The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


a Tatnall County Family's Narrow Es-
cape From Being Poisoned-Homer
County to Vote on the Prohibition
Question -Greensboro's Condemned
Murderer Attempts Suicide-Clarke
County Reckoning Her Bonds.
GEORGIA.
Ice formed at Albany Wednesday night
A bank is being organized at Fort Valley.
Several new residences are to be built in
ReidSvllle soon.
The carpenter work on the court house at
Reidsvile Is finished.
The First National Bank of Albany will
begin business April Is.
Judge James r. Lyle, Of Oconee county.
is candidate for the Senate from his dis
trict
In Cumming county no one has bid on
the mail rout-s which were let to foreign
contractors.
Cobb Day and Jim Berry have bought a
new saw mill outfit and planted it on w.
w. Berry's place, few miles below Lex
ington.
Some counties in the State make the
Killing of robins a penal otfense, and can
impose fine OF 500 or SIX months impris-
onment.
B. F, Hogan, living near Gem, Bulloch
county, accidentally had three of his fingers
cut off Tuesday while running planning
machine.
A. |. Branham, superintendent Of public
schools of Brunswick, had an arm dislo-
Gated in the railroad accident at Dalton a
few days ago.
Mrs. George C. Smith, of Lexington,
while descending flight of steps hurrledly
stepped upon the sharp point Of nail and
drove 1t almost through her foot.
At Griffin the entire amount needed
(S100,000 has been subscribed to the new
cotton mill and work will commence on the
building III the next two or three weeks.
The Princeton cotton factory near Athens
will probably be supplied with auto
matte fire extinguishing apparatus. IL it is
put in DR.. Hamilton will carry his own in
surance, thus saving 500.
The annual State convention of the Geor-
gia State Council of the Catholic Knights of
America will be held in Macon on April 3.
The place of NEE ing will be the large and
elegant parlors of the Hotel Lanier.
Tom Voolfolk was frustrated in another
attempt to escape from the Bibb county
Jail, at Macon, Friday night. He had
sawed Off his shackles when discovered, and
would have used the saw on the bars of his
cell.
posing structure. The dome is rising in the
center and will soon stand out prominently.
When it reaches its full height it will be
visible to people ten miles away from At
lanta.
Treasurer Charles OFarrell, of Clarke
county has called in three $500 county bonds.
These bonds were made to run twenty years,
but have been running only six. The
bonded debt of the county is thus reduced
from S41, 600 to $50, 800.
George B. Lumpkin, of Lexington, has
recently patented device for taliog up
lost motion on the spindles Of vehicles 1t
Is simple and perfect and will add very
little TO the cost of buggy or wagon. He
is receiving bids for their manufacture.
The most important civil case tried at
Covington last week was bill filed by NJ.
w. Flemister against j, c. Flemister for
the recovery of 2l3 acres Of land and the
meSne profits thereof for about twenty
years. The trial resulted in verdict for
the defendant.
Capt Rock, the counterfeit detector and
expert, says that some OF the Southern
cities have been recently flooded with coun-
terfeit 5-dollar bills. Not one of these, he
says, has found its way to Atlanta Thanks
to his presence there. The ''shovers of the
queer" fight shy of him.
There was Matched last week on John w.
Bacons lot at Lexington, a chicken that in
place of tail has third well developed
leg and foot. With the other two legs it
runs around as glib as the rest of the brood,
and does not seem to be at all inconven-
fenced by its strange appendage.
At Trion Factory, Chattooga county,
Wednesday A A Allmon accidentally shot
his son, John Allmon, with pistol. Young
Allmon had the pistol in his hand, and, in
passing it to his father, the weapon was ac-
ka1I he l,an
sons neck. He is seriously, and perhaps
MORALLY, wounded.
Rev. o. B. Graves, son-in-law of ]. E.
Ritcb, was tried at Jefferson last Monday
and pronounced lunatic Mr.. Graves was
an able preacher and did good work for the
cause of Christ before be became afflicted.
Hard work in the ministry proved too much
for his nervous temperament, and the loss
of mind is the result.
A petition is in circulation at Homer ask
ing the Ordinary TO call an election on the
prohibition question. Banks has been dry
for number of years by the Ordinary re-
fusing to issue license. Since jackson coun-
ty voted out whisky it has brought one or
two saloon keepers into Banks, and now
they are asking for an election.
George McDuffie, who is to hang at
Greensboro ON May II, attempted to com
NIT suicide day or two ago by cutting his
tended to by physicians, and his attempt to
kill himself was futile. Sheriff English
now has him in irons, and will keep him so
until the day for his execution arrives.
Lee county is developing so rapidly that
the Post Office Department feels Justified in
establishing two new post offices in the Red
hone district of that county. One has been
placed at the old Shackleford place, and will
be called Earl, with Frank Minis as the post
master. The other is at Clegg's store, and
is called Quincy, with v. A. Clegg as post
master.
Last Sunday the house known as the Nc
Nabb place three or four miles south of
cambridge was burned to the ground. The
house was occupied by colored man
named Paul Hosea and family, and they
lost part of their effects. The house,
q frame structure, was the property of
Messrs. Brooks and Pumpelly, and was in
sured for 5000.
The remains of w. p. McGriff. OF Co
lumbia. Ala, one of the pass angers on the
ill-fated train which went down near Black
shear Saturday, passed through Blakely
Tuesday night, being met there by friends
and relatives from Columbia. Mr.. Nc
Griff IS wife, upon the announcement of his
death, was attacked with brain fever, and
taoru liac crffinallx,