The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
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GEORGIA.
The drug firm Of Mclean & Co. at
Statesboro has been dissolved.
Elder J. S. Lamar has resigned his posi-
ton with the Christian church of Val
dosta.
party Of United States officials are
In Cherokee making a geographical sur
yey of the county.
Clarke & PARROT bought Thursday the
entire stock Of shoes and groceries of ".
J. Pinson, at 100 Cotton avenue at Ameri-
Gus.
f. J. Peacock viii erect at an early day
a brick store on the vacant lot between
the stores occupied by NJ. Heimer & Co.
and Johnson Bros. at Eastman.
The Signs of the Times" is the name
of a new paper published in Arlington in
the interest of the negroes. Rev. d. J.
H. McGehee is the editor.
The lumbermen OF Brunswick win meet
on Thursday, oct. l6, next, for the pur-
pose of organizing the Brunswick branch
OF the Lumbermen's Exchange.
The Hartwell Cotton Mills find it impos-
sible to keep up with orders by running
In the day time, and just as soon as the
electric lights are placed and another set
~ AAeAANS NAAAiACscN WIN III ANE hAdl4y
night and day.
f. Fielding Fitch has leased the mines
of the Woodstock Iron Company and of
Leake & Van Devander, located near
Cedartown. The ore on the property is a
high grade brown hematite, and will be
thoroughly developed at once.
The pea crop in Spalding county is larger
this fall than for many years past A
large area was planted, the seasons were
. Ia
vine hay will prove quite helpful this win
ter to stock and cut short the demand for
western hay.
Berry Munger, a Twiggs county negro.
brings suit in the superior court at Macon
against the Macon. Dublin and Savannah
railroad for 5000. He was shot in the
leg on July 4 last by one Goings, who
claimed to be a conductor on that road,
and who was shooting at another negro.
o. B. Weaver, who was shot by Tom
Chambers at Blakely last Thursday
morning died in a few hours after re
ceiving the wound The grand jury, now
In session, after investigating the matter,
failed to find true bill against Mr.
Chambers. who has been released from
prison.
The Statesboro Furniture and Carriage
Company is the style of new firm that
is opening up stock in Dr. Whites store
AdAIAs NNNuHlGQ ny MI. JdGOBSOn at States
boro The proprietors of the concern are
Messrs. Clark & Fuller of Savannah, while
j. S. Tart, son-in-law of I. ]. Fuller, mem
Der of the firm, will be the business man
ager
Tomorrow the Third regiment of artil-
lery, now stationed at Post Mcpherson at
Atlanta, will be removed to Jackson bar
racks at New Orleans. One hundred and
twenty-eight enlisted men and five OFF,
GERS under the command of Mai. Ramsey.
will depart for the Crescent City at that
time. The soldiers will board special
Atlanta and West Point train at McPher-
son station at about three o'clock to-mor-
row afternoon.
Passengers on the noon train from
Richland at Americas Thursday reported
a shooting ARRAY in that town the night
before, DR.. Miller and Albert Majors. both
residents of the town, being parties there
TO. Dr. Miller fired twice at Majors, both
shots taking effect in the shoulder. The
affair is thought TO have resulted from
bad feeling existing between the two for
some time. Majors wounds are not
thought to be very serious.
Last Saturday morning at 1880 o'clock
the gin house and contents of T. j.
warren of Centerville in Ebert
county. was burned. The work is
supposed TO be of an in
cendiary origin and revenge its motive
The loss of Mr.. Warren was ten bales of
cotton (packeD, eighteen bales in seed
and 500 bushels of cotton seed Suspicion
pointed to George Crawford, who had had
a difficulty with Mr. Warren last Tues
day, as the perpetrator of the crime
Crawford is in jail.
An order has been passed by the Sill
perior court at Eastman fixing S5O.00O as
the price for the Empire lumber Comma
nys plant at Empire, and ordering the
road sold at private sale on or before
Dec. !. The person who sells the plant
at this price will receive 10 per cent of
the purchase money. 1t is understood that
this amount will pay the preferred debts
which is about one-fifteenth Of the entire
Indebtedness, the whole being about $500
900. The plant originally cost about $3.50
900, and was considered the finest milling
industry in the south.
Berry Z. Provo of Dooly county. WIN
has been in the penitentiary wrongfullv
Tor ffve years through his own ignorance.
was pardoned by the governor Friday
morning. In 1889 he was arraigned for
burglary. He pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary 1t
now develops that the boy went into a
store that was open and stole what he
dld' committing the offense Of larceny
from the house instead of that of bur
glary. A pardon on this account was
asked for and granted by the governor.
Matches made from paper are novelties.
but Brunswick has a factory in fun opera
ton that is daily turning out numbers of
them At present the factory is conduct
ed on limited plan, and was commenced
merely as an experiment to see what de-
mand could be created for the new pro-
duct, but the success that has greeted
the experiment justifes it's continuance
on large scale, and IT is expected that
paper matches will soon be turned out in
mammoth proportions Rosenda Torras
is the owner of the new factory, and Senior
Antonio Pratt is the manager.
Receiver NJ. s. Lynch has obtained an
order from Judge w. T. Newman of the
federal circuit court to sell all the assets
OF the defunct First National Bank of
Cedartown on Nov. 6. All the notes. ac-
counts, mortgages, lands, the banking
house and furniture and all other assets
OF whatever nature will be offered for sale
before the door of the bank building. A
disbursement of 30 per cent has been
made on all approved accounts against
the bank, but about $4,000 Of the banks
indebtedness yet remain unpaid. This
amount covers the deposits, re-discounts
and all other forms of Indebtedness
ggainct tho bauIr