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Case. GEORGIA. The drug firm of McLean & Co. at Statesboro has been dissolved. Elder J. S. Lamar has resigned his position with the Christian church of Valdosta. A party of United States officials are in Cherokee making a geographical survey of the county. Clarke & Parrott bought Thursday the entire stock of shoes and groceries of W. J. Pinson, at 105 Cotton avenue at Americus. E. J. Peacock will erect at an early day a brick store on the vacant lot between the stores occupied by M. Heimer & Co. and Johnson Bros. at Eastman. The "Signs of the Times" is the name of a new paper published in Arlington in the interest of the negroes. Rev. D. J. H. McGehee is the editor. The lumbermen of Brunswick will meet on Thursday, Oct. 16, next, for the purpose of organizing the Brunswick branch of the Lumbermen's Exchange. The Hartwell Cotton Mills find it impossible to keep up with orders by running in the day time, and just as soon as the electric lights are placed and another set of hands employed will run regularly night and day. F. Fielding Fitch has leased the mines of the Woodstock Iron Company and of Leake & Van Devander, located near Cedartown. The ore on the property is a high grade brown hematite, and will be thoroughly developed at once. The pea crop in Spalding county is larger this fall than for many years past. A large area was planted, the seasons were fine and the yield has been immense. Pea vine hay will prove quite helpful this winter to stock and cut short the demand for western hay. Berry Munger, a Twiggs county negro, brings suit in the superior court at Macon against the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad for $5,000. He was shot in the leg on July 4 last by one Goings, who claimed to be a conductor on that road, and who was shooting at another negro. O. B. Weaver, who was shot by Tom Chambers at Blakely last Thursday morning, died in a few hours after receiving the wound. The grand jury, now in session, after investigating the matter, failed to find a true bill against Mr. Chambers, who has been released from prison. The Statesboro Furniture and Carriage Company is the style of a new firm that is opening up stock in Dr. White's store, lately occupied by Mr. Jacobson at Statesboro. The proprietors of the concern are Messrs. Clark & Fuller of Savannah, while J. S. Tart, son-in-law of T. J. Fuller, member of the firm, will be the business manager. To-morrow the Third regiment of artillery, now stationed at Post McPherson at Atlanta, will be removed to Jackson barracks at New Orleans. One hundred and twenty-eight enlisted men and five officers under the command of Maj. Ramsey, will depart for the Crescent City at that time. The soldiers will board a special Atlanta and West Point train at McPherson station at about three o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Passengers on the noon train from Richland at Americus Thursday, reported a shooting affray in that town the night before, Dr. Miller and Albert Majors, both residents of the town, being parties thereto. Dr. Miller fired twice at Majors, both shots taking effect in the shoulder. The affair is thought to have resulted from bad feeling existing between the two for some time. Majors' wounds are not thought to be very serious. Last Saturday morning at 1:30 o'clock the gin house and contents of T. J. Warren of Centerville in Elbert county. was burned. The work is supposed to be of an incendiary origin, and revenge its motive. The loss of Mr. Warren was ten bales of cotton (packed), eighteen bales in seed and 500 bushels of cotton seed. Suspicion pointed to George Crawford, who had had a difficulty with Mr. Warren last Tuesday, as the perpetrator of the crime. Crawford is in jail. An order has been passed by the superior court at Eastman fixing $50,000 as the price for the Empire lumber Company's plant at Empire, and ordering the road sold at private sale on or before Dec. 1. The person who sells the plant at this price will receive 10 per cent. of the purchase money. It is understood that this amount will pay the preferred debts, which is about one-fifteenth of the entire indebtedness, the whole being about $800,000. The plant originally cost about $350,000, and was considered the finest milling industry in the south. Berry E. Provo of Dooly county, who has been in the penitentiary wrongfully for five years through his own ignorance, was pardoned by the governor Friday morning. In 1889 he was arraigned for burglary. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. It now develops that the boy went into a store that was open and stole what he did, committing the offense of larceny from the house instead of that of burglary. A pardon on this account was asked for and granted by the governor. Matches made from paper are novelties, but Brunswick has a factory in full operation that is daily turning out numbers of them. At present the factory is conducted on a limited plan, and was commenced merely as an experiment to see what demand could be created for the new product, but the success that has greeted the experiment justifies its continuance on a large scale, and it is expected that paper matches will soon be turned out in mammoth proportions. Rosenda Torras is the owner of the new factory, and Senor Antonio Prat is the manager. Receiver M. S. Lynch has obtained an order from Judge W. T. Newman of the federal circuit court to sell all the assets of the defunct First National Bank of Cedartown on Nov. 6. All the notes, accounts, mortgages, lands, the banking house and furniture and all other assets
