The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-24

Maj. NJ Speer returned, to Americas,
Wednesday, from Atlanta, where he
has been for the purpose of per-
fecting arrangements for the erection of a
500, 900 hotelin Americas. He met with
such encouragement from prominent capt.
talists in the Ga City hat he has deter
mined to go ahead and organize COM
pany. An application for a charter for
the hotel company will be published in a
| few days, when subscription books will be
opeue and an effort made to raise a saffi-
Gent amount of stock.
About 5000 bales of cotton will be
| brought to Culloden, and this is the first
season. J. r. Brantley is the buyer for
| Inman & Co. Several of the merchants
taought that they could buy first rate. One
dropped $500 and quit, and others dis
covered they had considerable to learn in
81 aiding. The good prices attracted cotton
planters over twenty miles, aud tire mer-
chants soothe themselves with the idea that
they will call again. Tom |. Blassingame
| is there for the Standard Oil Company,
and has bought 1900 bushels of cotton
seed.
There is a sad result of human dapravity
in Albany in little negro boy about 6
years old, who was born drunk. Anyone
passing through ''Sandy Bottom" can, by
noticing, see punch" staggering along the
sidewalk or reeling about in some of the
barrooms in that part of Albany. as though
he was very much under the influence of
liquor; but it is simply a birth-mark.
Punch has also inherited the love OF the
rosy" and he is generally seen with a
cigar in his mouth or standing around, be-
ing peculiar pet of some, waiting for
someone to treat.
E. A. Smythe, who has been managing
partner and foreman of the Griffin broom
| factory, left the city for Atlanta on Tues
day, to be back next morning, and as yet
is numbered with the missing. DR.. J. NJ.
Kelly, who practically owns the factory,
wa absent from the city at his plantation
in Washington county The company has
been doing good business through
October and November, and it is thought
that when DR.. Kelly left the city last week
Smythe collected considerable money, allow
ing extra discounts, but without an examina-
ton of the books nothing definite can be
obtained. Dr.. Kelly returned to the city
on the afternoon train, and on opening his
mail found the postoffice box key in
an envelope, poStmarked Chattanooga.
Smythe took with him his head workman,
Michael Lane. They are Canadians, but
came to Griffin from Flint, Mich, where
they were formerly engaged in broom
making. Abou three months ago Smythe
lost his only child, a babe of l year. His
wife was so broken-hearted over the death
Of the child that it was thought best to
break up housekeeping, and DR.. Kelly, being
a near neighhor, offered portion of his
large home to the afflicted family, so that
new surroundings might divert her
thoughts. Mrs Smythe is now under the
roof of the man her husband has left. 1t
is not known whether she is in possession
of information as to her husbands where
abouts or not. Smythe is rather good
looking fellow, about % years old, smooth
face, with small black mustache, brown
eyes, weighs about 1870 pounds, and is about
5 feet 6 iaches high. DIR. Kelly will wire
in several directions tonight authorizing
his arrest