Georgia Historic Newspapers

    COURT CALEHDER,
Superior Court--Brunawlck Circuit.
Clinch—1st Mondays in March and October
Appling---£d wayne—3rd Mondays in March and October
Fierce—4th Mondays Mondays in March and October
in March and October
M are-lst Mondays in April and November
and November Tuesdays after 2d Mondays in April
April Charlton—Tuesdays and November after 3d Mondays in
b Mondays in April and Novem-
Olynn—lsi Mondays in April and Novem¬
ber; ana tctcontinue ** two weeks or longer if
ihsarys* sASteHtlJf,
ML Brunswick,, Juuge.
G B MA BRY. Brunswick, Soliclto r General
Clinch County Court.
month Monthly session—2d Mondays in every
May, Quarterly August session— 3d Mondays in February.
and November
C. A. SMITH, Homerville, Judge.
Clinch Justices Courts.
Homerville—1st Saturday In every month.
Mud Magnolia—2d Creek—2d Saturday in every month.
Dupont—3d Saturday in every month.
Saturday in every month
Stockton—4th Saturday in every month.
Clinch County Officers.
Ordinary—J Clerk L Morgan
Sheriff-} Superior Court—B R Johnson
M Jeffords
Receiver of Tax Returns—John Jones
lax Collector—W J Rivers
Treasurer-R C Moore
Coroner—G A. Register
Surveyor—George M Dame
County Board of Education.
A J Caswell
N S Knight
E W O’Quln
James M Kigl
James R Dick erson
bern County School Commissioner—G W New-
Homerville Municipal Covernment.
Board or Commissioners.
J L Sweat
M M Caswell
WH Gary
W L Ecord
Sherod Smith
President of Board—J L Sweat
Clerk—Joseph Treasurer—w T P Smith Maddox
Marshal—Thomas Singletary
Masonic.
Cassia Lodgk No. 224. F. and A. M.
W M—J L Sweat
S W—M M Caswell
J W-J M Right
S D— Benj. Johnson
J D—B A Whittington
Secretary- Treasurer—A W T Smith
J Caswell
Tyler—H Regular A O’Quin
meetings 2 d and 4th Saturdays in
every month, at 7;3Q o’clock p. m.
Appointments--Religious Services.
BAPTIST CHURCH,
Rev. Mr. Bennet, pastor. Preaching on
Third Sunday in each month, morning and
night Prayer meeting every Friday night.
Sunday School every Sunday at 9:30 a. m.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. 8. G. Chiles, pastor. Preaching on
Second Sunday in each month, morning and
night. Wednesday Sunday at night. 3:30 p. m. Prayer meeting
every
The Wiregrass Cracker is regis¬
tered at the Post Office in Somerville,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Messrs. Bryant, Johnson, George
and Joe Tomlinson, and Joe Jones
caught and killed the “Boss” alligator
in “Devil’s Bay” the other day. He
pul le i so hard, with his upper jaw
braced against the roof of his cave, that
it was a long while before four strong
young men could bring him out. Two
shots fired underneath lower jaw into
his throat, made him .‘relax his brace.
When pulled out and killed, he was
found to measure 10 feet 2 inches in
length, 15 inches from his eyes to end
of his nose, Hi inches across the head,
his foot was 12} inches from heel to
end of longest or middle toe. Mr.
Jones placed one foot on lower jaw up¬
on the ground and upper jaw when
raised reached up over his knee.
“Of course we raise gophers and ’gators,
But they are for fellows that hate us.”
The association ia over and W>11, and
Reilly, and Charlie, and Charlton, and
Isban, and Joe, and Jim look as if they
needed some one to comfort them. We
can do nothing for them unless we
advise thtm all to follow our Bailiff’s
example—iun away. He is gone 1
Alas I we shall never see just such
another Bailiff. We are sorry. He
was a good sort of a Bailiff, though some
of the committee thought he wa3 rather
stingy in “spiking” the lemonade. Dr.
8totesbnry said he or the lemonade
ones was no account.
We thought that the telegraphic
sounder in the office was for tbe use of
Willie Smith, bnt discovered Brother
Crum and Gary hanging around it.
