The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-17
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Committee OF the Capital City Club
Has Completed It's Report-An EnFi-
neer Killed at Blue Ridge-A New
Car Bumper-Excitemen at Euharlee
Over an Attempt to Ravish-
GEORGIA.
The Talbot county Alliance wheel has
determined to have a warehouse IN Talbot
ton.
Several big real estate transfers are ON
tie taps at Brunswick for the present
week.
At Brunswick work is to DO begun at
once on the plant for making Jugs, terra
Gotta pipes uras, ec.
William I. Kelsey of Albany is searching
in Brunswick and Savannah for his young
est son, who has run away from home to go
to sea.
AT Albany Saturday W. H. Gilbert, an
Albany druggist, bought the entire stock
and outfit of Hugo RObinsOns drug store,
and on or about October will open a first
class drug store,
A wagon rolled into Albany Saturday
loaded with five bales of cotton, and there
were three kinds of Dagging used. Two Of
them were covered with juts, two with
cotton bagging and one with pine straw
bagging.
GdlU6SVllleS property mas III
creased this year over last $3.50, 00O-$y5, 600
in realty and SIS, 600 in personal property.
The money that has come there for invest
ment since April l, amounts now 10 more
than 100000.
James n. VIM of Darien has invented
and PATENTED railroad car bumper that Is
expected to surpaSs former patents The
patent is complete in itself. IL is operated
from the side of the car by novel device,
and is destined to save many railroad coup
lers a horrible death.
The first rice from the Altamaha river
was shipped from Darien Friday night by
J. G. Segare to Savannah. The lot was
about 400 sacks Rice harvesting is now
going on at lively rate. Every owner of
plantations on the Altamaha river is busy
wit harvesting. The yield promises to be
grelt.
70 his surprise. Rev. Alland Barnwel
the Episcopal minister whose library was
burned in the East Macon fire few nights
ago, Saturday received letter from
Hawkinsville, incosing 5000 in cash. Mr.
Barnwell once lived at Hawkinsville, and
this substa atial evidence of good will must
be very gratifying to him.
A prominent planter in the third district
of Dooly county has new kind OF cotton,
that bears in the ground and out of it, be
was telling friend few days ago of it
and said that cotton bolls had actually
Snature6 under the ground and were now
opening, and that the top of the ground is
very white from these bolls, while the top
of the stalks are white to the harvest.
A telegram received in Macon Saturday
announces the arrival at New York from
Europe, of DR.. and Mrs. Emmett Black
shear, Of Macon. They sailed on the City
of Rome and encountered heavy seas They
were enroute from Sept. to sept. 49, DIR.
Blackshear has been i'll charge for sometime
of the Lo4don office of the 5. S. S. Com
pany, but he returns to Georgia to live.
At Macon Saturday there was a
long line of cotton bales on Fourth
street in front Of Prices ware
house white boy was seen to strike
a match on a tie and apply the light to a
bale of cotton. In a few moments eight
bales of cotton were ablsze Alarm was
given to the fire department, and the flames
were soon outed, with loss Of only about
500, covered by insurance. The cotton
had been bought by Mr.. Crutchfeld.
Prof. c. Nj. DoDson of Atlanta, mining
engineer, has just returned from a careful
examination of the iron fields i'll the north
eastern part of Georgia. He reports the
lands be has been looking over as exceed
ingly rich. not only in iron, but ingold and
other metals as we'll. 1t Is evident from
what Prof Dohson says, that big fortunes
are waiting for the men enterprising enough
to open up this country and wrestle with
the earth for its hidden treasures.
Ed Brewer, an engineer on the Knox
vile Southern railroad, was fatally in
jured Friday near Blue Ridge He died
Saturday Mr.. Brewer had got out of the
cab to look after the transferring and the
fireman was dong the switching W nile
Brewers attention was called to something
else, he was thrust between the tender and
a fiat on an adjoining track, and the lower
part of his abdomen was dreadfully mashed
he was young man and his parents live
near Calhoun.
A Digreal estate sale was contaminated last
week. 1t consisted of 1000 acres of timber
lands lying IN the counties Of Gilmer, Fan
min and Murray. The land was sold to a
New York state syndicate, prominent
among whom is j. |. Stanton of New York
John Gamble of w. NJ Scott g. Co. was
the prime mover for his firm in the big deal
The price paid is $4,000, or 81 33l6 per
acre. The purchasers will engage in lumber
milling on very large scale, and will open
up big industry in northwest Georgia.
An Albany special SAYS: lowing to YES
sells at Savannah and Brunswick which sail
to meet the corner at Liverpool there has
been great demand for cotton at this
place, on account of the quick time Ia
which 1t can be forwarded to the saaports
from this point. They have been unable TO
procure cargoes of cotton at the ports, and
III order to fill up quickly they have given
large orders to Albany buyers, which at
this time are about filled This has kept
the prices up. The buyers now look for a
lower market all over"
j. J. Jordan, night watchman of the
Central road at Macon, has invented an
attachment for brakes on freight cars
With this attachment one man inside the
conductors cab can instantly apply the
brakes to from one to ten cars, and Mr.
Jordan says can stop train of thirty loaded
cars wi,hln its own length The attach
ment Is simple and can be attached to anv
freight car with small cost. Mr.. Jordan
has applied for patent, aud will in a short
time give test of his invention Mechan-
les v no have seen it say that it is entirely
practical.
AT Americas Saturday night Mr.. Trinna
clerk OF the Allen house bar, happened Ia q
painful accident that came near resulting
seriously. Among the attractive curiosi.
ties In the bar is a very large live owl
When Mr.. Triple went to close the bar the
owl was missing. He found 1t in the street
On catching it the owl showed fight. and
succeeded in fastening its claws 50 securely
around one of Mr. Trippes wrists that he
found 1t impossible unaided, TO remove
them. As he owls clutch was very pain
full, Mr.. Trippe, in his desperation. got a
negro boy, who was near, to take a knife