The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-12-01

YcrSatlOn among NolUMDlanS no" 10 tno
establishment of u paid fire department.
The city has grown to such an extent
that such service is necessary. The
letters from the Southwestern Iarl1
Association are construed as threat
1t is thought that if additional fire pro-
| lection is not accorded by the munl-
cipal authorities rates will be raised,
and thereby the expenses OF citizens
| will be increased just as much as II
paid fire department was III operation.
The plan most likely TO be adopted will
| be to have six regular salarled men with
each company all the time, land areserve
! force to respond to all alarms and be
raid for the time during which they
work. It is very probable that this
paid department viii be iDauGurated ct
! the beginning Of the next fiscal year.
Another source of complaint among the
! insurance PEOPLE has been the lack OF
water at recent fires. The basin con-
! tains constantly more water than city
/ tho size of Columbia could reasonably
he expected to consume, yet 1t is TACT
{ that sometimes water IS scarce. This
scarcity has been attributed TO waste
aud leakage in both private and public
institutions The meter system he's
! been adopted to do away with this
| leakage The adoption of the meters
may mean more than the stoppage OF
waste 1t may solve the entire water
question, which has been source OF
argument and contention for several
, months. The saving in water may
demonstrate that the present supply Is
/ sufficient and that more pressure is
alone need ed. The additional revenue
, that will ccrue to the city may also be
sufficient for undertaking the erection
of newand more complete water works,
for, with the very best reinforcement,
the present system would serve but
few years longer.
COLUMBIA. petition, signed by
about ?, 900 people, has secured for y.
/ W. Powell, the slayer of G. W. Sloan,
o Communication of sentence, and On
Chris tmas day he will walk out OF the
! penitentiary free man, without having
served quite three of his years term:
The grounds for pardoning are based
wholly on petitions. The family and
friends of the condemned man secured
signatures to petition to the governor
asking for his release. Five such petit
tious were circulated, One was signed
bv not only a number of ministers from
this city, but from other parts OF the
State. A second petition was circulated
among the lawyers, and their sigma
lures obtained. Still third was signed
by physicians OF the city, and fourth
bv ladies of Columbia, while the fifth
was signed by citizens generally, with
out any distinction as regards profes.
sion. Nine of the jurors who found
Powell guilty asked for his srelease.
CHARLESTON. The joint committee
having under consideration the matter
of longshore rates for the port OF
Charleston held an important session
at the Chamber of Commerce lasting
about two hours. At the close OF the
meeting it was said that report would
be made at some later day to the orlgl-
nal committee from the commercial
bodies. No intimation as to what had
been done was given and the only In
formation obtainable was to the effect
that resolutions had been adopted
unanimously and that they would be
submitted to the larger body which
named the ub-committee. A meeting
ef the original joint committee Will be
held within few days.
A petition Of the citizens of Indian
Hill and Bordeaux township OF Abb
beyille county, which sought to have
an election ordered to determine
whether or not these townships should
become part of Greenwood, has just
been passed upon unfavorablv by the
attorney general This authority ruled
that the petition, in that it did not
state whether Abbeville county would
have left the constitutional require
meuts as to population, etc, was not
such as to warrant the ordering OF the
election.
A reprieve until tie 10th ofDecember
has been granted by Gov. Ellerbe to
Jno. Harper of esterfeld, negro
who was sentenced. to be hanged for
the murder of another negro. The
reprieve was given with the view that
communication Of sentence to life impri-
sonment might be granted. In all
cases where the presiding Judge and
prosecuting solicitor recommend
communication it Is usual for the gov
ernor to grant it.
GEoRGErowY. - Grover Cleveland,
aboard Commodore E. G. Benedlcts
steam yacht, the Oneida, has arriv-
ed here on his usual duck hunting trip
which he has gotten much enjoyment
out of for several winters, he says. He
and Mr.. Huntington are guests OF Con-
modore Benedict, and they have come
down here to enjoy couple OF weeks
sport ia shooting the mallard ducks,
which are here in great numbers.
CHARLESTON. Henry Rolleson, alias
Cracker Henry, one of the negroes ar
rested for being implicated in the kill
ing of Private Theo. Godfrey, was shot
and probably fatally injured in Nassau
street. The shooting was done by
Wesley Fields, who quietly walked
away from the police and escaped. Rol-
Lesson was sent to the City Hospital:
He was shot through the abdomen and
the Hospital physicians said that the
wound was considered dangerous.
FLORENCE. Mr.. J. A. Mclaughlin,