The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THa TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

of cold Mining in Lumpkin County
Eight Hundred Acres TO be Planted
In watermelous Near Macon
GEORGIA.
Cuitnan has received in the neighborhood
Of 900 bales OF cotton.
The Albany ice factory is paying diyi-
5end of per cent. a month.
Gel. II. VI. Reid hes withdraw from the
race for solicitor general of the Coweta cir
cult,
Ed Helmyly of Guyton killed bear in
bis corn field last week that weighed over
500 pounds.
The plans have been given out for the
building of a $4,000 residence for w. R.
Cox at Macon.
Bainbridge is cleaner than she has been
In fifteen years-thanks to the yellow fever
scare at Jacksonville
Thomas Laue, who got his fingers cut off
al Eliot 4 Co, : saw mill, near Saussy, one
day last week, is improving fast.
Hon A L. HAYES. elector for the Third
district, opened the campaign in Balm
bridge. Tuesday, with a speech on the tariff
The board Of trustees have elected Prof.
G. A Harrison Of Thonasto as principal
of the Montezuma male and female insti-
tute.
The Hon. Walter B. Hill, talented
lawyer ami wellknown temperance advo-
cate, will speak on prohibition in Dublin in
a few days.
According to the Pdtriot. Buena Vista
offers fine opening TO man with capital
who will open up a banking and farmers
supply business on large scale.
The bridge of the Americas, Preston and
Lumpkin over the Flint has been so badly
damaged and inclined down stream that the
trains due in Americas transfer passengers
and freight.
Mrs. s A H. Holland, the colored
evangelist who has been doing the county
for the past few weeks, preached at the col
ored Methodist church at Swainsboro last
Tuesday night.
Dahlonega has quite number of summer
visitors. The Burnside and BeSser hotel,
are entertaining their guests in good noun
tam style, and there are good many with
the private families of town.
1t is said that typhoid fever is stin raging
at Coleman station, Clay county. The
disease does not seem TO abate or to grow
less fatal. 1t is also reported that there are
several cases Of this fever in the neighbOr-
hood Of Wesley chapel
Hon. John S. Clifton of Miller county
was nominated for senator from the Eighth
district by reclamation at the recent con-
vention held in cambridge. Mr.. Clifton
was member of the constitutional con-
vention of 1877. He viii make a good
senator.
The railroad barbecue at Watkinsville
Thursday was success. About 1000 peo-
pie were present, and the day passed off
agree bly, to all In addition To the whole
OF Watkinsville and the surrounding coun-
try, quite number went from Madison
and Athens.
Tna %I1R, e
the house of represen tatives from Decatur
county will meet in Bainbridge on Sept. l.
Hon. John d. Howell, Capt George A.
Wright, Col. w. w. Russell, and perhaps
Hon. E A. J. Rich, viii contest for the
nomination.
The judgeship of the jackson county
court Is the question now before the people
are Col ]. A. B. Mahaffev of Jefferson, and
T. G. Thompson and w. H. Simkins of
Harmony Grove. There is a dive sifled
opinion rs regards the CO .rt Some are in
favor of it, and some against it.
the cider and vinegar works of Mr.
Gunby at Brunswick came near being
burned Thursday night, and with it a large
amount Of other property. The hands had
left fire in the furnace, which caught the
building, but was detected by boat ha' is
on the dock, who broke through the wall
and extinguished the fire before it had
gained much Roadway.
Maj. A. o. Bacon of Macon has accented
the invitation extended TO him w Hon.
Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the national
democratic sub-executive conlFn ittee to
assist him in the campaign york Mai
Bacon had intended to take The month of
30 otemper for his vacation, not having
taken rest this year, but will go to New
York instead and enter into the work
.eo L.,
in business circles at Albany. The CROP
prospects, while not as fiattering as four
weeks ago, are good, aga there will be more
money for INVESTMENT in the country this
winter than in many years. Outsiders are
growing in appreciation OF the lands and
possibilities of that section, and there is no
question but lands are growing in request.
Efforts are being made by the Bibb re-
publlcans to run candidate for the legis-
lature, but as yet no one has positively an
nou lced his willingness to be sacrificed on
the altar of party pride and the hope of
future re Ear3-if Harrison is cleo ed. The
latest names mentioned are those of Rev
Thoma' Screen of Macon, and J. w War.
rem Of the Camp Hope settlement, in the
country.
''Sano Smith, Veazev, correspondent of
the Greensboro Herald, il energetically
urging the project of q railroad from Union
h
that the immense rock deposit ia that vicin-
ity would open up new and inexhaustible
resource of industry and wealth if ira, S.
portation we're in sight. Flat Rock, in that
neighborhood, covers 100 acres, and is all
accessible By surface working.
AT the last meeting of the city council at
Macon President Nortnen and Secretary
Nlsbet OF the Georgia agricultural society,
went before that body and requested it to
leOulld the stables at the park and erect
building for the poultry and bench de-
partment of the state fair, which display
promises 10 be one of the most elaborate
and attractive ever held in tile state The
petition of Messrs. Northen and Nisbet was
referred 10 the mayor and the public
property committee
Twenty years ago J. T. Patton of Ogle-
thorpe county suck locuit thorn in his
wrist. He thought at the time he got il
out, but from time TO time suce he has felt
some pain ia the region OF tn! wound Re-
Gently this pain increased, and on Wednes.
day last he went TO Dr. Faust to get relief
DIR. Faust succeeded in finding the cause,
and making IA slight incision in ar Patton's
arm near tue elbow extracted thorn more
thar an inch long. II was evidently the
sane that had been stuck in Mr.. Patton,s
wrist twenty years ago,
A gentleman of Buena Vista received a
letter the other day from Oliver Jones. He
was on board the steamer s. $. Holland on
the English channel, and was en- route for