The morning news., 1889-02-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Bites off one Of bis Wife's Fingers
The Latest Practical Joke at Wa
kiusville.
GEORGIA.
!. P. Reed 65 Sons have sold the Dab
loHega Signal
The Mcintosh Dragons Of Darien viii
soon elect a new capt in.
Very few timber RATS arrived at Darien
last week owing 70 the bad weather.
Capt. ?. c L4vinEstoa 4 Schley county
has io cd his brothers a. Cordele In the
saw min business.
There was onlv one death IN Athens dur
ing the month Of January, and that was
child whu died Of Group.
Nr J h Butler as purchased the ma
chiuerv aud OUTFIT for a girls mill to be
erected at Whgban at an carly day.
FRIDAY, State Treasure- T. L. Harde-
an raid s. SIS 30 for the craving and
express charges Of the last issue II Georgia
bonds
The United States snag boat Toccoa left
Darien Friday for Abbevie on the Alta
maha river, where a new hull will be built
and her machinery put into it.
T. 7. Middlebrook, representing R. L.
Polk & Co, publishers Of state and CITY
gaze teers and directories. is in Rome and
may get up directory Of that city.
The Cedartown Lumber Company has
been awarded the contract 10 build the Polk
county court house al a cost Of $23, go The
highest bid was ST 900 The company is
limited 70 Nov. to complete the house.
The Brunswick company paid out in that
city during the past year more than 5000 600
In actual cash for Improvements Of differ
ent kinds on their property, snd from pres
eut appearances il looks like trey are going
70 eft ircr ba ant
year.
There was & rumor in Washington county
TO the effect that there will be no court held
this week because Judge LumpIia had re-
signed. This is a double error. To the
first place Judge Lumpkin has hot resigned,
and in the second place court Will certainly
be held
Gainesville's manufacturing enternrises
are assuming larger dimensions. T. H.
Shelley, shoe manufacturer. and W. A.
Wood, tanner, have united aud will in
crease largely the shoe department The
cotton factory will soon buy more machin-
cry, enough to Oil up the house.
Two Buena Vista attorneys have made
pretty grOd fees in the last several days.
They had ths claim If the wife Of John
Nanover, the colored train hand who was
killed in the recent wreck. and the claim
was COMPROMISED with the adiuster for
A. b. Howard Of Pierce county is resDon-
sible for the following fr story: Last
week a bull frog was killed by a Savannah,
Florida and W estern train in a cut near
eX-Sherlh Williamson's residence in Pie ce
county, that measured from toe 20 toe 1917
inches in length and Is inches broad It's
mou'h was three inches in diameter.
Eight years ago." remarked Speaker
Clay Of the Georgia legisI ature, yesterday,
haer II 4. -
a. Marietta. Then | was elected t. the
legislature three times in succession. I've
got enough OF politics, aud want to get
back to my profession and give nv whole
time TO 1t. am out Of politics after this
year"
At Atlanta, Sunday, the janitor Of the
new capitol, Mr.. Allen, happened to q
serious accident at the building. In closing
the door at the Washington street entrance
after some visitors, he was caught by the
door swinging to suddenly and his right
shoulder was disocated. He is one-armed
veteran, which makes the injury the more
serious.
Frank Bell, a colored boy about IA years
OF age, was drowned In the Ogeechee river
at Simpsons mill, in Hancock county, a
few days ago. He was attempting 10 cross
the stream above the dam in IA boat, when,
II IS supposed, the current swept the boat
over the dam. The boat when first seen
with no occupant after he entered it was
floating some distance below the dam
grand musical and literary entertain
ment, participated in by the best talent
among the elite Of Mlledgeville, out at the
insane asylum, Friday night last was given
for the benefit Of the Meth dist church.
The entertainment consisted OF readings.
recitations, and music, both vocal and IN
strumental, and many of the pieces we're
rendered in style that would have been
credltable to professionals on any boards
Some S25 or $50 was realized.
Down at Covington there Is an old man
who Is still member Of the whig party.
he never votes a democratic no. a republl-
can ticket, and says he will never vote again
unless wing is candidate. He is known
as Uncle blly, and in discussing the cues
ton Of the world being round, he saws:
Yer can't make me bleeve no such stuff as
that; cause ef the wOrl was round, ] know
IN reason partridge nd never find her way
back to her nest when she few off,"
A pullet on the place Of o. B. Perry, in
the lower district Of Clay county, has pro
duced an egg which should Immediately
supersede all other varieties of the tooth
some henfruit Her invention consists Of
fHi-grown egg, perfect in its interior CON
struction. but modelled after the shape Of a
genuine Georgia gourd The contour and
neck OF the 2ourd is perfect aud the shell.
with careful usage will make a
dipper fit to serve up any deli
cacy in, from artillery punch down.
Warreuton Clipper: One Of the speak
ers at the emancipation proclamation cele-
bratlon held by the negroes Jan. /, while
delivering glowing trib te TO Abraham
Lincoln, declared that, among other gori-
GUS achievements, he had split 800 rails n
day. Drew Rogers, who was listening to
him, declared: II now see where we made
our mistake. II we had captured Abe Lin
coin and crossed him on the negro % raise
rall-splitters, there would have been no
war. and everybody would have been
happy"
A telegram was received at Americus,
Saturday, for Capt. c. A. Taylor from Brou-
wood, asking him to go Immediately, as his
brother John was dead. he had his doubts.
but still went to BrOnwood. II developed
that the telegram was intended to represent
John Taylor (c lored), and intended for his
zrother, wherever he lives, and IN reply to
a dispatch g. A. Taylor says he is all right.
Tie following bill was forwarded: Please
remit for time lost, SO; Geographic ex-
pense, 50; association with colored, $40:
total $25
Away back in the sixties Rome had a
ohicken-tghting marshal His name was
Prentice he would leave business any time
for chicken fight, aud Il, after the chck-
ens had met, the other fellow talked about
backing down, Prentice would swap chick