The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-23
GEORGIA.

Oconee River.
GEORGIA.
jug Tavern is to have a brass band.
A fire company has been organized at
Forsyth.
M. NJ Folsom will be the editor of Cedar
towns newspaper
1t is said that St. Simons Island has a
population of more than |, 200 people.
Mr.. Williamson, of Fancy Bluff, Glynn
county, has invented a new car-coupler.
The Pioneer Paper Mill at Athens in a
few days will begin the manufacture of
newspaper
Talbotton young men test each others
courage by proposing walks to the cemetery
after dark.
1t is said that the young ladies of Dublin
intend to boycott the young gents who go
to parties smelling of whisky.
Superior Court met at Camilla Monday.
Owing to the insecurity OF the court house
it is held in the dining room of the Hotel
Georgia.
1t is reported that a company is now
forming in Athens to build mammoth cot
ton mill at one of the shoals on the North
Oconee river.
A new enterprise has sprung up in Law
renceville. 1t is a trade in English bull
dogs. Mr.. Austin scld a pair of pups for
S25 few days ago.
At Acworth Wednesday a citizens meet
ing was held, and it was resolved to build a
first-class forty-room hotel in Acworth at a
cost of from $25, 900 to $4,000.
A farmer in Oconee county said he has
five acres in cane, from which he keeps
from ten to fifteen head of cattle fat all the
winter without particle of other food.
No opposition is now talked of in the
Eighth district to Congress snan Carlton,
and it is a settled fact that he will have a
walk over" for reelection.
A wealthy Pennsylvania contemplates
moving to Athens very soon and embarking
in the dairy business. He will bring his
cattle with him and will do business on a
large scale.
not allow machinery to run / niger than six
years at the length of that time the
machinery is sold, if not to other factories,
it is turned out as old iron.
Judge Hutchins has determined to hold
an adjourned term of Gwinnett Superior
Court on the second Monday in May This
court will be for motions only. and no juries
have been drawn for service then.
At Americas Monday w. T. Harvey pro-
posed TO Nick Jordan that they see how
many oranges they could eat. Five dozen
Mr.. Harvey was two ahead. They agreed
to stop.
William Watkins, who is confined in Jail
at LeeSburg, fell some time during last Fri
day night and dislocated his shoulder.
Watkins says he cannot account for it, as
he dos not know anything about the time
he fell.
Oliver Hays, recently of Smithville, now
of De Soto, has recently bought from the
Americas Investment Company their saw
mill at De Soto, with the right of using
timber or 1000 acres of land adjoining,
paying therefor $4,000 cash.
Judge H. W. Hopkins has bought all the
property in Townsville owned by Adm
Alexander, of Providence, r. /. 1t consists
of property in Fletcherville and vacant lots
on Crawford street, between the Mclean
corner and the Piney Woods Hotel.
1t is pretty generally understood in Heard
county that Capt. II. H. jackson will OBJ
pose Hon. T. w. Grimes for Congress.
Capt. Jackson is President of the State
Farmers Alliance, and expects to receive
the support of the farmers throughout the
district.
A party of New York people passed
through Liberty county last week travelling
by private conveyance. They took time
and camped out at night. Their object was
restoration TO health. They expected to
travel through the country to Townsville
and then to Atlanta.
In about two weeks Manager Lane, of the
Georgia Southern, will give the board of
directors run down on that road for 50
miles from Macon. just TO show them how
well the work of track-laying is being done,
and to give them an idea OF the country
through which the road will pass.
Col Smith, of Oglethorpe, has several
fields of rye about knee high, which he is
cutting down with a moving machine and
feeding it to bis stock. He saws green rye
is the finest feed that grows for horses and
mules, and you can cut 1t four or five times.
Col. Smith has 800 acres sown in rye.
Some little feeling has been caused by
the recommendation of the Gwinnett grand
jury in favor of Solicitor General Brown,
which has brought out a plain card from
Col. G. II. Brand. He says, as there were
three candidates in the field, no move
should have been made by the grand jury.
A Marietta family recently placed a cat
in bag and deposited it in a buggy. The
owner of the buggy carried the cat seven
miles in the country, on Powder Springs
road, and turned the cat loose in the woods
The feline promptly returned to Marietta
and the house from which it was carried.
At Albany Henry A. Hooks, shoe
maker, was sent to the guardhouse for ten
days for drunkenness, and wednesday, by
permission of Officer James, he had his
bench, tools and unfinished work placed
upon dray and taken to his CELL where he
is now industriously at work while serving
out his sentence.
The anti-prohibition clement in Decatur
county are so dry that they are circulating
a petition TO present the Ordinary asking
an expression of the voters on the subject Of
liquor or no liquor. The requisite number
of names has been secured and the matter
will be laid before the Ordinary for his
action this week
Soon after the Thomasville National Bank
started business the Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company, of Savannah, opened nego-
tiations with it looking TO the establishment
OF a branch of that institution in Thomas
vile. These negotiations have been SUCCESS
full, and On April ? this branch will be
opened for business.
At Gainesville Tuesday 100 hands com
menced work building railroad on the site
of the old Cooper road" from the west
end of the Western and Atlantic railroad
bridge up the Etowah river. 1t will be ex-
tended into the Etowah Company's property
at present but in the course of time may
be extended on to Canton, or somewhere
else.
Tinsley Rucker, the father of an Athe-
MAN of that name, was the Trainer of tue
first homestead law in Georgia. He went
10 the Legislature rs a very young man