Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD II PARAGRAPHS.

THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD II PARAGRAPHS.
A Boatman Killed at Chattahoochee-
Atlanta's Heaviest Taxpayers-G Gaines
viIle's Land Scare DispelIed-A Negro
Repeatedly Outrages His Daughter in
OgIethorpe County-ROme's Cotton
Mills.
CKORGIA.
Watermelon vines are above ground in
DOugherty.
b. f. Jones is candidate for the Legsla-
ture from Early county.
company Of Young men Of Forsyth have
decided to organize a brass band
Sunday School Association has been or
ganized in Chattahoochee county.
james A. Braunen, Of Savannah. has pur-
chased the prescott place at swaiu-bOrO.
Last sunday SLl0l were raised boy the
Methodists of Jackson to build new church.
At Fort Gaines. on Monday, an amateur
Of the town viii attempt t1 walk forty miles
lu SIX hours.
Hon. B. #. T1sum. oae ol the most pr0m-
ueut residents 0f Liuc0iutOn, died ON the 27th
UIt-, aged 20 years.
Dalton precinct votes for prohibition by 3T2
90 l07- The county has gone for prohibition
by % good majority
T.. NJ. Wood has sold the De KaIb Eesos to
Rev. 7. e.. Bo} KIM by whom 1t VIII be pub
lIshed IN the future.
At Lafayette Matte GOodson was acquitted
oi murder AMI celebrated the event at night
by marrying ). .. Phillips.
A negro has been jailed IN Lexington who
several years ago murdered ms wife and threw
her IN a well at Woodstock.
ashes. 10 was one of the finest i'm tho place
All the contents were saved.
The Rome Bulletin will hereafter appear in
the afternoon ina tcad Of the morning. Great
Improvement in the paper Is promised.
Lee Ellis house valued at 81 900, and two
an fn and tI Ian Haaf
500 each, We're destroyed by fire at Macon
Friday night
Ono hundred dollars is the cum which the
entertainment given by the young ladies at
Mercer University netted for the hremanic
tournament at Macon.
DIR. William s. Jones. one of Augusta's
most venerable and respected citizens, died
Friday morning. He was once prominent in
politics and journalism,
At LaGrange, "a day or two ago, a flying
passenger train ran into a herd Of valuable
cattle. killing several of them. The company
settled with the owners.
Spring Place is to have a hanging, the first
since the war. On the lth Of April next Andy
Roland, colored. VIII DE launched into eter-
nifty f0r the murder of Ab Watkins in that
county.
Judge Winhurn has ordered a county elee-
tiOn in Han for Fence, or no Fence well
as for Bonds, or No Bonds" The bond ques-
zion is whether $4,000 worth of bonds shall be
issued Co complete The new court house.
The owners Of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad purchased i'm Augusta over 100000
worth of State OF Georgia bonds to pay the
state for the road. As high as no was paid
for bonds maturing ia 1883. The order having
been filed the price declined.
A young white man was found near the
track of the ESst Tennessee Railroad, st the
SIX mile station Thursday night. drunk and
almost frozen 30 death. He was taken to
Rome Friday and received proper medical
attention He was in critical condition at
last accounts,
4 mad dog threw The people living in the
vicinity of W. H. Crawford's plantation, four
miles from Madison, into CONSERVATION last
week. \. o. wilson was bitten, hut had his
wounds cauterized. Several valuable dogs
which were bitten have been Killed, and the
canine which caused the trouble was also
finally dispatched.
The Madison HadjsoRiGn SAYS: "IIon. Louis
Nluk0ski, Mayor of the city OF stark, Fla.
who visited his brOther-iu-laW, w. r. Daniel,
IN this city several weeks ago, has had phenO-
menal success during his short pesidcuce -
the Land Of Flowers Five years ago he left
Georgia owing 5000. To-day he Is worth
$4,000, is Mayor Of his town. and, by dInt of
energy and pluck, Is steadily amasslng a for
tune"
In Cuthbert Willie Baldwin was shot in the
face on last Saturday, by a parlOr rifle in the
hands Of Tommie Mitchell, "a yOun- playmate,
OF about the same age Ihe shot entered the
upper lip, and Just "a little TO the left of the
left nOstril, striking the upper part of one of
his teeth The ball has not vet been found
The young man who did the damage didn't
know the rifle was loaded, and aiming it at
Willie. said; MY friend, / am going to shoot
yOu," and fired.
senator Joseph Z. Brown pays tax on three
Auufred and fifty thntt-lnd dollars of Allan
"a real estate, and John II. James paws on
very near that amount. The most valuable
block of buildings owned by one man is the
James bank block property. which Is assessed
80 S335,O 600. Now that the himhall has been
burned the most valuable single building is
that Of the Gate City National Bank, which Is
assessed at 10000. There are many buildings
worth very nearly that amount the Moore \
M8rsh build NJ, which is assessed AT hundred
thousand, being among the number.
Richard Early fcOloredl. Of Lexington, not
long since married a woman Of his race who
rad a fifteen -year-Old daughter. While the
R0ther was absent several days ago the step
fSther attacked the child and compelled her
10 submit to his desires. threatening to kill
her if she ever breathed the affair. Il did not
take the mother long to discover the cause of
the child's distress, who was daily outraged
by she brutal step-father. The affair was
Jhen made known to the authorities, who ar
rested Early after sharp resistance, and he
now fingers in OglethOrpe jail. Tne COlOred
citizens freely talk of lynching.
The Rome cotton mills have doubled their
capacity, and have now sufficient capital to
commence the manufacture Of cloth goods.
Mr. Reynolds, the President. says: I'VE viii
commence at once the erection Of a three
stOry brick building, the same size as the
present one, and to which the new will be
connected, and we Will fit the new building
up with two thousand extra spindles, and one
hundred and sixty looms. We viii manufac-
ture the same line Of cotton cloth goods as
that manufactured at TriOn factory. And
am not in favor OF letting the increase rest
here, hut want TO keep on adding to the Rome
cotton mills until they become the Eagle and
Phoenix Of North Georgia 1t can be done IN
couple of years, ana the interest would
guarantee the Investment to-day