The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-29

for a firm in the city, who said that they
could sell this meal and have the water
ground in tho house al the same time. Mr..
Bells invention is very simple. He first
has his corn dropped into a hopper and
broken into grist, or hominy. Ii Is then
run up an elevator and the Chaff or husk
famed out, dropped into a conveyor, thence
into the mill, then up stairs in an
elevator and cleansed and then comes out
into the bin as fine as -four and perfectly
/ cool. He claims that the cracking process
/ takes Off all friction and heat and*aves much
Of the nntrment Of the corn, which is burnt
up by the heat created by the force neces-
saTy to crack and grind the corn at once.
He says meal made by this process is
sweeter, finer and goes further than the
old process, and all who have used it prefer
it above ali others. He makes the very
best of meal, and it is fast gaining popular
favor Mr.. Bell has applied for patent,
About the year 1857 there were rumors
and counter rumors of railroads in Southern
Georgia, and especially did the prospects of
Brunswick loom up as coming port; and
it was her prospects at that time that stirred
up Savannah, and was the cause OF the
building Of the Atlantic and Gulf road, now
called the Savannah, Florida and Western,
from Savannah. This was built, and it
then seemed forever out of the question
of road from Brunswick to
any point in Florida, and the
road that was projected was changed
to 90 to Thomasville, and still later it was
decided to build 1t to Albany, which was
done, and it finally became the Brunswick
and Western. During the war this road,
which was known as the Atlantic and Flor
ida, had only gotten to Waycro,s, was aban-
doned, and this little village dropped back
into nsignifcance, un il the idea Of a road
al -
A party Of gentlemen were discussing in
the clerk of the superior courts office, the
wonderful development Of Brunswick, and
one OF them said Is Eyes, | remember we'll
the FIRST engine that came into this town
after the war. 1t was brought on a vessel
aud was named the New York" 1t was
in 1867, and the entire town-some 500 peo-
ple--came down to see it landed. They
took 1t off and built shed over it, where
the old custom house now stands, just ab We
Littledeld 81 Tisons wharf" The road
was rapidly built from this end, and orig
in2lly ran from tho present + ist Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia depot up Bay street
to Hlrsch's corner, across toward the Ogle
thorpe hotel, down street past Martin &
Gales store, just past where the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia water tank
now stands.
Some months ago W. E. Burbage, N.
Ullman, w. L. Fulton and several other
gentlemen formed a syndicate and pur-
chased large tract of land in the southern
part Of Brunswick, part of it being a thirty
acre tract known as the old Christopher
Burnett tract, and quite recently they de-
cided to have it laid off in lots, and E. A.
Penniman, the city surveyor, has the map
outlined and is ready to do the detailed
work. Saturday it was rumored. and with
a great deal Of foundation, that this Chris
TOPPER Burnett tract, on the point, as tie
extreme southern boundary, next t. the
marsh, is called, had found another claimant
who is liable to give the present holders
go deal of trouble, and will probably
bring lawsuit. 1t appears that Burnett,
who held the proper titles TO this land, left
1t in charge of parties who regarded it as
worthless. Burnett disappeared. and his
agent, losing track of him after a few
years, concluded that he was dead, and it
was not long before the lands were sold for
taxes I. w. Lamb was sheriff at the time,
aud he announced to the crowd that he
thought the titles unsound. Nevertheless,
they were declared good by Judge
Mershon, who had an alteration
with Mr.. Lamb over the matter
A few days ago Burnett tur0ed up in
Atlanta, AID has announced that he will
enter suit for the property. A Times re-
porter saw Mr.. Burbage last night and
sked MN ABOUT the rumOr. lie SAID that
b knew nothing of it; that so far as he was
concerned he was not at all uneasy; thas
the land was bought by large number of
gentlemen, including Messrs Goodyear &
Kay, who examined the titles thoroughly,
and he does not think that there will be any
trouble to maintain them. The tract Of
land referred TO is the Davenport Jesup
tract. The land was sold by Davenport to
pay for taxes that he had been paying for
Christopher Burnett, and that he Daven-
port bought in at the sale.