The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

! State Convict5 90 FER Cent. Better
Than Four Years Ago-A Death to
Follow the Explosion at Watkins
VILE.
GEORGIA.
Cordele is to have water works and cleo
trio lights.
Griffin now has three good banks and
will soon have fourth.
The agent of the Columbus Alliance ware
house thinks jute is dead.
Columbus manufacturers are unalterably
opposed to the ten-hOur law
The Waynesboro True CHseH advocates
park and a new cemetery at that place.
Monday Mr.. D1zier of Sycamore ran
down a negro who hal robbed him OF $40.
II is rumored that Postmaster Watt Of
Columbus will run for ordinary as an indie
pendent
At Columbus, Saturday, a negro named
Bennett struck a colored woman with a
brock in the head. She will die. The assail-
ant escaped.
The Macon branch Of the Southern TRAY
elers' Association will fit up rooms, to be
used as headquarters, where they can meet
and entertain their friends.
The hanging of jesse Gotier has been post
poned pending motion for new trial.
From intimations picked up there is no
doubt that a new trial will be granted.
Capt. Clark of Catoosa, has sold over
81 900 worth Of beeves this year, off OF a
81, 800 farm, and has put up grass and
clover enough besides TO winter 100 head OF
stock.
Detective Shackeford Of Macon received
a telegram Monday stating that the nOto-
rious Capt Wood was now under arrest i'll
New York, and that he would be held Tor
the Griffin people first of all.
An effort is being made by the young men
of Waynesboro 10 organize a volunteer ILL
fantry company Twenty names have
been enrolled; twenty-five more names are
needed before an organization can be eff
fected.
A dummy line will be built between
Irwinton and Mcintyre, a distance of three
and a half miles The road will be surveyed
at once, and as the necessary capital has
been subscribed, it will DO pushed TO an
early com 3letion.
The diagrams forsthe new postal route
from Waynesb)ro to Hane 1ck's landing on
the Savannah river have been forwarded to
Washington. The proposed name of tho
Office at the landing Is Hancock, that ut
Hatchsr's store will be Shell Bluff.
AT Macon Monday, after careful invest-
cation, the cor0ner'S jury rendered tho fol-
lowing verdict: "The deceased, Park Dunn,
came to his death by falling into the Vine
vile branch while under the influence OF
liquor" This exploded the sensation Of
murder.
Information was received in Macon Mon
day from Philadelphia that four companies
are bidding actively to have their electric
car system adopted in Macon, and that the
contract will soon be let. 1t is the intention
TO have two lines Of the railway completed
by Oct %
The Oconee Enterprise has information
that j. 7. Ridgoway, who was scnded
Thursday, is dying. He and Wiley Thorn-
ton were terribly scAded at Mr. Ridge
ways brandy still While trying to re-
move the cap from the still it exploded and
scalded the gentlemen seriously.
The effort on the part of the government
to get an artesiau we'll at the arsenal in
Summerviie, near Augusta, has ended in
failure. But an abundant supply of water
has been secured which rises within 200 feet
of the surface, and which will be available
with the assistance of an engine and pump.
The tax receiver of Burke county has his
digest near enough completed to show that
there is decrease in The returns of the
whites of about S55, 900, and an increase of
the value OF the property of the blacks of
about 5000 The decreased valuation Of
the return of the whites consists mainly in
the mercantile valuation Of notes and &C
counts and on live stock.
In Liberty county Sunday afternoon the
Eheritf and posse of fifty men arrested
William Batv, Chip Lee, and Prime Kelly.
Queen Mary was too sick to be Jailed 30
she was put in a wagon and made to &c
home. The houses in the vicinity are strip
ped of their bedding. All Of it was thrown
out, and the owners were made to take il
home. The tents and everything else were
burnt by the sheriff.
At Macon Stenographer Emmett Barnes
has finished the brief of evidence in the
Voolfolk case. Without the motions and
documentary evidence the brief is the sizl
of e Georgia Code, and is without doubt
the largest record OF any case ever made il
the state The motion for a new trial will
be heard by Judge GuStin on Saturday
BY that time tho M )tion will have a mum
Der OF amendments added to it.
Col. E. T. Shuhrick, assistant keeper OF
the penitentiary, has just returned from
visiting and inspecting the various convic
camps of the state. In his report, whicl
was filed with the governor, Monday, he
says: There has Teen steady improve
ment in the convicts' health for the las
four years. This improvement has beei
very marked for the last eighteen months
The sick reports compared with those o
four years ago show a decrease of 80 pc
cent"
The firm Of N. & A. f. Tiff & Co. ha
sold out its business in Albany and is nov
succeeded by two new firms n. 81 A.
Tiff & Co. was the oldest firm in the city
aud one of the best known in the state
For years they have carried on genera
merchandise and supply business as well a
run in connection Herewith a warehous
business. In selling out their business I
ID. Carter and T. n Voolfolk take tn
warehouse branch. N. T. Tiff & Co., com
posed Of Nelson F. Tiff and I. Z. Wake
of Atlanta is the new firm that succeeds /
abe merchandise and supply branch of tn
business.
At Brunswick, Saturday night, in front O
Gus Adams restaurant on Oglethorp
street, near Mansfield, two negro womei
were stabbed by another. Babe johnson
Mary Ash and Rose Thornton, all ba,
characters, were in front of Adams restau
rant abusing each other. Babe Johnso
out talked the other two and the reSul
was they jumped upon her aud proceeded
to beat her. She drew a knife and bega
slashing at her foes. Mary Ash was shghtl
cut, but Rose Thornton received dangerou
wounds. One Of these was in the RICH
shoulder; the other in the left side of tn
chest, near the heart. A physician who wa
called to dress Roses wounds, found til
one in the chest to be at least inches deer
He pronounced 1t dangerous Babe John
son made her escape.
Augusta Chronicle: A highly sensations
case has just leaked out. 1t began with til
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