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

County.
GEORGIA.
The erection of the electric lignt plant at
brownsville has been completed.
A burglar entered the residence of DR.. J..
q. Culpepper at Townsville, Tuesday night,
and secured 500 worth Of valuables
The bank building at Vienna is finished,
except the vault, which IS delayed on &C
count Of the non-arrival Of the safe.
Trenton is to have a planning mill and
sash, door and blind factory. kremer g.
Graves of Fort Payne, Ala, are the pro
prietors.
Friday afternoon the gin house of Z. T.
Kenny, about two miles from Dawson. was
destroyed, together with eleven bales of
cotton, by fire.
Cochran's new paper, the Pulaski Re
corder, has made its first appearance in a
neat issue Of eight page well filed with good
reading matter.
At Townsville, Monday, s. L. Hayes
qualified as administrator on the estate of
the late s. Alexander Smith. His bond was
fixed at 100000.
The Townsville Times is printing a very
newsy local page now Editor Triplett and
his thrifty little city have good reason to
be proud Of their paper.
DIR. z. s. Lyndon, chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee, has printed
card recommending primary election for
the city officers of Athens.
Tue farmers alliance held meeting at
Marietta few days ago and agreed not TO
sell any cotton during the month of October
unless they obtained 1913 cents for it.
A negro from Webster county. at the fire
at Dawson last Wednesday, while assisting
IN moving bale of cotton, fell backward
from the cotton yard platform across the
railroad track. breaking two ribs and
spraining wrist
Last Monday, Hillman, the electric health
resort, was sold at public cutlery, by agree
Ilent of the owners. James A. Benson Of
Washington bid it in for $1,000. The sale
took place at Hilman. There are $50 acres
of land in the property.
At Brunswick, Tuesday night, some
trifiing characters raided Littleiield a. Co.'S
lighter and holster. and, after stealing all
the tools they could find, deliberately cut
up the ropes, thus destroying what they
could not use themselves.
Miles Monk of Colquitt county had his
gin house, engine press and screw and two
bales of cotton in the seed, thrash, etc.,
burned Thursday night The fire was the
work of an incendiary, and the loss was
about 81 800, with no insurance
There is no bagging Of any kind in Mari
eta Merchants, to avoid threatened
they have only placed orders for cotton bag
ging for alliance men, as ordered. A mum
Der of farmers find it hard to get bagging
of any kind
Summerville Gazette: The SAVANNAH
NEWS is one of the oldest and most reliable
papers in the state; thoroughly democratic,
and fully up to the times Its pages de-
voted to items of news from Georgia, Flor
ida, and south Carolina, is always especially
interesting.
The trial of J. j. Patterson of Atlanta
for assault with intent to murder. which was
interrupted Tuesday by the refusal of his
wife to testify against him, was resumed
Wednesday, and on the testimony of other
witnesses he was convicted and sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment.
A negro named James Love, while work
ing at the gin of j. P. Heard near Vienna
on Tuesday of last week, got his right arm
in the gin -Four gashes we're cut from his
wrist TO his elbow, terribly decorating the
flesh and exposing the bones, muscles, arte-
ries and nerves of his arm.
On Sunday evening as negro woman
named Charlotte, who lives on james Orr's
place in Wilkes county, was going to church
In wagon, the mules ran away aud she
jumped out, breaking both Of her arms
The arms were broken between the wrists
and elbow. The woman was about GO years
old.
Allen Macarthur, a well-known and pros
porous farmer of Montgomery cou ty, was
thrown from his buggy, Wednesday. and
killed. MIR. Macarthur was prominent
Mason. He serve in 1884 and 1885 as state
senator from the Fifteenth district. The
fatal accident occurred near Scotland, Tel
fair county
Gen. A. E. Stevenson. late First Assist
ant Postmaster General under President
Cleveland, was in Americas Wednesday.
Gen. Stevenson is resident of Illinois, and
is in the south for the purpose of booming
the city of Chicago as a site for the worlds
fair in 1892. The general and Mai GIess-
ner OF Americas are old friends.
The Augusta dummy line or Richmond
county belt line, recently chartered by the
legislature. has been formally organized by
the electi N of the following officers: Presi-
dent, Charles A. Robbie; secretary. James
u. jackson; treasurer, P. G.. Burum
directors, Messrs. Robbie, Jackson, Burum.
Thomas, Murray, and Eugene Connor.
DooIy indicator: Henry Chambers, the
negro that was found guilty of man.
slaughter at the last term of the court and
sentenced to five years. but was granted q
new trial and let out under $780, is in limbo
again. On last Friday night the woman be
lives with ia Cordele failed in some manner
to do his bidding, and Henry deliberately
proceeded to take her life
The gin house. engine, cotton gin, press
cane mill, etc., and about tif cen bales OF
cotton, belonging to Hon. Tom Mcintyre
Jr., on his Linton place, about eighteen
miles. from Townsville, was DESTROYED b,
fire on Monday night The fire was com
municated to the gin house by sparks lgnit
ing the thrash surrounding the engin,
house. There was no insurance and tn,
loss was about $4,000.
The rice mill and barn Of James +. Kin,
of Satilla has been destroyed by fire. This
flames originated on the roof from
n spark from the smokestGck. Tn,
entire mill and macni ery, TO
gether with about 1000 bushels of rice
were destroyed. The mill, ETC., was tn,
property Of j. f. King, and the rice wa
owned by the hands, who had sub-rente,
of the Messrs. Lang & Bro, they to paw 81
per acre in rice for rent. There is no in
surance.
The executive committee of the North
east Georgia fair at Athens have decide,
to offer SIS in gold to the couple that vii
get married at the fair grounds on Alllauc
day in cotton bagging clothes. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY believed that couple can be fount
who will show their thorough apprecia iol
of the farmers fight on the jute trust 3
come out attired il the cloth in which tn
farmers interests are all conferred, and O.
Alliance day be Joined together in the hol
ties of wedlock.