The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-17
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
Cficers Elected by the Brunswick
Rifemen-The Man-of-War Atlanta
Expected at st. Simons During the
Encampment-A Coon Dancing to
the Music of Violin.
GEORGIA.
It's claimed that 2,700 acres in Brooks
county are planted in watermelons.
All the mail routes radiating from Reids-
vile have been let out. Not one cost as
much as $3.50.
A. J. Carroll of Macon has been chosen
as principal of the Nelson grammar school
at Brunswick.
An old and blind negro, who is on the
pauper list Of Hall county, drew $1,000 In a
lottery a day or two ago.
An effort is being made to increase the
mail service from Canton to Cumming, now
semi-weekly, TO tri-weekly.
Appeton's orphan home in Macon is in
sadly Strengthened circumstances. Sub
scriptions are being taken for il.
At Albany the first cars of watermelons
are bringing fancy prices. Two cars grown
by A. p Vason sold for $50 and $3.50, re-
spectively
The city council of Athens decided not to
CHaNBe lue udiuoS Ol lle SJTeelS running
north and south to numbers They also
appointed a committee to name all of the
streets and alleys not already named.
McDonough Weekly: Uncle Bob Warren
has three of the oldest pieces of furniture in
the county, to wit: A watch, a washpot,
and a cat The combined ages of these
pieces of furniture amount to 1914 years.
Benjamin Sirmans of WaycroSs came
near having a serious accident last Monday.
He was trying to get ball out of his rifle
when, by some means, the cartridge ex-
ploded, filing his face and eyes with pow
der.
Collector of the Port Dart has received a
letter from Senator Colq lit to the effect
that he will use his influence TO have the
United States mau-of- war Atlanta stationed
at Brunswick during the military encamp-
ment.
On the Southwestern railroad, about four
teen miles south of Fort Valley, Friday, the
mangled remains of negro hoy, appa-
rently 10 years old, were found. 1t is sup
posed he tried to steal ride on the night
passenger train, and fell off and was killed
At SMYRNA, Friday, DR.. A. p. Brown was
sitting on his veTanda talking with some
friends, when, in moving his chair, he lost
his balance and tOppled over. The fall was
about eight feet and resulted in a fracture
of the left arm ar the elbow. He is brother
TO Hon. Joseph E. Brown.
Quit1nan is not in the midst of a boom,
but she is growing all the time. The i'm
provements being made and the new struc-
lures in course OF erection, are all of the
most solid kind There are few cities in
Georgia Of Quitnans size that can boast of
$4,000 opera house and 800 town clock.
On the old Gen. Tom Cobb lot, on Prince
avenue, Athens, and near where the office
of Judge Lumpkin stands, a well was once
sunk, and the well digger struck a large
current Of water that flowed freely through
the well. The well was afterwards filed
up, and now the place where the old well
was dug keeps falling in, and has to be filed
constantly.
Thursday night the Brunswick Rifiemen
elected officers as follows: Second Lieuten-
ant P. S. Morris was promoted to the first
lieutenancy; Second Corporal w. F. Doer-
finger, made first corporal; Third Corporal
F. Joerger, made second corporal; Private
S. c. Littleield, Jr., elected third, and
Private Robert Levison, fourth corporal.
This will neceSsitate an election for second
lieutenant
Sixty-four cars of melons passed Albany
Friday, distributed as follows: Toledo 8,
Minneapolis l, st. Louis ,, Atlanta Q, In
dianapolis 5. Chicago 9, Chattanooga 4,
Memphis T. Cincinnati 5, Columbus, o., |,
st. Joseph /, Birmingham ), Springfield 2,
Peoria l. Louisville 4, Henderson, KY, l,
New Orleans l, Cleveland 2, Nashville 2,
Fort Wayne l, Mansfield l, Lexington l,
Terre Haute l, Macon l.
Montezuma Record: Talk about fishing
frolcs a gentleman said on the streets the
other day that he had story which beats
anything he ever heard of before Job
Leary, who lives out in the country about
three miles from Montezuma went fishing
one day, and every once in while he would
pull out one of those bad smelling little
cooters. He got so mad that he said to
friend: III catch another one, I'm gong
to bite off his head" The words were
hardly out of b = mouth before he pulled
out another one. He deliberately bit off
the head
The democrats of Warren county met in
mass meeting Thursday, the object of the
meeting being to elect delegates to represent
that county in the approaching gubernato-
rial and congressional conventions, the lat
ter to as emDle in Augusta on July 8. John
Mathews and A. NJ. Massengale were
elected delegates to the gubernatorial con-
yention and Judge William Gibson and A.
lesser to the congressional convention.
Warren countys vote will be cast for Gov.
John B. Gordon. Hon. George T. Barnes,
the present congressman, will likewise re-
ceive Warren's support.
Montezuma Record: When Pomp Rob
lnson was young man he and another
fiddler were their way TO dancing
frolic on Shanks' mare. They stopped and
sat down on a log near a branch in the
moonlight to rest and while resting struck
up "Billy in the Low Grounds" on tneir old
''Betseysn to pass away the time. Soon as
the music started an old ring tail coon came
down out of tree by the light of the moon
and proceeded to waltz out in the road in
front of them. Pomp made for him with a
stick and up sapling he went The fiddler
started off and the coon came down again
A large stick was procured and old zip dis
patched just because he was fond of good
music.
Public school officers have been in rather
tangle in Worth county. The last grand
jury failed to reappoint new members of
the board Of education in the place of those
whose time had expired. The other mem
hers resigned, and Worth was left without
an educational board The teachers have
been awaiting the signing of their contracts,
and no schools could be opened. In this di-
lemma the citizens have petitioned the
judge to appoint new board. II has been
accomplished, and educational matters will