We reckon he was trying to make the
“pesky” thing talk. We hope for the
sake of onr town, that the instrument
may be kept away from the prying of
these old fellows, for it would be a pity
for them to get hurt. It might “blow
up,” you know.
Be sure and read Joe Mattox’s ad-
vertisment in this issue. Joe is a good
fellow, plenty of business grit and will
ahow you a large variety of cheap goods,
with pleasure. All that Joe, now lacks
is a good little wife, to take care of
him. “Hurry up,” Joe that V belongs
,o “we uns.”
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These Baptist Associations have elect¬
ed Heal Smith, Moderator, soofter, till
it has puffed him so much with conceit
that we can hardly put np with him.
He was also elected a delegate to the
Bapt ; ;t State Convention to be held in
April next, at Atlanta,
NAVAL STOItJES.
A Call lor a Convention.
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 23.—We,
the undersigned, producers and manu¬
facturers of naval stores, in convention
assembled, in view of the low prices
now received for stores, the high prices
paid for and, labor in and material for produc¬
tion, our judgment, excessive
freights urgently charged on this class of goods,
request that all parties inter¬
ested will attend a convention to be
held in Savannah on Wednesday, the
14th of November, to consider a reme¬
dy for the evils mentioned; and that
all commission merchants dealing in
naval store and the officers of the vari¬
ous railroads at interest he invited to
meet with us and to confer upon the
subjects mentioned.
All papers friendly to the interests
of the naval stores manufacturers in
Georgia [Signed) and Florida will please copy.
J M. Paxton, Chairman.
G. F. Westmoreland, Secretary.
J. H. Stephens; Paxton & McLane;
G. F. Wes'moreland & Co.; Boynton &
Roberts; F. H. Butler; Collins & Bagga;
J. M. Borwick; Brimberry & Stephens;
Park> r & Hayes; McLane, Ballard &
Co.; J. W. Bryan & Co.; C. Lightfoot &
Co.
We clip the above from the Savan¬
nah News, of 25th October. The mat¬
ter presented is of vital importance,
not only to the manufacturers, but to
the several localities where this inter¬
est is.
Announcement.
Finding that many of our Sunday
school brethern wish to have something
to say weekly in our “Sunday School
Department,” and trusting that in time
the various publishing houses will fur¬
nish us with plain common sense Les¬
sons for our young children, we will
discontinue the “Lessons” for the
present. We would urge upon the
publishers the necessity of getting a
“Quss. and Ans.” lesson, with but few
references for the young folks. If none
of the kind appear after a reasonable
time, we will publish the lessons regu¬
larly.
Waresboro Items,
Cloudy, damp, cool, windy and driz-
ly-
Sugar “biling” is about to be the
order of tbe day. Mr. E H. Crawley
begun on his to-day.
Some of our people are getting real
hungry for a “home-made” corn hoe-
cake.
Oapt Crawley and W. K. Mallon,
so we are informed, have sold out their
farms in Waresboro to Messrs. Calvin
and Gorden Parker. The former par¬
ties will move to Waycross. The lat¬
ter will become, a citizen of our village.
Our young friend Tommie Hilliard
was in town to-day. He expects to
open up a stock of goods here next
week.
D. H. Bennett and B. S. Key are
anxious to see a good shower. They
want to transplant cabbage.
Tbe sturgeon we spoke of last week
was 5J feet long, instead of 3i as you
have it.
Whisky selling will soon be a thing
of the past in Ware county. It will
do us good in several ways. It will
improve the morals of the dram-drink¬
er, cause him to save his dimes, pre¬
serve his strength to work and live
like a white man.
Methlnki X hear the tippler say
Farewell to whisky; gin, get far away I
You’ve robbed my bride, so fair, so gay,
Of many comforts, night and day.
Tbe coffee pot sat on the flr»,
While X did wallow in the mire;
For me she sighed and did Inquire
’Cause my return was her desire.
Now, by my labor and God’s grace
1 look upon a smiling face;
X live no longer in disgrace,
Or bring dishonor on my race.
Thank God, the cursed stuff is gone.
That caused my bride to sigh and moan—
She sits no longer all clone
In sighs and want hard to be borne.
