The morning news., 1888-07-22
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

SOlQl6FS oI GI0Sle SouAtS n -NSS ~
Convict Killed by a sunstroke- -Das-
tardly Attempt at Murder at Wood
stock.
GEORGIA.
Capt. John Tanner, once a prominent
lawyer of Florida, died in Baker county
Tuesday.
o. F. Mathews, living near Greenville,
had $50 mule stung to death by bees last
Wednesday.
The Glvnn county clerk has TO record 3S7
transfers Of real estate, which took place III
Brunswick Friday.
Hand & Tennyson of Pelham have grown
a watermelon that tipped the scale at
seventy-tive pounds.
A negro convict sent from Blakely to the
pottery works Of Stevens 4 Co died day
Or two ago from sunstroke.
NJ Cheney of PenfelI announces himself
as candidate for the lower house of the
le islature from Greene county.
Primus Jones OF Baker county marketed
his second bale Of cotton of this years crop
at Albany Thursday. 1t classed strict low
middlng.
Robert, aged about Is years, son of DR..
p. S. Carswel of Jetfersouvllle, was
drowned Thursday at Myrick's mill, seven
miles from Jeffersonvlle.
A countryman named Phillips reported
to the police at Macon, Friday, that h hal
been robbed OF 500 bu- was unwilling to
Y eu1aili firthe city TO prosecute the roo bers,
if caught
The institution Of the new chapter of
knights Tempar at Rome has been post
ponei owing to the nou-arrival of the . ra-
iA,rnalia. st. Omer commandery Of Macon
haa decided TO send about fifteen knights
Prof. V. 7. Sanford has reconsidered his
resignation Of the principalship of the
Stephens high school at Crawfordville, and
on last Wednesday morning he was re-
elected, and he accepted the school for
another year.
Mrs NJ J. Story, Of Worth county, de-
posted in one of the banks Of Albany
Thursday, So, 400, tue proceeds of the sale
of 1000 acres Of wild land. She believes in
Worth's wild lands aud will renvest in
them along the line of the new railroad.
Fifty thousand dollars more has been
added to the banking capital of Americas.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Georgia loan and trust company, in Bridge
port, Conn, last week, its capital was
doubled and all stock taken on the spot
j. L. Thornton, while standing at the
Amerlcus, Preston and Lumpkin track
Thursday at Cordele, conversing with
IL AiGl4tlos Nll ilpb lOLICb bIib ITElu moving,
and before he was aware of its presence had
several of his toes mashed off of one of his
feet.
At Lincolnton, Friday, the large two
story residence Of e. R. Perryman was de-
sroyed by fire. Tne fire originated from
detective stOvepipe i'll the dining room.
Only portion of the furniture was saved
There was no insura ace. and the loss falls
quite heavy on Mr. Perryman.
The Central railroad having decided to
tear down the present bridge over the Oc-
mulgee at Macon, the timbers are being
hauled with which to make a temporary
structure while the iron is being put to-
gether. The contract has been given out.
and it is proposed to build it without stop
ping train.
Friday night last during the school exhi-
bition at Woodstock an attempt was made
TO kill jeff Gum Of that section by two
brothers, VIII and Charley Sherror, from
Wilkes county. They knocked him sense
less with a club from behind and were
slashing him with a knife, when a crowd
compelled them to flee.
II believe the lands in Worth have under
gone some chemical change said gentle
man day or two ago who owns a farm in
that fertile county. Every evidence points
TO that fact. A few years ago no one there
N-NSNoIS VI bialAAAAAS an LtIiliS DuI cow
penned land. Now they clear up new
ground and raise bountiful crops.
Mary Lowe, an aged negress. was found
dead on the banks of the Punch Hole,
small fishing pond near Seary, last Saturday
When she was found her hand
still retained its hold on her fishing rod and
a worm wrigged on her hook. 1t is sun
posed that her death resulted from an at
tack of heart disease, to which she was sub
ject.
W. B. Orr witnessed the heaviest and
most destructive rainstorm on his place six
miles east Of Newman, last Sunday morn
ing, that he has known for years. His fish
pond dam was broken, and considerable
damage done to his growing crop. He has
heard OF no such rain in any other section
of the county, and believes it was a veri-
table waterspout.
Judge Jesse P. Wilson of Greensboro has
hit on practicable scheme for perpetuating
the names OF the confederates of Greene
county by means of an authentic register of
the names and rank of each in the late war.
The list will be made complete, if that ba
possible, 10 do which he will endeavor to
secure from survivors themselves their own
record, and from reliable sources that of the
dead. The roll will be made public record
in his office
DeH JoHcs is lue lucky man or Macon.
He was approached on the streets one day
not long ago by a poor old woman, who
handed HIM so cents, with a request to buy
her lottery ticket. He laughed and told
her one dollars worth was the smallest that
could be had in Louisiana. She begged him
70 furnish the other half and she would
divide the prize. He said all right, and
sent off the money. Day before Yesterday
he was notified that the number had drawn
$500
At Berton, Rabun county, last Saturday,
while Charles Grant, lad Of II. was hoe
Ing In his field on the Tallulah river. at the
place mentioned man by the name of Bill
Iedford came along and demanded that
Grant should put him over the river
Grant said he would when he finished his
row. That did not suit Ledford, so be
came at Grant in a threatening manner,
but he soon found himself on the ground
with the print Of a hoehandle on his head
and unable TO further resist.
Chattooga county sent in her digest TO the
general Friday. The total foots
up 81, ,94G,99l, Of which $233, $50 is credited
tO cotton manutactories. The polls foot up
525, of which ,299 are whites and 226
negroes. Og!ethorpe county also sent In It's
ligest. The returns foot up 81 1854. The
polls returned amount to 2392, OF which
,0lS are whites and ,3H negroes. Tor-
'yth's digest foots up 81 400, l24, a decrease
0f $4,000 over 1887. Franklin's digest
'oots up sl,674,90l, decrease of $l5,St7
,ver 1887.
w. y. Killebrew, who succeeded in es-
;aping from Jail at McRae twice, but was
'eeaptured each time, and was tried at the