The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-19
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEws OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


of Years-A Savannah Man Inter-
ested in a Valuable Pstent-A Re
union at Summerville Tomorrow.
GEORGIA.
Rome's exposition opens Oct. Is.
There is talk of organizing a cavalry
company at Adele.
Tomorrow is the date Of the Masonic
celebration at Waycross.
A number of electric light companies had
Representatives in WaynesbOro last week
making bids for lighting the city.
The squad drill of the LaGrange Light
Guards has been postponed because the
entries we're too few to make the affair a
success
William Blair of Marietta had desperate
encounter with mad dog few days ago.
His hand was lacerated and he fears hydro
phobia.
At Griffin, Saturday, J. A. Waterman
(whitel and John Martin (colored) were con-
victed of forgery, and sentenced each to
the penitentiary for a term Of three years
Capt. R. Nickerson has on his lot on
Clayton street at Atlanta the largest sun
flower ever seen 10 that part Of the coun-
try. 1t measures 23% inches in diameter,
or lacks onequarter OF an inch of measuring
two feet across.
On the plantation Of DR.. j. T. Chappell,
In the northern portion of Laurens county.
night or two ago, difficulty arose be
tween Ely and Crawford Roar, both
negroes, which resulted in each being
carved up by the other, Ely dangerously
so.
C. F. Johnston and J. #. Gum, two farm
ers of Warren county, engaged In an old
time fist fight in the store oil K. A. Harda-
way at Warrenton Saturday. No one was
seriously hurt. The fight grew out of a
business settlement Each man weighs
nearly 200 pounds.
The Thirty-ninth Georgia regiment will
have a reunion at SummervllIe tomorrow,
to which veterans OF all the commands and
everybody else is invited. In connection
with the reunion there will be an old
fashioned Georgia barbecue Gov. Gordon
will be present and deliver an address.
The military of Macon desires that the
Georgia Agricultural Society offer liberal
prizes for great rife match at the state
fair in October next, between teams OF
military companies, to be open to the
world. 1t is possible that the management
will take hold of the contest in earnest.
At Albany, Saturday, Z. w. Randall
presented Lieut.. Col Wight. of the Sew
enth Georgia battalion, an order for the
artillery pieces formerly in possession Of
the artillery company here The order was
signed by c. w. Wiley, Lieutenant Colonel
of the Second Georgia battalion, and T. ID.
Huguenin, adjutant. The field pieces were
shipped TO Macon by Mr.. Randall.
The sheriff of Irwin county passed
through Americas a day or two ago with
Charles Reeves (colored) who is wanted in
Irwin county for killing a white man there
last February. He was captured at River
side, Ala. last week. The prisoner said
that he thought that he would be- lynched,
and begged the sheriff to protect him, but
SAID if he was to be hanged he would just
as soon be lynched as anything else.
Tom Golden tcolored), who shot Jerry
Hampton (colored) in Frank Pollard's bar
at Brunswick July z had his preliminary
examination Saturday. Golden was for
merly a barber in Savannah. Justice
Coker bound Golden over in $500 to appear
at the next term of the superior court to
answer to the charge of assault with intent
to murder. Golden furnished the bond.
He says that when the case comes up for
trial he will have plenty of witnesses to
prove that Hampton fired first.
Macon abounds In business stands which
have remained in the same places for many
years There is no lack of enterprise among
the business men, but when they settle upon
a particular location they are, rule,
aterse to leaving it for another. There are
some notable instances of this on Second
street. There is a shoe store standing on
the place where it was first opened sixty
years ago. and it is managed under the same
firm name. On the same street is drug
store which has been running for thirty
years. Mrs. V. S. Cope has just rented out the
modest little stand on Third street, where
for the past thirty-two years, first her
mother and then herself kept fruit stand
and confectionery store, and now, for the
first time in all those years, the store is to
be occupied by stranger. Mrs. Cope was
the lady who, when young girl, had the
courage to wave her handkerchief as a
salute of honor of jefferson Davis, who
was passing along the street as a prisoner
of war; surrounded by federal soldiers. Mr..
Davis never forgot the incident. and after
ward wrote her graceful letter of &c
acknowledgement.
OF the 400 letters patent granted Aug. 10
by the United States patent office three
were to citizens of Georgia The first was
to Gotlieb A. Aeuchbach of Atlanta for an
improved car truck. The invention en-
braces certain details in construction
adapted to afford less friction to the axles
and to provide for the truck easily turning
sharp curves. The axle bearings have hori-
Zontal play as well as the usual vertical play
in order that the car may turn sharp
curves without jar or breakage. Friction of
the axles is reduced to a minimum by
brasses. Georgia shares the honor with
Pennsylvania of what is probably a very
valuable improvement in signal lights for
vessels, Frank A. d. Hancock of Savannah
being joint inventor with Charles II. Kayl
of Pennsylvania. With this signal light or
direction indicator an observer upol one
vessel can readily determine the angle of
approach of another vessel. In addition to
the well known port" and standard"
lights required by law, this invention en-
ploys supplementary lights, which are each
provided with horizontal and vertical re-
Electors having the contour of the segment
OF a paraboloid These refectors,
in the common focus of which the light is
placed; are situated at an angle to each
other, by which arrangement the bands of
light reflected from one will be visible
through a range of points different from
that through which the other is visible.
The third patent was granted to Luna J.
Aderhold of Waco for a machine for max
ing wire braces. The construction of the
machine is such that as the wire is fed from
the reel it is bent into V-shaped braces for
beds fences, ETC., the free ends of the
braces being looped and twisted before the
finished product is delivered from the ma
chine.
FLORIDA.
Senator Call was handshaking at Gaines
vile Saturday.