The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

OAAO1lNA - 1 ~ a ! 49,
Col. Northen Declines To Be Inter
viewed on the Governorship-A
Ghost on a Brunswick Dock-Gold
Mining Operations Near Dahlonega
A Hart County Farmer Falls Heir
TO an Immense Fortune.
GEORGIA
A dry dock and marine railway will soon
be built at Brunswick.
Rev. G. w. W Stone, D. d., died at his
home ID Oxford Friday.
The new reservoir in Macon is 10 have
capacity of,,l5, 100000 gallons.
Land was sold in Hartweli Tuesday at
the rates of SOS, 800 per acre, cash.
The Brosius Sewing Machine Company
of Atlanta, are spending $4,000 on their
plant.
Jim Seagraves Ccolored) has been acquit-
ted in Griffin of the murder OF Bob Brown
tcolored.
The election for captain of the Brunswick
Rifiemen has been set for sept. II. Lieut.
=. S. Morris has been spoken OF.
The rice pIanters of Mcintosh county are
Having good weather. Cutting has been
commenced all along the line.
There are some cotton fields around
Athens that will yield nearly two bales per
sacre unless something befalls them.
During the month of August there was
measured at the public boom in Darien
tabout 800 900 feet of timber of all kinds.
John Sims of Sumter county has, up to
date. marketed eight bales of cotton, made
on three-mule farm, which Melted him
sS444 49,
The directors of the Darien bank have
LEASED the building they have been occupy
ang for the past ten months as banking
Ehouse, for five years.
The Royal Arcanum Of Dawson has paid
MRS. Nose Baldwin, Jr., $4,000 for her oene-
lit on the recent death of her husband, and
the Legion Of Honor $1,000
Lewis Fleming who is one Of the best of
Brunswick's amateur bicycllsts, made the
"trip from Bunkley's hotel to Carnegie's, on
Cumberland, distance of 20 miles, In an
bhour and twenty minutes.
The new town of Aurelia-Baisden's
EBluff-has secured a telegraph line Two
steamers arrived the other day loaded with
freight The inhabitants are going to petit
fion for the establishment of postoiice at
that point.
Within the next sixty days the extensive
tand valuable plant of the Macon Brewing
Company will have been completed, and
within the next seventy days the brewing
tof beer will be in operation.
At a meeting of the Mcintosh Agricul-
I4ural Society, held in Darien on Saturday
last, it was decided by unanimous vote
that Mcintosh county should contest for the
prizes at the Piedmont exposition and the
.Atate fair.
The baby daughter of Mr., Marcellus
|Troutman, a farmer living above Rome,
was baptized las, Sunday VITA water from
the river Jordan. The water was brought
from the Holy Land in a bottle by a rela-
tive of the family.
Agent Glover of Dawson says that the
shipment of whisky from Dawson to dry
counties has doubled in the last few days.
He says they have been drinking beer all
summer, but the same parties are begin
ming to take all whisky with vengeance.
The authorities of Albany recently i'm
pounded a COW and sold her to n butcher,
the proceeds amounting to S. IS. The owner
brought suit because of Irregularities in adj
vertising sukey's sale, and the jury allowed
him $50. Tue city will take the case
higher.
Sam Patterson, poor but hard working
man of Hart county, has inherited 81, 100000
from his great grandfathers estate in Eng
land lie has employed an attorney to look
after his part of the Inheritance. There are
twenty-Six heirs, and the estate is said to be
worth $4,000 900.
In few days b. H. Richardson will re-
tire from the Admission Hot Blast for the
purpose of taking charge OF the Columbus
Enquirer, vice W. l.. Clark. The directors
of the Merchants and Mechanics Bank viii
still own tue paper, and no material changes
are to be made except in the manage
ment.
Mrs. f. A. Crawford of Clarke county
has letter that was written by James Mon
roe to William H. Crawford in 1914. 1t is
written in clear, plain handwriting, and
has faded but little under times telling
1l .fxF IL
1t pertains TO the situation of war affairs
in Great Britain at the time it was written.
The school spirit at Sparta is rapidly
materializing, The citizens have raised
$500 in subscriptions and turned over t.
Sparta Male and Female Academy, TO be
used with other resources within the com
mand of that school, to make a first-class
free school. Prof. ". I. Dumas, of Monti
cello, was elected principal.
The incoming Columbus freight and &C
commodation train came near beine
wrecked between Americas and Lacrosse
Friday. Among other freight there wer,
several carloads of brick near the center o
the train. The wood work under one Of
these boxes gave way, which allowed tn
box to drop down nearly to the track
Pieces of the car fell between the tracks
and it is a miracle that some of the othe
boxes were not thrown from the track b.
them.
The new plant at the Lawrence mine
being erected at Dahlonega The batterie
for a ten-stamp mill and all its appui
tenauces are on the spot. Last week Henri
Roberts and D. T. Keysimade 159 dwts. {
gold in one weeks run on ore taken iron
the Bass cut, near Dahlonega. This ore
heavily charged with sulphurets, and
that amount of free gold could be take
from the quantity of ore milled, there is II
telling the result if the sulphurets wer
treated
The residents in the vicinity of the cit
dock at Brunswick have witnessed som
very strange sights and heard unearthl
noises there lately. One gentleman is I,
sponsible for the statement that the form
a woman clad In white has been seen hove
ing over the streets, and when approache
would retreat and disappear among IL
lumber piles. Another has heard gat,
slam, stones rattle on housetops, and var
Gus other noises that sounded queer. The
attribute these sights TO the ghost of
woman who died there recently.
The Farmers Alliance is a strictly sout
ern Institution. Its membership extend
only to Kansas and Missouri, in the nortl
west, and to Maryland in the east. tt
organization was started in Texas, and ii
first alliance lodge was organized in Octobe
1880. Texas is the banner alliance stat
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