The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-25
sOIrTH CAROLTNA.


Charleston is agitaung guber pea oil
mill.
Marion is building the largest tobacco
warehouse in the state.
It is almost a settled fact that Columbia
will be selected as the site of the Luz
theran college.
There will be approximately SIS. 900
worth of building and repairing done in
Aiken this summer
The secretary of state has isseud a
commission for the corporation of Mich
OILS. Marion county.
A larger acreage of tobacco will be plant
ed this year than has ever before been
planted in the state.
The Colorado beetle or potato bug has
made it's appearance in some parts Of the
state for tine first time.
CIahin College and Clafin University in
.spartanburg threaten to have lawsuit
to decide the claims of each.
Two negroes went to sleep on the track
near Branchville. A passing train killed
one and seriously injured the other.
A bicycle manufacturing company of
Washington, d. c., wants to move its
works south. Charleston wants them.
The second state conference of the
South Carolina Epworth League will con-
vene this year al Sumter, June 10 to r.
The Greenwood oil mill has recently
declared a dividend of % per cent. The
mill earned during the past year 40 per
! cent. profit
! Senator Jourdan, an able lawyer and
\ brilliant orator, who served three times
/ in the state legislature, died at his home in
/ Aiken Thursday.
! Thursday afternoon Mrs. Daniel Sem OF
/ Columbia was attacked and severely bit
/ ten by a vicious dog, owned by a neigh
/ Dor. The dog was killed.
Billy George, the oldest Indian among
the Catawbas, and the last who signed
the treaty with South Carolina, died a
few DAYS ago in Sumter county.
Thirteen new cotton mills have been
| organized in South Carolina during the
| first four months of this year, besides
the knitting and cordage and other mills
Adjutant General Watts will stand for
reelection, and the only opposition to
him thus far known is in the person OF
ago.
The friends of Col. Miles b. McSweeney
are urging him to make the race for
lieutenant governor. Mr. insolvency has
represented Hampton county in the legis.
lature.
A proposition is now on foot to form g
company with a capital stock of s. 600 fol
the purpose of boring an artesan wei
in Columbia They will sell the water Il
the consumers.
An operative in the Anderson cottor
mills was caught in the machinery Fri
day afternoon and instantly killed. II,
was about 10 years Old, and the son OF
William Scott.
Rev. Bishop John C. Cranberry. D. d.
of Virginia viii preside over the mex
session of the South Carolina conference
which will convene in AbbeYille Wednes.
day, Dec. 9, 1886.
The farmers of Aiken county report ex
ceptionauy good stands of cotton and
corn but rain is badly needed The dry
weather has enabled them to get tht
fields very clear Of grass.
A commission for charter was ISSUED
to the Sumter Cotton Mill oil and Fer
tilizer Company, the capital stock beina
$4,000 The incorporators are Horace
Hardy. j. J. Hardy and A c. Phelps.
The Charleston cotton mill, which ha.
had such rocky road since its estab
lishment. closed out al one time, NETTING
cents on the dollar to the origina
stockholders, is now making 20 per cent
The people of township Limestone, il