The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-10

| Sumter Waterman: The tobacco crop is
! now all harvested and is Icing graded. The
/ yield varied from 100 to ] 100 pounds per
/ acre The quality is from poor to very fine.
/ The average is very good.
! Information reached Columbia Friday that
| In big cOnhsgratlOn az Walhalla on Wed
nesday night 1850 gallons OF tine old corn
/ whisky. from three to i've years old, b along-
! lrg TO the distiiling firm Of Clinton & latham.
were destroyed. The stock OF liquor was
very valuable and the loss is a heavy one.
The work Of putting in a complete heating
apparatus IN the Columbia Hospital IS being
done, preparatory for the winter. a morgue
Is also being built and while il is hoped that
( 10 Will be needed very seldom it will be ready
for use when needed. Other Improvements
are eng added. among them boiling room
where all bed and other clothing used by
patients with contagious diseases will be
! thoroughly boiled and thus cleared Of all
germs.
OranPeburg Enterprise: Sheriff Dukes and
! two or three deputies went down to Farler's
Monday 10 arrest the other negroes who took
part in the riot last week. They arrested six.
! but one showed fight. and rushed upon Dep
/ utE Douglas who seized a rake and dealt him
blow. crushing the skull and killing him
| instantly. II is said the negroes are gre ally
wrought up over the affair and further
] trouble is feared. 1t is reported also that
} the negroes in that part OF the county are
| greatly ineensed al the whites, leaving moth
/ ing undone to terrOriZe and harass them.
| We warrant that when Sheriff Dukes gets
! through with them they will learn to behave
| The Orangeburg correspondent of the News
! and Courier recently had an interview with
! Col Gardner, the engineer OF the Atlantic
/ Coast Line system, during the course Of which
Col. Gardner is reported as having SAID that
! he had just heard it rumOred that the Louis
] Vile and Nashville had bought the South Car
1 DINA and Georgia road. Col. Gardner did
/ not vouch for the statement. but merely gave
| II as a rumOr which had reached him. Dis
cussing the matter further Col. Gardner is
reported as having said that the line recently
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| built II the Louisville and Nashville did not
| succeed in purchasing the South Carolina and
! Georgia property.
| The negroes in Georgetown county. on the
! Santee river, are being organized into clubs
/ for the purpose of demanding 30 cents IN cash
! for every 100 pounds OF cotton they pick All
| members pledge themselves to abide by this
| rule and TO thrash any other negroes who act
/ otherwise. The fields around are almost
grooming with cotton bursting from the bolls
! but the negroes have been so stirred up by
| secret agents travelling ABOUT that they will
! not touch the cotton. although they are IN
| want, except for % cents cash. This Is what
| caused the trouble at Harlin City few days
! ago. Warrants for the arrest of the con-
| spirators will probably be made out at GOur
/ dins early this week. Each club has presi-
! dent and is frequently addressed by speakers.
There was new turn in the dlspensary
litigation at Columbia Saturday. State
! Treasurer Bates was served with an order re-
| straining him from further payment OF any
| claims in favor Of the dispensary. The order
/ was signed by Chief Justice McIver, and is
made returnable at the special session of the
! court which Will be held next Wednesday
! The application for the injunction against
! Treasurer Bates was gotten out by Mitchell
/ \ smith and }. p. X. Bryan, representing
/ capt. MelcherS and others. AS the case viii
| be heard at the same time with the one from
| Aiken, 1t is expected that Messrs Mitchell a.
Smith and Mr.. Bryan will appear in the case
! especially as the state Is anxious to have the
! constltutional1ty of the law thoroughly venti-
/ lated.
Greenville News: Wednesday afternoon
! the doors Of the GreenVille county Jail were
thrown and left wide open for the first time
! since the present building has been occupied
nearly i've years The lower floor is re-
| served for white prisoners, ami there were
! none IN close confinement. There are three
! men serving out sentences from the United
| States court, but they are regarded as ''trus
! ties aud are given the range OF the Jail
| building and yard. Upstairs in the colored
! department there are nine pr )ners, but six
! OF them are serving sentences or awaiting
/ trial for revenue offences. The humber of
1 State prisoners-only three-is less than any
/ body can remember. There are several white
persons awaiting hearings OF trials in the
! state courts, but all Of them are out on bail
( Greenville is now under the rule Of three
| dispensary constables, Workman, Langston
I and Ehelburg. There IS a marked difference in
| the conditions now that the cOnstables wear
! badges and the time when no badges were
| worn. The three cOnStables are on pleasant
| terms with the people generally and also with
| all suspects Several places have been raided
! this We ok and there has been no uiflculty
J Fork and Edel, whose places were raided last
week, were tried before a justice to-day in
/ dlcted unter the dlSpenSary act for keeping
| places where liquors were sold and drank
Fork was sent up to higher court for trial
/ and the case of Edel continued until to-mor-
! row. 1t is probable that he will also be sent
! up. There seems to be very little interest IN
y these cases from the fact that the supreme
court Will decide the constitutionality OF the
law at an early date. Schades saloon was
/ raided this morning. The cOnstables found
/ nothing contra and in the building.