The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

amined and Shown Up at Augusta.
GEORGIA.
The Atlanta board of health declares that
the artesian well water Of that city is i'm
pure.
William Deathridge of Trenton, had his
hand amputated Saturday on account Of
cancer.
An effort is to be made TO have the states
new agricultural experiment station located
at Griffin.
Lawrence Hall, who moved from Ebert
county to Texas a few years ago, is now
worth s4000
The barrel factory of CHANNEL & Jones
at Canton Is doing a good business, and
everything else is prospecting.
The case of the two young boys, Spinks
and Haney, who killed Christophine, the
Italian, will be called for trial at Atlanta
on Jan. IA.
The Blue Ridge Marble Company will
able they will decide TO put up 100000
marble mill at Canton.
Fifty i've dollars was the amount realized
by some burglars who entered the house Of
Rev. Mr. Fakes in Oxford Sunday night
The money belonged to students in Emory
college.
The Connecticut Fire Insurance Com
pany has made its return TO the comp
troller general for 1889. This is the first
return made by the insurance companies III
the state.
At Canton several new business houses
and dwellings have been built and are now
in course of construction. Canton is on
boom, there being more demands for houses
than can be supplied.
II Strickland Of Ware county planted one
and quarter acres of ordinary pine land
in sugar cane From this he saved 5000
seed cane, sold Sl15 worth in stalk and boiled
100 gallons of good syrup.
There is no truth in the report that the
George melGa growers, who meet in con-
vention at Albany on Jan. 10, intend to
form trust to corner the market. There
will be a large increase in tine melon acre
age.
Mrs. Elder, wife of G. B. Elder Of Griffin.
died while sitting in her buggy riding along
the road, on Saturday afternoon, from a
flow of blood to the brain. Her son from
Texas, who was on a visit to her, was riding
with her.
Mrs. Myra Lewis, wife of Sydney Lewis,
editor and proprietor of the Sparta Ish-
mdetite, died at her home Saturday. She
leaves a husband and three small children
Her death was not unexpected, as she had
been i'll with consumption some weeks.
The governor is still signing commissions.
There is some little work in sending their
papers" to the new officers of l37 counties
Thirty-two bonds commissions dedimuses.
etc, must be sent to each county. so
the governor will sign his name 1884 times.
During the past nine years there have
bean inferred in Oak Grove cemetery, from
Americas, 176 adults and 104 infants.
While the city has increased largely in
population, the mortality has decreased.
which is accounted for by better paving
and sewage.
Among the possessions of a family of
emigrants at the depot at Milledgeville the
other day, was straw mattress, the inside
of which was worth about % cents. and vet
the farmer was paying 81 to have it trans
ported, as he said he could sleep sounder in
a strange country if he had beneath him
even small portion of Baldwin.
g. w. Wood and wife, of Sunny Side
started to Savannah Saturday night, and
when he arrived at Tennille was suddenly
taken very i'll and was forced to leave the
train and stop over in that place. Before
his wife reached the place of her destlna-
ton she received a telegram telling her to
return, as he was not expected to live.
Judge Hopkins of Atlanta says that he
has been carrying insurance on all OF his
property for thirty years, and the nearest
he ever came to a loss was TO get the side of
a house scorched from an ad iacent building
on fire. The insurance company painted
over the scorched spot and called around for
more premiums at the end of the year
John Gorham of Crawfordville is one of
the most remarkable Bible readers in all the
land. On Dec. % last he flushed his forty
second reading of the entire New Testa-
ment and Psalms in one year, eleven months
and seven DAYS. He is reading it his forty
fourth time n lass No
age will be II years Cd his next birth day.
Monday a party of forty men. women
and children left the Warrior district of
Bib county to settle at Cane Run, La.
thirty miles from Shreveport Their neigh
bors think they have made big mistake in
immigrating, as several others from the
Warrior district, who have gone to this
place, have returned to Warrior very much
disguised.
The talk in Augusta financial circles now
is how to raise the deficit of the Augusta Ma
tional Exposition Company. Many do not
favor the plan of bonding the building for
$50, 900, for then that will be the end Of the
exposition for the stockholders The latest
proposition is that each stakeholder double
his stock, and that will make up the losses
and the company can run in perpetuity,
At the sale of the Williamson property at
Carrollton last Tuesday very good prices
were brought. The Fletcher house. lust
below Brown & Bros drug store was
bought by j. II. Harris for 1901 /: a third in
terest in the corner building, occupied hy
Brown & Bro, was bought by J. j. VIII
hanson for 1868; the home was bought in
by the widow at 1902, and the farm east of
town by the Carrollton Extension Company
at 1926.
There is to be a new manufact1ry in At
lanta, where all kinds of paints will be
made. II will be known as tho Tripod
Paint Manufacturing Company. and will be
located in the old Faith mill. on Decatur
street. The gentlemen interested III it are
A. 2. Tripod and A. r. Dawson OF New
York. Mr.. Dawson is an old paint-Inaker.
having been in tbs business for years He
will give his time to this new industry, as
will Mr.. Tripod.
AT Macon, Sunday, Michael Henry had
narrow escape from death The first seen
of him was when he jumped Off an incom-
ing East Tennessee train. He had on no
shoes. He went into several houses, fright
ening women. Finally he stood right in the
middle Of the East Tennessee track. near
the cotton compress, and dared u backing
train to run over him. When the train was
within ten feet of him Officer Bailey ierked
him of the track, barely in time 70 save
his life, He was carried TO the barracks.
The Albany kel0S and Advertiser TO-
views the past year with its results. Com
the year was Signalized by two
banks, the woodenware and variety works
the guano factory, the electric light com
pany, the erection and extension OF ware
houses, the building OF innumerable COT