The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-03

of affairs
The clothing firm of Charles Wachtel &
| Bro, of Macon and Chattanooga, has been
forced TO the wall, Those who accommo-
dated the firm at home are fully secured,
the creditors Interested being in New York.
Parties are expected in Macon soon who VIII
arrange the future Of the house no assign
mont has vet been made, aud Wednesday It
had not been definitely determined upon
how the affairs Of tho concern would be
wound up.
J. f. Lewis & Son. Of Montezuma, have
! bought the steamer MOutezuma. The boat
was built two years ago by stock COM
pAny of MonteMma merchants. {. i.
Lewis. the banker, has +. r. Hathaway in
charge of it as Captain 1t makes a trip
once a week t. Warwick and brings cotton
under the Amcricus, Preston and Lumpkln
railroad, while wagons haul il over from
the Americas, Preston and Lumpkin TO the
Mont yuma market.
DIR. II. r. Thompson, who owns a carp
pond near Cedartown, has for some time
been finding dead fish Of all sizes floating
on top of the water. Investigating the
| cause, he discovered that two cranes were
paying nightly visits and doing this deadly
work With n shotgun and patient vigils
during the night, the doctor has been re-
| warded by viewing the dead body Of one
of the pestferOus fowls and has served
notice on the other to expect a similar fate.
At Macon Wednesday Coroner Hodnett
held an inquest on the body Of an unknown
white infant found buried on lot
of land belonging to U. NJ. Gum, near
the Southwestern railroad. A blow had
been dealt the child on the left temple and
| also on the back of the head The jury
| brought in a verdict that the deceased, a
| child unknown, came 20 its death by blows
inflicted with some instrument likely to
| produce death, and that in their opinion it
! was murder.
/ J.. McManus 81 Co. and Philip Dohn &
| Sons will soon commence the erection OF
! large furniture factory at Macon. IL VIII
| be located on the land now leased by Hays
! & Mansfield, and will be built with n special
| view to the manufacture of the finer as well
as the cheaper grades of furniture. They
| will manufacture furniture of such oak as
is obtainable from about Round Oak, on the
| Covington and Macon railroad, and from
the poplar obtanable in the swamps below
| Macon. in fact nine-tenthS of the wood
used by them will be Georgia-grown.
AT Americas last Saturday evening, as
Mrs W. c. McLane was standing in front
of the CRATE in her room at the boarding
! house Of Mrs. JoSsey, the back part of her
! dress caught fire. The first she knew of 1t
was the roaring of tine flames around her
head. She became frightened, ran down
| stairs into the room in which Mrs. JOsseY
and her sister were sitting. Mrs. Jossey
| seized an overcOat while her sister emptied
| two buckets of water on the burning
clothes The flames were extinguished and
Mrs. McLane escaped with only the loss Of
her clothing aud a slight scorch on the calf
of one leg
p II. Calmus, the senior member Of the
late firm of F. H. Calmus q Bro, of Hawk
| insville, has entered into an engagement TO
travel for a suspender manufacturing com
pany, and is now on the road soliciting
orders for suSpeuders-and suspenders only
A few years ago the company commenced
operations with but little capital, and, of
course, on a small scale. Their business,
from a very small beginning, increased
rapidly, so much so that their sales now
amount to over Sl25,000 a year, aud roth
ing is sold or manufactured but suspenders
Mr.. Calmus says that his sales in some of
the large cities have run up to $1,000 a day,
and in the smaller cities and towns they
amount to from $500 to 81 900 day.
At East Macon Just before dawn Wednes-
day fire broke out in the building occupied
by Frank Tharpe and Tom Burns as bar
rooms. Tharpe lost his bar and fixtures
valued at 81, 900, outside of his improve
mentS, which will run the amount up TO
couple Of hundred more. He was insured
for S7115 with Cobb, Cabaniss & Cobb, and
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insured and lost about 5000, his total outfit
in the bar business. The building was
owned by Messrs. Hudgins and Grehan.
Tharpe occupied the portion owned by Mr..
Hudgins, which was valued at 50, 500, and
fully insured. Burns occupied the portion
owned by Mr.. Grehan, which was worth
$500 and was fully insured.
Dr. II. H. Tucker has been appointed
receiver of the Benevolent Home at Atlanta.
Certain compliments alleged that the
| Benevolent Home property had been di-
verted from its original uses and purposes,
and they asked that the property be turned
over to them or else that some disinterested
person be appointed receiver. The respond
ents, in their answer, denied any diversion
but surrendered their trust into the hands
of the court and asked that DR.. H. H.
| Tucker be appointed receiver. Judge Clarke
decided that the bill was not sufficient to
authorize the appointment of a receiver,
but, inaSmuch as the respondents had sur
| rendered their trust and asked the appoint
ment of DR.. Tucker as receiver, he was APP
pointed without bond until the further order
OF the court.
An indictment from Fulton Superior
Court of Deputy Marshal Mcdonald and ex-
Deputy Marshal j. p Chisholm, for tho
murder of John Brown, of Campbell county,
"a moonshiner, was taken up at Atlanta
w euiltoltN III Ulle OllluSh GoidlSS circuit
Court Brown was sent to the penitentiary
at Albany i'll the early part of 1886 for illicit
distilling, but was released under a decision
of the United States Supreme Court that
an indictment was necessary TO send him TO
the penitentiary. He then returned and re-
opened his Illicit distillery in Campbell
county, and he was shot Oct |, 1886, while
resisting an officer, The State was repre-
sented Wednesday by Solicitor General c.
D. Hill who stated that iuasmuch rs the
only witness in the case, by whom he hoped
to make out a case, was dead, he would al
low the jury to return verdict of not
guilty.
Apalachicola has two oyster-canning fac
tories.
Apalachicola fishermen report business
good.
The Board of Trade of Gainesville is to
be reorganlzed.
S. W. Marks, of Orange City, is said to
wear No. 10 shoes.
Money is said to bring 10 Per cent. interest
with good security at De Land.
A large force of hands is pushing work
ahead on the Carrabelle and Tallahassee
railroad
The Citizens National Bank of Orlando
is cashng, without discount the warrants
of the city.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Gainesville Melted $50 ~ from Il concert