The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS


The Atlantic and Western Road Sued
for $4,000 Damages-Ihe Mystery
of the Shower of Rocks at Carriers
vile Cleared Up-The Advice o. the
President of the State Alliance t.
Planters Who Need Ba9ging,
GEORGIA.
Atlanta has l39 Smiths who pay city
taxes.
Nearly every bucket of water draw
from Capt w. A. Gilleland's we'll, at Attn
ems, Saturday morning. contained one Oh
more peculiar kinds of snakes.
It is suspected by those we'll informed in
political circles that it is the Intention OF
the republicans in The Second district tC
put out candidate for congress. Col. T..
q. Wade is spoken of.
At Fort Valley Monday r. II. Jackson,
president Of the state alliance, add s'ed a
good audience of alliance men and few
outsiders. lie exhorted the members 10 use
all means to bale their cotton rather than
buy tagging at present prices, and uutiI
the bagging trust yielded, to buy none, hut
say to there creditors, their is your cotton
in my gin house. take 1T.
At Atlanta, Tuesday, a suit was filed in
the superior court by Messrs. Wright 81
Culberson, for the Plowooy publishing
company, of East Point, against " t.
Maher, for $40 600 damages. The Geclara-
ton alleges that Mr.. Maher had mortgage
Fl ia, against John i. Conley, foreclosed by
levying on the press and type Of the paper,
although Mr.. Conloy had no connection at
all with the paper.
Smithville NetUS: The man who sub-
scribed to the NelcS for three months writes
Il want to pay for my subscription, but
I'm little short on money; so send you
half dozen eggs. If you'll Ut 'em under
settin' hen they'll hatch out enough chickens
to pay for a'years subscription" Now,
this is new way to pay old debts; Tut if
somebody will only give us hen we will
try the experiment.
The Oglethorpe light infantry company
of Augusta elected the following
officers Tuesday night: First Heuten-
ant. John HarGie Jackson; second
lieutenant, Burke Shewmake; taird
lieutenant, Turner c. Vason; first sergeant,
n. A. league; second sergeant, j. +. DAVIS;
third sergeant, r, e. Stalhngs; fourth
sergeant, *. H. Vonderleith; fifth sergeant,
F. 7. White; first corporal, /. NJ. Fleming.
AT Gainesville, after much tribulation,
the source of the falling rocks upo a the
negro house has been discovered in the rer-
son of a diminutive African who being
possessed Of the devil aud capacous pockets,
has, by filling the latter with rock, ana
watching his opportunity to drop the a
upon the hOusetops or at the feet of UNI
wary paSsers, created a greater excitement
among his people than the advent of a
circus
There are many symptoms of lively fall
trade in Brunswick this year. in spite of the
distractions of the last few days, caused by
the Florida quarantine. The Brunswick
mills are having all they can do to keep up
with their orders, running night and day
One mail yesterday brought them twelve
orders, some of them for carload lois of
grits, to say nothing of the orders received
during the day on other mails. Many of
the orders came from Florida, and the ell
velopeS we're punctured by the fumigation
TOOLS
AT Waycross, Monday evening, on train
No. IL from Savannah, a serious cutting
scrape occurred between two negro EN-
ployes. Parish Norton came near cutting
Albert McCalvIn's throat with a razor.
The fuss started about McCalvin accusing
Norton of stealing a silk handkerchief from
him, Norton giving him the lie. McCalvin
struck the first blow, whereupon Norton
cut him. The fracas caus ID quite a lively
scare among the passengers in the car.
Norton is in Jail. The wounded man will
not die.
A gentleman of Athens recites an in
stance of a wonderful memory. While he
was at college years ago he had heard
professor state that he could read an article
in a paper and then repeat it verbatim
The narrator was anxious to test him, and
one day walking up, said: "If you have no
objection, | should like to have you read
this piece on know-nothingism and repeat
it to me-" The professor took the paper,
read the article of column and half in
few moments, and then repeated it without
an error.
Last Sunday night the store Of J. A.
Sapp & Co. YVES broken into at O'Bryau aud
robbed Of goods and money to the amount
of from $40 to $50. Among the booty car
ried off by the thief or thieves was Win
chester repeating rife, 80 bore, octagon
barrel. Upon examination of Sapp & Co.'S
premises Monday morning it was discov-
cred that the thief-for there was probably
but one-had made of toward Brunswick,
as there were found tracks in that direction
A negro with some of the stolen goods III
his possession was arrested at Brunswick,
and is supposed to be the buglar.
The Lithonia Ne,U Era tells good story
on a candidate. 1t says: civilian NJ
Ragsdale, the clever and courteous candi-
date for ordinary, started out in this cam
paign with the determination to get
there" And sure enough he got there, or
nearly got there, last Saturday. He was
returning from Browning's district, and
espied a couple of gentlemen las he thought
in field alongside of the road, and imme-
diately left his buggy for the purpose of
interviewing them. When he came within
a few feet of them he discovered that lie
was on his way to interview two scare
y crows"
At Milledgeville, Tuesday, in the eStab-
lishment Of G. +. Hinkley, a quarrel be-
tween two tailors was rene cd, and the re-
suit was that horse shoe in the hands of
August Myers did valiant service in
mutilating the countenance of Mr.. Gabriel.
The latter, while presenting a rather horri-
BILE picture, was not so seriously wounded
as was at first supposed, and the result will
probably be merely temporary disfguring
Myers concluded, it seems. that he had
killed HIS adversary and straightway took
TO his heels. He was easily caught and
landed in jail, whence he was soon released
on bail.
A $4,000 damage suit was filed in the
clerks Office at Atlanta Tuesday by Ed
Williams vs.. the W estern and Atlantic rail
road. The plaintiff goes on to state that
on Aug. a. 1888, after dark, he was stopped
at tie Victoria street crossing over the
Western and Atlantic railroad, bv a switch
engine with a train Of cars After waiting
some time for the crossing TO become
cleared, Williams walked around this train
and then started on across the main track
of the Western and Atlantic While cross
inc tina trnclf IA was Lrnsplfad 1ou,t, 49, a