The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-03


Hon. William G. Brantley will open the
congressional campaign at Douglas. in
Coffee county, on the 5th inst.
Restaurateur Joe Wallace. at Bruins
wick, set a trap day or two ago and
caught thirty-one rats in one day, and
since that time he has run the score up to
fifty-fve even.
Rev. f. E. Clements has been placed in
charge OF the Eastman Methodist Church
in place of the Rev. ". J. Robertson, de-
ceased. lie is a Montgomery county boy
and a son of the late j. Clinton Clements.
Samuel Jenkins Of Waycross and Miss
Martha Walker of Blackshear were mar
ried at Blackshear Tuesday evening. The
bridal pair arrived at Waycross yesterday
evening and are now at Mr.. jenkins
home on Lee avenue.
Cuthbert Leader: During the rain Fri
day afternoon, lightning struck Mr.. H. s.
Weathersby's stockade in the Sixth dis
trict, killing one of his best mules, two
hogs and setting the stockade on fire
Fortunately help was al hand, ana the
etockade and contents were saved from
destruction, the fire being eXtinguished
before any serious damage.
Brunswick Times: W. o. Broadly, who
has been visiting DR.. Alfred Christie, and
who spent the summer in and around the
city, leaves to-day for Topeka, Kan,
whore he win wed Miss Elsie Badger,
charming young lady of that city on Sept
% He will return to Brunswick after
his wedding, and so favorably impressed
has he been with the city that 1t is pos
sibe ne may make 1t his home.
Baxley Banner: W: d: Gerald, a soldier
of the First South Carolina Regiment, met
with a painful accident yesterday (Wed-
nesday), while riding on a fiat car loaded
with timber on the Southern Railroad
near Graham Being without either money
or pass he was compelled to work his
way through, in order to get to his regi-
ment at a pointed time. He was sitting
on a stick of timber when in almost an
instant the train stopped, causing the tim
Der upon which he was sitting to collide
with another car of timber and breaking
his left leg between the knee and ankle
Immediately after arriving here he was
carried to the Barnes House. where every
possible medical attention was given him.
Thomasville Correspondence Morning
News; Col. J. r. Hogan, candidate for
Governor on the Popdlist ticket, addressed
a fair audience at the court house at
Townsville Wednesday night There
were a good many Populists present, and
they cheered the speaker Justify Col Ho-
gan makes no great efforts at oratory
but addresses his auditors in a very plain
and largely conversational way. He Is
an entertaining talker, however and his
audience does not become bored or tired
In his speech Wednesday night, Col Io-
gan severely ridiculed the great impor-
lance set upon the free coinage of silver
by Mr.. Bryan and the free coinage Demo-
Gratis While, he said he favored free
coinage, he considered lt of extremely
slight Importance, and stated that it
would scarcely increase the amount of
money in circulation, which was really
the thing needed, percepubly He exploded
the together up and down relationship
theory of wheat and silver by the beha-
vior of wheat this year in over doubling
the price of silver. The free silver Demo-
Gratis present and all the Populists, who
IN this region, are rampant free silverites
received this part of the colonels speech
with chilliness which could be felt The
speaker advocated the issuance of paper
money-small, non-interest bearing bonds
so to speak-until there was an abundance
of II for everybody, in other words, 1.-THE
old greenbacks' of the past He also
charged against the state Democracy the
increase In state taxes, and said that no
decrease could ever come from that party
which was rotten and corrupt" He was
lature, abolition of appropriations to the
tmilitia of the state. and the State Univer-
sity, or even the payment by the state of
the annual interest due on its debt to the
university. He claimed for his party much
good service already to the state, notably
the paying of interest on deposits OF state
money held in the banks. He said Gov.
Atkinson made the banks pay, but the
Populists made the Governor make the
banks pay. He declared there were $780,
600 of the states money lying In Gunby
Jordan's bank Ia Columbus drawing no in
terest for the state, all the while the school
teachers could not get their salaries paid,
and were, hence, compelled to pawn their
school contracts to bankers and merchants
Eat the biggest kind of interest to get
supplies TO run on, but that the Populists
had changed all this for the better The
best point the colonel makes is the abso-
lutte importance for two white parties an
Georgia. to keep each other straight-and
he evidently thinks so himself by the
very great stress he lays upon it.