The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

First Time In Twenty Years-A Hor-
rible Death at Talbotton-The Hill
Case at Washington Ends in a
Mistrial.
GEORGIA.
The state fair melted profit of 5000.
Daniel Turner Of Cobb county died Tues
day.
Griffin.
1t is officially announced that the Pied
mont Exposition will be held next year.
The full flood of thirty arc lights will
soon be poured on the streets OF Athens.
Col. Buck viii probably assume the
duties of United States marshal about Nov
ember 16.
The store of A. J. Borders, at Jolly, on
the G. NJ and g. railroad was burned to the
ground Tuesday.
A telegram from Canton announces that
Mai. Campbell Wallace. who was bitten by
the spider, is much better.
Carrie Davis, the girl who masqueraded
at Atlanta in male attire, has been taken
TO her home at Columbus, o., by her
mother.
The carpenters of Columbus have formed
q union, which is to be connected with the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America
At Hawkinsville few days ago screech
owl attacked canary bird in a cage hang
ing on the piazza of Mrs. Bats at Hawkins
vile and killed the little songster.
The free dispensary is proving boon to
the sick poor of Atlanta. 1t is open every
day, except Sunday, from II o'clock in the
morning to o'clock in the afternoon.
The stockholders of the Marietta Electric
Light Company held a meeting at the court
house last Friday, accepted their new char
ter and permanently organized by electing
officers.
The white walls Of the new capitol are
rapidly being turned into an autograph
album for cranks who think it absolutely
necessary to affix their signatures in some
conspicuous place.
Three cottages on Garibaldi street,
Atlanta, were destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock
Yesterday morning. They belonged to DR..
Woolley The loss is about 81 800, and is
covered by insurance.
At Columbus Tuesday the real estate be-
longing to the estate of the late Capt. @. A.
Klink, was sold at public outcry by the ex-
ecutor. Bidding was spirited, and the
sums realized from the sales aggregated
SIC. 500.
Some malicious person, or persons. set on
fire three bales of w. B. Smiths cotton, at
landing waiting for the steamer Laurens
when it was set on fire, and no positive evil
dence can be obtained as to the guilty party.
The Planters Oil Mill Company of Macon
has increased its capital stock 80 as to in
clude the erection of a cold storage and ice
plant Nearly all of the stock has been
taken, and work win soon be commenced
on the new buildings A plant will be or
dered at once.
Controller General Wright left Atlanta
Wednesday on visit to his boyhood home
at Louisville. 1t is the first time he has
been there in over twenty years, and he is
anxious to see il the small place he left has
kept pace with the age of progress and has
outgrown his recollections.
Bob Moore colored), one of the Oldest
citizens in Butts county, is dead, at the adj
vanced age of 105 years. Bob has been liv-
ing all his life with the family of Leroy
Moore and ancestors, and at the time of his
death he had bale OF cotton ready to mar
ket, the fruits of his own labor this season.
Deputy Sheriff King of Monroe county,
was in Griffin Wednesday to carry off Bob
Redding, on warrant charging him with
breaking into a store in Culloden last
March and carrying off $3.50 of plumber.
But Redding is held on more serious
charges, SO that it was impossible to turn
him over to Mr.. King.
Engineer Wheeler of Macon has Finished
and turned over to the city an atlas Of the
city, showing by colored maps every piece
of property in the corporate limits. Brick
buildings and frame residences can be dis
tinguished at glance The book contains
400 pages. and is filed with interesting
statistics, making it a valuable work.
The ticket office on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, at Marietta, was
nod nm edav pierhf Last Il
containing tickets was found in Dr. Stew
arts field aud returned. Six cents was all
that the thief got for his trouble. Charley
Reese colo ed) was arrested by Deputy
Marshal Sanges, charged with the crime,
but was subsequently, released.
Talbotton Ne,c Era: A negro man stepped
into store last Friday and a brand new
accordion caught his eye. He was invited
to buy, and decided to try its tone. After
playing tune or two he remarked that he
would come back later and buy the accor-
dion. His father had died the night before.
and he was here in wagon after coffin at
that time, and didn't care to take the &C.
Gordon just then.
Coal dealers in Hawkinsville have so far
been unable to supply their customers with
winters supply of COAL Parties from
whom the coal has been ordered write to
the dealers that the East Tennessee, Vir-
gina ana georgia railway authorities can
not or have not been able to furnish cars
for the transportation of coal, and orders
sent more than a month ago are still IN
filed on this account.
At Atlanta Wednesday, Robert Smith, a
painter, who has been in the employ of the
Fulton Electric Street railway, while stand
ing on the top of ladder IS feet high
applying a coat of paint to an insulator,
felt the ladder shake under him and
grabbed the wire for support OF course
he was knocked over by the shock and fell
to the stone pavement below. Strange tc
say, his injuries were slight.
At Macon the day after the recent big fire
on Poplar street, a negro boy came running
up to police headquarters and breathlessly
told some of the officers that rattlesnake
with seventeen rattles and several buttons
had been found under the ruins of Ether
idge's barroom. On examination it wa.
found to be Mr.. Etheridge's pet alligator
three or four feet long, which had escarsec
death in the flames by lying in the watef IL
the cellar during the fire.
George Brown keeps a shooting gallery
at Macon. Wednesday night he stepped t
the target to remove some chalk mark
from it. Meanwhile his wife had loaded
the rifle and laid it on the table in readiness
for the next shot. A young man nance
Charlie Newton laid his hand on the rift
and accidentally pulled the trigger. Tn,
rifle was discharged, sending the bal
fhr0uUh both Of Mr. tks..Lo II