The morning news., 1889-05-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A pelicate Operation Under the surgi'
cal Knife--A Negro Boy Who is Born
to Be a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to Be
Lighted By Eiectricity-Col Smith to
start an Extensive Dairy Farm
Baldwin Unlucky With Her Bridges
GEORGIA
Prof G. c. Moore, principal of the Val
dosta Institute, died last Sunday Morning.
A, B. Fits, editor of the Carrollton
Times, has been taken to the state insane
ASYLUM at Milledgeville.
A charter for the Perry Loan and Saving
Bank will be applied for at the July session
of the Georgia legislature.
Green Griffith, the negro who was SEN
tenced TO be hung on june s, IN Zsbulon,
has been granted a new trial
An effort is being made by parties in
Athens TO get up base ball league COM
posed Of clubs from surrounding towns.
Several Savannah merchants have made
contributions to the fund for the benefit OF
Valdosta's new military company, the
Yidettes.
Thursday a real estate agent OF Griffin
sold to a gentleman from Kentucky piece
of land near that town for Sl,2O0 which
two years ago was considered high at SOU
Fully 1900 persons witnessed the impress
i've and entertaining ceremonies OF LAYING
the cornerstone of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association building at Athens Thurs
day.
Thomasville's city council will make a
contract with the Electric Light and Power
Company 10 furnish Thomasvlle with ad-
ditional light, as soon as the company is IN
q position to make contract
VHr 10 in
jured in the railroad accident near Way
cross in March, 1885, and who has suffered
excruciating pain ever since with christian
fortitude, died at Gainesville Friday.
A disease commonly known as yellows is
attacking fruit trees in Oglethorpe county,
and in soma orchards is playing havoc.
The leaves of the trees begin by whiting,
turning bright yellow, and in a week or
so the tree is dead.
The surviving members OF the old Fifty
third Georgia regiment will probably have
q reunion sometime in July. The place has
not yet been decided upon, but it is quite
probable that Covington will be selected as
ths place of meeting.
The Quitman Home Guards held a meet
ing Wednesday night for the election of
officers Wallace Mathews having declined
to run on account Of professional duties, j.
Mullen was elected first sergeant aud G. Y.
Avera second sergeant.
Norcross' town council has been knocked
out by railroad superintendent. The couu-
ell decreed that no passenger train should be
allowed to stop on the crossing at the depot.
The railroad superintendent ordered trains
to run through, and the council succumbed
and rescinded the ordinance.
On last Tuesday morning the dwelling Of
z. A. Butts, farmer residing in the east
ern part of Baldwin county, was totally
destroyed by fire, together with part Of the
contents. Three outhouses and two gins
were also destroyed. The loss is estimated
et $1,000. with no insurance.
The rich coal beds Of the Dade company,
which have been profit bly, worked for a
long time, have been supplemented by the
recent discovery near by of a new and i'm
msnse coal bed on the land Of the company.
At the present rate of output at the old
mine, the new discovery can be worked for
100 years.
Capt johnson Of Brunswick is doing his
share toward keeping up the bird crop of
that section. He is buying up coops OF
cartridges, or quails as some call them,
1rom the interior and turning them loose
near the city. He set flock at liberty yes
terday morning. These will multiply very
A4dttTlhiy w Lut utAb ecbSOu.
The latest feature Col. j. M. Smith con-
templates adding to his many industries
upon his mammoth farm, in Oglethorpe
county, is dairy business on large scale.
He will keep several hundred cows, ship
ping the milk and butter from them to the
principal markets in the state in refrigerat-
ing cars constructed especially for the bust
ness
On Tuesday of last week Mrs. D. B. Car
roll Of Quitman received a telegram an
enonncing the death of her brother, James
=. Harris, at Lake City, Fla, and within a
few hours another telegram stating that
another brother, William S. Harris, had
just died at Sulphur Springs. Tex. They
were both old men, the former being about
7S and the latter 68.
A 1S-year-old sou of Noah Reeves, who
Hives near Cedartown, picked up dynamite
cartridge one day last week in an aban-
doned ore bank and commenced picking at
Sc with a thorn. The result was an explosion,
which tore off the thumb and first two
fingers of the left hand and the index fiuger
of the right hand Fragments Of the shell
also made flesh wounds in the boys face.
The Mulberry Street Methodist church of
Macon has received the present year 125
members, and during the sixteen months
pastorate of Rev. T. r. Kendall $50 members.
The church contributed the past year for
religious purposes very nearly, If not quite.
$4,000. The week night prayer services
have been the leading factor under God for
strengthening and enthusing the heart OF
the church.
A young son Of Charles Ware (colored) of
Greensboro has decided talent as a
sculptor. A camel made by him from white
clay Is almost perfect piece Of workman
ship The form, proportions, the ears and
sleepy appearance Of the eyes are well re-
produced in the inanimate clay. The boy
never but once saw a camel and fashioned
the one mentioned out Of the clay unaided
and undirected
At GAINESVILLE the memorial services
were postponed from April 26 until Friday
last, on account of the confederate monu-
ment not arriving on time. It arrived last
Monday and was put in position, and Is a
credltable monument to any community
and the noble cause it is intended for The
exercises OF the day were unusually inter
esting The tribute to the noble dead by
MAJ. J. +. Hanson Of Macon was very fne.
; The infant son of j. G. Knight, Of Cedar
town, died Tuesday from the effects of a
scaldng received Monday. The child had
Deem left lying on pallet in front Of the
fireplace, while Mrs Knight was attend
Eing 10 her household duties. During her
absence boiler Of hot water was over
turned by the burning of the wood on which
~ was resting. The boiling water envelopsd
tne httle one, in1icting injuries which
proved fatal.
=, me national convention Of the United
MAchinists and Mechanical Engineers OF
America Will be held Ia the Senate chAmbar