The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-15
SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
The citizens of Georgetown have Just
finished planting four hundred young oak
and elm trees on the streets.
e. c. Hartin has declined the position
of state constable for Richland county to
which he was appointed by Gov. Ellerbe
Thomas L. Doten, a baggage master on
the charleston and Savannah road drop
ped dead on the street at Charleston Tues
day.
The Richland mills at Columbia have run
day and night without intermission, ex-
cept Sundays and Christmas. since Oct.
10, 1895.
Beaufort is soon to have a knitting mill,
with the latest improved machinery, for
making fine cotton hose from sea island
cotton.
The secretary of state has issued
charter to 1.-THE Warren Manufacturing
Company" of Aiken. The capital stock
is 100000
The state privilege tax for the first two
months of the year already amounts to
$4,000. and the possibilities are that it will
exceed the receipts of last year.
The cotton mills of Spartanburg county
have offered $500 in cash prizes to the far
mers who make the best yield of cotton on
five, ten and fifteen acres respectively.
A. B. Towers, one Of the Oldest and
most prominent citizens of Anderson, died
Thursday night after a brief Illness of
pneumonia. lie had just passed his 18th
| birthday.
The municipal election at Laurens We'd
nesday resulted as follows: For mayor,
w. r. Richey; for aldermen, B. A. Sullivan,
+. p. MCGOWAN, L. S. Fuller, ]. S. Ben
nett, c. B. Bobo. ]. H. Roper.
An accidental shooting occurred Monday
in Lexington county on the place of George
f. Leitsey, in which negro named James
Counts was killed by Henry Sesler Counts
died few minutes after being shot.
In compliance with the requirements of
the constitution and the act recently pass
ed, creating Cherokee county, Gov Eller-
be has ordered an election of county Of
fcials and state senator, to be held on
| the 9th inst.
William Johnson, co:ored. convicted
March Is, 1895. of wrecking a passenger
train on the South Carolina and Georgia
railroad at Kingsville and sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary, has been
pardoned by Gov. Ellerbe.
Marion r. Reese, convicted of the murder
of r. B. Anderson and sentenced to life
Imprisonment and who escaped a few
weeks ago from the York county JAIL while
his appeal was pending, has been captur-
ed by the police of Lexington. Tenn.
Rev. DIR. Klnard, pastor of the Ebenezer
Lutheran church in Columbia, has been
offered the chair of mental and moral phi
| losophy in the new female college to be
erected in Charlotte soon by the church.
| He has not decided whether he will ac-
cept the proffered position.
Newberrys commissioners OF public
works have awarded contracts for electric
lights and water works. The General
| Electric Light Company of Atlanta will
| put in the former for $500 and Howard
Nicely of Chattanooga will furnish the
water works system for $S2.S2l. New
berry has bonded herself in $4,000.
Sheriff Dean OF Spartanburg forwarded
last week to the secretary Of state the
battle flag of the Brockman Guards, which
followed the fortunes of the late war and
saw service wherever Jackson's brigade
went. 1t was saved from Richmond the
night of the evacuation. This flag which
! has been in the archives in Columbia, was
| used az the reunion of the Brockman
| Guards of this county and goes back to
its place.
The work of tearing out the old wood
en- cells in the Aiken county jail was be-
| gun last week. The work will be done
! by the chain-gang. The legislature has
| provided for the raising OF the money nee
\ essary to carry out the jail contract.
levy of 1-6 Of a mill will be made an
! nually for six years, which will raise about
\ $1,000 There are seven prisoners confined
and secured In the second story Of the
| front part of the jail building.
President ]. r. Barron has contracted
with j. b. Smith for the erection OF sew
enteen two-story tenement houses at the
Manchester mill at Rock Hin. This Is
| made necessary on account of the fact
| that a number of additional looms are
20 be put in at an early date. and the
| spinning department. Is 90 be run day and
night. The additional houses will each
have six rooms. by this ARRANGEMENT the
force of employees will be doubled.
The bids for furnishing material and
constructing the jettes al Winyah Bay,
Georgetown, were opened at GEORGETOWN
Friday by Capt. Fred c. Abbott. United
| States Navy. They were as follows: Rit-
tenhouse Moore. 81 .492.49S.35; Stewart Com
| tracing Company OF Columbia, Sl4l
6g.06; Macarthur Bros. Company, 81 $780,
OS; G.. W. Eagan g. Co., S.7l3, 1861;
John S. Grim, Sl7G3, 1879 0J; Jacob Friday
g. Son, Si,623 1872; II. J. Rass. $t,2ii, 1913.
man answering the description OF