The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-03


GEORGIA.
A Military company is to be organized at
Washington.
The Undertakers' Association meets at
Milledgeville May "a
gentleman froru Philadelphia was in
Milledgeville Thursday prospecting with a
view to planting a vineyard near that
place.
Mr.. HYDE. who has the contract for
building the new Methodist church at
Waynesboro, is waiting the arrival Of the
lumber.
During the month of March thirty-one
vessels arrived in the port of Darien.
During the same time there were twenty
clearances.
The Rome Tribune delivered Saturdays
edition with boats, the food making it i'm
possible for the carriers to make their cir
cults on foot.
1t is rumored that DIR. J. G. Armstrong
contemplates organizing in Atlanta some
classes for the study of dramatic literature
and oratory.
The cooking range which was given to
TIE Baldwin Blues of Milledgevllle, was
shot for last Wednesday, and w. A. Jarratt
was the lucky man.
All the stone cutters at the rock quarry
near Sparta refused 10 go to work Friday
morning, DSCduSbr as tuey dIIeBts IAoH
wages were reduced from 81 90 to soc. per
day.
About 1900, 900 feet of square and scab
timber was measured at the public boom at
Darien during March. Several million feet
of sawn timber also came down during the
month.
Maj. Thomas Burney, long connected
with Georgia journalism, and who recently
went to the State Lunatic Asylum, is con
valescent, and has fair prospects of a com
plete restoration to health at an early day.
The thirteenth session of the Grand Lodge
of Knights of Honor of Georgia will con-
vene in Atlanta April IL, at the hall of the
Gate City Lodge, corner Broad and Ala
hama streets, and continue in session two
days.
Richard Howard, a sailor belonging to
the American bark Albert Schultz, was
crushed and killed by having a large piece
of timber fall on him at Union Island near
Darien few days ago, while at work on
the vessel.
Elder E. ]. Williams, of Berrien county,
was reported in a critical condition from
the effects of a hemorrhage from the lungs
a few days ago. Owing to his extreme age
it is feared he will be unable to rally from
his illness.
The residence of the late Col Richard L
Morris near cambridge was burned few
days ago. 1t was insured for $1,000 There
was no insurance on its contents, which
were burned, causing loss of several thou
sand dollars.
At Americas Saturday the stock of
Wooten & Ford was sold at sheriffs sale
under foreclosure of mortgage in favor of
the Peoples National Bank of that city.
The stock brought 81, 800, and was bought
in by the bank.
Capt. John Keely, of Atlanta, has retired
from the dry goods business to enter active
ly into the management of the Neal Loan
and Banking Company, in which he holds
full interest, and which is one of the most
important financial institutions in the city.
The Americas Daily Republican, in its
first issue. dominates the following ticket:
For President, Grover Cleveland, of New
York; for Vice President, A. H Colquit, of
Georgia; for Governor, John B. Gordon, of
Atlanta; for Congressman, Third District
Charles F. Crisp, of Sumter.
At Americas, Saturday, J. j. Cranberry,
assignee of Davis g. Galloway, who failed
two years ago, sold in a block the uncol-
lected notes and accounts due the old firm
for the benefit of creditors. The amount
aggregated over 81. 900, and was knocked
off to Mr.. Galloway for $500.
Neil Starks, the negro boy who sent a
double handful of squirrel shot through his
brothers face, causing instant death, and
at the same time infiicting ugly and deathly
wounds upon Tom Crowly, a kinsman. Is
now confined in the Fulton county Jail.
The prisoner gave himself up.
Little India, the daughter of T. j. Bran
don, who lives about four miles from Bos-
ton, was badly burned on Saturday last.
She was playing with some other young
people near where fire was built to bnrn
some rubbish, and in jumping over it her
clothing caught. She Will survive.
Wednesday quite sensation was Great I'd
In MIlledgeVille by the telegram from the
Signal Service Bureau that local storms
might be looked for in that section The
day was sultry and warm and the clouds
had every indication of a cyclone. The
people were excited, and many prepared for
refuge in cyclone pits gulleys, etc Several
parents sent to the college for their chill
dren. Luckily the cyclone did not put in
an appearance.
At Atlanta Saturday Porter King filed
in the Office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court a suit against the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad company.
The plaintiff is L. P. Sawtell,
who alleges that he lost by the company's
negligence l54 bushels of Crawford's peer
less cotton seed, tine market value of which
is $40 bushel. The seed was shipped TO an
oil mill near Atlanta and was crushed into
oil He seeks damages in the amount of
$3.50
Mary Bonds, an old colored woman of
Americas, after being blind for four years.
50 as to have to be led about wherever she
went, has been restored to as good sight as
she ever had, in one eye, BY an operation
She was on the streets Saturday looking at
old friends she had not seen for many years.
The other eye will be operated on in about
ten days. Although the eye was absolutely
laid open, no one can now see that it was
ever cut. A little scar appears high up
under the upper lid, but person has TO
look close and raise the lid to see it.
Commissioner A. ?. Butler, of the Caro-
lima department OF agriculture was in Au-
gusta Saturday. Farmer 3. H. Tlman of
Edgefield, was also in the city During the
afternoon Capt. Tillman was seated in a
buggy below Washington on Broad street.
when Col. Butler drove by in close proxim.
ity. The gentlemen were close enough to
have recognized each other but did not
appear 10 do So The fact is made motto
able through the correspondence which had
passed between them regarding the work
ings Of the agricultural department in South
Carolina and the proposed reform move
ment among the farmers.
As an evidence of the amount of business
done annually by the three banks in Ameri-
Gus it is stated upon good authority that for
the first quarter Just ending they have