The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
GEORGIA.


going TO have one OF the biggest shows Of
the season.
Mr.. Clark Grier has received his COM
mission as postmaster of Dublin and mas
taken charge OF the Dublin postofiice. He
has installed Mr.. Vance Chappen as as
sistant
Laurens county has just missed a con-
test over the liquor question, owing to the
fact that the anti-prohIbitionists had to-
few names signed TO their petition, by SIX
qualified voters. But for the lack of tn Sc
six names an election would have been
held. Laurens is a dry county.
Dublin Dispatch: Tax Collector Daniel
got 500 out of The Wallace circus people
last week. The show folks were inclined
10 kick at the tax, and a first refused
fatty to pay. But Mr.. Daniel reminded
them that IL was a state law behind him
ana If they did not wish 90 pay they could
pull Up stakes and move on.
Wayne County News: Peter Lawson. a
leading negro of Lowndes county, is cir
cuIating petition which viii be present
ed to Congress. asking that the negroes
be sent back TO Africa: he says hat he
will have a petition in Wayne county for
that purpose. He advocates that vicious
negro criminals should be beheaded in
public.
Mr. W. S. Witham Of Atlanta. who has
the distinction Of being the president Of
twenty-seven banks in Georgia, is adyocat-
ing the building Of small cotton mills In
the towns of Georgia. He says it has
been demonstrated that cotton mills in the
South run by Southern men, pay good div
idends, and that small mills, with from
$500 10 1900 spindles, pay as good dlVi-
bends as the larger ones.
Eastman Times-Journal: Jonah Mus
grove, the negro who had his brain knock
ed out by a passenger train just below
Eastman, some time ago is able to walk
the streets again ana will soon be as well
as ever Jonah had a miraculous escape
and is the only living man we know OF
who had his brains raked up off the
ground and placed back in his head.
George M. Smith, postmaster at Car
rollton, was stricken on the streets with
apoplexy Friday, fell and was immediate
ly carried into the postofice, where he
died in about ten minutes. Besides hold
ing the postoffice under the present ad-
ministraUon, he was extensively engaged
in the fertilizer and cotton business and
was a street buyer at work when stricken.
Two Mormon elders Henry D. Bronson
of Fairview, Ida, and Alfred Jensen of
Circleville, Utah, were in Dublin last
week. They said they were going about
the country as did the apostles of old
without purse or scrip" and depended
on Providence for sustenance. They an
nounced that they would make a house
toulouse canvass among the people of that
section of the state and preach the doc
Irine of their church.
Rev. Sam Jones has cancelled all of his
lecture and evangelical engagements I'M
I'll jan l. and 1t is announced that his
health has been fast failing for several
months. Mr.. and Mrs. Jones are now in
Louisville, where Mr.. Jones is under the
care of a noted physician. There is no eff
fort on the part of either the family or the
medical advisor to keep the condition of
MIR. Jones a secret, and he himself has
spoken to a number of his friends about
his health
The synod of Georgia, which has been in
session in Marietta since last Wednesday,
resumed its work Saturday morning with
about two hundred delegates present. The
morning session was largely devoted to the
Agnes Scott Institute at Decatur, Ga,
which Is a Presbyterian College for young
ladies'. There were $40 subscribed by
the ministers toward the endowment fund
of that institution. The amount subscribed
on Friday will make about $4,000 which
has been secured towards the endowment
fund.
Swainsboro Wlregrass Blade: Tbs
farmers Of Emanuel county are now in
much better condition than they nave been
for number of years. The low price of
cotton ana the hard times generally have
learned them to be economical and to
raise all their supplies on the farm The
little rise in the price of cotton this year
has enabled them TO begin paying their
debts. We venture to say that there is
more bacon and lard among the farmers
In this county now than at any other
time at this season of the year In twenty
years.
Since last Tuesday a helpless young wo-
man has been in semi conscious state
at the Grady Hospital in Atlanta, unab q
TO give her name to furnish any clew 10
her identity. Tuesday morning Miss Tissie
Griffith who was employed as a governess
In the family Of Mr.. Charley Vaughn n ar
Howelfs Mill, disappeared. Ii is rossi-
bic that Miss Griffith is the young woman
at the hospital. An effort was made 10
identify the young woman, but the report
er who called at the hospital was told that
it was impossible for any one to see her.
Triton is rapidly becoming the railroad
center Of South Georgia. Within thirty
days she will have more independent lines
of railroad in operation than any other
town south of Macon. The whistles #
the Moultrie Terminal may be heard
within two miles of Triton, and the road
expects TO begin running schedules from
Triton TO Moultrie within a week The
Triton, Thomasville and Gulf is now with
in two miles Of Moultrie and will begin
schedules within a month. The Triton
people are elated over their railroad posi-
bilities and, il is said, people are moving
there daily, buying building and renting,
so that the real estate men and carpenters
are reaping harvest of business.
FLORIDA.
Up to date Key West has had ~ G66 cases
of yellow fever and 63 deaths, while Miami
has had a total of p cases and deaths.