The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Bag of Corn He Was Stealing to
Keep from Starving.
GEORGIA.
c. G. johnson has withdrawn from the
race for tax receiver of Liberty county.
Frank II. Harris, chief engineer of the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus railroad,
died at Rome Sunday.
l. F. Brown of Oconee lost his store and
stock of goods Sunday by fire. The prop
erty was insured for $1,000
d. B. Thrasher of Quitman has sold his
handsome residence in that place and will
probably move to townsville
Ed Stokes of Americas, who was recently
run over by one of the Central engines,
near the pumping station, is able to be out.
A man in Atlanta recovered 81, 900 the
other day from a patent medicine company
on the ground that the medicine had made
him worse.
Capt. s. D. Bradwell has been asked to
deliver the Grafton at the unwilling of Capt.
Hughes monument, Jan. 10, at Jones' Creek,
Liberty county.
The death of Hon S. c.. Chambliss leaves
two vacancies In the House, the other being
the seat formerly filed by Hon. James A.
Hunt, of Cato sa.
Dr. W. D. Sears of Americas is accused
OF filing the holes in a ticket that had BEEN
used and using it again on the Buena Vista
and Eliaville road.
At Ellaville G. w. Chipley & Co. have
assigned to Col. R. c. McCrory, and the
stock Of goods is being sold at cost for the
benefit of the creditors
Application has been made before Judge
Harris at Atlanta, to have bail fixed in the
case of Echols, the alleged murderer of the
Covington hotel victim.
John Green of Beaufort, S. c., and Joe
Warren of Savannah, have been arrested
at Macon, charged with passing counterfeit
money. Both are colored.
A young man named Greenway was
killed in johnson county a few nights ago
by the falling of a tree which he was telling
in an effort to capture coon.
William Martin of Sandersville had the
misfortune to have his best mich COW shot
and killed on Thursday last 1t is supposed
that it was done accidentally.
Hinesville has Young lady, whose mother
gave away her two pet kite S. that SAYS
she will neither eat bread, drink water nor
see young man until those kittens are re-
turned
A number of gentlemen in and near La
Grange are talking very strongly of or
ganizing a cavalry company, and the out
look now is that the project will be carried
through.
Representative Tatum of Dade says that
his county has the best record in Georgia
on mortgages. There are only two mort
cages in the county, and they are on farms
for purchase.
The reason assigned by Gov. Gordon for
the pardon of Higginbotham was that
Clansy, the man killed, said before he diel
that he was the one to blame, and that he
did not wish Higginbotham prosecuted.
Maj. Postell of Glynn, has recently pur-
chased parrOt and monkey which he in
tend, taking to his home on st. Simon's
Island. The friends of the major declare
that he thinks of starting a geological
garden.
Mai Mclean, the well-known railroad
contractor, is a relative of President-etect
Harrison, and also cousin of Mosby. tie
great confederate cavalryman. The major
is as proud of the latter relationship as of
the first.
A paper will shortly be established in
the town of Ogethorpe A stock com
pany has been formed, and the amount
necessary to purchase the outfit has already
been subscribed. The editorial corps has
not yet been selected.
Sid A. Pughsley, Jr., a commercial
traveller, will give per cent. of his total
sales Of boots and shoes to merchants of
Washington county during 1889, for the
purpose of aiding in the education of the
white orphans of the county.
At Leary the trial of "Sonnie" Miller for
the assassination Of a country merchant
named Watkins, has resulted in his convc-
tion. Watkins was shot down as he was
closing up his store one night about six
weeks ago. Miller goe' to the penitentiary
for life.
Judge John L. Harden's little 11-year-old
daug ter was terribly burned at Hinesvie
last Saturday by her clothes catching fire.
Mrs. Harden and the judge were badly
burned trying to extinguish the flames. 1t
is thought that the injuries of their daugh-
ter are fatal.
A Recorder reporter visited the banks at
Americas Wednesday and asked how the
papers were being met by the farmers and
others this season. He was told that there
were less past due papers on hand { an was
ever known in the existence of the banks.
Those that are now in the bank also have
credits on them.
The Et Fire Insurance Company,
which has uniformly declined to do bust
ness in Georgia since the passage of the de-
post law in 1887 sent in its application TO
Comptroller General Wright, Tuesday,
for bla nks and necessary information pre-
paratory to throwing its bushes banner to
the breeze in this state.
]. L. Horne a contractor of Macon,
mourns the loss Of S95, and by present APP
pearances he will continue to be mourner
for his lost cash for all time. He paid that
amount of money for shi giles to a man
who represented himself to be an agent Of a
manufacturing firm. Now it develops that
the solicitor was fraud.
Sheriff Hurst of Thomas county dreamed
that the prisoners in the Jail were plotting
TO escape. An investigation proved that
his dream was true, the prisoners being pro-
vided with sharpened nails with which TO
cut through the wall The sheriff had pre-
viously had similar dream and expert
ence. The last discovery was made Satur-
day.
The recent purchase Of the Bingham
property by the La Grange Cotton Factory
Company makes that institution one of the
most compact and convenient establish
ments of the kind in the entire state. The
company already owns six dwelling houses
for the mill employees, and have just let
contract for twenty more six-room cot
tages, each cottage being intended TO house
two families. The buildings will be put up
Immediately.
J. r. Hunt Of New Haven, Conn, and
George Myers Of Boston, Mass, will proba-
bly, establish an oyster cannery at Bruins
wick that will employ 200 h nds, and will
ship TO the north and to Europe at the rate
of one carload Of canned oysters per week.
The only thing in the way, it seems, is that
they are not entirely satisfied that the sup