Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
eryys OFTRE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

GEORGIA.
EoyaroI new stores have been recently
onened in Albany.
ona hundred bales of new cotton haC
hoen received up to Saturday night il
bu ubridge'
Ar.rr a few weeks OF unprecedented
d1IIness, business is gradually growing
iytlisr in Darien. .......
the building boom has struck Albany
and several nice residences are in the
course OF construction.
The Flint river navigation question
stil, agitates the minds of some of Alba
n,,s progressive citizens.
the Albany Bicycle Club is now fully
orranized and equipped. and some very
fine machines are being brought 10 Al
bany.
Albany now has only one hotel. The
+ irnes House is undergoing thorough re-
nairs, and will doubtless be opened in
tlme Tor the fall travel. In the mean.
time the Artesian House enjoys mo-
nOpOly.
At Cedart0wp, Ga, Tuesday 6-vear-
old boy of Leonard Flem1ston, colored,
died from the effects OF a mad dog bite,
Which occurred SIX weeks ago. During
the nursing, the mother was bitten on
the face by the child, and will probably
have hydrOphobiG,
Louis Lippman, of Montezuma, failed
In business Monday. He was one of the
largest general store and supply mer-
chants at that place. 1t is reported that
Macon men will suffer to the tune of $780,
300. Some OF Macon's best merchants
are losers by the failure.
AtAlbany the surprise was very great
Monday when it was announced that the
stream from Capt. Hobbs artesian we'll
had ceased to AOw. The conjectures as
10 the probable cause of such an occur
renee were numerous and varied, but
Capt Hobbs seems to think that 1t was
pccasioned by the bottom of the well being
filed with quick sand. The well will be
cleaned out at once, and the flow will
doubtless be resumed.
While there has been no boom in real
estate in Columbus, a steady increase in
values has been noted. Within the past
six months there has been uniform in
crease of % per cent. in values. This is
the more significant from the fact that
there is no agency at work there to give
fictitious values to property. The trans
fers of real estate have been between
genuine BUYERS and sellers, and are not
for speculation.
II 1882 John NJ. -Benford committed a
double murder in Jeffersonville, L wigs
county, on two Wilkinson county men
and made his escape. He has been ct
large ever since, Irwin county's Sheriff
as been tracing him from State to State,
and succeeded in capturing him through
that efficient and brave Sheriff Hewitt,
Of Carroll county. Sheriff Fountain VIII
leave for Carroll county after the prison
err. He will bring him back and lodge him
In Macon Jail.
At Villa RIGA Will White, the young
man who shot Ben. Mann Saturday even
ing at Statnaker's store in "old town." is
now behind the bars at the Hewitt House,
in Carrollton, for want of $3.50 bond
Mann is at his nephew's W. N. Mann J
and is in a critical condition. He has one
ball in his greips and another in his knee.
DR.. Slaughter is attending to him and
says the wounds are not necessarily fatal.
Mann refuses to have the wounds probed
and says he does not intend to die.
At Athens, owing to some disagree
ment with the boss of the weaving room,
the hands of Princeton factory walked
out Tuesday morning, and the mill shut
down. About 100 hands are out OF en-
pigment. The majority of the weavers
Withdrew their complaints, but the other
departments took up the trouble. Tues
day afternoon Joel Dean sent in his res
ignation to DR.. j. S. Hamilton, lessee of
the factory. This was accepted, aud the
factory was expected to resume yester-
day. This was not a knight of Labor
trouble, but personal matter. Dean is
very energetic man, but has made him.
self very unpopular,
At Macon the excavation for the new
East Tennessee depot progresses steadily
forward. The delays on account OF the
big blasting being prohibited by the au-
thorities, tended to delay the work som G.
what. But the entire wall fronting the
river, varying from ten to twenty feet in
height, with enormous blue granite boul-
ders intermiXed, has been cut away a
distance of from fifteen to twenty-five feet.
The end has also been out away thirty or
forty feet. The earth is being hauled
away to fill in the trestle above the rxca-
walton, and large distance of that de-
preston has thus been filled in. Four
carts and seven train cars are used IN
removing the debris. The large bOuiders
are beng broken up with hammer, drill
and dynamite.
Miss Blair has been in Macon some
time, and thought of starting back to her
home in Savannah Tuesday morning. She
boarded a Belt line street car, ara says
she paid her fare and rode around to
where she wished to stop. Getting of
she missed her pocketboOk containing
$l2 30 and some smaller change. The
driver had driven too far of 10 be over
taken, but she hailed the next car and
rode on to the Superntendenps office.
There she learned that the driver had got
another man in his place for round and
had left his car. Being the only occupant
OF the car she expected to find her pocket
nook IN there, 80 she came on back and
&iormed Officer A. Jones of the matter
and telegraphed for more money. Both
drivers are good, reliable fellows, and ara
worried over the matter, claiming stoutly
mat they never saw it.
A most brutal outrage was committed
near Tallapoosa on Monday. Mr.. Wal
lace and hs children we're sick. and some
Oh the neighD0rs were sitting up with
mem. Four men came up and threw
stones through the windows, and shot
through the door twice, frightening the
men away. They then battered the door
DOWN and blew the light out. Three of
them held Mrs. Wallace while the fourth
outraged the wife in the presence OF the
SICK husband and children. Each OF the
Jour men outraged her thus. One Of the
guilty parties has been arrested and put
IN jail. The Sheriff was requested to put
hlm In the cage, but he begged them not
70 put htn IN there with Norris, the MUIR
oerer. Some one said: eyes, put him in
there, and put hoe in the cage" as Nor
fls was an expert in killing people'with
noes. There 10 considerable excitement
over the 2fiair.
At ClarkesYille much excitement has