The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-28


Sale of w-Miu-Politioal Matters
Very Lively in the Land of Flowers
Sale of the Rome Tribune-A Joke
On a Fishermen.
GEORGIA
The subscript ons amounting to s1IO) as.
sure the ere ton OF the Houston Confecer
Stes lut nument
AT the reunion OF the Fourth Georgia regi-
Lnent at Milledgevine Wednesday monu-
ment to Gen. Doies was unveiled.
The present season is the lyeliest that Tai
lulah has known in years The Clih house is
crowded. A ball is given every night.
Col J. NJ Wardlaw Of Rome has "A curiosity
in the shape OF a commission from President
Madison TO a man named Anderson. to the pO-
sitiOn Of captain OF company during the war
Of 1872.
is reported that the cotton factory at
Dennard will be shut down on or about Aug.
90 and that the operatives VIII move else
where as soon as they can secure employ
ment. It is further reported that the factory
has been sold, or that sale is being nego-
uated.
The saw.miu and fixtures, mules and other
property belonging 10 the trim Of Bull &
Greene of sylvester was sold at receiver $
sale last Saturday. The mill and the bulk Of
the other property was bought 10y Wright &
Weslosky OF Albany. All the property except
the mill brought very good prices.
The Methodist conference Of the Griffin dis
trict met in the First Methodist church at
Grimm Thursday. Rev J. :. Bryan Is the
presiding elder Of the district. An able ser
mon was preached by Prof. Dickey Of oxford.
The business Of the conference Will continue
for two days. About one hundred delegates
are in attendance.
Griffin Call: Sam Hall, a negro employed
by the Mangham Drug Company, became
very curious Thursday to learn the contents
OF the jugs, bottles and boxes in the rear OF
their store room, and in doing so opened a
cartoon OF ammonia and applied his nose. II
Knocked him silly. and when VIII Elder
brought him around his bump of inquisitivc-
ness had gone down rapidly.
The Rome Tribune which has for some time
been managed by J. A. Hall as editor viii he
sold TO SeabOrn Wright, Gordon Hiles and w,
A. Knowles on August l. These gentlemen
are well known throughout the state. 1t is
thought that Hon. Seaborn Wright will use
the paper in his behalf when he becomes a
candidate for congress from the seventh dis
trict as an Independent against Judge Mad
dox who will bethe democratic nominee This
rumor however, is denied by Mr.. Wrights
friends who say that he has controlled a large
share Of the Tribune for the past two years,
and # he had desired 10 become candidate
and allow the paper to advertise him. he
could have done so long ago.
La Fayette Moore Of Cordele. known all
through the timber section Us "DryNn
Moore" has been for years about saw mills
ana engaged especially IN drying timber.
The old process was so slow that Mr.. Moore
gave the matter thought and the result is he
has patented a process which VIII revolution
I've the business OF lumber drying. He dis
cards altogether the OLD plan OF fans. His
lumber is put in an inclosed chamber pro
Vided with heating devices, with air inlets at
the base of the chamber. HIS process abb
serbs the moisture at once from the timber.
His process is now used by the Parrot Lum-
Der Company. by Butts Co Of Ashburn, by
j. J. McDonough, StillWell, Millen d Co. OF
Savannah and others.