The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
sourH CARoI1NA-


The town of Edgefield sent TO Columbia
Monday more than 81, 100 as the states
share of the dispensary profits for Christ
mas week
The police of Columbia are authorized
to wear citizens clothes at their disposal,
in order TO run down all the blind tigers
in the city.
Tuesday a brakeman named Cato Miles
was caught by the local freight in at
tempting to make a coupling at Sellers
and severely, if not fatally, injured.
The secretary of state has granted a
charter to the Hope Building and Loan
Association of Charleston. A charter was
also granted to the Florence Drug Com
pany of Florence.
Luther McClinton of Verdery, son of
Mrs. Matte McClinton, who was about
Is years of age. was accidentally shot
Tuesday by Lem Bishop. coored, and died
in less than one hour from the effects of
the wound.
The store of Louis Cohn merchant tailor
and clothier. of Charleston, was closed
Thursday, Mr.. Cohn having made an as
signment for the benefit of his creditors
and named ]. n. Nathans, Jr. as as
signee. There will be a meeting of cred
itors at the Office of j. n. Nathans on
Wednesday, Jan. s.
: Jim Sanders, colored. aged about %
years, was hanged at Barnwell Friday
for the murder of Simon Riley last Sep
TENDER. He ate a hearty breakfast and
met his fate quietly. In his statement
on the scaffold he acknowledged the kill
ing and said the cause was the intimacy
of the murdered man with his wife.
The Exchange Bank of Batesburg. of
which ]. H. Huett is president, failed
Of
will be given out until the meeting of the
creditors, but a notice posted on the door
by the cashier is to the effect that it Is
believed the depositors will lose nothing
State Treasurer w. L. c. Bates is believed
to be large stockholder.
Declaration has been filed in the secre-
tary of states office for charter fo. the
w. +. Googe Company of Allendale. The
corporators are w. +. Googe, t. e. Googe,
ness of the company will be merchandise
ing. The capital stock will be $4,000 and
the principal place of business is Allen
dale, in Barnwel county.
Gov. Evans has made the announcement
that supervisors of registration will not
open their offices for the registration OF
voters until the state legislature meets
and enacts the new registration laws.
The new constitution provides for entire
ly different methods of registration; hence
any registration taking place until those
laws are enacted are null and void.
Friday night the supreme court rem
dered a decision settling the question
as to whether the city of Columbia school
district should receive all OF the poll tax
collected, instead of only that portion
paid in regularly to the county treasurer,
and not collected by legal process, the
latter class of the funds having been
withheld. The court grants the writ of
mandamus asked for by the city.
A commission far a charter has been
issued by the South Carolina Midland
Company of Barnwell. The corporators
named are J. w. Grow, j. L. Villalonga
and Mike Brown. The company proposes
to start out with a capital stock of $780, =
900. The commission asks for general
powers, but its chief business appears to
be to promote immigration to the state
and sell lands to those who come.
The new constitution having gone into
effect there are now no longer any trial
justices in South Carolina; they are mag
istrates. The new constitution also in
creases their jurisdiction IN both civil and
criminal cases. Again there is provision
in the new constitution which gives the
magistrates power to sentence to the
county chain-gangs. The constitution