Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-02
TRAVEL IN GEORGIA.
.,,cuTsVILLE'S CLAIM TO IN
",TC;rKATlNG PROHIBITION.

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INA Costumes Artesian House
vasa Trade and Railroad Centre
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Corrected-Adieus.
leaving Dublin, the writer retraced his
Nv over the new railroad twenty miles
Wrightsville, the county seat of john
This is another old town which
.Iains the honor of inaugurating prohi-
Nitioo in Georgia. 1t boasts also one
.raol,Iv paper. the Recorder, published by
bot enterprising young journalist, j. NJ.
~ three churches, one school, and a
nonnIation numbering 500. The following
nercbarts run general stores:
r. Under, whose annual sales foot
IN 300 600: Airline &. Daley, and A. E..
Clark.
Family groceries and confectionery-A.
Z. Davis.
Druos-Dr. J. W. Flanders and J. W.
Brins0n. ,,.o
wbqelright and repair shop, and w. f..
walker is the proprietor OF a steam gin
and grlst mill.
+ N, Mason is the popular Clerk OF the
snnerior Court, and will he reelected in
Mr., Under keeps a choice boarding
house and is adding to its dimensions.
An of these business men read the
MORNING NEWS.
Rnt lime is up, and now, without the
loss of an instant, your correspondent
lastens on the Mcintyre, on the Central
railroad, which is the stopping point for
those who wish to visit Wilklnson's old
capital.
IRWINT0N.
This village, winch has never been
electrified by the shrill whistle OF the loco
motive, was overrun by Sherman's hordes,
the court house burnt, and the inhabi-
tauts despOiled OF their property. Since
then. though tie temple of justice has
been replaced by substantial structure
If brick, the town has languished, and
sadly needs paint and the whitewash
brush. Its location is very elevated and
exceptionally healthy, and if the proposed
railroad to Mcintyre a charter for which
has been graDted) could only be con-
structed. the town would speedily become
q summer resort for people doing business
in Oconee, ToomsbOrO, and other places
on the line of the Central railroad. A
subsidy for that purpose from the county
would pay well in the increased value of
real estate and consequent revenue from
taxes.
STATISTICS.
Irwinton was laid out in 1908, and has
about 800 inhabitants, one school, with 30
pupils, under the charge of DR.. ]. +.
WItherspOon, and a neat and cOmmodious
union church, built of brick, which is
kept in good repair, and where every
denomination wOrships in turn. The
Southern and Appeal, weekly paper, is
edited and published by j. f. Lingo, who
We failed to meet. DR.. j. S. Wood is
Mayor, and Hon. W. c. d. Carlisle for
four years has filled the position of Ordi-
nary with credit to him self and signal
benefit TO the county.
Mr.. John L. Hughes has been Clerk of
the Superior Court for nine years. Mrs.
Baum keeps a nice boarding house. W.
B. Stubbs, recently admitted to the bar,
has begun the practice OF law here, and is
90 Intelligent young gentleman.
Among the mercantile men we find
Butler Eyeritt keeping general store,
and Simmons 4 EasOn in the drug busI-
ness. There are several other business
firms in the place.
Mr.. Isaac Taylor furnishes transporta-
ton to and from Mcintyre, three miles
distant, upon the arrival and departure
OF the trains each way.
At Mcintyre, Mr.. A. Chambers, a most
ooliglng official, has served the railroad
as depot agent tor sixteen years.
Returning to Macon and spending the
Sabbath there with his family, the writer,
early In the following week, resumed his
travels on the Southwestern railroad, and
Iausing only to paTtake of an excellent
breakfast at the new hotel in Fort Valley,
ted straight on to
ALBANY,
arriving there under the present schedule
al lO;3O a. m, Robinson's circus for the
llhe mad captured the town. The negroes
were TOO numerous to count, but could be
measured by the acre. They We're JAM
men together in impacted masses almost
as closely as a deck Of cards, watching
tle great preliminary parade. Albeit the
atmosphere was reeklng with the
AROMA OF ETHIOPIA,
IL Is hut fair TO say that more orderly
CIo"d OF the peasantry of any country
was never assembled. They laughed and
chaued, and bought mullct and water
melons strange to relate, still to be had
py Ihe wagon load), and stick candy. and
Ie1 lemonade, and though without a
uSH"r 10 meet the wants OF the morrow"
seemed superlatlvely happy. And then
we costumes of these erstwie "wards of
tne nation" would have afforded endless
subjects for the pencils OF Hogarth OF old,
a'G the more modern Mast and his brother
sIilstS. Tney formed a onglomeration OF
o3lor' style, pattern, material, and make
up no pen could describe. Indeed, IL
"ouiu seem that all the cast-of toilets OF
tue upper ten" and soiled uniforms Of
our volunteer soldiery, and gaudy wares
VI Tue Len-cent stores had been subsidized
wi ILLS special occasion. To the
ARTEsIAN HOUSE
iour correspondent threaded his way
mIouSh the dense crowd, and was COM
NwIagly provided for by the proprietor,
HI' nay, who conducted the present
4Heh House in Americas so successfully.
ne rooms Of the Arteslan are large and
uanGsomely furnished, and a fine flowing
wen IN the yard affords an exhaustless
IUPPiy OF the purest water for the estab-
Hounlent. A least 1Oh Northprn yiaitors