The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Officials Salaries Instead of Fees
Georgians Who Ask Remuneration
for Supplies Taken by the Federal
Forces During the Late Unpleasant
ness.
GEORGIA.
Only one Elbertonian refused the right of
way to the G. c. & n. railroad.
Next Wednesday is the day to elect
Mayor and Aldermen for the city of Madi-
son.
Judge J. J. Beck of Morgan, is an avowed
ca ndidate for Judge of the Albany Judicial
Circuit.
B. L. Knox, who paid s., 900 for his hotel
property in Summerville, has been offered
$500 in advance
One night recently, a lady of Greensboro.
killed eighty-nine snails, which had crawled
into her kitchen.
Mr. George Haupt and family left Bruins
wick Saturday for Savannah, where they
will reside in the future.
1t is thought that the damage by high
waters will throw the work back on the {.
r. & G. r. r. twenty days.
Willie Burwell and Hal White, aged re-
spectvely 10 and %, have been elected
deacons of the Sparta Presbyterian Church.
Algernon Lovejoy, a young man in the
employ of Barnes & Co, was killed on last
Tuesday evening near Humphreys, Clinch
county, by falling tree
An old negro man living on the river
near Marshallville, says that a kettle that
holds sixty gallons, was filled three times
by the rain fall of last week.
Two nlen who were arrested for peddling
silverware in Brooks county few days
since were taxed 500 by the County Com
missioners 1t took all their wealth TO
settle the bill.
At Athens the many friends of Andrew
j. Cobb, son of the late Gen. Howell Cobb,
are endeavorlng to prevail upon him to let
his name be used in connection with legis-
lative honors.
There is a man i'll Lee county who has
proposed to seventy women, and has been
rejected by them ALL but he says that he is
enlisted for the war, and will persevere
until seventy times seven.n
The registered business of Thomasville's
post Office for the last quarter was greater
than that of Columbus for the same period.
Columbus is a city Of $4,000 Inhabitants,
brownsville has about 5000.
There is a man in Marshallville that has
been known to eat at one time four pounds
of raw beef, seven boxes of sardines, a half
pound of cheese with crackers. He drank
during the meal thirty-six glasses of beer.
The Princeton factory, situated near
Athens, is soon to be increased to 1900 spin
dies. The mill interest of Athens is on
boom The Georgia factory is charging to
10000 spindles. A new cotton mill is
being erected at Barnett Shoals, besides i'm
provements being made on the Athens fac
tory.
A. G. Flemister, living one and a half
miles north of Tunnel HILL is one of the
best farmers in Catoosa county. He is run
ming dairy farm and is milking six thor
oughbred Jerseys For the month OF Feb
ruary his receipts from butter sold at SOC. q
pound reached 500. His feed bill amounted
to S24, leaving his net profit 500.
In Webster county every dam has given
away. Capt. A. c. Bells big dam, which
has only been broken once in fifty years--in
1SS2-was broken, and 100 feet of it washed
away. This is probably the largest mill
dam in Southwest Georgia, and the oldest
1t is very strong, high, thick and broad and
the pond covers over 100 acres of land.
Work on the st. Simon's hotel is going
forward at a rapid rate. The building is so
far advanced that the plumber was tele-
graphed for to come Immediately and do
his work. Messrs Hollis * Bro, who have
the contract for putting in the electric bell
apparatus, were also notified by the Same
means that their services were needed inn
mediately.
The committee of the Brunswick Baptis
Church have about completed their ar
rangements or the approaching meeting of
the Georgia State Baptist Convention,
which meets in Brunswick April 49, Among
the entertainments to be offered the con
vention will be an excursion to jackson
vile. A rate of So for the round trip has
been obtained.
The House Committee on Claims at
Washington recommend that A. r. Elliott,
Postmaster at Bowman, be credited with
S54 3S on the books of the Post Office De-
partnent, being the amount of postal funds
stolen from him during the fire which oc-
Cured in that place last year. The postal
authorities say that no blame attaches to
Mr.. Elliott for the loss.
w F. Wrve, once an engineer on the East
tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,
has purchased a steam yacht, which is to be
used for the plea ure of the guests of the
Ogletnorpe Hotel at Brunswick, where Mr.
Wrye now lives. The yacht is called the
Lex, and is forty feet long, well equipped,
and will carry twenty-eight passengers. 1t
will sail about Fernaudina, Cumberland
and around Brunswick.
In the National Hose of Representatives
Mr.. Clements has presented these petitions
for reference of claims for store supplies
taken by the army: w. l. Conally, Walker
county, $775; Isaac Blanton, Walker coun-
W, sob; Richard Files, Walker county,
SOLO; William D. Jones, Floyd county,
$3.50; Wesley Rhodes, Coosa county,
81, 057: f. w. Whitfield for Mrs. Mary w.
Carpenter, Whitfield county, 81 ,2O2
AT Abbeville March %, the store of Las
setter, Ham & Co. was broken into Thurs
day night and $15 in change
taken from the drawer. Two
colored boys who formerly worked
at the livery stables are missing and il is
thought they are the burglars. They are
supposed to be i'll Americas as two boys of
their description bought tickets at Rochelle
with nickles and dimes for Americas.
Five bridges have been reported washed
away to Judge Hudson, the Chairman Of
the Board of Commissioners of Harris
county. They are as follows: The bridge
at Shippey's mill near Mrs. Kate Moss. the
Huling bridge on the road from Mountain
Hill TO West Point, the Mitchell bridge
across the Mulberry, the Walker bridge
across the same stream andthe bridge across
the Ossahatchie on the Columbus road
The editor of the Smithcilie Ne,os is in
receipt Of a beautifully worded letter of
thanks from Mrs. Paul H. Hayne, widow of
the lamented poet-laureate Of the South,
expressive of her appreciation of the verses,
AT the Grave of Paul II. Haynen Mrs.
Hayne incloses a lock of the poets hair.
and ZONE flowers gathered from the garden
at Copse Hill, spot forever famous as the