The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-28
GEORGI a.

GEOhttlAs
Burial certificates have been issued for
one dozen persons in The Lott cemetery
at Waycross this year. This does not in
clude a half-dozen tiny infants. In town
of 5000 inhabitants this is a remarkable
record.
The body Of Louis BULGE. the fireman
scalded to death in the wreck that occur
red at Knoxville on the Atlanta, Knox
VILE and Northern Railroad on the Bird
inst. was taken to Marietta Thursday
and inferred.
McCuley and Wilkinson of Waycross.
sold over $1,000 worth of guano last spring
In Ware and Coffee counties. Other firms
sold large quantities 100 The farmers us
ualiv pay for their fertilizers with cotton
The collections begin in October.
The parsonage for the First Methodist
Church as Waycross viii be completed
early in the fall. The foundation was laid
this week and the building rs being erected
with dispatch. 1t is located on a lot adj
joining the church, facing Reed street.
A number of farmers in the Waycross
section planted patches of rice this year
and the yield promises to be unusually
fine. There is a rice mill in WaycrosS,
owned and operated by L. II. Morton, and
formerly.
While Miss Roe Smith was supervising
the picking of some fruit at Logaue-
vile on Thursday, she was dangerously
ecalded by having some boiling vinegar
spilled on her. Her face. arms, breast and
legs were badly burned. Her physician
thinks she viii recover, although the in
5uries she received are very painful She
is only 10 years of age.
The police OF Atlanta think they have
the murderer Of Patrolman Mills who was
killed about a month ago. Thursday VIII
Laumer a negro, who had been under sus-
plcon for some time, was arrested. They
claim that he exactly fills the bull of oe-
scription they have Of Mills murderer
and those who saw the crime committed
VIII be called in to take look at him. .
Invitations have been issued by DR.. and
Mrs. T. j. Beck of Tennille to the mar
rage of their daughter, Miss Mamie
Louise, TO Rev. Aquilla Chamlee OF san
dersville. The ceremony VIII be solemn
nized at the Baptist Church on sept 3.
Mr. Chamlee is now pastor of the Baptist
Church in Sandersville. Miss Beck Is the
daughter OF the pastor of the Tennille
Baptist Church.
Hon. Allen d. Gambler, Democratic
nominee for Governor, will address the
people of Northeast Georgia in the inter-
est of his campaign al Gainesville, on
Tuesday. Sept. 6. There viii be a mass
meeting of the Democrats of Hall county
on that day TO select new county
executive committee. 1t viii be a big
rally day, and everybody wants TO hear
the plowboy OF Pigeon Roost, the next
Governor of Georgia.
Abner Taylor, the wife murderer, con-
cemned 10 hang at Macon on Sept. %,
will not be executed on that date. A mo-
ton for a new trial for Taylor was made
by his attorneys in the usual form, and a
hearing was set for Sept %, just three
days before the hanging is set 10 take
place In the event of the application be-
ing refused, which is more than probable,
the case win be taken to the Supreme
Court on a bill of exception, and the exc
cution will be stayed until the case is re-
viewed.
In the Recorders Court at Macon on
Thursday Clint Porter was arraigned on
the charge Of fighting and dieorderly con-
duct growing out of the attack he made
Wednesday afternoon on Judge w. F.
Cannon, who was In court with his at
torney, Judge Warren Nottingham. Por-
ter was fined $25 for fighting and disor-
derby conduct. and Judge Noting CHAM
asked the court to bind him 10 the Su-
perior Court. on the charge of assault
with intent to murder The Recorder com
mitted Porter 10 the Superior Court in
the sum of 500 which was furnished by
the mother Of Porter.
The new depot question is stlll the sub
ject of discussion in Atlanta. Mayor Col
lier is chairman of the committee to put
the matter before the Railroad Commits
sion. A meeting of the committee was held
Friday 10 make the arrangements for HI
ing a petition with the commission asking
that the railroads entering Atlanta be
forced TO erect a suitable depot for that
city. Those interested in the matter be-
lieve that the fight will be a successful
one and that Atlanta viii get a depot
which will be in keeping with the pro-
gress of the city and give the proper IA
cilities for her railroad patrons.
The wife of Sidney Lascelles (Lord
Beresford), who has just returned to Geor-
gia from the City of Mexico, was in At
lanta a few days ago and talked of her
husband and Mexico. In the interview she
said: 'As every one knows, we have been
in Mexico for some time" said Mrs.
Lascelles. MIR. Lascelles is engaged In
the hotel business in the City of Mexico,
and Is making money. He is at the head
of the business and a number of Others
are in with him. 1t is going to prove a
big thing and they are all making money.
know nothing of the reports of which
you speak, and have not heard of them
before. l do not expect to go back to
Mexico again. l like the place very much
and fell in love with H. but intend to make
Georgia my home. l do not know where
/ wlH live, buI will be in Atlanta several
months and will be in Fitzgerald some
time Mr.. Lascelles will come to Georgia
and join me. but how soon he win come ]
cannot say. The whole matter will de
pend entirely on his business, but il is
practically certain that he will come soon
er or later. ] will not go back 10 Mex
leo"
An amendment to the bill for receiver
for John i. Redwine has been flied al
Atlanta, making parties defendant a mum.
Der Of the creditors who hold security II
excess of their claims against the money
lender. The parties sought TO be made de
PENDANTS in the amendment are e. p. Me
Burney the Mutual Loan and BANKING