The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-18
GEORGIA.

Brewery is to be Established at
Macon.
GEORGIA.
Georgians are feasting on rice birds.
Pike county's crop of blacGberries is very
large
Three new firms will open business at
Elberton next fall
An Americas man owns turkey that he
claims Is sixteen years old.
The new hotel at Wrightsville for L.
Davis is now about completed.
T. B. johnson wants to represent Nc
Duffie county in the legislature.
T. NJ Swift of Elberton will build brick
block of six stores at Elberton at once.
There is an increase in real estate at
Marietta Of over 100000 in the last year.
Newton county claims to have water
power enough to manufacture all the cotton
raised in the State
A post Office has been ordered to be estab-
llshed at BlackwelrS, on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad.
W. y. Baily, of Kingston, has a duck
with four wings and four feet and two backs
all attached TO one head.
Thomas burst, of Bonneville, McDuffie
county, lost his dwelling and nearly the en-
tire contents by fire Tuesday.
At Brunswick, the Strickland murder
case has again been postponed. 1t will be
heard at the next term of court
Chuck Anderson has sold his dwelling and
the lot adjoining on Church street, Mari
eta, to W. A McCrea for 81. OO0
Figuring on a furniture factory and va
riety works in GAINESVILLE has been going
on at lively rate for several days.
Col. j. Belknap Smith, a prominent and
highly esteemed resident of McDuffle
county, died at his home at Smiths mills on
Sunday last.
A mule, worth $50 and owned by John
Hall, of johnson county, was drowned
while trying to ford the Ohoopie creek a
day or two ago.
Hon. C. NJ Gambler announces himself
candidate for reelection to represent the
people of Dekaib iii the lower house of the
next legislature.
Express offices have been established at
Grays, Hillsboro, Round OAK, Monticello
and Madison, on the line of the Covington
and Macon railroad
The amphitheater of the Georgia Chau-
tauqua is to be ready July l. 1t willie seat
5000. DR.. Talmage and Mr.. Spurgeon are
among the possible lecturers
The post office heretofore known as Hard
Cash, on the ElbertOn Air Line railroad.
has been discontinued. The mail for that
point will be hereafter delivered at Bow
man.
At Marietta, Thomas NJ Brumby has sold
his interest in the Brumby Chair Factory to
his brother James R. Brumby, and he will
locate in Decatur, Ala, where he will start
chair factory.
A petition has been generally signed at
Washington requesting our city authorities
TO donate 1850 for the purpose of having
portraits of DR.. F. t. Willis and his daugh
ter painted for the Mary Willis Library of
that place.
Joseph NJ Brown, general passenger and
ticket agent of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, last week bought the w. A.
Copper place on Whitlock avenue, at Mari
eta, forty acres and improvements, paying
$4,000 for il.
AT Macon the store on Third street. be-
tween the establishments of T. C. Burke
and Hendrix, Willingham q Co., was sold
at auction Wednesday. 1t belonged to the
estate of Mrs. j. z. Oliver, and was knocked
down to d. j. Baer at 81, 900.
Maj, William T. Winn died at his late
home in Marietta, Monday night. Mai
Wlnn was born in jackson county Nov /
1915. He was Mayor of Marietta in 1854
and again in 1868, and served one term in
the Georgia senate in 1868 and go
Sheriff Market, of Sumter county, is suf-
ferlng intense pain from an ol wound in
the shoulder, received during the late war,
and has been confined TO his bed for over a
month. He says that the pain is gradually
extending all over his body, and that even
now one of his limbs is perfectly useless
Rev. George II. Patillo, a member of tbe
North Georgia Conference of the Methodist
Church South, died Wednesday at Clarkes-
vile, where he was stationed this year He
married daughter of DR.. James L. Evans
and was for several years resident of Ma
con- He had been sick for several months
He was about SO years old.
A strange freak of nature occurred on
the plantation of Mrs T. w. Head on the
Appalachee river, nine miles from Madison
AT that place is a mill, and for a quarter of
century mill has stood there Nospring
or well was within half mile OF the place
One night, recently, a bold, clear. cool
spring suddenly broke forth from among
the rocks.
1t is stated that A. L. Seifert. formerly
of Macon, and now Secretary of the New
York Brewers Association, will be in Ma
con to-day with view to the establish
ment in Macon Of a mammoth brewery
Mr.. Seifert will be accompanied, so IL il
said, by an extensive brewer and who will
look carefully over the ground The plant
OF the new brewery is to cost something
like 100000.
A large crowd was in Vienna Wednesday
A~Sb W give ia tHelT taxes. NO wild lands
are received this year at less than 81 an
acre. This will increase the revenue of the
county no little. These lands have been
given in heretofore at from $25 to SIS, and
then could be bought for that money. but
cannot be bought for less than from So to Sc
an acre now, aud there are not MANY lands
for sale at that price.
Ed Faison, one of the men who was en-
gagged in the last Saturday night pistol
scrape at Cochran died Tuesday night from
the effects Of his wound. The Jury of in
quest, upon investigating the case. found
that he came to his death from a pistol shot
wound at the hands Of Ridley Hames, and
that 1t was murder. Hames was sent TO
Hawkinsville Jail TO await his trial A
warrant was issued by the acting coroner
against one Hagybrooks, another one of the
colored citizens engaged in the broil, charR-
ing him with assault with intent 10 murder.
Two negroes named johnson and Cox were
employed at the turpentine still of c. NJ.
Adams, about six miles north of Mount
Vernon, aud on Saturday night, after being
paid off, they concluded they'd try their
skill ON each other in a game of cards,
known as skin" 10 which game the tur-
pentipe negroes are generally addicted.
During the progress Of the game an alter
cation arose, when johnson drew his pistol
and fired upon Cox, the ball entering his
right lung, ranging down ward and came