The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN
Two Georgia Soldiers Who Were Ere
ouently in the Path OF Shot and
Shell During the War-Rapid Work
on Lumber in Chattooga County
How the Slothful Dime Can Be Made
Nimble.
GEORGIA.
waycross wants a fire company and
bank
new dummy line is going to be built in
North Atlanta soon.
The farmers of Houston county are
steadily becoming independent.
Cotton has been brought from the coun-
try and sold in Perry this week.
A new masonic hall will be built Of brick
at Waycross in the near future.
The business Of the Perry Loan and
Sayings Bank is steadily increasing.
1t is not improbable that curry combs
will again be manufactured in Perry.
Coffee County Sunday School Association
meets on the fourth Sunday in March.
Thomasville is crowded with guests from
the north, who will remain until sprdng.
Ten additions were made to the Baptist
church at Waycross during a recent re-
vival.
In Chattooga county this week, justice
Of the peace married couple and took
dog for his pay.
There are only three prisoners in jail and
two under bond 10 appear at the April term
of Houston superior court.
The city council of Waycross has passed
resolution that any person taking more
than five boarders is subject to tax.
The children Of Albany are practiciing
songs for Children's day exercises at the
approaching session of the Georgia Chau-
tauqua.
On Tuesday, n. L. Kagan Of Albany
bought at sherif's sale, in Worth county,
5000 acres OF land, and also a store house
and dwelling in Sumter.
John Barnet was run over by a coal car
at Rome Wednesday and sustained injuries
which resulted in death within two hours.
He was an employe Of the road.
Charles s. Atwood is winding up his bus
iness in Atlanta, and will leave for Cincin-
natl in about two weeks, where he will en-
gage in the job printing business.
An emery wheel has been recently made
and tested at the Perry variety works with
emery taken from the ground in Houston
county, which proves to be equal to any in
the market.
]. L. Davis of Haywood Valley, Chat
tooga county, and his 16-years-old son.
made and penned 800 boards in four days
last week; cutting down the tree, saving
the blocks. and irving the boards.
John Gammage Of Americas says he was
on Mountain creek, in the Twenty-ninth
district of Sumter, Tuesday, and squirrels
are so thick that one could kill more than
be could carry, in few hours with a good
gun
1t requires over a column in the Douglas
vile NeI0 South to give in a condensed
form list of the building improvements
made in that town last year, and to be
made this year. Douglasville seems to be
on a healthy boom.
A colored nurse Of NcRae playfully put
a baby in a bureau drawer to amuse it,
The child, of course, screamed, and evory-
body became so excited that the baby nearly
smothered before anybody could regain
sufficient presence of mind to open the
drawer.
One Of Dalton's most prosperous and
,widely-known industries is the steam sau-
sage factory of NJ. A. Davis e. Co. The
sausage from this factory is shipped all over
the south and southwest and the daily out
put, to supply the demand is from 500 to
$500 pounds.
In a store in Perry there are some young
Irish potatoes, about the size of a common
acorn, that have grown this season in the
shipped. There is no semblence of bush,
but the young potatoes have simply grown
out from the old potatoes.
Seventy odd dwellings, three churches,
and nearly a score OF business houses are
now going up at Brunswick. Supt. Haynes
says that he will at once erect a new paint
shop at a cost Of $500; new turn table,
$1,000; q steam hammer, 81, 100, and has
on the way $1,000 worth of new machinery.
Mr.. Glover of Twiggs county was in
Macon Thursday. Mr. Glover says that
The accounts of the doings Of the White
Caps in Twiggs county are not exaggerated,
as has been reported. He says further that
the perpetrators are not TwIggs county
men, but that most il not all of them came
from across the line of Pulaski.
James Bryant, who lives at Sumach, in
Murray county, lost everything he possessed
last Saturday morning by fire, consisting of
a dwelling, stOrehouse aud tarn. The three
buildings were very close together, and the
fire, once under way, destroyed the entire
property. The store contained quite large
stock Of general merchandise, most Of
which was burned, as was also the house
hold furniture. The loss is 5000.
There is considerable distress in the family
of Patrick BanvilIe Of Macon over his mys-
FERROUS Disappearance. He left his home
last Saturday and has not been back since
On last Sunday be WAS seen with a com
panion coming from the direction of Vine
vile, and though policemen have been
looking for him diligently, they have not
been able to find any trace of him. Mr.
Banville worked at the Central railroad
shops.
Two fine plantations were sold in the
Oaky Woods of Dougherty county,
Wednesday. The Jersey Bell place, with
$3.50 acres, 900 cleared, was bought by G..
b. Herrick Of Chautauqua, New York, for
a. so per acre cash. This place cost the
Georgia Land and Cotton Company, an
English syndicate, $60,0O0 few years after
the war. The Wimberly place, with $3.50
acres. about 800 cleared, was bought by
Sam Farkas for $2075.
A child of Lee Thomas (colored) was
burned to death last Thursday on the
WhitehuTst place, about two miles east Of
Perry. The child, about years old, was
left in the yard with instructions to keep
fire burning around a pot, while the mother
went to Perry. The child caught fire at
about 10 o'clock in the morning, and at
once ran probably 100 yards, when a young
negro boy caught her and put out the fire.
The child was burned over the entire body,
and died in agony at about 1 o'clock that
night.
There was homicide at Triton Tuesday
afternoon. The principals were both
negroes, and the trouble grew out Of feud
about a woman. One Of the negroes lived
IN the country, and the other was employed
by IA. II. Tiff to work around his mill.