The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-28

new postofice has been recently estab-
lished at Il. n Whlteside s store, in the east
eru part of Chester county, Ills called Lewis
vile, and w. j. Reid is the postmaster.
A commission for charter has been issued
to the Liberty Cotton Seed Oil Company of
Liberty, Plckens county. The corporators
named are: w. o. Willard, j.; Il; Brown,
John 4. Briggs, L. N. Hunter, J. ID. Smith
and f. B. Richardson. The capital stock Of
the company is to be S20,0J0
a commission for a charter has been issued
to the Atlantic Beach Hotel Company, of
| Charleston. The company proposes to run
the New Brighton hotel on Sullivans Island.
The capital stock of the company is to be Sl5.-
600. The corporators named are: Frank S.
Terry, q. Il. Afford. ID. Macmillan, Lee Loeb
and John Macmillan
Katie Sudduth quite a handsome girl, 16
years old, attempted to commit suicide Thurs
day afternoon At Greenville, by jumping in
well forty seven feet deep. She was pulled
out in an uncohscious condition and Will prop
ably recover The rash act was the result OF
her mother attempt 10 force her into an OBJ
Jectionable marriage.
The building Of the houses for the factory
operatives in New Brookland, just across the
COngaree river from Columbia, has started
a boom in that place. Quite a number OF new
stores have been opened there and things are
beginning to assume something OF prosper
Gus air Among those who have opened there
is j. j, Roth a Charlestonian, who has opened
a drug store
Wednesday Alfred Rodgers young man,
y.
while WORKING at a saw mill owned by Wayne
A lie at Wagner. IN Aiken county, slipped
and fell on the betting OF the driving wheel
He was Whirled with great velocity against
the upper ceiling OF the mill and his brains
were scattered and nearly every bone in his
body broken.
| The cottage in Lady street between Marion
and Sumpter streets, occupied by DR.. L. G.
Corbett, the physician OF the Kelley Institute
at Columbia, and the residence OF :. MOrri-
son and Mrs. Taylor house were burned
Tuesday night The cottage occupied by DR..
COrOett was owned by Capt. j. Is. Elkins, and
was insured for $500. 1t was valued at
y 900. The house occupied by Mrs Taylor
was owned By John Crowley The house was
insured for 5000. Mrs Taylor had 81 900 in
surance on her furniture, and her loss will
probably reach 5000. Most Of the furniture
was gotten out when 1t was seen that the
house would burn. The origin Of the fire is
! unknown.
Charleston News and Courier: In excavat-
ing at the corner Of East and South Battery
for the new asphalt roadway a number OF
huge tlm Oers were unearthed. They are part
OF the foundation built at that point upon
which to mount one OF the two huge Blakely
rihed guns, which were presented to the con
federaCY by John Fraser & Co. for the de-
Tense Of Charleston. Each of these guns
weighed, with their gun carriage, thirty-eight
tons At that time they were the largest
ri6ed guns in the world. and would doubtless
4 have done fearful execution had an enemy
ever come within their range. 1t is curious
fact that these guns exploded, a theory which,
I'D 10 Lnht tlIA6, nd4 universally Ueen ned by
all artlllerists, to wit: Thata vacuum behind
4 the charge Of powder would burst gun. The
guns had a small chamber in the base of the
/ bore, Upon the theory above alluded
1 to the cartridges were so constructed
I as TO I'll this chamber and upon being
] tired the gun cracked at the breach. 1t was
I then ascertained that the small chamber was
/ intended by the inventor to act as an air
! cushion, ana should have been left empty.
! The cracked gun was very skillfully repaired
| by the late j. NJ Eason, of this city. Heavy
Z wrought iron bands were put around it, max
/ ing II as strong as its sister gun, which was
! mounted elsewhere on the city water front.
| The sizes Of these monsters may be estimated
/ by the fact that they, with 200 rounds OF am
| munitiOn. formed the cargo Of the blockade
/ steamer Sumter. The length Of the guns ne
| cessltated their being loaded in an upright
position in the hatchways Of the vessel, thus
/ making it. a sea, appear to havethree smoke
stacks The gun, Of which the logs just I'M
/ earthed formed the foundation, was burst by
/ the eonfederates upon evacuating the city 10
/ prevent its falling into the hands of the
! enemy, much to the injury of the fine resi-
dence ut the corner, then owned by the late
/ Louis UeSaussure, and q fragment OF the gun
4 weighing upward OF 800 pounds, Is now
4 lodged in the rafters of the house Of the late
| Gen. Siegling, on East Battery