The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Gordon County Adopts Plans for a
New Court House - Moonshiners
Dishgure Live stock With Knives
Near Blairsville -- sudden Death of a
Clergyman at Csrtersville.
GEORGIA.
Tho new hotel at Americas will hardly
be built before next spring.
The Quincy cabs will be placed on the
streets Of AugUsta Saturday.
The democrats of Bryan meet next Mon
day to nominate a candidate for representa-
tive.
There is q man living in Tattnall county
who has twenty-seven brother and sisters
living.
The safe of the Atlanta Lumber Com
pany was entered Tuesday night and about
$125 taken.
The members of the Sylvauia Baptist
church have called Rev. H. j. Arnett TO
preach for them another year.
Col Gambler will speak at Lawrenceville
next Tuesday. He will go from there to
Snellville, and will make an address at that
place.
DR.. B. P. Crenshaw, q prominent farmer
has been nominated to represent Randolph
county in the lower house Of the next
general assembly.
Ma or Nav, at o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, on Bonded knees, with trowel i'll hand,
laid the first brick on the now government
building at Augusta.
Mrs. j. J. Longest has traded her house
and lot in Sylvania for J. II. McMillan'S
place about two miles from town The lat
ter paid s400 difference.
Rev. John L. Hendry of Hinesvile, who
returned from Texas last elk. leaves vita
his bride in a few days for China. He z ,es
as q missionary to Shanghai
On last Saturday the republicans met at
Hiawassee, Towns county, and nominated
George w. Johnson for senator, aud Rev.
Alfred Swanson for the house.
1t was whispered in the corridors of the
capitol at Atlanta Tuesday that Hon. Flem-
ing duBignon has twenty votes pledged to
him for the presidency of the senate.
At a meeting of the board q health of
Americas, Tuesday, the petition gotten up
among the citizens, asking the board to
quarantine, was read. The board drew up
q report refusing to quarantine.
One of the Athens merchants, while re-
turning from New York, opened his lunch
ON the train. The smell of limhurger
cheese soon awoke all the passengers, and
they appealed to the conductor to put the
Athenian OF.
DIR. w. A. Montgomery, pastor of the
dispatch Tuesday from the tru ,tees of Car
son college of Tennessee, notifying him that
he was elected president of that college.
The doctor will resign as pastor and accept
the presidency.
Judge Twiggs of Augusta and other law
yers returned to Macon from Eastman
Tuesday evening, where they went to at
tend court. No court was held, because
white men refused to serve with negroes on
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draw new jury list before court can con-
vene again.
Mrs Milton Miller of Macon was so I'M
fortunate Monday, as to swallow a needle,
which lodged croSSwise in her throat She
went to a specialist, and with the aid of a
mirror ami a long, thin pair of forceps, he
successfully extracted the needle, without
causing much pain to the woman. Fortu-
nately tho doctor caught the needle nearest
the eye end, and lifted it up without tearing
the flesh.
Charles Hopkins was running the gin
for Isaac T. Bazemore, about six miles
below Sylvania, few days ago, and his
right hand, by some means getting into the
saws from underneath, was cut and LAGER
ated in fearful manner. Drs Bowie and
Douglass were called 10 attend the wounded
man and found it necessary to amputate
the hand Mr. Hopkins is a poor man and
a support
The county authorities of Gordon have
adopted plans, as drawn by w. H. Parkins
of Atlanta for a new court house, which
will cost between $3.50 and $40, 900, and
when completed will be a thoroughly mod
ernized court house, and one among the
best III North Georgia. Calhoun will also
soon have new aud elegant churches The
town now las two tirst-class hotels and
Ara ic
steady improvements
The election at GAINESVILLE Tuesday was
for three aldermen. Prohibition was the
issue. Two tickets we're put out. The race
was the most exciting ever held in the town.
The prohibition ticket consisted of j. G.
Smith, P. F. Mathews and E. w. Rose. The
anti-prohibibition ticket was J. f. Toyle, j.
L. Fogg, H. R. Chambers. The prohini-
tionists won by eight majority. Barnes
vile has been dry since 1884, and the indi-
cations are that she will remain SO.
Some unknown parties went to the stables
OF John Scruggs, near Blairsville, Monday
night, and with an axe killed a fine yoke of
oxen a mich COW and DESTROYED let of
growing corn and tobacco. The damage is
SIS About half mile from where he lives
Henry Ross, another farmer, lives At his
stables a fine steer and three hogs were
killed His damage is about S25. 1t is sup
posed that the same parties did the work at
both places, and that Illicit whisky is at the
bottom Of it all.
At Acworth, Tuesday, Samuel Baggett,
about rs years old, was leading his horse,
which was hitched to a wagon loaded with
fodder. The horse became frightened at
some object and suddenly sprang forward,
jerking the old gentleman down, and the
wheels ran over his BODY, breaking three Of
his ribs and internally iniuring him in the
breast. He also had one or two severe
wounds on the head but his skull was not
injured He is badly injured, but the doc
tors think he will pull through.
The Rev Samuel Hall, who came to
Cartersville recently from Morristown, N.
j., died very suddenly at Mrs Shockley's
boarding house Tuesday. He went TO the
supper table as usual and was the first to
leave, going Immediately to his room,
where he was heard to fall to the floor as
soon as he entered, aud expired without a
struggle. Mr. Hall has been in poor health
for several months, and was "a years of age.
During his short rectorship at the Ascension
Episcopal church be won the esteem OF the
people of Gainesville.
T. NJ Nelson Of the grocery firm Of Raw
son & Nelson Of Albany opened box of
candy Monday night in his store and was
both surprised ana pleased to find the fol-
lowing billet dou@: III young man, fair
completed, gets this box of candy aad
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