The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

into q Well at Canton and Is In
etantly Killed.
GEORGIA
Griffin is getting ready for a big fall
trade.
A building and loan association was or
gained in Dublin last week.
At Macon, Tuesday, Judge Gustin signed
the bill of exceptions IN the voolfolk case
Prof W. H. Woodan has been elected
superintendent Of the public schools of
Columbus
The negro route agent on the Wrights
vile and Tennille railroad took the oath of
office Monday.
A movement viii soon be made to erect
a monument 10 the memory Of the confed-
crate dead of Newton county.
Lem Smith. one Of Butts county's best
citizens, was buried Monday. The pail
bearers were his seven sons aud his son-in-
law.
Col. r. J. Redding, director Of the Geor-
gia experiment station at Griffin, will take
direct charge of the farm during the pres
Z ent month.
Mrs. j. B. Sherwood died at her boarding
house In Cordele Monday. She was the
wife Of J. B. Sherwood, agent of the Wal
: colt & Wright Lumber Company OF Indian
apolis.
At Canton Tuesday Ned Chamlee tcol-
ored) fell into and was instantly killed in
well which he was digging for Campbell
Wallace, Jr Chamee was 80 years old,
and leaves a wife and several children.
The directors Of the Columbus alliance
warehouse have decided to boycott the
Hatcher Iron Wagon Factory of Macon on
account of the managers of the factory
igusing jute bagging to cover their cotton
this season.
The public schools of Griffin opened on
Monday with 275 scholars, Of whom forty
were in the high school The highest num-
Der heretofore was POI. The coloTed schools
opened with only 10 pupils, but this num-
! Der Is expected to increase to thirty-five or
forty.
James A. Davenport, senior member of
the firm of J. A. & D. F. Davenport, has
sold out his interests in their Lamar street
and Cotton avenue drug stores at Americas
ito D. f. Davenport. d. +. Davenport has
sold the Cotton avenue drug store to II. NJ.
Fleetwood, of Hawkinsville.
At Sandersville last week NJ II. Bird was
Ffengaged 10 placing a spoke in the hub of a
f1wheel when it broke from tap of the ham
mer, and a minnie ball fell out on the floor.
I The spokes came from North Carolina, and
it is supposed that the ball has remained in
the wood since the trying days of 1861 and
l,and 1865.
There we're 81, $50 bales of cotton received
at Griffin during the season which closed
on Sept. l. against ,292 the previous year,
gain OF 5,56S bales, or more than one
third more. OF these receipts 1898 bales
were used by the Griffin mills and 10, 533
bales were shipped
A. II. Phinizy of Athens lost $45 out of
his room in the Arlington hotel at Gaines
vile on Sunday. Warrants were sworn out
for two bell boys, but after a sitting exami-
nation before Justice Pitchford they were
discharged, and Mr. Phinizy is minus his
money without any clew whatever as TO its
whereabouts.
Ed B. Clark, living four miles from Lex
ington, is one of the largest hay makers in
the county, aud while pressing his hay
Monday, his right arm became tangled and
was caught in the press in some way, and
before he could disengage it it was badly
torn from the elbow down, decorating it in
most shocking manner
A. +. Franklin owns a small mill at or
near Wildwood, on the Brunswick and West
ern railroad. One day recently he made
sale of it TO another party for $4,000, and
appolnte1 the day TO pass papers, etc. The
night before he started some miscreant put
torch to tee mill and reduced it TO ashes,
thus sweeping away 1000 that was almost
within his hand.
A unique present has just been received
by John Colville of Brunswick from Robert
Brice of New York 1t consists of five
books of rare value, especially four of the
number, which are about 800 years old
They are printed in the old style type of
that day. The works are expositions or
commentaries on parts of the Bible by En-
glish authors, and are very well preserved
At Washington Saturday the laborers
were busy on the track Of the street car
line, singing in chorus and digging.
Whether it was significant or not, the re-
fraln OF one song was, white man work
me so hard, so hard, 50 hard" and on Mon
day they had all struck for higher wages
A rlngleader or two Of town negroes were.
1t Is said, the cause of It, The company
without difficulty, it is said, supplied their
places.
Tho celebrated Hickory Lowell plantation
OF West Dougherty was sold by Sheriff
Edwards, at Albany, Tuesday, at pubic
sale. 1t was one of the finest farms in the
cotton belt of the south, and has been con
sldered one of the best properties in
Dougherty county. Twenty years ago the
place would have sold for 800, 900 easily.
The sale, being forced one, was about
what was expected, the 400 acres bringing
Sl4, 600, and was bought by Mrs. Joseph
Beall Of New York
Dirt was broken, Tuesday, on the Ameri
Gus electric street railway, and force OF
fifty laborers are now busily engaged put
ting down the steel rail. Eight miles Of
track will be laid through tue principal
streets Of the city, and also to the suburban
town Of Lection, two miles distant. Tn,
work of tracklaying will be pushed quar-
ter OF a mile per day, and the road will
probably be In operation within NINETY
days. The machinery for the planV, anC
also that for Lighting the streets, has ar
rived.
Vincent Lockhart of Hall county, a vet
eran Of the war of 1872, died at his resi-
dence, near The Glades few days ago
He was near 95 years of age at the time O
his death, and was a man of vigorous mine
until few months ago, when he began t
fail, his end being hsste1ed by disease OF
the heart, and dropsy. He was born il
Lincoln county, and when a youthful lad
entered the service of his country as q vol
unteer, in Capt. P. Lamar's company. II,
was with his command at Mobile at til,
time of the battle of New Orleans, wher
the invinclble Jackson successfully met anc
repealed the British, and put an end to tn
war.
Col. /. F. Livingston has sent the follow
ing to the Macon Telegraph: "Coba, Ga.
Sept. 2, 1sS9.-Mr. Editor: In your issue o
Aug. 30, in an interview with several al
lance men touching my candidacy for gov
ernor, you assert that in spite O
this fact, Col. Livingston's announcement
of his candidacy on the very heels of hi
Charlton as uresidaut Of tho or, 20 ouinvo, l. "a.