The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF tbs TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS

Near Eomer-A Child Fatally Scalded
by Coffes-The Death of Agent Davis.
GEORGIA
Augusta wants gala week in November.
The Da wson National Bank began busi-
ness on Tuesday last under most favorable
auspices.
A. T. Gambler of Geneva, while out hunt
ing Wednesday. had his leg broken by
falling from log.
1t is said that steps looking to a settle
ment Of the first Campbell street co whdlng
case at Augusta are being taken by parties
interested
The Masons Of Scarborough are making
arrangements to build a new lodge building
on the present site. The building Will cost
about $500.
The Grown Cotton Mill at Dalton is run
ming on full time to supply tue demand for
cotton bagging. Eight thousand yards Is
the daily product Of the busy, whirrlng
looms.
A fire broke ont at W. B. Farrar e Co. IS
large planning mill above Dalton on Satur-
davlast. but thanks to their excellent system
of water works. a disastrous conflagration
was averted.
The famous Cohutta Springs, twenty
miles east of Dalton, are offered for sale.
They are at present owned by Joseph NJ.
Brown, traffic manager of the Western aud
Atlantic railroad.
At citizens meeting at Carrollton,
Tuesday, Hoa. Oscar Reese was nominated
for mayor by reclamation, so also was l..
G. Kramer, Joseph A. McCOrd, B. +. bass
and w. NJ. Meadows for councImen.
Counterfeit silver half dollars, date Of
1877. are In circulation in Da ton. The
counterfeit is easily detected, however, as
the coin is very much lighter taan inc gem
une aud has a dull, leady Color while the
milling Is poor and the figures are badly
impressed
A negro met with bad accident on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road
at the tank beow Dalton last week. de was
swinging on t one OF the box cars, and either
failing to see the tank. or having forgotten
fits proximity, was swept from his position
by the projecting leans as the train passed.
lie was badly injured, and will probably
die.
A mulatto woman with baby was ar
rested on her arrival at Augusta by train
from Bath Wednesday, on Geographic
statement that she intended killing ths little
one. sac stated that the father OF the
child was a man living a. Way esboro, and
that she had simply left home with the in
teLtion of taking 1t to him. She was there
fore released.
At Sparta, wednesday, a heartrending
accident hefell little "Eliien Walker, the
beautiful child of George E. Walker, which
resulted in her death. The cook had placed
a coffee-pot of Lot coffee on the table, whea
the little child, just learning to walk, over
turned it, receiving the contents in the face
and on the neck. After much suffering, the
little girl died "wednesday.
Sew raj prominent New York and Nash
vile capitals are negotiating with &C.
lumbus real estate mal toward tho purchase
of T5, 900 acres of pine lands for the purpose
of establishing a lumber company. The
last letter ia the negotiations was received
Wednesday. The lands will probably be
selected IN South Georgia, near either the
Chattaho chez or Apalacnicola rivers.
Ben Willis was shot and instantly killed
by Boo Morris Wednesday night about one
and a half miles from Homer, on the
Gainesville road. They were re urninE from
church. Willis w shot with a 32-cah
Der in the lett breast aud died instantly, and
was carried to MIR. Emmet's, near by, out
of the rain and mud, where an inquest will
be held. Both young men are single.
Morris made his escape, and his whereabouts
are not known.
One of the most remarkable old ladies in
Cobb county is Mrs. Olive Tia nby. She Is
now IS years old, and the mother of nine
children six of whom are living. She has
sixty-six grandchildren and can reach all
of them il two hours ride, except two woo
reside in Arkansay She eau tell age
and name of every child aud grandchild.
giving dates with perfect clearness. All of
her children and grandchildren have good
homes and are dong well.
Michael Aubrey Moore was arrested in a
Gordon county cornfeld Wednesday, taken
TO Atlanta aud confined in the county jail.
Moore is an Albanian, and up toDecember
last was bOokkeeper for the shoe firm of
Porter Bros, on Peachtree street. Last
November be was married, and only few
weeks later Messrs. Porter Bros. discovered,
so it is charged, that Moore had failed &c
turn in money which he had collected for
the firm. Moore realized in time that his
employers had learned Of the matter, and
left the city.
DIR. W. z. Bond of Lithonia carried a
strange specimen of humanity to the At
lanta medical college Sunday. 1t was
female child. born at RocS Chapel, il
DeKalb county, Saturday morning 1t
mother is Mrs. Joseph Wesley, the wife OF
a farmer in that community. The baby
had two well-formed heads and spinal col
umns distinctly marked. The body Of th,
freak was well developed and the two
heads were joined at the shoulders. 1t onl1
lived few minutes after birth. 1t weighet
twelve pounds.
While w. Il. Bennett was driving abou
the railroad yards at Albany, Tuesday. b
noticed some one in Il partly opened ca
Things looked somewhat suspicious, and, a
Mr.. Bennett started to give closer inspec
ton, a negro jumped out of the car an,
tried to dodge him. He was pursued an
in his attempt to elude his pu suer, jumps
into another car wit the intention of goini
through, but as luck would have It, tn
outside door was locked. Mr.. Bonnet ra
up and closed the door entered by the thief
neatly trapping him. Upon investigated
it was iound that the negro had broken th
seal and was roboilg a car of tobacco.
A. E. lvey of the Cherokee nation is i
Atlanta as ambassador to secure he EN-
grafton to the nation of all the half breed
who remain in Georgia. 1t IS over fifty year
since the Che okees removed from Georgia
but many who had formed white alliance
were left behind, and their children ar
among The most substantial ci liens OF tn
state. Mr.. Ivey says that the Cherokee
have resolved upon maintaining their ex
lstence and wish TO increase their numbe
by the addition of all who are willing to re
turn to the old tribe. In few week
seventy-fve half-breed families will leav
for the nation, to be followed later still by
others.
Brown Smith, negro from Dawson, ws
roughly treated in Cuthbert Sunday night
He went there to visit sister Sunday. [
a game of base ball between a club fror