w. Flagler, the chief
of ordnance of the United States at
| Washington, asking for 400 cadet rifles
and accoutrements for the use of students
at Clemson College, aud four pieces Of
light field artillery, with necessary
equipments.
Two charters were issued at Columbia
| Friday The Colored Farmers Mutual
Association, OF St Helena Island, and
the Oswald Macmillan Company, of
| Charleston The directors are John Mac
milan, Emily M. Macmillan and Oswald
Macmillan. The paid up capital stock is
| fixed at $4,000.
A large, brick building, that was built
| for school house, and used as such for
a while, together with about three acres
! of land, at Greenwood, has been pur-
! oboGpA NV tho EtliepOna1fnOa fhrNt,rro
| Revs. T. ID. Bratton and d. J. d. McCul-
! Tough, from the Greenwood Building and
| Loan Association A nice church will be
| built as soon as possible.
| An order has been signed at Columbia
| by Judge Gary ordering the sale Of the
/ Congaree Cotton Mill property The
| suit was brought by the Guarantee Trust
! and Safe Deposit Company as trustees
| The amount of the Indebtedness is put
| down as S4l,5SO.75, which is due to the
| boudholders. The sale is ordered to take
| place on the first Monday IN September,
| either for cash or upon such terms as
/ may be agreed upon.
On Wednesday night a murderous in
| cendiary, who evidently had some reason
/ to try and burn the occupants, set fire to
/ the residence of Mrs. Polly c. Mcetze of
| Columbia, the wife of Dug Meetle, and
| burned it to the ground Mrs Meetze
and her children were sleeping in the
/ house and they awo6e Just in time to es-
/ cape with their lives. They came near
| being burned beneath the falling build
/ ing, and did not save even their clothing
Commission for charter has been is
| sued by the secretary of state to the
/ Baby Cultivator Company of GSrier's, in
/ Grceuville county, The capital stock is
1 to be S25 600, divided into 250 shares of
| 500 each. The purpose of the company
! is to purchase and manufacture agri-
| cultural implements and to conduct
| general merchandise, loan and mortgage
/ and savings bank business. The corpo-
ratOrs are w. c. Moore and William d.
| Beachim.
| Cole L. Blease, attorney, called on Gov
! ernor Tillman Friday with q petition for
| executive clemeucy in behalf of Amanda
/ Workman, colored, under sentence of
/ death in Newberry. She was convicted
/ of murder and sentenced to be hung in
/ July. 1892. An appeal was taken to the
/ supreme court, which dismissed the APP
/ peal and the woman was resentenced to
| be hung August Is The petition is for a
( Communication of the sentence to life i'm
| prisonment and is quite largely. signed.
! The petition has been referred to Solicit
or Q. l.. SchumpCrt.
| On Wednesday night burglars entered
| the residence of w. E. Gonzales on Arse
nal Hill, at Columbia, while that gentle
man was at his Office. They opened the
blinds of a French window opening on the
/ piazza, by prying up one Of the Stats and
unbolting the window on the inside
| This room was unoccupied but had a light
burning in it. The burglars opened the
/ door leading into the adjoining room
where Mrs. Gonzales and her little son
were sleeping, went in and took from the
/ bureau poclletboOk, several small box
( es and baskets and took them back into
| the lighted room. II is supposed that
| they overlooked the iewelry in one of the
boxes, for il was intact. They satisfied
/ themselves with the pocketbook and a
/ large trunk, which was found near the
railroad, broken open and rihed In the
/ pocketbook was a IS greenback bill,
/ Chilean mouey-with several words in
/ Spanish stamped across its face in large
/ black letters. This may lead to the cap
/ ture Of the burglars, who Mr. Gonzales
| thinks from their foot prints, are a gang
of three or four negro boys Of fifteen to
] sixteen years