Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE June 22, 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Clyde Watson clyde.nell@gmail.com November 11, 2008, 9:31 pm Savannah Morning News June 22, 1888 NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE 22 JUNE 1888 Crops around Lawrenceville are in fine condition. A revival meeting is going on at Lawrenceville. Wikes county politics are as warm as the June sun. Austell seems to have ahd a regular drunken orgie in that town last Sunday. The Dooly Vindicator will appear on a half sheet next week--cause, Fourth of july. The new Baptist Church in Vienna was dedicated last Sunday, Rev. Mr. Campbell officiating. Sumter county farmers are expecting to get a bale of cotton in market by the middle of July. The Savannah, Florida and Western railway has just closed a contract for a warehouse at Jesup. Rain has been very general throughout Dooly county, and the crop prospect is generally brighter. J, W, Dean, well known in Atlanta railroad circles, while coupling cars in the Union passenger depot night or two ago, was caught between the passenger coaches and painfully crushed. He was driven to his home on Rock street, where he is attended by a physician. His injures are regarded as of a serious nature. James Langford, a white man of over 60 years, who claims he is a veterinary surgeon by profession, was brought before the court in Atlanta on the charge of stealing a horse,the property of W. B. Bonnell, the sexton of Oakland cemetery. The jury after through sifting of the evidence, brought in a verdict of acquittal. The Democratic executive committee of Dooly county at their last meeting ordered that a mass meeting be held at the court house in Vienna on the first Saturday in July for the purpose of electing delegates to the senatorial convention, which meets in Hawkinsville. John C. Owen is announced as a candidate for senator. Preliminary surveys have been made on a proposed new railroad from Hawkinsville to Fullington's Mill, on the South Georgia and Florida road, in Dooly county. The Hawkinsville News has been unable to learn anything definite in regard to this new movement, but it is said that the parties interested in the matter mean business. A dinner will be given by the East Wilkes agricultural club at Alexander Spring,near Washington, July 18. Hon. W. J. Northen, president of the state agricultural society, will make an address. The occasion is for the purpose of working up a Wilkes county exhibit for the state fair. It will be a grand day in advancing the agricultural interests of the county. Macon is making arrangements for her Fourth of July celebration, which promises to be the greatest affair of the kind ever gotten up in the Central City. Gov. John B. Gordon will be the orator of the day. The opportunity after the recent presidential nomination will be offered the people of Georgia to have a general hand-shaking and ratification of the bandana ticket. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/statewide/newspapers/newsfrom2633gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb