The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Greenville is to have a third national
bank, with capital stock of 100000, and
with Capt j. o. Westfield as president.
Capt. j. Harvey Smith died at his home
at Chester Monday last in his seventy
sixth year. He had been in business
there for fifty years.
The Prohibitionists of South Carolina
will hold a state conference in Columbia
on May % to consider the matter of put
ting out a state ticket. Representative
10 this conference will be chosen by each
county on May IL.
Gov. McSweeney has pardoned Leonard
Dickson of Chesterfield county. Dickson
was convicted of mansaughter in Sep
tember 1894 and sentenced to fifteen years
imprisonment. Solicitor Johnson says that
Dickson is weak-minded, and was the tool
Of others in the killing.
]. w. Napier of Georgia was convicted
at Bennetsville on Thursday of carrying
on the business of an emigrant agent
without having first obtained a state
license. and was sentenced TO pay fine
of $500 or be imprisoned for six months.
He will probably appeal the case.
Invitations have been issued by Mr. and
wedding of their daughter, Miss Mamie
Montgomery, to Mr.. Paul Franklin Bar
ham, in Marion, at $50 o'clock May 2.
Miss Montgomery has for some time been
the state librarian and is quite popular in
Columbia. Mr.. Barham is engaged in the
insurance business in Columbia.
Gov. insolvency has appointed Mrs. T.
c. Robertson lady commissioner to the
Paris Exposition from South Carolina.
MIS- Robertson is the wife of Dr. T. c.
Robertson, who is the manager of the
Virginia Carolina Companys plant in
Columbia She will go to Paris at her own
expense, the state having no allowance
for exhibits or work at the exposition
The Governor has received information
that smallpox has appeared at Estill, a
station on the Florida Central and PENN
sular Railroad. The State Board of Health
will take proper action through DR.. Evans
of Florence. From all reports received
smallpox has been practically stamped
out in the state. Cases may appear here
and there in the future, but generally the
disease has been eradicated from the
state.
Attorney General Bellinger has filed a
formal notice of his intention to appeal
from the. decision of Judge Benet in
QuuEQinH the lndlClulthl dSdluSt 1Ol.
Neat on the charge of failure to turn over
certain money received by him as super
intendent of the state penitentiary. His
object is nos to continue the litigation
against Col. Neal, but to demonstrate the
legality of his contention, which he is sat
ished he can do.
The quarrying of the fine granite found
in the vicinity Of Columbia is rapidly get
ting to be an extensive business. For some
years the Stewart company has been
working it's excellent and inexhaustible
quarries to the south Of the city, furnish
ing tons and tons of rock for government
work These and other quarries are now
being worked 10 their capacity on big
contracts and the shipments of rock are
heavier than ever before.
A petition is being circulated in
Charleston for signatures for the reten-
ton of Capt. John II. Ostendorff as dep
uty collector under the administration of
Col r. M. Wallace. The petition is being
circulated by Capt. Ostendorff's friends
and strong influence is being brought to
bear to secure ths signatures Of the mer-
chants and business men. IL is said by
some people, however, that Col. Wallace
will not reappoint Capt Ostendorff. no
matter how strong a petition Capt Os-
tendorff's friends may present Ostendorff
was deputy collector under Collector Toll
bert who was removed for Illegally stor-
ing liquor In the Custom House.