The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Terrell Counties-Rome's Gang OF
Young Burglars-A Pear Grated on
Haw Tree-The Movement OF
Melons from Albany.
GEORGIA
The Etotrah Cyclone has been consoli-
dated with the Cherokee Adrance.
Bids of yearly subscription are now freely
offered with some few takers, for the
largest watermelon sent in during the sea
son.
The district meeting Of the Methodist
church for the Dalton district will meet in
Calhoun Aug. l next, and continue five
days
The convention Of superior court clerks
will be held in Atlanta on June IL Clerks
Dan Adams and Roland T. koSs Of Jones
will attend from this section.
The report Of the state road commission
will not be ready this week Judge Reese
said on Thursday in Atlanta that it will
take until next week to complet the work.
E F. Haygood, a white man, a stranger,
was arrested in Macon Thursday morning
and put in the barracks for having stolen
trunk at the union depot belonging TO a
lady.
Dodge County Journal: Mike Johnson,
who murdered Jesse Taylor at the Amos
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from the effects Of wounds received from
his victim
j. e. McMillen, the young man who was
arrested in Atlanta the same day that his
brother was killed by the Chattanooga
train, is credited with another crime-that
Of forgery.
Good rains were pretty general last week
in the neighborhood Of Hawknsville. Corn
and cotton are small, but nearly clear of
grass, and are growing. Much of the corn
has been "laid by"
Walter Ivey, young man of Rutledge,
in consequence of little disappointment in
love, attempted to commit suicide by taking
bottle of laudaaum, but proper and
prompt medical attention prevented 1T prov
ing fatal.
1sham Hughes, the Oldest man in Appling
county, attended church at Graham on
Saturday last. Uncle Isham has withstood
the zephyrs of JOY and the storms Of adver-
sity for 80 years. notwithstanding his an
tiquity, he enjoys good health and can travel
seversl miles on foot.
The commencement exercises of the
Georgia Methodist female college closed at
Covington, Thursday night, with the
reading of original compositions by the
senior class. The graduated were as fol-
lows: Miss Minnie Hightower, Belle Stan
sell, Maggie Bigham, Katie BULGE and Lila
Ivy.
Eugene Couch, the young man that at
tempted suicide in Atlanta a short time
ago, proposes to turn over a new leaf and
lead a better life The first step in this
direction has been Observation-Disclosures for
divorce from his wife. The young man will
take position in Macon with the Central
road
Sixty cars Of melons went forward from
Albany on Thursday, distributed as follows:
Atlanta, 5; Rome, !; Cincinnati, 8; Louis
Vile, 1, Sandusky, /: Peoria, I Cleveland
6; Springfield, 2: New Orleans, S; Kansas
City, 8; Chicago, 5; Columbus, 4; Lexing-
ton, 2; st. Louis, l; Nashville, l.; Chatta-
nooga, 2; indianapolis, /; Toledo, /; Biz
mingham, l.
The returns of the school census Of Terrell
county include all children between the
ages Of 6 and IS. There are 4, 456 children
OF both races of school ages in the county
Of whom 2,l39 are white and 2,SI7 are
colored, majority Of IFS for the negroes
IN the county. The sexes are nearly even
IN number, there being % more white girls
thnu boys, and q more negro boys than
girls.
MIR. Victor Menard and the Young
America cannon squad, of Macon, have
consented to take a position on one of the
hills surrounding the city, and will awaken
the echoes and the people at daybreak on
the morning Of the Fourth of july. The
contemplating contest, open to the world,
will be engaged in by Andrew Brown and
the former winner of the prize, Bill Dowdy
The prize is So.
The application OF J. w. Burke, William
Fleming, J. w. Cahaniss. n. NJ. Hodgkins,
and +. w. Burke of Macon, and c. A. Col
her and Il l. Kimbal Of Atlanta, for a
charter Tor the Macon automatic refrigera-
toT company, was filed in the office of the
clerk OF Bibb superior court, Thursday
The petitioners are to have a capital of
$4,000 and desire 10 be incorporated for
the term of twenty years.
Two negro boys about grown had
difficulty at party on the place of
Hon. s. R. Christie of Terrell county last
Friday night, when one Of them crushed
the skull of the other with a monkey
wrench. Drs. Kendrick and Dean attended
the wounded negro and took several pieces
OF bone and about a teasDoonful of brains
from his skull. His condition at last &C
counts was precarious. The party COM
" ~ the crime has left for parts un-
known.
Ja"son journal: few Of the Terrell
county negroes met at the court house last
Saturday afternoon TO discuss politics gen
orally and republican and negro politics
especially As usual there was a large
amount of gaseous spe-ch-making, nearly
every one there being filled with the spirit
and almost bursting TO belch forth his views
on the political situation As is usual.
some Of the speakers touched lightly upon
the matter Of having their race represented
in the jury box.
The number Of children in Pulaski county
entitled 10 the public school fund is as fol-
lows: White males SG4, white females $50.
Total l,7jO. The showing made by the
colored people is astonishing, and proves
one OF two things, that the colored popula-
ton Is incr sasing much more rapidly than
the white race, or that colored parents in
stating the number Of children, forgot all
about ages, and just included every person
in the family The colored figures are as
follows: Colored males between 6 and IS
years 1,457, colored females 1,742. Total
3,ly9.
Since DIR. Winchester cut the ball from
the back Of Annie Franklin, at Macon, the
woman that attempted suicide some DAYS
ago, she has steadily improved, and the
doctor thinks now that there is no doubt as
70 her getting well. Her mother arrived
from Sand Hill, down the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia road, q few days ago,
and has relieved Dick Morrison of the
trouble Of taking care Of her 1t has not
been stated positively yet that she and Dick
are 70 be married as soon as she gets well,
but the reporf is Grad tod n,ra,. tha