The morning news., 1889-02-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPH

GEORGIA.
Adams, the imprisoned cotton factor OF
Macon, up TO N niay night had not eaten
anything for eighty hours.
On the plantation Of J. ". Williams,
near Chiplev. TWO small negroes were burned
TO death Sunday, the parents leaving them
locked up in the hous7 that was burned
Two Mormon elders, who have besn
preaching near Barnett. we're taken out oy
some of the angere1 people ana gwen
severe whipping. one got 10 lashes and
the other So.
At Sparta Monday the stock Of goods
owned by ". N. Marlborough as sold at
public outcrv under a mortgage Il. ia. in
favor Of VIM Stevens. The goods were
sold in one 10, and were bid in by Waxel-
baum & Co. Of Macon at G2 per cent of the
first cost.
At lexington Saturday night last High,
the l3-vear-0ld son OF SAINT Maxwell, col
orei hai his right arm caught il the
betting Of q steam gin and torn com
uletely OF DIS. Faust, Wlllingham and
REYNOLDS amputated the arm above tie
LEFT elbow, and the little felJw IS resting
quietly now.
W. T. Stephens, at The Rock, eight miles
below Barnesville, had the misfortune 10
lose his store by fire Sunday night. Mr.
Moore, a clerk, who was sleeping in the
store. barely escaped death in the flames.
He was awakened by his bed burning under
him. Tne loss Is about 1000; insurance,
81 200. The IRE IS supposed % have caught
from q spark popping on pile OF wood
At a meeting in the mayors Office at
Atlanta Monday. which was attended by
Mayor Glenn, Alderman Howell aud COun-
Gilman Am1roUs and Engineer Clayton Of
Atlanta, and Rudolph Herring of New
York, famous as All expert in water works
matters, II was decided 10 investigate the
quaint ty and quality Of the water Of Chat
tab. chez river. Mr. Herring expressed an
opinion, after hearing the discussion among
the gentlemen present, that on general
princiules the wat9r OF the river ought to
be pUr enough for city use.
The Macon Hussars have elected the fol
lowing officers: Captain, o. T keuan; first
lieutenant, G. c. Sims, Jr.; second AeuUe
ant, H. c. Nix The captain has appointed
the following nOn-commissiOned corps:
Charles Carnss, first sergeant; Edward
hodgkiUs, secoud sergeant; Judd Hill, third
sergeant; Charles Conn, fourth sergeant; !;
G. H. Hall, Jr, ff5h sergeant; Harry
Hodgkins, sixth sergeant; Pringle willing
ham, seventh sergeant; Sumter Goodwin,
first corporal; 5 muel Hunter, second cor
poral; Robert Murry, third corporal; Frank
Thorpe, fourth corporal.
Alb ulultbA anu NI VI Lu' itOul5 III Tue
checks department # Clegg's cotton factory
at Columbus were idle Monday. The at
tending operatives stopped work. For some
time psst the Clagg mills have been paying
their weavers 33 cents per cut" which is
more than the other mills pay. On Satur-
day afternoon the operatives Of the checks
looms at Clegg's mills were notified Of
reduction Of > cents cut, and when the
mills opened Monday morning they refused
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quite number, upon being brought to a
more thorough understanding of their cir
cumstances, resumed their places at the
looms. Tne strike bid fair to end yester-
day.
The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company
Is no more. The Underwriter5' Mutual In
surance Company has received a decided
boom. At a meeting of the stockholders OF
the former company, held Monday, it was
unanimously decided TO dissolve the tempo
rary organization. cancel the subscription
TO the stock and recommend that all stock
holders subscribe TO like amounts, or larger
sums, in the Underwriters Mutual For
some time past these two insura ce com
pa1es have been regarded as rivals. The
charter of the Underwriters Mutual was
obtained some time before that of the It
lanta Mutual, but it is only within the past
few months t1at either has been pushed &c
any great extent. Both started out under
the most favorable auspices, and this is a
consolidation.
7. b. Jones Of Macon, is a client Of Judge
Matt Freeman. He was in the employ of
the Central railroad and when on last pay
day be went for his wages he found that
they had been garuisheed to satisfy an old
debt that haC goue to judgment in an Ala
bama court. 1t is claimed that the obliga-
tion was over seven years old, and there
fore, out OF date, and no notice whatever
was served on Jones Of suit, and the frs
intimation he had Of legal proceedings was
when he found his wages under garnish-
ment. Jones lives in Macon aud by tae
laws Of Alabama the only notice Of suit
that was made was By publication in q
local Alabama paper which Jones never
saw. Judge Freeman is confident he eau
recover the money, and he also desires tC
make test case.
Toccoa NelrS: Not far from the public road
leading from above tho mountains to Har-
key ferry, on the side Of the mountain, is an
immense rock known as the ''B and rock
According TO tradition, 1t derived its name
from q singular occurrence that happened
many years ago The story is that piece
of the rock in the shape of a horseshoe
burst off and killed two horses at the dis
tance Of over a mile. And many are the
people that still believe the story. Our ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomena is that a
meteoric stone in falling killed the horses,
and the ext time the large rock was
noticed a portion If lis surface correspond
ing in shape TO a horseshoe had fallen from
its side, probably loosened by winters frost,
causing the country pc pie to believe that
1t was somehow violently thrown from the
large rock.
Last May Mayor David Ware Of Dublin,
procured large gopher for his little son,
Blanton OF course, the little fellow was
very proud of his curious horse and
made numerous journeys around the yard
upon the gophers back. To keep the gopher
from returning to bis native land, the little
fellow shut him up in the garden. The
gopher dug deep hole and as soon as the
cold weather came went into winter quart
has watched with great anxiety the APP
proach Of weather sufficiently warm TO re-
store his pet, and has repeatedly asked his
father whether or not the gopher would
present him with family Of little gophers
One day this week while plowing up the
garden the plowman turned up near the
mouth Il the gopher's hole ten or twelve
little gophers or inches in diameter,
much 20 Blant0n's delight aad the surprise
of his father aud others.
At Knoxville Jan. - the store Of j. w
Blasingame was broken open and robbed.
A short while before that J. j. Mains store
was broken open, but no clew could be
gotten to The guilty parties until few DAYS
ago. Bob Paine, a negro detective, has
been working at IL for some time, and has
at last ferreted the thieves out. He found
that a clan Of negroes make robbery their
regular business, some Of whom live in
Forsyth, Calloden and Knoxville. They
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