The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-05


OcmuIgee Syvamps at Macon Drain
ed-The Negro Drug Clerk Arrest
ed for Tearing a Label on a Bottle
Diseharged-The Suwanee Hotel at
vienna sold nt Auction.
GEORGIA
Rome Is to have new evening and new
weekly paper.
W. c. Dorsey OF Forsyth county has been
adjudged a lunatic. He is about IS years
old and has a family.
Work has commenced on the new fair
building at Triton The great demand for
space made il a necessity. The dimensions
are 20 by 81 feet.
There is a movement on foot in Atlanta
TO get the Atlanta clearing house TO agree
10 close the banks Of Atlanta at y o'clock
on Saturdays. giving the bank clerks ana
employees half holiday.
At Vienna Tuesday the magnificent
building known as the Suwanee hotel was
sold by the trustees of that property Tor
the benefit Of the bondholders. 1t was bid
in for them by Col. J. T. Hill for $llO
While fishing from a boat on Muckalee
creek, near Americas. at a point above
Magnolia dell. a young man was knocked
almost senseless by an alligator. Fortu-
nately, however, he escaped the jaws OF
the sauriaR.
A curiosity in jackson is IN old rooster
who Will care for all the chickens that
happen to lose their mother. He not only
hhem at night in the most approved style OF
maternal Kindness.
The schools of Floyd county are in a
very prosperous condition There are
about 10 teachers in the county and 125
schools. There are about $500 children with
in school age, with about two-thirds of
this number in attendance.
The plant Of the Cordele Guano Company
was advertised TO be sold at Vienna Tues
day, to satisfy sundry fl fas against Il, but
Judge J. B. Scott and others Of the origi-
nal stockholders procured a temporary in
junction and stopped the sale of IL.
The city council Of Macon has agreed 10
establish police alarm patrol system al a
cost Of $500 II has also decided to grant
a large tract of land to the Macon, Dublin
and Savannah railroad provided the road
agrees to erect its hopes thereon within
eighteen months
A petition has been presented 10 the
county commissioners OF Bibb with 800
signatures, asking them 70 take steps to-
wards the drainage Of the Ocmulgee
swamps below Macon. The commissioners
adopted resolutions asking Bibb's represen-
eatives in the legislature 20 use their pow
er in having a law passed so that the work
could be undertaken.
A queer caravan passed through Gaines
Vile recently. 1t consisted of a man and
family with a team, who had Travelled
from Oklahoma territory. They We're
bound for their old home In North Carroll
ma. The company had a COW with them, and
the long pilgrimage had so worn the ami
mails hocfs that It was necessary to have
Walton q Wagner, the contractors. have
begun work on the waterworks at the
Massachusetts cotton mills, near Rome
Inc water SG Is to be pumped a,d from on, silver
the creek and will have a capacity of over
half million gallons. Work on the mills
asrapidly progressing, and in a short while
the building viii be ready for the machin-
cry.
r. c. williams, the negro drug clerk of
Macon, who sclaped the prescription mum,
Der from a bottle a few weeks ago, and
wanted TO fill the bottle with another med
icine that was just as good" was ac-
quilted In the city court Wednesday. VIII
liams knew nothing about the Ingredients
of the prescription which he had been ask
ed II he could flll, but assured the customer
that he could give something that would
standing near. and he arrested the cOlored
prescriptionist Tor tearing the label from
the bottle. Judge Ross Wednesday decided
that the evidence wasn't sufficient to show
that Williams really intended to commit
a wrong, although the law on the subject
was perfectly clear and suited the case.
The court, therefore, gave Williams the
benefit Of the doubt as to his intentions.
Atlanta Journal Miss Cora Barr, of
Montgomery, and Charles Perryman, of
the same place, were married in Atlanta
Wednesday morning, and in the afternoon
left for home. The story is an interesting
one. For some time Mr.. Perryman paid
attention of a marked character to Miss
Barr, and was always accompanied by
friend who was desperately in love with
Miss Coras pretty sister For some reason
the attentions of Mr.. Perryman and his
friend We're not liked by the family OF the
young women, and they were forbidden TO
call. II was arranged finally that both cou-
pies should elope last Monday night, but
the irate brother Of the girls heard of It
and at the point of a long six shooter in
duced the young men TO abandon the idea.
At this stage OF the game 1t was decided
to send the two girls to New York under
the care of an elder sister, and in this way
end the matter. This ending, however,
did not suit Mr. Perryman and his friend or
the girls either. and the young people ar
ranged that the two young men should be
on the same train that carried the girls
and the double wedding should oc-
cur at Opelilxa. At the last minute Mr..
Perryman's friend failed TO appear and
Mr.. Perrynan came along to marry Miss
Cora If he could. Leaving the train in At
ianta Mr.. Perryman and Miss Cora Barr
went to the home of T. ]. Reams, on Mag
nolia street an old friend formerly of Mont
gomeFy, but now living In Atlanta, and
placed Miss Barr in Mrs. Ream's charge
for the night. Early Wednesday morning
ne secured a license and then called on
Rev. A. c. Ward, pastor Of the Sixth Bap-
fist church, who soon performed the cere-
Tnony that made the two young people one.
Miss Cora is only a few months over six
teen years old.