The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-12
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
Darien carpenters are busy.
The old court house at Camilla has beel
cold.
Gov. Northen wants better wagon road
in the state.
Several people are sick at Albany with
broken-bone fever.
Work on the Wolf Island club houses
going right ahead.
Fire at Lafayette destroyed q, 900 worth
of property Monday night. No insurance
Gainesville is steadily growing. New
industries and manufactures are being
established rapidly.
DR.. W. W. Cornog of Edgefeld, s. C..
and Miss Flora Brooks of Gainesville viii
be married Tuesday night.
The Vienna Progress comes out this week
enlarged to a 7-column quarto, making one
Of the largest weekly papers in the state.
The Altamaha rice planters have taken
advantage of the past few days fine weather,
and have been hard at work saving their
crops.
Work is now being done on St Simon's
Island to prevent the washing away OF the
bath houses by the huge waves which lash
upon the beach.
About sixty convicts passed through
Lafayette Wednesday on the way to the
tunnel Through Pigeon mountain, where
they will be put to work.
The fifty-ninth annual session of the
Chattahoochee Baptist Association con-
vened at Hopewell church, m Hall county,
Friday. The meeting will continue three
days.
The managers of the Worth county agri-
cultural fair offer a prize to the youngest
thof xxrfl or tho Pom han fair
Oct Il and Is There will also be prize
for the prettiest young lady.
F. Nj. Smith of Calhoun has a chair
which he says is lis years old, and has It's
original bottom, all strong and good for
another century. He is thinking Of taking
it 10 the Piedmont exposition.
Geo. P. Chandler, son of p. II, Chandler,
died at Carroilton the latter part OF last
week. This is the second son Mr.. Chan
dler hes lost the last few months, and his
entire family have been sick with typhoid
fever.
Henry jackson, a negro, while shingling
a house on the corner Of l street and Coch-
ran avenue a Brunswick, Friday fell off
the roof and broke his leg. He was re-
moved to his home and a physician was
summoned.
The state board of pharmacy will meet in
Rome Oct. 15 to examine candidates for
druggists certificates. The board intends
to make a thorough investigation, and
violators of the poison and pharmacy laws
will be prosecuted.
Mac Williams, a negro. was seriously cut
Friday morning, at Brunswick, by another
negro named Alonzo Abrams. Williams
wounds are in the thigh and left arm. He
was removed to his home on North Albany
street and a physician summoned.
The cane crop around Americas is one of
the largest ever produced. This years crop
will soon be on the market, as Georgia
cane syrup" is always marketable ana brings
good price. The crop of this year will be
a source of great revenue TO the farmers.
James T. Barnes, who moved to Texas
last winter, but who did not stay there but
five weeks, when he returned as far back
as Admission, and who has been living there
since, has now moved back to Carroll coun-
ty. He says that Texas is good country,
but there is too much wind for him there.
Calhoun Times: ]. A. Fields, miller at
the Oothcaloga mills, informs us that on
last Friday morning he took out of the
water wheel 1875 pounds of eelS and again on
Saturday evening he took out 165 pounds
The wheels were clogged SO that they would
not turn. Three hundred and sixty pounds
of eels is pretty good lot for two day..
has just completed plan for the new
Catholic church building at Americas. The
building will soon be erected on the beauti-
ful lot on Lee street, opposite Judge Forts
residence. The bulldog will be beautifully
constructed with an elegant interior, and
when 1t is completed there will be few as
handsome structures in the south.
Four or five wagons loading with bridge
and trestle timbers for the Macon and
Birmingham railroad. half a dozen drays
loading with boxes and bales of goods for
our merchants, and six or eight, and some
tunes dozen or more, wagons waiting to
unload their bales of cotton, are sights to
be seen almost any hour in the day at the
Central depot and alliance warehouse at
Thomeston.
Prof. Weisz has resigned his position of
organist and choir director of ST. Joseph
church at Macon, and has accepted sim
liar position at ST. Patrick's church, Au-
gusta. Eight years ago. while professor of
music at Pho Mono college, he was engaged
by Father Bazin to get up choir. In short
time st. Joseph's church had a first-class
volunteer choir, and now Prof. Weisz leaves
choir at Macon which is second to none in
the state.
JEFF Kendrick and his wife, two colorec
residents of Albany, fell out this week, anc
Friday separated. The fruit of their unioI
Is an infant, and the woman, as soon as tn,
separation between herself and her husband
took place, refused to fill the place o.
mother 10 the babe, and left it with he
husband to be cared for. The man thei
tried to get bis own mother to take cherg,
of the babe, but she refusing he was forces
to get another woman to care for it
The synod of Georgia will meet in tn
Presbyterian church in Americus on Nov
8, and will continue in session three or fou
days. 1t is composed Of eighty minister
and $50 churches Its territory embrace
the whole OF the state. except the extrem
southern and southeastern portion. Minister
will be present from Savannah. Abou
eighty delegates are expected to be In attend
auce. Committees will wait upon the peopl
next week to provide for their entertain
ment.
John g. Mosseau, a well known contracto
of Brunswick, is now in Glynn county ja
charged with bigamy. He was married ST
years ago 10 Miss Fannie Moore, and live
with her until three weeks ago, when b
went to the ordinary's Office and procured
license and left town with another woman
They went to Cordele and were married
His first wife had warrant sworn ou
Constable Levy was sent to Cordele an
brought the bigamist back. 1t created
considerable sensation.
II. ID. Rowbotham of Waycross has falle
heir to about $4,000 by the death Of b
uncle. Mr.. lnman, In England. 1t WI
not unexpec ed by Mr.. Rowbotham, how
ever as he has had an uncle thare who,