The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.

A Young Mems Christian Association was
organized at Yorkville Wednesday with
twenty-siX members, and the following Off
GERS were elected: NJ, G. Willis, president;
f, A. Gilbert, first vice president; A. X.
Banks, second vice president; w. w. Lewis,
executive secretary: G. =. Lowrance, treas
urer. quite q number in addition to the
twenty-sx have signihed their intention of
becoming members,
The dry goods firm Of Muller & Smith at
Charleston has been forced by its creditors
TO 20 into the hands OF receiver. This step
has been brought about by the duh times,
and although the firm claims to have assets
far beyond their liabilities certain creditors
refused TO give them time, and, so to speak,
drove them TO the wall" Theodore A.
Melchers was appointed receiver and the
store Will be reopened In few days
Z. NJ. Roberts, druggist of Camden, made
an assignment Thursday morning to John G.
z. Williams for the benefit of his creditors.
The liabilities are about Si01 assets a bout the
same AMOUNT. Mr. Roberts came to Camden
several years ago to accept position as pre-
scriptton clerk in DR.. A. A. MOore's drug
store tie resigned that position last sum
mer TO work life insurance, and last fall
opened drug store on his own account
Mrs, Ann McCarter, who lived near Kings
Mountain battle ground, in York county,
was burned to death one morning last week.
There were no witnesses to the tragedy, and
how it happened is, therefore, a matter of
conjecture. She got up in the morning to
prepare breakfast, and soon afterward was
found dead and horribly burned near the
stove in which she had been attempting to
make fire. She was subject TO fainting
spells, and it is supposed that during one of
these her clothing was ignited.
The Independent Order of Good Templars
OF the grand jurisdiction OF the state of south
Carolina was in session at Bennettsville last
week. The following officers were elected for
the next year: j. l.. Sifey, G. G. T.; Miss
Spade Livingston, G. V. T.; A. S. Thomas
=. Gibson, G. S. T.; G. Herber, Jr., G.. c.;
George Marrotte, g. T.; Il. T.. Craven, G. NJ;
Miss Lou Miller, g. D. M; J. T. Rhame, q.
a. s: j. A. White, G. M; D. NJ. Michoe, G.
G.; W. L. Galloway, G. s.. Z. o. Watson and
Joseph Lindsay, delegates to the scpreme
lodge which meets in Boston, June, 1895.
The Rev. John f. Mitchell, a preacher of
the Second Adventist persuasion appeared in
Justice Williams court a t Charleston Thurs
day. He had surrendered himself volun-
tartly to the police, stating that he had fired
two pistol shots at his son-in-law, Samuel Mel
son, in self-defence, Samuel Nelson being
about TO shoot him with "a rifle. There seems
to have been grand family row at the SON
| in-law's house, No. 30 Cooper street. The rev
erend and his wife used TO live there until a
few days ago, when they left and set up
I housekeeping near by. When the reverend
moved he had on Il straw hat, and in the con-
| FUSION lett ms beaver behind. Yesterday
| he was to have had a baptism and wanted the
! beaver to appear IN. He went TO his SON
| in-law 5 house to get it, but that -indlvidua al
and his wife said that he owed them
/ two months rent and they would not let him
| have the hat until he paid up. The reverend
| stormed about considerably, it is said and
among other things that he accused his
! Goneril-liRe daughter OF being bigamist
saying that she had another husband in Au-
| gusta and that he would have her arrested
| on that charge. Things grew lively, and
| Nelson poked q rife out OF the window at the
pars0n who Immediately pulled out a reVol-
! yer and fired two shots at him and then fed
! precipltately down the street. 1t seems that
! Jones is Mitcheu's stepson as well as son-in-
4 law. he having married Jones mother and
! Jones his daughter. II is altogether a very
! mixed up affair, and the justice thought the
| best way to settle matters was to place the
! parson under a heavy bond to keep the peace
| Reports from nearly every township in
/ Collector county indicate that agricultural
/ productions this year win surpass in Guah-
! tity and quality those of any year in the past
I decade The corn crop is virtually made
ana nothing but a storm like that OF last
/ year or other destructive phenomena can
1 reduce the promised yield. Cotton is re-
markedly fine. Sugar cane sweet potatoes
/ ana rice are in a fiOurishing condition. The
pea crop in some communities has been
| slightly injured by excessive rains, but not
/ withstanding this fact. the yield viii be far
/ above the average unless the season con
/ unues unfayOrable.