The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-10
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AND CAROLINA:

Jr., d. lF. Conner. Jr., Is. :. Cathcart and
George II. Aloffott, directors.
The Republicans in the Fifth district
have brought out a congressional caudi-
date in the person of Mai. John e. Jones
of Blacks burg, who posed as the martyr
OF the parry n that district during che last
election He was nomina ed at a conven-
ton held al Rock Hin on oct. 2.
A tenement house at Darlington was
burned Tuesday night, in which a little
colored girl named Bessie Bell lost her
life The mother had gone out locking
the door, leaving a lamp burning The
jury OF inquest could not ascertain
whether the fire originated in the room
IN which the girl was, or in the other
room, occupied by a different family.
Judge r. r.. Dingle of the st. Paul sec
ton, near Manning, had the misfortune
r to lose his BAN and stable and cotton
house on the night Of the oath of septem-
Der by fire, also five or six bales of cotton
In the seed with oil his fodder. some hay
and the corn from five acres of land. His
carriage house was also consumed bur he
saved his huggies and horses II is a great
loss. The fire is thought to be incendiary.
An important suit from the United
States Circuit Court for the district of
North Carolina was heard az Charleston
triQay before Judge Simonton. 1t was
an action originally begun in the state
courts of North Carolina by the Postal
telegraph and Gable Company to condemn
right of way for poles and wires along
the southern Railway tracks from the Vir-
B.nia state line TO Charlotte, n. c. The
case was removed to the Federal Court
and was heard few weeks ago before
Judge Slmonton on a demurrer filed by the
defendants. Judge SimontOn overruled The
demurrer and the case came up here Fri
day on motion of the defendants for leave
to ME answer. This leave was granted
ana The case went to arguments. The
question involved is the right of the tele-
graph company to condemn a right of way
under the North Carolina statutes. Argu-
ments were heard by the court Friday.
ana the matter was taken under advise
ment.
In speaking about the damage done by
the storm in South Carolina the Walter
boro Press and Standard SAYS: 1.-THE fact
Is, according to various estimates the loss
TO me rice crop, prior to Sundays storm.
was from 30 TO 20 per cent. This loss was
que 10 the excessive high tides and easter
~ winds which prevailed along the coast
curing the two past weeks. The severe
nigh tides have overrun the rice fields and
have occurred on the Pon-Pon. Ashepoo
ana Combahee rivers, and these sections
nave suffered most severely. In some
cases the entire crop in those sections are
reported lost. A rice mill in the Comhabee
river section for the month of September
last year took in over 1900 bushels of
rice but for the same month this year
only 1900. A great deal of the rice in th,
fields was ripe when these high tides
started, but the water came into the fields
and prevented its being cut and conse.
quently II Is now overripe. There will be
very great scarcity of the finer grades
OF rice this year. The planters on the
Combahee river have suffered most severe.
~ and some Of them estimate the damage
done at higher figures than after the storm
Of 1898 Sundays storm increased the me-.
cehtaSe or losses. In fact, several entire
plantations are reported lost. II is SAID
that Mr.. D. c. Hayward and Mr. Haskell
nave lost their entire crops Mr.. Hey-
wards loss is very heavy, amounting 70
something like $1,000 bushels"