The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
4 Boat to Sell Liquor to Run Petween
Sanford and crafty
of the City Council OF Brunswick-A
Mitchell County Melon Growers
sad Experience.
GEORGIA.
The total cotton crop Of Mitchell county
is about S, $50 bales against TOW bales last
year.
Robert Dixon, a boy II years old, of
Worth county, turns the scales at l4I
pounds.
AT Hartwell Saturday, three colored pris-
oners made an unsuccessful attempt to burn
the jail and escape.
J. R. Simpson Of Fort Gaines presented
his wife with pair Of 5000 black horses, as
a Christmas present.
John Cohen, a prominent merchant of
Athens, has purchased an interest in the
shoe house of Baldwin 81 Fleming, Mr..
Fleming retiring from the firm.
The post Office at Smiley, Liberty county
was broken into recently and robbed. The
thief got about $40 in money. He has since
been captured and is now in Jail
AT Macon Friday Alex. Stubs, a switch
man in the Central railroad yard, while at
tempting to mount an engine, slipped and
fell and had both limbs cut off at the knee.
At Albany Allen Riley, 5-year-old boy,
while climbing a fence Friday aft arnoon
dislodged a heavy piece of timber which had
Just been thrown over it. The log fell upon
him, breaking his arm
George j. Wynne, of Oglethorpe county,
one day last week went hunting, shot
twenty-seven times and bagged twenty
seven birds, not missing a shot or killing
more than one bird at a shot.
On Monday last, Henry Rogers, while on
his way to Reidsville, came upon large
red tailed" hawk with a 1-year-old pig in
its talons. He killed the hawk with his
hands and feet and saved the pig.
At Cuthbert, Tennessee stock man, with
a herd of fine COWS, disposed of several of
them, receiving in payment $40 gallons of
scuppernong wine, domestic manufacture.
He viii ship it to another market before
Offering it for sale
John L. Davidson, of Sanford, Fla, is in
Brunswick He has chartered boat from
Nessrs Mason & Hazelhurst, to run between
Sanford and Enterprise, ostensbly to carry
passengers, but really to supply the liquor
trade Of the former place.
At Marshallville, Friday, the dwelling of
Mrs. n. A. Bryant, occupied by Mrs. Hiram
Hargrove, was destroyed by fire. By the
prompt assistance of citizens most of the
furniture and several Outhouses were saved.
Insurance on property $500. Loss about
81 400.
At Waynesboro, Friday, Judge Joseph
Shewmake, one of Burke's members of the
Georgia Legislature, had paralytic stroke.
For few hours it was feared that it would
prove fatal. but after examination it was
found that the paralysis is only in one leg
and foot.
The front of tn esylum grounds at Mil
ledgeville is being beaut1fled The work
will make the view marvel Of beauty, at a
cost of between $4,000 and $4,000. Mr..
johnson, the engineer of the Atlanta Expo
sition grounds, drew the plat and Mr.. Des
sausure, asylum engineer, supervises the
work.
Feb. IA the Georgia State Agricultural
Society will hold its semi-annual conven-
ton at Waycross, in Ware county. Their
last meeting was held in Canton. Capt II.
W. Newman has been invited to address the
convention and has chosen the following
subject: 1.-The North Georgia Cracker as
Citizen and Farmer
The bonds of the IaGrange Female Col
lege are now ready for delivery. They have
all been taken and bear per cent. interest,
payable semi annually, and are secured by
mortgages on the real estate of the college
This institution is in a most prosperous
condition, having now more than $50 stu
dents in regular attendance.
The farmers living around Athens have
commenced drawing off their carp ponds
declaring that they are no good They say
the fish do well for the first year, but after
that time they stop growing and do not
breed as fast as other fish. The people
DO not consider carp as fine a table
dish as the fish that are caught out of the
Oconee river.
At Milledgeville the Baptists have about
finished their handsome brick church at a
cost of between s. 900 and $4,000. The
Methodists have decided to erect a new build
ing also. They have not concluded whether
TO build on the plat granted them by the Leg
islature in 1928 on the old capitol square or
to purchase The building will be com
pleted, if possible, by December, when
Milledgeville will entertain the North
Georgia Conference.
Brunwick's City Council is liberal. At
its last meeting it voted 500 toward paying
for page advertisement in a daily news
paper of Georgia, decided to make DR.
Mayor lecturer, a guest of the city by
paying his hotel bill while in town. and to
defray the hotel expenses of the Travelling
Passenger Agents Association, as well as
providing the visitors with carriages while
in town.
W. l.. Reid who lives about five miles
south of Ellaville, had one of his corn cribs
containing about fifty bushels of corn, de-
stroyed by fire, ON Monday night last. An
other CRIB adjoining it, containing 800
bushels of corn, miraculously escaped ..the
flames, the wind blowing in "a different
direction from the crib. The fire occurred
about bed time and no doubt was the work
Of an incendiary.
Tallapoosa journal: Half completed
houses and even some with half completed
frames, can be seen in any portion of our
city, and not the first stroke of work is be
ing done on them. 1t is all on account of
lumber, or rather the want of lumber
Three or four additional saw mills in ITALIA
poosa could be we'll supplied with work,
and even then the demand would be great
er than they could supply.
Here is Capt. Egbert Shanklin's expe-
rience in melon growing in Mitchell county:
In 1885 he made 500 on five acres Of melons
grown on his place, four and half miles
from Baconton. In 1888 he enlarged to ten
acres. He shipped one carload. and re
ceived a call for $40 50 to pay freight. He
then divided with neighbor, who hauled
and shipped, and they both received SS7
He didn't enlarge any more.
The box that contained the money in the
safe that was broken into at the depot at
Ellaville some months ago, was found on
Friday last by negro boy. It was buried
in a pond on Capt. Burton's place opposite
the cemetery The boy was wading in the
pond at the time he discovered it, and