The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

citic Railroad-Gov Gordon Pardons
a Negress who Disclosed a Convict
Plot.
GEORGIA.
There is talk of erecting Confederate
monument at LaGrange.
The ladies of Townsville have started
out to build a benevolent home.
A large lot of sand-hill or whooping
cranes passed over Albany Saturday going
northward.
Among the improvements of Sewanee Is
a broom factory recently established by
David P. Brandon.
Rome is being doomed for all it is worth
by the Tribune Of that city, one Of the live
hest papers in the State.
In Coweta Superior Court Saturday
Dolly Echols (colored), was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for killing her child.
Thirty-seven delinquent subscribers to the
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin railroad
are being sued at this term of court at
Abbeville.
The new residence of w. H. Hosenbeck,
at Grays Station, now occupied by r. A.
Morgan, came very near being destroyed by
fire last Tuesday night.
Mrs. Lit Davis, of Albany, made an I'M
successful attempt to commit suicide Satur-
day. Sickness in her family and financial
reverses prompted the attempt
The members of Green's chapel, Upson
county, are thinking about giving up their
present house of worship and building a
new one at Cross Reads, now known as
Rowland.
There is a man in Brentwood who is very
well off as to this worlds goods who is so
stingy and close that he will eat nothing but
Cruel to save the wear and tear of his ar
tiicial teeth
a f.,u -. -
was held at the Methodist church and
committee appointed to select and buy a
site for the erection of a college Five
thousand dollars has been assured.
The trial of A. J. Coins for the killing of
w. j. Hand, in Monroe County year or
so ago, consumed the time of Monroe Su-
perior Court from Thursday morning until
Saturday noon. The jury brought in a
verdict of acquittal on the ground of self
defense.
T. B. Cater, bookkeeper for A. K.
Hawkes., the optician on Decatur street in
the Kimball House, Atlanta, has mysteri-
ously disappeared, and his family and
friends are extremely uneasy about him
Detectives are now searching for the miss
ing man.
Four of the FIVE convicts that escaped
from the convict camps on the Chatta-
nooga, Columbus and Southern railroad
have been captured. Two were caught near
Tallapoosa, one between Tallapoosa and
Carrollton, and the fourth in the vicinity of
Newman.
few DAYS ago James Fricler & Bro. of
Americas, received from China a check on
the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation, China, for 81 IS, in payment
for pair of spectacles sent by registered
letter TO China. The check is payable in
New York.
The citizens of Kirkwood are making an
effort TO get a post office for that village,
which is only three miles from Atlanta
They have written to Congressman Blount
upon the subject. The name of j. Il. Rob
son will be presented as a snus BILE person
for the position of Postmaster.
1t is stated that Talbotton can boast of
the longest unabating religious revival of
any place in the State. A meeting began
In the African NJ. f. Church in 1855 since
which time iey have held meetings every
night. There is no indication of the meet
ing being discontinued at present
A private telegram was received at Co
lumbus Saturday from the resident manager
of the Union Land and Oil Company of
that city that an experimental shipment of
asphaltum from their property in California
has panned out big, and with railroad IA
cilities, soon to be completed, the company
will have bonanza.
William G. Crowder, a young married
IMAM icSitlilS near DtbdFnSNllle, met WITH q
serious If not fatal accident on Friday
while working ON trestle on the A. & +.
X. X. at Elklns Greek, near Zebulon He
was under the trestle when a scantling fell
from the top thirty feet above, striking
him on the head. At last accounts he was
In dying condition.
The Standard Scale Company has decided
to locate the plant on the lands donated to
the company by the Rome Land Company,
A. Dougherty, the Rome Investment Com
pany and MesSrs. Tedcastle and Mckee,
situated in West Rome. These lands ag-
gregate thirty-three acres They have a
frontage of over 200 feet on the Rome and
Decatur railroad, ami about the same dis
tance on the macademized Alabama road
a few days ago Capt. f. d. Graham of
Baxley, attempted suicide by shooting him
self. He placed himself before a mirror in
his room, and arranged 3S-calihre Smith
q WeSson pistol just in the rear of his right
ear and fired what he thought the fatal
SHOT; yet, strange to say, the bullet did not
enter. The conclusion threw him, but he
renamed rational and removed the batter ed
ball himself. Ill health is said to be the
cause of the rash attempt at self-destruc-
ton.
A female, apparently from a small
neighborhood in one of the adjoining coun-
ties, is soliciting help in Albany for the pur-
pose OF procuring new set of teeth Her
llst is headed with a subscription of s., then
follows list of donations of l0c and 15c.,
all opposite the modest signature of cash {"
Very few, by the assurance Of the whole
affair, refuse TO contribute their mite and it
is evident that the country lady will masti-
cate her hog and hominy with new set of
grinders.
At Augusta last week Dr. Tut offered to
put in his lot on the hill as a 900 sub
scription to the stock for new hotel and
sell his handsome residence now nearing
completion TO the hotel company. His
proposition made to the meeting Saturday
was promptly taken advantage Of He Is
building "A handsome 20-room residence, in
which the rooms are very large and can
readily be Incorporated in the hotel His
offer was to take the whole place, the site
and building in stock, thus makinga $50, 900
subscription to the hotel. a meeting was
held of a few capitalists and Dr. TUFTS sub
scription was promptly covered with so, 900
more This assures the hotel, but the CAPT.
tai will be increased to $780, 900 or more
At Lafayette last week in the case of the
State against Ransom, for rape, forty
jurors We're examined in completing the
jury. Two went Off Tor cause, SIX were op-
posed to capital punishment, five were
struck off by the state and fifteen were OBJ
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