The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGRAPHS.
n New Electric Motor Invented at
Atlanta-A Combined Corn Shelter
and Planter-An Election Day Rum
pus at Elberton to Come Before the
United States Court at Atlanta This
Week.
DR.. W. 7. Park of Atlanta died Sunday
CT spoplexy.
Prof d. C. Barrow declines TO be candi-
date for mayor of Athens.
The Waynesboro oil mill will this season
use only cotton bags for sacking the meal.
Judge w. S. Godbee has received the
appointment as postmaster at Perkins juno
lion.
Several Of the young men of Americas
are taking steps TO organize a lodge Of the
knights of Pythias.
The Covington aud Oxford street railroad
continues to prosper, and its stock consti-
rutes g, paying investment.
Brunswick's three STATE banks will be
open for business in the immediate future.
She will then have five banks.
The state convention of the Christian
rhurch in Georgia will convene with Hunter
Elberton has new postmaster in the per-
Son of Miss Ella NJ Henry, H. K Gaisden
having been removed for political reasons
alone.
The case against Sandy Wilcox, a gam
bier Of Macon charged with vagrancy, has
fallen through, owing to legal techni.
cality.
The Hotel Bon Air at Augusta is COM
pleted. 1t will be thrown open TO the
health and pleasure seekers from the north
ana west on Nov. |.
1t is stated that the Albany Fertilizer and
Farm Improvement Company, withil less
than year, have shown a profit of % per
cent. upon the investment.
The farmers alliance in Ebert has deter
mined not to sell any cotton wrapped in
cotton bagging without the eight pounds
difference in that and jute, and they seem
likely to carry their point.
The democrats Of Madison county will
meet at Danelsville on the first Tuesday in
November for the purpose Of electing a
chairman, and to elect democratic execu-
tive committee for the county
Cordele will bid for the alliance exchange.
There is no doubt that at least S15, 900 will
be bid, If the amount will be an inducement.
One man there has put his name down for
$1,000, and others are giving equally as lib
orally.
A meeting of the Glasscock County
Farmers Alliance was held at Gibson last
week, and the alliance men passed resolu-
tons for all members to hold their cotton
until January next, as they want better
prices for their cotton, and will not sell
owing to the decrease in the market
AT Albany, Saturday, Ned Vickers,
charged with the murder of Smith Henry,
in East Dougherty, at his commitment trial
before Justice Robert, was discharged for
lack of sufficient evidence TO convict. The
brutal assassination of Smith Henry re-
mains unavenged and wrapped in mystery
Lafayette Messenger: Joe Ship. who
lives on the Ringgold road, just beyond
Dock Viewers lanyard, will be the OBJ
served OF all observers on Oct. 20. He will
ride to the reunion at Crawfish the same
mule that he rode in the battle of Chicka-
manga twenty-six years ago. The old four
legged veteran ought to have a double
supply Of badges.
1t is feared that the scarcity of labor In
Southwest Georgia at present will leave a
large proportion of the cotton in the fields
unpicked, thus iessening the receipts con-
sldeTably. Women are doing the greater
part OF the contemplating this season, the
men seeking other labor in the towns.
which, with the innumerable industries
springing up, offer remunerative prices
Two negroes disguised as Indians stopped
with Mr.. Balling at Summerville, and
said that they had come to recover buried
silver bars worth $1,000. They had maps
OF the country around Summerville, and SO
fully convinced Mr.. Balling that they were
all right that he gave them $50 for the sup
posed buried treasure. When he dug up
the earth az the place indicated he found
that he had been fooled. The negroes were
overtaken at Trion and the money was
recovered.
Brunswick Times: The Brunswick Ter
minal Company furnished Saturday a COM
pressed bale of cotton, which will be for
wardsd to Atlanta and added to the cargo
OF. the Glynn. The bale weighs $40 pounds.
ana so powerful is the compress through
which 1t was carried that the entire bale
only occupies an area of thirteen cubic feet.
making each cubic foot represent a weight
OF A pounds. This is one of the smallest
bales ever turned out, and it tells plainly of
the immense power of the terminal COM
pany's Pelican press.
II have just returned from a trip of
thIrty-f1ve miles around Albany" said J.
h. Whitehead, prominent cotton buyer
and manager of the Albany compress. II
find," he continued, that the fields ara
white with cotton 1t is not half picked
yet Aibany's cotton receipts promise to
be very large this year. By another season
VIC Sndii nave 20 uouDle the CAPACITY of our
compress. Now we press 500 bales daily
Another year we shall have to compress
1000 in the same space of time. We have
been kept very busy this fall"
Fort Gaines Star: The steamer Ellis
Capt. Layham, which passed up the river
the other night, had displayed in con-
spicuous place an order just received from
the board of United States steamboat in
spectors, positively prohibiting the accept
ance for shipment by steamboats, of all
cotton covered cotton. The same order will
apply to ocean vessels, and will result in
bringing about complications seriously
detrimental to the interests Of the farmer.
1t looks very much like the government
was in collision with the base rogues who
are so systematically robbing the southern
farmer.
Last November, on presidential election
day. a difficulty occurred between some
young men in Elberton, one of whom had
voted for the Harrison electors. He. il
seems, got the worst of the encounter. The
grand jury, at the last term of the superior
court, returned bill against one of the
young men for assault and battery, to
which he pleaded guilty, and was punished.
Now number of citizens who witnessed
the affair have been subp6naed to appea
in Atlanta this week before the grand iurv