The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02

After Wandering over the Country
Mentally Unbalanced.
GEORGIA
The Athens knitting mill has ordered
its machinery and inside the next sixty
days viii be in operation. j. Il. DOOtsu1
Is president Of this company and W. H.
LpscOmb secretary and treasurer
Near ChipIey. fin Meriwother county.
a day or two ago. VIII Turner stabbed
Morgan Barry IN the groin. cutting an ar
terry. Barry died FROM the wound In IA
short while.
The Piedmont spool and Bobbin Corn
pany. located just outside the city limits
at Athens. on the SeabOard Air Line rOai.
IS progressing rapidly under the manage
ment Of Charles ". Baldwin.
DR.. L. C. Vass. pastor Of the first Pres
byterian church of Savannah viii preach
in the Methodist church Al Statesboro to-
day and will continue services several days
with a view to establishing church OF his
denomination at Statesboro.
The Construction Of the PheniX Elec-
trio line at Columbus has been stopped
on account Of the likelihood Of an IN
projectors Of the line are not cnthusi-
astic about resuming the work.
j. y. Thompson of Hoschton sold 800
pound for the lot; this Is equal 70 rs
cents in Athens. Another farmer sold 100
bales the day before and he also
Melted about 30 per cent advance on the
fall prices.
Gov. Atkinson is having some trouble
in obtaining a band to play for the sol
ders during the encampment at Griffin.
The Atlanta band, the Fifth Regimen.
has offered 10 play for $50 during the en-
campment, but Gov. Atkinson says he
will not pay more than $500 and before
he will do so he will have no music at
the camp.
Mr.. Bailey of Spring Hill OF the firm Of
Kaney & Bailey, who have recently OPEN
ed a mercantile business al Towns, will
pay 3 cents for every live rabbit he can
get He wants them to ship to Jekyl IS
land and has a contract for supplying
the island with this kind of game. one
Spring Hill boy made $50 in one day last
week.
The Whitehall Manufacturing Company
in Clarke county started its machinery
Thursday Twenty hands are employee
now making pants and moro VIII be add
ed later on Moses @. Michael of Athens
IS president OF the company and John r
White OF Whitehall Is secretary and treas
urer The plant is situated at Georgia
Factory and IS operated by water power
At sylvester last Wednesday at noon.
while several of the children were eating
their lunch outside Of the school building
one of them, Annie Freeman, was caught
by an old SOW that had been attracted by
the smell OF the food and severely bitten
on the calf of the leg. 1t Is reported by
the children that they had TO beat the hog
with sticks to make her turn the child
loose and then not until she had been drag
ged some distance.
The preliminary trial of Henry McDan-
iel and his son. Sanders, before Judge
Harris at Covington, has resulted in fix
ing bond for voluntary manslaughter at
$1,000 each. Sanders Mcdaniel stabbed
Riley Stewart to death near Covington
last week, while the elder Mcdaniel was
quarreling with Stewart about fence
line. Riley Stewart had a policy in the
Penn Mutual for $1,000. The bonds have
not yet been furnished.
The operations which were begun in
the Morgan gold mine in Oglethorpe couu-
ty have ceased for the present. ore from
the several shafts sunk have been sent
on for assay, and some of II assays quite
high, but in all the culphrets which give
so much trouble have been found d.
Wise Is now awaiting orders from owl
ers whether or not to go further with
the work Of prospecting What the own
ers want 20 lind is the vein of free goli
which they believe is some where in the
vicinity Of the mines.
Thursday Il. V. ShacklefOrd, represent
ing the Gordon Chemical Company, Gin
cinnati, O., closed a trade for forty acres
of land from the Round Mountain Iron
Cmpany, in Floyd county on which to
erect a plant. The company will erect
fully equipped plant at cost of 100000
for the manufacture of wood alcohol from
smoke Thirty ovens will be required by
the plant, and the charcoal, which will be
a secondary product, will all be taken by
the Round Mountain Company as fast as
1t is turned out.
Everything passed off in an unusually
orderly manner at Andersonville Thurs
day, owing, it Is believed, to the knoNi-
edge that the military would be called out
# any trouble arose. Only one negro was
killed. Up to a late hour his body re-
manned unidentified and his slayer, IL
known, was not arrested, neither Of them
having any acquaintances among the
crowds. so far as heard. About 10000 TO
1900 negroes attended. Very few paid
much attention to the exercises, the ma
jority of the negroes spending the day in
feasting and dancing
Nh
tain Iron Company in Floyd county, met
a. Rome Friday and elected as officers for
the ensuing year ": G. Sibley of Augusta,
president; j. w. Sibley of Birmin CHAM,
and Samuel FuRkhouser of Rome, being
the other two directors. The company is
running in full blast and is turning out
quality of ronieNcelled by the output Of no
furnace in the United States. During the
war this iron was used for the manufac-
ture of guns, on account OF Its superior
qualities of strength and toughness.
Secretary Gambler of Atlanta Friday
morning received from Judge Hutchins
letter in which he states that the con-
tested election cases III Oconee county
have been seetled IN favor of the popu-
lists. Two democrats were declared elect
ed to the offices of clerk of the court anG
tax collector, because two precincts were
thrown out on account OF irregularities;
The populsts contested on the ground
that. the precincts should not have been
thrown out, and Judge Hutchins has sus-
tanned them and has ordered that the
democrats vacate in favor of the popu-
lists.
There seems to be a general revival
among the secret orders of Rome. Fol-
lowing on the heels of the meeting of
the grand council of the Royal Arcanum
the leading Masons Of the state are to
meet at a general reunion at Rome June
a. for which great preparations are being
made. Wednesday evening five candi-
dates were given the second degree in
Masonry at the meeting of Oestanaula
Lodge. Thursday evening a lodge of forty
members Of the Golden Onion of Atlanta
was instituted by Supreme Secretary
Austin Holcomb of Atlanta, assisted by
Louis Lowenthal, travelling representa-
tive.
Cedartown Standard: VIM. Cleveland of
Savannah spent the first of the week in
the city, and while here closed a trade of
interest to our people. He has purchased
q. A. Lanes drug store for his brother-in-
law E. n. Rice, of Mellette, S. D., and will
come up from Savannah and take charge
of il himself until Mr.. Rice can get his af-
fairs in shape to move here. Mr.. Rice first
became interested In Cedartown through
the letter Of Editor +. b. Russell of the
Standard recently published in the South
ern Cultivator and correspondence
with Mr. Russell and Capt. Philpot led
him to ask Mr. Cleveland to come up from
Savannah and investigate Mr.. CleVe-
land was so well pleased that he hasten