The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-21

carriers. This makes four regular negro
carriers, with the negro substitutes in the
line OF promotion in case of the removal or
resignation of any Of the white regulars.
In the railway mail service there are seven
negro clerks on trains running out Of At
lauta, and about twenty five on the Georgia
division under Supt. l.. NJ. Terrell. The
Western and Atlantic has one negro clerk,
the East Tennessee one, the West Point
three and the Georgia two. Some Of the
democratic employees are kicking.
A telegram from Gadsdeu, Ala, was re-
ceived at Calhoun Sunday, asking the
sheriff 10 look out for the notorious Rube
Burrow, and his colleague, Jackson. Some
little excitement prevailed for a while, and
the sheriff collected a few men and watched
all the passenger trains for the desperate,
but TO no purpose. Somehow the impression
has become extant that Rube is hiding
about IN the northeastern portion Of the
county. IN the nelghborhoOd Of a small vii
lage IN the mountainous regions called
Petersburg. One johnson, who killed
man by the name of Brown at the above
named village some years ago, and who was
sent to the penitentiary, but who has been
pardoned, has recently been seen in the
county, and it is thought by some that he is
Burrows partner. The rumors of his pecul-
lar conduct, carrying a Winchester rife,
and having a crude substitute for an armor
to turn bullets, gives rise to some extent to
these suspicious.
United States Marshal Buck has begun
chopping OF democratic heads Saturday
morning Marshal Buck requested Chief
Deputy Marshal Mitchell to hand him the
list Of the deputy marshals. It was a
lengthy document and bore, besides the
names, the record Of each mans work All
day Saturday the men who knew their fate
was in the balance remained about the
building, fearing every moment to hear
that they had been tried and found want
ing. When Col. Buck retired to his room
with the list he also took with him blue
pencil of phenomenal size Monday morn
ing the list was returned to Chief Mitchell.
and the use TO which the blue pencil had
been put was apparent. Scored and
marked with great blue dashes the
once immaculate paper was no
good men and true, who have for four years
served the government, were obliterated.
There was no appeal from the blue dashes,
and the only course left TO tho tea men was
to pack their traps and leave the United
States building. This they did in the fol-
lowing order: j. f. Stevens G. I. Tankers-
ley, N. ii. Upshaw, William Buise, John
Knox, j. E. Finley, G. Il. Conyers. J. J.
Rowe and A. c. Godfrey After they we're
all gone Marshal Buck appointed James Z.
Carter, as good a republican as any, TO do
the work of the men discharged. The record
of j. E. Stephens, the first man to be dis
charged, showed that, with one exception,
ne had made more arrests and had done
better service than any man on the force.
The Oketinokee swamp will be sold to
Che highest bidder on Jan. z. Tho bill which
passed the late general assembly provides
that this land be advertised for sixty DAYS
and sold TO the highest bidder, but no bids
shall DO received unless they exceed 1917
cents an acre. Hon. G. R. Pendleton, who
spent several weeks in the swamp with an
exploring party ten years ago. says the
larger part of 1t is rich black mud,
which, when drained, will equal the
rich bottom lands of Mississippi. The
mud is from five to twenty feet Deep
The state has been offered I2L
cents an acre for this property by Hon.
Frank Hall of Dahlonega aud Marshall p.
Phillips of Philadelphia. If no higher bid
is made they get the land at 121S cents an
acre. 1t has been said that d. G. Purse of
Savannah would offer % cents for the land,
but no such offer has been made Similar
swamps with less elevation than the Okefi-
mckee have been drained in Florida, and
the work is still being prosecuted by the
Disston company. There is report that
MIR. Linderman. the agent of Marshall p.
Phillips is now in London for the purpose
Of reselliug the swamp, if the Hall g.
Phillips company get it. Whether this
is true cannot be said at this writing. 1t
was understood when the bill for the sale
was being pushed before the legislature
that the Phillips Company would dram the
swamp and take ten years to do it. They
propose to use immense shovels, especially
adapted for the purpose, and say it will
cost s400, 600 to $500, 900 to do the work of
reclamation. 1t IL estimated that the lands
for sale will amount to $4,000 acres. The
strength Of the bill in the legislature came
from the appeal Of the Southeast Georgia
delegation to the representatives Of other
sections to vote for the bill because it
would drain a vast area of land in
counties surrounding the swamp,
and would add hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the value of the land
in that region, besides conducting to the
health of the inhabitants Similar lands in
Florida, after being drained, have been
sold for sugar plantations. One man from
Boston bought l 200 acres from the Disston
company for that purpose. The name
under which the purchasers are to be incor-
porared is the Suwannee Canal Company.
This brings up tue interesting fact that the
Suwannee river, made famous by the songs
of two or three generations, is one of the
outlets of this noted swamp.