The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-05
sOUTH CAROLINA.


Tuesday Capt. Sim Adkins had been a
pilot at Charleston sixty years. He is Is
years Of age.
w. L. Morgan of Gaffney had his right
arm so badly lacerated by a cotton gin
Friday that amputation was unavoida-
bic.
The business men OF Columbia are still
at work on the project to establish a line
of steamers on the Santee and Congaree
rivers.
Dispensary No. 1, at Spartanburg. was
closed Friday. The report is that there is
a considerable shortage. running from $500
to 81. 600
John Harper shot and killed his broth
er-in-Iaw, Walter Hughes, Thursday af-
ternoon, at 5 o'clock, at Harpers house,
two miles north Of Easley. Pickens
county.
A charter has been Issued by the secre-
tary of state to the Glen-Jones Hardware
Company Of Abbeville The capital stock
of S. 900 has been all subscribed and f. w
eileen elected president and W. II. Jones
secretary.
Mrs Nicely, who lived near Greenville,
was burned so seriously day or two ago,
that she died Friday. She was very old
and was in the house alone. 1t is sup-
posed she attempted to kndle a fire and
her clothes caught.
Two commissions have been issued to
Charleston business concerns. One is to
the c. G. Matthews Company, with a capt.
tai stock of $4,000, and the other to the
Progressive Investment Company, with a
capital stock of 5000
The governor has made two changes on
state boards of election commissioners. He
appointed G. c. Mosely on the Aiken coun-
ty board vice Ben Turner, deceased, and
MEG. McGuinnis on the Charleston board,
vice c. NJ. Trott, resigned.
Gov. Evans has appointed the following
delegates from South Carolina to the ma
tional flower congress, which meets in
Asheville, N. c.. Oct. q, q and %: Miss
Blanche ONeale of Columbia, and Hon.
B. f. Townsend of Union.
Gov. Evans has issued two proclama-
tons Offering rewards of $50 in each case
for the person or persons who fired the
dwelling house of S. L. Morris, in Able
Vile county, and the gin house and con-
tents of Mrs. d. A. Marsh sof Edgefeld
county.
The cotton crop has been moving rapid
ly. The receipts at Huntsville are nearly
double what they were up to the same
time last year. Buyers have been paying
good prices, more than the surrounding
markets. The crop, however, will be the
shortest for years, as the whole crop will
be marketed by Nov. 1.
The Richland county board of control
is meeting with some trouble in carry
ing out its proposed system. 1t wanted
to have only two dispensaries in the
county and elected the two dispensers
and clerks with that view, but it appears
that Mr. McKenna now claims that he
was elected to hold his present position
! to Jan. 1, and that IL he is removed mere
! ly to change the number of dispensaries
! that he will bring suit for the three
months wages due him.
The contest for the judgeship which
will be left vacant by the resignation of
| Senato Elect Earle has begun in real
| earnest. There are up to date eight avow-
| ed candidates for the position, and before
| the legislature convenes the chances are
that several others win appear. The can
didates so far announced are: J. A. Nc
| Collough, Solicitor Ansel b. Nj. Shuman,
! from Grecnville; Maj. Dendy, the Hon. S.
| Y Stribbling, from Oconee; J. c. Klugh,
from Abbevine; ]. e. Breazeale and
George f. Prince, from Anderson. The
other county in the circuit, PicNens, has
not yet furnished a candidate.
James H. Wood was tried at Walter
boro on Monday for the murder of L. w.
Mellard on May l6. and was acquitted.
| The facts of the killing, as related by
Wood himself and ]. T. Thornly, who was
the only witness of the shooting, were
that they met Mallard in the road; that
he cursed Wood, saying that Wood had
| He'd about him. and invited him to fight
that Wood refused. requesting Mellard to
come to him peaceably, and he would give
! him satisfaction; that Mellard advanced
upon Wood but was compelled to stop
by the latter, who prepared to fire upon
him with his gun; that Wood and Thorn
ly who were in road cart, then drove
on and were pursued by Mellard, who
was on horseback, until a farm house
where Wood intended to sell some butter
was reached; that there Mellard dismount-
ed. grasping the bride with his right
hand and saying that he would have sat
| isfaction or one Of them would die; that
Wood fired upon him, using a gun loaded
4 with small shot. Mellard expired soon af-