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

Thomasville Times Enterprise: The Sa
vannah News nov reaches it subscriber
here at y o'clock the day Of pubiiea ton
Since the last change of schedule mail +
being handled on train 2ll, a throus
freight from Waycross.
AIorganton Monitor: Terrill county:
grand jury exhibited backbone enough &C
present every road commissioner in tbs
county Judge Sheffield was lenient' ans
allowed them until fan TO answer. We
Will bet our old hat that by next November
Terrell county viii have the best roads IN
Southwest Georgia and her roads We're
good. heretofore compared 20 some we
known, That body was composed OF pro
gressiye citizens.
Two more cases of smallpox were dis
covered in the BIB county jail Thursday
and the sick men were al once isolated
from the other prisoners. The names OF
the negroes having the disease are: John
Wesley Wimbush and Charley White.
They were carried out 10 the county pest
house and will be kept there until they
are well The Jail VIII be fumgated
again and there is no apprehension OF the
disease spreading.
Waycross Herald: Postmaster Mcneil
has received notice from Assistant Post
master General Perry S. Heath that the
Waycross postofiice viii be assigned 10 the
second class from July /, and that his sal
airy will be increased in proportion: The
receipts from the postoffice here for the
past year have been much more than was
necessary for it to be placed in the second
class column. Waycross will be entitled
20 a free delivery of mail If the citizens
desire 1t.
Thursday a gentleman Of Graves. four
miles south Of Dawson, gave negro man
sound thrashing as a result of a piece
of impudence. While the gentleman was
ia Dawson on business the negro went 10
his home and taking a seat on the front
porch ordered his wife 10 bring him
fan. When the gentleman returned home
he was informed Of the negros impudence
and he found him and administered a
thrashing he Will not soon forget.
Miss Matte Lyon has returned to her
home at Yatesville. She is the daughter
of Mr.. j. NJ. Lyon, who was missing from
home. She gives es a reason for running
away from home that home had become
TOO unpleasant and that she had resolved
10 go away and die. But upon reflection
she returned Wednesday night. II re-
lieved her people from terrible strain.
The girl has been without anything to
subsist upon for two days and nights, but
she IS now back IN the bosom OF her ram
lily, and everybody IS easy. She says 1t
was all her own voition.
For the second time Gov. Gambler issued
Thursday a reward of $500 for the arrest
and delivery 10 the sheriff of Terrell
county the person or persons unknown
who set fire to and destroyed the Dawson
oil mills at Dawson, Ga. The crime was
committed some months ago at night
presumably by persons formerly employed
a
made by the county authorities 10 find
the perpetual tors of the arson, private de-
tectves. il is understood, having been
employed by the owners of the mills but
up 20 the present time no one has been
found against whom proof of guilt could
be brought.
Fitzgerald Leader: The Waycross Air
Line Railway is going to build from Doug
las TO Ocilla where il will connect with the
Ensign road 10 Worth, Ca, thus making
I'm IN
This road wanted 10 come to Fitzgerald,
and would have done so had IL received
any encouragement whatever. This will
open uD to our neighbor Della the finest
trading territory in all this section II is
TO be regretted that this line did not come
here, as we need additional railroads, and
need them at once. If this place ever
amounts TO anything we will have to Sc
cure lower freight rates; then we can have
5obbng houses to bring goods in here and
factories 20 manufacture goods for ship
ment away from this place.
1t is said that the hard wood mill of
Abbeville is one of the largest and most
promising OF the many industries that
make South Georgia hum. Ten thousand
feet Of lumber day are sawed from
sweetgum, tupeio, ASH, cypress. oak and
pine. The lumber is shipped North,
where il is converted into furniture and
then sold back to the Georgia merchants
Eamto pats af n1Ph pdoSp shrdlu cmfw
Worth County Local: While the news
papers in the other counties are teeming,
lLOTe or less, with Snern s sales, IL is
indeed a matter upon which the people of
Worth are 30 he congratulated, that there
was not single sale advertised for June
sale day, and that there has only been a
little over a dozen sales advertised by
The sheriff since Feb. 1.
Capt Peter De Vries of Grand Rapids,
Mich. is in Atlanta inspecting certain
property with the view of getting a suit
able location upon which to place 100
Dutch families from Grand Rapids. Be
atr Ton Arwf1.
In Fitzgerald, but he did not find there
what he desired. He does not think the
country there elevated enough for the
Dutch from the North. He believes they
would be better pleased with a location
near Atlanta. Capt. De Nries said that
the families he would bring South would
not so into farming pursuits, but would
establish a large furniture factory and
probably a mandatory for making fancy
iron work, such as doors and ornaments
for buildings. lie said the furniture fac
Tory would be the main feature, and that
Il would be large establishment.
Ellijay Courier Sentinel Up at Duck
town the other day a preacher and an
other man engaged in an argument on
scripture and the preacher whipped the
other fellow and atterward shot him. in
fiicung a dangerous If not fatal wound.
Gov Gambler feels very much graIined
al the triumph of the law over mob Vio-
lence which has occurred in two cases in
Georgia during the past week, and he is
hopeful that the supremacy of the law
will put an end to the wave of crime
through which the state has recently been
passing. THE great majority of the peo-
pie Of the state have always favored up
holding the majesty of the law" said the
Governor on Friday. Even some of those
who have taken part in lynchngs have
recognized the fact that they were wrong
! am glad TO see that even the unthinking
element are coming to realize that the
most effectual way 10 suppress crime
is TO allow the law to take its course. This
change of feeling on the part of the pub
lie is shown by the fact that there were
two trials of negroes in Georgia yesterday
for assaults; one being acquitted and the
other found guilty. l believe it is a good
Sign and that the day is not far distant
when lynchings viii have ceased
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