The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-18

There was big demonstration at East
man, Thursday night, in honor Of u. NJ.
Roberts, judge-elect of the Oconee circuit.
A large number of people assembled at the
depot to meet the train on which he arrived.
A great bonfire was lighted and several
anvis blown up When Judge Roberts
disrnounted from the train he was placed in
a buggy and drawn to his home, followed
by long torchlight procession and crowd
of citizens When he reached home he was
met by his family and number Of ladies.
Mayor James Bishop, Jr., was requested by
a citizens committee to welcome his return,
and taking a stand in front of the house,
made speech. Other gentlemen also made
speeches.
A large crowd was assembled around the
depot at Brunswick Friday afternoon
awaiting the arrival Of the Brunswick and
Western train, which was to bring the two
largest children on earth. They were in
charge of William Howe of Brunswick,
who will carry them 70 the Chattahoochee
Valley Exposition at Columbus aud posi-
bly, on a tour through the northern states.
They are a boy and girl-brother and
sister-and were born and reared at Gray's
station, only few mics from Brunswick,
on the line of the Brunswick AMI Western
railroad. The boy Bonnie wilkins, is only
years old, and his actual weight is 1874
pounds. The girl, Charity wilkins, is only
y years old. aud weighs pa pounds. Their
mother, Zlphey Wilkins, is a medium
sized woman.
l. S. Albritton, the Eddleman juror who
was jailed for contempt, will have served
his sentence next Wednesday. The fine Of
5000 against him is still unpaid, and now
the question is, how long will he have TO re-
! main in jail if he doesn't pay it. The law
yers differ. Some hold that the Judge can
! keep AlbrittOn in jail the balance OF hislife
If the fine is not paid, while Others say that
the prisoner can be taken out on a writ of
habeas corpus, Judge Marshall Clarke did
not like to express an opinion, as the case
was IN Judge Richard Clark's court. Judge
| Richard Clark says be has the power to
/ keep the prisoner in Jail until the fine is
paid, but he will summon AlbrittOn before
| him waeg tae twenty days sentence has OK
plved and ask him TO show cause for not
paying the fine. If Albritton shows that
he is not financially able to do so, he will be
| required to pay whatever portion of it he
can, and will then be released
An accident occurred on the Brunswick
and Western railroad Friday morning,
| which delayed trains and came near result
| Ing fatally to a negro tram hand. The ex-
press freight due in Albany at 5 o'clock was
running smoothly until within few miles
of Albany, wnen the front trucks of the bag
gage car became detached from some cause
and were deraiied. Tho colored brakeman,
Emanuel Williams rushed to apply the
brakes, and was thrown violently from the
train to the ground, and suffered a fright
| full hurt from his head coming in contact
with an iron rail. The conductor, win Ware,
seeing his train hand thrown off, concluded
that mis- only safety lay in jumping, which
he did with no more serious consequences
than a few bruises. The engineer not dis
covering the accident in the rear, kept right
on, the coupling pin proving strong enough
to mold up tho front end of the baggage
car. When the Junction was reached,
whore there is a switch, the train moved on
toward the city on the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway track, while the one
trucked baggage car started on to the
| Brunswick and Western bridge. Then
there was drag and tearing up Of tracks,
which caused the engineer to stop as quickly
as possible.
The executive committee of the proposed
st. Simon Assembly met at Brunswick Fri
day. Col: w. Z. Kay, on the part of the
Brunswick company, was present. and
offered the donation Of ten acres of their
most valuable land on st. Simon Island
The colonel then offered $500 toward an
assembly hall. This Offer was, of course,
accepted by the committee. A sub-com-
mittee consisting of Col. c. p. Goodyear,
| Capt. j. s. Thomas and Rev. Nick. f. Nc
Cook, was appointed TO see an architect and
have plans drawn for a suitable building
Another subcommittee, consisting OF
Messrs A. l. Branham and Edwin Brob-
| s6on, was appointed TO prepare a circular
letter to the teachers throughout the state,
| setting forth the plaHs of the a ISOLATION,
| and asking them to become members. 1t
was decided to set about at oncs raising
| funds by membership fees and subscriptions
| The idea of the association is to build
home for the teachers of Georgia, and to
| get them to contribute toward the same in
| membership fees, TO organize a summer
Chautauqua that will embrace a military
feature, that will interest the musical talent
| of the state, interest the literary talent of
| the state, and in fact make the institution a
summer rallying place for the intelligence
and culture of Georgia.
An interesting case was considered by the
city council of Albany Thursday. Two or
| three weeks ago M. Davis came to the city
rented a store on Broad street and took out
a vendue masters license, paving the usual
license tax of SIS. The store was stocked
with variety OF cheap goods, and regu-
| lar auction business was commenced
| Crowds have been gathering at the place
daily and nightly, and the new auction
house has seemingly been doing a thriving
| business. The regular merchants who pay
| taxes soon began to look with Jealous
and envious eyes upon the auction house,
and petition was finally circulated and
numerously signed complaining of the in
| justice OF allowing a transient auctioneer
to come into the city with stock of cheap
| goods upon which no at UGLoren tax has
been paid to the city, and, by auctioning
them off, interfere with and demoralize
regular or legitimate mercantile business.
The petitioners asked the mayor
and council to revoke the license
1t appeared that Mr. Davis was not doing
his business himself, but that it was being
done by proxy in the person of Mr. Bow
man, professional auctioneer. Mr.. Davis,
in whose name the license was taken out, is
not even in the city. After hearing from
both sides, council decided that Mr.. Davis |
must either come and run his own business,
or else Mr.. Bowman must take out a license
his own name.