The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-18

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GEORGIA.
Tennille is to have water works.
Schley county superior court convened at
Elavilie Monday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, widow of the late
Col Lift Jones. died at Atlanta Tuesday.
The eighth annual convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union will be
held in Rome May 6. : and
Milledgeville viii have electric lights
Everything is ready for lighting the stores,
and the current may be turned on at any
time
A meeting of the Georgia Saw Sin Asso-
ciasion will be held in Macon on Tuesday
morning, April %, at 10 O'clock, at the
Lanier house.
petition is being circulated by the citi-
Zens of Waynesboro for signatures, calling
on the ordinary to order an election on the
whisky question.
Tuesday afternoon the 6 O'clock freight
train on the Brunswick and Western rail
road brought in twenty-seven cars OF lum-
Der and naval stores.
Fishing climbs all over the state are COM
mencing operations The fish story season
from present indications will have lively
opening in a short time.
Judge Joel G. Fain, the eminent jurist, is
critically i'll at his home at Calhoun of
pneumonia. His friends are very much
alarmed about his condition.
The Piedmont Chautauqua'holds its third
annual meeting at Salt Springs, sixteen
miles west Of Atlanta. il. July and August
The exact date will be announced later.
J. L. Sibley, George D. Case, 6. T.
Wiedenman, Adolph Joseph and julius A.
Horne have formed a copartuership to es-
tablish a canning factory in Milledgeville.
II is understood that Messrs. T. b. Artope
& Son, proprietors of extensive marble
works in Macon, will establish a branch
house in Brunswick about the latter part of
May.
The largest estimate ever drawn by Ma
con railroad contractors was drawn Tuesday
by Neigh & Mclaughlin, contractors on
the Macon and Birmingham railroad. The
estimate was for 1900.
The citizens of Concord have organized
company and applied for a charter for the
purpose of building a cotton ginnery and
guano factory. In addition they will man
facture plantation implements, etc.
A devil fish about eight feet across the
head was seen by passenger on the City of
Brunswic Tuesday afternoon near st. An
drews' light. The same or a similar fish
was seen by Col j. E. Dart in the same To-
cality last week.
The people at Washington are discussing
thorough reorganization of their male
academy. The school is one of the Oldest in
the state, the trustees holding office and
owning the school property under an act of
the legislature dated 1888.
Near Story's mill, in Burke county, last
Saturday night, while going to a pound
party, Dock Walker and Cage Boggs. two
colored boys, were playing with their pis-
tolls, when Docks pistol was discharged, the
ball entering his companions right leg, near
the ankle.
At an early day the Macon Telephone
Exchange will put in a dynamo to furnish
the current for the system. The dynamo
will be run by the commercial wire of the
electric light company. This will do away
with the system now in use of using a cur
rent from large number of cells of gravity
batteries.
A young man named James Grauade
was arrested at Macon Tuesday morning
and lodged in the city prison on the charge
OF stealing some clothes in Savannah from
man named Win Whaley. Granade SAYS.
on the contrary, that Whaley stole SIS
from him. Granada is also accused of rob
bling the mails.
The Sunday school convention at Roberts
church in Coffee county, was one of the
most enthusiastic meetings ever held in the
district The competitive singing by the
schools was one of the interesting features
Spring Head, Leliation, Roberts, Villa
coochee and Douglas schools entered the
contest. The palm was awarded to the
Spring Head school.
The negroes of Macon are preparing to
attend large excursion to Milledgevilie on
April q. The object of this is to hold re-
IgiouS meeting, and a number of colored
ministers well be present to preach, collec-
lively, the funerals of all the negro inmates
OF the insane asylum who have died during
the past year. 1t is expected that at least
1000 negroes will attend from Macon.
Jack Ryan, a stonemason, who super
vlsed the building of the stone bridge over
the East Tennessee road near the depot,
died of pneumonia at Macon Tuesday morn
ing: A man, also a stonemoson, who was
with him few days ago and nursed him, is
accused of having stolen the sum of S27
from under his pillow. The alleged thief is
supposed to be at work near Milledgeville.
The supreme court has granted a new
trial In the case against S. S. Patterson
who was convicted of stabbing his wife i'm
Grant park at Atlanta last summer Pat
terson. was sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary, and for two months pending
the hearing by the supreme court has been
serving out part of his term, wearing the
stripes. He will probably be brought back
to Fulton county Jail this week.
Miles Chapman, an employee of the Bruins.
wick Artesian Well Company, while en-
gagged in sinking a well for George w
Wright, at Sterling Station, was very badly
hurt Wednesday morning. The block fell
from the top of a tall derrick and struck
him on the head. Late Wednesday night
the man was suffering considerable pain
and an examination showed that the extent
of his wounds was very serious.
Pink Morton, who has been a railway
postal clerk, running on the Covington and
Macon between Macon and Athens, ha.
been discharged from the service. The
Athens Banner says: "Pink Morton has
given better satisfaction on his route thar
any of Bucks negro appointees, and ha
proved himself more competent for hi.
work than any of the rest. His discharg,
is evidently the special work of Bnck, anC
may be yet explained in a manner that vii
give us even further measures of Buck
corrupt policy"
Brunswick Times: The pilot boat3 Tele
gram happened to quito an accident Mon
day night while cruising off the bar. The
mate was put on the night watch. Soor
after he went on duty he fell asleep ant
failed TO steer the vessel properly. AS
consequence the Telegram ran into south
bound schooner. and her foremost and all
rigging attached was swept away. Sh,
made out to STAY where she was until morn