The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-25
SOUTH CAROLINA.


SOUTH CAROLINA
r. A. McCants and A. F. Duke, two
Charleston young men, have gone to
Waycross, Ga. where they will take
charge of the Waycross Brass and Foun-
dry works 1r
Miss Louise Bridges, daughter of H. ].
Bridges of Marietta, died on Wednesday
night. after a two weeks illness Of tv-
phoid fever. Miss Bridges was about II
years of age.
j. Lyle Williams, a prominent resident
Of Looper's, Pickens county, was severe
ly hurt Wednesday, He was cutting wood
vigorously, when a chip flew up striking
him in the eye, completely destroying the
sight.
A motion for the sale of the Greenwood,
Anderson and Western road was made in
the United States circuit court before
Judge Simonton Saturday. The motion
was made by Mordeoai & Gadsden, rep
resenting numerous parties having claims
against the road. The hearing of the mo-
ton was deferred until next Friday. when
counsel opposed to the sale will be heard
in reply.
s. A. Harren of Winona has in his pos
session the tusks of wild hog killed bv
him some time ago in Pee Dee swamp
The tusks measured ~ inches in length
and were dangerous looking weapons
Several attempts had been made before
to kill the hog, which resulted in the hogs
killing several dogs. This time however
Mr., Harrell and one dog did the work
but not until the dog had been cut nearly
half inAwo. After being dressed the hog
weighed 200 pounds.
The British steamship Verbena was
cleared al Charleston for Liverpool Fri
day by the Charleston Transport Line.
with cargo of A. 464 bales of upland cot
ton, 1000 bags of flour, 10000 bushels of
wheat and 500 tons of pig iron. The Yer
bena is the first vessel to put to sea from
that port with a cargo of western grain
The British steamship Easily will be the
next grain ship to leave Charleston. She
has already taken on her cargo of wheat
and is now loading with cotton. The
Easily will sail about the latter part of
this week.
Mr.. Sanders of Barnwell found a rather
rare Spanish silver coin a few days ago,
a 2-real piece, dated 1772, with the face
and bust of Charles III, at that time King
of Spain and the Indies, with the inscrlp-
ton, "Carolus III, Del Gratia Hispan ct
Ind, Rex, 2 r. f. NJ" and the royal arms
of Spain A passing gypsy says it is
worth $3.50, which would seem reasonable,
as the entire Spanish monetary system
has been revolutionized since 1772; and the
decimal system is now in vogue and q
friend suggests that Charles afterward alb
dictated the Spanish for the Austrian
throne as further reason for its rarity.
The tow boat Britannia of the Red Band
Towing Company was sold to ]. H. Aiken
of Pensacola Friday for $500. Negotia-
lions for the purchase of the vessel have
been pending two or three days, but it
was mot until Friday that all the final
papers were drawn up. Mr.. Aiken ar
rived In Charleston last Tuesday for the
purpose of buying a tow boat if he found
one that suited him. He is engaged in the
two boat business on a large scale down
at Pensacola, and some time ago he saw
that II was question of only short
while before he would be compelled to
purchase another boat In order to carry
on his business properly. The Britannia
was Just the sort of vessel Mr.. Aiken was
looking for, so it did not take long for
him to close the deal with the Red Band
company. The Britannia has the reputa-
ton of being one of the best boats Of her
class in Charleston harbor. She is now
at PregnalPs ship yard undergoing a
thorough overhauling and repairing.
The way of the righteous is sometimes
hard in Charleston as a minister of the
gospel, who was arrested there Friday,
can testify. He was a whole Salvation
Army himself, and his crowd-drawing pro
clivities were not agreeable to the police
of the city by the sea. The News and
Courier relates the particulars: James
whitman. a colored minister of the Cos
pei, was lodged at the station house yes
terday, and the charge Of being of I'M
mil TaFaez at,fa
against him whitman has been going
about town for the past two or three
days preaching to small crowds in side
streets and alleys. The police would not
grant him permission to deliver his SER
mons in the main thoroughfares of the
city, and the evangelist did not look upon
this as being proper. He had received a
divine call to talk to the sinful multi
tudes of Charleston and to endeavor as
far as possible, to bring them into the
paths of righteousness, and he was at a
loss to understand why the authorities
should deny him perfect freedom in ex-
pressing his views to the people, Will
man went ahead anyway, and gathered a
large crowd about him Friday morning
In Line street. When he was approached
by policeman he became exceedingly in
dignant, and went through a series of
wild gesticulations which would have laid
a South Carolina stump speaker in the
shade. The officer perceived at once that
the minister was not In his right mind
so he telephoned for patrol wagon and
had the unfortunate negro locked up."
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"A blind woman, Miss Bouley took one
Of the, first prizes for counterpart and
fugue at the Paris conservatory this year.
while two others of the sex shared the
harp prize al the Brussels conservatory.
Miss Hantson was awarded the first prize
with the greatest distinction" and the
first harp prize was given also to a wo-