The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-04
SoITH CAROLINA.


A young lady has entered the law class
at the South Carolina College under Prof.
Pope
The Knights of Honor of South Caro-
lima paid to widows and orphans last year
the amount of $101,OO0.
Charlestons health authorities refused
to accept a carload of cocoanuts from Mo-
bile even after they had been fumigated.
The South Carolina and Georgia road is
arranging for a regular line of steamers
to ply between charleston and the East
Indies.
The Arkwright mill of Spartanburg will
start running cotton in the card room
about oct. l. The mill win reach weav-
ing about Oct. 10.
Charleston's big pleasure park, the Chi
cora, on Ashley river, has been opened to
visitors, and the new trolley does a big
business in that direction.
The Ohio River and Charleston road has
completed it's line to Gaffney, and is now
running trains regularly from Blacksburg
to the hustling little capital of Cherokee
county.
AT a meeting of the stockholders of the
Enterprise cotton mills at Orangeburg,
resolution was adopted to increase the cap
ital stock to 100000, for the purpose of
equipping the mill.
The new county seat of Saluda, through
the enterprise of Messrs. ]. A. Attaway
and Alvin Etheridge has placed herself
in touch with the outside world by build
ing a telephone line from Saluda to john
son.
The dlspensary has paid into the treas
ury during it's lifetime 2SS5OO.4S which in
cludes $4,000 loaned by the state. Com
missioner Vance expects to pay $4,000 to
the school fund before the meeting Of the
general assembly.
The Bedford Phone Company has per-
fected arrangements for connection with
Guthriesville, McConnellsville and Rock
Hill. Glover and Hickory Grove are still
being talked of, but as to whether the
connection is completed depends upon the
people at those places.
A meeting of road commissioners will
be one feature of the state fair, and diff
ferent towns In the state are already
electing delegates. The subject of good
roads will be thoroughly talked over and
some plan will be decided upon that will
enable all the counties TO have roads that
will be a dream to the people who travel
them.
The Rock Hill Herald tells of horrible
accident that occurred to Miss Ellen Out
law. a l4-year-old operative in the Man
chester cotton mill last Thursday While
the unfortunate young girl was STOPPING
to pick up a scrap of waste, her hair was
caught between a belt and pully and her
scatD was torn from her head Her iniu-
ries were Of a very painful nature, but
will not prove fatal.
The benefit to trade resulting from the
presence of the Abbeville cotton mill Is
now acknowledged by the entire county.
Heretofore the scarcity of cotton and other
difficulties attendant upon starting new
machinery, has made the mill little slow
in beginning to run on full time, but now
the way is clear. Nearly all the looms
are running, and the work OF converting
cotton into Goth goes on daily.
The dam at Portman shoals, on the
Seneca, ten miles from Anderson. has
| been completed, and the Anderson Water.
/ Light and Power Company are busy plac-
! ing the ponderous electrical machinery in
/ position, but il will be some four weeks
| before they will be ready to start up the
! big cotton mill at Anderson by the trans
| mission Of power. The dam, $50 long and
| y feet high. mas eighteen hours in filling.
Within thirty miles of the capital of the
dispensary state, after laundering about
| sometimes waist deep i'm mud and water in
! the swamps of the North Edisto river. for
| three days and nights, without sleep. Mai
Hal Richardson of the United States rev.
| enue service, Deputy Collector Holland
1 ana Deputy Marshal Reese, have just sue