The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NE VS. OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

q Well at Grif1n-An Attempted As
eassination at Monroe-Higher In
surance May be Put on at Macon.
GEORGIA
The young men of Marietta are making
efforts to organize military company.
Gilbert Birdsong of Pulaski lost his
pocketbook Tuesday. Itcontained S95.
Capt Couch Of the Atlanta police force
has resigned to become city court baliff.
Columbus is to have magnificent new
cemetery, to be called Riverdale cemetery.
J. J. Leonard Of Cary has a cat that is
the mother of f1fty-four kittens by actual
count
Walter B. Cheatham will be a candidate
for mayor Of Dawson at the approaching
December election.
1t is reported that the Southeastern
Tariff Association may increase the rates Of
fire insurance in Macon.
Sealed bids will be received for the
building of the Rochelle Baptist church and
Masonic ball until Dec. 2.
Col R. d. Locke's friends at Macon are
circulating petition in that city for sigma
lures indorsing him for postmaster.
Six saw mills in Terrell county are run
ming at full speed making ties and bridge
tlmbers for the Columbus Southern.
1t is alleged that tn ere are in Macon the
representatives of three different concerns
that wish to buy the Macon dummy line.
Americas will have to act at once if she
is going to raise $1,000 to secure the re-
moval Of w. G. Sutherland's foundry from
Michigan. 1t employs fifty men.
Ten days hence the North Georgia Meth
odist conference meets in annual session to
learn Of the work of the past year and pro-
vide the work for the ensuing year.
The eighth session of the Macon annual
conference Of the African Methodist Episco-
pal church convened at Milledgeville
Wednesday, Bishop w. J. Gaines of At
lanta presiding.
Harry c. Fisher, manager of the Coweta
Fertilizer Company, was in Griffin Tues
day TO contract with the Griffin Fertilizer
Company for guano, and succeeded in
making contract for 1921 900 worth.
A furnace for Rome is now an assured
fact. Fifty thousand dollars has been
subscribed 10y the citizens and as much
more will be added by the company, which
will locate the furnace Other enterprises
will follow.
The dwelling and furniture of c. s. Col
Inns, who lives four miles southwest of
Griffin. was burned Monday night. Mr..
Collins has 1865 insurance on his furniture,
and there is $500 on the house, all in the
Northern Assurance Company of Aberdeen
and London.
The two Scott negroes, who were con-
vlcted at the last term of DeKalb superior
court for assault committed on the person
of Mr.. Bond, at Lithonia, after carving
their cases to the supreme court, have had
TO go on to the penitentiary, each for term
OF twenty years.
A letter purporting to be from Rube Bur-
rows has been received by the Atlanta
police, In which the writer denies that he
has been interviewed by any newspaper
correspondents. The letter claimed that
the writer was in Spartanburg, S. c., but
was on the point Of leaving for North Caro-
lima.
A lady or Cochran ran a splinter into her
finger last week. The wound gave her So
much pain she decided to ''tie il" up. On
rising the next morning she thought she
would remove the bandage to see how the
injured member was progressing and she
was astonished to find that she had wrapped
up the wrong fingerl
At Albany, Tuesday morning, a missiye
was found tackled against an electric light
pole, warning officer Tom James that the
writer was going to give him -. He said
that his partner was in jail, but that he
could not be caught, and that he was going
TO remain in the city long enough to fix,
Officer James and D. Greenfield. against
whom he seemed to have some special
grudge.
William Fletcher, son-in-law of Joe Dunn
Oh Marietta, has very mysteriously disap-
peared from Cobb county. He went to
town on sale day of last week, riding a
mule, and when last seen he was going
toward Atlanta riding the mule He has
lert wife and seven children. He had
about $50 in money when he left. His
creditors attached his crop, but his wife has
applied to the ordinary to give her a years
support out OF 1t, which will leave the
creditors out in the cold.
At Griffin the street force has been en-
gagged for several days in grading hill
near the Central railroad depot for the mr.
pose OF macadamiZing. An old we'll had TO
De nlled in the work, and while engaged in
this wednesday Sanford Champion. one of
the hands, lost his footing and plunged head
nrst Into the water which was thirty feet
deep. His position for few minutes was
Perlious, but by the prompt action of his
fellow workmen he was rescued with moth
ing more serious than plunge bath.
Tuesday night about 10 o'clock, negro
named John Anthony was taken from
the jail in Lincolnton by a large party
of men and carried off. It is supposed he
has been lynched. Some parties went to
the Jallors house and shouted that the iail
was on fire. The jailor ran out with the
keys. When about fifty yards from his
house he was overpowered and the KEYS
taken from him. The men then went
quietly to the jail and carried the negro off.
A short time ago, Anthony broke into the
bedroom OF Mrs. Dozier in Lincolntop. in
the night, while MIR. Dozier was absent.
State Treasurer Hardeman passed some
time Wednesday in making an estimate of
what the legislature of 1S8S-'S9 would cost
the state. On looking over his pay rolls he
found the fall session, which lasted forty-
six days, cost the taxpayers a trifle over
$4,000. BY applying the rule of three he
ascertained that If forty-six days cost
1000, 100 days would cost $16l, 900. This
viii make the total cost of the last legisla-
ture S22S, coo, or nearly a qurter of a
million. The legislature of 18S6-'S7 cost the
state s1S6, 600 The pay rolls, however. will
show that the last legislature did So. 900
worth more work than its predecessor, and
also took in the exposition.
Monroe Nelos: Ten days ago, Mr.. Dock
Carithers received the letter of which the
following is a verbatim copy: 'Sir: We
write you this to inform you if you want to
live, you had better leave the country in
ten days; if you don't we will come up TO
see you some night, and not only kill YOU.
but will burn you also You must leave
that is all that will satisfy us. OGLE,
THoRPEs." Monday night about half-past