Oot. 23,1883. Lsbkuii.
Population ol Waycross HunJe.y
School District by Counties.
V. 8. CENSUS, 1880.
1. Appling. 5,276
2. Berrien... 6,619
3. Brooks.... 11,727
4. Camden,. 6,183
5. Clinch.... 4,138
6. Coffee..... 5,670
7. Charlton.. 2,154
8. Echols... 2 553
9. Glynn..... 6,497
10. Liberty... 10,0f)0
11. Lowndes. 11,049
12. McIntosh 6,241
13. Pierce.... 4,538
14. Tattnall.. 6,988
15. Ware..... 4,159
16. Wayne... 5,980
Total 100,412
This district embraces a wider eoope
of territory than any one or two of tbe
other twenty-five Sunday school dis¬
tricts in Georgia. “Go labor in my
Vineyard I”
Brethren, are yon ready ? The cam¬
paign has been opened in Qhailtoo
oounty.
Population of Clinch County by
Districts.
U. S. CENSUS, 1880.
Mad Creek District 756
Magnolia U 386
Stockton 465
Moore’s Mill 724
Morgan 392
Jones Creek <( 253
Homerville 607
DuPont 655
Total 4,138
The fourth Quarterly Conference for
Homerville Circuit will be held at
Homerville, commencing on Thurnday
night before the first Sunday iD Novem¬
ber next, aDd will continue to Friday
night It is expected that the services
will be protracted. The pastor hopes to
see a full attendance of the official
members of the conference. t
No rain yet. Gardens are dying oat.
The ponds and branches are nearly
all dried np, end unless it rams soon
stock will suffer terribly. There is but
little complaints as yet about the supply
of drinking water in our wells around
town.
In Alexandria 256 white votes were
added to the lists at the registration.
Tbs total jegistered vote of the city is
2,233 white and 1,231 colored.
In Pike oounty, Ps., Sunday, Jerry
Greening found the body of A. 0 Cbee-
ver lying on a woodpile near the house
with a bullet bole in the breast.
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT.
Attention! Ladies!!
Read our Premium List.
Just t a. al the mi Thing; • You Need.? „
c>
'VTOU can earn it by the expenditure ol a
11' tie time and labor
With a view of increasing our circulation
and at the same time please the ladies, we
have made up and offer the following liberal
List of Premiums i
From October 13th, ’83, to May 1st, ’84
For Ten Subscriber—One elegantly Jfiinsbed
Lady’s Work Box,'or;one beautiful Photc
graph Album
For Twenty Subscribers—One elegant Cane
Seat Rocker, or one beautiful Family Bl j
For Thirty Subscribers—One Best Clothes
Washer, or onejelegant Eight Day Clock
Fi Jty 8nbaeril*f)Aj^$a4Mti>K' Cottage Chamber
me Set of Furniture
For Ore Hundred Subscribers—One superbly
equipped Coo) ing Stove, or one fine Organ-
ita, or Baby Organ
For Two Hundred Subscribers—One elegant
Parlor Organ, or one su perior Chamber Set
of Furniture
These premiums are Not “Shoddy" articles
but Real Serviceable Goods by most approved
makers
r It you wish to earn one of these premiums go
To Work at Once Send on your subscribers’
names and money as fast as you obtain them
Notify me, at tne start, which premium you
are working for
You i an send names of subscribers for any
P O address We will keep a “Premium lust
Book,' in which will be entered the nam s as
fast as received
Remember the Time!
From October 13th, '831 May 1st, ’84,
When you have completed your number of
names, we will order the particular ■ remium
selected by you, shipped to your address, at
once
Subscription price only
$1 Per Annum.
Fend money by Registered Letter or Ex-
press, to E J BENTON
Homerville, Clinch Oo., Ga.
ADVERTISEMENTS,
A Valuable Truck Farm
For Sale, Cheap.
T OFFER my farm, situated one mile north
jL or
jDTJPOISrT,
CLINCH COUNTY..
FOB SALE,
Cheap, for Cash, or negotiable paper It Is
pleasantly situated, with good water and good
farm buildings, all conveniently arranged. and there
The field contains twenty-five “old field” acres, lying
are about ten acies of out.
