The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

town was founded twenty-one years ago
The house was insured.
The new school law viii help the teach
ers i'm South Carolina. 1t will give longer
terms and better salaries, and conse-
quently better teachers
The bin authorizing the town of Green
wood to bond itself for the purpose of
building a court house and Jail succeeded
IN getting through both houses of the Leg
islature and is "a law.
A petition to congress urging the pas
sage of the bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erecting of a monument to Gen.
Ihomas Sumter has been forwarded TO
Congressman j. w. Stokes.
Abbevne is looking out for another rail-
road. AT a meeting of the Young Mems
Business League committee was an
Pointed to confer with Anderson with I.
view to securing a railroad from Port
Royal 70 Knoxville, Tenn, via Abbevilie
The Highland Park hotel stables, at All
ken, owned by Bradwell & Lamar, were
destroyed by an incendiary fire at an early
hour Friday morning. A number of hors-
es and many vehicles We're burned. T. w
Fox of Philadelphia lost his fine horses in
the fire.
A charter was granted by the Secretary
of state TO the Commercial Bank of New
berry, 5. c., to do a general banking bust
ness principally in Newberry Fifty per
cent. of the capital stock has been paid
IN, and the bank will be ready for busi-
ness shortly
j. $. Nelson. farmer living in Timer
township, plowed up a sheathed sword one
day last week With the execution of the
point, u was in a fine state of preserva-
ton. II was probably buried there during
the late war.
The South Carolina College Glee club
has decided TO make a tour of the different
towns and cities of that state during the
holidays and by their entertainment and
lectures by members 10 work up greater
interest in the college, and if possible get
more students.
The essays written by the juniors and
seniors of Converse college on Revolu-
tionary heroines were examined by s ]
Simpson, ID. e. Hydrick and Frank Evans
The medal was awarded to Miss Leslie
STROBE of the senior class. Her subject was
Emily Geiger."
At Anderson Friday ten year old negro
boy was convicted of attempting to wreck
a passenger train on the Columbia, New
berry and Laurens railroad by putting an
obstruction on the track and was sentenc-
ed to one year at hard labor in the penf-
tertiary South Carolina has no reforma-
tory for such criminals
spartanburg can boast of the boss COW
of ehe country. She is a three-quarter
Jersey beautiful bronze color. neatly
formed. weighs about 700 pounds and gives
five gallons of rich milk per day, from
which is churned two and half pounds
of butter daily, after taking out enough
cream for the table and cooking for nine
teen persons The COW is owned by Mrs.
X. l.. Tennyson.
Charters have been applied for by the
following companies; The Dreifus Cloth
ing Company Of Greenville, the capital
stock of which is to be $4,000 The corpor-
ators are Samuel Dreifus Arthur Bedel
and j. 5. Klotz, The Bankers and Build
ers' Loan Association of Charleston. the
capital stock of which is $4,000. The cor
porators are l.. M. Pinckney, Huger Sink
Ter, Jr., and j. N. Nathans, Jr.
Early Thursday morning Charles Corkle
of Charleston cut his throat almost from
ear to ear. The wind pipe was almost
completely severed, but the Would-be-sui-
eide still lives. Corkle has a wife and sew
eral children. He is by occupation a stone
cutter. For several months past he had
been looking for work but could not get a
job and starvation was staring his family
in the face. Corkle was lying in bed his
wife, by his side when he drew the razor
across his throat in the hope of ending his
miseries. He is now breathing through a
tube.
At a dance in Barnwel county num-
Der of years ago, a murder was commit
ted. for which an innocent man was
hanged While on the floor dancing Ste
phen Bush was shot and killed by shot
fired from the outside. A rough charac-
ter by the name of Bates was accused.
He admitted firing the pistol, but swore
! he. Tired it into the air. Circumstantfal
evidence was 50 conclusive he was tried.
! convicted and hanged, protesting his in
nocence on the scaffold About a year
| ago, Billy Limbric& died and as a Sc
| quel 10 the tragedy confessed before his
=, death that he fired the fatal shot, bur
could assign no reason, as he and Bush
We're the best Of friends, only that he
! fired into the air, he deliberately aimed
! in the house and fired. The deadly work
of the bullet sobered him and he sold his
! pistol TO cousin for so cents, fearing,
! detection. He helped to gather the eyfe
/ dence that convicted and hanged Bates.