The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN pARAGRA


A New Hotel TO be Built AL 81 Simous
Island-Rome to Have Another Fur
niture Factory-A Young Lady OF
Ebert County to Bring Suit for
Breach OF Promise.
GEORGIA.
Decatur is going to have a wagon fac
tory
Col John c Printup will start another
furniture factory at home.
Rome has Il new papr called the Dis
match II is published every evening, and
is neat and newsy.
MIR. Putnam. livery man, Of Brunswick,
fas received l2j Tons of sand from Spain 10
be used for building purposes
A young lady of Ebert county will bring
suit against Young man Of that place for
5000 damages for breach of promise.
The Elberton Loan and Savings Bank has
made good showing for the first three
months it has done business, and is UNI
douhtedy a success.
The firm of Mattox, McCalla e. Co., of
Heardmont, Ebert county, has been dis
solved. A new house has opened business
andcr the name OF John w. McCalla
The New SOuth's boilers were rejected at
Augusta by Messrs Woodward and Stall
lngs, the owners Of the boat, and the con
tractors will have to place in new ones,
The machinery did not come up 10 the test,
and the trouble was found with the boilers.
A company will erect S35, 900 summer
resort hotel on st SimOn's Island. Col. Kay
has returned from New York, where he
was elected Vice President OF the company,
and will begin work Immediately. The
plans are now being drawn by the archl-
tect.
The steamer Tar Heel, the new boat of
Capt. A. Y. Beaton. of Abbeville is now in
commission and comes in for its share Of
the Ocmulgee river traffic. II is differed
entirely by cOlOred men. It's first cargo
consisted of 30 bales of cotton, which it
carried at soc. per bale TO Brunswick.
At Camilla eight negro boys had hear
ing Monday on the charge OF criminal as
sault upon a half wittcd young white
woman, of furnished reputation, who came
70 town Friday from Coquitt county. Four
of the negroes were sent 10 Jail to await
trial. There were some threats OF lyuching
them, but all is now quiet.
Tie Young Mems Christian Association
has not only prospered in its first year. but
/, is so much encouraged that il has decided
10 have n home Of its own, The directors
have decided 10 buy u lot and build a com
lnodiOus and elegant hall for the associa-
ton. The building, they declare, shall be
ono OF the handsomeSt in the city.
At Lawreuceville Eli johnson (colOred),
charged with an assault with intent to muir
der, was tried before EsqureS Robinson and
Peoples and bound over for said offense
The evidence disclosed deliberate and will
full intention to kill Bob Smith, whom he
cut, and would have done so had it not been
for his thick covering. He is in jail, being
unable to give bail
Griffin Sun: Wednesday morning at 2:l5
o'clock a severe shock of earthquake visited
.l,NHxvg fha ,fff
tied quite perccptibly, while the floor
seemed to vibrate with each culver Of the
earth. As near we could Judge the shock
lasted fully two seconds, the wave seeming
TO pass north and south. A lamp sitting on
the make up stone danced about like "A thing
of life.
Two young people living about two miles
from Rome had for some time wished to be
united in the bonds of wellOck. The Young
lady'S parents objected, and the happiness
of the young people was frustrated. A day
or two ago the young lady went to Rome TO
visit friends. The young man came in, and
the ceremony was performed by DR.. Bruce
Harris. The contracting parties were Miss
Laura DobSon aud Newton Mealer,
At Cartersvlle "the laws delay is we'll
represented by the famous case of Holcome
vs. Strickland, now on trial in the Superior
Court. This case originated in 1885 in the
Justice Court for Altoona district for the
possession of a heiter worth Sll. After
various viciSsitudes it has reached the Su-
perior Court, bringing with it some fifty
pages of pleadlngs and testimony, and n
bill for accrued costs of $3.50 80, and the
end is not yet.
The recent rains have caused a rise at the
junction of the Coosa and OOStanaula rivers
of six or eight feet above the usual winter
stream. The Oostanaula river seems to
have had the heaviest fall on its head
and ie Ia m, III NO Va.
wab The steamer John T Warlick, which
left Rome Monday morning for Carriers
Landing has been forced TO tie up by
reason Of the fact that She is caught be
tween two bridges.
A few days ago United States District
Attorney B. H, Hill fled a suit of the
United States Court against Joseph a
Blance, Walker Brock, John w. Wolford
add ten others as securities of James +
Dever, who was United States Internal
Revenue Collector for the Fourth district
of Georgia IN 1872. The suit is for S496 q
principal and 1868 so interest OF a balance
due by Dover TO the government for money,
which the Auditor says were received 10y
him and his deputies for the United State.
internal revenue.
Tuesday nignt Sanders Howell (coloreCD
of Douglassville, who is a section hand on
the Georgia Pacific, fell from trestle neal
Winston and broke his leg. The trestle i
about thirty ieet high. "A freight TRAN
caught MIN on the trestle, and finding il
impossible to get Off in time, he attempted
10 hang by his hands until the train passed
His grip gave out and he fell to the ground
below. Bob Sloan, another negro, who was
on the trestle at the time, risked jumping
on the pilot of the approaching engine anc
escaped uninjured.
A telegram was received at Griffin Tues
day from Brooklyn, n V, from Mrs. W
j. Ramsey, asking that the remains of hel
husband who died suddenly at the Nelm.
House Monday night, be shipped home. Mon
day night number of Griffin gentlemen
in company with several strangers bore tn
coffin from the helms House to the train
Inside the casket was placed a beautiful
wreath of flowers while on the front wa
placed, by Mrs. helms, white hyacinths an,
violets. Though the deceased was an entir
stranger at Griffin, he lacked mono of til
attention that could have been given
father or brother.
Elberton Gazette, The value Of taxabl
property in this and nearly all of tho al
joining counties has deprecated in valu
considerably during the last year or tw
The loss in this county was almost entirel
in live stock and has fallen upon the negr
and poor white men, who were forced TO sci
their stock or kill them after the adopto
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