The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-04
GEORGIA.

The Americas Herald of Nov. l has ar
rived thirty days ahead of time.
Miss Isabel Thomas has been selected
AS maid OF honor for Athens at the Macon
diamond jubilee.
Mr. Thomas P. Stanley and Miss Mar
saret Morton will be married at high noon
tomorrow at the brides home in Athens.
Columbus Enquirer-sun Miss Martha
Backus mas returned to the city, after
SPENDING the summer with her mother
at the Isle of Hope near Savannah.
W. T. Anthony died at Conner Saturday
morning after an illness of two weeks.
He was a member of council and highly
esteemed citizen He leaves a wife and
one child.
The engagement of DR.. George Stinson
Tigner and Miss Lula Singer is announc-
ed. The marriage will occur on The even
ing of Oct 10, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Hollis A. Boynton, in McDonough
e. P. Burns has been appointed com
mercial agent for the Georgia and Ala
bsma Railroad, with headquarters in At
lauta HIS services began Saturday MI
Burns was agent for the Western ana At
lantic Railroad in Atlanta for a num-
bar of wears. but left the service of the
company Aug. l.
The Bank of Crawfordville opened there
saturday with a capital of $4,000. John F.
Holden has been elected president. J.
Kendrick. vice-president, and NJ. f.
Griffith. cashier. The entire capital OF the
bank is furnished by residents Of TaIa-
ferro county The bank has an excellent
vault and one of the best time-lock safes
This is the only bank in Talsaferro couh-
bxr oil
meet with success
A Marietta lady misplaced a very small
pair of embroidery scissors about month
ago. and the most diligent search failed
10 reveal them. Several days since she
found them fastened securely in the fringe
of A silk cap. She had worn it to church
on the occasion of each Sabbath even
ing service since losing them. Some one
suggested that the pair of scissors con-
ceived the idea of going along TO cut the
sermons short.
/ s. Prather of Atlanta Is 101 years
old. having been born in the eighteenth
century. He is in excellent health, and
bids fair to live a good while longer. If
he lives a little more than year from
now he will have enjoyed the remarka-
BILE distinction of having lived IN three
different centuries, eighteenth, nineteenth
and twentieth His eyesight has nearly
failed him. but he is able to recognize
friends by their voice, his hearing being
sui good.
Mrs. ]. A. Peacock of Dublin will play
her composition, THE Marine Two-Step,'
curing the Macon jubilee. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, to whom the two-step is dedicated,
will be in Macon during the carnival, and
Mrs Peacock's piece should be very pop
ular. Two or three of the brass bands
that will furnish music during the jubilee
occasion have had THE Marine Two-Step'
arranged for them, and those who go Will
have the pleasure of hearing the compost
ton of Mrs Peacock played.
valdosta Times; Last Sunday evening
Misses Lizzie and Julia Wizenbaker, step
daughters of A. D. McA1ey killed a rat
tlesnake and nineteen little snakes. Mon
day as the young ladies We're coming home
from school, they saw big rattler in the
road and proceeded to dispatch it, After
a hard fight with sticks and rocks, they
succeeded in killing the snake. Then TAX
ing il on a stick they carried the snake
home as a trophy of their battle AT the
same place the day before. negro killed
large ragtlesnake, which was probably
mate to the one killed by the young
ladies'.
At Atlanta. Saturday, Judge Lumpkin is
sued an order directed 10 oheIln VEINS
for the arrest of J. l. Clay for contempt
of court. Clay has refused to pay alimony
10 his wife, after the court had ordered
him to do so, and after he had been ad-
mcnished by the court and given time
limit in which to comply with his honor 5
ruling. Some time aso Mrs w. Z. Clay
got a judgment for alimony from her
husband Clay paid her part of the money
required by the court. She did not receive
the full amount, and complained Clay
was ordered to make a showing of his
reasons for not paying the alimony. He
did not appear, and was given two weeks
by Judge Lumpkin in which TO pay the
money. lie had failed at the end of thar
time, and yesterday the court ordered
bis arrest and detention in Jail until fur
Their action of the court