The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-29

The company expects that the farmers will
take hold of the matter, also, and aid in de-
veloping the new industry. 1t pays better
| than cotton, or any other now known crop.
Extensive and costly machinery will beput
up at Townsville to decorticate and pre-
pare the fibre.
AT Atlanta, Friday, prominent citizen
OF Clayton county stated that the recent
action of the mass meeting voiced exactly
the opposite views of the Democrats OF
| Clayton. He says the meeting was only
attended by a small clique in Jonesboro.
1t is proposed to have another mass meeting,
not with a view of trying TO resclnd the
resolutions passed at the regular called
| meeting, but to show to the people of the
State the true sentiment of the Democracy
Of Clayton county on the tariff question.
At Atlanta, it is reported upon good au-
thority, that Gen Clinton b. Fiske, of New
Jersey, whose bank account runs up into
the millions, has written his Georgia pet,
Evangelist Small, TO spend whatever may
| he necessary in his campaign work in
Georgia 1t is stated that as a starter Gen.
Fiske has authorized the Evangelist to draw
on him for $4,000 for his work 1t is I'M
derstood that by the aid of ''grit, grace and
| greeDb backs" the Evangelist pr poses to take
his little tent and speak in every county in
| Georgia before his New Jersey boss is
showed under in the November election.
A day or so ago Frank Benson, of Macon,
| received box of eggs from Round Oak, on
| the Covington and Macon railroad On the
reverse side of the lid of the box he found
sentence written in pencil. This sentence
was written on the piece of wood in July,
| 1879, by one of the clerks of Bailey& Schuf-
fer, firm then in existence, and referred
in playful way TO both members of the
| firm. The singular part of it is that Mr.
Benson was a clerk in the store at the time,
and now, after nine years, it comes TO him,
and from a section of country then remote
from any railroad and which he knows
nothing about.
Lithonia Net0 Era. Mr.. Charles Venable
| is in New York on business visit. We I'M
| derStand there will be contract of 40, 0O0,-
600 or more blocks for paving the streets of
that city let, and we hope our granite men
will succeed in securing the contract There
is no granite in the State equal to ours, and
some cities will use no other. Granite can
be shipped from this place to New York for
from IS to $40 a car less than to Cincin-
natl, which city is almost entirely supplied
with Lithonia granite 1t will be big
| thing" for our granite men and our town if
this contract is secured, and we have no
doubt but that it will be.
Penitentiary Guard Turner went to
Hampton after the prisoners sentenced to
the penitentlary, seven in ALL While going
across the mountain two of them slipped
the handcrffs off and jumped out and ran
to the woods. Mr.. Turner was sitting in
front of the hack, and did not see them or
hear them until they had gotten to the
woods. He could not leave the others, and
consequently they got away very nicely
The country is being searched, and in all
probability they will be caught. Mr.. Tur-
ner offers reward Of $25 for them. Their
names are Tom Patillo and Tom Marsh,
sent for two and ten years.
AT Athens, Friday, Charlie Cooper was
telephoned to come to the residence of J. A.
Fowler, to attend horse afflicted with an
acute case of hydrophobia. Mr.. Cooper,
who is an expert veterinary surgeon, dis
covered the diseased horse in pitiable con-
dition. He had bitten at his stalls and the
adjacent fences until his teeth had been torn
from their sockets and with bleeding gums
he still threatened the advances Of Mr.
Fowler and the surgeon. Before either
could approach him, the horse had died.
Mr. Cooper is of the opinion that the horse
died of hydrophobia, superinduced by the
bite of mad dog OF poisonous snake.
Lieut.. Col. Wolff, of an Indiana regiment
| of the United States army, was killed at
the battle of Richmond, KY, in 1862. His
sword fell into possession of DR.. John L.
Branch, of the Confederate army, brother
| of Capt. w. III. Branch, of Greensboro
The sword is of regulation pattern, leather
covered scabbard with brass mounting
| The blade is finely embelished and tho hilt
has an inlaid pearl shield with the word
Union engraved upon it, 1t is twenty
| six years since the gallant Federal Lieuten-
| ant Colonel relaxed this sword from his
dying grasp, and it has been in the posses
sion of a Confederate surgeon ever since.
! Dr. John L. Branch is now a resident of
Cedartown, Ga, having, like Capt. Branch,
survived the perils and privatiOns of the
war. 1t is not known what Indiana regi-
ment Lieut.. Col. Wolff was connected with,
nor are his initials remembered, if they had
been known.
| Henry Williams, one OF the negroes re-
ported lynched near Raleigh, is not dead,
and is now in Greenville Jail. He was dis
covered short distance from Woodbury.
| Wednesday. He would run at the approach
| afraid Of his own race. He was finally
| caught and carried to Greenviile by about
! thirty-five armed negroes. He shows signs
| of having been beaten badly. He SAYS that
! he knows every one concerned in the affair,
| and says that there were sixteen of them He
tells how he escaped, and says that after
! the party had killed William Parkman
| they were fired into, and all ran but one.
and he knocked him down. Another rumor
is that they left him for dead, and after
| they had left him he crawled into neck deep
water, and remained there nearly all night,
| His not being dead, however, throws new
| light on the matter, and some startling de-
velopments will be made, it is thought, in
/ a few DAVIS