The ya'd and horse lot are shaded by magni¬
ficent Live Oak trees. The field and settle¬
ment are well drained. The soil is a light,
sandy one, which yields well to cultivation.
It Is so high compared with other farms in
our seotloti, that it, is not affected by cold or
wet to an; y appreciable extent Ihaveprodue-
ed ae fi ie i Watermelons, Sweet Potatoes, Irish
Potatoes, Corn, Cabbage and Sugar Cane tbele
as I have ever Been anywhere There are sev¬
eral ‘true” muck ponds In fann, 100 to 4t0
yards distance, which will yield Inexhausti¬
ble,quantities of manorial matter for compost¬
ing.
Withtng 100 yards of tbe dwelling house Isa
fine “spring” pond, stocked with abundance
of fish and turtles
The tract oonlalns 429 acres of land (more or
offer less) It Titles for sale, perfect but that Nothing I need moves n money; me and to
auy one applying, get good who trade really “means busi¬
ness” can a
» Call upon, or address,
E J BENTON.
IHomerville, Clinch County, Ga
A cyclone passed over Catabonla
and Tensas parishes, La., demolishing
a number of houses and other build¬
ings, and injuring twenty persons or
more in its course.
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4 ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONEYLOANED
A.T
8 FEE, CENT.
I .am prepared to negotiate loans on Real
Estate In Clinch County, at 8 PER
CENT, per annum and expeuses
J. L. SWEAT,
2-27 E Homerville, fGa,
Hie Place to Get Cheap Golds I
FAMILY GROCERY,
W. _A_. EOOBD,
E® HOMERVILLE, CA.
EPS on hand'and constantly receiving
a choice supply of
Family Groceries,
FRESH n CHEAP!!
6 ' 1 * 8 * Brices paid for country pro¬
dime
of ve me a call before purchasing elsewhere
Goods at Bottom Prices.
W. T. SMITH,
homerville, GEORGIA.
—dealer in—
Dry Good b. Groceries, Boots. Shoes, Hats.
Drugs and Medicines. In fact any and
everything friends needed by our Far¬
mer of Clinch and
adjoining counties.
Times have changed ! c The “days of our
daddies were, perhaps, good days after a
fashion, but you will find these days better
when you discover that by the outlay of a few
dollars, ter goods, you than can make better bargains for bet
Come ever before.
and see for yourself! Bring the good
'With you ! No trouble to show goods !
I defy competition ! All kinds of country pro¬
duce taken in trade. Highest market prices
rP* 1 ** 1 .Honey, Wax, Tallow, Hides, Cotton,
Ri ce * Eggs, Butter, etc., In fact
sell an v goods produce . cheap, of the farm. I am determined to
and guarantee satisfaction.
W. T SMTTH.
W. A. RAMSEY
AND MERCHANDISE BROKER,
Jackson St., - Augusta, Ga.
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IJL IIT ^VlNG thirty years, a business and confining experience myself of strict ove
ing jy to on a my Commission own account, Business, respectfully without operat¬ solicit
your consignments of Bacon, F»our, Lard,
Corn, toes, OnionB, Oats. Hay, Kggs, Butter, cheese. Whe t, Pota¬
Florida Fruits and Vege-
tab.es, and all kinds of produce. 1-18
W. C. Newbern & Bro.
—DEALERS IN—
am GOODS. NOTIONS, CLOTHING,
SHOES, TOBACCO, SEGARS, &c.,
Family and Fancy Groceries,]
HOMERVILLE, GA.
NEW FIRM I
NEW GOODS ! I
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES ! ! I
YX r Eare prepared to compete successfully
r '■ with any house in the county, pud in¬
vite all of our country friends to give us a trial
before purchasing elsewhere We wiif pay tbe
higheet m-rket prices' for all a kinds of farm
produce
OUR MOTTO:
i i Quick Sales and Small Profits!”
2-.J
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Brunswick & Western Railroad.
Ou and after Sunday, September 16, 1883,
Passenger trains on this road will run asfol-
lows:
WE8TWARD.
