The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

further particulars ABOUT macon
Ascending Bookkeeper-A Colored
Pedagogue in Trouble in Dodge
County - Wilkes County's School
Census - Programme of Augustus
Shotgun Tournament-A Sad Case
OF Destitution and Death at Atlanta.
GEORGIA
Gainesville will soon have q national
bank
A mad dog was killed near Americas on
Monday.
Gainesville has a broom factory which
wilI commence business Monday.
A son of Isaac Bowen of Dodge county
was recently bitten by mad dog.
Rome isn't letting up single minute in
whooping up the North Georgia and Ala
bama exposition.
The Barlow county miners are quite &C
tive at present, and the demand for laborers
was never greater.
John Whitehead, colored man farming
near Americas, killed COW for trespassing
on his patch, and landed in Jail.
Americas had a tremendous rain on
Wednesday, accompanied by lightning,
which struck the telephone wires.
The annual meeting Of the Confederate
veterans association Of Randolph county
has been postponed from July until
July 20.
Five Of the hardest rains Of the year fell
at Valdosta on June 2S The rainfall was
great, but no local damages have been re-
ported as yet.
The graduating exercises of that rapidly
growing ard prosperous institution, the
Georgia Baptist seminary, came of June "a
at Gainesville.
inoy and md
Elijay and the farmers are rushing through
their crops to be laid by" The corn pros
pect Is decidedly promising in that section,
an abundant yield being looked for.
The Sparta band will be in attendance at
the Macon Fourth of July celebration. A
seven-hcurs' walking match, foot races,
and dancing will afford the visitors ample
opportunity to while the happy hours
away.
A. r Smith, clerk of superior court of
Carroll county, president of the clerks con-
vention which met in Atlanta last summer,
has called another meeting of clerks to as
-"rahle IN the city court room, Atlanta,
July IL
Wilkes county has school population of
1889; of this number there are S35 whites
and 2,O97 colored, showing a majority of
l,262 colored children, or 21S to colored
male majority over white males, 654 colored
Acndlo uldIOlllJ ONoT WDluc IoIDhleS, OUo.
Under the management of Profs Dyer
and lnghram, the Calhoun collegiate insti-
tute has enrolled 200 students The present
faculty has been unanimously reelected
The commencement exercises are passing
on with marked success, rejecting much
credit upon students and teachers
Patrolman Bob Gibson captured Clayton
Billups Thursday morning at Atlanta in a
cab on the Georgia Pacific railroad. Billups
is charged with burglary. 1t isalleged that
about a week ago Billups broke into the
house OF Hamilton Harris and robbed it of
quantity Of clothing. Billups was sent to
Jail
The members of the horticultural society
for the Second congressional district in
Thomas county will meet on Saturday July
next, at 10 o'clock, for the purpose Of
making arrangements TO entertain the state
horticultural society, which viii meet in
brownsville on Aug. ! and continue three
days.
sixty cars Of watermelons passed through
Albany Wednesday, distributed as follows:
Springfield g. Pittsburg 2, Cleveland 9, Day-
ton /, st. Louis 2, Louisville 3, Columbus 5
Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 8, Indianapolis g.
Nashville 2 Birmingham 6, Chicago Q, New
Orleans 8, Toledo l, Lima l, Henderson l.
Sandusky l, Cairo l. Chattanooga g.
The damage suit brought by Wyley
Gray (colored), in Atlanta, against the
Georgia Pacific railway for the loss of an
arm while employed as brakeman on the
line of the road In Alabama, was held in
Atlanta city court yesterday. The Jury
retired at the hour Of adjournment with
Instructions to find and return a sealed
verdict
Capt. F. M. Duggar, who for long while
was one of the most popular conductors on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
road, has lost his position on account of the
collision of a freight train with his car,
which occurred at West Lake on June @
The passengers held meeting and exoner-
ated Capt. Duggar, but the officials Of the
road were obdurate
The Americas Republican learns that a
brick fell from the water tower in that city
Tuesday, on the head of a mulatto man
who was standing on the ground below, a
distance Of AZ feet The brick crumbled to
pieces, but the skin was not even broken
on his head. He hardly noticed 1t more
than he would if it had besen fly. But II
1t had hit him on the shins
The East and West road of Alabama.
which is now in the hands of a receiver, re-
turned its property to the comptroller gem
eral on Thursday as follows: -Four acres of
land, $50; bridges, S4,050; trestles, 5000;
depots, 81, 800; three engines, &, 400; sixty
five freight cars, sS,775; three passenger
CodChes, Fl,O0U, IOrJy-nVe ana One-half
miles of roadbed, $lS0,000; cash on hand
S747l total, $212, 756. This is decrease of
SIG, 454 from last years returns
Perry Home Journal. The first water
melons placed on the market here this sea-
son were brought to Perry last Saturday by
Milton Holt, thrifty colored tenant on g.
\. Cooper's farm, about four miles south of
Perry. He brought in nearly 100 melons
that sold readily from 10 TO IS cents apiece
the largest ones weighing from twenty-five
TO thirty pounds each. Milton said he
could ship car load this week, but he pre-
ferred trying the home market first.
The following is the school census In
Houston county: White males 1888, females
747; colored males 2, 5S4, females 2, 4gS: total
white 1885, colored 5,0S2, total white and
colored 1858. The Home Journal saws il
has no figures before it TO make a compari.
son with other years, yet it asserts that
proof is given that the negroes are increas
ing in a greater ratio than are the whites
Here is problem tho solution of which
will engage hereafter the close attention of
statesmen.
augusta Chronicle: A gentleman who
IL IN a position TO know informed a Chron-
fcte reporter yesterday that a new candi-
date for the CHARACTERISTIC was in the field
in the person of Rev. II. b. Stricken, of
the Presbyterian church OF Atlanta. He
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