The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-05
GEORGIA.

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~ labor. The premiums are liberal-casa
Isaac Gardner, one of the convicted as
.assins of the Rustins, at Co!quitt, has
haen nut under $1,000 bond for his APP
rearance at the next regular term of the
court. which is in October.
The next convention of the International
Association of Ticket Agents will, in an
probability. be held in Atlanta. The con-
i.ention meets in 1900, and a strong effort
,e being made to bring the great meeting
there.
The Kennesay Marble Company of Mar
ietta has lust secured the contract to fur
,tsb the marble for all the interior work
from basement to roof of a six-story Of
Zee binding known as the Lenz block,
the finest building in Dallas, Tex.
To-day DR.. Thomas Dixon of New York
and his wife arrived in Griffin and were
entertained at the splendid home of Mr..
and Mrs Douglas Boyd, Mrs. Dixon being
relative Mr.. Dixon delivered a short
talk TO ladies at Mr. Boyds residence.
Marietta Journal: On fat car with
four trucks, last Monday. was block of
white marble q feet 2 inches in dength
and feet Inches in width. 1t weighed
5000 pounds. 1t was shipped from the
Southern Marble Company's quarries AZ
Marble Hill, Pickens county. Georgia, for
the Savings Bank building at Detroit,
Mich.
Dr. George H. Hepworth, the senior
member of the New York Herald's staff,
is in Atlanta. The doctor comes to make
study of the recent lynching from the
Il standpoint of political economy, and he
will endeaVor to point out a remedy for
H the evil. DR.. Hepworth was sent by his
paper TO Armenia in order that he NIGH,
H study conditions in that unfortunate coun-
0try.
Forsyth is becoming one of the foremost
+ cities OF the state in industrial enterprises.
Besides the two cotton mills which are
running there now and making good divi-
dends for their stockholders, a new knit
ting mill is about to be constructed under
n the ownership of r. P. Brooke, E. A.
4 Newton and Charles Ensign. This new
mill will employ a large number of opera
n tives.
4 The residence of Charles Jones, at Stiles
boro, near Gainesville. was destroyed by
fire Tuesday night, Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
and seven children barely escaped with
their lives. All the furniture was lost
The inmates were all in bed asleep and
a saved not even a change of clothing. The
residence was a 2-story house of eight
rooms. MIR. Jones is brother of Rev.
Sam Jones.
Col. Patrick Henry Ray of the Third
!. lmmunes has turned over to the custody
+ of the Macon Volunteers the Spanish can
non he brought from Cuba. The cannon is
silver bronze and is nicely mounted. Col.
Ray is an ex-Federal soldier, and the act
of placing his cannon in the custody of a
company that was the first to reach Vir-
sinia soil when the call for Confederate
volunteers was made, is a compliment the
Volunteers fully appreciate.
Atlanta will be closed tighter than wax
next Sunday, and it will be next to i'm
possible for a cigarette smoker to pur-
chase package of "tacks' on that day,
unless he finds a drug store that handles
them. The same will be the case with
those who wish to buy pipe. And what
4 Is more, not one of the we'll known tobacco
stores will be open at all. In fact. Al
! anta will come nearer being closed en-
4 trely than ever before in the history of
the city. This wonderful change in the
Sunday business interests of the city is
due to the move made by The police last
sabbath in making cases against fifty
merchants for keeping open doors on Sun
day Tor the purpose of trade and traffic.
On Thursday evening, May II, at Rome,
will occur one Of the largest Masonic con-
Vacations ever assembled in Georgia. 1t
WIN te held under the auspices Of Chero-
Rec Lodge, No. 66. Deputy Grand Master
Max Meyerhardt, who is also master OF
AcroKee lodge, viii preside. There VIII
,e Work in the third degree, addresses by
IulSuhguished Masons a banquet, etc.
-1"2uS the prominent visitors expected
are Hiand Master Taylor and other grand
'VllIeeF' Of Georgia; Grand Master Viii |
n n ana others, of Alabama; grand of
80 OF tennessee and Mississippi, Gov |
audier. Attorney General Terrell and |
lt"+E o.nefs prominent in all The walks of |
u"y LOCO Masons are expected.
Albany Herald: Money is scarcer and a |
'i''e OF ii goes farther In North Georgia |
o.,"Il IN what is known as the negro belt !
r,, 4peu'hWest Georgia. Really. the people |
l,b ''vi I'VE closer than we do. Those in |
N, 1'"ases ana rural districts have to do |
HF etything in the category of domestic |
'"g ana in the way of personal serv- |
E. - eAeaper. Every section has !
aN'anla2es and disadvantages in COM
- with other sections, but we have |
C."lly been more firmly convinced than |
4, '"dt southwest Georgia was designed |
tue God of Nature for the Egypt of the |
~ region overlooked by the Blue Ridge |
olse OF mountains and lying between the
n ,Fahhah and Chattahoochee rivers Our
~"u IS not only capable of producing
E.a'. but it is much more easily culti-
brunswick Times: Glynn county tax
ayers may be hit for a half million dol
'Hlebtedness on fraudulent bond is
mere is said TO be no way of tell
S "o" much money is due or when the
1 '@''g ers vii. be relieved from their bur-
% paying them. Such Is the condi-
~ 81 1lIairs as revealed by the official
., OF Expert Examiner A. l.. Frank
.iiane to The County Commissi oners at
,'g.. regular meeting yesterday For
~ "'N's reasons the commissioners win
,os 'h I the report public, but the Times
.7r,,. ~ on marion revealing tho startling
800. non Of affairs as outlined above
man Oeg states that according Ia |