The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-16


Brunswick knights of Pythias Sell a
Lot at Big Profit
GEORGIA
Lumpkin wants bank.
George Fearn will donate Magnolia Place.
Townsville, for location for the Pleasure
Park
w H. Baker, postmaster of Plowshare,
Carroll county, has not shaved in twenty
two years.
There is man in Lee county who has
never heard a sermon preached in church
or out of it. He is an old bachelor.
Piney Woods Primitive Baptist church in
Harrison county, turned out H. c. Wal
drop for joining the Farmers Alliance.
tree was struck by lightning near
Gray's station last Tuesday. The lightning
set the tree on fire, which caused it to burn
three days.
The property assessors of Athens are still
at their work. They say that the value Of
assessable property in Athens has increased
100000 since last year.
At Hamilton Dr. S. G. Riley and DR.. r.
Harold Williams have associated them
selves together in the drug business and for
the practice of medicine.
An anti-tobacco society. with dozen or
so members, was formed at Smithville last
days the membership dwindled down to
two.
j. H. Jones, who ran a store in which the
postoffice was located, at Glenn, Carroll
county, was burned out by an inceudary a
day or two ago. There is but little doubt
that the incendisry will be arrested.
At Brunswick the Knights of Pythias
have sold their 60 by 80 lot, opposite the
Crovatt block, to parties in Nebraska. who
1
wick. The price paid was 81 600. The
lodge will buy cheaper lot and build on it.
Gen. Toombs' monument at Washington
will be erected by the middle of this week.
1t will be- a shaft - feet high made from
Italian marble. 1t is perfectly plain in de-
sign with no inscription except the names
of Gen. and Mrs. Toombs, with the dates of
their birth and death.
A nice find has been made recently in the
Falls City Gold Mine, near Villa RIGA. A
rich assure of gold has been discovered, the
vein being from 10 to 20 feet wide. 1t is
thought that there is enough of 1t in sight
to run a mill for a year This property be-
longs to company in Kentucky.
DR.. Crawford. of Shiloh, exhibited Tues
day hen egg weighing ounces. The
average size egg weighs about ton to the
pound and the large size about eight to the
pound, so that the extraordinary size of
this egg is about the average size of those
laid by the hen that laid it. She is COM
mon stock. A pullet of which she is the
mother lays an egg nearly as large. If the
breed can be established it will be a valu-
able addition to the poultry world.
Quitman Free Press: The tale of the
Valdosta man who carried around a post
office order in his pocket thinking that it
was the postmaster's receipt is eclipsed by
the action of an official in another town
something less than 1000 miles from Quit
man. A gentleman of Quitman had occa-
sion few days ago to write to the said Off
clal on a little matter of business. At the
time that it occurred to him TO do this writ
ing he happened to be i'll the banking Office
of Clayton, Grower q Co., and borrowing
one of their letter heads wrote his letter up
on that. The fee for attending to the bust
ness was 81 and the official forthwith en-
closed bill for the same to Messrs. Groo-
yer q Co, stating that as the gentleman
had written to him on one of the letter heads
he would be obliged if they would remit
the S.
An informal meeting of few citizens of
Valdosta was held in the Times office Thurs
day morning last to consider the question of
building a winter resort hotel in Naldosta.-
Mr.. {. l. Stuart was present and submitted
plans and specifications for sixty-six-room
house, exclusive of parlors. office, dining
room, etc, and he proposed TO head the
list with a subscription of $4,000 in
site for the building and brick for its
construction. He asked for an additional
subscription of S25 900 to build and furnish
the house He offers to lease the house for
ten years, when finished, at per cent. on
cost of construction. A committee CON
sisting of Messrs. R. Y. Lane, r. A. Peoples,
j. o. Varnedoe, w. l.. Converse and B.
w. Bentley was appointed to take Mr..
Stuart's proposition and other matters into
consideration and report the same to gem
eral meeting to be held in the court house
to-day.