The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-17
SOUTH CAROLINA.

A Baptist church was constituted at North on
the afternoon OF April with twenty-five mem
beers.
A sturgeon. weighing 129 pounds and measur.
ing seven feet in length. was taken from the
Santee with skim net last Friday.
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad
has recently bought thirteen large engines to
accommodate its large and increasing bus
mess.
The machinery Of the new Catawba cotton
yarn mills at Chester will be set in motion in a
rev days. The mills viii begin with 5000
spindles.
The board of trustees Of the Industrial COL
lege for girls will visit Chester on April 10 and
20 to inspect the sites offered Tor the location of
the college buildings
The Methodists Of New berry are preparing to
begin work on their new church. They will
build it of wood aud its cost will be $4,000 1t
ID to be completed by next fall.
Gen. Farley inspected the military of the
county at Edgefield Thursday. There was q
large turnout of soldiers and all Of the compa-
MES passed a crsditable inspection.
There is some excitement In the Richburg
section on the mad dog question. About score
of rabd animals have been killed ia ths past
few days. The pursuit and slaughter will
60 on.
The Rev. Junius B. Fox took charge yester,
day as pastor Of the Newberry Lutheran
church. lie will continue TO discharge his
duties as professor at Newberry College until
June IS.
A frst-class excursion will be run from CO.
lumbia to Savannah on Tuesday, April 25 Tire
round trip will be 81. Connection viii be made
with the South Carolina train from Augusta at
Denmark.
James Alfred Crotwell died on Tuesday even.
ing last at his home in the suburbs of Newberry
in the 10Th year of mis- age. He was one OF the
weaithiest farmers in the county and had &C.
cumulated all his property since the war.
The bids for sthe women's college are now
being considered by Attorney General Town
and 10 Gid nat he has NOT xraf p
pillow deep down in the ground and has not
yet gotten up his decision as TO the validity OF
the offers.
A commission for a charter has been issued
TO the Palmetto Land, Lumber and Transports
ton Company of Darlington. The capital
stock Is $4,000. The corporators are: George
f. Leonard, Geneva, and W. N. Jordan
Darlington.
The County Medical Society met ct Allendale
Tuesday. There was large attendance and
the meeting was one of the pleasantest held
since the society was organized DelegaI es
and alternates ere elected to attend the meet
ing of the State Medical Society TO be held at
sumter on April 10.
The county alliance convened at Edgefeld
Thursday. Congressman w. j Talbert was
present and participated in the deliberations of
the meeting. At the afternoon session the
doors were thrown open and public address on
| alliance matters was made by State Lecturer
| ]. O, Jeffereys of Union.
While digging a well on his place five miles
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| the depth of twenty-seven feet q stratum of
| phosphate rock, seven specimens of which he
! brought TO Orangehurg. They are said to be
in every respect similar to those taken from the
| deposits near Charleston.
The outbudings on Andrew Smoak's farm,
| which Is located in the Fork near the Cannon
! bridge r. al, at Orangeburg, were totally de-
! stroyed by fire on last Saturday night. The fire
originated in tho corn house and was caused, il
! is believed, by rats and matches. Mr.. Smoak
lost his entire stock of provisions, and far as
can be aseert aimed none Of the buildings were
| covered by insurance.
| The boom in cotton factories continues, and
! charters for new mills being applied for
with gratifying frequency. An application
| comes from the Pee-Dee section, where there
are but few mills. The Cheraw Cotton Mill
! business with a capital stock Of $4,000, which
is to be divided into shares of SiC0 aud the pay.
mepts are to DO made in nifty monthly install
| ments.
Two or three emissaries Of the Mormon
| church have heen hard at work in section of
! country three or four miles from Jordan. in
! Clarendon county, for some time in the effort
| to procure Gdherents to their faith, and they
| have succeeded In a surprising degree. The
number of disciples which they have procured
is not definitely known, but it is said that the
! greater part Of the community now profess the
! doctrines of the Latter Day Saints.
| Nal S. 2. Hamilton OF Chester, who is to
make fight against the liquor law tor Chester
barkee cers, wants 1t remem bered that he is
] pAlulluE HIS own Canoe las is III no way llls
fusnced by the decision Of the lawyers OF the
| LIQUOR Dealers Assoc alton, and is stil OF the
! opinion that he has a strong and logical case
/ lie will be in Columbia tomorrow to argue his
! case ana expects to have the supreme court
( render decision on certain points Of the law.
! The Manchester and Augusta Railroad Com
/ panY has begun to award contracts to build the
/ extension from Rimini to Denmark Among
those already given out is one to build the bridge
across the Santee and to grade the road. 1t Is
/ not unlikely that the road viii be completed To
! Orangeburg by next fall. The street railway
company will build an additional line from their
! Russell street terminus to the Manchester and
! Augusta railroad depot as soon as the latter has
| been put up.
Fire at 1880 o'clock Friday afternoon de-
| stroyed the residence In Liberty street al Sum
! ter, belonging 60 J. G. Wilson, and occupied by
| colOred family. The house was one of the
| old landmarks of Sumter. Cause of tbs fire &c.
| cldentnL The insurance had recently been re-
J duced from 81 200 10 340o The wind was high,
! ana the handsome residence OF Nell O'Donnell
was IN imminent danger but water was turned
on from the water works for the first time, and