The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-11


Banking Enterprise at Dawson.
GEORGIA.
Townsville wants another hotel
Eighteen passenger trains pass through
Dalton daily.
Dawsonites used 81 800 worth of postage
stamps last year
Dawsons Journal wants a baby show
held in the town
The citizeus Of Pleasant Valley are going
TO build a school house.
The Eflngham Hussars will send strong
team TO the Jasper Festival.
Rev J. +. Hammond is the new rector of
the Episcopal church at Washington.
New manufactures are exempted from
taxation for term of years in Dalton.
Bishop Weed, of Florida, will visit T.
Burrell Green at Washington next week.
The estate OF the late Editor Dwinell, of
the Rome Courier is appraised at $50, 900.
Solicitor General Query, of the Pata la
circuit, will not be in the field for re-eIec-
ton
The buildings which were destroyed by
fire at Marietta last December have been
rebuilt.
association if a prospect now on foot ma
terializes.
The population of Boston and its imme-
diate environs has been increased $50 within
the last sixty days.
g. j. Trip, of Dodge county, killed re-
Gently pig only Is months old that
weighed $40 pounds.
At Washington J. w Chapman has sold
his house and half the lot to the Little River
circuit for parsonage.
Rolla Ryan an actor well known in the
small towns of Georgia and Florida died in
Texas o few weeks ago.
F. c. Hulse, grocer, Of Augusta, sold out
Thursday to W. r. Parks, who held a mort
gage of 81 900 on his stock.
Up to date there have been shipped from
Washington 10 1876 bales. of cotton, against
1910 at this time last year.
Duncan Jordan, who recently retired
from the Postmastership at Cuthbert, had
held the Office sixteen years.
Manager Vandenberg has decided on Feb
% as the time for the banquet to the citi-
zens of Dawson at the st. James Hotel
John Fox, an old citizen, died at his home
at Brunswick Thursday from a cancer with
which he has been afflicted for many years.
John A. Trader, small hardware dealer.
of Augusta. W ts closed by the Sheriff Thurs
ay because of his inability to meet rent
notes.
The late William Lowry of Atlanta left
az estate valued at slSS,O0O During his
life he had given his children large sums of
money.
Joseph Shields, of Marietta, had foot
badly mashed a dav OF two ago by block
of marble weighing 1000 pounds which fell
while being raised
The contest for the Superior Clerkship
waxeth warm at Brunswick. r. W. Thiot,
Jacob L. Beach, w H. Rainey and E. NJ.
Dart are candidates.
Mrs. Gull Sale, of Wilkes county. visited
Washington Tuesday for the eighteenth
time in thirty years, though living but a
few miles from town.
A business firm transacted in Perry
during January last, cash business to the
extent of more thar $1,000. with a cash
capital of not more than $1,000
The Secre' airy of the Houston county
Union, Agricultural and Social Club an
nounces that an agricultural fair will be
held at ldyl Wylde park next fall.
Boston is the fourth town on the Savan-
han, Florida and Western railway, between
Savannah and Townsville, in point of
population and commercial Importance.
AT Pelham the melon business is assum-
ing immense proportions. There will also
be an unusually large amount of land
planted in cotton and potatoes this year.
The lamp post taken from in front of the
St James Hotel, at Dawson, a few nights
ago was found under the house of George
White cut up into fire wood. White was
fined.
Wednesday negro woman was on the
Central railroad train to Albany with a
pet pig in her arms in place of the little dog.
so much affected by her more fashionable
sisters.
DR.. W. H. Tut subscribed $500 to Au-
gusta's Exposition Thursday, and the White
Dental Manufacturing Company made the
first application for space for their London
exhibit
A party of gentlemen from Dawson spent
two or three days in the neighborhood of
Joiner's pond last week hunting and fishing.
and caught 2S5 fish, which aggregated $50
pounds.
A Citizens and Business Mems Associa-
t2on" has been organized at Dalton for the
purpose of promoting immigration and in
ducing manufacturing industries to locate
IN Dalton.
Nobody in Rome knows Z. B. Jones, who
is said to have married his aunt, Miss Lula
Jones, at Washington day or two ago.
Both parties were said to have been Romans.
The story is probably untrue.
A Savannah firm has made proposition
to furnish all the money needed for a
national bank at Dawson il the people of
Dawson viii take stock TO the amount OF
1900. Dawson has good State bank.
About a year ago little son of w. A.
Dover, of Calhoun, cut his toe while chop
ping with hoe. The wound never healed
and on last Saturday Drs. Reeves and Ma
lone amputated the toe at the second joint.
At Rome Thursday Dick Dempsey. a
compositor in the Tribune office for the
second time in a week, attempted suicide.
While under the influence of opium be
tried to jump into the Etowah river, but
was prevented.
In proceSsi on of Free Masons at Coch-
ran on Thursday last there were sixty-five
members in line from Eastman, Cochran
and Hawkinsville. 1t was ascertained that
out OF the sixty-fve only three were OPP
posed to prohibition.
Henry Burney, the negro charged with
robbing saloon keeper named Reinhart of
$1,000 at Dublin, has been sentenced to
four years imprisonment Many Of the
best citizens Of Laurens county do not be-
lieve that Burney is guilty.
The following salaries for the town officers
of Dawson have been fixed for the present
year: Mayor 500, Clerk $3.50 and per
quisites, Treasurer $75, Marshal 5000 and
perquistes, Deputy Marshal $3.50, Street
Overseer 1920, Lamplighter $l20.
Mr. Winfield, a prosperous merchant of