The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-15
GEORGIA.
is To be divided into wards.

The sugarcane sold in Perry indicates
that the crop in Houston Is tirSt-cla-s.
The firm of Mccall 6, Mitchell, of Way
cross. has been dissolved, Mr. Michel con-
tinuIng the business.
Inducements have been offered a grocery
merchant of Perry to 20 over 70 Wellston
and engage in business there.
1t is thought that the brick work on the
Methodist church at Cedartown will be
finished in less than week, if fair wea her
fingers.
The m litary band and orchestra Of New
Orleans has been engaged for the Northeast
Georgia and Alabama Exposition at Rome
next month.
As soon as postofioes are established on
the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad,
an application will be made for a dai Y mail
route from Perry, via Houston factory, to
Kathleen.
Fifty years ago Judge John Stilwell, of
Griffin, was married TO Miss Anna I. Knott.
On Tuesday of this week they celebrated
their golden wedding. There were present
four daughters, five sons-ln- and twenty
three grandchildren.
The heavy rains that fell during the rass
week greatly damaged the cotton crop, and
did other damages in Pulaski county. One
bridge in the county IS reported as being
entirely washed away, and others as being
considerably Injured.
Mrs. Senator Brown to this day knits her
husbands socks, aud knits also the old
fashioned purse in which he carries money,
recalling the boast that every American
ought TO "see his gold and silver cleaning
through the meshes Of his si.ken purse"
The board of county commissioners of
Gordon county met Wednesday and levied
the tax for 1885 The whole tax, including
al n to ht11IH a hAnaa
amounts Z only l per cent The contract
for building the new court house is to be
let Oct l.
john Windsor is building large twelve
room house on his Rees park property at
Americas that will top off everything in
splendor and arc litectural design in the
city. The architect was bro lght from
London for the special purpose Of having
the house built after designs
Mrs. J. B. johnson, postmaster at Cal
houn, died day or two ago. This causes a
scramble for the postInastership. Seven
applications have already been made aud
Others are talked Of H 4. Chapman seems
TO have the INSIDE track" a. he has been
a very ardent supporter Of Col. Clements.
The Farmers Alliance OF Pulaski county
and the warehouse men # Hawkinsyille
failed to agree upon a price for handling
and selling cotton, AID the alliance decided
to build a warehouse Of their own, which
is about completed. They propose to handle
all cotton carried to them at 50 cents per
bale.
The negroes Of Pulaski county met in
mas meeting at the court house last Satur-
day. and petitioned the jury CO nmisslOners
TO out the names Of some OF their race
and color in the jury box. II ira spires,
however, that the commi ,siHners do not
meet again before August 1899, and cannot
revise the box till then
At Americas, as T. =. Greene was going
home Monday 10 Lee street just as ne got
opposite the residence Of Col S. H Hawk
ms. he found the front gate ss .nging across
the sidewalk in font Of him. Thinking to
close it, he gave the gate a shove and it hsw
back, striking him on the nose, nearly
knocking his go pounds over. He thinks
his nose was broken, and suffered very much
all through the night.
Last week Thursday morning the l4-year-
old daughter OF Samuel Pound was killed at
tae syrup mandatory Of J. T. Matthews,
near Barnesyllle. \ post was standing near
the mil that ground up the cane. The
lever Iassed Just over the TOD of the post
every time tie horse made one round. The
girl leaned against the post, her mead ex-
tending just a little above the top of the
post. As the lever came around it struck
post, crushing the skull and producing in
slant death
Boss Potter, a white man of the Twenty
eighth district of Sumter county, had a
very exciting time with one OF his hogs last
week When he first noticed her she was
all In culver of excitement, roofing and
biting the earth into great big mouthfuls
She would jump on any object, seize it,
shake and bite, and growI the whole time
Potter saw she was mad and concluded to
make himself scarce around her but she
saw him as he started off, and made dash
with open mouth, glazing eyes and foam
~ ing IL every direction. Potter jumped
over the fence and the sow thought she
would "chawn IL up; while Potter went for
a gun and help. The sow was eventually
killed.
A northeast gale prevailed at Ty-Ty from
the early Part Of last Saturday night to
Monday noon. 1t was very severe. The
rain fell in torrents almost all night, and tho
consequence was that everything was
flooded. The wind, besides blowing sugar
cane fat TO the ground, blew down a great
amount OF timber and fencing. Thsre was
also great quantity of cotton open and
unpicksd in the fields that has been badly
damaged from being blown out and soaked
in the dirt. Rain has been falling in heavy
showers every day all the past week, and
In6 eafUn nau ali inc water IL could contain
before the big rain came 1t was Just six
years Saturday night Sept. 9, 1882 that the
most fearful equinoctial storm that ever
visited this section passed over, and came
very near making a clean sweep in portions
of the country, Of all the standing timber
and the beginning of the storm Saturday
night set great many people thinking of
that awful Saturday night and its conse-
quences
Two divorce suits were filed in the clerks
office, at Atlanta, Tuegday. The two pc
titioners Were alike in many respects The
suits were filed by two sisters, asking di-
vorces from their husbands, who are broth
ers. Their marriage occurred in the same
month and year, ana petitions in both
cases were fled on the same day. B.
sides this, the grounds for divorce
were the same, that Of cruel treatment and
profane language addressed to them while
under excitement In addition to this. both
suits were filed by probably the greatest
divorce lawyer i'll Georgia. r. j. JORDAN.
who has q sort Of monopoly Of his kind l.
Atlanta. The applicants were Mrs. Hattie
Herbert, who asks TO be legally sepa ated
from her husband, r. T. Herbert, and Mrs.
Lula Herbert, who seeks a divorce from her
husband, j. w. Herbert. They ask that
their maiden names lie restored 10 them,
that of Phillips. Col. Jordan will likely
carry out the programme by getting both
divorces on the same day.
Dudley Youngblood Of Atlanta left gold
watch in in his vest pocket when he went
into the Young Mems Christian ASSOCIATION