The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-14

Z the CITY. 10 see llE4u al tIeAE QtSAs
one would suppose that their living
depe-dad on their monthly salaries Hav-
ing their money aud family influence most
/ Young men would feel that they were due
the world nothing. and proceed TO mOnopo-
lie it, luxuries without paying the tribute
of hard and honest labor. Each Of Senator
Browns sons is labOring hard and honestly
in a chosen field. and Will leave the world
| when dead richer and better. It is a great
calamity that men Of this class are so rare.
Wrightsville Headlight: If Ignorance
is bliss then the happiest man in ali this
wide world lives IN Johnson county. AT
1 any rate, the other day while our posi-
master was arranging his mail matter for
the outgoing pouch he accidentally came
across a postal card. Nothing unusual in
this, but then up in the usual fright hand
corner of that innocent little o. C. was a
2-cent postage stampl Jewhilikinsl what
reckless patronizer of Uncle Sam is
| the sender Of that postal card. But
/ we suppose the message it contained was of
vital Importance, and he wanted it to ''get
there This individual, with more stamps
than brain, is, perchance, distant relative
1 of certain well-kuown citizen Of our town,
| who, in his counting days, wrote a few
lines on postal card to his intended in
neighbOring town, procured an envelope,
thrust his postal card inside, aud, sealing
the envelope. he forthwith attached the
then accustomed Scent postage stamp and
set it ahoat. We have evidence that ''the
letter she looSed for" did come.
Athens Banner: A prominent citizen Of
OcOnee county said while speaking to a
Banner reporter about the late appoint
ments of negroes to responsible offices in
that county that the good people of Oconee
were aroused to a considerable extent of in
dignation about the matter. "The respect
able white citizens of Oconee have deliber-
ately determined to put up with no such
proceedings" said the gentleman. They
say they know the cost of mob violence,
but will pay il before they will submit to
the appointment of negroes TO offices over
them. If the negro gauger is sent back
20 his post in that county by Collector
johnson they will give quick orders to
leave again, and il he doesn't leave he will
be killed. Moreover, it is reported that
Col Bill Powers will put several negroes in
the census offices of this county as enumer-
ators If he does they will be driven out of
the county without delay. The people of
my county mean what they say. They
don't object 10 white republicans but will
positively use force to put the negro out of
Office. They will abide all consequences,
come what may"
Atlanta Journal: J. H. Thibadeau, who
was recently appointed census supervisor
for the Third district, in which is Fulton
county, has already begun the work as
signed to him. He has written and is still
writing letters to the officials in each county
OF his district to obtain from them informa-
ton which will be of great assistance TO
him In pushing the work to a successful
termination. He is getting from these
gentlemen the number of industries in his
county, the water power and the probable
number of Inhabitants. Next week Mr..
Thibadeau will leave Atlanta for a personal
ms nm ~ tCe 40 xrtfn Gt-cf
through Fulton county, and then through
the other counties in the district, twenty in
all, only two of them, Douglas and Carroll,
west Of the Chattahoochee river.
When Mr.. Thibadeau completes this
work, which will be about May l, he will
report to the authorities in Washington as
to the number of districts which should be
in each county, as 10 their population and
geographical situation, ETC., together with
| the number of enumerators needed and the
names of such men as be thinks are fit for
this import at work. The department will
| then decide whether or not the men are &C
ceptable, and if SO, will then authorize Mr..
Thibadeau to commission them, and will de-
| eide upon the amount of compensation they
shall receive THE active field work viii
begin June l, and each enumerator will take
the condition of each family in his district
| June l, together with the number of births
and deaths since June l., 1880, when the last
| census was taken.
| Athens Banner: Lincoln county, not far
away from Athens, has for many years
claimed the only hermit in Georgia in the
person of James Howard. The mans life
has been a mystery. and now that rumor is
| afioat that he has died in some hidden habi-
tation, the story of his career is on the lips
| OF every one for miles around. His pro-
| longed absence from the town of Lincolnton
has given rise TO the rumor of his death.
Howard was at one time quite comfort
ably off in this worlds goods. He
came to Lincoln county when a young
man from no one knows where,
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
managed to make snug little fortune.
| One night while coming from fox hunt
| he was attacked by some unknown parties
knocked in the head, and left for dead after
his pockets had been rifed. This was just
after the cival war, when negroes were in
some sections reckless in their onslaughts.
| Since that night Jim Howard has not been
a sane man. Then his mysterious and
wretched life begun, and for more
than twenty years he has been soh-
| tary inhabitant of a dismal shanty near
Graves mountain in Lincoln county, half
insane, and frightfuI sight to look
upon. About once or twice year he would
come out to the little town, Lincolnton, to
buy powder and shot and a few necessities,
usually bringing blackbsrries, which he ex-
changed for his goods He rarely spoke,
and was with all quite a sensation and q
mystery. The report that he has died has
caused great deal of interest among the
people of Lincolnton, though some people
say he is still alive, and lives in the wilds OF
Lincoln county's mountain.
FLORIDA.
Judge Long of Tallahassee issued thirteen
marriage licenses last month-two to white
and eleven to colored couples
w. III. Holden of Orlando has recently
been offered $4,000 by northern capitalists
for his large grove on Lake Holden.
W. Walton, who has charge of the famous
HARDWOOD grove, just north of Ormond, has
over 1000 acres under cultivation.
Rev. s. G. Kennedy has abandoned the
pastorate of the New Smyrna Congrega-
tional church and gone to Sanford.
Sponge fishing will probably be added to
the industries of Tarpon Springs, Phila-
delphia capitalists backing the movement.
Fernandina Mirror. Four carloads OF
creosoted piling for the new quarantine
station at Savannah are awaiting shipment,
but the cars are not to be obtained