The morning news., 1889-04-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


the Jute Bagging Trust-A Small
Negress Who Has Saved Two Lives
GEORGIA.
Ellaville is to have a newspaper, which
will make its appearance about May J.
The city tax at Athens has been reduced
from l lis to l per cent for the present
year.
The Postal and: Gable Telegraph Com
pany will open an office in Atlanta about
June 10.
The total number of manned soldiers en-.
titled to pensions inl Georgia this year is
about 2, 500, and the total amount Of pen
sions will be about Sl5O,0O0.
j. B. Wright was on the streets of Bruins
wick Tuesday for the first time since he re.
ceived the painful gunshot wound that
came so near taking his life.
The trustees Of the North Georgia agri-
cultural c'lege have recently elected Prof.
w. W. Legare, at present located at
Marietta, to the chair Of ancient languages.
Judge Emory Speer on Sunday last gave
his hand TO DR.. Kendall Of Mulberry street
Methodist church, at Macon, and united
with the church wherein bis father and his
grandfather before him had preached.
At Brunswick, Tuesday, a street car
mule eutaogled its foot in hole in the
track where repairs were being made, and
terribly manged the member The beast
was shot by Officer Beach to end its suffer
ing.
The Brunswick Times is reliably informed
that a couple Of strangers have victimized
several citizens among them Mr.. Harrison,
of large sums Of money by means of forged
checks in the last few days, and have left
the city.
w. II. Studstill of Poplar Hill, Telfair
county, is the proud owner Of a Spanish
silver coin bearing the date Of 1907 1t,
together with several pieces Of like charac-
ter. was plowed up in a field on Mr.. Stud
stills farm.
One day last week Webster Bagley
bought nine acres Of land on the northern
end of Lee STREET, just in the city limits of
Americus, paying 1925 for the lot. Monday
morning he sold a third Of the lot for $3.50,
and has six acres left, which he says he will
plant IN, corn.
Macon's city council Tuesday donated
800 to the interstate drill next May. The
following companies have already entered:
Gate City Guard Of Atlanta, German
Fusieers of Charleston, Southern Cadets Of
Macon, Floyd Rifles of Macon, Mllladge-
Vile Light Infantry.
A hole twelve feet deep was dug Sunday
night in the rear of Peters park at Atlanta.
1t is thought that gold was buried there.
The police are Investigating. They believe
it was buried by burglars about four years
ago, and dug up now, after the burglars
have served their terms.
The city council OF Macon in the future
will require the East Tennessee railroad to
pay license Of $50 per annum for operat-
ing telegraph wires for public use. The al
dermen claim that the road receives and
sends messages for any one, aud should be
made to pay tax similar to the Western
Union.
In Lumpkin superior court Tuesday, in
the case of Clark against Clark where the
plaintiff sued for lands valued at several
thousand dollars, which his father had
decided in 1866 to a negro woman, with
whom he was living in adultery the jury
Tor the second time gave a verdict for the
plaintiff
Delegates from the Sunday schools Of
Dodge county met at the Baptist church of
Eastman on Sunday last and reorganized
the Dodge county Sunday School Associa-
ton. Mr.. j. w. Sheldon was elected presi-
dent; Guyton Fisher, secretary, and w. F.
Slater, treasurer After reorganizing dele
gates were elected to attend the Georgia
State Sunday School Convention, which
meets in Brunswick, May s.
Galloway Franklin of Meriwether county
says by throwing Jerusalem oak, a weed
that grows on all plantations, among corn
as it is cribbed, rats will be Kept away from
the grain. He was greatly annoyed last
year by the ravages of rats in his corn
This year he scattered Jerusalem oak in his
corn as he threw 1t into the crib, and has
not been troubled at all. Mr.. Franklin
says the weed has been worth many dollars
to him this year.
Lumpkln superior court has been in ses-
sion for week, and will likely continue
during the present weak. Some important
civil cases have been tried, the most I'M
portant being that of Rutherford VS. Stew
art ct. al, for the annulling of contract
and decree for certain valuable mining
lands. The jury found for the plaintiff,
and ordered the land to be sold aud the
plaintiff TO receive the first $4,000. and
balance, if any, to go TO defendants.
At Augusta, Jimmy, the 2l6-Year-old
child of W. NJ. Wood, who lives on lower
Broad street, was kidnapped Monday by
an unknown negro girl Just before dark
the child was found on Hale street in posses
sion OF the negro, who was whipping it
when discovered She fed and ESCAPED
arrest. The child's clothes were nearly torn
OF, and number Of bruises were found on
Its body What was the negre's object
in stealing and maltreatiog the child is un-
known.
The Albany small boy is nothing if not
progressive. A few days ago a fond mother
OF the city noticed that her little 6-year-old
son visited a particular corner in the gar
den quite often, and watched his move
ments. Going to whore be was stoopinR
one day she saw him examining a feather
he had pulled out Of the ground to see if it
mad sprouted. His mother inquired his ob-
Ject In planting the quill, whel the young
ster replied: Hum, guess | am going to
raise chlckens as we'll as anybody"
Coroner Davis has returned 70 La
Grange from near Mountyille. where he
has been to hold AN inquest over the BODY
OF Mrs. Matilda Dollar, who died very sud
denly last Wednesday. There is strong
suspicion that her husband, Joe Dollar. a
farmer over ~, killed her. SO her BODY
was exhumed, aud post mortem examina
tlon held by Coroner Davis, assisted bv
Drs. Badheld and Jones. The Jury could
not form verdict as there was tome owl
dence Of poisoning, and the stomach was
brought to LaGrange 60 be analysed bv
Prof. h. X. Slack. Prof. Slack will make
the analysis and report tho results to the
Jury and a verdict will be reached.
A practical illustration OF the superstition
of darky living on Maj Bacou's place,
near Albany, will serve TO show that they
have not yet given up many OF their old
time theories Maj Bacon has a little
Texas pony that for some time has beeu
very poor. One OF the darkies on the place.
named Jim Fort and calling himself DR..
Fort, SAID that the horse was being ridden
by witches at night. He was asked to ex-
PLAIN how be knew such 10 be the case. and
promptly said that the tangled condition Of