The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17

Lexington MeTCuduIS AaiklllB
Carrying the Cotton Overland b,
Wagon on Account of High Freigh
Rates.
GEORGIA.
Fayette superior court convenes to-day
The Senoa ice factory will be in opera
ton about six weeks from now.
Dink Melvin of Albany says he can ca
twenty boxes of sardines at one sitting.
At Vadosta the law firm of Wilkinson &
Ashley has been dissolved by mutual agree
ment and consent
The Dublin brick company has made Owe
100000 brick this season, aud all of then
were used in Dublin.
Several new merchants have lately moved
to Athens and opened stores in that city
Every vacant house will be filed.
The Wrightsvile and Tennille railroad
stood the flood remarkably well, as the
schedule was suspended only one day.
While digging a well on D. K. Butler !
place, rear Camilla, day or two ago, a
vein feet thick of lumber of "A good quality
was discovered.
W. l. Holman, one of Clarke's most sue
cessful farmers, has a large field of upland
corn, from which he will make over fifty
bushels per acre.
". ID.
Carroll county. weighed a sweet potato, the
other day, of this years growth, that tipped
the scales at AZ pounds.
The cotton crop in Lowndes county has
been greatly damaged, much Of the open
cotton having been beaten out of the bolls
and whipped into the ground
1t is reported that Col John McCalla, one
of the wealthiest citizens of Ebert county,
contemplate moving to Athens for the
purpose of educating his children.
The attendance at the ensuing session OF
the state university at Athens promises to
be unusually large. Dr. w. L. Jones is
getting the experimental station IN splendid
trim.
The merchants Of Athens are by no means
blue over the crop outlook. They say a
fair harvest will be gathered, and the out
look for prosperous business was never
better
Athens has two citizens over 30 years old,
and they are remarkably hale and hearty,
too-Henry L. Britain and John II New
ton. DR.. A. A. Lipscomb is also nearing a
century
A large kiln of lumber belonging to the
Baptist church at jefferson was burned last
Wednesday. the loss was nearly 500.
This will retard the building of the church
somewhat.
Carrollton is to have a new bank. The
capital stock will be $25. 900. 1t is the
opinion of many that Z. G. Kramer will be
the president and Henry Lanier of West
Point, Ca, cashier 1t will start business
by Nov. l, probably sooner.
The waters have been up in various parts
of Greene county. No crossing could be
made at Richland bridge or the Penfield
road, and the pole bridge near Greensboro,
was also under water. 1t is feared that
much damage has been done.
At Athens, Friday, Col. James NJ. Smith
bought enough bagging for 1000 bales of
cotton. He says that this year the farmers
are powerless, and he sees nothing left but
TO submit to the exactions of the trust, and
buy their bagging as heretofore.
Charles Green, as black as the ace of
spades, has announced himself as a republi-
can candidate in Clarke county for the leg
islature against Bill Pledger. His candi-
dacy splits the negro VOTE and insures the
election of Mr.. Tuck, the democratic nom
lnee.
The cotton crop of Brooks county is
above an average, much of which is housed,
and the weather for the past ten days mas
been very unfavorable for gathering.
Farmers are mad about the cotton banging
combine, and the crop will be moved
slowly.
letter from H. G. Hewitt, a noted hotel
man Of Georgia, inquiring about the pros
poets of building fine hotel in that CITY,
of which he proposes to take cnarge. There
is good prospect now for Athens to have
a fine hotel, as several capitalists are fgur-
ing on one.
A chartered train came through to AL
bany from Decatur Thursday night, bring
ing number OF refugees, with their bag
gage 1t stopped, as Albany was Only
quarantined from southern points AT a
meeting of the city council Friday a rigid
quarantine was declared upon ali trains en-
tering the city from every direction.
the Georgia railroad having increased
the freight rates on cotton from Crawford
to Athens from 10 to 10 cents, Lexington
merchants are seriously contemplating the
establishment of a wagon train to haul
the staple They claim that they can
haul it cheaper by wagon than by railroad,
and save freight on goods hauled on return
trips.
The heaviest continuous rain ever known
in McDuffie county fell on Saturday night
and Sunday week ego, and the damage to
property and crops has been heavy. Nearly
every mill and mill dam in the county has
been injured or ruined. At Bonneville, Hum
phrey's, John Faucets, Morgan Willing
hams aud j. L. Smiths, more or less dam
age was done, while the injury TO bridges,
roads and crops cannot be estimated.
There is renewed talk of holding another
election in Athens to try and bring back
liquor. Under the act IL will take ma
jority of the legal voters of the county to
call an election. 1t is said that an effort
Will be made before the next legislature to
have the prohibition laws amended so as to
require druggists to register the names Of
parties to whom they sell liquor, and turn
over this book, together with the physicians
prescriptions, to the grand jury for inspec-
ton.
The name of Roswell junction, a station
on the Richmond and Dauville railroad
Atlanta ana Charlotte division, has been
changed t. Chamblee, the name of the post
office at that point, which will in the future
save great deal Of confusion in the mail
and freight matter. Chambee took its name
from a cologed man, who was the only negro
signer on petition to the postofice depart
ment. After repeated efforts for name
for the postotfice, the department selected
ChGmblee. in honor Of the negro
Outside Of the injury TO cotton and other
crops the principal damage by the rains TO
Brooks county was the loss of the county
bridge over the Wiihlacoochee, between
Brooks and Lowndes counties. The boom
at Dobson's mill on the river broke. and a
great number of large and heavy log,
floated down the stream. and their pressure
being more than the bridge could stand, it
gave way. This bridge was almost new,