The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-14

by Telephone-Last of the Southern
Leaeue-DeIegates of the Sunday
Schools of Five Counties in Session.
Report of the Collector of Internal
Revenue for Florida.
GEORGIA.
Pulaski county alliance will meet in Coch-
ran on July %.
The papers in Southwest Georgia report
fine rains and crops in good condition.
The IO-year-old son OF John J. Jacobs of
Augusta was drowned in the cana Wednes-
day.
The Gordon County Teachers Institute is
In session in Calhoun. Supt. Hooper OF Amer
icus is in charge.
Allen, Clegg s. Co. is to be the title OF a dry
goods rm that VIII engage in business in
Americas very soon.
Grimm News: Ed Wilson. the bicyclist OF
Savannah who is spending sometime at Crit
fin made a trip TO GAINESVILLE Wednesday.
The annual meeting Of the Douglas County
Sunday School Association assemblies at DOu-
glasville Saturday and Sunday, August (
sLd >.
The Southern League died at Athletic park
at Atlanta Wednesday afternoon after the
end OF the Atlanta and New Orleans game.
The score OF the game yesterday was Atlanta
IL, New Orleans II.
Henry Weatherly is preparing to open a
new business at the T. r. Jones brick on the
terSVille lie will deal in dry goods, gents
furnishings and kindred lines.
The Lee Pharmacy Company filed mort
cages in the superior court at Atlanta Wed
nesday on their stock OF drugs. The mort
cages amount to $3.50 and one Of them was
foreclosed Thursday morning.
Anew postof1ce, called Dean, has been es-
tablished at Hardees new store, near the
residence OF w II. Hodges, with Asbury =.
Hardee as postmaster. Dean is about four
miles south of Hagan, on the Chenille route
Jack Morris the negro Of DOuglasville who
accidentally shot himself several weeks ago,
completed the Job last week by Jumping IN
the ChattahOochee river. An effort was made
to rescue him by his boys, but he would not
be rescued and was drowned.
Work was commenced on the knitting mill
at Barnesville last Monday morning. The
mill will be built on the oil mill site, and will
be built of brick. The main building will be
80 feet wide, by 100 feet long with an engine
room 20 by 20. 1t will be completed early in
the fall
s. Alexander Of Hawkinsville has leased
the store room at present occupied by d. G.
joiner as a hardware store, in which he will
open up about Sept. stock of dry goods,
clothing, gents furnishing goods. etc. Mr.
Alexander will be associated with his brother,
and the business will be conducted under the
firm name of =. Alexander & Bro.
About Io'elock on Saturday morning OF last
week, an unknown inceudiary fired the crib,
cotton house and stables OF Jim Powell, who
lives about two miles north Of Isabella HIS
years supply of corn, about 400 pounds Of
meat, several bushels OF cotton seed and 9th
er articles were destroyed with the building
and his mule so badly burned that its recov-
cry is doubtful
The four men arrested in Chattanooga
Tuesday by Inspector Whteside are said to
have VictimiZed Atlanta merchants to a con
siderable extent. They are charged with
using the mails for fraudulent purposes and
1t is said that they have made over $4,000.
They had headquarters at Chattanooga. and
ia gu1A as inF Inns in oil Lots he
principal southern cities. They are charged
with having goods shipped to the address OF
Moore Brothers" which firm was composed
OF the gang now under arrest.
The Twentieth Georgia District SUNDAY
School Association, together with the Carroll
County Sunday School Association, convened
at Y lila Rica Tuesday night. Rev. T. w.
DimmoCk of Carrollton presided. The dis
trict association is composed OF the counties
OF Carroll, Douglas, HARRISON Paulding and
Polk. large delegation from each of the
counties attended: An interesting programme
has been prepared and VIII be carried out.
Prominent ministers and Sunday school
workers from the different denominations
from all over the state are in attendance.
Congressman John w. Maddox OF the Sew
enth Georgia district, canvassiug for reelec-
ton. tells of a recent conversation with Pres
ident Cleveland. Wen, Maddox" said the
President, how is everything down in old
Georgia. l suppose they are all cussing me
down there. - Well replied Maddox, they
do not like your financial policy" 81 know
that, Maddox" said the President but they
are not bit more anxious for silver than /
am. but It won't do now. Itell you though,
that unless 1 am badly mistaken. we will
have the crowned heads Of Europe at our
feet, and asking for our terms before two
years"
Macon and Atlanta will soon be talking TO
each other by telephone. Within the next
thirty days telephone communication viii be
established between the two cities. The act
ual construction OF the line began last Mon
day, and Wednesday night poles for the en-
tire line had been scattered beside the holes
which had already been sunk, and the string
ing of the wires had been commenced, the
force a. work being sufficient to complete ali
OF the work in the time specified. Some time
ago the Southern Bell Telephone Company
erected the line to Grim, forty miles from
Atlanta, and the people OF that suburb as
well as the people OF Atlanta, have had occa-
sion 10 become cOnVersaut with the great
convenience the wires have proven. The line
to Griffin cost the company quite an amount
of money. and did not prove to be one of the
best paying investments that could have
been made. The company finally came to the
conclusion that it could be made more profit
able by strtkigg the wires on TO Macon so that
the people OF that city could talk to the poo-
ple of Atlanta