The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

Arm of q Negro Girl - Plenty OF
Candidates for the Legislative Va
cancy in Floyd Counry-A False
Messiah in Liberty County-An At
lants Policeman His own Dentist.
GEORGIA
The peach crop promises to be unusually
large this year.
A public school system is among the
probabilities at Dawson.
The Gate City Oil Company of Atlanta
has purchased land and made all necessary
arrangements for erecting 5000 ginnery
at Jackson.
A silver dollar Of United States Of Amer
lea. dated 179S, is in the possession Of w. j.
NJ. Hames of Marietta He has silver coins
of 1906 and 1907.
Miss Mary Gay, who has been at Wash
ington in the interest Of the Stephens Mon
ument Society, obtained subscriptions there
to the amount of $lS6 %.
The BARRIERS of Albany are agitating a
movement to petition the city council to
pass On ordinance compelling the barber
shops to close their doors on Sunday.
There are several bearing English walnut
trees In Albany, and all are vigorous,
healthy specimens. In California, land that
will grow the English walnut trees is worth
81 900 per acre.
Dozier & Smith, real estate agents, have
Just sold farm of about 800 acres near
Gainesville, to Mr.. Brownrigg of England.
He will locate there and 60 into the stock
raising business on a large scale.
Philip Bell, the negro who murdered J.
T. Grams at Matthews, jefferson county,
has been captured at Davisboro by A. G.
Crops, the depot agent at that place, and
sent to Louisville and placed in the Jeffer-
son county Jail.
Hon. Dudley DuBose, formerly of Wash
ington, is now located at Helena, Mont.
Hon F. II. Colley of Washington received
letter from him on Saturday, in which
he stated that he had just concluded an
investment which cleared him Sl0,5O0.
Charles Cooper, the negro who murdered
old man Nelson Brooks and his wife Hester,
near Smithville, Lee county, last February,
was found guilty during the May term of
Lee superior court, and will pay the pen
atty of death on the scaffold at Leesburg
to-day.
Saturday night, between 10 and IL
o'clock, the residence Of J. T. Cannon,
about two miles from Dawson, was burned.
Mr.. Cannon and his family were asleep,
and awoke just in time to escape from the
burning building. All of their clothing
and furniture we're lost.
There will be no lack of candidates to fill
the vacancy in the legislature caused by
the resignation of Hon. J. W. Ewing of
Floyd county. Among the gentlemen prom
inently mentioned for the position are w.
G. Foster and Junius Hillyer, Judge r. r.
Haines aud Hon. John II. Reece.
Mrs. Jane Whitley. aged about 60, was
Tuesday married to Arch Mcdonald, a
young and very promising gentleman living
near James, employed at Masseyville, aged
about "a. The bride was a Miss Jane
Yearly of about IS summers before her
first marriage TO Mr.. Whitley, who had
reached the age Of GO.
The Columbus Guards will leave Column
bus for st. Simon's Island tomorrow even
ing via the Buena Vista road, where they
20 TO take part in the state encampment.
The Guards have been practicing very
regularly for some time past in order to be
prepared to take part in the prize contests.
They are confident of being able to capture
The laurels.
A family by the name OF Millican lived
near Six-mile station in Floyd county, and
a storm on Monday afternoon shattered the
house to pieces. Mrs. Millican and two
children were indoors at the time, and how
they escaped from an untimely death is the
wonder Of everybody. The building was
an old frame structure, and it required
very little force TO Shatter 1t.
Tom Fuller of Geneva, says that he saw
a rabbit whip and kill snake a few DAYS
ago. The snake had caught young rabbit
and was trying to swallowit The old rabbit
rushed by the snake and bit it as it passed
1t then ran by the snake again and bit it.
and repeated the run several times, biting the
snake each time The snake finally dropped
the young rabbit, crawled off a short dis
lance, and died.
The old negro Samuel Groom, his wife
and daughter, who were charged with being
concerned in the murder of Mr.. Hamlin.
had their preliminary hearing at Ty-Ty
Monday before Judges Matthews and
Lassiter and were discharged, as there was
not sufficient evidence produced to warrant
the court in binding them over. The real
murderer is still at large, but strong hopes
are entertained that he will be captured and
brought to justice.
The committee of arrangements for the
reception of the triennial grand convoca-
ton of Royal Arch Masons, which takes
place in Atlanta in October, has gone to
Washington to perfect the details of the re-
ception. Those composing the committee
are DIR. j. w. Oslin, chairman; A. NJ. Wot-
hkins OF Macon and J. w. Taylor of Luther
vile. The convocatlon. which assemblies
this fall, is probably the largest body of
FTec mdSO1S III Uu6 WOTlQ, anu the meeting
will be an important one.
Last Saturday night squad of about
fifty men went in search of the Mormon
elders who have been staying near Dawson.
They were found few miles from town.
They we're asked in mild manner to leave.
and they abruptly said they would not
leave; that this was free country and they
were going to stay. Tho men forced them
into buggy, carried them into the woods,
stripped them and used the lash on them
until they submitted. They were given
just forty-eight hours in which to leave and
mover return.
A few days ago Jacob Haas, as president
of the Atlanta Hebrew congregation. re-
ceived from Mr.. Wolf, president of the
Johnstown pa Hebrew congregation. a
very appealing letter asking for help. The
letter stated that before the food the He
brews had been very prosperous, but after
the terrible waters had swept over the
valley all their property was destroyed and
twenty four Of their number were lost in
the raging torrent. A meeting of the diff
ferent Hebrew congregations was held, at
which $500 were raised for the suffering
Hebrews.
A bad accident occurred on the docks
near the old custom house at Brunswick
wednesday morning, in which a negro
man named James Gardner, came near
having a leg torn from his body. He was
one of a gang of longshoremen working
under ]. III. Sawyer, and while he was