The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-07
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The Dillon oil mill shipped 10000 gallons
OF oil TO the North last week The ship
uent was made in five large tanks and re-
manned on the sidetrack several days be-
fore transportation was secured.
Col John T, Sloan, ex-senator from
Richland county, has announced himself
as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Col. Sloan was born in Anderson county
at Pendleton, but moved TO Columbia af-
Ter the war, where he has besn contin-
uously engaged in the practice of law.
Col. J. c. Boyd of Greenville will prob
ably be in the race for adjutant and in
spector general. He has been considera-
bly, shaken in his determination to make
the race for railroad commissioner by the
urgent calls from members of the milit a
all over the state. Col. Boyd has long been
a faithful officer and worker in the state
militia. He was a splendid soldier in the
Civil War, entering the service at 16 and
becoming captain at 49,
Work has been commenced, and is we'll
under way, upon the construction of seven
miles of railway from the quarries on the
Southern Railway at Rockton, in Fairfield
county. TO the much talked of but hereto
fore undeveloped Anderson quarry. The
new road is TO be built by the garry COM
pdny. y. Il. NhCDOHdlu, ESD, Oh w iilIls-
boro says that the Anderson quarry Will
be a remarkable one, and so far as can
be seen will be inexhaustible. He says
that there is a deposit of uncovered solid
granite on the place covering ten acres.
No excavation will be necessary to get ct
the rock.
There are three men spoken of for
standard bearer of the Prohibitionists of
South Carolina. One is Col A Hoyt, of
Greenville, who says that he is not seek
ing the nomination, but his friends say
that he would not refuse to carry the
banner, If 1t was placed in h s hands. An
other is Hon. Joel e. Brunson, who was
the choice of the party last year, and
who probably feels that he ought to have
some chance of wiping away that appar-
ent back down of last year, for which
be was really not in the least to blame.
The third is c. c. Featherstone, who ran
last year for Governor.
A charter has been issued to the
Charleston Exposition. The corporation is
40 be known as The South Carolina Inter
state and West Indian Exposition Com
pany The purposes of the exposition are
well known. and are stated to be for the
exhibition of the arts industries and re-
sources Of South Carolina, and the West
Indies and such other states, countries
and nations as may desire to participate
The capital stock of the Exposition Com
pany is to be $4,000 and the shares are
to be divided into certificates of stock of
S. each. The corporators are: f. w Wag-
ener John f. Ficken, w. H. WEIGH, r.
Goodwin Rhett, James F. Redding, j.
L. David, Samuel II. Wilson, Samuel
Lapham and John II. Averill. The sub
scriptions to the capital stock of the ex-
position now amount to 100000.
Corn planting is about finished in the
eastern half of the state, where most of 1t
is up to good stands and is being cultivate
ed. In places it was injured by too much
rain. In the western counties there is
still much upland. and all bottom land,
corn to plant although early corn is COM
ing up 10 fair stands. Cut worms, birds ana
rats have injured stands. necessitating
much replanting. Cotton planting is prac-
tically finished in the eastern counties AMI
il is coming up quickly to gocd stands
is being chopped. In the central and
western counties lands for cotton are not
all prepared. and from two-thirds to one
half of the crop remains to be planted To-
bacco transplanting has made rapid and
favorable progress, with plants fine ana
plentiful, although scarce in places. This
work soon will be finished. The first plant
ings being cultivated. A number of co..
respondents report reduction in the acre
age devoted to tobacco. Rice planting
continues, but is making slow progress
owing to high water and freshets In toe
rivers inundating rice lands and injurin 2
the banks of the streams. Upland rice is
doing we'll