The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-09-29

The Memphis & Charleston Railway
has ordered work to start Immediately ON
the company machine shops in Sheffield.
The cost will be about $500, 600.
Rev. A. H. McGaha, pastor of the
Central Baptist church of Chattanooga,
Tenn. preached his farewell sermon to
that congregation on Sunday, having oc-
cepted call to Howard College Baptist
church, of Birmingham.
GEORGIA.
Street railroad cars are now being
manufactured in Atlanta. The cars are
made of wood grown in Georgia.
The Atlanta Board of Police Commits
sioners are wedding out their incompe-
tent policemen, and discharged Officer
Lyman for sleeping on duty.
The Salvation Army of Atlanta has
organized a colored branch, but the
white contingent is in serious trouble,
on account of charges made by one Of its
principal members against Capt. Jennie
Foos.
Mr.. Brossius, an Atlanta man, has in
vented a motor for sewing machines,
which consists of coiled springs, and
strong company will soon manufacture
them. 1t Is the only practical machine
for the purpose yet invented.
Charley Burke, colored man, aged
SO, who drove the wagon of Chief JOY
ner of the Fire Department in Atlanta,
died Sunday. His enjoyment of the
chiefs reckless driving was one of the
features of fire alarm in Atlanta.
Governor Gordon has ordered the sus-
pension of the collection OF taxes in Rich
mond county until the Legislature meets.
The city Of Augusta and Richmond
county have sustained such an immense
loss from the recent fiooGs that the
Governor thinks the hardship of paying
state taxes ought to be withdrawn for
this year
Judge Milo DIN, a white haired and
aged Justice of the peace in Augusta,
lett for Jacksonville, having volunteered
his services as nurse for yellow fever
patients. He is sent by the Augusta
Exchange. He has been very successful
as a yellow fever nurse, and has had
much experience in the epidemics in
Memphis, Norfolk, Wilmington, Pensa-
cola, Savannah and Fernandina.
Owing to the damage by the recent
foods to the sections of the state from
which both the people and exhibits were
expected to be drawn, and the excite
ment in other sections because of the
yellow fever in Florida, 1t was decided
by the joint meeting of the Macon Board
Of Trade and a comm ttee from the Ag-
ricultural Society, to indefinitely post
pone the Georgia State Fair.
Gov. Gordon has determined to quar-
antine the convict camps of Coal City
and Rising Fawn. This step has be
come Il necessity from the fact that Off
GERS from Chattanooga are putting off
suspected passengers near these camps,
and there is serious danger of the yellow
fever breaking out among the conyicts,
if these people who are put off the trains
are allowed to come into the camps.
In answer to the questions sent out to
the crop correspondents by the Georgia
Department OF Agriculture, inquiring into
the amount of damage to the crops of
cotton and corn by reason of the late
unprecedented rains in Georgia, reports
from sixty counties have been received
showing the injury sustained by each
county. Richmond county reports dam
age to cotton so per cent. Average
damage to cotton crop of other counties
reporting, 10 per cent. Richmond
county reports damage to corn 60 per
cent. Average damage to corn crop of
other counties reporting, 1875 per cent.
C,nErmrF
Alfred Flynn, a notorious negro con-
vict, was captured by the Charleston po-
lice in the suburbs, and was at once sent
to the LazarettO, where he will be de-
tanned for fourteen days and then proba-
bly, accommodated with quarters In the
Jail. Upon being arrested Flynn was
identified as an old convict who had
served out several sentences in the peni-
Tertiary. He halls from one of the camps
of refuge near jacksonville, and claims
to have been watching the inmates. A
large sum of money was found on his
person, and letters showing that he had
RENTED several hundred dollars TO per-
sons who are unknown to the police.
DR.. Nipson, the health detective. recog-
nized him as soon as he saw him. He
says that Flynn was put off the train at
the Junction and gradually worked his
way to Charleston, when he was captured
before he entered the city.