The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-29


ond story room. over store on that street.
I and Judging from the finale, the CONVERSATION
1 was not pleasant From the best information
obtainable, the insurance agent had written
[ the woman note asking TO be allowed to call
/ on her At the appointed hour he was al
/ the bottom of the stairs and she
was on the stair landing, from which altitude
| she invited him to come up He went ana
/ they both entered her room. What transpired
in the few minutes that elapsed between ms
/ entrance and exit is not known. but that ne
| was ordered out is beyond question. As he
! was hurrying down the stairway ana when
about half way down q bucketfUl OF water
/ overlook him and spread itself all over him,
and. worst of all, it is said the water could lay
/ no sort Of claim to purity. In explaining the
/ affair the woman said she had oeen lnsuIteu'
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The state board of control of the dispensary
has appointed the following board OF control
/ for Orangeburg county: Charlie \. Stroman,
/ a. +. Ii. Dukes and II. c. Pauling.
! Calvin GroOms, a negro prisoner charged
/ with arson, made his escape from the county
Jail at Sumter Monday morning. He was
/ sent into the yard for water and got away.
! Z he jailer has been discharged for careless
! ness in letting him get away.
| A little over year ago the Lutherans Of
] Sumter began raising funds to build church
| and have succeeded well so far. Materials
| are being hauled and work will soon be com
menced on the handsome Jewish synagogue
at the corner Of Church and Republican
! streets.
The supreme courtat Columbia, on Monday
/ heard a Yorkville case of some interest 1t
/ was to prevent the town Of Yorkville from
| issuing $4,000 worth of bonds for water works.
The attorneys seeking to prevent the issuing Of
/ the bonds argue that the bonds would not be
/ valid, because the amount of bonds named
would be more than allowed by the const-
| tuition.
/ Gov. Tillman has been for the past few days
! besieged by an army of railroad agents who
/ are anxious to have the dispensary goods
/ come over their respective lines. There are
! now number of freight men in the city, and
| quite number have written and telegraphed
! to GOV. Tillman about getting portion OF
/ the hauling. Most of the goods ordered have
| been in the carload lots, and on that account
! the freight is all the more desirable.
/ The Columbia dispensary is getting ready
| for its business. In addition to the 1860 bar
| rels OF whisky that have already been ordered,
/ an order has been sent TO the w E. Cald-
well Company for a car load of the stuff, -
| An order was also sent to the Crescent Brew
| ing Company for a carload Of beer. This
brewery is located at Aurora, Ind. The
samples have been analysed by the state
chemist and are said to be very good.
Investigation at the office of the county
| auditor at Columbia, shows that there are
! $50 freehold voters in the city, and that the
| successful applicant for dispenser must have
| 266 names on his petition. Mr.. HOWE who
/ thought he had the signatures of majority
Of freeholders was under the impression that
! there were only about $50, and that 230 names
were sufficient. Mr. HOWE, however, win
| probably secure a sufficient number to receive
his appointment.
The board of control of Newberry county,
| consisting Of Jacob Sem, John A. c. KILLER
| viii c. Sigh, met in the county commission
erS office Monday. Jacob Sem was unani
| mOusly elected chairman of the board. The
board decided to meet on June 9 to appoint
| dispenser. AS far as is known there are two
applicants for the position in the field. Bids
have been filed for renting houses for the dis
| pensary but nOthing definite has been done
| in regard to securing place,
Saturday morning about O'Clock, while a
! negro woman named Irene Durant was asleep
| in her house on Calhoun street at Sumter,
| some one raised the window and shot her in
| the leg. The wound is not dangerous. The
| wound was made with a 32-caliber bullet The
| woman suspected negro named Jack NIGEL
veen of doing the shooting, He was arrested
| Saturday afternoon and lodged in Jail. When
| arrested he had 32-caIber pistol with one
| barrel freshly emptied He will be held for
| trial
Mr.. Neal, superintendent of the peniten-
! tiary, says that for the present LeVelle, the
| Charleston wife murderer, will be employed
in the garden and gathering of vegetables for
the convicts Levelle, he says is at present
! quite weak, but as soon as he Is given plenty
| of fresh air and exercise he will be put to
| some hard work, and If he does not do the
| work he will be taken in charge by the au-
thorities. 1t is suggested that he Is trying the
| crazy racket at the penitentiary, but the Off
GERS do not propose to pay much attention to
| that fad.
On last Saturday afternoon Weston Nc
| Grew, youth of about II, who had just re-
]
! Sumter, and was just putting up his double-
| barrel shotgun when 1t struck against the
| wall and the right hand barrel went OFF. The
| most OF the load went into the ceiling, but
portion entered the face of the youth, infiict
ing very dangerous wound. His forehead
was badly lacerated, Dr. A. J. Mood was
summoned and rendered the necessary at
tention. Young McGrew lay in a comatose
state for about fourteen hours, but is now
better.
| AS the law now stands Marion will not be
affected by the dispensary. Under the charter
OF the town, as amended IN 1883, the sale OF
whisky or other Intoxicating spirits was pro
hibited for twenty years. Unless this proviS
ion of the charter is amended there can be no
whisky legally sold there until after 1903
There is strong talk on the part of some of
the citizens OF asking the Legislature TO repeal
that section of the charter and give the town
and county chance under the dispensary
bill. Such move would be stoutly resisted
by u large class who are satisfied to let mat
tiers stand as they are now.
The cotton seed oil mill of Greenville sent
out circulars through the counties q
Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg, PickenS
| and Oconee, asking information concerning
the cotton crop to this date. Answers have
been received from every section of these
counties, and careful comparison of these
reports has been made with the following re-
suit; The crop to date is fully two-thirds and
possibly full average. Labor is plentiful
and in splendid working order. Farmers will
make the crop without any special outside
aid, marked advance and improvement on
previous years. If the season is not unfavor-
able it is estimated that the crop will be a
full average.
The authorities in charge of the dispensaries
are now of the opinion that there will be no
great rush for the establishment of dispen-
saries. They think that but few counties will
, have their official barrooms open on July
1, but are of the opinion that they viii
not be long in coming. This plan seems to
, rather suit the officers, as they will have a
tremendous rush from now on until the time
! for the opening of the dispensaries. The re-
ports indicate that the largest counties In the
state will not ask for the establishment of
, dipensares. 1t is perhaps a noteworthy and
curious fact that most OF the towns that have
, tried prohibition under the local option law
will try to have dispensaries.
l The prospect that an enormous potato cror
} will be made this season by the Charleston
truck farmers becomes better each day Ii
was predicted last week by a well informed
gentleman that before the present week haC
r closed the bulk of the potato crop would have
been dug and moved to the northern markets
, ! Such, however has not proved to be the case
I, | Although the railroads have done an unusu
, | ally large traffic for the last few days and
: | have handled hundreds of cars of potatoes
there seems as yet TO be little falling of in the
: | supply. The farmers are still digging as rap
! | idly as possible, and il is believed that the
1 supply will not be exhausted during mex
T week. These facts would indicate that the
potato crop of that section is to be one of the