The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Heads IN Atlanta-GoV. Gordon to
Visit Chicago on q Lecturing Tour.
GEORGIA
The State Colored Fair Associations fair
is in progress at Athens.
There is great complaint against the At
1anta telephone system.
The female printers of the GAINESVILLE
Gazette went on a strike Monday.
The Bonner saws the erection Of a new
hotel at Athens is now a certainty.
Maj. George p. Burnett, one of Floyd
county's oldest citizens, died at his home at
Livingston Sunday.
George S. Scott and John and Patrick
Calhoun have subscribed $1,000 each for
the Augusta exposition
Adjt z. D. Huguenin of the Second
Georgia battalion has been appointed to in
spect the Abbeville Guards of Wilcox
county.
There are ffty-one inmates in the Bib
county Jail Thlrty-two are county prison
ers and nineteen are United States
prisoners.
The Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery road has been temporarily enjoined
from erecting the Barlow street bridge at
Americus.
II is said that prominent business firm
of Americas will dispose of its entire stock
within a few days. They claim to have
enough and want to quit.
N. NJ. Bush g. Bro. have opened their
oyster canning establishment at Brunswick
for the season, and the juicy bivalves are
being put in cans at rapid rate.
Hirschfeld & Blumenthal, dry goods
merchants of Athens, were closed by the
sheriff Monday uDoer mortgage for 81, 123,
held by II. B. Clafiin & Co. of New York.
hof-
of the Hotel Lanier asked Clerk Crawford
for writing paper and envelopes, saying:
'You will doubtless be surprised to know
that as old a man as I am is going TO write
to his father. am 90 years old, and he is
rapidly nearing l00."
Rev. DR.. William A. Mcintosh, President
re-. A. Nunnally, Rev. D. j. g. Ryals, Rev.
Dr. John G. Mccall of Macon, and Rev.
w. L. Fitzpatrick, under the direction of
DR.. Mcintosh, will conduct a theological
institute in the Tennllle Baptist church
from Nov. q to 20, with preaching every
Night
Parties from Hamilton report that cousid-
cradle excitement and uneasness prevails
in that place over the prolonged absence OF
Masters Jimmie Kimbrough and Buck
Latham. The boys are about II years old,
aud started out on duck hunt Saturday
morning, since which time nothing has been
heard Of them.
Sunday night Rev. C. w. Snow, pastor
OF Grace chapel, Macon, preached his fare
well sermon to a very large and deeply
affected congregation. He left yesterday
for Texas, for his new field'of labor, by ap-
pointment Of Bishop Key. Rev. B. T.
Flowers will officiate at Grace chapel until
the end Of the conference year.
! An order has just been granted incorpor-
ating the Mineral Improvement Company,
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lumbus. The capital stock is &c., 900 with
the privilege Of increasing it to $500, 900.
The incorporators are G., Gunby Jordan,
q. NJ. Williams, T. +. Blanchard, John r,
Flournoy and Louis F. Garrard.
In Muscogee superior court an order has
just been granted incorporating Creek
Tribe No. II, Improved Order of Red Men
of Georgia. Among other things, the
charter gives the tribe the privilege to own
land, to erect buildings, to establish
school for orphans and to establish a
library. David Williams and others are
the incorporators.
Masked men visited the residence of Gabe
Walker in Harris county, Saturday night,
ana Andy Hutchtns, negro found in
Walkers house, was taken out and whipped
by the masked men. After the whipping
the men left, going in the direction Of the
Alabama line. 1t is said that Walker was
but refused to do so. ~
Louis Jones, Greenville negro, while in
an intoxicated condition Saturday night.
fell in well opposite the Winslow house.
The water came up to his shoulders, and he
remained in the well until about o'clock
Sunday morning. He was in a very pitiable
condition when discovered and taken from
the well, and it is considered almost a mir
acle that he came out alive
Information was received at the control
Ter generals office at Atlanta Monday that
Capt. Robert Erwin, chief clerk in the in
surance department, happened to a bad
accident Saturday night. He was climbing
ladder to the loft of his barn, when a COW
ran against the ladder and threw it down.
In the fall Capt. Erwin had both bones of
his right leg below the knee broken
The capitol seems dead and lonesome
since the legislature adjourned. The rou-
tine is light. Taxes are coming In slowly
to the controller-general's office. The
acts of the legislature are in the last process
OF their clerical evolution. Most of the
building is shut up. The two legislative
halls. with adjoining rooms, and the third
floor committee rooms are bottled up for
the next general assembly. Only the
library, on the second floor, and the state
house offices, on the ground floor, show
signs OF life.
Lorlng Brown OF Brown & Wadley
chicken breeders and fanciers, arrived in
Macon Monday from the state fair at Mont
gomery, where their chickens swept the
field over all competitors and won 1898 in
cash prizes. Mr.. Brown has been from
home just a month exhibiting his chickens.
during which time he won 1857 so at the
Piedmont exposition and silver medal,
and $3l1 at the state fair at Macon and a
diploma. Including the 1888 won at Mont
gomery, Brown q Wadley have won
$1.1s6 so in cash in thirty days.
Gov. Gordon's visit to Chicago on Nov. 80
is attracting good deal of notice in that
city. The purpose of the governors visit is
to lecture for the benefit OF the ex-Copfed-
crate association monument fund. The
lecture will be delivered in Central Music
hall, one Of the largest auditoriums in the
country, and the indications are that the
assemblage will be one notable in many re-
spects. Gov. Gordon's subject will be 1.-THE
influence Of the late civil war upon the
character of the American people and the
future of the American republic
The most accurate journal kept of the
proceedings of the last house of representa-
tives was by Hon. Mr.. Huey of Douglass.
1t is very minute running account, con-
sidering the weather, the exact time, the
length and character of every speech made.
every motion, every vote-everything, in
fact, that was needed to account to the tax