The morning news., 1888-03-08
GEORGIA.

New York.
At Macon the Exchange Bank will, on
April l next raise its capital from $500, 00C
TO 100000
The owner of the Dorsey property at Ath.
ems offers it as a hotel site, and will take his
pay in bonds.
The work on the Ebenezer Presbyterian
church at Rome progresses. The walls will
be plastered soon.
Col. l. E. Shumate, of Dalton, has an
nounced himself for Congress from the
Seventh Congressional district.
G. NJ. Morgan, who was so seriously in
jured in the accident at Brasweu station
last Friday evening, died Saturday
At Thomasville Tuesday the Taylor prop
erty sold for 50, 155. 1t is valuable property.
Dr. Culpepper bid in the Randall II use at
S., 400.
Mrs. Hughes, who has been in charge of
the hotel in HineSville since the death of her
husband, Rev. A. j. Hughes, has given up
the hotel.
AT Crawford the guano dealers are cut
ting right and left in prices, and fertilizers
are sold, payable next fall, at profit of
81 50 per ton.
Mrs. NJ. f. Mathews relict of the late
James ID. Mathews, died at the residence of
her son-in-law, Judge Samuel Lumpkin, in
h0AlHS UOl, IhOuudJ.
The cattle interest of Mitchell county is a
large one. The range cattle were doing well
this winter until the recent rains They are
now looking somewhat bonY.
The real estate of Macon is found bv the
assessors to be worth S6,47S, SO: personal
property, So, $50, ,G22; total taxable property,
SlO, ,991; valuation of 1887, $40 1S5, $50
The case of Felix Dickson against the At
lanta and West Point Railroad Company
for $4,000 damage for crushing his foot
two years ago, was commenced at Newman
Tuesday.
Rome's municipal election occurred Tues
day. Maj w. f. Ayers was elected Mayor
by 30 majority. The following Councilmen
were elected: J. King, H. D. Hill, H. S.
Lansdell and w. w. Seay.
Henry county is coming TO the front as a
stone-producing section. The quarries near
Stockbridge are being operated by man
who has MEANS and who will soon have
several hundred hands engaged.
AT Albany, Tuesday, c. Van Gundell was
shot in the leg while snipe hunting. He
walked across the summit of hill just as a
friend beneath him fired volley The en-
tire charge was imbedded in his limb.
At Harmony Grove Monday Dilmus Nix's
little 6-year-old boy lost three of his fingers.
be was playing about a feed cutter while
hands in the cutter. His second, third and
fourth fingers were cut entirely off
At Americus West McGrady has sued J.
p. Chapman for damages received by him
while IN Mr.. Chapman's saloon one night
during Christmas. Mr.. McGrady started
upstairs to retire, when his foot slipped,
which threw him down, spraining his ankle
very badly. 1t is said that it was no fault
of Mr.. Chapman's.
The cases of the three negroes killed bv
the canon ball belo-v Newman last August.
for which suit has bten brought against the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company.
for $4,000 each, was settled Tuesday in
Meriwether county with their widows for a
sum total of 81 200 without the knowledee
of plaintiffs attorney.
AT Lexington Sunday night the house and
contents of Jackson Favors (coloreCD was
burned. Jackson, a hard-working old ne
gro, was in the field at work, leaving his
wife's mother to keep house. She was an
lnveterate smoker and the bed clothing
caught fire from her pipe, and before aid
could come his humble home was but a pile
of ashes.
Near Newman, Tuesday, Lundy johnson,
a negro boy about 3 years of age struck
George Stevenson another negro boy, over
the right temple with a shovel, and split
his head wide open. As soon as the boy
fell, johnson ran away, and the crowd of
workmen who saw the difficulty, pursued
him through the woods and captured him.
Stevenson died
Rufus Reid, a colored man who lived
near Midway church, in Troup county, has
been missing for several weeks, and his
whereabouts Is still unknown 1t seems
that six or eight weeks ago he gave his
better half a severe whipping, and on
learning of 1T his children, some OF them
about grown, took the matter in hand. They
took their paternal ancestor out with the
declared intention of giving him some of
his own physic, since which time he has not
been seen.
At Valdosta, Monday night, Tom Aldine,
an ex-convlct and a notorious character
killed Tucksle Lane, a negro girl about Is
years old Accounts differ about the first
cause, but all agree that it started in rivalry.
and that the negro, provoked, struck the
girl on the head with heavy billet of wood.
The blow was fearful one, the entire skull
being sunken. The girl fell into the fire and
suffered agony from the flames before death
relieved her. Aldine escaped, but at last
accounts was close pressed
At RoclSmart the contract has been let
for the construction of two large two story
brick buildings. One will be the drug store
of Hogue q Co., on the corner of Marble
and Cherry streets, and the other is for
" hNOACA "a " . vi BptNlo tSLdDllSIllenI.
The brick will be manufactured at Rock
mart, the timber will be sawed in that To-
cality, and both buildings Will be covered
with slate manufactured inside the incor-
porate limits. A two-story sixty-foot bank
building is TO be built soon.
At Athens Tuesday night, Y. b. Clifton.
photographer, invited some friends to his
gallery to witness the process of taking a
picture at night. The method was bv
means Of the lightning flash, n chemical
preparation which, when ignited makes a
light of unusual brightness, which lasts
about one-sixteenth of a second Mai.
Prultt was seated behind the recess and the
camera placed in readiness. There was n
vivid flash, and an excellent picture of the
Major was stamped upon the negative.
At Macon Tuesday there was a big sale of
the securities belonging to the estate of tho
late Elijah II. Carhart, under the direction
of Col. Isaac Hardeman, administrator
There were a number of stock and bond
brokers in the crowd, and among them
Messrs. Solomon d Brown, who purchased
about $75, 200 worth out of the S04, ,236 10
sold. d j. Baer was another large buyer,
his preferences being for Exchange Bank
stock, which averaged Sl73 II per share
Mr.. Castleman, of Atlanta, also made some
purchases.
An Atlanta syndicate of lawyers, govern
ment officials, newspaper men, cotton specu-
lators and their clerks, who were on the
bull side of the cotton market. are said 10 be
in a tight place. 1t is estimated that by the