The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-30

The residence of John l. Rosser at Con
yers was burned Tuesday. Nothing was
saved but chair and a water bucket.
DIR. Saunders, of Chicago, has bought
part Of the G. W Benson place, at Mari
eta, and will, it is said, build santa
rum.
James Morrow and James Mathis OF
Crescent City, Florida, have bought The
Svedlund place on Roswell street at Ma
rietta, for g., 500
J. L. McCollum, Of Atlanta, superin
tendent of the Western and Atlantic rail
road. has bought the Welch place, or
Whitlock avenue at Marietta. The price
paid is $4,000
DR.. Samuel B. Rambo, formerly of Bra
I'll. now OF Atlanta, on last Saturday
bought the Maxwell place at Marietta
from DR.. Lewe Sessions, paying Slel6O.OO
DIR. Rambo will move to Marietta at once
One hundred and fifty employees of the
Manchester mills at Macon struck Wed
nesday Notice Of a reduction of 10 per
cent. in wages after July is the cause.
The mills are running with half force,
Twenty-one children were received
into membership of the Methodist church
at Marietta by Rev. II. J. Ellis and Rev.
G. @. Smith This was the result of a
weeks service by Rev. George Smith, the
great worker among children.
Green Neal, a negro, seemingly about
forty-hve years of age was in Columbus
Wednesday in the custody or Deputy
Sheriff II. l.. Lawson, of Talbot county.
Neal is wanted in Tablet county on the
charge of felOniOus assault, the crime OF
which he is accused having been com
mitted in 1888. He was arrested at Doth
an. Ala, Sunday by Marshal Joe Pierce.
One Of the most pleasant and success
full cOmmencements in the history OF the
Robert E. Lee Institute, which is the
pride of ThomastOn, has just closed.
From beginning to end it was a pro
nounced success and the great crowd Of
visitors who daily thronged the college
chapel to witness the exercises are Law
fish in their praises of the management
of the institution.
C. S. Elliott, formerly of Lithonia, but
now of Morgan county, has curiosity in
a hen that lays double eggs. The hen is
of the ordinary Brahma variety, lays
once day, but the eggs are all double, as
each one contains two whites and two
yolks. He recently set the hen on about
a dozen of these double eggs and was
very much surprised to find two relative
chickens for every egg he put in the nest,
The white rock found on George Kinks
place 81 miles west of Marietta seems to
be deposit of magnitude, covering five
acres. The rock is as white as snow and
pulverizes between the fingers very readi-
iy. Mr.. Kirk has used it for plastering
without lime, and it adheres beautifully,
Some say it is glass ore, others that it is
suitable for the manufacture of crockery,
others think that it will terminate in the
disclosure of very superior marble.
An attempt will probably be made at an
early day to revive the project of build
ing canal from point up the Ocmulgee
70 an .4IFN of ana
will be about three miles long, and it is
estimated will cost S250,000. An abun-
dance of water power will then be fur
nished to run factories, make electric
power, etc 1t is thought that the canal
would be the means of attracting to the
city manufacturers of various kinds, and
increase the population and material de-
velopment.
Will Hawkins and NJ Barker were
scalded by the explosion of one of the
steam cylinders in the paper mill at Con-
yers, Wednesday. MIR. Barker was scald-
ed on one arm from the elbow TO the hand.
MIR. Hawkins was most seriously hurt.
The doctors do not expect him to live.
Drs. Stewart and Quinn dressed him
Several others were slightly injured. In
the paper department there are cylinders
filled with steam over which, as the wet
paper passes, it is dried From report,
blew the end Of,the cylinder out and al
lowed the steam to escape, which caused
the accident.
Jack Rushing, who lives down in the
44th district of Bullock county, cele-
brated his saith birthday not long since
He is still hale and hearty, and works
every day in his blacksmith shop. He
has 20 living children, seventeen of whom
he has comfortably settled on his own
tsr.A,sw
He has three more minor children at
home and will be prepared to fit them up
with nice homes as he has done the
other seventeen older children Mr.
Rushing has been a cripple all his life
and had seventeen pieces of bone ex-
tracted from his leg caused by white
swelling, but he has always provided for
his large family.
The trial Of Andy Fletcher, which was
taken up for the fourth time at Athens
on Monday morning, was brought to
sudden termination Wednesday by the
announcement upon the part of his attor-
ney, l.. j. Blalock, that he was physi-
cally unable to go on with the case at
this time. A jury was secured late Mon
day afternoon and the examination of
witnesses begun, but the turn of affairs
put a stop to the trial for the present
at least. Fletcher has cost the county
in January, 1889, charged with the burn
ing of W. J. Slappy's store, and to this
sum may be added 5000 about the cost of
Mondays proceedings in the fourth trial
of his case.
The first convention Of the Georgia AS
sembly National Union was held at Macon
in the hall of the Knights of Pythias
Tuesday. The following delegates were
present: S. p. Weisiger of Augusta, w.
A. Davis of Macon, James Smith OF
Columbus, r. S. Collins of Macon, w. H.
EdmonsOn of Rome, H. II. Cabanlss of At
lanta, T. x. Johnson of Columbus, d. L.
Martin of Eastman and j. Tom Rodgers
of Macon After the customary opening
Of the convention, the election of officers
for the ensuing year was taken up, with
the following result; II. h Cabaniss of
Atlanta, was elected president and T. X.
johnson, of Columbus, secretary. H. II.
Cabaniss was elected senator for two
years TO attend the session of the senate,
which will be held in Detroit Mich, July
81. The following gentlemen were elected
as the executive committee. this commit.
tee to serve two years: S. p. Weisiger
Augusta; w A. Davis, Macon; r. 5. Col
Inns, Macon; James Smith, Columbus; w
Il. Edmonson, Rome.
Athens Banner: DR. 3. B. Davis. the
popular and well-known dentist, is a me
chauical and electric genius of the tru.
est stamp. And his ingenuity has put
him on the high road to fortune. In fact