The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-11

ter Lee, St ..-... ,oJly. =. ~ l-..na; ~.
Us. IS mortgaged 70 a 7,, ssCG,v ~.
lis were sold to-day. Inc vacant iot
rOuIing Hotel Windsor, in Ane[lCus, LOT
Which the investment compan Telu5su ~ ~
100 three years ago, was 9ld o. 10y M
Hambleton, of Baltimore, for So ~, a Sf,VJO
residence formerly owned by Judge Ailen
sort went to Col Z b. Harrolt az az si,Io 5l
Two Sumter county plantations OF o0O biorIs
ut Richland. Ca. brought on4y r 81
100 II cost SfS 600 in 1890. Two
stores, a warehouse and three three oa nT5It'
brought only 81 100. The brick hotel az HSI-
ena where the East Tennessee crosses inc
~avannah. Americas and Montgomery. SOLD
or 1000 and the brick warehouse there sold
for 81 600. twenty-five hundred acres OF TIM
Der land in Tattuall county sold for S2,lO0.
Twelve handred acres near COrdele brought
572D; 3.0J0 acres at Burton. >. T.. known as
hunting Island, sold for SlS0) The big De
soto plantation. in Sumter county. or 5,loO
acres mort Vaged for $4,000, brought s24, 100
and was bid in by j. r. Clarke, Of Cincinnati,
for the Union Central Life Insurance Com
DanV Nume ~OuS other smaller tracts OF land
scattered over several counties along lhe me
Jf the Savannah. Americas and montgomery
road were also sold at nominal prices.
further sales re to be made until the ahalrs
Of the Americas Investment Company are
wound up.
Atlanta Constiu rtion: The reports sent out
from Chicago rec sntly announcing that Nhe
General a locomotive captured by some
Yankee spies IN war time from the WeSJer
and Atlantic railr Dad. had Deen sold to tue
company in charge 1f LIBBY prison are tht
veriest nonsense. II may be true that the old
engine has been placed In The war museum OF
Chicago temporarily, hut there seems to %
no truth whatever in the statement that IL
has been sold to the l. LDby Prison Company.
The fact is, THE Gen eral" rs the property OF
the state of Georgia, nd 1t is hardly neces-
sary TO say that the sta to would not sell 1t to
Libby prison. There have been repeated CT
forts on the part OF mu scum companies TO Sc
cure the locomotive, but they nave all failed
and The General has been on Georgia soil
ever since the war until last summer, when
man by the name OF Cla IKE came down here
and secured the consent OF the Western and
Atlantic people to take it TO the
worlds fair. where il was placed on
exhibition in the Transportation bulldinE
There IL has been ever since IL was taken to
Chicago until now. when the report comes
that by some arrangement, II has been trans
! ferred to the war museum, LIBBY prison IN
! that city, for the gaze Of curiosity seekers
| and prejudiced sectiouallsts The legIsla-
| ture OF Ohio last fall took steps to purchase
| the engine from the state Of Georgia. An
| offer OF $1,000 was made, but there was no
| sale. Gov. Northen did MOI take action in
! the matter because he preferred to put il be
| fore the consideration OF the Georgia legisla-
| ture which he did in his message to that
| body in October. He gave with his message
| the correspondence he had just had with the
adjutant general of the state OF Ohio. 1t
SCENE that nothing was done by the Georgia
| legislature in the matter whatever and the
| old locomotive has been in the Transportation
! building Of the worlds fair ever since the
| gates of the great exposition closed.