Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-10
GEoRGIA's PoCKRTBooK.
Items Which are of Special Interest &
Business Men.

Business Men.
The firm OF Marshall & Cannon, at Daw-
son, has been dissolved, L. G.. Marshall re-
firing.
A. C. Chancellor has purchased the
clothing establishment Of II. }. Thornton
at Columbus.
The new fertilizer factory at the La
Grange oil mill Will manufacture large
quantity Of Chattahoochee guano this sea-
son.
The proprietors OF the ten-eent store at
Dawson suspended business there last
Tuesday and shipped their goods to AL
bany.
At LaGrauge, j. =. Wilson has made an
assignment to j. K. Toole for the benefit
of his creditors. The assets are said to
exceed the liabilities.
| S. Manuel has sold his dwelling house
to W. A. Mcdowell and his store-house to
| W. G. Cook, and speaks of removing from
| Blakely in the near future.
| r. p. Abraham has purchased the large
! hardware business of Truitt Bros, at La
Grange, and moved it next door, south, to
the old stand of Roosevelt 4 Rowland.
| There are now three or tour. carloads
| OF mules on the Dawson market. The
market is Overstocked. and the farmer
! confidently expects to get his stock cheap,
Ii is claimed by some that the credit
system is losing popularity in Terrell
county, and that the dav Is not tar distant
when all business will be carried on for
cash only.
A. j. Baldwin & Co. will open in few
| days a stock of merchandise in the house
! occupied by the late Nj. Fl. Baldwin at
! Dawson. John Sims will attend to the
! store for them.
! S. ". Arnett will conduct liquor bus
mess this year at SalmOn's old stand. Mr..
! salmon, having discontinued business at
| Dawson. has had billiard and pool tables,
etc, shipped to Florida.
w. A. Wright has rented the store
vacated by w. P. Harris at Crawford
| vile and will soon I'LL in stock of gen.
eral merchandise. His brother, John
| Wright. of Raytown, will be interested
with him.
| NJ. c. Lemons, formerly of Parkerville.
! has purchased of @. A, Afford the gin and
| grist mill and storehOuse, with the lands
| attached thereto, on the north side of the
railroad, and will make Sumner his home
in the future.
| Phillips & Garbutt have recently bought
out the Phoenix Iron Works, of Columbia,
S. G., and WILL move them to Elberton.
They are erecting the building for their
] iOuEuIy anu ca eCJ W nave IL III OpCi dtlOu
! in about two months.
Clay Cox, of Camilla, went over to
| Dawson a few DAYS since and ordered a
/ large new omnibus from the Hart carriage
! factory. Mr.. Cox put IN this order at the
/ request of Mr.. Duy, who has rented the
Jones hotel at Camilla.
! Mr.. Stokes. of Smithville, father of the
! young lady who married Dieuis, the phre-
nologst, will become citizen of Dawson
/ He has rented the stOrehOuse under
| Cheatham's laboratory, and Will open a
stock of family groceries.
At the public sale of real estate at La
! Grange last Tuesday, the John T. Newton
( h me place, consisting of 40 acres, was
/ bought by Mrs. Newton for $1,000. and the
! Park place, belonging to the same estate,
and embracing 300 acres. was hidden in
/ by the same purchaser for 81, 300.
/ The year Just closed has been one of
marked improvement and progress for
/ Dawson. Trade in all it's branches has
/ been good. Quite a number OF new stores
and residences have been erected during
I the past year, and quite an amount of re-
pairing has been done and new enter
| prises inaugurated.
At a mass meeting Of citizens OF Balm
! bridge dav or two ago the erection of a
/ $50, 900 hotel, the construction OF a sys.
| tenn OF waterwOrEs and railroad connec-
ton with the Louisville and Nashville
system, via ChattahOochee Junction,
were considered. The hotel project will
be pushed first.
In consequence Of short collections, J,
! B. Irwin, of GreenVille, has made an as
signment to Joseph II. BlOodwOrth. MIR.
| Twins liabilities are estimated al 81. 600;
his assets at $4,000. But for the stringen-
cy of the times Mr. Irwin would have car
RED on his business. He had a large
trade the past season, and aided largely
in keeping up the local cotton market.
The Merchants, Manufacturers and
! Planters line closed a trade by wire
! Thursday with parties at Jacksonville for
a steamer to take the place of the wrecked
steamer ChIpley on the ChattahOochee
/ The name of the boat is not known. but
she has a capacity of 700 bales of cotton
and good passenger accommodations.
She is said to be about snch a boat as the
! ChiDley was. The new steamer will