The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-26

GEORGIA.
An athletic club has just been organized
at Bruins wick.
The Ellaville postofice has been made a
money order Office.
The new Presbyterian church at Lexing-
ington has Just been dedicated.
The Worth county fair closed Wednesday,
having given very creditaole and success
full exhibition.
The Georgia state board Of pharmacy will
meet in Atlanta Nov. IA to examine candi =
dates for druggists licenses.
Mr.. Leland has again secured the Hotel
Oglethorpe at Brunswick, and will open it
about the middle Of December.
The circus folks love jelly. At Americas
Friday one merchant sold them twenty -hv Q
S~gallon buckets of the f1abby sweet.
The people Of Gainesville are agitated
over the prospect OF new railroad, TO start
at that point and run northward TO Benton,
Tenn.
1t is rumored that deposit Of red oxide
of copper has been discovered on the plants-
tion Of Marshall Hatcher, on the line OF tn q
Macon and Dublin railroad.
The county commissioners Of Fulton
county have under consideration the advis-
ability OF establishing a reformatory for
boys convicted Of crimes in that county.
The public school enrolment of Bruins
wick shows 475 white and $50 colored pupils,
which Is far ahead of last years work
Twenty-eight teachers are employed in the
schools
The gin house of Dewitt Carswell, near
Jacksonville, was burned a day or two ago.
together with twelve bales OF cotton and
200 bushels OF cutton seed. There is no in
surance.
The Richmond Academy in Augusta,
representing abo ut 81 500 OF property, will
have to pay city taxes hereafter. The case
has been up before Judge Rooney, and that
has been his decision.
The county commissioners Of Baldwin
have fixed the liquor license at $1,000, and
she dealers are resisting the collection of the
tax, claiming the commissioners had no au-
thority to impose it,
There is talk Ia Albany Of reviviny the
old Southwest Georgia Fair Association,
which seven or eight years ago used to play
an important part in the industrial deve-
opment OF that section.
The Augusta EUening NetUs publishes a
strong appeal for a state normal school for
both sexes from the gifted pen of Mrs. NJ
A. Lipscomb of the Lucy Cobb Institute,
and readily agrees in her conclusion that
medical and law departments are no more
necessary TO the university tn an a normal
school
Z. l. Leben had lively time with a
Kerosene lamp in his store at Albany early
Saturday evening. The lighted lamp fell TO
she floor and went TO pieces, making blaze
that threatened TO be serious. Prompt &C
tlon upon the part Of Mr.. Leben soon landed
the lamp, or what there was left OF it after
the fall, into the street, however, ard the
blaze In the store was sxtinguished before
there was any alarm.
The Capitol Cycling Club of Atlanta will |
be In charge Of the cicycle tournament to
a In a - -, II
mer carnival. The day set apart for the BIZ |
cyclists lie Saturday, Nov. l9. and in the
afternoon two grand races will be given. |
One Of these races will be for champions
and one for riders of lesser note. A thou.
sand dollars will be offered in prizes. and
an effort will be made to get Zimmerman
and johnson, the two fastest riders in the
world, to enter the contest
Monday morning, when the room of one
OF the Central hotel boarders at Albany was
opened, it was found that a quantity of
paper had by some means been ignited in
the fireplace and blown into the middle of
the floor. charming it and part Of the wall
good deal Some of the ladies In the
house were somewhat frightened and
thought that an attempt had been made to
hre the building, but Mr.. Henderson, the
proprietor, says he is certain such was not
the case. The damage was very slight.
Albany Herald: The greatest nimrod of
the age, Blink Savage, told Bill Rilsman
that there we're several hocks OF turkeys
doing great damage to his pea crop on the
swamp. He, therefore, baited several
places with corn, and, on finding that the
game was eating his bait, decided to 20
next morning and kill lot of them That
night he examined "Old Betsyn carefully
and found her in fine fix, but on looking up
his ammunition found that he had not a
grain Of powder or an ounce of shot An old
standing nv
he had just returned from town with a
gallon OF pure corn whisky, aud, saws he;
MARS Blink, let's soak the next lot OF corn
In the whisky, an IL dey eat dat dey is sho'
drunk" Blink caught on. The result was
he found flock Of sixteen fine wild turkeys
on high old drunk, and with his walking
stick soon killed the whole flock
A story has just leaked out at Albany
about the loss Of a $500 express package al
Miilingham, sixteen miles from there, in
worth county. last Wednesday morning.
The package was sent by Messrs. 81 IBIS q
Tucker, and was consigned to Messrs
ALFRED q Sloan of that place. Sloan is ex-
press agent at Willingham, but had young
man named Allen in his place at the time.
The train arrived late on Wednesday morn
ing. and J. l.. Singleterry, the express
messenger, handed the book out to Allen to
sign Tor the package. which he did The
train had started of, and as Allen had
SAoa 10 VI tne unhll, ne ran to put it on,
calling to Singleterry to put the package
on the ground with the express book.
Stngleterry's witnesses say that he put the
package OF on the ground with the express
book. but when Allen returned from throw
ing In the mail the package was not there.
Aliens witnesses say the package was never
delivered. Detectives have been here look
Ing into the matter but no arrests have vet
been made. No clew has yet been foundsto
the disappearance of the $500. From the
facts In the case it seems that Sloan ia
responsible for the loss, as he is the express
agent at Willingham. 0''
a. X. Churchill, a well~known machinist
formerly in the employ Of the DeI.oaoh
manufacturing Company, and q brave con-
ieoerate veteran, died very suddenly at his
nome at Atlanta Monday morning. making
tne fourth death Of the kind In his family
Within the Iast three years. In 1889 his
tetner, who was we'll known in Atlanta. fell
4eao while praying IN the Third BAPTIST
enurcn' A year later brother, while sit
IlnR 10 'front.' OF CRATE fire, fell over. and
wIsn picked up was dead. But short
WINE ago one OF Mr.. Churchilps own sons
dropped dead. In all three in
stances heart failure was assigned as
the cause, and Churchill him
sen frequently expressed the opinion that
ne, TOO, would soma dav no tato.i