The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-31
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
rRE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

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TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS
a Big Hotel for Marietta - a Novel
Cure for Rheumatism - A House
where Aaron Burr Once stopped
The Teachers Excursion to Cuba
Reaches Florida on the Return Trip.
GEORGIA
There were eight deaths at Macon last
week.
There is talk of building furniture
factory at Athens.
The work Of erecting house of worship
for the Scandinavians of Brunswick is we'll
under way.
Brunswick is TO have another pottery and
terra Gotta works. Terra Gotta Sc yer piping
will be the principal manufacture.
There is said to be scarcity of help IN
the cotton mills in Columbus at present.
This is caused by the recsnt erection OF new
mills.
The management at Princeton factory at
Athens is making preparations TO es-
tablish rope factory in connection with
the mills.
Jim Carlisle. while on his way home from
OchIocknee. Saturday, was taken from the
public road by unknown parties and terri
bly, whipped a.
One of the pleasant features of the holi-
6ay season In Bruins wick was the gift of a
horse and buggy to Rev. Mex z. McCook
by the members OF tha First Methodist
church.
Six hundred feet represent 3 good length
for a building. This is to be the length of
the Hatcher iron wagon factory at Column
bus, 1t is now being erected on the south
east commons.
D ~ Of For
MANY years connected with the Washing
ten Chronicle, is now engaged in the cotton
business, but is meditating returning to the
fields of journalism.
At Athens Saturday, while Aunt Caroline
Davis was attending e. her mental duties at
Judge Howell Co5b's she suddenly fell dead
while walking from the house to the kitchen.
Heart disease was the cause.
The Athens Street Railway Company had
a meeting recently and effected a more
formal and permanent organization under
the new charter which vas gra ted the
stockholders by the last legislature.
Erwin Maxwell, the recent proprietor of
the Markham house at Atlanta, is raising
money for 100000 hotel In Marietta.
The Marietta people are to invest $50, 600
and outside capita lists will do the rest.
Several crates of violet plants were for
warded TO jekyi Island by the Southern
Express Company Saturday. The plants
were shipped from Upper Georgia TO be set
out on the grounds around the Jekyl Club
house.
Henry R. Goetchius, J. K. Orr, and F. B.
Gordon have been out the past few days
raising funds to pay the debt of the First
Presbyterian church at Columbus. They
want 81, 800, and have raised little more
than two-thirds of 1t.
W. Fl. Benton of Thomasville shot and
killed hawk Friday that measured four
feet and five inches from tip to tip. When
his hawkship received the f4tal shot he had
a fullgrown chicken in his clutches from
which ne was preparing TO make meal
Brunswick and Beaufort, s. c., will
furnish the contracting parties for happy
marriage, which will be consummated at
st. Peters church, in the latter place Tues
day, Dec. 81, when c. McGarvey of Bruins
wick and Miss Charlotte P. Robinson of
Beaufort viii DO made man and wife.
The Catoosa Courier reports a regular
raid of burglars and highwaymen in that
county. James M. Edwards was robbed
last Saturday night of over 5000, and then
the rohber, or robbers, fired load or two
of buckshot through the main window of
his room, and several of the shot went into
the bed on which he was lying.
Aaron Smith, negro working for the
Central railroad as lsborer on the section
at Smithville, while celebrating Christmas
was shot through and rough. The wound
while very 'rious, will possibly not prove
fatal. The shooting was done in drunken
brawl. The cause of the shooting was
mean whisky and hip-pocket artillery get
ting together
At Leary, Christmas eve, drunken and
uisord rly negro was being taken TO the
calaboose, when lot of his friends ter
posed and endeavored to prevent his being
locked up. One of them drew pistol, and
Others showed an intention of following his
example. but the firm aud courageous stand
OF Mayor Bunch and the policemen on duty
cooled them down.
DR.. G. ii. Macon, who has recent Y
located in Brunswick for the second time.
numbers among his possessions an old
guitar-a highly priz I'd war relic, around
which clusters the N memories of twenty
eight years. The instrument was purchased
at Richmond in May. 1861, and went
through nearly all the battles in which the
army of Virginia was engaged, begin ming
with evacuation OF Yorktown on Nav
4, 1862, and closing with the battle oi
Chicamauga.
The Georgia teachers excursion arrived
at Key West from Havana at o'clock Sat.
urday night. An are we'll. The teachers
were received by the civil governor, Ro l.
rlguez Batista Speeches were interchanged
and elegant refreshments served in the
parlors of the grand Hotel Pasaie. Th,
teachers excursion gave a reception to the
civil governor, the Havana teachers and
the board of education. A speech was
made by the governor, and Prof Smith O.
I.aGrange replied in Spanish on the part of
the teachers.
In March, 1907, Aaroh Burr, while und !,
guard, crossed the river near Fort Hawkins
Burr and his guards were drenched ant
chilled by the freezing rains when the,
reached the river. He was captured below
the Tombigbee river in Alabama, and wa
required to ride Oh horseback at the rate o
forty miles per day. The guards, witt
their prisoner, crossed the river in canoes
IN which their camp equipage was placed
and by the side of their canoes cir horse
swan until they reached the Oconee
where, at Fort w kin on, they crossed il
the first ferry boat they had seen in thu
whole route; and in few miles beyond
that river. they were sheltered by the frs
roof-a house of entertainment kept by s
Mr.. Bevan. The house is standing at thi
day, near Milledgeville
Sergt. Cartwright of the Atlanta polic
force tells OF man named Christian VIII,
was cured of rheumatism by the buria
treatment. Somebody told the family tina