The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-02

with great opposition from some of the frs
/ men of the State. A writer in the Hamil
ton Journal of a recent date says JOSEPH
h. Lumpkin, Stephen Epson and George r
! Glliner, who stood among the leaders Of
Georgia in their day, by their opposition
| prevented the Georgia railroad from going
| through the town of Lexington, in Ogle
thorpe county The impression of these
great Georgians was that they would surely
| lnJure any town through which they passed
| Peter Cone, another prominent Georgian
| Tor the same reason opposed the Central
road from running through Bullock county
b. II. Watson, boss of section number
| four. Central railroad, by his precaution
| Wednesday morning, prevented what M al
probability would have been a serious loss
Of life and property. He was ordered to
raise the track, beginning at Beaver creek
trestle After "a sing the track from the
large and high abutment, he noticed that it
slightly give way Blocks The size OF the
space made by the raising were put under.
| The abutmeut below and above has been
cracked for some time Mr.. Watson, before
leaving ordered John Wilder and one of
his colored hands to remain all night and
watch the abutment. Wednesday morning
at O'Clock, Just as No. Al was leaving
Reynolds due at the trestle in ten min
uteS, the whole abutment tumbled in,
hliAt AlONil StN 81 al OtlltncS WHICH CIV
main support to the track and leaving a
space OF forty or fifty feet with nothing
but strlngers and iron Mr.. Wilder ran
with all possible speed over the dangerous
point, and with torpedoes and lantern, sue
ceeded in stopping the train before it
reached the trestle The trestle is 800 feet
long and from eighteen TO twenty feet high,
with water under il from six TO eight feet
deep. The danger being at one end and the
frsa1n GYg1rYr Ia, nfh hf bgla
train would have been on the trestle when
the engine went down. The abutment was
made of brick, and it seems that nothing
but the weight Of the track kept it from
falling over, so defective was the fundation
The Israelites of Albany celebrated Pu-
rim by a bail. Among those present We're:
Mr.. and Mrs. S. W. Kahn, Mr. and Mrs
II. Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs w. Harris, Mr.
and Mrs. II. Farkas, Mr.. and Mrs l.. Gel
ger, Mr.. and Mrs. 5. Reich, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. Blattner, Mr.. and Mrs l.. c. Plonsky,
Mr. and Mrs. II. kaufman, accompanied
by Mrs j. Ehrlch, Nh and Mrs l. Kieve,
Mr.. and Mrs c. Wessolowsky, Mr.. and
Mrs. s. Mayer, Mr.. and Mrs. S. b. Brown,
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Cohen, Mr. and
Mrs. B. Brown, Mr. and Mrs s. Cohn. Mr..
Julius PERTH with Misses Minnie and Stella
Mr. and Mrs L. j. Crine, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Wessolowsky, Mrs. NJ. Mayer,
Ehrlich, Mr.. NJ SontheImer with Misses
Gussie and Fannie Harris, Mr.. II. Alsberg
with Miss B. SUerne, Mr.. VI Rosenthal with
Miss Mile Weiss, Mr.. James Weiss with
Miss Emma Wessolowsl1y, Mr.. David
Brown with Miss Henne Long, Mr.. Daniel
Mayer with Miss Bertha Mayer, Mr. Louis
Mayer with Miss Matte Mayer, Mr.. A. c.
Plonsky with Miss Rosa Brown Mr.. w.
Breitenbach with Miss Reich, Mr.. Max
Cassel with the Misses CasSel, Arthur
Sterne with Miss Settle Sterne. Messrs.
Phillip Harris, j. Larch, j. De
Vereis, Joseph Grass, David Jacobs.
There were many elegant toiletteS
among the most noticeable were:
Miss Sterne, Nile green satin; Miss Reich
cream albatrcs; Miss Long, blue silk; Miss
Weiss, blue albatross, elegantly trimmed
with velvet; Miss Wesso wloSky, blue silk, ,
with Duchesse lace; Miss Gussie Harris,
Nile green cachemere, with white lace
Miss Bertha Mayer, cream albaUross; Miss
Fannie Harris, pink cachemere: Miss
Minnie Ehrlich, blue satin and white lace
Miss Stella Ehrlich, white lace and null
Miss Settle Sterne, pale blue embroidered
velvet Miss Matte Mayer, red cachemere,
trimmed with lace, Miss Rosa Brown, black
silk; Mrs. M. Wessolowsky, garnet watered
silk; Mrs. l. Kieve, cream null; Mrs. l..
Geiger, black silk; Mrs H. Farkas, black
silk velvet, jet ornaments; Mrs Crime,
cream nuns yelling, white lace :aMrs. Cohn,
garnet satin; Mrs. NJ Mayer, black watered
silk, jet ornaments; Mrs. l.. G. Plousky,
green satin; Mrs. Reich, black silk; Mrs.
Ehrlich, plain colored silk; Mrs. Kohn,
black silk and jet ornaments; Mrs. G. Wes-
solowslly, black silk.