The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-10

III most Of the eighty millions Of wholesale
ira ie that comes 10 Atlanta every year
The drowning of Oliver Ivcy OF Marion
county was q strange ore M lv'y went
10 kmchafoonhe crcel fishing and not re
turning a noon he family Instituted
search for him On the hRnG Of the stream
his cane vHs found sticking in the sand,
AMI upon .ho end of ii his hat was hanging.
The body OF the old gentleman was found
hanging in a lot of vines close TO the bank,
and the ~IppoSitiou is that he fell into the
crock, and becoming entangled IN these,
was drowned before he could cxtrlCate him
self
About two weeks ago four Mormon con
verts were baptized near tine place Of W. +.
Wall, within few miles of Dawson on the
Albany road. As far as can be learned this
makes a total of eight or ten persons who
have profe>sed the Mormon faith in Terrell
county as the result Of the work of their el-
ders in that section The Journal alsD SAYS
1t is reported that one Of the Mormon eli
ders, who has been proselytiug IN our
county for some time has gone, to Salt Lake
, City to get paper, permitting his marriage
to a young woman in tin, county. We give
the report for what il is worth, hoping at
| the same time that il is not true
Elberton is alive with builders now. The
. town IS full II carpenters and masOus. They
are all busjly engaged aud more are needed.
/ he new Methodist church is nearly com
| pleted. Col. Thomas NJ Swift has the walls
Of his six handsome store rooms up and Is
/ laying the foundation of large brick ware
hou-e. A cotton seel oil company has
bought cut the old oil mill and has com
nelced 10 build large mills, Y. O. Tabor,
/ W. T. Arnold. ID. II. Brown and others are
building handsome residences. Dr. A. s.
/ Oliver is ptling up the stone and brick for "a
fine>store room, and many other improve
ments of various sorts are going on.
The primary election was held in Hall
county Saturday for delegates to the con
vention. which will be held on July IA, for
the purpose of nominating candidates for
the legislature. As far as heard from, the
delegates were instructed to vote for C. L.
Boone Of Gainesville, and Frank T. Davie
of Flowery Branch. The delegation from
I gainesville is composed Of ten delegates
and is headed by DR.. r. Z. Green. The con
vention will also select delegates to the con-
gressonal convention, which meets on Aug
/ IA, ard also the senatorial convention,
which meets at Gillsville at an early day, to
nominate a candidate for senator from the
| Thirty third district
During a storm at ROckmart last
! Wednesday j. T. Carter of Lime Branch,
was struck by lightning and badly stunned
while working III his blacksmith shop He
was standing near the anvil, and the last
/ tuiHB lie remembers De was III the act OF
| picking up pillow. When he came too he
was about twenty feet from where he was
before. Strange TO say about all the dam
! age that was done was one of his shoes
being torn off of his foot. How in the
/ world he ever escaped from being killed is
more than we can conjecture. The only
evidence to be found where the lightning
| had struck was a hole in the ground about
/ twenty feet from the shop.
~
! that 81, 800 has been raised toward the third
/ party campaign in Georgia. 1t appeals to
all members of the party, especially the
| northern brethren to open their pocket
book and subscribe to the campaign fund
All money is TO be sent to Rev. Sam Small
who heads the subscription list with $500 The
amount desired for the work in Georgia is
| $4,000, which is to be devoted to paying
the expenses of imported orators, who will
| hold prohibition camp meetings in every
section of the state. Among the orators
! who viii come is one John A. Brooks of
Kansas. known to the world as the third
| party candidate for vice president
q. NJ. Boyd, mayor, and d. w Louder
| milk, an alderman, both of Adalrsville. dis
! agreed about politics last week, The mayor
| beng ired az certain accusations, met Mr.
/ Loudermilk, with a melon under his arm
| 10 whom he addressed himself as one with
an insult heaped upon him, and accused
| Loudermllk of being the author. The latter
/ returned the lie, and another being ex-
| CHANGED it, brought about a street fight
| Mr.. LOudermlk did not chew his water
melon, but got his superior officers finger
in his mouth and lacerated it fearfullv.
! besides using his kulfe on the side of his
! opponent, but doing no material damage.
In extracting his finger from Mr. Louder
| milk's mouth the mayor pulled out some of
| the former gentemau's teeth Friends in
terfered and separated the combatants.
| At Albany artesian well No. 10 is COM
| pleted at depth of 700 feet Strange finds
are brought up from the earth in that sec
/ ton, At 700 feet a white pine log, a tree
not indigenous here, was struck by the drill
| and quantity of things BROUGHT up In
| digging an ordinary we'll in Mitchell county.
| seventeen miles from Albany, Washington
! Merritt, at depth of twenty-seven feet.
| dug through mass seven feet deep of petri-
fled bones. There were thigh mes, ribs,
| finger bones. teeth, and with these remains
of some forgotten race and immense bones
! OF ANIMALS now extinct. Sim Bowles near
Albany, in digging out for a mill founda-
| ton, came upon the shore of an ancient
ocean. The sand showed the ripples from
| the waves, and was covered with marine re-
mains, shells, sharks teeth and bones of deem
sea monsters.
About forty years ago there was a young
! lady IN Lincoln county who had two sweet
hearts, and, not being able to decide be-
tween the two, she set out two wild locust
bushes IN the yard, naming one for each of
her lovers, and believing in the old adage
IF he loves me TINT bush will grow" and,
according 10 her faith, so it happened unto
| her. One OF the bushes verv soon with
cred, but the other hourished; and. in the
| course of time, she married the gentleman
| for whom the growing bush was named
They raised large family, who are well
| known throughout several counties: and
the locust bush also grew and multiplied.
Time has laid bare the spot upon which the
! old dwelling stood, and nothing remains 10
mark the site of this once happy home but
| the locust bushes Of which there is a com
pete hedge about 100 yards in length The
| lady is a Methodist minister's daughter and
the gentleman a Baptist minister's brother.
Ebert county politics are getting almost
TO the boiling point. Some time ago the
chairman Of the democratic executive com
| mlttee issued a call without consulting the
| commlttee) for a mass meeting of the party
in the court house on the first Tuesday in
| July, to select delegates to the guhernato-
rial and congressional conventions, and also
TO take into consideration the propriety OF
holding primary election IN Ebert county
! to determine who was ElAert's choice
as candidate for the senate from
that district Soon after that the com
mittee met and declared the call
| Of the chat rfna,, fuoutb,,tynI ,-..,,..l .