The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-28

On the frs: Monday in July the case of
the policy holders against the Cotton States
lie Insurance. company is set for trial in
BIB county superior court. The amount
Involved in this case IS about 10000.
There arc about COO plaintiffs. who desire
this sum divided among themselves. The
stockholders, however, desire 10 come In for
bite OF this plum, but the policy holders
object There are other assets of the COM
pany besides this 500 900, and the policy
holders prefer ths stockholders to obtain
their sugar out Of these assets
TIE democratic party Of Ebert county
VIII bold mass nesting on the first Tues
day in July next, at the court house in
Elberton, for the purpose Of electing dele
gates 20 the gubernatorial convention 10 be
held in Atlanta on Aug 9, and TO select
delegates 70 the congressional convention
and for the further purpose of determining
whether or Not they will call primary
election in Ebert county for the purpose Of
placing before the people Of the Thirtieth
senatorial district candidate TO represent
said district, a senator, in the next legisla-
ture.
The contract for the pipe work for the
Chattahoochee brewery, at Columbus, was
let the past week TO the Georgia steam and
gas pipe company. Several thousand feet
Of pipe are required for the job, and is used
in making all the coils, etc, for the manu-
facture Of beer. The Georgia steam and
gas pipe company will also erect the re-
fngerating apparatus for the cooling de-
partment of the brewery. The contract for
the plumbing and gas fitting OF the new
boys public school building was also
awarded 10 the Georgia steam and gas pipe
company.
At the annual meeting Of the board of
trustees Of the Georgia Baptist seminary of
Gainesville June %, the president, Rev. ID.
Z. Butler, and the vice president, Judge ID.
H. Gambler. having both died within the
past year, Dr. J. w. Bailey was named as
president, and Judge J. B. Estes as vice
president. Messrs K. Palmour, s. c. Kick
lighter, 2. T. Castleberry, G. c. Sanders,
Revs r. ID. Hawkins and F. G.. Mcconnell
were added TO the board Of trustees The
president. A. W. Van House, made his an
nual report, which shows gratifying progress
in more directions than one.
Rev. j. II. Hardwick died at his home in
Hancock county, on Tuesday night. He
had been in feeble health for some time
past, and had a severe hemorrhage from
the lungs on Sunday night, from which he
soon sank into his everlasting sleep. He
was about As years old, had been a minister
for fifteen years, and was much esteemed
by his neighbors, friends and acquaintance.
re was TRUE anu courageous hOiUleT, De-
longing to the famous Fifty-ninth Georgia
regiment, and won the highest confidence
both Of comrades and officers. He leaves a
wife and several small children.
Rockmart Weekly State: The Ragsdale
boys OF Cedartown, who, it will be remem-
bered, stole DR.. Bells horse at Esom Hill
last year, have got themselves into Jail
again. A man by the name of Burns, who
had been boarding with the boys mother,
is missing and blood was found on the floor
When questioned about it they claimed
that it was caused by a man breaking
through the window and cutting his hand
with glass. We do not know how true the
report is, and we give it for what it is
worth, but there is one thing certain, and
that Is the Ragsdale boys are in Jail again.
An indianapolis special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer: The Georgia delegation. the ma
jorlty colored, were intercepted here by the
Harrison committee, and, after dining at
the Hotel Bates, were escorted to the resi-
dence Of Harrison, where an informal
reception was held. The hotel proprietor
protested most vigorously against receiving
the colored delegates as guests, and there
was an exceedingly strong interview be-
tween him and the city attorney Taylor
before he would consent to throw open his
dining rooms, and he only did SO then I'M
der threat of bringing suit under the civil
rights bill.
On Saturday morning Stephen P. Martin,
a well-known citizen of Turin, Coweta
was killed by falling headforemost
into a we'll forty feet deep at Henry Huff
mans, in Heard county. Mr.. Martin and
another young man went down in the well
to make blast. The young man told Mr..
Martin that he could not stand the gas, and
was drawn out almost suffocated. Mr..
g.. = a.. L..
down for him. Putting his foot in loop
in the rope he was avn to the top. Wpen
the air struck him he tainted and fell back
into the we'll, mangling him terribly. He
leaves wife.
Richard Tolbert died at Villa Rlca on
June 26. Not long since he was working in
the gold mines and a large clod of dirt
dropped off OF the cut on him and broke
one Of his logs, and being very old he was
unable TO pull through, and yesterday he
was attacked with cholera morbus which
terminated I'm death "Uncle Dick" as he
was commonly called, was an extraordinary
man physically. He was near 80 years of
age and never had a spell Of sickness be-
fore. He has been on the mines around
old Villa RIGA for about fifty years, and the
accident that befell him lately was the first
that ever happened to him.
Sneak thieves entered a room occupied
by three young men at Albany. They
brought their trousers out on the porch
rfled the pockets, carried off the money
and placed the watches and pocketknives
in a bunch, piling the pants on top of them,
and leaving them in the moonlight. Their
entire haul amounted to 70 cents, there
being three new coppers in the booty, which
they, doubtless. took for gold pieces. One
of the slumberers was Macon lawyer of
goodly girth. Had the trousers been oar
ried off, he would have had to stay over
until tailor could have remedied the diff
Guilty, as no clothier could have supplied
him.
Americas Recorder: As showing the ex-
tent of the watermelon crop aud the large
territory opened to it as a market, we give
the following item as showing one days
shipments from South Georgia to the north
west. 1t is probable that an equal number
of cars were shipped TO the northeast
through Savannah: Sixty cars of melons
won't forward from Albany on Thursday,
distributed as follows: Atlanta 8, Rome l.
Cincinnati s, Louisville 4, Ssndusky l,
Peoria /, Cleveland 6, Springfield 2, New
Orleans s, Kansas City 3, Chicago s, Column
bus 4, Lexington 3, ST. Louis |, Nashville /,
Chattanooga 2, Indianapolis /, Toledo /,
Birmingham l.
Saturday next quite delegation Of vet
Grams of the war between the states will
leave Atlanta for Gettysburg for the pur.
pose Of attending the reunion of the blue
and gray upon that famous battlefield. It
is believed that the reunion will be very
largely attended. The Fulton county con-
federate veterans association ;fill be repre-
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