The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-20

meat and provisions and large crops OF cot
ton, while their wants, being few, they
were able to accumulate money. Hence
the fact that 50 many sons and daughters
of Dolly have been educated abroad. How
well do | remember the Byrums VINO illus
trsted this county in old Wesleyan few
years ago. And many others also could be
named. No community enjoys higher
reputation for open-handed hospitality and
generous living.
A NEW COURT HOUSE.
The advent of The iron horsefhas already
wrought q wonderful revolution. The
modest wooden court house is about to be
replaced with a
TWENTY-FI THOUSAND DOLLAR
Palace of Justice, and real estate is rapidly
advancing. But it is of the county seat,
Vienna, that would speak more particu-
larly.
the first settlers were Jesse Harris, Thorn
as Key and Jere Lumpkin. The town was
then called Berrien. But the county site
was afterward removed to Drayton on the
Flint river. with the hope of establishing
there large steamboat trade. Failing in
this, it was taken back to BerTien and its
name changed to Vienna. This was in
1887. For long period it remained
about stationary, and still looks
dilapidated, albeit in the receipt of
expected arrival in few days of the trains
of the railroad from Macon, has infused
new life into everything. j. 7. Heard is
about to erect cotton warehouse, and
Master Builder D. H. Kirk and big force
of carpenters have all they can do. A large
hotel, TOO, is on the tapis; the churches
have been renovated; an imposing academy,
with Prof w. j. Harvard as principal, and
his daughter at the head of the musical
department, has been erected, and it is evil
dent that the old town has taken new and
grand departure. The recent examinations
and exhibition of the institute drew the
largest crowd ever brought together in
Dooly. Here, too, the indicator, Messrs.
Morgan q Howell, proprietors, the latter
having editorial control, is doing good work
for the country. Then in the near future
looms up the
EDEN EXTENSION
of the Central railroad, which itsis claimed
will make Vienna competitive point and
one of the best cotton markets in Uhe state.
So it will be seen that the people are in high
spirits and sanguine of the future
Among the merchants are d. B. Leonard,
Heard & Hamilton, G. w. Busbee, Hamil-
ton g. Wood, j. L. Peavy, and J. G. & S. J.
Lewis. These all run general stores. In
the drug line we have Fielder s. Howell,
the former a physician and postmaster.
father, DR.. S. B. StovalI, who has had
professional medical experience of thirty
years j. P. Powell sells groceries and
keeps meat market Mrs. A /. Davis has
a millinery and fancy store.
The names of George w. Wooten, G. w.
Busbee, J. F. Powell and w. Bronson, rep
resent the bar of the town. Mr.. Wooten is
a brother of c. B. Wooten, ex-presdent of
the state senate, and again a candidate for
het branch of the sl LAT
q. I. Penny. the mayor of the town, has
also worthily filled the office of clerk of the
superior court for six years.
Hon. J. d. Hargrove has been Dooly's
ordinary for eight years. Both are first
class officials. II. J. Rape is town mar
shall.
Russell Kellam has held the sheriff's office
for fourteen years, and is justly popular.
Mrs. E. c. Everitt, the hostess of the
Everitt house, has kept that establishment,
which is one of the land marks of the
county, for 80 years This ancient inn
will probably be enlarged and improved
shortly. All of the above named citizens
are readers and patrons of the MORNING
NEWS.
AN AMATEUR DENTIST AND CAPITALIST.
The wealthiest and by far the most enter
prising citizen of Vienna is Dr. d. B.
Leonard, who has resided there 40
years. AS uloTCuduU anu
planter he has been alike success
full, and everything he turns his attention
to seems to prosper. Withal, the doctor is
one of the most genial of men and possessed
of some funny idiosyncracies Thus he has
passion for extracting teeth, which be does
Secundem drtenl and without charge.
Hence his title as doctor" to which he has
no other claim than as the seventh son OF
his mother. He showed me several quarts
of full ~
his skill, many of which in point of size and
popularity would grace the Smithsonian
institute. To the eternal credit of the doc
tor be it said that not one Of his hundreds
of patients ever succumbed to the use of his
formidable hawk bill"
SO much for Dooley's old capital And
here endeth this epstle, which has long since
grown to Brobdingnagian proportions. For
give me, kind reader, but what less could
have been said of this favored and compare
lively unknown portion of our noble state.
H. H. j.