The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-09

\ few months ago while cleaning the
Well on the grounds OF the old Confederate
laboratory at Macon, now owned by
Thomas w. Troy, negro man discovered
that there was music at the bottom OF II, a
sound similar 10 that Of kettle singing on
a stove The singing can be heard several
feet away. What produces the sound Is
unexplained
The Atlanta Board Of Trade has leased
its hall in the Chamber. of Commerce
building TO the Southern Railway anu
Steamship Association, which organization
now occupies two floors of the building:
The lease is to run until Aug. /, lsSs, ana
the amount Is $50 per month. II IS claimed
/ that the Board of Trade rarely meets as
body. and that when II does 1t can hold It's
sessions in the Council Chamber.
The barroom element is again in power at
| Atlanta, and they propose 70 exert them
selves 10 the utmost TO strengthen them
selves against reaction. A well concerted
movement has been projected and Is being
/ carried out 70 plecipltate tight IN every
dry county. IL Is current gossip that John
b. Goodwin will be their candidate for the
Senate, and Col Reuben Arnold, Fulton
Colvlle ami Adam S. Prole for the House.
At West Point Andrew Turner lcoiorrdl
| is dying from a pistol shot wound IN the
/ head. Last Saturday night, at a negro
/ festival. negroes from near Lafayette, Ala,
! came down 80 settle old scores with some or
! the West Point negroes. In the melee plS-
tolls, guns and knives were freely used
jim Robinson was shot through the back Of
the neck, jerry Rivers was slaShed badly
about the face aud head, and Andrew
| Turner mortally wounded.
Walden is a large distributing point for
fertilizers The farmers haul away ton
after ton, and yet more comes There is
one interesting fact about the purchase OF
| fertilizers by the farmers in the vicinity Of
! Walden. A large number of them pay cash
for all they use. They club together and
| buy guano in large lots and at reduced
rates. They find cooperation in the pur-
! chase of fertilizers so profitable that they
have begun to practice the same methods in
! buying farm supplies and home neceSsarieS.
Mrs. Thomas Bottoms, Of Townsville,
| has the canteen Of her brother, Thomas j.
| Woody, who died during the war. 1t has
been beautifully ornamented with sketches
! in oil by young lady from the W est, Miss
Mary Palmer, whose heart knows no North
no South no East, no West. The following
inscription on the old cnnteen perpetuates
| its history and the name Of the one who car
ried it: Thomas j. Woody, Company +,
| Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment, died at
hospital No 3, Newton Miss, Sept. ), 1868,
in his 22d year
Henry Brownee was arrested at Canton
! y,
seducing "a white girl. About two years
ago Judge TIllman Chambe paid Brownlee
out Of jail, where he had been sent for
| stealing some cotton, and put him in his
home with his granddaughter His business
was to stay in the kitchen where the girl
was, and She says that he got her confidence
while the old people were away from home
some time i'll November last, and ruined
| her. Brownlee confesses, and says she men
toned the subject first. Brownlee is about
IS years Of age, and the girl is about l6
About 100 Scotch stonecutters quit work
at Stone Mountain Monday. They were in
the employment of Nenable Bros q Foster,
| who own extensive quarries at Stone
| Mountain aud Lithonia. The cause of the
strike is that thirty negroes were brought
from Virginia to work in the Stone Noun
tain quarries, and the Scotchmen were or
dered to take up work in the quarries at
| Lithonia. This they declined to do, saying
| that if they could not choose between the
two quarries they would quit. The negroes
who were employed received $40 per thous-
and, while the white workers have been re
ceiving $50 per thousand for block cutting
AT Cave Springs the young ladies had ar
ranged to give a leap year party. Two
well known young men wrote letters of in
vitation to two society young men, invit-
ing them TO the party, and signing the
names of two young Ladies' The young
men receiving the invitations were very
much eated, until they found that they had
been hoaxed. This enraged them, and they
swore out warrants for forgery against the
two young men who had signed the young
ladies names to the letters. All the parties
connected with the transaction are of the
highest social standing, and the affair has
created IA considerable sensation in the town.
The trial has not yet occurred, and efforts
are being male to have the matter ami
cably adjusted.
The second annual meeting of the Indus
trial Home, a house of refuge founded in
Augusta two years ago for fallen women
who wish to reform, was held Tuesday
night and largely attended. The reports Of
officers showed that during the first year
81 1913 had been collected, 81, 100 of which
had been devoted to the purchase and fur
nishing of the home. During the second
year the total receipts were S045 81. which,
together with the balance of the first years
collections, had been expended in current
expenses. The directors and officers of this
institution are leading men of the city,
without reference to denomination or sect,
and the home is doing a good work. A
comfortable home has been provided, an
excellent lady is in charge as a matron, and
the success of the movement in encOurag-
ing. Nine is the greatest number of
inmates yet had at any time.
The annual meetings or several important
corporations were held in Atlanta Tuesday.
The Dade Coal Company elected Senator
Joseph f. Brown, President; Julius l..
Brown, Vice President; Elijah a. Brown,
Secretary and Treasurer, and Joseph e.
Brown, Jacob w. Weaver and julius l..
Brown. Directors The Castle Rock Coal
Company, Of Georgia, elected Julius T.,
Brown, President; Elijah A. Brown, Secre-
tary and Treasurer; Joseph L. Brown, ia
cob w. Seaver, Julius L. Brown and Joseph
NJ. Brown, Directors. The Walker Iron
and Coal Company elected Joseph E. Brown,
President; julius L. Brown, Vice President
John w. Hoffman, Of Philadelphia, Pa
General Manager, and Elijah A. Brown,
Treasurer. The Chattanooga Iron Company
elected Joseph f. Brown, President; Julius
l.. Brown, Vice President, and John w.
Hoffman, General Manager.
FLORIDA.