The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

mother-A Barn at Neville Burned
With Considerable Live Stock
Brunswick's Freedom From Storms
-Lghtning's Work in Negro Cabin
in Dougherty County.
GEORGIA.
Real estate is on a boom at Waynesboro.
A man near Millen recently married his
stepmother
A new Methodist church will be built at
Waynesboro at once.
On April 10 Lumber City will vote on
the question of Incorporating.
Mrs. w. H. Wardlaw, of Walker county,
gave birth to two boys and a girl day or
two ago.
1t is rumored that the no fence question
will come before people of Murray some
time in the near future.
Charles Copeland, an artist from Boston,
is making sketches of negro life upon the
great plantations in the vicinity of Albany.
At Madison the Ladies' Memorial Asso
citation, at their meeting on Monday last,
elected Col. Albert Cox, Of Atlanta, the or
ator on April &c, next
On Harry Dickenson's plantation, near
Steam Mill, i'll Decatur county, one day last
week, two negro women gave birth to five
children-triplets and twins.
At Roswell the parsonage of the Presby-
terrain church, and the house of DIR. j. j.
Robinson was accidentally destroyed by
fire Wednesday. Most of the furniture was
saved.
The gold and tin mine known as the De
Soto mine, in the eastern portion of Murray
county, owned by Lampkin, Bates q Cloer
has been sold TO a Mr.. Dean, of Virginia.
for 100000.
Augusta sends two conflicting delegations
OF cOl0raI tn the State Rapl1b-
lican Convention in Sandersville, which
will elect delegates to Chicago. Both claim
to represent Richmond county.
On Tuesday, during the prevailing high
Winds the old David Graham mansion,
near Browns bridge. Forsyth county
recently occupied by G. F. Woodlitf,
caught fire accidentally and burned to the
ground. Loss about $1,000; no insurance
Zebulon, the county seat of Pike, was
very enthusiastic over the arrival of the
first railroad engine in that city last Mon
day. The ladies turned out and decorated
the engine with flowers. Aregular schedule
l. now run with passenger coaches to Hebu
Ion.
A day or two ago Simon W. Browning who
lives about three miles from Neville, had
his barn, together with all of his corn and
fodder, his horse, oxen, cart and buggy,
burned together with farming utensils
The origin Of the fire is a mystery.
G. w. Hainesworth, the South Carolinian
arrested at Albany few days ago, charged
with robbing the till of j. l.. Glosier, a
merchant at Pelham had his commitment
trial in that town on Monday. There
being insufficient evidence against him, he
was released.
F. F. Putney, chairman, has issued a call
10 the Republicans of the Second Congress
ional district for a meeting, to be held at
the court house in Albany on April 30, to
oil 1a1ar Il ,1f
the Republican National Convention, to be
held in Chicago, June 49,
The beautiful farm residence of Mrs. Ora
= Dumas, near GAINESVILLE was Dc stroyed
Monday night by fire. The house was new
and we'll finished, costing about 5000.
There was only $1,000 insurance Mr..
Booth lived in the house and lost all his
household goods and furniture
At Atlanta Thursday while countrvman
was driving in his wagon on Marietta street,
near the Exposition mills the wagon was
turned over by a strong and vigorous young
cyclone. The mule drawing the wagon was
thrown down and the wheels and shaft of
the vehicle broken.
DR.. W. S. Armstrong, one of the most
prominent physicians of Atlanta, who for
several month"; has been confined to his
home from an attack OF typhoid fever is
reported to be greatly improved in health,
and there is every reason to believe that he
will now get entirely well
The Shamrock Mills at Augusta will
henceforward be known as the Warwick
Cotton Mills. Frank Clark has made salts
factory arrangements with the Dawson
heirs and will have charge of the mill
Frank Clark, Clarence Clark and John
Dickey are stockholders in the company.
Footpads waylaid C. H. Knight, we'll
known negro contractor, who lives near
Bolton, "Wednesday night as he was passing
the Exposition cotton mills, at Atlanta,
and after beating him with sticks and hack.
ing him with knives they emptied his
pockets of about $50 and made their escape
A Macon young man has a novelty in the
shape OF scarf pm. or course it is not
new, but it is a novelty down this way 1t
is a little glass bulb in which there is a tiny
electric light. The battery is carried in the
packet and is connected with the pin by
small wire which is hidden by the vest. The
light will last three hours.
Brunswick has assurance from Prot.
Maury, the geographer, that she will al
ways be free from storms owing to the pc
culiar formation of her coasts So far she
has been exempt, but one storm having
ever passed over the city That one was of
the nature of tornado and passed across
the upper portion of the city from the
west.
Jacob Arnold, living about two miles to
bno TlSuJ Oh yum springs, In jackson
county, was in Athens, Tuesday, buying
nails with which to tack together some of
the loose fragments of his out houses that
were scattered over his farm by the storm
Tuesday night. He says he has no shucks
left as the wind blew them away. Several
of his out houses and cabins were blown
away.
AT Milledgeville Tuesday during heavy
rain storm bullfrog of enormous size was
seen to fall, seemingly from the clouds. and
strike the sidewalk in front of Haygood a.
Caraker's store. 1t remained motionless for
"A moment and then with couple of leaps
bounced upon the showcase in the store.
and danced over counters, showcases. etc
to the great CONSERVATION of all who saw
its antics.
There is living in Chenubbee, Sumter
county, negro girl named Irene Wilkin-
son, who is quite a curiosity She is "A
years old, weighs seventy-one pounds.
measures 2 feet 2 inches round the head, >
feet inches around the waist, feet
inches high, aud has arms and legs only 10
inches long. She is quite intelligent, does
good needlework, and also the cooking for
her aged father and mother.
At Atlanta a costly and magnificent mau-
soleum is now being erected at Oakland