The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-26


Woman at Work in Blacksmith
Shop-A Boy Tossed by a Bull at
Abbeville.
GEORGIA
Some enterprisug men of jefferson speak
of establishing bank there.
The erection Of a new canning factory for
Talapoosa Is being strongly agitated.
At Adairsvile a large fire-proof build
ing known as the Merchants warehouse,
Will be built before long.
Romans have subscribed $4,000 Of the
$4,000 needed t. secure the location Of the
Southern Scale Works in that city.
B. ". Davenport reports the sale Of an
iron mine near TaIlapoosa during the past
week. The consideration was S25, 600.
Henry Clausen, of the large cracker house
of Clauson a Sons, of Charleston, will start
a cracker and candy factory at Augusta.
The Blbb county Republicans Will invite
Frederick Douglas to address them march
g. He viii be IN Augusta March 7and 3.
Tallapoosa has got the first whistle that
ever went over the West Point road about
sixty years ago. 1t is on the engine at
Niiller's mill.
Hiram Young, editor of the York pa
Dispatch, is trying TO learn the where
abouts of flag captured at that place by
GordOns brigade.
At Atlanta, a dummy line is soon to be
put on by tho Metropolitan Street Railroad
Company to run TO Grants Park, a distance
OF two and half miles.
Hon. Frank Flynt, the last Representa-
tive from Spalding, has been appointed
internal revenue stOrekeeper and gauger,
with headquarters at Griffin.
A blind horse sold by the bailiff at JET
ferson last Monday brought So %. ii. c.
Barnett, the purchaser, gave the horse for
the hire of plow boy six months.
Thursday little Forest, the - year-old son
of Bud Chesser, living in Forestville, fell
from pair of stills and broke his left thigh
about six inches below the hip joint.
A young physician of jefferson was in
bed but two hours in six days and nights
lately He got no sleep except in his buggy
or in a chair by the bedside Of patient.
A party from New York is negotiating
with parties at TallapoOsa for the establish
ment of chemical works in Tallapoosa, and
run in connection with the charcoal iron
furnace TO utilize the charcoal.
The question Of building a city hall and
court house is now before the citizens of
Tallapoosa. II will be built by subscriptions
of the people, and a large part of the nee
essary capital has already been raised
At Athens Friday afternoon DR.. J. G.
of the students of the University of Georgia,
delivered a lecture on elOcution. The stu
dents subsequently presented him with
cane.
At Hawkinsville Friday Ordinary Nc
Griff declared Pulaski county dry by l45
majority. Six precincts were thrown out
on account OF Irregularities in returns. But
for these the dry majority would have been
only %.
I'll IL -, II A
its game department. The latest addition
is lot of California quail, much larger
than our partridge and very beautiful
bird. They are also expecting daily lot
of English pheasants.
A white mulberry tree standing on the
sidewalk at the Willingham office corner,
at Lexington, shows what devastation
hungry rats will do. monday night they
attacked it and ate the bark almost entirely
from the limbs. Next night they barked
the entire tree.
At Abbeville, Shep. w. G. Rogers baby
boy, just beginning to walk, walked up to
his brother Wills little OK and hit him The
OK not liking it caught him on his horns
and tossed him ten or twelve feet, bruising
him a good deal, but did not break any
bones. He is nearly well.
A few days ago an election for a Justice of
the Peace for the l9lst district, Ebert coun-
elected by IA small majority. Joseph f.
Snellings, Of Elberton, intends to contest
the election. Snellings claims that several
minors voted for Bell, and that when these
votes are thrown out he would be elected
certain man in OglethorDe county who
works at the trade of blacksmithng, never
being blessed with a son to help him in his
shop, has daughter who well supplies the
deficiency. She yields the sledge with a
ny
members of the sterner sex to shame and
withal is described as a most attractive
young woman.
The thirtieth annual commencement ex-
ercsee of the Atlanta Medical College oc-
cur Thursday evening, March /, at DeCiive's
opera house DR.. }. S. Hopkins, President
of Emory College, is the orator of the even
ing. d. w. Wagner of Winterville, will
deliver the valedictory for his class. Diplo-
mas will be awarded to about forty young
men as full-fedged NJ. DIS.
Capt. J.W. Armstrong Messrs. A Angle
ton and f. Gouse have arrived at AbbeVille
and work will begin on the new boats at
once. They are TO build one in sixty days
and one in ninety days. As soon as they
are completed, they will proceed TO build
two more. These boats will be built III the
interest of the Americas, Preston and
Lumpkin railroad. The carrying capacity
of each will be 800 bales of cotton
At Lexington Tuesday as some ladies and
gentlemen were looking over some of the
old books of George F. Platt to see par
ticular hand writing upon them, they came
across a paper dollar hidden between the
leaves. J. I. NJ. HARE is certain that he
must have put it there twenty years ago.
it being one that had been torn and pasted
together and left there to dry Mr. Hare
will preserve the bill as memento.
At Augusta Friday two Carolina boys,
well connected, w. S. Cullam and John
Mailman, were arrested for stealing a watch
from Mrs. Sallie Mcmillan. They were
Jailed after confessing the theft, but they
hoped TO escape after replacing the watch.
which they sold for IS. The watch was a
handsome lady's gold case. Their trial will
take place Monday in the City Court. The
boys claim to have been drunk at the time.
John A. Handey mail carrier from
House Creek TO Dormiuey's Mil, drove into
Otter creek on Feb. II, and it being very
full, came very near being drowned. As he
drove into the current his horse became
frightened and turned down stream, and
became entangled III some logs and brush,
and in trying to cut his horse loose Mr..
Handey was struck by the horse in its
struggles to get away which rendered Mr.
Hanley unable to release the animal and il
was drowned