The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-18
GEORGIA.


Darien Gazette: Gov. Gambler will prob
ably be reelected next year without OPP
position. He deserves this honor.
Triton Gazette Mr.. ]. F. Mickle of Sa-
vannah has rented the store-room in the
Tlmmons building, facing Third street.
formerly occupied by Mr.. Z. b. O'Neal,
and will open very soon.
The iail of Pulaski county is without an
inmate for the second time this year.
When prisoners are caught they are dis
posed of as quickly as possible and in
tbs way there are seldom more than four
or five in Jail there at once.
sparta Ishmaelife: One of the new bat
tIeships is to be named Georgia 1t
ought to be good ship, and to fire no
Guns except In a good cause. But there
is no knowing There are Georgians fight
ing in the ca use of tyranny and imperial
ism in the Philippines.
Brunswick Times: The city is at last to
have a real, live, modern business college.
Prof c. S. Richmond of Savannah is now
in the city, and in an interview at this
office yesterday expressed 10 a Times re-
porter his intention Of opening a school
in this city within the next thirty days.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: 1t is now pref
ty certain that the Stllmore Air Line Road
will be extended from this place to Wad-
ley, thus forming part of the Seaboard
and Gulf. This will make the road about
sixty miles long, and it will be a very i'm
portant line of road, even if :. is never
extended any further.
Washington Gazette: Already plans are
being discussed by the newspapers
throughout the state for raising subserip-
ton for a handsome silver service to be
presented the new man-of-war. Georgia,
but, as it will be fully three years be-
fore she is in commission, there is no ne
cessity for hurrying matters.
Della Dispatch: The Triton Gazette, in
its desperate hunt for something to over
balance that 17-gallon gourd we mention
ed, parades a measly little chicken, with
only four legs, before the public gaze. We
refrain from mentioning one with six legs,
Prince Albert tail and a fine and coarse
comb on the apex of his Uranium
A number of the convicts employed at
the Kramer camp Wilcox county, have
been transferred to a new lessee in the
southwestern part of the state. Among
those moved were Crlswell and Shaw, the
two white men convicted of wreeking a
passenger train on the Southern Railway,
in Twiggs county, about three years ago.
Montgomery Monitor: Coroner Morrison
was called to Lyons last Monday to hold
an inquest over the body of Jim Sullivan.
who was found dead at the slab pit at
Donovan's mills. The coroner organized
court of inquest and began an investiga-
lion. In accordance with the evidence.
the jury decided that death was caused
by falling slab striking Sullivan on the
head.
Probably the most unique and highly
interesting document that ever came into
the hands Of the Governor of Georgia was
received by the chief executive Saturday
morning. The document is a formal APP
peal to Gov Gambler instead of to the
court, from man convicted in Mcintosh
county of cheating and swindling, for a
new trial and Also for remittal of the
tine which the plaintiff paid upon the re-
turn OF the jury's verdict of guilty.
Deputy Collector John r. Ware, Dep
uty Marshal ]. T. Wheatley and Mr. e.
r, Kinnebrew, made big raid upon a dis
ullery IN Walton county, near Paradise,
Friday night. They learned that the
'moonshne" was being made in that vi
what they were looking for Two men, d.
L. Sims, white, and lack Griffith, colored,
We're at work at the stll and were arrest
cd by the officers. One of the stills was
OF 80 gallons capacity and the other had
capacity of sixty gallons. Both were
destroyed and about 1000 gallons of beer
was cut down. The two men we're taken to
Athens by the officers and were bound over
TO the United States Court.
Teifair Enterprise: A correspondence at
temperance this county, sends US the fol-
lowing, which he vouches for: DR.. ]. K.
Maloy has well at his barn forty feet
ueep and on last Monday his son, John,
saw chicken perched in small cave
Just above the water level, and about
'hlrty-fiVe feet below the surface of the
earth. He tried to get some one to go
uo"n after the chicken, but people were
AFRAID the well would cave, and on the
HeXt day the doctor, who is a good fish,
eIman, baited a fish hook and let it down
~ me well. and soon got a bite, and pull
ca out black hen. The Doctors son said
ne mad seen white chicken in the well
SuI couldn't believe more than one had
Iaueh IN, so one week later he saw the
"u'e chicken in the same cave. Again the
oo(tor tried his luck and soon pulled out
me white rooster