The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-18

GEORGIA.
There will probably be several carloads
of melons shipped from Brooks county this
week.
C. NJ Stafford has been appointed post
master at Bellvesta, formerly OBrien,
Glynn county.
Brunswick's largest mail of the year was
received last Wednesday. The First
National bank alone received on that day
135 letters.
DR.. J. NJ Madden is having erected, on
the lot in rear of Anderson's planning mills,
at Brunswick, six cottages to contain four
rooms each
Sunday Chairman Proudfit of the relief
committee sent $1,000 to Gov. Beaver as
Macon's contribution 10 the relief of the
sufferers by the Conemaugh valley disaster.
The surviving partners Of the firm of s. T..
Coleman, Burden 81 Co of Macon on Satur-
day bought the entire interest of the late
c. S. Wright. 1t is said that the sum paid
was about IS, 900, and was cash payment.
At Marietta 10 per cent. subscription to
the electric light company has been paid in
and work will be commenced at once on the
plans, and it is believed that the city will
be Illuminated by electric lights within
sixty days.
The Atlanta Branch of the Southern
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room on the first floor of the Gate City
bank building, and will fit it up in splendid
style for headquarters for home or visiting
drummers.
Jessie Gotier (colored), who killed Green
Sapp, was tried and convicted Of murder
at Waynesboro and on Saturday was sem
fenced by Judge Rohey to hang on Aug. o.
Mat Jackson goes to the penitentiary for
life for the murder of eye Cooper
The bondsmen of o. F. Adams are anxious
to settle with the,is y of Macon. 1t is said
that an offer will)b made, with good hope
that it will be accepted, on a basis of so
cents on the dollar. This would make be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The matter will
be brought up before council tonight.
Watkinsville Enterprise: Jonathan
Montgomery has a horse now blowing in
the same field on his farm when he returned
from the war. He is now making his TWEEN
ty-ffth crop with him. Mr.. Montgomery
says the horses teeth have worn so smooth
that he can't grind his food and his wife
cooks bread for him. He is doing well and
is very fond Of bread that has no crust on
it. Mr.. Montgomery says he would not
take any amount of money for him, and in
tends, if he is the longest liver, to bury
him if he is able to dig the grave when he
dies.
Watkinsville Enterprise: Little Bob Ash
ford had a lonely experience on Monday
night last. His father thinking he was at
home in bed closed his store as usual about
8 o'clock and went home, leaving little Bob
asleep on one Of the counters in the store
Bob tells us that he remained unconscious
of his Imprisonment until he rolled off of
the counter and fell on the floor. He then
realized his solitary confinement, and with
bravery that would have done credit to one
of more mature years he seized yard stick
to protect him from the rats. He was
found with the stick in his hand two hours
later when his father, missing HIM at home,
returned to the store and realeased him.
T. j. CARING and w. +. Price of Macon
have Just returned from Mineral Hill. in
Fannin county, where they have been in
specting the marble beds recently purchased
by the Macon syndicate, of which these
gentlemen are members. 1t hardly ex-
presses it to say that they are enthusiastic
over their prospects, Nor is the marble
the only valuable substance found. There
is an unlimited quantity Of tale that is
yearly becoming more and more valuable
and coming in greater demand. Besides
this there is earth paint both red and
yellow in inexhaustible quantities. Their
purchase covers a very valuable tract
which extends for one and half miles In one
direction by an average width of $50 feet
In several places they drilled SO feet deep
without getting through the marble.
Atlanta Journal: A right lively con-
troversy is going on in quiet way between
DR.. Joseph Jacobs and DR.. Walter TAYLOR
DIR. Jacobs secured from Anthony Com
stock, the New York anti-obscene literature
man, q letter setting forth that a lot of DR..
Taylor's advertising matter had been sup
pressed as indecent. That letter was litho-
graphed and sent to number of physicians
Dr. Taylor replied with circular 10 the
doctors stating that he had never seen the
Objectionable matter, had ordered it sup
pressed by the publishers when he heard
of it, and that he would not use matter
that would offend good taste, much less
violate the law. He also ''waded into" DR..
Jacobs, and called up the old case against
DR.. Jacobs made by DIR. Schuman. DR..
Jacobs prints a circular defending himself
and showing that he was acquitted of the
charges made by DIR. Schuman. He saws
some salty things about DIR. Taylor, and
that gentleman's next move will be
watched for with interest The contro-
versy is being carried on through circulars
sent in the mails.
The Phillips Melon company, at Adams
park, twenty miles below Macon, on the
East Tennessee railroad, has ZOO acres in
watermelons, and it is estimated that they
will ship 400 carloads of them. They have
200 carloads sold already in Boston. and
dictate has gone in TO make money and they
propose to sell the best melons for the best
price. They have created a specific demand
for their production. and half the crop is
sold before it is ripe. This is new feature
of the melon business that NAV
have astonishing developments. J. L.
Hand of Pelham, S. c., has tried
the same plan, and by advertising choice
varieties only and shipping only the best
melons of those varieties to particular
markets where he has advertised with the
retail trade for several years, he has created
specific demand which gives him a hand
some profit. If the melon growers could
sell their crop ahead they would soon grow
rich. As it is they average a profit. Mr..
Anderson, on the East Tennessee road, who
has fifty acres in melons this year, saws he
will increase it TO 300 next year If the crop
pays as well as cotton.
Athens Banner Watchmdn: Several
weeks ago convict who had served out
sentence in Col. Smiths chain-gang
stole COW from Bob Patterson of Madison
county, and then sold the animal to John
Il. Smith, an Athens butcher. MIR. Patter-
son traced the COW, and Mr.. Smith settled
with him. A warrant was taken out against
the thief and placed III the hands of one of the
best and most careful bailiffs Of Oglethorpe
county for service. The thief was found
near Beaverdam church, and when
the officer attempted to make the
arrest he met with determined
resistance, aud in self-defense he
fired upon the negro with a pistol the ha n