No. 3.
Arrives al Waycross. .9;3 r > p m
Arrives at Albany... .2:25 a m
MAIL EXPRESS NO. 1.
Leaves Brunswick..... .....9:15 a m
Arrives at Waycross. ...12:20 p m
Leave Waycross......... .....2:U0 p m
Arrive at Albany......... .....7:00 p m
ACCOMMODATION.
Leaves Brunswick....... ............... . 6:00 a m
Leave Waycross......... ...................9:10 a m
Arrive at Albany.......... .................7:45 p m
EASTWARD.
NO. 4 .
Leaves Albany..................... .............12.10 am
Leaves Waycross...................... ...........—4:50.: m
MAIL EXPRESS NO. 2.
Leaves Albany............ ..7:15 a m
Arrives at Waycross. .12:20 p ra
Leaves Wayoross..... . . ..5:00 2;00 p m
Arrive at lirunswlok. p m
ACCOMMO DATION.
Leaves > lbany............ .5:00 a m
Leaves Waycross.......... .3:20 p m
Arrives at Brunswick .8:00 p m
Passenger both trains connect at W. Waycross with *
trains ways on 8., F. & Railway.
H. 8. MORSE, General Manager,
Brunswick,jGa., June 30,1783.
“Harnett House,”
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
As now conducted is Just as good as those that
claim to;be First-Class and oharge
twice as much
IT IS CONNECTED [BY STREET CARS
WITH ALL THE DEPOTS.
JSj-Point thlB out to your neighbors Don’t
pay $4 per day, or even f3, when you can get
fust as good accomodation ana reeelve more
attention for 82 per day 1 - 5 !
J. S. MATTOX,
HOMERYILLE, GA.
TRICEPS on hand and is constantly reoelv
IV. ing a choice selection of
Fresh Groceries and Canned Goods,
Hardware, Crockery, Tinware,
Druga and Medicines,
Fanoy Notions of all kinds, Candies,
Nuts, Etc., £tc.
CASH XS HUN G.
I will pay highest market prioes for all
kinds o'country produce 1 do not fear com¬
petition Coll and see me before purchasing
elsewhere 34
THE
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WIFE will find pleasure in its
perusal, and your CHILDREN
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ings.
It is, Undoubtedly,
The Best
And Cheapest
FAMILY
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Published anywhere, or any¬
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Read Our Premi¬
um List!
Every week a welcome visitor,
entering heartily into all the de¬
tails of your everyday and Sun¬
day life, helping you by its
friendly counsel to more suc¬ and
cessfully fight for the True
the Good.
Now is a Good Time to
Form Clubs.
Only One Dollar Per Year
Fifteen Columns
OF
Choice Heading
Matter.
EVERY WEEK.
We expect a Rousing Major¬
ity from all the Wiregrass Pre¬
cincts.
We Will Get it, Too,
JAND
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Send money by registered ®
ter, , ,, or „ expitss, to
■**** J BENTON _ w
HOMERVILLE,
Clinch County
Georgta. .
LAUQH AHD CROW FAT.
Wyune’s 30,000 Kisses.
Fashion circles are again excited
over of in Brooklyn. The William present centre
attraction is Mr. Wynne,
better known as “Willie, the Bine-eyed
Masher, of Coney Island.” It is said
that if Mr. Wynne were to put all the
hearts be has oaptured from time to
time on one string they would reach
from Manhattan Beach to the iron
pier.
His latest conquest was Miss Alice
Lamb, a deliciously beantiiul, pink-fin¬
gered young miss, who resided on
Brooklyn Heights, and was wont to
set the fashionable young men of that
locality Mr. Wynne half crazy. Miss Lamb met
first at the last annual pic¬
nic of the famonB “Hungary Three As¬
sociation.” It was a case of love at
first eight. Miss Lamb’s escort home
on that occasion was Mr. William
Wynne, and from that time
time forth the relations between the
two Miss were Lamb’s those ot acknowledged lovers.
father was impressed by
the martial demeanor and bearing of
his daughter’s suitor, and, having satisfi¬
ed himself, after conversing with Mr.
