The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


County in North Georgia and Name
1t after Senator Brown-The City
Council of Monroe Exempts the Pro
posed New Cotton Factory rom
Taxation for Ten Years.
GEORGIA.
The fruit crop in Sumter county will be
an average one.
Work on the new waterworks at Ameri-
Gus will be begun soon.
II is rumored that Hon. n E. Harris CON
templates purchasing the Macon Telegraph.
w. R. Stills is probably the largest man
in Bulioch county. He weighs nearly 800
pounds.
The Democratic mass meeting of Decatur
county will be held at cambridge next
Saturday.
Wide Awake Fire Company, of Ameri-
Gus, has unanimously voted to attend the
tournament at Dawson May 10, and enter
tn contest for the prizes offered.
George McDuffie, the negro under SEN
tenee of death in Greene county, is the lv-
ing embodiment of abiect terror. He
spends all his time when awake in prayer
and moaning.
The people of the adjoining portions Of
Fannin, Union and Lumpkin counties want
to be organized into a new county, with
Gaddistown as the county site, and to be
named after Senator Brown.
Prof. D. L. Henderson, of Hawkinsville,
has succeed in getting a back pension of
Sl,052 for his grandmother, the widow of
the late j. Wooten Taylor, who was one of
the gallant soldiers of the war Of 1872
1t was reported at Brunswick Friday that
one of the crew of one of the pilot boats
fell overheard and was drowned A
nj la 10 fbn
unfortunate mans name or any particulars.
There are four men in McDonough who
weigh about 1000 pounds, as follows: 81
McKibben, 263; Ashburv Turner, $50; Hen
~ Warner, $50; Sanford Iooten, 2l0. Then
there are eight who weigh only 96S pounds.
There are two in the county whose COM
bined weights are over $50 pounds.
At Albany Friday John r. Lee, promi-
nent planter and once wealthy man, was
tried before jury on lunacy and found a
MT subject for the asylum. His wife was
appointed his guardian His mind has been
weakened by series of financial losses,
short crops and other similar troubles.
Several of the progressive capitalists of
Atlanta are about 10 start a factory near
that city to produce fertilizers of superior
grade in immense quantities. A meeting
was held Friday, and several gentlemen
agreed to take tSo-thirds of all the took
days, when the enterprise will take definite
shape.
At Harmony Grove several leading bust
ness men have put their heads together and
decided to establish bank. Already SIP, 600
has been subscribed, and there is very little
doubt but that the necessary amount,
SIS 900, will soon be raised, and the bank
put in operation in time for the fall bust
ness. One or two capitalists will also build
4 h
the next cotton season opens.
At Monroe at the request of Joseph
Felker, the town Council has ex-
empted from taxation for ninety-nine years
5000 spindle cotton mill about to be es-
tablished there. Col. G. G.. Selmaa, Ex-
Gov. Mcdaniel, G. w. Felker and j. II.
Felker will each subscribe $40, 900, and it is
thought the remainder of the stock will
soon be subscribed by the enterprising citi-
zens living in the town and county.
James Jordan, a negro boy who stays
with John II. Keith, Of Griffin, was speak
ing about the quantity of bananas he
could eat, when Charles Wolff, the grocery
man next door to Keth's offered to pay for
two dazen bananas il he could eat them, if
sot, Jordan was to stand the price of the
fruit. He finished his twenty fourth ba-
mamma and walked off with pleasant wave
of the hand toward Wolff, to whom he re-
home to dinner now
A prominent country merchant of For
syth county has been arrested and given
bond, for selling blood medicine which it
is claimed is Intoxicating. Nearly every
merchant in the county sells the same stuff
This being the case, and it is proved that
the medicine Is an intoxlcant, big sensa-
ton will probably be created This is
placing Cumming on the same basis with
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prohibited the sale Of ginger ale.
While tearing down partition in the
post Office building at Cumming day or
two ago cedar walking stick was found
which for more than twenty years had lain
behind the ceiling. On it were the follow
ing words: ~. w. Kemp to Elizabeth
Kemp, Dec. 10, 1861. With love and
esteem" A good-humored dispute arose as
TO who should take possession of the cane,
which is valuable as a curiosity. The work.
man wanted it, the owner of the building
thought he should have it, the post office
clerks claimed it as the property of
"Uncle SAM" while the Cldrion's pub
Usher settled the matter by walking off
with it.
Among the various articles picked up in
Montgomery county after the disastrous
cyclone near Lumber City on March 81, was
proven account in favor of JosephNiebler
on c. W. Moody, ON which there appears to
be due the sum of S254 81. 1t was found on
the premises of Littleton Sharpe, of Long
Pond district. 1t was sworn to before a
Justice of the Peace in Tennessee by the
name Of R. Downey, March 20, 1886, and is
for us days labor at % per day, with a
credit of S273 10, for cash and goods by
Moody & Bates Bros & Co. Mr. Niebler
was one of those killed by the cyclone at
No. 81 and his father lives in Indiana. II
the paper is of any use it can be had upon
application to l.. Sharpe, Pike, Ga.
1t has been believed for some time that
an Illicit distlllery was being operated near
Conyers. Thursday night four United
States Deputy Marshals came down from
Atlanta and went out TO Sheffield District
and to the place where it was thought the
distillery was located. They found the fur
mace and the smoke yet ascending, but the
still and all the beer had flown away lust
before the arrival of the deputies, and
diligent search failed to disclose their
whereabouts, or any human being that had
ever had anything to do with the distil-
lery, or knew anything about il. The depu-
ties visited a house in the vicinity of the
late distillery, where it appeared that sew
eral gentlemen were assembled, and de-
sired admlttance, which. they say. was
peremptorily refused. They Further say
that as they were departing from this
house, several gun or pistol shots were fired
In the darkness, but it is not known that