The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPH

II
A Great Deal of Fever in Clarke
County.
GEORGIA
W. R. Cochran is the new mayor Of
Cochran.
J. VI. Stone of Smyrna is announced for
ordinary of Cobb county.
Most of the cotton being brought int
Washington now is low grade.
There are 40,0OJ brick in the new vault
of the bank of Southwestern Georgia at
Americas.
Mrs. Embry, better known as Mrs. Dixie
Haygood, the. electric wonder, has fled a
suit at Macon for divorce from her hus-
band.
Col. Larry CAN'T has purchased COM
plete newspaper outfit, and will shortly
publish a weeklp at Elberton 70 be called
the Star
The late Supt Bass of the Americas.
Preston and Lumpkin railroad. had his life
insured in various companies to the amount
of 1925, 200.
Congressman Carlton has rendered him
self exceedingly popular in his district by
getting his people large number OF new
postoffices
There is a great competition among the
steam gins in Clarke county, and many of
them are now ginning for the fortieth.
This is losing business.
The stock of the alliance warehouse, at
Hawkinsvj.le, which was placed at $1,000
or 400 shares at s. each, has about all bee
taken by members of the alliance.
The granite stone with the inscription
"Mary Willis Library, 1885," has been
mounted to its position over the entrance
to Washington's new library now, in course
of erection.
John Cook of Covington, of the firm of
Morris q Cook, merchants and public gin
ners, had the misfortune Wednesday to
have his hand severed from his body while
attending to the gin.
At Washington recently negro was
riding his mule, and that animal did not go
to suit his master, who became enraged,
jumped off the animals back and cut his
tail off about six inches from the starting
point.
Something over Is, 900 pounds of cranes
have been shipped from Senoia this season.
The shippers expected to realize handsome
profits, hut up to last accounts they had
heard nothing from their shipments nor re-
celved any money.
There is strong prospect of a small
steamer being placed on the Oconee river.
to ply between the Georgia railroad bridge
and Soul shoals, now that congress has
made an appropriation to clean out this
portion of the river.
Athens promises to have one of the
quietest elections this fall ever held. While
there are two candidates for mayor and
there will be rival tickets ia every ward.
there is no excitement whatever, and but
little work is being DONE
There is now a great deal of fever
throughout Clarke county. In some neigh
borhoods whole families are down, but the
disease is not of a very fatal nature This
epidemic Of sickness Is supposed to be
caused by so much wet weather.
Mr.. Everett, farmar living about seven
miles out in the western part of Newton
county, committed suicide Wednesday by
shooting himself in the breast with a shet-
gun. No cause is known for the rash act.
Mr.. Everett was a peacable and ouist
gentleman.
A negro woman was lying at the point of
death in negro mans house at Washing
ton, where she had been visiting. The ne
gro man, against the doctors orders. mada
her friends move her out of the house Her
friends started to the country with her on a
mattress In wagon, and she died on the
road
Thomas NJ Brumby has sold his interest
In the furniture factory in Chattanooga and
has bought the entire interest of James r.
uhaDJ III Nilo DTulllD1 CudlE TdEJOFY at
Marietta, and becomes president Of the com
pany In place of James Brumby, whose fail
ing health rendered the disposal Of his in
terest necessary.
Athens has prophet In William Barber,
the Chronicle says His father before him
was prophet of the weather. He saws
that IN exactly three months from the time
the first katydid is heard there will be frost.
ana that the first one this year was heard
on July z, and, as matter of course. on
Oct. there will be a killing frost. which
Will reach to jacksonville.
Marietta Is becoming, probably, the
Georgia, counting the poultry actually
handled there by dealers and that brought
through Marietta and transferred from the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad to
the Western and Atlantic at that point
Sometimes there is as much as a carload a
day forwarded from Marietta to Atlanta.
Washington Gazette: We were talking
with an experienced miller yesterday, when
he alluded to the popular fallacy that
underground meal Is better than that
which is steam-ground He saws il is
strange that sensible people should get such
an Idea into their heads; that il could not
possibly make any difference with the meal
as TO what power was used to grind up the
corn.
When the command of the troops to be
gathered In Columbus during the holding
OF the Chattahoochee exposition was ten
dered Col. c. M. Wiley of Macon, he found
that he could not accept, and so informed
Mr.. Chappell, who had extended the invita-
ton. Another letter was received asking
MIN to reconsider his action. Now that
the exposition has been postponed TO a later
date, it is probable that the colonel can
accept.
Mrs. 8. P. Thurmoud Of Athens received
the following telegram Tuesday, dated San
Antonio, Tex, Sept. 25: MRS s. =. Thur
mond-Mother killed Saturday night In
railroad accident. Ed fatally hurt. APP
prise Arthur and Genie. j. s. Barton. :"
Mr.. Barton is the son-in-law of Mrs G. w.
Long, and Ed Long, spoken OF in the tole-
gram, lived at Athens for many years. He
is the Oldest son of the late DR.. c.. w. Long.
Mrs. Long and Ed had been living in San
Antonio, Tex, for several years. DIR. Ar
thur Long and Miss Genie Long now reside
in Athens.
On Sunday morning Joe Lee, the colored
train hand who runs on the passen yer
train between Albany and Thomasville.
discovered rooster on the trucks of one OF
the through passenger coaches from Savan-
nah. Joe thinks that the chicken loafed
around the train yards in Savannah and
that he went to roost on toe trucks before
the train started out from Savannah, on
Saturday evening. At any rate Joe is quite
certain that the rooster rode into Thomas
vile on the trucks, where he was found,