The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-03

son-An Atlanta Man and a Roach
Outrageous Articles in a Paper
Circulating Among the Negroe5-A
Quarry Of Black Marble.
GEORGIA.
II is reported from Clinch county that
two notorious negroes have been killed there
by a posse of armed men TO whom they re-
fused to surrender
The Piedmont exposition, which will be
held in Atlanta in October, offers 81, 200
prize for the best county display. Every
part of the state is invited to compete.
Carroll has the largest white population
of any county in the Fourth congressional
district, being in excess of the colOred pop
ulation by 12,2S1. The total population,
according 10 the last census. is 1891.
There will be a mass meeting of the citi-
zens of Button aud vicinity to-day, for
the purpose Of discussing the railroad ques-
ton and the feasibility OF building new
academy.
Rockmart had fire about o'clock Mon
day morning, in which the store and con-
tents of ]. I. Jenkins and the postOffice
were consumed. Mr.. Jenkins had a S25, 900
stock of goods, with only $500 insurance.
The house and postoffice belonged to Mr..
Davis, who carried no insurance.
OdeIl Pinkston is in Jail, in default of
Jury at the coming October term of the SUI
perior court. The trouble with him is that
he entered the room of Mrs Gordon
McComb and stole from it two diamond
rings belonging 10 her.
Atlanta has no salt sea surf scattering
spray upon the snowy sand, but she has two
little fresh water bathing ponds at Ponce de
Leon, and they are well patronized. Last
Sunday a week ago, 225 BOYS and mon
ba
cooling waters of one of them, and on Mon
day there were at the same place 125
bathers.
1t is Henry countys time to furnish the
next state senator from that district, and
the following gentlemen are talked about
in connection with the honor: William T.
Dicken, Col. C. T. Zachery, Hons. George
E. Wise, Edward ]. Reagan and A. Brown,
Rev. S. H. Griffin and W. P. Wilson, Esq.
On last Sunday, in Lawrenceville, b. L.
Patterson had eight chickens killed by
lightning on his lot; at least he supposes
they were killed in this way. He and his
wife left home in the morning and when he
returned the chickens were all lying dead
and the feathers scorched upon them as if
by electricity.
On the premises of G. C. Mailman has
been discovered quarry of very fine black
marble. Mr.. Mailman sent sample of the
rock to the Chattanooga Marble Works
and had it polished, and it proved to be
very fine. The quarry is only two and "A
half miles from Spring Place and nine
miles from Dalton.
j. II. Ray Of Twiggs county, who sends
the handsomest peaches to the Macon mar
ket on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
has on his place three peach trees which, to
his certain knowledge, were bearing in 1913.
The trees are now healthy and full of
bright, juicy peaches. the trees are the
finest in the section and are said to be the
oldest in the state.
Lucius E. Williams, son of w. D. Will
Jams of the Academy for the Blind at
Macon, graduate of Mercer university
who has been for four years
student Of Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, has been elected and
accepted the place as adjunct professor of
chemistry in Swarthmore college, Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. McAllister, an expert in the oil bust
ness, says there are unmlstakable signs of oil
on line extending from Holland Spring to
point in the ravlne opposite MIR. Atkiu-
sons residence, at Rutlege. He also says
that so confident is he that oil can be found
in paying quantities that he will be willing
to take stock in a stock company organized
for that purpose.
1t IS said that prominent merchant on
Slay JOH SJieel, III Al0eUS, mas adopted tl6
following novel plan of determining the
price of his chickens. lie has four coops
In them he has half inch, one inch, an
inch and a half and a two inch auger hole
All the chickens he can squeeze through the
first he sells for 10 cents through the second
IS cents, the third 20 cents and the fourth
% cents. He is making money.
About 40 feet of wall on the east side of
the brick warehouse occupied by G. A.
Broom, of Newman, collapsed last Sunday
morning and fell with loud crash. The
roof extending over that portion of the
building caught on pile of cotton and is
but slightly damaged. The warehouse is
owned by Col. p. F. Smith, who will
begin work at once to resurIect the pros
trate wall.
In a difficulty which took place day or
two ago near Clayton, James Beck stabbed
Tom Page in two places in the back, in
ficting very serious, though perhaps not
mortal wounds The parties were alone.
and both intoxicated when the difficulty
occurred. From the best information OBJ
tainable it is thought that Beck was justi-
able, he having been knocked down two
different times by his assailant before he
offered any resistance.
Smithvlle Ne,cs: There Is an old timer
in j. +. Johnson's possession. 1t is the
outer leaf of an old almanac, which was
edited by Thomas I. AShmore of Lincoln
county and published by Guieu & Thomson
of Augusta in the year 1899, just fifty years
ago. The leaf came in the possession of
Mr.. johnson not long since by a negro man,
who found 1t in the old dwelling recently
vacated by James Adkins.
A Mr.. Clayton recently went into the I'M
dertaking business at Roswell He sent in
his application for membership to the Flu
neral Directors Association and was re.
jected, for the reason, it is supposed, that
there was already one undertaken at Ros-
well, and the place is too small to support
two. By some sort of an agreement the
coffin manufactures only sell to members
of the Funeral Directors Association. and
Mr.. Clayton found that the market is closed
against him. Mr.. Clayton has gone out OF
the business.
L. j. NJ. Bell of Heard county, was bitten
by mad dog last week, and on Friday he
had the maidstone owned by j. A. Brett an
piled to the wound. The stone adhered
three hours and thirty minutes before fall
ing off. 1t was then cleansed by being
boiled in sweet milk and again applied. and
adhered two hours and ten minutes. On
being applied the fourth time it would not
stick. The milk, after the stone was
boiled in it, had green, poisonous appear
ance.
On Friday United States Collector ]. H
Ringer, assisted by United States Marshal