The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEws/oF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


The House has passed the bill to make
Dupont city.
The Savannah presbytery convenes at
Hazlehurst on Thursday next.
Hon. d. A Russell of cambridge is en-
route 20 New York to be married
The Messrs. Booth of Athens have bought
the Long lanyard Of Capt Williford.
Ordinary Pou of Muscogee county issued
forty-two marriage licenses during the
month OF October.
Arrangements are being made TO induce
John G. Carlisle to visit Athens fair and
deliver an address.
The Fulton County Electric Street Car
line is fast nearing completion Friday
cars were run on a twenty-minute schedule
on the CORTLAND avenue branch.
The house of Mrs V. A. Conyers Of
Covington was entered by burglars Thurs
day night while she was at church, and $65
and a gold watch were stolen.
The directors estimate that 10000 PEG
pie visited the Piedmont exposition at At
lanta, which closed last night. The re-
ceipts are estimated at $50, 900 and the ax-
penses at $4,000.
A land company is to be organized at
Athens to develop 1000 acres known as the
Lilly property. a dummy line will be
built. All this is because the present street
car company refuses TO extend its line.
At Hartwel some malicious person shot
and killed eight full grown white Pekin
ducks on Saturday last the property of
Hon. John b. Benson. The dead ducks were
found in the woods near MIR. Benson's resi-
dence.
Fred Menhinnet, who lives one mile from
Cave Spring, had his gin house, containing
the press, fl 9 bales of cotton and the seed,
h. A.,rv Oh H.
night. 1t is thought to be the work of an
incendiary.
At Atlanta Friday while Mrs. Comanche
Bill was shooting glass balls held in her
husbands hand, the bullet struck the peg,
and, glanciDg, hit Comanche Bills thumb
and fingers, producing painful but not
Sc. ious wound.
George Truitt of LAGRANGE exhibited, in
his collection at Piedmont park, a money
jug" 800 years old and salt cellar which
has done duty for two centuries. Mai
Jones showed gourd which has been in
use for 100 years
Somebody marked with a pencil one of
Hal Morrison's fine oil paintings ON exhibit
ton at the Piedmont exposition. The pic
ture Is the property of Mrs. John T. Stocks
and the exposition company may have to
pay for the damages.
Elijah Freeman, who runs a grocery
store in Laureas county, near the line of
Dodge, fell IN love with pretty young
lady of Toomsboro named Emma Wright.
Parental objection to the match was over
come day or two ago by runaway mar
riage.
me grist mill and ginnery belonging to
John Z. Fort OF Macon, and known as the
rope place, IN Lee county, was burned Fri
day morning. Eight or ten bales Of cotton
belonging TO the patrons of the mill were
also burned. The losses are estimated at
$4,000.
Sheriff Bass of Sumter county discovered
Friday that Willie Williams, the murderer
Of Conductor Whgham, had broken his
chains during the day. He at once secured
help and sent for blacksmith to have
them refastened, which was ACCOMPLISHED
with but little trouble.
Walter S. McElmurray, of the Sixtv-
seventh district, Burke county. lost by fra
his Clubhouse, gin, feeder and condenser
press; also three bales of cotton, and some
900 bushels of cotton seed The engine was
badly damaged. Loss estimated at 81 600.
with an insur nee OF $780, The burning is
supposed TO have been the work of an in
cendiary.
Dan Irwin came near killing Squire Cass
Bridges few days ago near Walnut church
In jackson county. Irwin struck Bridges
with the butt-end of a gun, ths lock strik-
ing his head and fracturing his skull.
Bridges got into his buggy and went home.
despite his injuries, and it was three DAYS
before he sufficiently realized his condition
10 call DOCTOR He is now improving.
AT Leo Friday morning about 4 O'Clock
Cooley's Merchant Mills, including cotton
gin, was discovered to be on fire. The fire
had been set by some incendiary in the ton
OF the mill house. The loss is estimated,
including grain, cotton and machinery, at
so,oOu The machinery was driven by
water, and neither matches or fire had been
about 1t, consequently it was incendiarism.
A thorough investigation into the fire
which occurred in the court house at Lex
ington on week before last, and which was
thought then to have been plot to afford
Jim Huff chance to escape, has convinced
many that the blaze was the result of an
accident-that a match which had fallen
upon the floor was trod upon and ignited.
No traces of oil could be found under the
z bagging on the floor.
Three fires are reported Ffrom jackson
county during the week-one on Ebert
Askew's place in Santa Fe, where a tenant
had his gin house burned, with two bales OF
cotton, and the other, the burning of the
dwelling house of Mr.. Davis, above John
sons Mills, In which the house and furni
ture were entirely destroyed. Thursday.
the house of Arson Lay, in ChandIer,s
district. was burned, with its contents.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Whitaker died at the
home of her son-in-law, DR.. John S. Will
son, in Atlanta Friday. Mrs. Whitaker
was a Miss Lewis of Edgecombe county.
North Carolina, and Married Col Spier
Whitaker, prominent lawyer of Halifax
county, and at one time attorney general of
North Carolina. Col Whitaker removed
to Davenport, Ia, in 1854 but returned
south as soon as the war broke out. and six
of his seven sons fought in the confederate
army The seventh was killed in the Mex
lean war;
Camilla Clarion: Shooting fish is tbe
order OF the day in Mitchell, the lveliest
county in the state. Down at the famous
fish pond it is now favorite sport to watch
from bateau or a tree the large fish as
they sport near the surface aud shoot them
with rife or shotgun. 1t is we'll known
that .glancing shot will not penetrate
water, but our sportsmen have discovered
That by getting position directly over the
water perpendicular shot will kill fish at
depth'of two and half feet. Quite a
number Of fine trout have recently been
killed.
j. e. Levrett, a United Baptist minister.
was at the state capitol Friday seeking aid
with which to purchase a new horse. He
said that the animal which for years had
helped him 10 obtain a living was standing
recently under tree by the river bank A
thunder storm was in progress and a flash
OF lightning brOka a 1irnh from, +bo 60