The morning news., 1889-03-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHs.

Negro in Randolph County -
Negro Girl Burned to Death
GEORGIA.
Dublin now boasts of thirteen lawyers.
Robins appeared in Perry last Sunday.
Dublin needs an opera house or town hall
j. r. Boggs of Lexington has become
insane.
The mumpS are raging over Bullooh
county.
DIR. j. Butts will try to found medica
college at Brunswick,
Elberton boasts the finest selection Of oil
paintings in Eastern Georgia.
1t is reported that box factory will b.
started at Gainesville before long.
A new Baptist church, to cost 81, 500, il
to be built ct Bainbridge this year.
Bishop Key will preach al the Firs
Street church at Macon this morning
Col. Wiley has ordered t1e Second Geor-
Eia battalion out for Maroh Z, for parade.
The ladies OF Elberton are opposed T.
the site selected for the new academy
building.
Itis already announced that larye fur
nifure store will be opened in Lexington
next fall.
Oglethorpe county farmers are getting
further and further behind, and are grow
ing impatient.
At Lexington several pieces of slate were
pulled from the court house roof by the
SNOW last week.
c. ii. Wheatley has commenced the
erection Of a new residence on jackson
street, Americus
Syrup is cheap in Bulloch county now.
Twenty-Five cents per gallon by the barre
is the ruling ptice.
Ground has been broken for the new
Orange street Macon.
AT Amorious, son of c. f. StanAelc
had his hand badly mashed by "a window
sash falling on 1t Tuesday.
A proposition will lie submitted to the
city council, by the Americus Gas Com
pany. to lght the city by electricity.
1t is against the law to cut turpentint
boxes from Marcn until NV. 10 uf eact
year. The season is now ont until Novem
Der.
A report, current at Bainb idge last Satur
DAY, that the body of Amos Jacks son, tn'
murdered negro, had been found in tn
river by the steamer Fearn proved uH
true.
Clerk Marion Erwin, Of the United State
district cnnrt, left Macon Friday for Was
ington. Mr.. Erwin Is prominently spoke
of as the successor OF Col. Dupont Guerr
as district attorney.
A Miss, Williamson, while visiting Mr.
Bat Gays last week, in the lower part o
Emaauel county, caught on Are about
O'Clock IN tae night ana died before l
O'Clock the same night.
George Fitzgerald of Roc1elle is the
proud owner Of 5 cent coin that has bee
in his possession since his boyhood days
was presented him by his grand mother, an
has worn smooth in his pocket
On Tuesday the supreme court granted I
rehearing Of the ergu nents in the case o
the fence ard stock law OF the TWENTY
seventh district Of Suaater county, and tn
case has been SET for next Ju e.
The carpet us d in the mansion Of Prei
dent Davis 1t Mont somery Is ia tho posse
sion Of w. T. Watsol OF Albany. IL wa
the carpet on which the oonfsderacy mai
It's debut into the society of nst oas.
Tho city council of Tho nasvil'e ha
granted the Thonasvills Electric Tiga
Company tae privilege n lighting the cit
by electricity for the tsrm of five year,
and work will be ,mmencei on the plan
at once.
John G. Willis, who lives on the farr
formerly owned by his father in Talbo
county, says that there are good cnestnu
rails now in use or the farm that wer
split by the Indians when they owned tina
country.
On Geo. Fl, Lesser's place near l. sxingtoy
is grave, the occupant of which, as show
BY the date Of birth and death given on tn
headstone, was 107 years old. The decease,
was a Mr.. Rickles. who lived on Mr.. Les
ter's place many years ago, and is remem
bered by some Of the older Inhabitants.
Owing t. the fact that tho town OF Lex
ington win probably e a railroad static
itself Ia the near future, the Georgia rail
road has changed the name Of the pressn
station from Lexington depo1 TO Crawfor
10 conform vita the name Of the town an,
postoiiice. This was done 10 prevent con
fusion.
Four more injured aud manned confed
crate veterans went before Ordinary Bac1l
az Lexington Monday, and two on Tues1a
last, and made applications for the pension
allowed by the state. This swells the mum
ber Of applicants from OglethOrpe count
TO twenty-seven, only Que Of whom having
in the county entitled to this pension VIII,
have not applied for it.
The rats on John Moore's plantation
near Swainsboro, are quite numerous, an
especially about his barn. He says ol las
Saturday night that he shut very larg
cat up in his barn, and the next morninG
when be went to see the result of the cat
nights work, that he had proven himsel
Quite equal to the task and had killed clever
large rats and piled them up nicely in tn,
middle of the floor of the barn.
c. B. Sims of Jonesboro, has a novel way
Of cleaning the SCOT of stove pipes. He
places we ,ght on f&stop Of the stove first
then takes about two charges Of gun-powdel
wraps it in paper, ahen the package i.
dampened, thrown 6 in the stove, the
powder flashes slight and blows all the
SCOT out Of the chimn ~. This would seem
dangerous, but it is etatirely harmless and
is most effective Say to clean out stove
pipe.
A negro man was shot in the ankle, either
accidentally or maliciously, near Faceville
one night about ten days ago by some un-
known party. The negro was sitting by the
FIRE in bis house when a pistol shot was
heard near by and he went out 10 investI-
gate. After he left the house several more
shots were fired, and soon afterwards he re-
turned TO the light and found that he had
been wounded in the ankle, though not Sc
riously. Suspicion points 70 the parties
probably guilty.
A hawk made dash at some chickens in
colored mans yard, near Americus, Thurs
day, and the old hen interfered. The two
fowls got into a furious fight, when a
daughter Of the man thought she would
capture the hawk, and grabbed II by the
tail, The infuriated bird turned on the
girl, tore her hand severely with it's talous,
har fna s.fxr ursI d