Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NE SIS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS

GEORGIA.
A new city hall is to be built at Madi
son.
Rome has about 100000 invested in
church properly.
R. Toombs DuBAse has become asso.
ciate editor OF the Washington Chronicle.
1t is SAID that an effort will be made to
have the corporate limits of East Macon
extended.
Prof. Feathers'on bas accepted the po-
sltion a. principal OF the McDOnough High
school for next year.
Tire Annual Conference OF the Methodist
Episc0I al Church OF North Georgia begins
at Augusta to-day.
j. H. Land will run the Government
still, near jackson, instead OF James
Bankston, who has sold his interest and
retired.
The total receipts Of St. Joseph's Male
Orphana9e, al Washington, last year
were So 279 81, and the total expenditures
6,246 81.
The pews in the Presbyterian Church
nj Columbus rented Tuesday for an az
gregate Of about 50 500. The prices paid
per pew ranged from $40 to $40.
negro giving his name as Frank
Williams is under arrest at Augusta On
suspicion % having stolen bay colOred
horse, when be was endeaVoring TO sell
susp.cionslv cheap.
saturday ni9ht some depraved wretch
cut and Wutllated IN seven places horse
baio1yIng 10 William Laft-rty ir Athens.
Dir. Lafferty thinks he knows the motive,
ard is ga track 0: tne rascal.
4. Vi. Harrington, Of DoOly county.
Is TO lie tried at the present term OF Dooly
Superior Court on a charge OF buying
~ frt 1I
not upon charge Of stealing cotton as
some papers have reported.
At Augusta Hanse Z. Lawson, the man
supposed 10 nave committed SD eide, has
been found, bus the bJdg OF the unknown
man, " 40 was drowned a day or two ago,
cannot be recovered, and it is supposed
the current washed il down the river.
W. y. MERCER and J. p. Verderey, Of
Augusta, bought the MaRru0er mine and
500 acres f land in Wilkes county last
spring for 50, 900. Tuesday last a gentle
man Offered Mr.. MERCER $4,000 for his
half interest IN The property. The offer
vas promptly declined.
Il. II. C0lquitt, of Atlanta, has been IN
Madison twice recently, prospecting with
view OF building guanO and fertilizer
factory there. He is favorably impressed
with the city and it is generally believed
that BIS con pany will establish branch
depot or factory very soon.
A gentleman, largely interested IN the
building OF cotton compress 2, says that
on the com plelion of the 81. aud A. rail-
road 70 Madison, or just as soon as It's
completion was regarded as a foregone
conclusion, that cotton compress would
be promptly built IN Madison.
Charles Calhoun, a negro. who was con-
victed OF numbering his mOther-in-law H.
RIM TO- H.
discharged from the Cnattahoochee
brickyard convict camp Dec. ,, His
boss SAYS tnat Charles has been a faith
Jul, Obedient hand, giving no trouble to
the guards.
Tne contract has been awarded for a
$1,000 Baptist Church at WinterviIie and
Tor Methodist Church at the same place
1t Will tie a smaller editice tnan the Bap.
tist. The old church building has been
sold 10 MIR. McRee for 800. He has been
offered $3.50 by Messrs. Davis and Walker
TO roll 1t on lot near at hand.
A stock company has been organized in
Athens 70 erect fine new planning mill
and sash. door and blind mandatory In
that city with Dave Kennedy a manager.
The incorpOrators are waiting for the
daeon and Athens railroad, when it will
be built on its line. 50 soon as the route
il defined work on the mill Will COM
mence.
There was another bad wreck on the
Brunswick and Western railroad Satur-
day night on the eastern end OF the road
some TT or twelve miles from Bruuswich
at place known as Buffalo trestle
There we're five cars demolished, together
with fifteen head OF horses and mules
killed oy the cars falling through the
Jfestle. Tue cause OF the wreck, as re-
ported. was the breaking OF an axle OF
one OF the cars, thus precipitatIng them
into the creek below.
Dick Fielder. the cOlored sexton. was re-
turning 20 his home at Americas SATURDAY.
nig1t and While going down Wynn street
near the Old cemetery was set upon bV
some unEnoWD party and pretty badly
beaten and cut up. He managed TO free
himself from his assailant finally and
made his way home, where he 10 still con-
ined. \ warrant was sworn out Sunday
morning against simon Ellis, VINO is sus-
pect q of having made the assault, and NJ
was arrested aud pat under a bond OF 500
for hls appearance.
Alex. Builard, negro, who has been
living at TittOn, was brought to Ey-Ty y
lew days sine very badly burned-the
result Of crazy lit he mad. He became
very boisterOus, ana in his dementeo
spells be would take all his clothes OFF,
Nbh ~ db DHt Cdillb near MIN ne NOulu
knock them down. After going on al
this rate tor some time, the Messrs. Wick
DTs decided 10 cOniine him and went to
The negro camp for that purpose, when
Billiard said he had heard OF some one
trying their faith by fire, and In twink.
ling he jumped into large pine-kuot fire
and burned himself 50 mat the SKIN gii
peeled of MIN from his hips to mis- leet be-
fore be could be taken out OF tne fire.
kilograms received from Apalachicola
give fuller particulars OF the explosion OF
the ammonia boiler al the ice works there
on saturday evening. There is no doubt
that Capt. W. X. Moore, Of Columbus,
was more seriously injured than the first
kilograms Indicated. He and Charles
Coombs, Of Apalach lcola, had just stepped
into the factory when the explosion oc-
CURED. Mr.. CoOmbs had an arm broken.
Cant. Moore received painful scalp
wound, an ugly cash over on eye and was
painfully burned on the body. There is
10 fear. however, that his injuries will
prove fatal, and the kilograms state that
be has since rested well aud is steadily
improving. Mr.. GlaZier, the carpea ter
who vas killed, was standing In front Of
the fac DRY, and was struck by flying de-
bris. The colored fireman and another
negro received painful though not seri-
Gus injuries. The machinery and buill.
ing we're damaged 10 the extent Of about
$1,000. The factory was principally
owned by Columbus capitalists.