The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Two Negroes and Three White Mer
Put in jail at Waynesboro for the
Murder ola Stranger-A Dog browns
Himself in Hall County-A Singular
Case of Blood Poisoning at Augusta
GEORGIA.
Troup county primaries will he held
tomorrow.
Typhoid fever is reported as epidemic al
Coleman station.
A public circulating library will be opened
at Darien in the fall.
The work on the new oil mills at West
Point IS progressing rapidly.
The comptroller general thinks the tax
returns OF Georgia viii foot up slO,OOO,0O0
over last year.
There is talk of getting up a stock co
pany at Darien for the purpose of buying
an ice machine
The rice across the river from Darien is
beginning to turn and get ripe. Harvest
season is near at hand.
During the month of July there was
measured al the public boom at Darien !,
500, 900 feet Of timber.
A high candle power oil gas and a new
electric light plant are being arranged for
by the Macon gas light and water company.
The full returns from the election in
Lumpkln county are in, and show that the
vets carried the county by a majority of
So
Thirty-two merchants of Augusta are re-
ported by j. d. Patterson to Recorder Dun
bar, charged with doing basiness without
license.
Hector jackson, the coored man who
was stabbed nearly TO death ty Charles
Walker, at Doboy some weeks ago, is got
ting well 9
Tae warrant Of w J. Campbell, the new
state printer, Yves formally approved by
the governor Monday The bond required
of Mr.. Campbell is $2),
Under republican administrati IN it cost
the government s.. 070 to run the custom
house at Darisn. Under Grover Cleveland's
administration it only costs 81, l55.
The colored people of Mcintosh county
will hold ratification meeting in Darien on
next Saturday TO ratify the nomination of
L. Crawford, the republican nominee for the
legislature.
The postoffice at Cbsuncey changed hands
on Saturday, Aug. IL. Miss Abbie McRae,
the retiring officer, has had charge of this
office for the past three years and a quarter.
She is succeeded by Miss Ella Curry
The executive committee of the Eleventh
Senatorial district, composed of the countl-s
OF Clay, Randolph and Terrell have called
a convention of delegates to meet in Fort
Gelnes on W ednesday, Aug. %, to nominate
a candidate for senator.
Near McRae, Thursday, while w. K.
Moore and his wife were at work in their
field, somebody unknown entered their
house, broke open trunk and stole there
from SO, the last money the old man had
left of his fathers estate.
The Macon Volunf GERS held their election
Monday night at their armory in full uni
form. The election resulted as follows:
For captain, Granville g. Conner; for first
lieutenant, Joseph Z. Wells; for second
lieutenant, Armand L. Butts.
Sanitary Inspector Remington of Macon
is hard worked man just at present, and
during the Florida yellow fever SC re. has
his hands full 1t is probable that under
the circumstances Mayor Price will appoint
a temporary assistant inspector.
The committee on naming the different
streets in Cuthbert, not already appro-
priately named, have made their report to
the mayor and council, and their action has
been approved. Contracts will now be let
for having the names of each painted on
boards.
There are consumed in Augusta daily
$500, 900 gallons of water. That amount
does not tax the water works much, how
ever, as they have 5000, 900 gallons always
on hand: The amount of water consumed
Is over fifty gallons per capita for every
man, woman and child in the city.
AT Vienna quite fiutter of excitement
has been occasioned in religious circles by
the action of Rev. p. G.. Mcdonald of the
Methodist Episcopal church, who, on Sun
day, was baptized and received into the
Primitive Baptist church He has exper-
fenced change in his religious belief.
Near Oconee, Saturday, while shooting
bats, J. s. Horn accidentally shot a negro
engaged in getting out stave timber for II.
R. Smith The wound was not serious and
the negro took it good-naturedly, saying,
Just after the report of the gun: ''lll be
dogged IL you haint peppered me WE'LL
w. II. Wordy, an employee of the Georgia
railroad in the car department, at Augusta.
is lying quite ill from blood poisoning.
Some time ago he disturbed what appeared
TO be pimple on his leg. 1t has grown
persistently worse until his physicians begin
to fear that amputation of the leg will be
necessary.
E. NJ Bailey, manager for George Owens
OF Owens ferry, reached Brunswick
Friday. From him we learn that ]. K.
Bedell commenced harvesting rice last week.
and others will begin this week The river
crop this year is extra good. Mr.. Bailey
estimates that the yield will be about fifty
bushels to the acre
o. NJ. Hendry of Greene county has twin
brothers, and they are remarkable in
various ways. Their conditions are the
same. If one gets mad the other does too ;
when one is sick the other is also. They
suffer together and rejoice together. They
60 to sleep almost at the same moment aud
wake the same wav. Altogether they are
rather a singular pair.
AT Americas, meeting Of prominent
citizens has resolved upon a plan for the
reception OF Mr.. Kennedy, the old ex-con-
federate who passed through Macon Thurs
day With his wife and ten children in an OK
cart, after an absence from home of twenty
eight years. A procession will be formed
TO go out and meet Mr.. Kennedy and
family and escort him into the city.
When Prof w. D. Williams walked out
into the yard Of the Georgia academy for
the blind, at Macon, Monday morning he
was astonished to find the ground literally
covered with dead English sparrows. In a
number of other places the dead birds were
found, all killed in some way during the
storm of Sunday night, whether BY the
heavy rain or the lightning is not known.
The subcommittee to arrange the state
republican ticket, deny the reports sent out
from Atlanta that Jesse A. Glenn of Dalton
will run for governor. They say he will be
on the ticket, bu will probably be content
with running for treasurer. Smith W
EASILY, secretary of the committee, thinks
a