The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
Enforcing the Law i'll Fulton County to
Compel Stationary Engineers to
Take Out Licenses Marshal Nelms
Receives Money With Which to Pay
Witnesses-Death of a Merchant Of
Atlanta.
GEORGIA
At Brunswick the price of towing in a
vessel has fallen from $50 10 SO, owing to
the sharpness OF competition.
1t is claimed that Harris county has in
exhaustbe quantities of the precious
metals, iron, copper, coal, etc,
AT church bazar at Waynesboro day
or two ago some one palmed OFF a counter
felt dollar on the unsuspecting ladies.
Brunswick has one barroom to every
sixty four men, Masculinity IN the city by
the sea pays $4,000 per year for liquor.
The Capitol Commissioners win meet in
monthly session to-day, when the contract
for putting electric bells in the new State
house will be let.
At Atlanta Monday Benjamin F. Mcgee,
of the firm of Mcgee q Maddox, was
stricken down suddenly with congestion of
the brain at his residence, No. 4l2 White
hall street. and he now lies in precarious
condition.
Dodo, on the Wrightsvile and Tenn;lle
road, held an election day or two ago and
voted in favor Of the Incorporate Il of the
town under the name of Bruton. There
were SO votes in favor and none against it.
Bruton will now elect a Mayor and Council
and assume town airs.
At Columbus Sunday night there was an
announcement made at one of the churches
that collection would be taken up. This
caused a general stampede among the
young men, who go just to see the girls.
A certain young gentleman was in such "A
hurry to leave that he forgot his hat.
At Atlanta Monday United States Mar
shall John w. Nelms received q draft on the
Treasury at Washington for s., 600 to pay
those witnesses who testified III the cases in
the Northern district Of Georgia prior TO
TO June 80, 1887. 1t only remains now for
these witnesses to present their subpmnas at
the Marshans office and get their money.
State School Commissioner Hook is very
busy organizing the Peabody institute
which will meet next July. He is now
corresponding with President w. H.
Payne, of the Nashville University, with a
view of getting him to take general super
vision of the institute and to deliver an ad-
dress during the session. There is a reason
able profpect of his coming
At Macon Monday the trial of. the Pull
man car porters, G. w. Pate and H. W.
watch and cham from j. H. Benner last
week, while en- route to Savannah to attend
the Jasper Festival, was heard before Judge
Heating. They were bound over to the
Bibb Superior Court in the sum of $500
each. Unable to give bail they were locked
in jail to await their trial
The regular monthly meeting of Techno-
logical commission will be held in Atlanta
Thursday. 1t is possible that the commits
sion may elect President for the school at
this meeting. 1t is author1tatively stated
that Prof. Whites name will not be pre-
sented for the office Of President. DR..
Hopkins, of Oxford, is regarded as good
man for the place, but there are some
doubts as to whether or not he would &C
cept it
Albany News: The baby carriage parade
will be fixed for the first day of the Art and
Floral Fair 1t will prove one of the most
attractive and pleasing occasions ever en-
joyed in the city. One hundred babies
wheeled in line would be an interesting
sight at any time, but 100 such babies as are
to toe found in Albany will make pageant
more glittering and pleasing than the
knights on the renowned field of the cloth
of gold Let every mother make up her
mind to send her little darling out on that
occasion. The babies will vie with the
flowers of this cline and command more at
tention than art, which is but poor repre-
sentative OF nature.
Henry B. Conover, who is engaged in
boring artesian wells at Tampa, Fla, was
to have been married Thursday to Miss
Matte Davis, who lives near Big Spring
church, in Troup county, this State. The
preparations were complete the guests had
been summoned, the minister engaged, and
the bride expectant was awaiting the COM
ing of the man to whom she was soon to
pledge her lifelong affection Early
hn,
Johnsonson received a telegram from Mr..
Conover's brother, stating that he had met
with an accident which temporarily dis
abled him and would probably prevent him
from starting before Thursday.
10 On last Tuesday a large shoe maker'ssign,
with the name of wv. I. Wilson, Boot and
Shoe Maker painted upon it, fell on the
plantation Of Mr. Newt. Floyd, six miles
northwest of COvington, in Gum creek dis
trict. 1t is a heavy board sign, about two
feet square, and one inch thick, and has a
boot painted on one end and two shoes on
the other, in addition to the name of w. T.
Wilson. 1t was seen i'll ITS descent from the
sky by negro man, who was greatly
frightened thereat, and the mystery is as to
where it came from. No one in that sec
ton knows of any such boot and shoe max er
as w. T. Wilson, and the presumption is
that ID must have been blown from Mount
Vernon, ILL.,. by the cyclone which destroyed
great portion of that place on last Sunday
evening.
Fort Valley Enterprise: We have two
merchants in our town who have a never
dying hatred for each other They are
neighbors, but their ages business, politics
and religion are as different and far apart
as the poles. The senior sends all book, tree
and lightning rod agents, safe and show
case drummers and patent-right men to the
junior, with the instruction, hes skinner
he'll pretend that he don't want to buy, but
you stick to him" and the agent generally
sticks. The junior gets even by sending all
peddlers of berries, dried fruits, foot mats
shuck collars and securing mats to the
senior, with you must boiler loud at that
old man; he's deaf" and many Il poor old
darkey has come out of that store in a
gallop on the point Of number eight boot
The breach is widening.
On December % Lew Jessie, a girl aged
IL years and the eldest daughter of James
Afford, who works in the Georgia Pacific
shops, at Atlanta, was run over by freight
train and her left leg so badly crushed that
DIR. G. G. Roy, the attending physician de
cided to amputate the limb. Since then
DR.. Roy has paid daily visits to the little
sufferer and each time has administered an
anaesthetic while dressing the wound The
anaesthetic given was a mixture Of chloro-
a