The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-14


holds its own. There are but few changes
in the mercantile firms, and all seem
solvent and happy
Mrs G.. Lord has opened nice millinery
and fancy goods store. Swainsboro boasts
three comfortable hotels. One of these.
bearing the name Of the town, is owned and
kept by Mr.. M. Overstreet
Hon. David H. Smith, for three years the
judge of the county court, makes an ex-
cellent officer, and his tribunal not only
expedites justice, but has proved a great
saving of expense to the county.
b. F. Coleman has been clerk OF the
superior court for six years, and he is also
clerk of the board of county commission
ers. He is the right man in ths right place.
Mr.. S. S. Moore is the popular sheriff OF
the county. The veteran ordinary also still
holds the fort.n
l was pleased to meet again j. l..
McLemore, who was delegate to the late
congressional convention at Brunswick.
Albeit Norwood man, he is well satisfied
with the nomination of Col. Lester There
was much complaint for the want Of rain
and the corn and cotton crops will hardly
reach an average
Without calling upon the reader to move
an inch during this blistering weather.
which parboils water without fire, and
brings everything animate and inanimate,
transport him incontinently by the legerde-
main, which is the prerogative of the fourth
estate, to the pleasant town of Sylvania,
the capital of the good old county of Scri-
ven. This is par excellence one of the
most refined and cultivated communities to
be found in the interior. The people are in
teligent, moral and patriotic, as has been
demonstrated time Ind again by those sent
forth to represent them in the state legisla-
IN mud "a halls IF Who ic nOt
familiar with the history of the Blacks,
Singelltons and Dells, who have Illustrated
their state and county in the past. 1t was
with real pleasure, therefore, that found
the outlook for the future in every respect
cheerful.
Quite number of buildings, among them
the neat Methodist parsonage, have recently
been erected, and trade, despite the dull
season, was moderately brisk. Among the
foremost merchants are j. f. Lovett, who
does a large and remunerative business; B.
Miller and L. H. Hilton, also the proprietor
of a new and neat hotel.
+. o. Wells runs an extensive wheel
wright and blacksmith establishment
r. l.. Slngellton is the clerk of the
superior court and prominent politician
and exemplary officer. He will be called
upon to stand" for the same position at
the next election.
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the railroad is also the proprietor of the
"Wells house" which is much too small to
accommodate bis guests. He is an affable
and pleasant gentleman.
d. B. G. Nuunally is a near relative of
the distinguished divine of that name, and
ex-clerk of the superior court He is an
nounced as a candidate for the same office
again, and has a numerous following.
MILLEN AND wAYNEsBoso ON THE WING.
Before going into Savannah made fly
ing visit to the two towns above mentioned,
but for lack of time and space must'dismiss
them both with only passing remark or
two.
At Millen was panied toSf1nd R. Berrien
on the sick list with an attack of malarial
fever He was convalescing, however, and
expected, when able to travel, to make a
change of scene and climate BY visit to
his relatives in Rome. Millen has no more
enterprising and worthy citizen than he.
The hotel here has again changed hands,
and is now coducted by the proprietor, G..
w. Dwelle, assisted in the office by o. B.
Waters, as clerk 1t is frst-class in every
respect
Messrs j. H. Daniel & Son continue to
do large mercantile business, but report
the crops on their extensive farms far
below an average. The same is true of
Burke county and this whole region. The
cotton weed is small and poorly fruited and
seems to have suffered both from drought
and lack of proper cultivation. Many fields
will not yield bale TO ten acres, while the
corn crops are correspondingly inferior.
Some ascribe this result to politics. Sambo
feels his Importance, and laying aside the
''shovel and the hoe" expects to reap har-
vest the present year from the numerous
competingca ndidates So much for universal
suffrage Col. Wilkins of Waynesboro will
enter a large number of hlooded roadsters
and colts at the Augusta and state fairs
He owns the most magnificent private stud
in Georgia.
W. McCathern still monopolizes nearly
all of the commercial travel at his popular
boarding house, and, in addition to his
present large general store, will start two
more shortly, built of brick, with w. Nc
Elmurray and G. B. Banks associate part
ners. Mr.. McCathern runs thirty six plows
and has !, 900 acres in cotton. Last year his
crop yielded 1856 bales, and from a four-mule
farm he marketed Ill bales of cotton. TIC
it's population Waynesboro probably does
the largest business of any town in Georgia.
FiniS. II. H. j.