The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-12
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Corpse Crows Two Feet in Two
Years-The Dooly County Primary.
GEORGIA.
Hon. A. C. Pate of Hawkinsville has
bought a building lot at Vienna.
Over $3.50 worth Of work was con
trac.ed for in Dublin on Tuesday.
A reunion of the veterans of the Thirteth
Georgia regiment will be held at Fairburn
on July IS
"Bud" Taylor Of Reynolds has bought a
storehouse and lot at Vienna and will move
there and engage in the mercantile business.
Col T. b. Fielder has contracted 10 build
two 2-stOry brick stores at Dublin, by Sep
TENDER l, to be occupied by the Baum Bros.
of Toomsboro.
W. L. Massey of Milledgeville, has Sc
cured, through Congressman Blount, the
appointment to be a postal clerk between
Macon and Albany.
1t is said that because he condemned some
bad beef at the market at Macon, a petition
Is being circulated among the stall renters
to have Clerk Abel removed.
On Tuesday the Dublin hotel company
let its contract TO have its building com
pleted BY December l. f. @. Leach Of At
lanta was awarded the contract
The Talbatton Nelc Era, which has been
advocating the denomination Of Congress
man Grimes, now comes out for Hon w
X. Gorman because be is a resident Of Tai
bot county
Work was commenced on the new opera
house at brownsville Tuesday 1t will be
ready by Nov. l. Already a number of the
very lest companies on the road have
made dates
j. P. Heard. one Of Vienna's enterprising
merchants, has commenced the erection Of
a cotton warehouse, and J. L. Peavy has
bought contiguous lot. and will erect and
occupy a storehouse thereon.
The residence of Rev. T. J. Beall Mt But
Ter, wa' struck by lightning last Thursday
evening and considerably damaged in sew
eral places Mr.. Beall also received
severe shock, but he is rapidly recovering.
The Gainesville Courdnt-4ntcrican has
changed hands, the old management having
Teen bought out bv Messrs. Christian &,
Freeman. j. b. WillIngham, former city
editor of the COuront, has bought out the
North Georgia Citizen, published at BAL
ton.
woman living in county adjoining
Sumter fell into a mill pond one day
recently, and when she was dragged ashore
ten-pound catfish was found entangled in
her hustle. Her husband was anxious to
set her out" again, but she would not con-
sent.
Wheeler Collier and John Boskins (col-
ored), laborers on the plantation of X. w.
Anderson, near Hawkinsville had a frht
Tuesday afternoon, in which Boskins came
out second best, receiving a pistol ball in
his thigh. warrant has been issued for
Collier.
While breakfasting Tuesday Capt. Flem
Geeslin of Columbus broke an egg, which
he found TO contain a smaller and Derfactlv
formal ago no nd oil ,Lo III
small egg was hard and without a single de
feet The second egg was about as large as
partridge egg.
The directors of the Peoples national
bank of Americas met at their office Tues
day morning and declared a semi-annual
dividend of per cent. This is the biggest
dividend declared by any bank in the CITY.
the Bank Of Americas having declared &
per cent and Bank OF Southwest Georgia )
per cent.
Prof. Lovejoy of Townsville is making
his vacation profitable. He gathered ten
bushels Of pears from one tree on his place
recently purchased from Dr. Watkins, and
there are as many more still on the tree. He
sold his storm pears for 81 so per barrel
he gathered 4l0 pounds of grape the first
picking from two acres. These grapes are
selling at Is cents per pound in New York
A negro woman entered Mr. Gottheimer's
store, at Athens, Monday, and while pre-
tending to buy some goods stole a child's
bonnet, and hid it in her parasol. Mr.
Gottheimer suspected that there was some
thing wrong, so he got the parasol, opened
1t, and found the bonnet The woman said
she did not know how it came there. and
agreed TO pay for the bonnet rather than be
arrested.
The comptroller general has Just com
pleted the footing up Of the state school
fund for 1888, which amounts to $3.50. | 10 10
TO be appOrtloned among the different coun-
Ties, according to the school population. To
this will be added $l75, 900 poll taxes. This
is an increase of about $25,00O over last
year, which mostly comes from the fees
for inspection of fertilizers and the tax on
liquor.
At mass meeting held at Vienna, Satur-
day, it was voted to have a primary
throughout the county on Aug. l, to nomi-
nate candidates for senator and representa-
tive. VIII Byron has not vet positively
decided to run. Joseph T. Collier is now
in the field, as is Col. G. w. Busbee
For the senate, Hon. Thomas Ray is opposed
by J. G. Owen, who lives near Byronsville,
In the upper part of the county.
About two years ago a 2-vear-old child
died at Atlanta, A short time before its
death the child's hair was trimmed, and a
curl of about one and a half inches was
placed in a box, along with some of the
child's playthings and a quantity of flowers
that had been placed on the coffin on the
day Of the funeral. Tuesday when the CON
tents of the box were being inspected the
curl was found to have grown over two
feet.
Tuesday morning Marion Beavers, a
farmer living six miles north of Newman,
having observed his wife going toward the
creek, about 800 yards from the house, be-
came alarmed at her continued absence,
went in search Of her and was Mortified to
find her dead body in pool of water al out
three feet deep. There was no evidences of
foul play, nor can they assign any reason
for her self-destruction, except that she has
been an invalid for the past four years, and
that she took that mode of putting an
end 10 her existence.
W. G.. Simmons of Madison county SAYS
that on a north hillside near his house are
q dozen or more circles on the ground vary
ing In size from three TO sixteen feet across.
IN the centre Of each circle the grass seems
70 h. greener than anywhere else, while the
grass ia the track is dead and dry as a chip.
What has caused the circle 10 appear on the
ground In this way is a mystery. They arc
perfectly round and the track where the
grnss ~ dead is the same width all the way
round being about eighteen or twenty
inches wide. Mr.. Simmons will dig to
ascertain the cause of the circles.
The third party will not participate in the
democratic primaries for the legislative