The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-25
GEORGIA.


Fulton County Superior Court
GEORGIA.
DR.. ]. 7. Ellis, of Griffin, died Saturday,
aged % years.
The BAPTIST church at Townsville is still
without pastor,
Aaron Fambrough was arrested near
Griffin Saturday Tor trying TO fire into
passing passenger train.
H. Eve. at Keysville, Burke county,
has made an assignment. The assignee is
f. J. Goodman. Assets, $1,000; liabilities,
$1,000
At Wavnesboro the firm of Respess &
Revrolds has been dissolved, J. W. Rey-
nolds having purchased the entire interest
of Mr. RespeSs.
The County Commissioners of Ebert
county have erected two fine bridges across
Beaver Dam creek, the most important
stream in the county.
William A. McCarty & Co. have con-
cluded to abandon their store at Tennille,
and concentrate ali their capital in their
business at SanderSville.
Business property continues in demand in
Townsville. Three of the four new Masury
stores are already engaged. The building
is not near completed yet.
According to a recent count, made for
leap year purposes, there are in Griffin 100
widows, 25 widowers, "a old maids and %
old bachelors This is startling, if not ter
rifying.
There are nearly 200 divorce cases on the
docket of Fulton Superior Court. Some of
these suits have been in the court several
years. For the most part they are devoid
of romance or sensation.
J. A. Smiths gin house and press, four
miles west of Washington, was burned at
IL o'clock Friday He had cotton stored
away under his gin house, but succeeded in
getting it away without damage.
Dempsey Springer, Cherokee county
farmer, whose broad acres are covered with
fine stock and rich crops, is in Atlanta
searching for his wife, who deserted him
with young farm hand about eight or ten
months ago.
At Toccoa Sunday night, while Rev. s.
Y. Jameson was preaching an interesting
sermon in the Baptist church, the roof was
discovered in flames. By little hard work
it was soon extinguished doing very little
damage. 1t caught from defective stove
pipe.
The continued rains have almost put "A
stop to business in Barlow county. The
roads are bad and farmers are confined
very closely at home. Miners especially are
suffering, as much of their mining is done
ia open cuts where there is no protection
from the weather.
Miss May w, Walker, of Dalton, has com
posed a beautiful song entitled Sailing
Home that has been bought by Eastern
publishers. Miss Walker is pupil of Prof
Henri Scholler, a prominent Dalton com
poser. She is also a cousin of Banks Winter,
the popular Southern minstrel and author
of white Wings"
Charles J. Swift, of California, who has
been visiting his father, Col George p.
Nf rlV.
ton, d. c. From Washington Mr.. Swift
will go to Mississippi where an important
ceremony will take place on Feb = at
which time Mr. Swift will wed Miss Jessie
Alcorn, daughter of Elk Governor Alcorn of
Mississippi.
At Athens, several days ago Deputy Col
lector CAN'T informed Messrs. l.. D. Lamar
& Co., proprietors of the Michigan beer
works, that their beer was subject to q
revenue tax, as also all the goods they had
sold. This closed the brewery up for sew
eral days. Monday morning they opened
again, and will pay the tax and continue
the manufacture of beer.
Application has been made for charter
for the Guarantee Company of Georgia, the
= principle office of which is to be in Macon.
The petitioners are r. F. Lawton, w. b.
Sparks, $. II. Hawkins and others, and the
capital stock is to be $50 600, with the privi-
lege of increasing it to a sum not exceed
ing 100000. The purpose of the company
Is mainly to carry on the business of pro-
curing and negotiating loans upon real
estate or personal property.
Col C. w. Hancock had dodgers dis
tributed through Americas Monday an
Ilouncing that the publication of the Repub-
licdn would be discontinued at the end of
the present month, and if the office is not
sold at private sale before that time, it will
be offered at public sale on the first Tues
day in February. Col. Hancock is an old
veteran, having published a paper in
Americas for thirty-four years, but he sees
no other way out of his difficulties There
have been several attempt to get up a stock
company to buy the Office, but they have
failed.
At Albany a short time since Mrs. Dow
DELI wife of the Presiding Elder of the
American Methodist Episcopal church,
stepped into her yard and saw her pet Nal
teSe cat playing with huge snake. The cat
is a very large one. The snake was coiled
to strike. Every time the serpent would
strike at it with its wicked looking fangs,
the cat would give it a vigorous slap on the
side of its head and il would be withdrawn
This by-play continued for fully an hour,
Mrs. Dowdell standing upon the steps watch
ing the combat and fearing every moment
to witness the death of her pet. At last the
cat bounced upon the snake and killed it.
Stenographer II. e. Barnes has submmit-
ted his bill for reporting the Voolfolk trail
The amount of the bill is 5000 This seems
to be quite large sum for the work, but in
consideration of the rates allowed by law.
the time spent, and the hard labor, the
amount does not appear quite so large The
law allows Sl5 per day for reporting, and
$l5 per day for transcribing the short hand
into long hand. The time spent was ten
days in reporting, and thirty days for trans
scribing, which makes a total of forty days
The amount then appears as 5000. The re-
port was quite large, embracing about 300-
coo words. The bill has been approved by
Judge Gustin, and it will be paid at the next
meeting of the County Commissioners.
Deputy Sheriff S. NJ Cox got off the train
at Isabella station Saturday with James
Haymon, the Irwin county desperate, who
has been wanted in Worth and Irwin coun
ties for some time past. Haymon was sus-
pected of being the man who killed the
negro John jackson in Albany in Septem-
Der last, and, during the session of Dough
erty Superior Court in November, officers
went from Albany to his mothers home in
Irwin county to arrest him, but he was not
found. 1t afterwards appeared, however,
that Haymon was not in Albany when Jack
son was killed, whereupon the officers
abandoned all efforts to find him. But the
officers of Worth and Irwin have been hold
ing warrants against him for some time,
and it seems that he was surprised at or