Wynne that the latter was a gentleman
of brilliant pecuniary expectation?, en¬
couraged, it is said, his attentions to
his
“I’ve been married myeelf, and I’ve
seen others get in the same box," re¬
marked Mrs. Ophelia Quinn, a neighbor
of the Lamb family, "but I never saw
such billin' and cooin’ as them two car¬
ried on. It would make you sick to
look at them.
It is generally conceded that Mr.
Wynne was exceedingly attentive to
the young lady, and that his love was
tally reciprocated, Mr. Wynne is tall,
graceful and very handsome. His eyes
bulge a little and there is a disposition
on the ’part of one of his feet to tread
ou the u corns of the other, but in every
otb r respect he is the sort of person
a sculptor would travel miles to see.
When he had been aD accepted lover
for three weeks Mr. Wynne’s frmily
physician recommended a trip to Coney
Island, and when be arrived there he
sat down and wrote the following epia-
le to the idol of his heart :
“Coney Island, February 1, 1883.
“My Own, Owd, Owd: It seems ten
years since last I saw you. Oh, Alice,
Alice, do not think I am going to for¬
get you because I have come out here.
I will think of you every minute until
we meet. 0 Alice 1 Can’t you come
down to-morrow? Telegraph me if you
can’t, but don’t mark it ‘collect’ It
might never reach me. 0 Alice, why,
whv, did I leave jou.” Willie.
“P. S.—O Alice!”
The next day brought the young
lady the, following epistolary aalys to
'her fcnrBtiTTg'' l !tM»*t;
“Coney Island, February 5>
“0 Alice, Alice—I t seems f.e me,
dear Alice, that you cannot have much
cimlort in thii- world until we c»u eit
on our stove. Come to me, oh! come
to tne I" Your-illey Willie.”
’iris letter was the first blow Miss
uatub had received during her tumul¬
tuous courtship, and she pined to know
what her Willie could mean by say»
mg there could be no comfort for them
until they could sit on their own stove?
She asked the question ol herself a
hundred times over, but ber aching
heart gave the old stereotyped re¬
sponse: “He wants to burn you Alicel
Watch him!”
When she could stir her soul up to
the cruel ordeal, she wrote “Willie,” a
letter, in which ebe “said that she
wouldn’t allow him or any other man
to “ait” her on a stove. The letter
which “Willie” wrote in answer to this
was soiled with tears. It runs as fol¬
lows, and the irregularity of the pen¬
manship indicated that “Willie” wsr
either Buffering trom a broken heart or
had taken too much of the “intoxica¬
ting spirit of turpentine:’’
“Dear Alice; Accept thirty-three
thousand kieses. I am heart-broken.
I never said anything about sitting on
a stove. What I did say was that you
and I would never be happy until we
could spit—s-p-i-t—on onr own stove.
Write me two letters to-night and one
in the morning. I wish to discover
whether yonr heart is as true before
breakfast as it is by moonlight.
“Yonr unalterable Willie.”
Shortly after the last letter Mr.
Wynne returned to Brooklyn. H'e
heart was so fall that it was with diffi¬
culty that he could button his vest.
Alice met him At the front door, and
ihe neighbors came out to witness the
fond greeting.
“Dearest,” exclaimed Mr. Wynne,
“this is the quintessence of joy!”
“Excuse me,” said Miss Alice, who
had just been informed that Wynne
had a wife and two children, “you are
on the wrong door-step.”
Mr. Wynne was paralized, and
didn't fully recover until a policeman
darted f-om behind a tree-box and
seized him, He was taken before Jue-
*«>• Walsh yesterday, and charged by
Miss Alice with having trifled with
her nffeotious. When Justice Walsh
c 0rr68 P?. ndeQC « h “ g«at-
(mooted, , and held Mr. Wynue for
further hearing next Friday.
“He is tbe first man that ever naked
me t0 “P * 1 on 1” said Miss Alice,
as she danced Out ol tbe oouri-roinn,
“sod he’ll be the last.”— N. Y. Journal .
Two thousand bales of cottou ware
burned in the yards of the South Uar-
Railway Company at Charleston,
S. 0,, on Monday. The lose is $100,-
000; covered by insurance.