The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Negro Preacher Stricken With
Paralysis of the Tongue After
Delivering a Sermon in IKE County.
GEORGIA
Willacoochee, it is Understood, is to have
a new depot
Senator Brown will return TO Washing
ton on Monday.
Twenty-Five mails are received and sent
out from the Dalton poStoilice daily
Marion countys delegate. favor the nomi-
nation of Hon. Thomas w. Grimes for con
gresS.
Walton coua.ys delegates to the congress
sional convention will support Hon. John
d. Stewart.
The state horticultural society will hold
its next annual meeting at Thomasville,
Aug. l, ? and 3.
The old court house at Willacoochee was
sold last Monday Joseph Peterson being
the highest bidder at 1910.
Dawson county fayors Congressman Can
dler'S denomination, and her delegates will
support him in the convention.
The cow ntion at Douglas last Monday
adopted tn primary election nlan of max
ing nomin ions for county officers.
The wifi Of Gen. Longs,roet accorded the
weekly pr association "A reception during
go ,-..., convention at Gainesville.
A prominent citizen viii petition the city
council Of Athens to have all the Fl ponds
condemned and broken up at the proper
season.
The contract for the brick work of the
new jail OF Montgomery county wa, let ont
on Monday by the county commissioners to
DR. NJ Morrison at 81, 100.
T. H. Triplett, vino had for four years
been pOStmaS or at Dalton, retired last Sat
urday He is sap,rsalci by the editor of
the Citizen, j. f. Whitman.
On Saturday the entire business Of the
Athens manufacturing company viii close
down for tNo weeks, ms is usual at this time
every year. They close for general repairs.
At Conyers, G.. ". Cain and"G. p.
Elliott have bought Stewart Bros. STOCK OF
goods. The firm name will he Cain & Elliott
The new firm will occupy the storeroOms of
the Stewart Bros.
In the primary for senator of the twenty
sixth district Wednesday, b. w Sanford in
Houston received 793 votes and j. n. Smith
236 Sanford is nominated, as indica ed by
news from Crawford and Taylor counties.
The gentlemen who will represent Macon
county in the senatorial convention nt
Americas, on July II, TO nominate a candi-
date for the thirteenth district will vote for
the Hon James NJ. Duprea, Macon's choice
senator.
A rumor was current in Athens Thursday
that Harrison Elrod, who SO mysterimslv
disappeared from his home in that county
some weeks ago had returned He is very
silent about his operations while away and
will talk Of nothing concerning himself or
his absence
". W. Timmons of Willacoochee has A
chicken two months old that carries around
4 8
cry bped had been adopted bv the mother
of the fifteen aforesaid, and she is now max
ing laudable effort to repay the kindness
of the old hen.
Congressman Gambler carried White
county IN convention by unanimous vote.
J. d. Cooley and J. A Richardson were
chosen delegates to the Gainesville conven-
ton and instructed for Gambler. Gov. Cor
don was Endorsed and dele sates to that con
vention elected.
W. NJ. Sims and Z. Y. Hill were nomi-
mated Wednesday as representatives from
Wilkes county in the next general assembly.
-Four candidates were in the field. With
four small precincts to hear from the vote
stands as follows: Sims $50, Hill 543. Wal
ton 29l, Adams 16l.
Ebert county primaries, on July 81. will
decide " no that county will support in the
senatorial convention of that district 1t
has been ordered that mass meeting be
held on the first Tuesday in August to send
delegates to the gubernatorial and congress
sional conventions
IL was rumored at Atlanta Thursday
that Bud Thrash, a well-known engineer.
who has been employed on the East and
West road, had been accidentally ki,le +
The information could not be authenticated
but was brought to Atlanta by passenger
on the Western and Atlantic train
AT Naldosta, Thursday, jackson Ne son.
who killed Ike Weaver in that county last
fall, and for whose capture the governor
had offered reward, walked into town ard
surrendered. A bond of $1,000 was set bv
the judge, which was given, and Nelson
went back home The case will doubtless
come up before the fall term of court.
At Monroe. Thursday, the survivors of
the Forty-second Georgia regiment met in
the court house, and made final arrange
ments for tne reunion of the regiment
which is 10 be held there on July 20 Gov
Mcdaniel is TO make the speech of welcome.
All veterans who went TO the war from
Walton county were especially invited to
attend.
At Fairburn Thursday, while the depot
was crowded with colored pc ,ple, waiting
for the excursion train. pistol fell from
the pocket Of one of them and was dis
charged, ard the ball entered the leg of
George Taylor coloredl. just below the
knee, lnficting a wound that may prove
dangerouS. Tho pistol was a 44-caliber
British bulldog
ID. f. Constantine, who was formerly n
member Of the Gate City guards in Atlanta.
and who Is now employed by the Chess
Carley company in Augusta is specifically
i'll His case Is peculiar. he being PARTIAL Y
paralyzed, and the symptoms puzzling to
the attending physicians His condition is
thought to have been largely induced by
constant cigarette smoking.
The democrats of Fayette county assem-
bled in mass meeting on July 3, in Favette-
vile, TO elect delegates to the congressional
convention which meets IN Atlanta on July
II. The delegates are J. w. Kitchens. f.
c. Speer, J. \. McCochern, DR. Paul Faver.
S. B. Lewis, w. r. Whitaker, G. +. Daniel
Jasper Spurlin and w. G. Madoris and
were instructed 10 vote for the ra-uomina.
ton Of the Hon. John ID. Stewart, as long
as there is any possible chauce for his being
nominated.
Or" George Barnes, negro preacher.
occupied the pulpit of the 1osanna Baptist
church, in Harrisburg, Pike county. last
Monday night. He had large congrega-
tion, and held them interested In a long dis
cussion of his Interpretation Of his text.
When the services were concluded he was
being congratulated ON his church. when he
suddenly reeed and fell 10 the floor. He
was ass listed to his feet, reStoratives
were given and he was removed TO his
home. DR. Morgan, who was called in Ia
treat him, found that he was suffering from