The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-07

grade OF their ton crop.
A new church was organized near the
, residence of DR.. b. G. Smith on the line OF
Ebert and Hart last Sunday. a number
of Baptsts met at the place, and in few
hours conference elected Rev. T. J. Rucker
, for pastor and William Burdett for deacon,
aud imm tiiatev ordained them, Rev. NJ.
l. Clrswell and Rev j. II. Westmoreland
acting preSbytery. The new church was
organzed with twenty-Six members, and
Others will probably increase the number
soon The name Of the church is Mount
| I1ermon.
Tn convention of the Thirty-sixth sena-
torial district was held at Newman Monday.
The district Is composed of d 'uglas, Ca u D.
bell, Coweta and MeriTether co mites. + ch
county was represented by full delegation.
The proceedings were harmonious. Hon.
w. A Port was permanent chairman.
President Cleveland, Gov. Gordon and
Senator Colqutt were Endorsed. Levi Bal
lard was nominated by acc.amation. The
rotation stem was recognized and con-
tiuuet Meriwether county will present the
senator next time.
Atlanta was deluged Tues lay with a
| shower of wheat bugs. They are small
black bugs, about three-quarterS of an inch
/ loag. Wheeler MaHgum, of the Western
and Atlantic railroad, who was on duty at
the depot Tuesday night, said that they
came all during the night, and when the
electric light went out and he lit the gas ne
could see them dropping by the thousand
al around the shed. Mrs. Malgum found
! them all owe the house out on Hunt +
! street. D.. Co lier, on Hunter street, saw
| them all oyer his bed ard in his room. They
were prufuSe on Pryor street and in other
| parts Of the city.
A day or two ago specimen of ORE
| picked up by Dr. Lockhart on his place
| adjoining Plea ,aut Grove church, six miles
south of LaGrange, was submitted to Prof
| II. r. Slack, Jr., for analysis. The pro-
fesSo was surprised to discover that there
was large per cant. of tin ir the rock
| The grea ct tin mine in the world is in
since the time of Julius CDsar, and is not
| yet exhausted. There is another in Maine
and one in Virginia, but they do not supply
| the universal demand. Should there be a
| VEN of ore in Troup county, it will be the
means of not only enri hing its owner, tm {
also Of building up great indu-t try.
There are good many refugees from
| Flor ida still in Dalton, and the people are
beginning TO look upon them as regular
citizens of the place. They have all com
| foi table quarters ami they arc taking things
as easy as it is possible for people who are
away from home whore dreadful scourge
exists. They evince a lively Interest in all
the news from Jacksonville, and all the
kilograms, papers aud letters bearing on the
subject are eagerly read. During the first
| few days the refugees were there people
from the country tributary to Dalton be-
came very much fri yhtened, and for some
time they could not be induced to visit the
place But the scare is now entirely over
and the streets are every day filed with
people from the country.
In Talbot county to-day representative
TO the next legislature and county officers
will be nominated in a primary election
For representative there are two candidates,
Rev Simeon Maxwell and NJ. w. Hollis
For ordinary there is but one candidate,
Judge Richard II. Leonard for clerk. one
cau d!date, Capt. w. j. Raines; for
| sheriff, one candidate, b. A Richards 4;
for tax col ector there are four candidates:
P. II. TOlbert, r. II. Turner, G. p Miller
and Gov. James Gi lmore; for tax receiver
there are four candidates: w. S. Blown,
| w. W. Beall, d. II. Smith and J. NJ. Cos
| tin; for treasurer there are two candidates,
| i. A. Baldwin and I. n. Beall; for sur
veyor, one candidate J. H. Richards for
coroner, ono candidate, William Burge.
There were few nights ago seen at the
residence Of H. G. Wnits, at Hickory Grove,
something in the way OF a ghost, while he
| and family were gone to IN citing. They left
colored woman aud a boy at home TO care
| for the house. The mother of the boy
wanted water, and of course sent him to
the spring. While on his way something
with the appearance Of ghost sprang upon
him, dragging him over bricks, rocks,
| fences, etc, until IL reached a graveyard
not far off, and there left him for dead
! But the boy now SAYS "he fooled dem
ghosts" as he was only speechess, and not
dead. TIE obj ct was ROBBERY, and TO
doubt it would have been carried into
execution il it had not been for the coming
up of James MeMichael, ST., at the time on
| his way to church.
The following preamble and resolutions
from the East Wilkes Farmers Club were
offered by Mr.. Frank w. Barnett at its
regular meeting on Tuesday and unani-
m0usly adopted; VIII reas, The effect OF
the bagging trust is to put the price of bag
ging be ond the reach of ecotton planter
and, Whereas, The established tare of
twenty-eight pounds per bale p events the
use OF any lighter material as substitute
for bdgging and, Whereas. Net cotton and
not tare is what the manufacturer wants
| therefore, be it resolved, that we ask the
| planters throughout the entire cotton belt
to cooperate with us in memorializing our
| own exchanges and that OF Liverpool to re-
| ceive and recognize cotton wrapped i'll osna-
| burg as in commercial form; aud 10 tab
| fish double standard Of tare, viz: One
| for cotton wrapped in jute bagging, say
! twenty pounds per bale, and one for
cotton wrapped in osnaburg, say eighteen
| pounds per bale, SO ~ TO warrant the cotton
buyer i'll maklng corr esponding margin of
| price in favor of the lesser tare
Frida night, with all its rain and light
ming, seemed to suit the burglar, who has
returned to Macon from his summer jaunt.
| Five or six burglaries were attempted and
committed that night. Mrs Geston, who
keeps a store Ia Gilelvillc, hal On experience
that night, too. While seated with some
neighbors in the store, IA noise at the window
attracted her attention. A thief had at
| tempted to slip i'll the store, but no bumped
his head against the raised window sns !,
and that gave him away. He was seen,
but he was soon lost IN the darkness of the
! night. He was not a black man, but u
well dressed young white man. That same
night the horse in the lot kept
up such whickering that it aroused Mrs.
Gelston. Mr.. Gelsion went down with Il
| light, and his presence quoted the horse.
| In the abe he found that some one had
made bed of straw, and had probably lain
upon II watching an opportunity TO break
in. The next night Mrs. Gelst0n was
arouse by some QUO trying to raise nor
! pillow, up Ter which she kept her money.
| the hand that raised it was thrust through
the window. Mr.. G,iston, on being arou. ed
ran out aud fired his pistol two or three
/ times, bat saw no one They thnk il was
the wcll-dre, sed man who made tho second
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