The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-24

bands hand and arm were badly burned
in extinguishing the flames.
A return for charter has been received
from the Mercantile Exchange Bank of
Abbeville. Fifty per cent Of the capital
stock has been subscribed. The officers
elected are G. L. Allen, president, and
J. o. Patterson, vice president
The engineering corps of the o. r. &
c. railroad are at work surveying the line
of that road from Blacksburg to Spartan
burg. The line will run from Blacksburg
to Gaffney, thence to Pacolet, up the riv-
er to Clifton and to Spartanburg.
The adjutant and inspector generals Of
flee has received quite a number Of petit
tions that are to be presented to the gem
eral assembly, asking the state for a more
liberal appropriation for the militia Of the
state, and the petitions ask for at least
$4,000. The committee is favOrably dis
posed 10 making at least the customary
appropriations for the militia.
The farmers in Chester county are buy
ing more commercial fertilizers than they
bought last year. This, they say, is not
for the purpose of increasing their cotton
acreage, but to bring their farming work
to the Intensive plan" They viii also
use more fertilizer than heretofore on their
corn crops. Some of the farmers WIN also
make experiments in the cultivation of
this crop.
The arrangements for the survey of the
disputed county line between Greenville
and Spartanburg have been completed. The
scientific method, proposed by Mr.. Lad
shaw, of Spartanburg, has been agreed up
on. 1t is proposed to make this work con-
elusive to the extent of standing the test
of the scientific department at Washing
ton before the supreme court of the Unit
ed States, If necessary. The work will be-
gin about March 10, 1896.
James Miller. 12-year-old boy, had
difficulty with George Donates, a lad
about 10 year of age, at Columbia, a few
days ago, and Tuesday the boyish quar-
rel was continued. Young Miller, during
the course of the trouble, picked up a
heavy iron roller closely resembling a
dumb bell, and threw IL with all his
strength at Donates. 1t struck him over
the heart causing paralysis of that or
gan and killing him instantly.
The Charleston knitting mills, with
capital stock of $4,000, has started it's
machinery to working. The mill now has
20 knitting machines and employs about
80 people. Twenty-Five more machines will
soon be in operation, and the working
force increased in proportion. The out
put of the mill is to be 300 pairs of
half hose and stockings a day, which
will supply the retail trade in the state,
and which will in time be increased to
carry the business into other southern
Charleston people.
The Grand Royal Arch Chapter of South
Carolina has been in session in Charles
ton. The following officers We're elected
for the ensuing Masonic year: Comp J. T.
Barron, Columbia, M. H. Grand II. p;
S fsr F. b b; q Moses Comm s Sum n
Grasque. Marion, r. f. Grand X; Comp
f. T. White, anderson, r. r. Grand S. ::
Rev. Comp j. E. Dunlop, williamsburg,
Grand Chaplain; Comp. G. F. Jackson Col
umbia, r. f. Grand treasurer; Comp. A
e. Fugle, Columbia, r. E., grand secre-
tary;, Comp. A. 8. Thomas, Charleston,
Greenvfle, grand r. A. c.; Comp. e. S.
Wingate, Charleston, grand sentinel.
The United States battleship Indiana
will be locked at Port Royal, S. c., about
Feb.2S. The Indiana is the only first
class battleship owned by this govern
ment. Her tonnage is 1925; extreme
length, $50 feet IL inches; width 600 feet 8
inches; guns in main battery, l6. The YES
sci cost between 81, 0O0, 600 and 100000 1t
draws "A feet of water and carries four
hundred men. The extreme size of this
vessel prevented it being docked at any
other dry dock in the United States ex-
cept the new dock at Port Royal, S. c.,
which was completed the LIST of Febru-
airy. and all arrangements made to take
in the Indiana The governor of Indiana
and a large party from that state will
be present on that occasion.
Charleston News and Courier: In a
glass jar at the city hospital is kept the
heart of James Criss. Criss was shot
about month ago by a negro named
Sparkman. In the heart of the murdered
man is a bullet. This would not be at
all interesting but for the fact that the
bullet entered the wall of the heart and
came almost entirely through. remaining
held in the fibrous muscles that surround
ed the heart. In this shape Criss lived
forty-eight hours. Two bullets had en-
a., Nod in,
heart, one entered his stomach, going
through the abdominal cavity into the
intestines Either would have caused
death in a very few hours under ordi-
nary circumstances, but it seemed that
Crisis intended TO fight off death with his
will power or some other power, for he
chung to this mortal existence longer than
any one ever did who carried a bullet
in his heart and one in his stomach.