The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-23

state to meet the competition from the
breweries in adjoining cities Of other
states under the provisions of Judge ST.
monton's original package decision Quite
number of such dispensaries viii he es-
taoIlshed as consequence of the meet
ing.
A. p. Murphy agent Of the Mallory
steamship line at Port Royal, S. c.. re-
ports the great deep water port as doing
very large shipping business Freight
ships of 5000 tons measurement coming
in, carry away cargoes of phosphate rock
Hour, maple and hard wood lumber and
cotton to the amount Of 5000 tons of
cargo. Port Royal grows somewhat. but
has not fully recovered from the attempt
a few years ago to bottle it up.
The advocates Of prohibition are begin
ming to bestir themselves and Nhev are
looking forward to some legislative
changes in the present law regarding intox-
icating liquors. There is now posted up In
the postofiice in Orangeburg a petition for
the voters TO sign, requesting a prohibit
ton law to be enacted at the next session
of the legislature. A pencil is attached to
1t by string and the request is for sigma
lures, but they are not being attached
very rapidly
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad is do
ing everything within it's power to cap
ture the murderer of Flagman James
Blackwell shot by tramp at Denmark
last week. The Coast Line keeps a pack
Of bloodhounds at Florence ali the time
Tor the purpose of tracking criminals who
rob cars and commit other deeds along
the line of the road. and keeps an expert
enced master in charge of them. As soon
as the news of the killing Of Blackwell
flashed into Florence on the wires a special
train was rugged up and sent to the scene
of the murder with the hounds in all pos
sib.e haste. The animals took up the trail.
Col. J. H. Tinman of Edgeheld. nephew
of the knight Of the pitchfork has recent
~ had occasion to suspect the adjutant
general of the state of uufairness in a reg
imental election, and he thus speaks of
that state officer: Il am perfectly willing
to let the public judge between Watts and
myself on question of veracity or any
thing else. As have before stated, those
who signed the protest withdrew it at my
request as their letters will show. and
did not care to have the state spend sew
eral hundred dollars in a court of inquiry
when il could only have resulted In disin-
terrng the remains of an officious adiu-
tant general, whose corpse is now in an
advanced stage of decomposition For
Col. C.affy my opponent | have the high
est regard and do not feel aught against
him"
A whitecap crowd passed through
Camden on Friday night. One hundred
and twenty mounted men rode into the
city; they were white men, masked and
armed. They rode quietly down Main
street and went out towards the south.
Others were also seen on the side streets
About twenty-five minutes later two
mounted white men, also armed but I'M
masked. rode down Main street and in
quired If crowd of men had passed
through. citizen entered into conversa-
ton with them, and. on attempting to
approach them, one Of the men fred off
his gun into the ground and then gallop-
ed rapidly out of town. From rumors
picked up, the whitecaps are possibly the
ones who have been after the Mormons
lately in Fairfield county This Is
strengthened by the fact that good
many Mormons live a few miles below
Camden in the direction taken by the
whitecaps.