The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
sorTH CARnLINA.

The Cotton Plant, State Alliance organ:
The great fight Of the year between the peo-
pie and the plutocracy is in the state cam
paign In Virginia. Loy in full swing. The
fight is between Cleveland democracy and
pOpulists-ih re being no republican ticket
in the field From our present point of view
1t seems doubtful as to the result. though the
democrats have the counting machinery in
their hands.
The State: Disrensary spies in Columbia
have made distinction between drunkenness
and intoxication. The public will hardly imi-
tate this, but nearly everybody sees differ
ence between plain drunk and fight
ing drunk. ~ In the one case a man Injuries
himself and in the other he is likely to in
lure innocent people. Z he man who know
Ing his disposition to shoot or stab when I'M
der the influence OF liquor, deliberately puts
himself in homicidal condition by heavy
drinking is something OF a criminal. OF
course we have no reference to reformers.
They are exempt from the operation Of ordi-
nary rules.
In the Orangeburg court Of general sessions
last week there was presented a somewhat I'M
usual sight. In the dock sat three colored
persons, each charged with murder. One was
an old negro, about 20 years Of age. Next to
him sat a little fellow too small to look over
the lower railing OF the dock He was only
years old and was to be tried for the muir
der OF little playmate who was only years
old. The third one on trial was young
man about q years OF age. Thus were pre-
sented childhood" manhood" and ''old
sight that touches not only the observanI eye
and heart of the newspaper reporter, but one
which struck every eye Of the crowd in the
court house.
Greenville News; The Laurensvile Herald
surges 10 the front with an idea. 1t proposes
to provide financial relief by having the state
20 issue a certain number OF millions Of bonds
and lend the proceeds at low interest to peO-
pie who can give mortgages on unincum bered
real estate for 500 or more. The nOn-free-
holders are left out OF the calculation entirely,
50 are the people whose debts are less than
800 the genuine wool hat bows who do bust
ness on a small scale. In the same issue in
which II makes this proposition the Herald
berates Senator Fuller soundly for having
prevented the poor men Of Laurens from vot-
ing on the dlspenSary question. That is a side
issue, however. The chief objection we see
TO the Herald scheme Is that South Carolina
can't Hoat any more bonds than she now has
out and couldn't borrow a dollar from any.
body on earth for such purpose as Is sug-
gested.
Columbia Register: The use OF so much
alum in the water TO filter IL may assume a
seriousness to the city that has not been
thought Of, and that is in the matter of insur-
ance 1t is well known that alum has a cor
roding effect on iron. There is some CORE
spondence now going on between boiler
owners IN Colum bla and insurance companies
with reference to the amount Of alum used in
the water furnished by the city to the mill
owners for their boilers. The matter has not
been determined yet, but il may result IN the.
that use alum water If this should he the
case the city will either have to abandon the
use Of alum in altering the water or the mill
men and the ra1lrCaJS will have TO make
other ARRANGEMENTS to get water In this
event the city VIII lose a considerable amount
OF revenue from water rents that it now gets.
from them. The question OF water in Column
bia grows more and more complex as time
rolls by with no prospect in sight, How long?
How long,
News and Courier: Two colored men,
whose names are known at police headuuar-
ters, engaged in quarrel at the corner of
Knight and Radcliffe streets after II O'Clock
saturday night They squared off for fair
INST fight and when it was about time for
mill to begin one of the combatants leyelled
his pistol and quickly fired FIVE shots at the
other. II was at a time when King street is
filed with negroes and laborng people and
around this particular corner there was a
specially large number OF people. As soon as
the hiring commenced the crowd began to
scatter in every direction, but the bullets
travelled faster than the crowd as the follow
ing list OF casualties will show: II. j. C. Meg
gett, colored laborer, slight wound in the
hand. Charles Cantey, colored drayman
shot in the side; may prove serious and prob
ably fatal. Lazarus Seabrook, colored farm
hand, wounded in the thigh, painful but not
necessarily serious. William r. Brown col.
Ored laborer, struck in the side by a spent
ball AS will be seen from the foregoing four
bullets took efect out Of the five shots fired
though il happened that the man aimed AT
was not toJc hed. AS soon as the shooting
was over the two principals in the ARRAY dis
appeared. The AFFAIR was reported at once 10
police headquarters, and the officer Of the
day. Lieut.. Frank Heidi, offered to send the
wounded men to the city hospital. They all
preferred, however, to be sent home The
detectives are now after the wholesale
shooter. and will in all probability capture
him today,