The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-06-04

/ The annual inspection Of the Flor
ence fire department will be held on
June 10, and the boys are anticipating
good time after the inspection, when
the new chief will be installed.
The Knights of Pythias of Colum-
bia intend erecting three-story gran
ite building on Main street, to cost
not less than s15, 900 or $4,000 There
are over 6OG Knights in the city, COM
prising four lodges.
Half crazed with mean whiskey and
jealousy, Bill Simmons, Charleston
negro, killed his wife, josephine, and
then seriously wounded himself in a
determined effort to end his own
career. a pistol was the weapon used.
Simmons is in jail.
in the State Court at Orangeburg
Judge Gage filed an order granting a
new trial in the case Of Miss Annie B..
Carroll against the Charleston Con-
solidated Railway Company unless
the defendant will agree TO reduce the
verdict from SO, 900 to Sc, 600.
Congressman Scarborough tele-
graphs the Florence Times from Wash
ington that he has had the appropria-
ton for the Florence public building
restored to 800, OO0,it having been cut
down to $50, GOO The bill has finally
passed both houses of Congress.
The Tennessee Central Railroad
has announced that the contract for
building the line betewen Nashville
and Clarksville has been awarded to
". j. Oliver & Co., of Langley, S.
c., and that it amounted to nearly
81, 600, 900.
Miss Corinne Searson, one time
editor of the Allendale Pen and Press,
and for the past two years teacher In
the public school at Allendale, has
been invited to deliver the alumni
address at Limestone College COM
mencement this year, and has accept
ed.
Anderson is to have still another
big cotton MILL D. P. McCrayer,
president Of the Riverside mills, is at
the head of the new enterprise, and
will apply for commission in few
days and go to work at once. The
capital stock will be $500, coo or $780,
600.
The body of young white child,
apparently a day or two cid, was
found. the other day in shaftof the
old Stumphouse tunnel. near Walhalla.
AS the result of the investigation
by the coroner, Mrs. Amanda Gilbert,
go years old, and her daughter, Emma,
aged SO, are now in Jail.
According to the nineteenth an
nual readjustment Of salaries of post
masters announced by the postofhce de-
partment, the following changes have
been made affecting South Carolina
postmasters: Aiken. 81, 800 to 81, 900;
Cheraw, s1,3O0 to $1,000; Darlington,
SLIGO to S1,sOo; Greenville, $500
to s2,6eO; Laurens, 81, 800 to 81, 700.
In the Greenville Court of Gene
raj Sessions, in the case OF David
Belcher and John Ballenger, charged
with assault and battery, the jury
found verdict of guilty of assault"
as to David Belcher. Judge Gary, the
presiding Judge, ruled that the court
had no jurisdiction over such an
offence, and upon motion of Solicitor
Boggs the defendant was ordered dis
missed from custody.
Joel Covipgton, highly respect
ed farmer of Marlboro, aged 73 years,
and his wife, aged 65, have erected
monuments in the Hebron Cemetery
to themselves The future tombs are
covered with broad, thick marble
slabs. Some time in July he proposes
10 have an unveiling of the monu-
ments,'' and has invited his friends,
Col. T. G. Hamer and J. z. Gibson,
to deliver the memorial addresses.
Thousands of persons are expected to
be in attendance.
Two young Georgetown negroes
quarreled, the other day, over escort
ing girl from meeting, and when one
of them got the worst of it one OF his
friends suggested that he shoot his op-
moment. as he was armed. No sooner
said than done, and the pistol bullet
bored hole through the others
stomach near the navel, from the
effects of which the wounded man died
in day or two. The murderer He'd,
but in day or two he surrendered to
the sheriff
Vessels and fishermen coming into
Charleston report much volcanic
matter along the coast and about the
sea islands. The matter resembles
coke in both color and form, with the
exception that there are streaks OF
layers of a grayish substance, sup
posed to be lava, and g chocolate
color substance, probably meteoric
iron, through the carbon Jumps. The
streaks have the appearance OF having
been in molten state. The sub
stance is every brittle and floats on
the surface of the water.