The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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thorne of Atlanta Overwhelme ed
With Invitations to Preach Com
mencement Sermons.
GEORGIA
Marion county court is in session at Buena
Vista.
Six companies have accepted the invita-
tiop to encamp on st. SimOn's in July.
The PRESBYTERIAN church at Conyers has
been nicely furnished with carpets and pull
pit outfit
John A. Phillips. OF Glynn county, sold
Saturday 10, 600 acres of land for S17, 800,
Miss Durham, of Michigan, being the pur-
chaser.
Z. D. Nelson, proprietor of the Charleston
Store, at Sandersville, in consequence OF
business reverses, made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors last Thursday
The grand jury of Dougherty county has
recommended the reappointment Of his
honor B. B. Bower as Judge Of the Albany
Circuit. John d. Pope is recommended as
Solicitor.
The Town Council Of Leesburg has raised
the liquor license to 81, 200, to go into effect
May /. There are only two liquor dealers
in the town, and it is not likely either will
renew their license at this rate.
Charles Crisp, Jr., of Americas, has been
appointed to a place on the temporary roll
of the Land Office, at Washington, as a
copyist. The appointment was made at the
suggestion of Congressman Blount.
Judge D. T. Blount of Clinton, Jones
county, has several copies of the Clinton
Rottter. The papers are written in very
small style, on fOOlScaD paper, and were is
sued in the year 1925 by Peter Puzzle & Co.
A negro created a sensation in a crowd to
whom he was talking at Smithville Satur-
day by declaring that he ate the tail of a
rattlesnake for breakfast Sunday. He said
it was not an unusual thing with him, and
that he found the meat to be excellent.
colored boy went fishing in the creek
near Smithville Wednesday. Not gestin[,
any bites, he laid down on the bank and
addressed himself to sleep. When he woke
up he was struggling in the water, having
rolled down the bank in the midst of his
dreams.
At Brunswick, William Gunby is hauling
lumber to build an immense cider and vine
gar mandatory, to be located near the
tank on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road. 1t will be 40x100 feet, two
and half stories high, with capacity Of
100000 barrels.
Andrew Lipscomb, son of DR.. A. A.
Lipscomb, of the University at Athens,
was severely injured Saturday Mr.. Lips
comb is engaged in the construction of a
railroad in South Georgia, and while Gu
gagged with some mules had his leg badly
mangled, and the injury is so severe that
the leg may be lost
At Waycross a series of religious meet
ings, conducted by Mr.. Williams, of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and
Mr.. Wynne, of Macon, is under full head
way. These meetings are adapted to all
classes of people and denominations. Many
conversions have been made and the people
are manifesting great anxiety for the cause
of Christ
A mass meeting of the Presbyterians of
the State will be held at the Central Pres
byterian church, of Atlanta, on Tuesday,
June II, at O'Clock p m, and is to con.
tinue in session for three days, for the pur
pose of celebrating the centennial of Pres
byterianlsm and for the consideration OF
ways and means for establishing a Presby-
terrain university in the State.
Rev. I. C. Boykin, Sunday school evangel-
ist of the Baptists for the State of Georgia,
has, to date, organized about 600 Sunday
schools, with 400 officers and teachers. and
$500 scholars. He is constantly on the go,
holding missions and Sunday school insti-
tutes, organizing Sunday schools, and other
wise exciting the activities of the Baptists
of the State. For years he has travelled
from 5000 to 1000 miles year in the dis
charge of his duties.
The News chronicled a day or two ago
the sale of two lots on Newcastle street,
Brunswick, for $4,000 Monday one almost
adjoining was sold for g., 600 This same
lot was bought several years ago for $500,
last winter it was sold for 81 500, and don
day for the price named above. On the
same day DR.. Burroughs was offered and
refused 1000 for 90xg0 feet on Newcastle
street, opposite the First National Bank.
Benjamin Jones, of Macon, was the pur-
chaser on Monday.
DIR. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, is being over
whelmed with invitations TO preach COM
mencement sermons Already he has
received forty, and ON Tuesday had young
man busily engaged all day in answering
them. Out of the forty he has accepted
two-one from Mercer University and the
other from the Alabama State Normal
school. The Doctor has also been appointed
as delegate from Georgia to attend the
Worlds Missionary Convention to be held
in London in June. Dr. Hawthorne has
accepted the appointment, but does not
know as yet whether he will be able to
attend.
A singular marriage is to take place few
miles from Waco, Tex, in a day or two
Simpson Mann arrived at Waco eighteen
years ago, and has become quite wealthy.
He came from Clayton county. 1t seems
that a prospective marriage IN that place
had been broken up by political differences
and that the lady afterward became the
wife Of a Mr.. Jemison. During the winter
Mann revisited his home in Georgia and
became enamored of the daughter of his
former fame. He was to have returned
and married her this week, but a broken
leg rendered that impossible, so the lady
has telegraphed that she will start at once
and join him at Waco.
DIR. Morrison has been with the Firs,
Methodist church at Brunswick for two
years, and has received members every
Sunday that he was present at the church
During the two years there have been re-
ceived 400 members into the church
when l was living in Middletown, Ky. ,
said DR.. Morrison, II was called upon e.
marry young couple, which did. After
the ceremony the groom said nothing about
fee A few days later / met hum on the
street, and calling me off to one side ht
asked il l would be willing TO take my fe,
in something besides money. l told him
that it would be all right, and he left me
promising me that | should not be forgot
ten. The next day he kept his word anc
sent me load of wheat straw, a stack Of
hay and jug Of molasses"
News reached Fowstown, Decatur county
Monday, of fatal cutting ARRAY, which
occurred one mile from there at Negro
festival. The parties in the row were Rich-
ard and William Thomas. brothers, aud
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