The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-04
The Court House Down,
Work of a Convict
Host.
NOT QUITE ALL GONE, BUT MOST,
AID In Its Place Another'il Rise to Be
Glynn County's
Boast.

In the distant after day gray haired
grandsires will entertain curious
crowds with the story of how Glynn's
old courthouse fell; and Of how the
county commissioners slIenced con-
tention by removing the bone thereof.
1t was altogether unexpected-the
coming of forty convicts into the city
yesterday and the work they did. 1t
struck the opposition to a new court
house all in heap. The afternoon
before they had been congratulating
themselves over the supposed fact that
the commissioners had abandoned the
purposed sale and decided to await
the judgment of the court.
But they hadn't.
Yesterday morning on the Southern
train arrived Superintendent Lyles,
two guards and forty convicts. They
left the train at the Dixville crossing,
and came to the fated building at
double quick, 1t was an armed attack
on an eyesore-and the eyesOre capit-
ulated.
The work afforded the convicts IN
tense satisfaction. They never bent
their Drawn to a pleasanter task.
"Dis is where we got our time, boys,
yelled one. "HIt 1t heavy"
"You won't put no more stripes on
niggers," said another.
And another, welding an axe lust
lily, commented, at we could just
tackle the Jail next"
The men worked we'll, and by the
time they suspended yesterday after
noon the entire second story was
down. The first story will 90 today.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
The commissioners decided on this
step at Tuesdays meeting, but the
most persistent efforts of newspaper
men to ascertain what would be done
were of no avail. Yesterday-alI was
made plain. 1t was like a surprise
party.
The following resolution, intro
duced by Commissioner Fl. H. Harvey,
is what did the work:
"Whereas the county commissioners
have rejected all bids made on the old
courthouse building, believing that
more money can be realized from the
sale Of same by having it torn down
by the county convicts; therefore be it
Resolved, That the superintendent
of the convict camp be, and he Is
hereby instructed to have the old
building torn down, and have the ma
terial put In such shape that it will
sell to best advantage"
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
A TIMES man called on Judge Whit
field for statement last night. The
firm of CrOvatt & Whitfield repre-
sents the petitioners for the injunc-
ton against the sale of the now de-
molished building. They are sup
posed to represent generally the oppo-
sitIon to a new courthouse. Judge
Whitfield said:
"We made no protest against the
tearing down of the building. Our
petition simply sought to restrain a
sale. The demolition is entirely an
other matter. The building having
been destroyed, there is no necessity
for pressing the injunction matter
further. | do not think it will be ar
gued Saturday, as it will be useless.
, You can say, however, that we we're
surprised that the commissioners re-
fused to wait two or three days for
advice from their judge"
WHAT 1T MEANs.
The sum and substance of the whole
matter is thatthe county commission
ers, deciding that more money could
be gotten from the building torn down
than from the building standing. or
dered its destruction; the petition for
injunction is made imperative, and
the desired end-the removal of the
eye-sore-has been happily accom-
plIshed, and without expense.