The morning news., 1889-04-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


County Hidden for Four Days-Re'
suit of the skies Murder Trial in
Telfair County.
GEORGIA.
An electric street railroad is to be built
at Amerlcus.
The oil mill at Elberton will be consider
ably enlarged in a short time.
The new Methodist church at Elberton
will be completed in a week or two
This wear promises TO be a fruitful one in
Southwest Georgia. Every crop has good
start.
1t is said that "Trotter Shoals" are the
finest on the Savannah river. There IS suf-
ficient water power in these shoals to run
machinery enough to manufacture all the
cotton raised in Georgia.
Dalton has an opportunity to lquidate
her entire water works Indebtedness. 1t is
said that New y Nork company has offered
to tuy the plant for 200, reserving the
right Of certain provisions.
In Picketts district, Gwinnett county,
Lee Hamilton, son of David Hamilton, had
a young negro man named VIII Bennett
engaged in helping plant cotton. Trouble
arose and Bennett crushed HamiltOn's skull
with rock. Hamilton may die. Bennett
is in Jail.
Hon John McRae, of Montgomery coun-
". has been and is vet quite sick at his
home, seven miles from Scotland. About
two weeks ago he was stricken with paraly-
sis of one side of the body, and has been
unable to use The limbs of the left side up
to this time.
Reports saw that a rich Boston syndicate
has purchased 700 acres of valuable min
eral lands in Whitfield and Catoo coun-
ties, and proposes erecting a steel plant
somewhere on the line Of the Western and
Atlantic railroad. The price paid for the
land was $50, 600
1t is safe to assume now, since the danger
ofkillng fTosJs have passed, that there will be
an abundant fruit crop IN Eloert county. The
small grain crops are becoming more prom
ising every day, and the farmers are having
most favorable weather TO put their crops
in good condition.
A j. Baldwin, one of Dawson's most en-
terprising and solid business men, has
expressed his intention of building two or
more handsome storehouses on the vacant
lot adj ning his store They Will be two-
story buildings with glass fronts, and will
be finished with pressed brick.
Sheriff Thornton Of Dawson went down
below the Cross Roads on Saturday and
brought back Barlow Harris, alias Robert
Fuller, a white man charged with larceny
al er trust in Chat,ahoOchee county. Fuller
worked III the lpwer part OF Dawson county
last year, but has beel in Florida this year.
Col. S. Grantlanl Of Griffin received a
letter from Adjutant Kell, Wednesday,
informing him that the governor had APP
pointed him on Gen. SchJfield's staff He
at once notified the adjuJant Of his accept
ance, and will leave Friday for New York,
to take part in the ce Itennial celebration.
In Telfair superior court last week in the
of q Cfaf4 AGAINST ! Han Gil-ac charcoal
with murder, the jury returned a verdict
of murder, with recommendation for life
imprisonment. The murder was committed
upon the person of Abner DAVIS at Bush d
McRae's turpentine distilery on Sunday,
July l, 1855.
At Atheus, Wednesday, H. D. Stan
ley, proprietor OF the Commercial no
tel, died very suddenly Of heart
disease He had been suffering for
some time with disease of the heart, and
his death was a result Of that trouble. He
was a one-armed confederate veteran, hav-
ing lost his arm in the battles around
Petersburg.
A Talbotton lady having heard that
Russell Harrison Is greatly disturbed be-
cause Of the presence Of red ants in the
white house. requests that Mr.. Harrison be
informed that the red ants are q blessing in
disguise. She says that red ants and
house, as there Is eternal war between these
TWO insect races
The city court Of Atlanta Wednesday
finished the case Of Charlie Osmer by his
mother, against Budden & Son, for 81 $50
damages for the mother, and s., 200 for the
boy. Charlie had his right hand mashed in
the cogs of a paper cutting machine, and
was represented by Messrs. HaygOod *
Douglas. The jury returned a verdict of
$40 for the mother and $500 for the son.
At Lawrenceyllle on last Sunday week,
during the eastern gale that blew all day, a
whlrlwind or miniature cyclone struck the
ground about two miles and half east Of
town. and lifted up four panels Of fence,
carried it about twenty feet aud SET 1t
down again just as it stood, every rail from
the ground up in its place. There were no
further evidences of the wind in that
vicinity.
Mr.. Crowley, who has been living at Mrs.
s II. Wilson's, near Griffin, for some
time, was missing Tuesday. lie has been a
great sufferer recently, and on Monday
said he was going 10 doctor and get some
medicine that would either kill or cure
him. he went to town and bought II
quantity Of chlOrOfOrm and started back
toward home, but has not been heard of
since Duigent search was made for him,
but at late hour he had not been found.
At Griffin Wednesday afternoon, about 8
o'clock, the horse attached to the wagon
loaded with wire for the Telephone Con-
structi9n Company baked in front Of the
Methodist church and Jay down across the
shafts Of the wagon. A. A. Wright, seeing
the driver and tue men wltn tue wagon un-
able to get him up, went out to their assist
ance. As sOou as he caught hold of the
bride the horse reared up aud commenced
10 paw, striking Mr.. Wright on
the forehead, cutting a cash about three
inches long aud TO the skull bone
At Dawson, Thursday night, whilo some
lght-headed persons were mlsbehaviug dur
ing services at the Methodist church, Rev.
J. w. Weston stopped 10 tell Of a mistake
he once made in reproying young man for
similar conduct. After services on that oc-
casion one Of the members II the church
came to him and expressed regret that the
young man had been reproyed, and informed
him that the young fellow was an IDIOT.
"Slnce then, said Mr.. Weston, II have been
afraid 70 reproye any one who is inisbehav
ing il church for fear / may reprove an
IDIOT
At the May term Of Terrell superior
court rather novel law suit Will come up
for trial. J. w. Tracy bought a pioce ~
land from Dr. John T. Lamar, and II. X.
Foreman bought the same land from Mrs.
Willis. Tracy went ahead aud had a
dwelling erected on the lot. and as soon as
finished left 10 remove his family into IL.
On returning with them aud his effects his
astonishInent was great TO ilnd that in the
meantime Foreman and his family had