The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Horrible Double Murder in Clinch
County-A Bartender Shoots a Ne
gro Dead in Madison County-A Safe
Robbed at Jefferson-A MANS Neck
Broken While Coon Hunting.
GEORGIA.
o. c. Hall died suddenly at his home in
Va1dosta on Tuesday night last
DR.. James A. Cherry, one of West Points
Oldest and most honored citizens, died FRI
day.
At jefferson, Friday, the jackson Herald
office safe was robbed of $3.50. There is no
clew to the robber as yet.
A telegraph line is being erected from
Helena to McRae, a distance Of one mile.
The use Of the wire will be free to ALL
The county school commissioners will dis
tribute IS, 100 among the public school
teachers of Oglethorpe county within the
next month.
McRae can boast of combination bust
ness house. in which can be found a barber
shop. shoe shop, butcher shop, and a
grocery store.
r. A. Burkhalter, of the firm of Burk-
halter & Patten, of Valdosta, died at his
brothers residence, seven miles from Val
dosta, few days ago, after an illness of six
weeks.
Thursday w. q. Thurmond of Athens
went down to Col. James II. Smiths plan
tation in Oglethorpe county, where he will
perfect arrangements TO plant 100000
mulberry trees.
ca negre man named John Henry Rhodes
was shot In the head near Cary1s mills, in
Taliaferro county, last Saturday night by
Ulysses Peek. The shot was an accidental
one, and the wound, while bad, will not
prove fatal.
A party consisting of Lafayette and
Frank Stafford and Jones Beaver were out
on the Fort mountain near Hassler's mill, in
siiimer county, on Tuesday night, coon
hunting, when Lafayette Stafford fell down
and broke his neck, dying instantly.
The legislature has been in session 1876
days, which entities every member to draw
s504 from the state treasury Not one
however, VIII draw that sum, as they have
been getting money as they headed almost
ever since their arrival Mclver, the col
ored delegate, will probably take home
more money than any other legislator.
Two hundred negroes assembled in Leg
ington Tuesday to attend mass meeting
to discuss the .race problem and appoint
delegates TO the convention to be held in
Atlanta on Nov. 12. By vote the sense of
the meeting was declared to be in favor of
colonization, provided a territory was pro-
vided exclusively for the colored people.
Last Friday night, when the rain was
falling IN torrents, section of land weigh
ing many IONS became detached from its
place on the bluff at Fort Gaines. and
plunged down the precipice on the scales
department of the river warehouse com.
pletely demolishing a section of that build-
ing some fifty or sixty feet square. Sew
eral bales OF cotton were buried beneath the
debris, and the scales were wrecked.
Nine of the grandchildren of the late
tore Cowles have filed a suit against Mrs
Samuel Coleman, for the Coleman mansion
and surroundings at Macon. Jere Cowles
sold the property to the late Col. joseph
Bond in 1S49. 1t is claimed by the descan-
!sauts of Cowles that his wife had a life in
terest in thu est te, and now that she ia
dead the descends ats are entitled to recoy
cry.
Camilla Clarion: The late Judge John
U; nar2 ten years ago owned 3, ZOO sheep.
which yielded ar income ranging from
Sl,OOO to 900. Not long before he died
ne cold all he lad left some dozen or more
TO Alexander Goodwin for SIG. What be.
came Of the renainder7 Why, those scoun-
usel sneep@ Seallng rings drove them off by
"oonugstt0 the wild woods east and south