The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15


| nsh patrol His 50 per day will hereafter go
to J. H. Burgess, Of Forreston, Clarendon
county.
A reward Of So has been offered by Gov
| Tillman for the arrest OF the parties who on
the night of Dec. &, burned the barn Of c. j.
Ellison In Anderson county.
The Barnwell oil mill has done It is said, a
prontable business this fall, so much so that
and increase the plant from q twenty to
sixty ton mill.
Gov T1llman has appointed Legriel A.
| Wittkowsky master for kershaw county.
Mr.. WittkOwslxy is young man and gradu-
ated from the South Carolina College in 1889
He has been practicing law in Camden.
The store OF w T, Massey, at Pisgah, was
| entered by burglars one night last week, and
| goods 10 the value Of about $50 stolen. but
about so worth was subsequently recovered.
The thiefis supposed to have been a white
tramp.
John Petty has been appointed special con
stable at the mill OF the Pacolet Manufac-
turing Company The salary provided for
in the bill, and which is to be paid by the com
pany, amounts to the munihcent sum Of SIS
per annum.
No fertilizers have been received at Cam.
den, and 1t is very probable that very much
smaller amount will be used this year than in
1923; Possibly only 80 per cent. Of the amount
used last year will be bought for the opera
| tions Of 1894.
Treasurer Nicely has collected about $40 500
of The Sl07,2lS of taxes levied in York county
and, therefore. there still remains something
like 27 SIS yet TO collect. The bulk OF the deficit
Is due by large taxpayers Most of the small
taxpayers have settled up.
Business of all kinds has been quite duh at
Yorkvllle since the opening OF the new year
but the people anticipate prosperous year
Notwithstanding. The farmers are buying
very few goods OF any kind as most OF them
now have an abundance of the farm supplies
that can be produced in this section, and
therefore, have little reason for buying any
thing
A meeting Of the stockholders Of the Ches-
ter and Lenoir railroad viii he held a Gas
tonia, n. c., on Feb. Il, at which time the ad-
visibility OF having a single receiver ap-
pointed to take charge OF the entire road in
stead OF having two as at present, Will be cen
sidered, as also will the adylsability Of taking
the road out OF the hands of the courts and
operating it themselves
The Clemson College authorities are re
ce1Vlng considerable revenue from the
privilege tax on fertilizers. For the past few
weeks the money for tags has been coming in
rapidly and the tags are being promptly for
warded. Since Nov. /, a,0il.25 has teen re
ceiv6d from the tax. The money goes to the
support OF Clemson College after the eX-
penses connected with the tags have been
paid.
York county will have two latest improved
roller mills, with combined capacity of eight
barrels Of flour a day, in operation by the
One Of these mills has been in operation since
last July, and produces as fine quality of -four
as Is mace anywhere and IL Is Kept busy all
the time The other will be at Hickory Grove
and 1t is being put up by the Hickory Grove
Milling Company.
At Columbia, in a dirty, dingy room in Ger
vais street. Melyina Adams, disreputable
! colored woman, is dying. About 8 30 D. m
| Tuesday. John Smith went 10 the woman's
room and there found Ed Beckham a
mulatto. It was not long thereafter that
! Noye Martin came along, Smith borrowed
his pistol and said he was going to kill Beck
nam lie went out OF the door and got In
good running shape on the ground and fired
Inc bal intended for Beckham struck Mel
ylna Adams in the groin and ranged upwards
| DR.. Waters says the woman will die
! Yorkville merchant, who has been en-
gagged IN furnishing plantation supplies on
tune TO farmers in ork county for more than
( twenty years said day or two ago that never
IN his experience had his customers paid
their accounts so promptly fully ana freely
ana that he had not Teen placed under the
/ necessity Of invoking the strong arm" of the
/ law In cole cting single account. He takes
/ great many liens and chattel mortgages to
secure accounts. This is a remarkable state
ment at time when the wall of hard times
/ and short crops is going up all over the land
Dr.. William w. Murray, prominent citizen
ano planter OF Orangeourg county, died at
! his residence, near Orangeburg SUNDAY morn
! ing be had been in bad health for several
! years. Dr. Murray was bora in Colleton
| county, near 81 George s. Jan. 8, 1888, being
| at the time OF his death SO years OF age 1t is
a strange coincidence that he was buried on
| the anniversary of his birthday He was
! twice married and his last wife with four
! children. NJ. d. Murray. Miss Bessie and two
/ Others, survive him. shortly before the war
| pr. Murray moved TO Orangeburg and set
| tied.
| The recent fire at the cot on warehouse of
| the Darlington Manufacturing Company bids
! fair to Involve a legal fight Of Importance
! FROM the structure of the building the conCi.
! tons OF the flames and other reasons also, II
/ seemed an impossibility TO stop the lire or
save the cotton, Splendid work was Gone on
! the IRE, but saving the cotton in the condition
| or the cunning warehouse was a very dinncult
undertaking. G. = Mccullough and L. $
! yelling undertook the salvage OF the burn
ing cotton under an understanding with the
local agents OF the different companies hold.
ing policies on the cotton They did the hard
est KIND OF work and saved several hundred
bales They have not been able to agree upon
terms with the busters, and a triangular
legal tight seems Improbable outcome Messrs
BoyQ BROWN represent the Darlington
Manuiacturlng company c. =. Nettles the in.
snrance syndicate, and f. Keith Dargan rep.
resents Messrs. Mccullough and yelling
the night has not yet begun in earnest, and a
satisfactory adjustment of all the dificulues
Is more than probable to be the final outcome
of the entire matter.
BY the discovery Of the body Of colored
man IN cooper river on Sunday evening. light
was thrown on subject. which for several
months past has been shrouded in mystery
~ VIII pe remembered that on the night OF
sept last Frank Thompson a young man
llVlhg near the Ashley Junction works, was
murdered In bed. The perpetrators Of the