The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF The TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


GEORGIA.
Burke county wants chain-gang
Efforts are bang made 70 erect new
EpiscoDal church al Waynss5oro.
DR.. Scruggs declines 20 De a candidate for
the legislature from Warren county.
Mcintosh delegates seam 10 be in favor Of
Representative Way OF Liberty fer senator.
Il Is understood that Col James A Gray
vii Be : candidate for the position Of
elector on the democratic ticket from the
Fifth distinct
Ms T N Pa-hsm aDd Carrie Z Arnold
Ere delegates from Norwood = the state
b11ve1tiol Of the Womans feTeiEn mission
bocletT. which convenes at Lagrange July /.
Capt Bravo. 4 the steamer St Nicholas,
vii take command q the steamer City Of
Americas on July ! The new steamer viii
I'm between Abbsvlle, Darien and Bruins
WICK
At Gainesville, the wires for the electric
lights s-s gong up very fast The work
nsn prefer the moonlight nights 70 tie
burning June sun The lights viii be
turned on BY July l
DzT7s1's military boys sre Tow happy.
They have recsive3 their new saddles,
brides and other things from the govern.
rs1t, and vii pressn. handsome sight
vhsn they uzrn out On July 4
Il L believed on good authority that Capt.
u. ; Erwin Of ClGrksviIle VIII oppose
Col 4 ;. West II the coming election for
rsE Preventative q EaberSham county 1t
Is run0red ths1 he vii make anti
prohibition Al issue.
HaHai2t0H Journal: We saw q field Of
cu-n on :. NJ hImbrough's plaza that can't
Is sxoalls1 II this district. II Is planted on
uIlfsoo thai has bEen IN cultivation for fifty
ysE-z Hs wi. realizs forty or fifty bushels
psr acre. with 10 disaster.
Banner W-1tebulan: Athens is an IT.
vIrIng feld for any kind Of factory, large
Or small Capitals should investigate il
advantages They VIII find i TO their inter
est 70 invest here. Home apital already
invested has paid 8 handsome dividend.
The rice planters around Darien are wish
ing for more rain They think if they get
II nov they VIII not have So much in the
4a1 when they 20 % harvesting. If no
storms or freshers reach that section this
year the nice planters VIII maze good crops.
Ths grass and the farmers of Warren
county are having q race, with the grass in
the lssd- Crops were exceedingly back
ward this spring, but the recent sunshine
and showers have put new life into them
The cotton has doubled it's size in the last
week and the corn Is growing nicely.
Two miners found vein Of gold re-
Gently within the incorporate limits OF
Dshlouega, and Oh Sunday, in less than
four hours, they beat out with hand NOR
Tar q level weighted pound Of pure gold.
worth from S2l6 &c S240. Its gold and iron
mines VIII soon make Lumpkin a banner
county.
Cotton is small aud backward in the
nslghborhood Of Jewell The cold weather
and WORMS have proven very destructive to
crops. Corn is small with round stalks
and without nice cultivation and good
Seasons through June and July. both crops
are destined TO be short. The blackberry
crop is perfect.
At Ty-Ty, negro by the name Of John
jenkins killed one of James Green's oxen,
Thursday night, and then dug a pit and put
the beast therein and piled up wood and
fired it and burned it. Last night a posse
went TO arrest him, and he fired a load of
birdshot among them, but luckily hit no
one, and then fed. He is still at large.
John Urquhart Shorter, first assistant
district attorney of Brooklyn, n. Y. is an
associate member of the Grand Army Of the
Republic. He and Gen. j. E. johnson are
the only exConfederates who are. Mr..
Shorter was born and brought up ia Colum-
bus, being the son OF the late Capt Reuben
G. Shorter and was one OF the brightest
boys ever sent out by that city to achieve
prominence elsewhere.
Atlanta telegram to Macon Telegraph.
The watermelon dealers of Atlanta are
claiming that they are being badly treated
in the matter of freights by the Central
railroad. They say that Albany has the
call on the watermelon trade this year by
being given certain advantages, she being
competing point. They talk of getting
even with the railroad authorities by
neglecting shipments.
Work was commenced on the First Ma
tional bank building of home, on Monday
AmeTicus Recorder: We learn that the
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad
company are arranging TO build a new
and commodious warehouse out ia the
southern portion of town, TO run in connec-
ton with their compress and road The
site has not ye: been definitely settled upon,
but will be III the vicinity of the guiana fac
tory and oil mills
Darien Timber Gazette: Liberty county
is entitled 70 the senstorship this year under
the rotation system. The convention will
probably be held at Johnston station In
August or September, or perhaps earlier
We understand that Liberty has several
'fsyor1te" SONS, who want 10 succeed Hon
William Henry Atwood, in the Georgia
senate Hon. 4. 4 Way, Capt. s. ID. Brad
well, DR.. Daniels, T. p. Miller and Judge
H. 9. Parker are all spoken Of in connec.
ton VITA the race.
His highness 3. J. Kramer, an atteche Of
TIE Russian imperial household, with his
beautiful and cultured wife, reached Con
yers Saturday. This nobleman comes direct
from Russia 70 study the minutis. Of cotton
culture ia the southern states for the pur-
pose Of introducing this plant into Central
Asia. On the recommendation Of our sena-
tors, governor and agricultural commits
sioner be places himself under the instruc-
ton Of our distinguished fellow citizen,
Senator w. L. Peek.
Haratson County Banner: Rev. William
Colson, living near Draketown, was found
dead in the woods near his home Monday.
He informed his family that he was going
hunting, and was gone several hours Before
he was found. He had only gone a few
hundred yards from the house There were
no marks OF violence upon his body, and
nothing to indicate foul play. His gun was
lying by his side. The coroner's jury held
an Inquest and, after investigation, decided
that death resulted from heart disease.
Darien Gazette: During the thunder
squall on Tuesday afternoon last a coored
woman, whose name could not be learned
was killed by a falling tree in an old field
at the Ardlock settlement. near Darieu
The old man and woman were at work in
the field when the squall came up and
started TO til, ir house, when the tree blew
down on the woman. The man cut the tree
off Of his wife, but when he got her out she
xUao daad The OOrpnar had nm ipptfaef