The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEws OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Insane by Worrying over Money!
Ssndersville Newspaper Sells Out
One Negro Killed and Ten Knock ed
Senseless by a Flash of Lightning.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta's elephant has been named Clio.
The Baptists of Leesburg have recently
finished church al a cost of 81, 500. 1t has
a seating capacity Of 800.
The Chattahoochee Valley Exposition
Company will hold an interesting drill at
Columbus, Nov. TO, II, and y.
There is promise of new evening paper
for Rome. Col w. Trox Bankston, Of the
Ringgold Nea0 South, is figuring on it.
Wilcox county viii hold an election Aug
q to decide whether the county site shall bt
removed to Rochelle or remain at Able
vile.
An electrical expert has been in Macon
several DAYS looking into the cost, ETC., of
the construction of an electric line for the
proposed new Metropolitan road.
Mrs. Charlotte Sylar died at Gainesville
Sunday morning. She was born in Dand-
bridge, Tenn, Sept. 10, 1897. She came to
old Cassville in 1888, where hes neighbors
were the Indians. She has lived in Polk
county ever since.
Some time during the latter part Of Fri
day night, some miscreant broke into
Messrs. Taylor & Jones' saloon at Coving-
ton, on the east side of the park, and after
robbing it of whatever they wanted, set fire
20 the shed room in four places. A timely
discovery prevented the destruction OF the
building.
u. o. w. Bolan and wife died Of ty-
phold fever at Hawkinsville Saturday. Mr..
Bolan was a stepson of John r. Beverly, the
senior editor of the Hawkinsville Nel0s and
Dispatch, and had held a trusted position
connected with the Office for a number of
years. His wife was daughter of W. ii.
Spurlin, who lives near Hawknsville.
A. J. Jernigan of Sandersville has effected
a trade with r. G. Hyman and Frank Daley
of Wrightsville, who bought out the presses,
type, ETC., of the Mercury, which has been
published in Sandersville for several
years.. The outfit will be re-
moved to WrighUsville in about
week, and a new paper, under the name Of
the Farmers Herald, will be started. Mr..
Lyman will be the editor. The paper will
be owned by q stock company.
Capt. Whack Bailey of the firm of Rose
& Bailey Of Atlanta, wholesale liquor deal
era. has a generous heart in his bosom.
Since J. III. High e. Co. have offered 81, 900
for the most beautiful woman to ride on
their float, Capt. Bailey's heart has gone out
in sympathy for the ugly women Of the
state He has determined to get up hand
some float to be in Thursdays parade In
the center will be a sort of throne with
costly surroundings. Capt. Bailey has
offered $500 to the ugliest woman in Geor-
gia if she will come to Atlanta on that day
and ride on the throne fixed to the float.
Sunday noon at old Marion church, lin
Twiggs county, about twenty-one miles
from Macon, while services were being held,
with a congregation of five hundred negroes
a dark cloud gathered over the church, and
rain commenced to fall in torrents. Sud
denly there came a vivid flash, accompanied
by quick and terrific peal of thunder. The
lightning struck tree about thirty yards
from the church, under which thirteen DER
sons we're gathered. One negro was killed
and ten wounded, several Of whom were
severely hurt, and one, it is thought, will die
The entire party was hurled to the ground
senselesS. A mule was also very badly hurt
Luke Glover was the name of the negro who
was killed. The wounded are: J. Graggs,
Luther Carswell, Seab Robin, Paul Hart,
Ben Bonds, Rob Burnet, Sam Sans, Gabe
Cornelius, William Wilson aud Bob Hart
Arlington Banner: Last Wednesday the
family of MIR. John Mills were startled by
seeing Vircey Mike, colored woman, and
tenant on the place, coming toward the
AShSO foFAh6 LSA al LAos 0ollluk III dCOluk
in very peculiar manner, but after reach
ing the house she was found to be raving
mad. Assistance was summoned, and, after
much difficulty she was secured and carried
to her cabin. She continued to
grow worse, and at times it took
several stout men to hold her. During her
quieter moments she would sit up in bed,
and, holding the quilts between her hands
would gnaw on them like an animal, and at
thar- l.
by the roots AS night approached she
grew worse, and along about midnight
she died. She was an economical and in
dustriouS woman and had saved I'D
snug little sum of money, and it
was this that caused her death. She
imagined that some one was trying to steal
1t from her, and 1t preyed on her mind until
she became raving mad. Her death caused
conservation among the negroes in the
neighborhood. They said she had been be-
witehed, and it was a hard matter to find
enough to assist in burylng her.
Jackson Vidette. In the year 1850 there
came to jackson from South Carolina a
young man naturally gifted with much
physical beauty and mind trained in one of
the best northern colleges. He had already
won some local distinction in his native
state. His visit to this place was 10 correct
habits of dissipation that had already made
serious iaroads upon his health He
thought that in place so far removed from
any largo city, a residence of several months
would entirely cure his bodily ills. and
also that craving appetite that carried
him into excuses against his own will. He
was hopeful and careful and his associations
were none but the best, and the object of
his visit seemed in a fair way to be accom-
plished, when malignant fever, the germs
of which he PROBABLY brought with him
from the Carolina lowlands, carried him
of. His last words were: Thou art
weighed in the balance and found wanting
DE was buried in the southwestern corner
OF the cemetery, and simple marble slab
tells the world that he was 81 years of age
and the son of Robert Y. Hayne, one Of
South Cardinals most distinguished men,
and nephew to John c. Calhoun, her most
celebrated senator.
Col. B.. h Robinson, one of Blakely's
Oldest and most highly respected citizens,
dled Saturday at his residence in that place.
DE was born in Warrenton, Ga, July %,
1914, and was 70 years and 16 days old. In
1850 he was engaged with Hon. Thomas
HAYNES in publishing a newspaper at
Mllleogeville, and under his supervision
Georgia had her first journals of the Senate
and House of Representatives published He
afterward was i'll the executive department
under Gov. Schley. He moved to Early
county in 1888 and established a successful
mercantile business in Fort Gaines and
Blakely. He held several offices of
honor and trust, and represented Early
county in both houses of the legislature be-
fore the war, and discharged all duties