The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-27

"A OOuple Oh MurOeTeTS III blIuDo III
Butts County-The Bale OF False
Packed Cotton Sent to Germany to
be Brought Back and the Fraud
Punished.
GEORGIA.
DR.. E. P. Lovelace, of Rome, died Satur-
day.
Late Saturday night DR.. Lee Holt died at
his home at Holton, ten miles from Macon.
An Englishman is at Brunswick looking
into the advisability Of establishing a
steamship line from that port to England.
The Fulton county Republicans will hold
their convention at Atlanta to-day to select
delegates to the State and district conven-
tions.
John Herringdine, Of Hancock county
committed suicide day or two ago by
hanging himself to tree with a plow-line.
No cause is assigned.
On Friday morhing last the steamer Tar
Heel sunk in the Ocmulgee river on its way
from Brunswick to Abbeville. She was
loaded with local freight.
j. A. Wheeler and Miss Maggie Floyd
were married at Jesup Sunday. at the resi-
dence of the brides father, 7. A. Floyd, Rev.
William Jarvis officiating.
A countryman bought two spools of cot
ton thread at dry goods store at AmericuS
Saturday and insisted that the merchant
throw in paper of needles
There is a cat in Flovilla so well trained
that whenever Mr. Edwards, the beef seller,
comes around and rings the door bell, the
cat meets him, ready for piece.
The Madison Home Guards have given
out contract for thirty-three uniforms.
The suits will be of very dark navy blue,
with orange trimmings and gold braid.
The Sheriff of Butts county has arrested
the two negroes, Bob and win Jester, who
murdered a negro named Ben Iovett, near
Towaliga, in Butts county, some time last
summer. They are in jail
At Americas Saturday Judge Fort dis
missed the injunction OF S. T. Coleman,
Burden & solomon against Brown &
French. They are now at liberty to sell the
goods which they bought several days ago
from l.. ]. Darden.
A portion of the iron bridge, with which
the Columbus and Western road Will span
the Chattahoochee river, has arrived at
Columbus. 1t is likely that force of hands
will begin the work of putting the bridge
in position in a short time.
Last Tuesday afternoon the old mill house
near Joseph McQuaig's, at Waycross, was
destroyed by fire. Two timber carts, some
tools and lot of fodder were consumed,
was owned by Mr. McQuaig.
Maj. Robert R. Terrell, prominent citi-
zen of Bainbridge, who was stricken with
apoplexy day or two ago, is dead. Maj
Terrell was SO years old, had held many po-
sitions of trust and honor, and was a mem
Der of the State Legislature of 1860
Friday night the kiln for drying lumber
at Bailey's mill, at Job, Sumter county,
was entirely consumed, burning up
some $1,000 feet of lumber. The kiln be-
longed TO Mr. B. F. Nysewander, who is
running planning mill at that place.
The County Commissioners of Hancock
have commenced suit against the bondsmen
OF ex-Treasurer George r. Brown. 1t is not
known how much he is short, but the suit is
for something over $1,000, the whole
amount paid to him by the Tax Collector.
r. L. Green, of Mitchell county, has in
vented and will apply for the patent of a
pillow which, if he realizes his expectations,
will revolutionize farming methods. This
pillow promises. with one man and two
mules, to do the work of four mules and
four laborers.
A negro ramed Redmond Clark was
struck by freight train at Americas Sat
urday and knocked off the track He was
considerably frightened, but as soon as he
could gather himself together he found
he was not hurt seriously, as the train was
moving slowly at the time
A lady in Athens has been training a cat
for the past two years, and now he will do
almost anything at the word of command.
He will 60 upstairs and bring her hat,
shawl or handkerchief. if she tells him to
do so. He is a valuable eat for tricks, but
has never been known to catch a rat
In Talbot county three gentlemen have
already announced themselves as candidates
* n Int
the Farmers Alliance will support Rev. Mr..
Maxwell The other candidates are Mr..
Nose Hollis and Col. Jesse j. Bull Hon.
Thomas w. Grimes is solid in Talbot
Brunswick is now a second-class post
office, the requisite amount of revenue for
the year having already been collected
The receipts for this month will approx.
mate 81 900 This means an increase OF
salary for Postmaster Hunter and likewise
increased facilities for the proper transac
ton of the business of the office
Americas Recorder; A lightning rod
should be put on the new court house al
once. The building is tall and isolated and
lightning would want no better mark. A
fash might melt a certain rod attached tc
the clock and cause the whole machinery tC
fall. The damage done by such an occur
ance would cost the county 5000 to re
pair.
A ody OF Two ago w. j. Hunter, VINO has
charge Of Mr.. Barrett's farm about one and
a half miles from Waynesboro, ploughed
up an old cap bombshell on that part Of the
place known as sugar hill" The shell is
loaded, and was doubtless used in'one of the
skirmishes around Waynesboro during the
late war. There have been several Other
shells found, but none of them were loaded
Charles Rutherford, who was implicated
in the killing of Glenn Bush near the GENE
terry at Waynesboro three or four years ago
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Zorn. with
the assistance of j. II. Ivey on Mr.. Grein
er's place near Storey's mill last Tuesday
night A reward of 500 has been Offered
for his arrest and safe delivery. At tn,
time of the murder Sam Williams was ar
rested by Mr.. Zorn as one of the murderers
He was tried, convicted and hung.
The Railroad Commission will meet q
Atlanta to-day 10 consider the petition of
number of colored citizens asking that frs
and second class tickets be sold on all rail
roads They desire that all persons pur
chasing first-class tickets be granted tn
same accommodations Bishop Turner, w
J. Gaines, Rev. Tilman, S. c. Urshaw, f
r. Carter, G. c. Wimbush and Col. s. w
Easey constitute committee which vii
go before the board and ask that the frs
and second-class system be adopted
The bale of cotton shipped to Bremen
Germany, that proved TO he false packe,