The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-01

The Democratic Mass Meetings in
Every Instance Declare for Cleveland
and Tariff Reform Subscriptions
Being Obtained for Young Mems
Christian Association at Waycross.
GEORGIA
Joe Morton E. A. Jelks, J. T. Davis and
A. J. Rountree will represent Brooks county
In the Atlanta convention.
The grand jury has recommended the
erection of a new court house for Barlow
county, to cost about $50, 900.
Primary meetings were held in all the
precincts in Floyd county, Saturday, &c
send delegates to the county convention,
which meets Wednesday.
About $500 has been subscribed toward
the Young Mems Christian Association
branch at Waycrcss, and the soliciting CON-
mittee will probably get 800 more.
B. Rosenblatt and IL C. Bailey are estab-
fishing an artificial stone works in Macon,
and have already secured contracts for fur
nishing their stone to Siesels building and
the new Catholic church.
AT Macon, q day or two ago, a negro stole
the piece of Grape from the door of a house
in which there was a death. The emblem
of mourning was a rosette Of Grape, with
ends of the same material.
The Democrats of Sumter met Saturday
70 select delegates to the State convention.
John A. Cobb, j. H Black. Neil Ray and
j. E. Thomas were unanimously elected
and resolutions adopted indorsing President
Cleveland.
Charlie Smith and Henry Martin, two
white boys about ~ years of age, were
drowned while bathing in the Chattahoo-
chez river at Columbus, Sunday. The Cor
oner held an inquest and returned a verdict
of accidental drowning
In the Mitchell County Democratic Con
vention, Saturday, d. K. Butler and G.. R.
Twitty were elected delegates TO the At
lanta convention, and resolutions were
adopted indorsing President Cleveland,
Senator Colquitt, and Congressman Turner
Mr.. Reinhart, formerly member of the
firm Of Prick & Co., Of Philadelphia, Pa -,
has bought the shops at Covington from the
company, and has organized stock COM
pany among the capitalists of the city to
equip and run first-class cotton seed oil
mill and guano factory.
Saturday. Rockdale county selected six
teen delegates to attend the DemocraticState
convention to select delegates to the ma
tional convention. There was a good at
tendance Cleveland, Colquitt and Hon.
John d. Stewart were unanimously in
dorsed by the convention.
A gentleman who has visited Albany
lately informed reporter at Brunswick,
Saturday, that the artesan wells in that
city were not flowing as freely as in the
past. 1t appe rs that the wells are giving
out, or becoming clogged with sand, which
operates to diminish the flow.
On Friday every English sparrow nest
under the roof of the union passenger depot
at Macon was pulled down. On Saturday
there were six full size nests back in place,
and now there are dozen more. 1t is said
that they build by the electric light, and
thus make such rapid progress.
mass meeting of Lowndes county Dem
ocSats was heh Saturday. Hon. C. r.
Pendleton and A. J. Harrell were elected
delegates to the State Convention. No
other business was transacted While the
question was not brought up, the position
OF these gentlemen is well-known, and
Lowndes county is practically solid for
Cleveland and low tariff.
Thad Brown, of Hall county, was hauling
saw-logs, Saturday, when, in trying to
load his carriage, he loosened several large
logs on steep hillside. They commenced
rolling and came on with such force that
the wagon was overturned and the man
crushed. When found he was dead, with
two large logs upon him At the time OF
the accident he was alone.
Beginning on Tuesday evening. June -.
the Presbyterians of Georgia will hold a
series of meetings at the Central Presbyte-
rian church in Atlanta. The meetings will
be held for three days for the purpose of
celebrating the centennial of Presbyterian
ism, and for the consideration of ways and
means for establishing a Presbyterian
university in the State of Georgia.
At Waycross work has been commenced
on Blackshear's block of tenement houses
occupying the same location as his building
which was burned, and the two lots between
his former store and the Baptist church. Ii
is to be only one story high, $50 feet front
and IS feet deep. This week work will be
commenced on his store on the other side of
the branch, which is to be two stories. Ga by
70 feet, also of brick.
At Darien two days of Justice Court re-
suited, in the case Of the State VS.. Lawrence
Daniels, assault with intent to murder by
poisoning Richmond Singleton, on April Is.
in committing to Jail the defendant in de-
fault of $500 bail, and in the case of the
State VS.. Prince Bryan, as accessory before
the fact, Bryan was also committed, but
gave the required bail of $500 for appear
ance at Superior Court.
Hancock county's Democratic mass meet
ing Saturday elected delegates to the two
State conventions, and Endorsed President
Cleveland, Senator Colquitt, and Gov. Cor
don. The reelection of the present State
House officers was Endorsed. Resolutions
were also unanimously passed advocating
the election of Judge Lewis and Solicitor
General Howard as delegates from that dis
trict to the st. Louis convention.
j. N. johnson, of Sumter county, owns a
mule that is 81 years old-two years older
than himself. The animal has helped TO
make twenty-nine crops. and has either
run away or thrown some one every wear
of her life. Mr.. johnson says that be will
retire her this year on pension. All the
food that is given her has to be chopped III
or ground. Levi johnson, Joe's father
bought her out of a drove in Americas
twenty mine years ago.
Athens Graphic: Parties who were on
the streets Friday saw our corpulent friend
William Pittman, and our lean friend. Mr.
George w. Rush, riding down the street
together. A countryman seeing them.
asked who they were. Upon being told. he
remarked: THAT must be a patent medi-
cine advertisement The lean fellow rep
reSents before taking and the fat one after
taking. Stop 'em stop 'em! / want some
for my wife, and the last seen of the man
he was running after the buggy with his
tongue hanging out.
The Committee on Commerce of the
House Of Representatives has amended Mr..
Clements measure authorizing the Chatta
nooga, Rome and Columbus railroad TO
construct bridge across the Coosa river
or bridges across the Oostanaula and Etc
wah rivers at or near Rome by providing