The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


IN PARAGRAPHS
A Merchant of Brunswick Ordered to
Leave Town by white Caps''-The
Site for Brunswick's New School
Building over Bed of Quicksand-
A New Gusno Factory Among the
Probabilities.
Land on the outside of Athens sells for
500 per acre.
The Augusta Medical College opened Tues
day with 100 students enrolled.
It is rumored that a large wagon manu-
factory will be established in Rome.
1t is said that the law practice Of Hoke
Smith of Atlanta will bring him in this
year $4,000.
A movement is on foot TO organize a mill
tary company among the young men of
Sandersyile.
At Griffin Z. NJ. Kincaid has announced
himself as a candidate for alderman from
the Third ward
An effort is being made TO locate at
Macon plant for the manufacture of the
lannon's cotton chopper.
A report that three students of Mercer
University got drunk Sunday and were suS-
The Piedmont exposition cost Newton
county at least SIS, 900. About 2 400 tickets
TO the exposition we're sold at Covington.
Mrs. Hendry of Henesville fed to her little
chickens some meal THAI had salt in it..
Next morning she counted seventy-fve of
them dead.
plan has been set on foot at Bru 1swick
70 organize building company, who will
erect houses made to order by machinery,
and at so per cent. saving in cost.
Thomas H. Davenport has sold his lot on
College street, Americas, to the Dawson
Manufacturing Company. A beautiful
residence is now being erected thereon.
The Clubhouse belonging to Calhoun Wise,
near Wise's crossing, in Sumter county,
containing eighteen bales of cotton, was
burned on Saturday last. There was no in
surance
Senator Colquitt is reported as having
said that when his term of office expires he
will remove to New York to accept the
position of president Of a life insurance
company
]. w. Wainwright, a capitalist from Chi
cago, has been in Brunswick for several
days looking to the esta Olishment Of one Of
the largest guaho factories ever established
in the United States.
The Albany Investment aud Construction
Company are quietly laying plans and max
sng preparations for pig business. 1t is
mot at all improbable that a dummy line
will be in course of construction in the city
Within the next few months.
The bids for rebuilding the orphan
asylum at Augusta we're opened Monday
by the committee of managers, aud the
contract was awarded to c. b. Allen, whose
bid IF $50, 800 was the lowest made.
The contest for the young lady selling
cha Ia rCaSt numhar Of fioxatS fo tho oh oritvr
ball at Athens closed Monday night, and
Miss Sophie Stern returned 81, l06. Miss
Martha Phillips came next with 1886.
A. Y. Putnam aud E. A. Nelson, of the
school board Of Brunswick, do not think
that the lot selected as the site Of the new
school will afford safe foundation for a
large brick building. The lot was filled in
with trees, brush and dirt some tine ago,
but under the filling is a bed of quicksand
A number of leading citizens of Milledge-
vile met at the dummy line office last Tues
day morning and organized a land company.
The main object. it Is believed, is to utilize
the water power on the Oconee river at tnat
place. G pt.W. T. Conn was elected presl-
dent, r. n. Lamar, secretary, and D. A,
Reid, business manager.
A Brunswick negro named Charles
HcManus has been afflicted four years with
strange disorder that has caused his legs
actual measurement his ankles are twenty
seven inches in circumference. He SAYS
that he has visited four medical colleges for
treatment, but has never been benefited,
At Covington last Thursday night, while
the family were at prayer meeting at the
Methodist church, negro man named Will
Smith broke into the dwelling house of Mrs.
II. ]. Bates, on Monticello street, and stole
about $40 In money and fine lady's gold
t4a from Mrc 4
SIS from Mrs. Bates. Smith was arrested at
Atlanta.
Maj. Campbell Wallace of the railroad
commission has been suffering several DAYS
from the effects of a SPIDERS bite. Mai.
wallace was at the farm Of MS son. Camp
bell Wallace, Jr., near Canton, On last
Thursday, when he was bitten by the spidef.
The poison OF the insect affected his nerves
instead Of his blood, thus preventing serious
and perhaps fatal results
Sandersville Mercury: H. f. Aberorom-
Die comes to the front again in another safe
robbery. be was arrested few davis ago
in Alabama, for robbi an express agent
OF $oOO but they failed to convict him. An
other package of $3.50 disappeared, which he
confessed to have taken, and his brother
paid him out The evidence in the case Of
the Wrightsville and 1ennille robbery at
Iennille was very strong, but they failed to
An accident happened to the south bound
freight accommodation tram on the Gov
ington q Macon road between Machen and
Godfreys Monday. For some cause three
box cars and passenger coach left tne
track. The box cars were not seriously
damaged. 1t is understood that the pas
senger coach left the track on trestle. and
after hanging on the tres lie little while
the coach fell over, distance of about
thirty feet. All the passengers had sue
ceeded in getting out of the coach before it
fell and no one was hurt.
As stated in the NEWS a half-wftted me-
gro girl, named Annie, disappeared from
Americas Oct. Is. Sunday morning last a
party of negro boys were passing through a
skirt of woods just in the rear of A. G.
Bells field, hunting haws, when one of the
party, Charley Newsome, came upon the
remains of the decomposed BODY of the
girl The head had been detached. and was
lying some ten or twelve feet from the body
The body was laying face downward. with
the lower limbs intact, perfectly nude with
the skin peeled off, while the TRUNK had all
rotted away, leaving nothing but the bones.
The coroner's jury was unable to determine
the cause of death.
Albany News: w. E. Mitchell, who is now
giving his entire time and attention to Col.
Nelson Tits private interests, has ordered