The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Heir to the Fortune Supposed Il
Have Been Inherited bv an August'
HAN Probably Found-A Hawkins
vile Boys Skull Probably FRACTURED
by Blow from Negro.
GEORGIA.
Darien is to have two banks next fall.
Darien will soon have another and bette
arteSian well.
The price paid for the site for the Chau
tauqua at Albany is 81, $50.
IL is estimated nearly 100 persons in At
lanta are engaged in the insurance business
Jonesboro has new paper, 1t is nam d
the Democrat, and is edited by j. l.. D)yal.
Col T. L. CAN'T of Athens will probable
establish newspaper in Elberton at al
early day.
DIR. E. s. Lyndon Of Athens is maturing
plans for large furnace to be placed neaj
his planning mills. 1t is TO cost about $50 900
The republicans of Blob county are &c
hold meeting at Macon Wednesday night
Aug, 30, to nominate ticket for the legis-
lature.
The crops from Tepnille to Dublin are
very fine Col. Thomas, president of the
Wrightsville aad Tennille road, expects to
haul much cotton.
1t is stated that there are fifteen lodges OF
the Farmers Alliance In Greene county,
and that the average membership of the
lodges Is about forty.
At the convention of the twenty-eighth
senatorial district, held at Shadydale Sat
urday, DR.. T. Preston Gibbs, of Morgan, was
unanimously nominated.
The Brunswick Y. NJ. c. A is rapidly
building up in numbers. The gymna-
sum is regularly and prohtably attended
by a large number Of young men.
At Macon a negro man named Steele was
found dead Sunday night in his room.
When his wife came from church the dis
covery was made. Heart disease is sup
posed to have caused the death.
A Brunswick druggist jokingly remarked
Sunday that he was afraid TO lay in new
stock of Florida water, as be was expecting
daily that quarantine resolution against it
would be passed up by the board of health
A citizens meeting was held in the court
house at Elberton Friday for the purpose of
pressing forward the educational interests
OF the town. The people resolved to pull
all together and build up fine schools in the
place.
z. H Broughton, young man OF pluck
and enterprise, built the first brick store at
Dublin last spring. Others have followed
suit, and now five new brick stores are
about ready for occupancy, aud contracts
are ret for several more.
At Hawkinsville, Friday, Norman Nc
Griff, young man, and nephew of Ju lge
McGEif, was struck on the head by a negro,
and is in a critical conditi) IN. He is danger
ously hurt, being yet unconscious from the
wound, which is said to have broken his
skull
1t Is not thought that the young wife of
James Malone, who was the first to be
killed in the Jasper county feud, will
survive the great shock. The last rep rt
was that she was dying. The grant jury,
it is said, will give the matter the fullest
investigation.
The colored republicans of Mcintosh
county held meeting few days ago aad
ratified the nomination of Lectured Craw-
ford for representa- i've II is said that ex-
Representative Hercules Wilson will be an
independent republican candidate for the
legislature in Mcintosh county.
Washington county's first bale was
brought TO Oconee Saturday by C. NJ. Jor-
dan, and was bought by L. A. Graybill e.
Co. at ten cents per pound, and shipped to
M. Mclean & Co., Savannah. Mr. Jordan
has set an exam lie to his farmer friends by
wrapping the bale in heavy osnaburg
It has not been definitely determined
whether the late Seymour Rodgers of
Macon left will. If rot found, appica-
ton fof letters of administration will be
made the coming week. His estate is esti-
mated TO be worth between $40 900 and
$4,000 His life was insured for IS, 900.
One Of the Ten pound PARROT shells
thrown into Macon du ing tho closing days
of the war, from the East Macon side. was
recently plowed up on the land OF s. A.
Crump, just beyond Vineville The rust
had eaten OF the cap, but the mere fact of
its being loaded caused it to he handled very
gingerly.
Some years ago Mr.. Searcy of Griffin
paid visit TO bis father, and while gone his
house was burglarized. On his return he
secured the burglar, aud. il living, he is
now In the penitentiary serving out his SEN
tence Recently another burglar went into
his house, east OF the city, and he too was
captured and convicted.
Joe Barry of At lens has been offered and
refused $4,000 in cash for his property.
corner of Broad and jackson streets. IL
fronts 80 feet and extends Ito in rear and
is but indlfferently improved. The offer
was made by an Augusta gentleman, who,
1t Is said, intended erecting two handsome
stores and opening bank.
Judge Warren D. Nottingham OF Perry
has formed a law partnership with Capt. ].
L. Hardeman, and on Sept. l will become
resident OF Macon once more. For eleven
years Judge Nottingham has been the Judge
OF the county court of Houston, and for
eight years Capt. Hardeman has been
solicitor general of the Macon circuit.
At Bairdstown, Friday night, a large
number of negroes met to rehearse pieces
for an exhibition. During the rehearsal
Two negro men got into quarrel, in which
brick bats, stones and rocks took the most
prominent part One Of the negroes had
his skull broken just above his ear, and it is
feared that the wound may prove fatal
While Tom Voolfolk was on his knees I'm
his hammock in Jail at Macon saying his
prayers Friday night, the hammock fasten-
ing broke, causing him to thump the iron
floor OF the cage with n noise that woke M
every prisoner in the Jail. AS might be
imagined, he was very much put out, not
so much at being disturbed while at
prayer, but at the damage to the hammock.
William Dickinson Of Macon, car in
spector of the Central railroad, has lust
laid aside silver watch that he bought
from Day & Mausenet in 1856, paving Tor
10 $55. For thirty-two years il kept good
time, but few days ago Mr.. Dickinson
concluded 1t was growing too old TO bs
relied on and be purchased new watch,
laying the old one away to be kept for as
sociation's sake
Chairman Walker said Sunday night
that no would cal special meeting of the
Macon board Of health to adopt more strin.
gent quarantine regulations for Macon. His
Information from Jacksonville induces this