The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Adairsvine - A Spring Festival at
Augusta
GEORGIA.
Jamaica on the Brunswick and Western,
has been made a telegraph station.
1t is estimated that the citizens Of Perry
carry fully $500, 900 OF life insurance.
1t is said that the Macon City and Subur-
ban Street Car Company's cars will soon be
run by electricity
1t will require almost $50, 900 TO make
yellow river navigRbe between Cedar
shoals and the railroad bridge st Coving-
ton.
George Wood, an old and respected c.oi-
zen of Macon. died suddenly at his resi-
dence in Sandy Bottom at $50 o'clock
Tuesday
Irwintou has twenty manageable
young ladies' six marriageable young men,
eight widows, three bachelors, and three
widowers.
Bros. and A. II. HOdgSoa & Co, Of Athens
have consolidated under the firm name of
Hodgson Bros.
Covington's new officers are: Mayor, L.
L. Mlddlebrook; Council, J. NJ Levy, w.
Scott, j. S. Carroll, j. f. Henderson, T. D.
Quinn. S. J. Kelly.
Since last week the number Of white ohil-
dren attending school in Perry has in
creased from ia TO 100, and there are
others who will attend.
The largest financial transaction probably
ever contaminated in Sandersvile was made
last week Happ & Cohen sold 900 bales
of cotton for export, aggregatiug over
$50, 900
Judge James T. Nisbet has been elected a
member of the board Of trustees of the
Southern Medical College, at Atlanta, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death Of
Capt. John Keely.
In conversation with several members Of
the board of trustees of the state university
at Athens, the Banner Wdtchmdn's re-
porter was told that the experiment station
would not be moved from Athens
A wood hauler says he hauled 254 loads
OF wood to Marietta last year and sold
them for s. per load. He made his crop
and now has three bales of cotton for sale.
which be holds for a higher price.
A spring festival is now being proposed
for Augusta. 1t is to be a carnival and
pageant, concluding with the wonderful fall
of London, the burning of Moscow, or the
greatest of all, The Last Days of POM
peil"
AT Americas Thursday Jesse Moore, yard
master Of the Central railroad, while
coupling some cars, got his left hand caught
between two bumpers, and three Of his fin
gers were so badly mashed as to require
amputation.
ABBOT O'Clock Monday morning while
sitting in his chair at his home in Rutland
surrounded by his children, ex-SheriP w
G. Hardy, one Of the oldest residents in
Bibb county, died suddenly and without
any warning.
A horse ran away at Cartersville We'd
nesday and after running against a NOV
ing train, and knocking himself down. he
ran into the waiting room of the Western
and Atlantic railroad, where he was cap
tured amid great confusion.
Quite a number of gentlemen from the
northwest are at Americus looking for
homes In conversation with them it was
found that they were attracted south by
Maj Glessner, who visited the northwest
last summer with his immigration car.
Mr. Dean OF Hinesville is entitled to the
blue ribbon when it comes to bird hunting.
The other day his dog Lassie came TO a
point while out in the woods with his
master. Mr.. Dean saw the cartridges.
stopped LaSsie and fired, killing ten-eyery
one In the covey.
Perry Nelson, a country negro. while
purchasing seed from Hisman & Agar. of
Albany, Tuesday, pocketed two dozen IA
ers which he had not paid for Peter Stroller
saw the theft. Nelson was arrested. tried be-
fore the county court, and the so cents
worth of seed cost him in all about $43 50.
A prominent business man of BarnesviIle
said few days ago that the trade of
Barnesville was almost as good as it was be-
fore the great fire in 1854. His cash re-
celpts last year amounted to nearly as much
as II was the year before the fire and he
thought 1t would amount to as much if not
more this year than last.
Passenger Agent L. A. Camp of Column
bus sold eighteen tickets TO Tahlequah, |.
T.. Monday. The party consisted of two
families, Collinses and Fosters of Talbot
county. These families have recently
proved a blood relationship to the Indians
and 90 to occupy the government lands set
apart for their red brothers,
AT Lawrenceville N. G.. Rhodes has been
appointed permanent receiver by his honor
Judge Hutchins in the Rhodes q Bro. case.
In the Werner a. New injunction case II.
Strickland was appointed receiver, and
Werner ordered TO be taken by the sheriff
and kept in custody until further orders for
being in contempt Of court.
The salaries paid at Brunswick are as FOL.
lows: Mayor, 81 900; health officer, 81 200: |
city physician, $3.50; city attorney $500:
quarantine keeper, 5 per cent. on collec- |
lions and $500; clerk and treasurer. S 500: |
marshal, 81 200 assistant marshal. $3.50: |
city physician, $3.50, policemen, each per |
month 500; city engineer $500; assessors |
each $lOO; sexton, each SIS.
AT Adairsville Thursday T. e. McCollum
who was unable 10 meet his obligations in |
the market as dealer in general merchan- |
disc. made an assignment for the benefit OF
his credits TO W. J. Hillburn, who receives
the stock OF goods and will dispose Of them
for the benefit Of those concerned McCol- |
lum's stocks and notes arc worth So 900. and
his liabilities will reach a, 600.
Insurance companies doing business in
Georgia are required by law TO make an
nual returns TO the executive department on
Jan. !. Although they have sixty DAYS
from that date in which 10 make them. IN
TO this time not a return from any com
pany has been received. The banks are re-
quired TO make similar returns, and nearly
all OF those have been made already.
AT Nckajack Monday Rev. Mr.. West and
Mr.. Glass came near losing their lives in a
peculiar way. They run "A mill and were
on the rock trying to make IL start. The
rock started suddenly aud fairly flew for
about ten seconds, both men going around
with 1t at a terrible rate. Will Moss. who
was present, stopped the mill and saved
their hyes. The men say they could not
get of the rock.
i he governor has at last relieved himself
or the different claimants OF the revard
offered for the capture Of Henry Pope bv
distributing the $500 He awarded 500 10
Messrs. Miller and Means Of Gadsden $40
to the two (1urnpp payrcas !