The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-06

Darl<y Rcdecms Bill OF sale
Given Over His Son - Newspaper
Notes-A Negro Girls Tears Move II
Jacksonville Judge-A Negro In a
South Carolina Eating House
Causes a Stir-Past Election COM
ment.
GEORGIA.
There is prospect of the old glass
works being revived.
The postofice receipts at Cordele have
doubled during the past four years.
The promoters of the BLACK Patti"
concert in Atlanta are in the police courts
to have it settled which cheated the other
worse.
The Macon News gives evidence of the
incoming wave of prosperity by appearing
on Saturday afternoon as a double sheet;
eight pages of good reading.
Judge Beck assembled court in Forsyth
last week. and in his charge TO the grand
Jury said that Monroe had the worst roads
Of any county in the Flint district.
Efingham County News: If negro
preachers would pay less attention to
politics and more to the moral training Of
their race there would probably be less
Of them in Jail and fewer lynchings.
The Miller County Liberal is the latest
candidate for journalistic honors. 1t is
published at Colquitt, with Mrs. Zula B.
Cook, editress. The paper is all home
print and one of the neatest in the state.
Inman Park Methodists of Atlanta will
lay the corner stone of their new church
this afternoon. The ceremonies viii be
quite interesting DR.. Warren A. Gambler,
president of Emory College, will deliver
an address.
Americas Times Recorder: 1t is stated
that the state of Georgia is to so in the
hands of a receiver, and the Southern
railway is to be the receiver. Forewarned
is forearmed. VIII the people submit? If
so, let it go.
On Saturday the Southern put on its ex-
perimental shoe fly trains between Macon
and points north and south. The expert
ment is made in the hope that the com
pany win find II profitable to run the
trains more frequently.
Two Atlanta police officers and a Jail
official from Chattanooga had desperate
fight with an escaped convict Friday
night about u O'Clock. The fight to make
the capture took place in the dark, and
both the desperate and the Chattanooga
jailer were struck on the head, but the
Chattanooga officer took his quarry back
with him.
The John B. Gordon Camp No. 46,
United Sons of Confederate Veterans,
was formed in Atlanta Friday night, and
men who have banded themselves togeth-
er to cherish the tradition of the south.
President Robert A. Smyth of Charleston.
commander-in-chiefw was here to preside
at the birth.
Macon Telegraph: Bibb county's au-
thorities say that they are not in the
least affected by the determination of
Gov. Atkinson to force judges and county
commissioners to see that convicts are
worked in the various counties as the
law directs Bib does not lease con-
victs to private parties, and, it is said
has never done so since the amendment
of 1879, which made it unlawful
swainsboro' News: We are now eight
pages las large as any paper between Ma
con and Savannah, we furnish the news
while 1t is fresh, giving, each issue, a fun
page of local happenings, and the natural
consequence is that we enjoy the largest
list of subscriptions and more advertising
than any newspaper in this section
Swainsboro is promised number of new
local enterprises with the opening of the
fall season.
For the first time since Labor day has
been set aside as a national holiday es-
pecially as it is a legal holiday the banks,
postoffce and mills of Columbus will OBJ
serve it. The several trades unions of
the city have decided upon an elaborate
programme for the day, consisting of mu-
sic, dancing and addresses from several
of the most prominent labor leaders of
the city. The exercises will be held at
Wildwood park.
The grand jury of Monroe county, which
has been in session for the past two
weeks, has found many true bills against
the unlawful selling of liquor in this
county, Nearly all of the merchants who
zeal IN them are also reported TO have
been indicted for selling cigarettes TO
minors. They also recommend that the
convicts hereafter be employed al home
IN improving county roads, instead of
selling them to contractors.
William Braswell, a blacksmith. was
found dead in the woods in the northern
P0At VI W dltOn county lew DAYS ago.
Last Monday evening he, while intoxicat-
cd, went with Zion Hendricks TO get a
load Of wood, and, after reaching the
WOODS, got out of the wagon and Law down
and went to sleep. Hendricks loaded his
wagon and drove home. thinking Braswell
would return when he walked On Friday
Hendrlcks went to the same place after
another load of wood and found Bras
Wen lying in the same position, EXCEPT
that ne was lying face downward. His
ieIt shoulder was found to be dislocated
ms neck broken and a bruised place
extending across his left chest.
Correspondence from Atlanta SAYS: Gen.
Henry R. jackson of Savannah, who sunk
pile of hard cash in the dreary morasses
OF the Okeefenokee swamp, is up here to-
day' accompanied by Hon. Pope Barrow
ana they have had long conference with
Mr. Joel Hurt, the present receiver of the
company. Mr.. Hurt could not be seen ar
MS office, but from an altogether reliable
source 1t is learned that the visit of Gen
jackson and Mr.. Barrow was made for
tne purpose of submitting reports of fg-
ures to the receiver, so as to acouaint him
with all the details of the late companv's
business. There is no doubt" remarked
my informant, but what an effort will be
made byf the old stockholders and Mr.
Hurt to reOrganiZp a new co,,,r,o,,,. -. /,