The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-19


the Saddle from Atlanta 70 Boston.
GEORGIA.
Brunswick will readopt sun time OF Sat
urday.
The Louisville Gas Comoany has decided
not to establish a gas plant in Dalton.
A mule hearing the brenl 4 the Confel-
crate army was driven into Athens, Wednes-
dav
Dick Dowdv severely carved Frank
Rycraft, rear Copeland, in Dodge County.
few nights aga An old feud was tie
cause of the ARRAY.
Stephen Terrell. Of Brunswick, who fred
at his wife with a pistol day or two ago,
and then attempted suicide, was tried
THURSDAY, convicted and sentenced 10 the
psnitentiary for three years.
The Methodists Of Thomaston will have a
new church u worship in next winter. The
amount which the building committee
started out to raise has been reached and
passed. ard the committee is now consider
ing plans, locations, etc.
One day last week, Mrs. r. T. Bivins, of
Schley county. found large turtle in her
back yard She placed a stick at his mouth
and as he seizei it, she chopped his head of
with an ak. He balanced the scales at
twenty-@ight pounds, was twenty-six inches
across the back.
Mr.. Barwick, superintendent of the
Clark county pauper farm, SAYS that one
of the paupers, a Mrs Nix, had a chicken
Matched out the hr I of january last. This
chicken commenced laying Nav l, and is
now setting on fourteen eggs. This IS the
quickest time on record.
gentleman living near the Oconee
river, at TOcmsburO, put fish basket in
the river last fall, the river rising until he
was unable to get the basket until a short
time ago whe 70 his surprise, he found
four catfish in the basket that weighed 100
pounds. There were also several other
smaller fish.
religious revival is now going on in
Thomaston. This is its fourth week. and
nearly the entire town has been brought
under its influence. the meetings alternate.
a week at a time between the Baptist and
Methodist churches, and the members of all
denominations attend and work, and pray,
and rejoice together.
Edward Atkinson, Jr., and ChaIes At
kinson, sons of Edward Atkinson, of Bos-
ton, left Atlanta Thursday on HORSEBACK for
home. They were accompanied by a col
ored man who drove wagon. The party
will ride through the country and expect 10
reach Boston in two months. The object
In making the trip is TO have an opportunity
TO see the country
A negro boy, about grown, while bathing
in the Oconee river near Blackshearfs
ferry, about five miles above Dublin, day
or two ago, was drowned. 1t was impossi-
bic for any of his several comrades to rens
der him any assistance whatever The
body has not yet been recovered, nor is it
known whether it is near the place where it
sank or has foated down the river.
Considerable comment is being INDUCED
IN over sermon preached at the Methods {
church at Dublin last Sunday by Mr..
Thompson, the Methodist minister in charge.
Some citizens are indignant and say that
such sermons are uncailed for Mr.. Thomp-
son has just returned from trip TO Hot
Springs, Ark, and, it seams, has taken a
peep at some Of the waywardness of the
world.
The Board Of Directors of the Gainesville
Fair Association met in the court house
Thursday and transacted some routine bust
ness. The site for the fair grounds was
freely discussed, and after the advantages
OF the various places were shown up by
their favorites, the board decided to take
the Banks common, which is located on the
south side of Broad street, which leads to
the famous New Holland springs
At Macon Supt. Voss, Of the dummy
line, has force of sixty experienced hands
at work on the track and road, aud they
are doing some very rapid work Capt
VOss has returned from Americas.
where be closed a contract with the Ameri.
Gus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad
for enough iron 70 complete the four miles
that they are going To build. These rails
were bought for the Americas, Preston and
Lumpkin narrow guage.
For the first time mad dog has made it
appearance in Oconee county. No one
knows from whence il came The first
mischief done was the biting Of dog wh ich
belonged to J. j. Donny about four miios
from Dublin. Mr. Denny barely escaped
being bitten himself. Several other ami
mails of the neighborhood were bitten, and
strange as 1t may seem, several Versions
have refused 10 kill their dogs thus bitten.
and only keep them confined.
Gainesville has fine material 70 organize
an anti-fat mems association, ald q strong
effort is being made to set the Jail in motion
Among the real fat men thel'e are Messrs,
4. I. Murphy, John Blatts. Archibald Pat
terson, G. c. Dunbar, Oliver Clark, Frank
Wallace, L. ID. Pickett, w. w. Hood. I.
s. Campbell, John E, Rewdins, Jr., win
Newman, VIII Wheichel. IL is said that
the above named gentlemen, twel ve In num-
Der, won't weigh over 200 pounds.
Something ovepa month ago a young
printer named y. I. Parrott, who hailed
from Cameron, Milan county, Texas. ar
rived at Brunswick. One week ago last
Monday he left his boarding house, saying
that he was"going out for a days fishing. Is
This Is the last that has ever been heard OF
him. Tnere are several dollars yet due
him in the office in which he worked, and a
reporter learned at his boarding house that
he owed nothing for board. This precludes
the idea that he skipped the city and rem
dePs it probable that he must have been
drowned or was pressed on to some vessel
about to sail.
At Atlanta, Thursday, the Plow Boy
Publishing Company brought suit against
w. e. Maher for $4,000 damages. The
company publishes a weekly paper at East
Point, known as the PlotO Boy, and the
general impression of the public has been
that the Plow Boy Publishing Company
was John L. Conley. A short time ago, in.
the trial of the famous POst-Appedt CASE.
Maroellus e. Thornton got Judgment
against John L. Conley aud his bondsTlen
for several thousand dollars. When the
case came up in the Supreme Couro the
Judgment Of the court below was affirmed.
A week or two ago, at the instance of Mike
Maher, who is one of Conley's bonilsmen.
Sheriff Perkerson made a levy upon the
property of the Plow Boy Publishing Com
pany TO settle the Judgment against Con-
ley. The petition AYERS that Conley does
not own in whole or in part the .Pfo,o Boy,
and has no interest in the company that is
publishing it.