The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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GEORGIA
Sylvania now has an express Office.
a street railway is being talked Of at
Townsville.
Each of the Washington papers is now
issued semi-weeGly.
J. ". Sanders, a prominent citizen Of
Washington, died Saturday.
Work on the Baptist church building al
Vienna has been commenced.
Since April l. the wet counties have paid
s2l, s45 into tie State Treasury.
The colored people Of Georgia pay tax on
about &C. 600, 900 worth Of property.
Miles Bemhry, an old and highly esteemed
citizen Of Pulaski county, died Sunday.
George Loehr is building a handsome
new residence on Depot street, Elberton.
Washington decided 70 adopt railroad
time, but backed out at the eleventh hour.
Capt. O'Farrell has accepted the Presi-
dsncy Of the North Georg a Fair Associa-
ton.
1t is rumored that four men in Walton
county will take stock in the cotton factory
TO the amount of 10000.
The Ninth Georgia Artillery is preparing
for a reunion this summer. II will proba-
bly, be held at Suwannee.
The Nun of Kenmare, ACCOMPANIED by
Sister Bonaventure, is visiting Mrs, James
A Benson, at Washington
A telephone line from the depot at Wash
ington TO the public square, and from Wash
ington to Danburg Is contemplated.
The total amount of cash received at
Judge GOOlsby's court at HillsbOro, for
fees for the past twenty years, was 81 10.
Sunday night, at the negro church at Ty
Ty, there was another figh- in which Reu-
ben Arnold shot Pat Voolfolk in the arm.
G. P. Rltch, of Silver Greek, while dig
ging around for iron ore a few days ago,
excavated and blasted out a ledge Of ore
that weighed sixty-five tons.
J. L Chamberlain has sold his farm on
Powder Springs road, near Marietta, to
Mrs. S. E. Hartley, of Pittsburg Pa, for
$1,000 and his stock for 81 900.
The Flint river swamps in Sumter county
are full Of wild turkeys, one man having
counted fifty or more on on. lrg, while
another saw over sixty in drove.
Isaiah Walton. an aged and honest far
mer, living near Byron, Houston county,
says he mas five married daughters, whose
aggregate weight is over 1000 pounds.
Prof. J. w. Dozier has resigned the Pres
idency of the w. G. A. and NJ College in
Hamilton, and brother of the Rev. Viii
u "a.
to succeed him.
Judge Hutchins, Of Lawrenceville, is
getting along well with his broken arm,
and expects TO be able TO attend Clarke
court, which has been adjourned until the
third Monday in May.
Mayor James O'Conner, has left Ty Ty
for Brunswick, where he takes the post ton
of train dispatcher for the Brunswick and
Western railroad His promotion leaves
Ty Ty without Mayor
At Townsville Dr. Metcalfe has bought
the residence of the late NJ. w. Linton on
upper Broad street and also the cottage
next to the Isaac house on Washington
street. The price paid was $4,000.
B. F. Blasingame, of Monroe, has on his
place one of the oldest door shutters now in
use. 1t is made of white oak, with wrought
nails, and has been traced back to 1919 He
also has set of chairs that have been in
use sixty years.
Col. Andrew Stone, Superintendent of
the Central Georgia Lumber Company, of
Barlow, and K. S. Raiford, ex-nspector of
the company, have been at logerheads for
some time Tuesday they fought, and Col.
Stone was badly worsted.
Guilford Gunter, living near Vienna, has
little girl who is a perfect genius for
making music. She can play a tune on
any kind Of an instrument, and can play
anything she hears anyone sing one time
She is also an adept at drawing.
At Brunswick, Tuesday, the workmen on
the excavations for the boulevard exhumed
from the shell bank south of Forman creek
the skeleton of one of the aborigines of
Brunswick. His bones were found en-
beded in huge oyster she'll bank.
The contract for building the additional
forty rooms TO the Masury building mt
Thomasville has been let and work will be-
gin at once The extension will be on JEFF
ferson street, and besides forty bedrooms
will contain servants rooms and basement
At Albany Wednesday the celebrated
Jones-Tift case, which is a damage suit for a
large sum for injuries sustained by DR.. T.
Jones in 1870 by falling through the bridge
of the defendant, while it was undergoing
repairs, resulted in verdict for the de-
PENDANT.
A young lady aboard a street car at
Athens day or two ago, carried in her
lap canary in its cage. the bird began
70 twitter. Whereupon a male passenger,
sitting near the young lady and her bird,
left the car, saying that the birds singing
there was an omen Of i'll luck.
A walnut tree in Wisenants bottom in
Habersbam county, measures from point TO
point Of twigs, 81 feet He put eight stacks
of wheat and oats under it one season, and
ing machine and power under its cooling
embrace and threshed these out.
About ten days ago Alva Baker, Of Way
cross, missed one Of his hens, and one day
this week, after drawing up feather, lie
ripped up plank over the well and found
his long lost chicken, which he thought was
dead. She had been in the well eight days
and was found on the edge OF section Of
curbing.
A lady in Brunswick has growing in her
yard cotton stalk from last years growth
that is now in full leaf, the cold Of last win
ter failing to kill il. Near by she has a
peach tree with young fruit on it the size
of partridge eggs. The seed from which
this tree grew was from peach she ate
three years ago.
The next Legislature will be one OF tho
most important ever held in the State. The
State road lease and the betterment dues-
ton will be one of the most important
questions to be acted upon. One United
States Senator, two Judges of the Supreme
Court and about half the Judges and Sole.
itors in the State are TO be elected.
Hon. Owen G. Sharman died Sunday
morning at o'clock, at Thomaston, having
been confined TO his bed about two weeks
He was born in Wilkes county IN the year
1912. He was resident of Epson county
for about fifty years, and served the people
for several terms as sheriff and two terms
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