The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-16


migration Movement-A Fly in the
Wheat in Ebert.
GEORGIA.
Talbotton needs timer
Talbotton needs good bakery.
Talbot Superior Court is in session.
The Atlanta recruiting station will cease
TO exist on March 81.
Mallory j. Thornton is a candidate for
Sheriff of Ebert county.
There are eight post offices in Talbot
county and twelve precincts
G.. NJ. O'Bryan, a well known farmer of
Floyd county, died Tuesday.
A new lodge of the order of Knights of
Pythias is forming in Macon.
Six new dwellings are in course Of cree
tion or just finished at Jesup.
A steam laundry will be connected with
the ice factory at Townsville.
Brunswick's handsome new hotel, the
Oglethorpe, is well filled all the time
James NJ Mallard offers himself for the
Office of Tax Collector of Scriven County.
A State military encampment on st.
Simons' Island is suggested for the summer.
Two hundred volumes have been recently
added to the University library at Athens.
At Dawson a clock that was repaired fif,
teen years ago, is still in perfect running or
der.
Hawkinsville and Americas are red hot
for direct railroad connection with Savan-
nah.
Hope Brannon offers himself for the Office
of Receiver of Tax Returns of Scriven
county.
1t is reported that Northern capitalist
will build a $4,000 hotel in cambridge
this year.
A Jesup man has added lot of collins to
his business of wheelwright and black
smithing.
The firemen on board of the English
steamship Tiverton, now at Brunswick,
are Hindoos.
At Gainesville thief robbed =. B. Mat
thews' house of seventeen $50 gold pieces
Tuesday night.
The fishermen at Lumber city are catch
ing large quantities of shad, for which they
realize fine prices.
Brunswick is to have cotton compress.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad is interested
The ladies at Mars ,allville have invited
Capt. J. p. Carson, Of Reynolds, to deliver
the memorial address.
GAINESVILLE is supplying Athens and At
lanta with chickens. There are hundreds
snlDpeu ually from tnefe.
There is an old gentleman in Athens who
has musket that his grandfather carried
in the revolutionary war.
J. G. Thompson asks his fellow citi-
zens to support him for the office of County
Treasurer of Scriven County.
The store of Messrs. Miller & Way, at
Johnston, was robbed one night last week
The loss was estimated at $500.
Scriven County didn't raise the amount
asked for by Col. Fry for the new railroad
Only about S25, 600 was subscribed.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with the
meat prospects of Fort Gaines, and distem-
per is very prevalent among the horses.
Rev o. B. Graves, former citizen of
Athens, but who has been residing lately in
San Antonio, Tex, has returned 10 Athens.
Hon. James Fl. Blount, member of Con
gress for the Sixth Georgia district, will
spend few weeks on Cumberland Island
next summer.
Saturday night dog run wild in one of
the beef shops of Americas and tried to bite
every one. He biz innumerable animals
before he was killed.
There are now living in Athens a half
dozen persons whose agse range from 90 to
100 years, and very large number whose
years exceed three-score and ten.
A negro boy was drowned at Wright's
mill, in Banks county a few days ago. His
hat blew off and fell in the river, and in at
tempting to get the hat he was drowned
The people Of Pike District, Ebert county.
have built a comfortable and connections
school house at Pike on the Elberton Air
Line railroad, four miles above Elberton.
The Elberton Light Infantry has received
its uniform, which is very neat and hand
some. being of a light grey color. They
expect to receive their guns in a few days.
In consequence of starting the Americas
Daily Republican, on April /, the Semi
Weekly will be discontinued after Wednes-
day, April q, III order to prepare for the
daily.
Two small gourds are owned by Lawson
Smith, of Wilcox county, that we're used
by his father for carrying gun powder.
One of them bears the date of 1918, the
other 1920.
Three negroes few days ago entered at
the same time Berry Hays store at Dawson
having but two good eyes among them
one was totally blind and the other two had
but one eye eaca.
j. w. Cl1pton, of Sumter county, had a
hard time shooting a COW mad with hydro
phobia, a few days ago. She captured a
negro cabin, running the family off, before
she was finally slain.
The election for Ordinary of Troup coun-
ty, to fill the unexpired term of William C.
Yancy, passed very quietly Monday, Robert
M. Young being elected by majority Of
IS over Col j. A. Broome
At Dawson Jesse Wall and George Thomp-
son had each boy born about the same
time, each boy weighing about the same
number of pounds, and now after lapse of
five years, their weight is still about the
same.
George Fearn, Of Thomasville, offers to
donate Magnolia Park to any man, or com
pany of men, who will put on it. or near
enough to it, so that it can he improved and
used as part of the grounds hotel of
from 80 10 100 rooms
Wine is sold on the streets at Lumber
City by the quart every Saturday bv a cit
Izen of Montgomery county There is al
ready trouble growing out of this violation
of the law, and the people are very much
wrought up over the matter.
Nine thousand dollars was recently paid
for the Leatherwood farm near Murphy.
containing iron ore. marble tale, and soap
stone. The purchasers, Maultby and
Cogburn, have also established a plant al
Gainesville for the grinding of mineral
paint.
The Presbyterian church of Marietta on
last Sunday called Rev. II. X. Walker TO
the pastorate of that church, and IL is
highly probable that no will accept and
be there in the next sixty days. He is now
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ia