The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
yEws OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Which have FOl-ONSNl 1OA4-4lACtlO
citizen of Milledgeville.
GEORGIA.
FLOYD county wants a new court house.
The canning factory company at Rome is
making progress toward organization.
brownsville is agitating the question of
o,o+her large hotel. The town is full of
strangers
Sir Henry Thomas Grattan Esmonde will
,,ieit Augusta III his Southern tour, and
lecture on home rule,
mulatto woman named Lucy Jackson
was shot by her paranour at Brunswick on
Saturday night Three of the shots took
eject but none of the wounds were of
serious nature. ...........
Fire was discovered in the cook room of
7 D. Morgan's dwelling at Flowery Branch
on the night of Feb. Is, but by the prompt
action of his closest neighbors the fire was
extinguished with but little damage. The
cause was a defective stove hue.
The proprietors of the Georgia Factory
at Athens have had an engineer at their
place examining the power, and it is said
Re reports plenty of water power t. run
another factory, and before next season
opens another factory will be in operation
there.
Mrs. Felts, of Pike, can boast of having
more relatives than any one else in this
country, she being a granddaughter of
Mrs. Sally Summers, of Jones county,
Georgia, who has 365 grandchildren, 142
great-grandchildren and AZ great-great-
grandchildren Her husband is a local
Methodist preacher.
Bethune Jones, a pupil of the Middle
Georgia Mechanical and Agricultural Col
lege, died in Miliedgeville on Feb. 20 of
bvdrophobia. He was son of Mrs Jones
On October last he was bitten by a rabid
dog. on his mothers plantation, in Baldwin
county. There was very little trouble an
ticipated. however, as it was not very GER
tain that the dog that bit him had hydro
phobia.
The cooperative store at Brunswick
has been doing one of the largest re-
tail businesses of that city, and when last
Saturday it was whispered that they had
suspended it created quite stir. The store
had been running as 4 joint stock concern
and it was supposed they were on a solid
basis Too much crediting, it is said, was
the cause of the failure, and they claim to
be able to pay out at hundred cents on the
dollar.
Dr. Cooper, an old and well-known ply
scian, of Barnett, Ga, who, while attend
ing his daughter, Mrs. Chapman, wife of
tie depot agent at that place, together
with another physician, gave her through
mistake two capsules containing five grains
Of morphine, instead of quinine, as he in
tended, and from the effects of which she
died. is nigh on the verge of insanity from
the death of his child under such circum-
stances.
Bapner- Waterman: Prices of real estate
are advancing in every quarter of Athens.
This was most strikingly illustrated by the
recent sale of the old Clinard house for
$4,000. A number of years ago the entire
lot from Talmadge Bro S store up to Lump
kin street, which then had nothing but a
residence on it, was bought by Mr.. l.. j.
Lampkin for So 500 at public cutlery. Now
a fraction of it with the same house on it
sells for $1,000.
Joseph Thorn, an old and honored citizen
of Albany, died in that city on Sunday
night last He was one of the first settlers
and Oldest citizens of Albany, having moved
there when it was a pine wilderness, with
only few rude houses dotting an opening
on the banks of the river. Mr.. Thorn was
native of Bordentown. n. j., but came in
his early and vigorous manhood to the rap
idly developing South and cast his fortunes
with its people, to whom he was ever true
in word and work.
Col Light, the chief in charge of the
Southern forces of the Salvation Army,
arrived in Atlanta Tuesday, accompanied
by his band of crusaders, fresh from the
field of battle, where they have been waging
war against the friends of satan, down at
Conyers, Covington, and several other
places. This week will be an important
event with the army. A war council will
take place, when all the heads of the diff
ferent posts will report here to receive
marching orders to their respective stations.
The present week, no doubt, will be a
memorable one in the history of the army
at Atlanta.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Woodbury.
on Feb 49, between billiard Parkman Ccol-
ored) and Mr.. Bud Launceford, marshal of
the town. billiard is a bad negro, and is
wanted by the town authorities. About
o'clock, he (Hilliard) went to the house of
Mr.. Launceford, and told him that he H)
wanted to settle the matter then pending
between him and the city. Mr. Launceford
then went out, and billiard kept backing
The marshal called him to halt. Hilliard
remarked: Oh you, if you come any
nearer you are a dead man." drawing
pistol at the same time. Mr.. Launceford
then drew his pistol and fired. The fire
was promptly returned by billiard. All
the shots exchanged were seven, four being
fired by the marshal and three by Hilliard.
The only damage done was a flesh wound
received by Mr.. Launceford in the right
arm. The negro has not been captured up
to date
The Bonner Waterman thus recounts
series of misfortunes that have followed
Hon. r. G. Humber, now of Milledgeville,
but late of Putnam county who is one of
the best known and most popular gentle
men who visits Athens. Col Humber has
IN the past four years experienced cata-
logue of misfortunes that are rarely met
with by single individual, 1t will be
remembered that first cyclone passed over
his farm in Putnam county, demolishing his
residence and outhuildings and infiicting
personal injuries upon the Colonel himself
that came near being fatal. He set to work,
however, and rebuilt. To have his house
thus destroyed by fire, resulting in
the destruction of its contents,
was severe stroke Next year the con
unuous rains destroyed all of the crops on
MS fine bottom lands. Then to complete
ms troubles the floods Of last summer car
red away fine set Of mills that he had
erected at cost Of $1,000, besides destroy
ing all of his corn and cotton on bottom
lands, which crops had been made and laid
py. In the last four years these unusual
losses foot up S23, 600. Col. Humber, how
ever, bears this heroically, and these re-
peated calamities have not taken "a single
smile from his pleasant face Georgia does
not boast truer or better man than II. G.
Humber, and we earnestly hope that now
the tide will turn in his favor and that he
may soon recover more than he has lost.