The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-12
sn1rrI1 CAROLINA

The election held al BiShopville Tues
cay for dispensary" or mo dispensary.
resulted in the dispensary carrying the
day by a majority Of 10 votes.
The annual meeting of the South Caro-
lima Holiness Association is to be held
at Leesville this year The sessions of
the association will begin tomorrow.
Gov. Evans has commuted the sentence
Of Levi F. Malone Of Union county,
charged with violation of the dspensary
| law and sentenced to a fine Of 800 or
Imprisonment, to a fine Of so or impris
| onment.
D. Darling Blake, convicted of biga-
my at the October term 1896, of the
court of Union county, before Judge Gary,
and sentenced to six months imprison-
ment in the penitentiary at hard labor,
has been pardoned by Gov. Evans.
E. L. Winant, the man who was in
charge Of the wildcat" Citizens Insur-
ance Company at Columbia. was taken be-
fore Magistrate Troy Thursday. He
waived examination and was remanded to
! jail for trial at the session Of the criminal
court.
| All Of the money Of the state sinking
| fund has now been loaned out upon the
| deposit OF state DOIluS III the treasury
! with the exception Of about $4,000. The
money thus loaned out amounts to about
| $4,000 over $1,000 Of the money was
loaned Friday.
James w. Burnside a planter in the
Mill Creek section of Richland county
lost by fire on Tuesday night a barn, six
! fine mules, 1900 bushels of corn, about
! so tons of hay and fodder and a quantity
| of farm implements. His loss is $780,
| with insurance OF 100.
Ex-Gov. Richardson has just returned
to Columbia from his plantation in Clar-
endon county, which was in the storm
belt. He says the cotton has been whipped
out and the fields look as if covered with
snow. Il is estimated 1900 to 1900 bales
were destroyed, a loss of about 100000.
A charter has been issued to the Bee
Hive Mercantile Company Of Columbia
At a meeting Of the board of directors
! the following officers were elected G. T.
| Brown, president; j. r. Killian secre-
| tary and treasurer; directors, j. r. Kill
| liam, G.. T. Brown, l.. A. Turner and
| Angus NJ. Davis.
Lee Reed and his wife, who live near
Riverside, went to prayer-meeting Fri
| day night leaving their ten months old
! baby in charge Of an old colored woman
who lived with them. The baby began
| crying shortly after the parents left
home and the old woman, who habitually
| used morphine, concluded to give it
| little to quiet it. She ran her finger down
| into the morphine bottle and stuck it in
the child's mouth. In about fifteen min
utes the child went to sleep and it never
/ awoke.
The Home Sick and Accident Indemnity
Company of South Carolina is the name
of a new enterprise with it's chief office
! at Chester, which has applied for a char
! ter under the special act relating to fra
| ternal beneficiary associations. The cor
porators of the company are T. J. Irwin,
w. o. Guy, T. ]. Bolin, Thomas H. Fair
| child, j. Med Hood, Jr., w. H. Hood b.
! d. Refo and John G. r. Nicely 1t pro-
| poses to provide indemnities in case of
| sickness or accident for its members. The
! trustees are b. d. Refo, T. j. Bolin and
j. A. Macon The directors are T. ]. r.
win, w. o. Guy, T. j. Bolin, J. Mod.
Hood, Jr., B. d. Refo and John c. h.
Nicely.
Edward Garrison, of Winnesboro, met
with tragic death at Columbia Friday.
The man had become a habitual drunk
| ard His wife refused to live with him,
and went to her married sister at Column
bia with her 13-year-old son. Garrison
followed and made frequent attempts to
get possession Of the boy and to get his
wife to return TO him. Friday while in
toxicated he caught his son on the streets
and taking him forcibly, started to the
| railway station When on the track he
stopped to take drink from flask The
boy, released, bolted away. Garrison,
too drunk to follow, remained where he
was and was torn to pieces by vestibule
train on the Southern.
A petition was presented to the gov
arnor Wednesday asking that an cleo
ton be ordered for a new county to
be known as Salem. This is the first APP
plication for the establishment of a new
county under the new constitution The
new county proposes to take in Lamar,
Cypress and Stokes Bridge Townships of
Darlington county; a portion of DeKalb
and Buffalo Townships, in Kershaw coun-
ty; Mount Clio, Centers, Bishopvlle and
portions of Lynchburg and Spring Hill
townships, in Sumter county. The coun-
ty will have an area of 424.25 square miles,
taking 1925 from Kershaw, 81 from OAR
lington and 21S from Sumter. If it is IA
vored Darlington will lose 5,603 people,
Kershaw 2299 and Sumter 10, 400, making
total for Salem of 1892. The prop
erty valuation will be 81, S67 10, getting
S5l4 6i3 from Darlington, S1093,3 05 from
Sumter and $3.50 1872 from Kershaw. Bish-
opville will be the county seat.
An attempt was made Thursday night
to assassinate William N. Graydon Of
Abbevillle, leading South Carolina law
yer ex-member of the legislature and
one of the most influential of the younger
politicians in the state At the present
term of court Col. Graydon managed a
case for a negro charged with burning
a gin house belonging to a man named
Milling. Owing to his efforts the case
resulted in mistrial Milling and Nor
row, friend Of Milling. did not like the
verdict and were Infatuated at Col. Gray
don, as his management of the case alone
saved the negro Thursday night, Col.
Graydon was driving out to his residence.
a mile and half from Columbia with his
little son, when he came upon Milling and
Morrow waiting in the road. Without
warning one OF them said Here is the
- rascal now; let's kill him." They then
fred four shots at Col. Graydon and rode
on Not one shot hit him. Friday he
swore out warrant for the arrest of his
assailants.