Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-24

Work was reluctantly stopped. OF course
mere mere are great many OF the Il told you sO''
sSIt VINO VIII doubtless rejoice at this failure
OI q great enterprise. To us il seems a l,rrat
calamity. Nothing succeeds like sucle.- >
get IN MS failure, after eXpendiug thousands
tl dollars, Maj. W. A. Wilkins has disDlaved
az az .tl tSneIgy, a generosity and care for veal
Vl tAS general public Of the city. without a
parallel IN the history Of the world. and his
sn uuselIisn motives AID Indefatigable energyde-
served better end for his labors We iay
inuch OI the failure TO the carelessness of the
Workmen employed, and can but hone that
another and more experienced effort Will yef
be made 10 achieve success.
b. u: B. Batman an Houston Journal: |
nave al N y lie endeavOred to raise all the
PORK / could, and have made an average of
ABOUT 1900 pounds a year since the war. |
run even ploWs, and VIII Kill about 1000
pounds 10 the mule. I sold in ISS3 S330 worth
Dc Macon, and then purchased heavy Wesfern
: sue5 Tor my hands. OF course I Kent enough
a. nome Tor my family use. | have sold 40
hedl OF sh0tes IN Macon this winter, which
brol'Sul me SzI'- nave seven more that
VIII XIII about the first OF April. / will kill
Eoih enough this season To pay for all NV
e-tcru bacon. and my -four, sugar and
! oollee. Making about twO-third Of a crop OF
/ tOtlon Tor the past tive years, / can't see how
could nave made both ends meet but for the
lA3ney realized on my corn and pork. /
oulN Ahdle nine bales of cotton to the mule
ana my land was heavily fertilizod SO small
crop OF co ton as that will not nav expenses
unless the corn and pOrk is AM rafael ~, IN,
farm.
Atlanta Constitution: Messrs. CHAPMAN
ana Oaston, OF the internal revenue servicc.
accompanied by two deputy Marshals, made
4 rald last week into Lumpkin and adjoining
counties, where they found six Illicit distil-
lcrles- Ihey captured four stills, and de-
stroyed two thousand gallons of mash and
Deer, Mr. ChapmaH says he counted forty
elgnt beer stands The raid was one Of the
most successful that has been made in some
time. There were only two arrests. the men
captured being Jake Davis and W W Jones
oil Lumpkln county. When the officers were
approaching the Gistillery a woman espied
lnem, ana running TO the disullery gave the
alarm. W hen the officers came uD they saw
Lle men rapidly climbing a mountain side
Jones nad a stlll on his back and was Masking
| cH as fast as he could. The officers nus
| spurs 10 their horses and soon overlook
| the flying distillers. The men declared
| that If the officers had been half
| an hour later they would have been away
| from the ulstlllery, as they had no special
| business there. Another illicit distilerv was
Iound on the place of William Pilgrim a
| mghly respectable citizen. No one was ar
rested- as the still had been removed and the
| concern was not IN operation. At another
| place the officers found where distillerv was
| being put up, but an old lady claimed that
the boys were only fixing up a ''wash
/ piace Tor her. The old man of the premises
| came up. however, anu his statements did not
/ exactly tally with the wash place story. He
I SAID the dlstillery belonged to two men named
/ DICK Martin and JOnn Lambert. The men
were out Of reach and could not be arrested.
MI Chapman says there has been a very
! great increase in the number Of Illicit distil-
leries lately