The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Banks County Farmer Thrown from
His Buggy and Killed-Arrest of ar
Insurance Agent for Alleged Crook
edness - A Grandfather's Clock
Brought from New Hampshire tc
Pulaski County.
GEORGIA.
Athens wants city hospital.
Work has been resumed on the new Pres
byterian church at Thomasville.
James l. Pittman of Telfair county killed
SOC bats in one stump last week.
Prof. f. A. Luster has left Perry to take
charge of the high school at NOrcro7s.
Hon. A. NJ. Foute of Barlow is a caudi-
date for reelection to the state Legislature.
The cotton crop in Houston has been con.
siderably damaged within the last thirty
days.
Doc Dorsey denies emphatically any in
tention of being candidate for mayor Of
Athens.
The citizens of Perry will soon petition
for a Sunday train on the Perry branch
railroad.
A 500 prize is offered for the best drilled
man in the Fort Gaines guards one year
from date.
The camp meeting of the A. NJ. f. church
will convene at Lumber City on Sept. II,
and continue to Sept. 16
One month and five days yet remain be-
fore the agricultural fair at ldyl Wylde
park, near Perry, opens.
Tax Collector Crouch of Terrell county
will begin his rounds for the collection of
taxes on Monday, Sept H.
At Hawkinsvlle, Wednesday, Oliver
,JellIs bought an interest in the we'll known
drug honse of r. j. Taylor.
II l.; 1oF4
verely mashed while unloading some ma
chinery at Normandale on Friday last.
A few days ago, in Crawford county,
pair of mules ran away on Fate Bryan's
place and killed Zack Hodge, a well known
farmer of that county.
Jason Lancaster of Telfair county has
raised a family of twelve children-seven
sons and five daughters. The youngest is
10 years of age. Strange to say, they are
all unmarried and at home.
DR.. William King, one of the accounting
agents of the government, is in Atlanta for
the purpose Of making his regular quarterly
examination OF the books in the office of
United States Collector Crenshaw.
At Macon. Steaographer Barnes has just
completed the evidence in the Sheppard
case recently tried in tile superior court
The volume contains 1,051 pages and 267 COZ
words, and Is, as far as known, the largest
volume of evidence ever made in the state
A farmer near Perry received notice
several days ago that carload of melons
shipped by him, on which the freight
charges were about S83, had been sold for
$50 These melons we're small and the
commission merchant advised against the
shipment of such melons.
DR.. Swep Billups OF Athens had an
operation for strangulated hernia per-
formed on him Tuesday. The doctor has
long been a sufferer from rupture, and
thirty-six hours before the operation be-
came necessary he sustained an injury
which caused strangulation.
A new church was organized at old Da-
mascus, between Calhoun and Resaca, last
Saturday Before the war this church had
a good building and large membership,
but the Yankees burned the house, and the
members scattered. 1t is their intention to
rebuild on the same ground.
The negroes of Calhoun and neighboring
territory gave big barbecue at Peters
grove La Saturday. They had the great
est abundance of everything, and a long
table was set apart for the white people, a
number of whom were present. There
were about 600 negroes present
Gordon county will be treated to four
cornarcd race for the legislator J. T.
Black, member of the last house; w. r.
Rankin, who for several years represented
Gordon; Walter Davis and Marion Greene.
The prohibition, state road, and many other
questions are being brought into the can
vass.
J. H. Gardner of the lower edge of Cor
don has invented hay press which is said
70 be a very superior, though cheap press.
He is only boy, but has formed a CO.
partnership with j. Z. Sanders of Union
City, Tenn, for the manufacture of the
press, and intends to put them on the
market
AT Atlanta, Thursday, a number Of work
men, while making an excavation in front
of w. L. Farris' store on Forsyth street, I'M
earthed twenty-pound bomb which had
never exploded. The messenger of death,
which had failed TO carry out its mission,
was found imbedded near gas pipe four
feet below the grade of the street.
In Heard county, Presley NJ. Gross de-
clines to enter the race for representative in
the next general assembly, though requested
by many alliance men to do so. Hon. j.
S. NJ. Darden has retired and the field is
left open to Hons. Levi Hollingworth and
w. II. Daniel. To-day's primary will de-
eide who is the successful candidate.
George Biumenthal Of Athens returned
from New York Wednesday, and saws that
politics are red hot. Mr.. Blumenthsl says
that while standing in the Grand Central
hotel he saw Georgian from Buena Vista
gia would give Cleveland larger ajority
than Ohio and Pennsylvania combined
would give Harrison.
James Ellison, prominent farmer Of
Banks county. was killel We1nes day. His
mules ran away with him, throwing him
out of the wagon and breaking his neck
He sways drove good team and went
down in his plantation after a load of oats
and stayed so long his family got uneasy
and went in search of him, and caught the
mules hung IN the bushes, and some distance
off Mr. Ellison was found dead.
At Atlanta, Thursday, Patrolmen
Looney and Walton arrested Bob
Cole (colored), who is wanted in
Chattanooga, where he will have
to answer the charge of murder About
two weeks ago Cole struck a negro woman
on the head with stuck Of wood. He was
arrested on the charge Of assault and bat
terry, gave bond, and was released. Since
then the woman has died from her injuries.
NJ. M. Folsom has been engaged as editor
Of the Atlanta Comm on lDedtth. He will ran
il as a temperance and literary paper The
first issue under his management will ap-
pear on Aug. 80. Charles Langworthy will
probably succeed him as editor of the Cedar
town Standard. g. NJ Hobler viii start
a new paper in Cedartown, to be known as
the Guardian IL will be run in the infer