The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-09
s0rTH cAROLINA

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The total levy for taxes in Union county
for the year 1893 is 1914 mills,
A new postofice has been established in
Darlington county named Cuba
a number OF farmers near Cherokee are
planting from three to five acres in mel
ons his year
The convention of the Mayors .Assocla-
ton Of South Carolina viii be held in
Georgetown next week, May 1912.
The dfty-elghth annual session Of the
Grand Lodge. !. 0. 0. F. Of South Caro-
lima, viii be held in Charleston on Wed
nesday. May H.
VIII Page, alias Erwin LowmSn, colored.
has been arrested and Jailed at Aiken for
numbering woman named Susie John
sion, near Perry.
Dr. Montague of Furman University has
accepted an invitation 20 deliver The an
nual address before the Williamson Fe-
male College, next June.
Gussie seebeck, a young white boy, of
Charleston, was run over by an East
Shore Terminal freight train near Cum.
berland street, Friday. and had both legs
cue Off
Near Sumter Thursday Constable Con-
rad Folk was attacked by Jordan johnson.
negro prisoner. whom he was taking 20
JAN, and was forced to shoot him to save
mis- own life
DR.. Young J. Allen, the oldest mission,
airy in China, is on a visit to spartanburg.
He went to China in 1873 During the
war Of lS6O-65 he never received a letter
from ms former home. He VIII return to
China to remain permanently.
The Easley and Pickens Railroad has
been finished and accepted by the. railroad
commissioners. BY this road Pickens Isl
connected with the Southern Railway a,
Easley, a distance Of nine miles, Tn.
road was butt by the people of Easley ana
Flckens county. An order has been Is
sued Tor the operation Of the road.
w. 7. Wilkins, one of Mannings mer.i
chants, lost his store by fire on Tuesday,
night Loss about 5000; insurance. 81 ooo
Inc building was owned by DR.. w. M
hrockInton, and was insured for $500
@WeHihg near by, owned by +. 0. Rich
ardson, was also burned The insurance
on il was 500.
The Baptist High School pronertv a
Yorkyille was sold at public auction on
Monday at the suit Of J. f. wallace ana
othefs against w. j. Langston and 9TH
ers. The property was bid In bv q w
cart, attorney for Wallace and others
lot $500, which was 81, 100 less than II was
sofa 10 the Baptist denomination for
rev Years ago, Notwithstanding the fac,
that at the time the Baptists contracted
TOR 1t the buildings were in a djlapida tod
eoholtion and are returned in. fair reDair
as something like $1SO0 was expended In
putting the property in shape 20 be used.
Columbia correspondent Charleston
News and Courier: There are now over
sixteen hundred young CaronnIans in
camp at Columbia. They are a bright. a
brave and a good-humored set of men.
They have apme from all classes. all con-
ditions all vocatons and all walks of life
ana society. 1t is notsa city gathering
neither is il small army Of country lads
but on the contrary it Is a HETEROGENEOUS
gathering of young men, who want to see
that Their state is given proper represent
tauon IN the army for the liberation of
cuba. II is noteworthy how anxious
many OF the young men are to get into tia
fray and they do not like the idea or
being penned UP in camp for weeks or
perhaps months. 1t is action that they
want, 1t is battle that they are hunting
Perhaps they win soon slcken of that
but there are many who want 10 see what
1t really is that their fathers and grand
fathers have been talking to them about
since they were little tots.