The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27


candescent lights will be available and
this number will supply the demand.
The business Of the Clyde Steamship
Company has assumed such proportions
az Charleston that the directors determin-
ed TO create new office, that of assist
ant general freight and passenger agent.
Mr.. c. II. Belts, who for two years has
been the Port Royal agent of Messrs. VIII
liam Johnson & Co, has made Charleston
MS headquarters, the Johnson line OF
steamers proposing to do much business
with that port this season. Mr.. Belts will
also have charge Of the Port Royal and
Brunswick Offices
The Augusta and Sixth Regiment marks
men are going to begin rife practice at
once and their range Is to be located on
South Carolina soil, just across the river
from Augusta. Gov. EEerbe received a
letter from Gov. Atkinson of Georgia, ask
ing the permission to use these grounds.
which was promptly given.
The managers of the Charleston cotton
mills, where negro and white labor is en-
ployed, undertook to put in half a dozen
negro bosses over the white operatives
Monday and the latter hands went out.
They left the mill. making threats. A
squad Of policemen was detailed to pre-
vent trouble, but things became 50 squally
that the colored bosses were promptly
taken out
President Childs of the state fair has
written to Secretary of Agriculture Will
son at Washington inviting him to make
an address to the farmers of South Caro-
lima one day during fair week. An answer
mas not yet been received but President
Childs has good reasons for hoping that
Secretary Wilson viii avail himself of the
opportunity of speaking to the farmers
of the Palmetto state
News and Courier. Some anxiety had
been felt by the rice men on account of the
blow that came this way on Tuesday night,
but reports from the plantations show that
the crop was not touched. The wind did
not succeed in bringing up much of a tide
and so the rice in the fields was not in
jured at all. The Carolina rice crop is in
excellent shape and the factors are not i'll
pleased with the prospect Of a firm and
steady market.
Mr.. A. S. Emerson, who will manage
the Charleston expedition to the KIondike
gold fields, has returned to Charleston
from New York. Mr. Emerson is now ne
gotiating for the steamer IN which the
Charleston prospectors will make the vow
age, and expects to conclude arrangements
in few days. The ship for which Dego-
tiations are now pending is a splendid
one, and Is. as Mr.. Emerson says, lust
the one for the voyage.
A third cargo of grain has been engap-
ed for shipment from the west via Charles
ton. This cargo was booked by the South
Carolina and Georgia railroad and the
charleston transport line of steamers for
(lpTnhAR Ghinnlaraf TO 7
amount of grain in this third lot is As GOO
bushels, and 1t will come from st. Louis.
Inc hrst two cargoes, aggregatfng over
100000 bushels Of grain, have been shipped
and VIII be there in time for early loading
In October.
An attempt was recently made to burn
ST. Marks Episcopal church in Charles
ton. The fire department officials feel
positive that the fire was started mali
ciously. 1t was whispered around among
several colored people at the time that
several threats have recently been made
to burn down st. Marks church. Ii is
said that bad blood has existed between
certain members of the church and out
side parties for some time past, and that
the attempt TO burn the church was the
outcome of this bad feeling.
For several weeks what appeared to be
a very fatal disease among the cattle in
York county has been prevailing. Prof.
Wyman. the veterinary surgeon at Glenn
son college, was requested to come over
and diagnose the trouble. He arrived on
thursday last, and after making a thor
ough investigation, expressed the conf
dent opinion that the outbreak was not
Texas fever as was believed; but that it
was q trouble due to shortness of pas
ture and stagnant, drinking water caus-
ing form of poisoning, characterized
mainly by a breaking down of vital ele-
ments of the blood, a disease said to be
very frequent in the state, especially in
prolonged dry weather