The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Remarkable Occurrence With essed
at Pickett Station - The Political
Cauldron Boiling over in Various
Parts of the State-The Losses by the
Micanopy Fire.
GEORGIA
The merchants of progressive Rome have
reorganized the Board of Trade
E. A Tondee has assumed the manage
ment and control of the Elaville Enterprise
The State convention of the Baptist
church will meet in Brunswick on April 10.
Lincolians are kicking because the early
vegetable has succumbed to the recent cold
snap
Rome is making efforts to get up per
manent exposition for that city and Floyd
county.
Fort Valley has a gang of thieves that
prey upon the flowers in private lots in the
cemetary.
Savannah river is booming with mud
cats, and the denizens adjacent to it are
reveling in a fish diet.
Col. Win Wynn, of Marietta, will be a
candidate for Judge of the Blue Ridge Cir
cult before the next Legislature
Clay Hill district of Lincoln county is
stirred up by an unpleasant neghborhood
feud, and serious consequences may be the
result.
The Chronicle says that DR.. L. C. Good
rich, OF Augusta, was once pupil Of DR.
Morrill, Mackenzie who is the leading ply
stefan of Frederick III.
Senoia Sentinel: ''The early gardeners
who had cabbage plants ready to be trans
planted were killed by the severe cold
weather last week" Yesl
Madison advertiser: The political caul-
dron is beginning to boil in Morgan county,
and already gentlemen of legislative aspra-
tions have begun the button hole business.
Ellaville Enterprises This is the season
of the year when the wary crow sits on the
top of an old fodder-stack pole and laughs
as he watches the weary farmer prepare his
land for big watermelon crop.
The Beach Hotel, near Brunswick, is be-
ing pushed for all it is worth. Forty car
penters, masons and labOrors, together with
dozen wagons, are at work pushing the
work. The idea is to open same ON June l.
The name of Hon. II. C. Sheffield. OF
Arlington, is prominently mentioned in con
nection with the Solicitor Generalship OF
the Pataula circuit, to succeed Hon. James
H Query, of Dawson, who has declined to
offer for reelection.
Upon recommendation Of the grand iurv
of Fulton county, the following Notaries
Public were commissioned Friday: Senboru
Jones, ll00th district: George H. Tanner
1026th district; J. NJ Lidden, 1362d district
and Adam S. Poole, l34Sth district.
In Chnch Superior Court last week a
well-to-do citizen, his two little sons and
two pretty daughters. were tried for riot
The jury fined the father guilty and released
the children, and the father was fined S75
and COSTS or nine months on the chain
gang.
A genuine revival in religion is in pro-
gress in Augusta. and services are being
held at the First Presbyterian, First Baptist,
Christian, Broad Street, st. Johns. ST
James, Second Presbyterian and Asbury
churches. The meetings were all Of great
interest.
The Newman Herald and Advertiser
says: AT the regular meeting day on Satur-
day before the first Sunday in April, at
White Oak Grove Baptist church, two dea-
cons are to be ordained. DIR. j. H. Hall
and Rev. H. S. Rees have been invited to
assist in conducting the ordination services.
There is nothing new in Atlanta with
reference to the recent cotton deal All of
the SPECTATORS who were caught are feel
ing very blue, and some of them will have
to practice economy for some time so as to
get even with the world again. While they
are doing this the spectators who were on
the other side of the deal will live on the
fat of the land, enjoying ease and comfort
at the expense of their victims. Although
hard
to keep down, still it is believed that ii will
be some time before he again reaches the
position which he occupied few weeks ago.
Two tramps got on the down passenger
train Friday evening at Cameron Station
While the train was making thirty-five
miles per hour, between Cameron and
Halcyondale, one of them Jumped off
plowlng up the sand for thirty feet As
soon as possible Conductor Beebe stopped
the train and commenced backing to where
the man was lying, but before the train got
10 him the supposed corpse Jumped up and
took to the woods as fast as his legs would
carry him, much to the merriment of pas
sengers. He probably feared prosecution
for the damage he had done to the com
pauys road-bed.
The Newman Herald and Advertiser.
Mr.. 7. N. Bingham, Of Pickett Station. re-
lates a remarkable occurrence witnessed bv
him on Thursday night of last week Short
ly after dark he and DR.. Ballard were walk
ing up the railroad near his residence. when
their attention was drawn to a bright light
OF a locomotive, coming rapidly but silently |
up the track. When within about fifty
yards of the gentlemen, 1t stopped Gazing |
at the object intentiy, the two gentlemen |
discovered that it was about twelve |
feet from the ground and was |
held III space by its own vo- |
htion. Its exceeding brightness dazzled |
lutu eyes. AlteT remaining stationary for |
an instant it began to recede. Still watch |
ing the strange capering of the capricious |
luminary they presently saw it turn and |
again start toward them. When near them |
it stopped and receded as before, going out |
of sight this time. Mr. Bingham called out |
his family and began describing the strange |
occurrence when the subject of his thoughts |
was again discovered-this time listleSsly |
wandering through his orchard, moving in |
and out among the trees with an abandon |
as audacious and eccentric. The whole |
family watched its maneuvering for some |
time. when at last it struck a bee line for |
Mr.. Walker Camps plantation, going |
through the woods, where, long after it had |
disappeared from view, its light could still |
~ seen reflected on and above the tree tops.
FLORIDA.
Tallahassee is getting her share of the |
best class of tourist travel this season.
During the five years ending Feb. /, 1888. |
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