The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Serious Accident to Col. Avery-
What Brunswick Spent for Fire.
works-A Fatal Fight with Knives
over Girl in Butts County Repre-
sentative Glenn's Inability to Sleep.
Brunswick has taken up the spelling bee
craze.
About s.. 900 was spent at Brunswick for
Christmas fireworks.
The Oglethorpe hotel at Brunswick will
be opened next Monday for the reception of
guests.
A bale of Bermuda hay harvested in
Greene county will be sent to the Paris ex-
position.
There are more visitors and strangers in
Americus at the present time than was ever
before known.
Col George w. Adair of Atlanta has sent
to Gov. Gordon plea for the establishment
of a state inebriate asylum.
1t is said that the ferryman at Ferguson's
ferry, in Lincoln county, is kept busy trans
ferring emigrants from South Carolina to
Georgia.
IA secretary has been secured for the Au-
gusta branch of the Young Mems Christian
Association, but his name will be withheld
for a few days.
William Scinberger, telegraph operator
on the Macon and Covington railroad at
Monticello, had one Of his eyes shot out by
Roman candle on Tuesday.
The firm of Daughtry Bros, doing the
most extensive business in Flovilla, made
an assignment Thursday to b. II. Raws.
Their assets and liabilities are unknown.
There are no preferred creditors.
The Atlanta Zouave squad won the first
prize Of 500 at Selma Thursday. The
winning squad are Capt. J. b. Hollis. G. K.
Winburn, r. H. Carpenter, w. B. Harri-
son, w. .. Logan and B. T.. Ritchwood.
Although the requisite number of tickets
have not been sold to make good the guar
antee, the Macon Public Library has closed
the contract with Prof Fisk, and on Jan. l
the balloon ascension and jump from the
clouds in a parachute will take place.
When Dahlonega learned that the Senate
had receded from its position in regard to
the appropriations for the branch college,
the students obtained permission to fire the
cannon, and twenty salutes were fl ed in
honor of the twenty senator's who had voted
to recede.
The names of Virgil Powers, Joseph Hall,
r.. A Nisbet Glenn p. Stead, John G..
Lowe, E. G. Machen, J. G.. Blount, Hugh
Washington and Jeff Ware, are mentioned
in connection with legislative honors as the
successor of the late S. G. Chambliss of
Bib county.
At Buchanan Bill Reeves, Bud Head Will
lam Ayers and Joe Sanford, have waived
their examination and are now awaiting
trial until June court, for the killing Of
Adam Golden. Anderson went to trial and
was bound over. The cases against the
three ladies was abandoned.
Hon. w. G. Glenn of Whitfield county.
member of the legislature, is SO afflicted
with insomnia that ne has not slept HI six
or seven weeks He passes his nights
pacing the floors of the KimbaIl house.
His legislative and other duties are re-
sponsible for his unhappy condition.
Mayor Price of Macon received letter
Thursday from Manager j. +. Lane, of the
Georgia Southern and Florida road, in
which the latter generously offers to the
city the use of a train free of cost for the
transportation of any wood which the city
may purchase along the line of its road for
Its poor.
BY the will of the late j. G. Evans of
Macon he leaves $3.50 to each Of the two
daughters of the late James M. Evans of
Sideville, KY, nephew of the deceased j.
G.. Evans. The balance of the deceased's
estate is willed to Mrs. Harry S. Edwards,
daughter of the late A. ]. Lane Mr.
Evans property is worth about 5000,
mostly in lands
At Abbeville the verdict of the coroner's
jury in the killing of young Jordan fixed
the killing on his brother Ed, with L.. C.
Dickey and viii Dickey accessories after
the fact. The general belief is that it was
all accidental. 1t was about IL or IL o'clock
at night, and firing Of pistols being general,
makes it difficult to ascertain who really
fired the fatal shot.
1t is generally believed at Macon that
Judge Emory Speer of the United States
court, will either be given a cabinet APP
pointrnent or some important mission across
the waters. The recent flag episode is
thought to have brought him prominently
forward for high recognition by Harrison.
There is a secret IDEA that the judge as
pires to represent the Sixth district in con-
gress.
George r. McRee, president of the South
Georgia Melon Growers Association, was in
Quitman Thursday. He will issue call
for meeting of the association at Albany
on Jan. 16. The object of the meeting will
be to ascertain definitely what reduction in
freight rates the railroads have given the
melon growers, SO that melon growers may
know what action to take in regard to plant
ing next year.
Judge Samuel w. Harris of the Coweta
circuit, Def re whom application for bail
for Echols, was argued several DAYS ago,
has returned to mis- home in Carrollton,
after pleasant visit to DIR. Scott Todd, his
DlUbucI OLQSc IAdiilo las
no decision in the case, and the strong
probability is that he will not do 80 until
camps Cohen shall be in fit condition to
give in his testimony.
On Christmas night the store of Fl. c.
Mayhem, at Chulio court ground, Floyd
county, was entered by burglars. They
got into the store by boring hole through
window shutter and removing the bolt
They must have been frightened off in
some manner, as the only things missed
were what they carried away in two empty
twenty-four-pound -four sacks. Mr. May
hew does not think that his loss will amount
to more than s..
At Douglasville, Tuesday morning, while
Eula, the 12-year-old daughter of ID. w.
Price YVES sta ding in front Of the fire her
dress caughl fire. She ran into the yard,
screaming, aud her mother after her. She
then ran into the house, where Mrs. b. c.
Griggs, with great presence Of mind, threw
quilt around her and finally ex inguished
the flames. The little girl was badly burned
all over the body, and after suffering great
agony, died last night.
John Burkett, who was shot at Macon
last Monday night, near the Fourth street
flying jenny, while no better, was still
living at late hour Thursday night At
consultation Of physicians held Thursday