The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-22

VIEWS OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

nj a Supposed RIuT IeTeI dO SOLlLn+4lS'
GEORGIA.
The sandersville high school numbers
nearly 200 pupils
Pal estate in Thomasville is in demand
With an upward tendency.
Several nice houses will be put up at San
dar,ville in a short while.
ar ] n. Evans and c. r. Howell will
,,ltup a drug st re at DIvi5horo.
Mrs Elizabeth Mills and Mrs. T. R. Mills,
ofGrifin. are attending the Jasper Festival
at savannah
Nassrs Eayes q Chase will commence
1rork on the new Presbyterian church at
Townsville at once
The foundation for the water tower in
tbe city hall lot at Thomasville will be COM
nletei in day or two.
lodge of the American Legion of Hon
mr. has been organized at Tennille with
about twenty-five charter members.
The iron colu ms for the support of the
Gallery and roof above, are being put in
nosition in the court house at Thomasville.
Crowds Of Brunswick folks will visit Sa-
vanuah this week to see the President and
Mrs. Cleveland, and will take in" the JAS
per F stival.
Congress lnan A. D. Gambler has intro
duced 4 bill for an appropriation of $4,000
for establishing a government office of
assays III Gainesville
The Railway Cooperative Store ct Brups-
wick has gone into the hands of a receiver,
and its affairs will be wound up by the
assignee, W. f. Symons.
One Of the Holt family of negroes, living
m the widow Chandler'S farm, near Miner,
shot and killed his brother instantly, Sun
dav while carelessly handling pistol.
DeKalb Superior Court is now engaged in
the trial of parties concerned IN the celebra
ted Decatur riot cases, and considerable in
terest is manifested in the investigation.
Brunswick has received nearly $4,000
bales of cotton this season and expects to
run the number up to 100,0 600 Two hun
dred thousand Is what she wants next year.
AT Townsville. Sunday, the small resi-
dence Of PeytOn Flowers, and its contents,
we're destroyed by fire. The loss is about
500 and the insurance is SIPS, in the
Hartford company.
Merwether Superior Court convened at
Greenville Monday morning, Judge Harris
,resi ling for the first time in two years.
The Judge has been SICK for a long time.
The Cartwright murder case is set for trial
to-day.
Tie Grand Jury of DeKalb Superior
Court has found four indictments against
Mai. j. w. Green, General Manager of the
Georgia railroad, Tor running freight trains
Oh the Sabbath day later than the hour al
lowed by law.
A man supposed to be Frank Brooks alias
Casey who killed John Argo in HARRISON
county Sept. IL, is under arrest at Cum
ming. Many people. however, say that the
prisoner does not tally with the description
Of the murderer.
W j. Breitenbach has invested in 500
acre farm, the old Kendrick place between
Albany and Baker county. Mr. BreIten-
bach proposes to cut this property into ten
smaller farms and erect a cottage on each
one and sell them off again on the Install
ment plan.
The Adjutant General has received the
resignation of G. H CothFan, Captain of the
Hill City Cadets, at Rome, and ordered an
election to fill the vacancy for Feb. 20 The
resignation of N. G. Cruger, Second Lieu
tenant Jackson Light ARTILLERY at Albany,
was also received.
Messrs. Martin & Porter, with a large
force of hands, began work on the Macon
and CUvington on Monday, between Madi-
son and Shady Dale. Several citizens have
taken contracts for getting out crossties
for this road, and work on the road is pro-
gre sing as rapidly as the weather will per-
nit.
At Gainesville, Mrs. Mary Collins, wife
of Judge Aaron Collins, was stricken with
paralysis Sunday. and died. She had never
entirely recovered from the severe shock
which she received when Judge Collins
house was blown up with dynamite, and
doubtless that was the remote, if not the
immediate cause of her death
Randall Jackson, a negro train hand on
the Brunswick and Western railroad left
Albany with the freight train for Bruins
wick Sunday morning, and while coupling
cars at Willingham station had his left
hand crushed between the bumpers. 1t was
found necessary to amputate the injured
hand just above the wrist joint.
At Cuthbert, Monday, Charles Solomon,
a young white man. and keeper of a buck
ster stand, was arrested charged with the
crime of arson. Two negro boys are impli-
Gated with him. About two weeks ago
vacant dwelling was burned in the corpo-
rate limits and the evidence against these
parties is said to be very strong.
At Brunswick, early Sunday morning
Thad Robbins (colored) made an Intellectual
attempt to put an end to the earthly career
of Willie Symons, a maiden of color. He
shot at her five times, but owing to the
darkness or his unsteady nerve, failed to do
her much bodily harm. An abrasion of the
cutlcle on the left temple and bump on
left to tell the tale of the fracas
Gilbert Stephens, (colored), who lives on
DR.. c. P. Hartwells place near Albany,
met with a very singular and painful acct
dent, Thursday. While handling loaded
gun he struck it against pillow stock and
exploded it. The entire load of bird shot
penetrated his right arm just above the
wrist, passed between the bone and lodged
ct his elbow, without breaking bone. DR..
Hllsman was summoned, and extracted the
shot and pieces of his coat sleeve from the
wound, and left the unfortunate negro rest
ing easy.
Rev Daniel Palmer, a we'll known col
ored minister of Sandersville, is critically
Ill, and his recovery is doubtful For some
years Immediately after emancipation he
was perhaps the most prominent negro pol
iticlan in the county, and aspired more than
once to legislative honors, but was not sue
cessful. He was, however, a member of the
constitutional Convention of 1868 During
The past two years, however, his glory as
politician seemed to have departed, and he
has devoted himself to his farm and his
ministerial duties.
Monday Adjt. Gen. Kell received from N.
~ Monroe, who is in charge OF collecting
me names from the War Department at
Washington of all Georgians who entered
The Confederate army, the following com
plete rosters: Nineteenth Georgia Volun-
t,eeer Infantry; Company d. Second Georgia
volunteers; Company d. Georgia Hussars,
savannah. CompanY A (f6Orgia HussaFs