The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-27

Death of a CIasSmate Of President
jefferson Davis-A Mineral spring
Near EIbertOn 10 BE DeveIOped-A
Hotel Project on Foot by the Trav-
eIers' Protective Association of At
Enthusiastically Vegetable Crops.
GEORGIA.
Albert Hanse. Of Macon. was stricken
with paralysis. Saturday. His tongue
was affected and right arm rendered use
less.
The Augusta Box Factory. for some
time shut down, has Just placed a S2tOQy
order for additional machinery with Hall
& Brown. OF St. Louis, and viii soon begin
work on a much larger scale
The recent grand jury at Eastman,
recommended that the county court Of
Dodge be abolished, and it is probable
that a bill 10 that effect VIII be intro
duced at the next session OF the legis-
lature.
John Hammonds. a young negro boy.
was shot at loganville last Friday. He
says that while in new ground pick
ing up chunks and trash, he was shot by
some one in the woods nearby, but he
could not tell who did the shooting.
In a small strip of Madison county
lying on the east side Of Broad river and
bordered by Franklin, Hart and Ebert
struck rich vein Of gold ana steel The
vein runs from Browns gold mine in
Madison to Browns gold mine in Hart.
An old rule of Macon's police depart
ment has been revived, and was put into
effect Sunday. TO wit: Three men from
each OF the two squads OF patrolmen Will
be given Sunday TO attend church. The
men start alphabetically, and when the
roll is completed then commence again
at the top.
Solomon D. Betton, one of Cuthbert's
oldest citizens, has just died. He was
a classmate of ex-President Jefferson Da-
Wis at West Point and serving as first
mate on the steamship BrandyYine, which
took Lafayette to France He was SO
He was baptized by Bishop Asbury.
A charter has been granted a company
of ElbertonianS to be Incorporated as
the Elberton Mineral Springs Company
20 bottle and ship the water Of the Elber-
ton mineral springs. The water has been
pronounced as having great health giving
qualities, and is quite, in my, lg. a
necessary for invalids and those suffer
ing.
Hon. John McGolrick continues very
sll at his home at Macon, and It is aPpre-
hended that his sickness may prove fatal.
He has been confined TO his bed several
weeks with dropsy, and Il is said that
he cannot now speak above a whisper;
Mr.. McGolrick is a member of the board
of county commissioners, and also of the
police commission, He was formerly an
alderman Of the city.
Jules Belpres, until lately chef at Wig
paux & Roses Whitehall stree. restau-
rant, at Atlanta, is missing. and with
dim is missing a good-looklng woman,
who was thought to be his wife, but
who, It is now said was the wife of Mr..
Rosseau, a Texas cattleman. The cause of
M. Belpres' flight, It is said, was the re-
iceipt of information that the woman's
husband was coming to Atlanta
Thetraveling men of Atlanta held an en-
thusiaStic meeting in the chamber of
commerce Saturday evening. During the
afternoon Of Saturday a committee of
forty members of the local post visited
every wholesale merchant, every jobber
and every drummer, not member of the
organization for the purpose of enlisting
them in the ranks of the T. p A. There
was a large attendance and quite a num-
Der enrolled themselves as members of the
Atlanta post. The question of interchange
able mileage books was taken up but
nothing can be done until the meeting of
the new passenger association on the 9th.
Atlanta post viii build a hotel.