The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-26
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Realizing Good Prices-An Effort tc
Repeal the Act Incorporating Bluff
ton.
GEORGIA.
Brooks superior court convenes next
Monday.
The Baptist church building at Shellman
will be completed by Jan. Is.
There seems to be an organized gang Of
thieves in and around Quitnan.
There is some talk of starting the ma
chinery of the cotton factory at Quitman.
II is said that several new DWELLING
houses will be built at Shellman at an early
day.
John Desverger, white man working at
Union Island, near Darien, was dro wned on
Monday last.
Darien's rice planters are realizing a good
price for their rice. The Mcintosh rice is
always good.
The question of a graded school for Quit
man, 10 be supported by taxation, is heIng
discussed considerably.
At Button J. E. Mansfield has pur-
chased the store house and stock of mer-
chandise of B. F. diff.
A young man of Shellman, who wants to
marry, saws he wants girl who weighs be-
tween 200 and 300 pounds
and a good many bales of cotton were neces-
sarily wrapped in cotton cloth.
The proposition to supply Townsville
with electric lights meets with much favor
from the business men Of the city.
Some one tried to poison Crockett Burnam
of Rustic, Lowndes county, last week by
putting strychnine in his water bucket.
1t is not at all improbable that a splendid
three-story building will be placed on the
corner of Brown and Fletcher streets,
Townsville.
The Ri. Rev. John w Beckwith, Bishop
of Georgia, is expected in Darien the first
week in January, and will preach there on
Sunday, Jan. g.
Some of the people of Darien are talking
alb ut holding an indignation meeting so
thoroughly are they digusted with the mail
facilities in this section.
At Valdosta the jury in the Wilson case
found a verdict charging w. B. Ellenhurgh,
John L. Stalnaker, Oscar Stalnaker and
Joseph Scruggs with the murder.
The Calhoun Times is out in a new dress,
made necessary by the recent fire at that
place. If properly supported the Times
will prove valuable factor in building up
the town.
The literary societies at the Middle
Georgia Military and Agricultural College,
at miAl6uRtNlllt, nave OIRhIllZ'u themselves
together for the purpose Of starting q
library for their own use.
There is a negro man in jail at Lumpkn
for shooting a white man, and who, since
his confinement, has manifested symptoms
of being crazy. Last week it was discoy-
cred that he was only feigning.
JohnThrasher of Quitman has Just figured
up what he has been doing lately in the way
of selling mules and horses, and finds that
since June last up to date his sales have
aggregated the neat little sum of $4,000.
Near Eual, Bulloch county, a few DAYS
ago, while William Bowen and negro
were at work under a largeipile of lumber,
it fell down upon them crushing them to
death instantly. Mr.. Bowen was a good
citizen.
During the recent torchlight procession
of the republican negroes at Camilla, some
one asked an old aunty standing on the
sidewalk why she did not join the other
women in the procession. "Oh, am not a
literary oman"
A farmer was offered 90 cents a gallon
for fifteen barrels of syrup in Qutman the
other day. Up about Atlanta the people
would be glad enough to get this syrup at
so cents or 81 gallon, but the high freight
bars its shipment.
The engine for the Newman cotton factory
will arrive next month, and it will be one
of the largest and finest ever shipped into
the state. The engine room has not vet
been completed, though the walls are I'D
and ready for the roof.
Jim Gordon is the name of a colored man
who was recently drowned near Darien. He
was a Waterman at Myhall mill and disap-
peared on election day, so his wife reports.
She is satisfied from the description that the
BODY found in the river was that of her hus-
band.
Notice is posted at the court house door
in Fort Gaines, that application will be made
to the present session of the legislature TO
repeal the act Incorporating Button
There are a few citizens who have never
become reconciled to the incorporation of
the town.
Rev. Wiley J. Page, rector of st. An
drew's Episcopal church of Darien and the
Ridge, has sent his resignation in to the
vestry, to take effect from jan next. Mr..
Page gives as the reason for resigning his
bad health. He has received no call as vet
from any church.
The 1S months old girl Of Mr.. and Mrs
A. A. Simonton of Carrollton met with a
serious accident a few days ago. While
playing she fell against window pane and
her head was badly gashed by the broken
glass. An artery was severed and the flow
OF blood was stopped with considerable
difficulty.
j. j. Jelks, Of Bellville, is one of the most
enterprising men of Lowndes county. He
has several thousand pounds of the finest
tobacco stored in his warehouse, which
he intends manufacturing into cigars. In
fact, he has already made a beginning
The cigars are finely favored and pro
nounced by experts to be equal to Cuba
brands.
Dick Appling, an old negro OF Newman,
was carried before Judge Persons last
Wednesday on a writ Of lunacy, and after
examination by jury he was adjudged in
sane. Before he was captured he wounded
Deputy Marshal Lee and Policeman Martin
with saDer, and his left arm was broken
by ball from pistol and wound in
f1icted ia his hip.
The bill introduced into the House of Rep
resentatives by Hon. A. 4. MCINTYRE, Jr.,
TO allow the Thomas county commissioners
70 sell the present Jail lot, has passed that
body without opposition, and will DO at
once transmitted TO the Senate. 1t will
doubtless pass there, and will certainly re-
ceive the sanction of the governor, and
Thomas county will have a jail more suit
ably located.
c. B. Bostwick of Griffin on Thursday
night obtained q horse from one Of the
stables to ride short distance into the coun-
try. At n late hour that night he rode up
70 the stable, and, dismounting, informed
the livery man that he had been shot, and
for him 20 procure doctor and bring him
to the Goddard house. Mr.. Bostwick de-