The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-24
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The Camden cotton mills has filed no
tice OF the issue of $4,000 in bonds OF the
company.
Rev r. n Pratt. pastor of the MARI
boro Baptist church at Marlboro, has been
elected financial agent for Furman Uni
Versity.
The directors OF the cotton seed oil
mill at st. Matthews have declared
dividend of 20 per cent. as result OF last
years business.
A white man named William Gregory
was run over and killed by the down pas
senger train on the Southern railway near
Carlisle Tuesday night. lie was drunk
at the time.
About 1875 men who were at work build
ing the cotton factory at Walhalla went
out on strike Tuesday morning. They
objected to the number of hours they had
to work. No agreement has been reached.
As the result of the competitive exam
nation held at Orangeburg on June u
Stafford II. r. Doyle of that place has
been appointed to the vacancy in the
United States Naval Academy at Annap-
The president of Newberry College. by
authority of the board of trustees, has
conferred the degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy upon Prof. II. T. j. Ludwig OF North
Carolina College and Prof. Francis
Muench of Charleston, S. c.
A charter has been issued to the ]. w.
Gibbes Stationery Company of Columbia.
The capital stock of the company is 5000.
The officers Of the company are: w. II.
Glbbes, secretary and treasurer; ]. w.
Gibbes, president, and John p. Thomas,
Jr., attorney.
At Greenville Wednesday afternoon
ground was broken for the foundation
of the Poe cotton mill. The work will be
pushed rapidly; The mill will have 10000
spindles and S2o0,0O capital 1t VIII be
completed in the early part of the com.
ing winter.
The directors of the Paramount Man
ufacturing Company of Spartanburg have
mill. Heretofore the mill has only been
making yarns. This has been done sue
cessfully and the business now warrants
an enlargement. Two hundred looms of
the most improved pattern will be put IN.
The officers of the Langley Manufactur.
ing Company Of Langley have filed notice
with the secretary of state of the increase
of the capital stock of that company
from 5000, 600 to 800, 000-which increase was
made upon the unanimous vote of the
stockholders of the large cotton mill COM
pany. This company intends to increase
its plant.
From the laying of the foundation of
the Rock Hill tobacco factory to the
turning over of the keys in a complet I'd
building, only thirty-three and one-quar-
ter working days elapsed. The building
is three stories in hight, As by 104 feet and
contains 29,OOO brick. The brickwork
was done in twenty-one and three-quar-
ter days.
The secretary of state has issued a COM
mission TO A. u. Manship, II. II. Newton
and $. b. and Il. D. Moore, as corporators
OF the Marlboro Manufacturing Company
another new cotton mill enterprise, to he
located at Factory Mills near Alice on
the ,Cheraw and Darlington railroad. in
Marlboro county The capital stock is to
be $4,000, divided into 1900 shares.
Rev. Henry w. Mahoney. the oldest Bap-
list minister in the state, died at his
home, near Paeksville, Clarendon county,
year, and had labored in the work of the
ministry for siXty-four years. He was
horn IN Marlboro county Dec. Is, 1904.
He labored in the counties of Sumter
Darlington, Richland Kershaw. Williams
burg, Clarendon and Georgetown
Two young colored women were caught
on a tresue two miles from Laurens
Wednesday, on the Port Royal and West
ern Carolina railroad. by an approaching
train. They suspended themselves by the
timbers. but one lost her hold and fall
ing a considerable distance had a leg
badly injured by a compound fracture.
Her name is Sallie Boyd. The other wo-
man held on and escaped without injury.
The old Guard Veteran Association OF
the National Guard of South Carolina
which is composed of six of the seven
companies recently dropped from the roll
of state militia, was organized at Charles
ton on Wednesday evening, the different
bodies being represented by large delega-
tons, and Col j. j. Young was elected
president, All old national guardsmen
and all who are connected with the pres
ent state organizations are eligible for
membership.
A little girl living near Fair Forest. in
Spartanburg county, was bitten by a pois-
onous snake last week, which is called
a pilot snake. She was under the house
hunting eggs when she was bitten on the
big toe. She raised the alarm at once.
The blood was running from the wound.
Her parents had heard that the appiica.
ton of a chicken split open would draw
the poison out. They proceeded to give
the treatment at once. As one Chicken
would become cold another would he kiln
ed, cut open and applied, until four were
used up in the afternoon. The remedy
seemed effective, for next day she was ali
right with no sign of pain or of swell
ing.