The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-28
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
OAR oLINA PUT IN TYPE.

q OQlSb CnurCn at Alpn9IoJba IOr
Heresy-Isham Kelly's Murderer Es.
Z capes from Jail-An Alleged Forger
4 from Fairburn Arrested at Atlanta.
GEORGIA
J.. NJ. Alexander us Dawson's new post
master.
The street railroad at Washington is
nearly completed.
James NJ. Cosby of Elberton has invented
and patented a car coupler.
Washington will have a cotton seed oil
mill in time for the next season.
A military company will probably be or
gained by the whites Of Americas.
Another bank will soon be established in
Americas, with capital of 100000.
Col. Beverly A Martin of Dahlonega
died in Milledgeville Thursday night.
William Dennis, aged 90 years, the oldest
man in Putnam county, died a few days
ago.
The finishing of the cotton factory build
ing at Cordele will be celebrated with a
ball
A company has been formed at Crawfish
Shoals to manufacture cedar pencils. s. I.
Osburn is secretary and treasurer.
ALI Davis coloredl is under arrest at
Columbus on suspicion of firing the gin
A craze for parrots seems to have struck
the ladies of Elberton, and the town now
boasts dozen or more Of these birds
Mrs Elizabeth Lewis, who was born Dec.
20, 1917, near Raytown, Taliaferro county,
died in Hancock county last Thursday.
Wright Burke of Troup county has been
married fifteen years and mas fourteen chill
dren-twins five times, triplets once, and
one solitary alone.
Macy and Dacey, pugilists, who fought
at Atlanta Friday night. will be prosecuted.
Macy, who was whipped, has been arrested.
Dacey has skipped.
Tho pretty four-room cottages for the
operatives of the cotton factory that are
being erected gives -'orth Cordele the APP
pearance of village in itself.
Three miles OF the sewers have been put
down at Americas, and there yet remains
three miles to be put In Work has been
in progress about three months ami will be
continued two months longer.
Eva Hammock, known in Americas as
Eva Williams, the girl who figured so
prominently in the Drake case, was arrested
at Columbus, Friday, for lettering, and was
confined in cell at police headquarters.
Willie Williams, the murderer of con-
tuctor Whigham at Abbeville, has to be
watched very closely. He has notified
Sheriff Bass that he does not intend to be
hanged; that he will kill himself before that
day.
"A well-known Ebert county man and a
lady mystic -iously dl appeared last week,
and surmises we abundant that it was an
elopement, but they have both returned
and explained their absence, and the injus-
tice do 70 them has been repaired.
Darien Timber Gazette: 1t is predicted
that the coming season will be very good
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30 low that 1t Is impossible steamers {
ply them. The river and creeks are much
lower than they have been for some time.
On Tuesday morning last, in an altercu-
ton with colored man named Charles
Stokes, T. s. Williams, the superintendent
at ]. W. Price 81 Co.'s saw-mill, at Sumner,
received very severe cash with a knife
across the left temple. The wound is not
fatal, however.
A negro child ON Capt Aliens Gholston
place in Putnam county was found last
Saturday in a well with life extinct 1t is
not known how the child came TO be in the
well, but it is supposed it got hold of the
well bucket and was drawn into it by the
bucket, when it fell from the platform on
which it stood.
Every day now the state capitol is
full of strangers, who think the new build
ing part of the exposition. A great pro-
portion OF the visitors are young men and
maidens, whose thoughts evidently are
turned toward love and matrimony. These
couples invariably visit the dome, and some
times three or four pairs can be seen sitting
on the spiral staircase, resting and spooning.
Mrs. Mary Roebuck of Elberton has some
remarkable relics of past centuries. One,
a silver buckle, has passed two centuries.
and all that time has remained in the Dos
session of her family. 1t was originally
used on band at the knees of gentlemen
OF past centuries when knee-pants were in
vogue, but it now adorns the hat of her
little daughter. Mrs. Roebuck has many
other curious relics.
A meeting of business men Of Americas
was held Friday to discuss the methods of
promoting tbs welfare of the city. One
proposition before the meeting was to do
nate S., 900 to w. g. Sutherland of Elmore.
Mich, to induce him to remove his plant,
which consists of complete machine shops,
brass foundry, wood working shops, etc.
to Americas. The new hotel and cotton
factory projects were also discussed. A
committee will be appointed to canvass the
city.
A short while ago a Georgia paper pub
lished a story written by Mrs Ward, called
"Mrs. Browns Burglar" Mrs. Ward To-
Gated the story in town which she named
s'Blackshire,n Ca, and made Mrs. Brown
the keeper OF hotel and her husband a
dentist. And it now turns out that there is
a "Blackshire," Ca, and in the town there
lives Mrs. Brown, who runs hotel, and
her husband is a dentist. Mr.. Brown
threatens to sue the paper for $25, 900
damages.
Levy Haynes is negro who has been farm
ing on shares with l.. B. Cowart of Bib
county, near Allendale. Haynes was sent
to Macon with three bales of cotton. which
he was directed to carry to the warehouse
of Davis & Balkcom, where an account was
owed for supplies. Haynes carried one of
the bales to the warehouse # johnson &,
Estes and sold it for $42 o. and pocketed
the money. He then carried the other two
bales to Davis & Balkcom. Haynes was
arrested and $40 of his ill-gotten gains were
recovered.
At Newman, day or two ago, as Lucius
Arnold (coloredl was taking DR.. Peddy's
fine Jersey bull from the doctors house
out to E. ID. Fouse's place, patting aud
coaxing him along, the animal suddenly
became enraged aud turned on his keeper
with great fury, gorlug him in fear
full manner and literally denuding him
OF his clothing. The taurine monster then
tossed him in the air repeatedly. cut him in
the headand on the person in several places.
and would doub tless have killed him but for
the timely assistance of Messrs. Z. ID. Fouse.
Tom Goodrum and others who happened to