The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF raG TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

GEORGIA.
DR.. 7. A. Rooney has rendered his resigna-
hon as postmaster at Acworth.
Samuel H. Cook and J. II. Salmon are
among the weeks dead at Brunswick.
The clapDer of the university bell at
Athens has disappeared. Boys will be
boys.
The Y. EM c. A has purchased the
Flemister place, at Griffin, at cost Of
$500. 1t is at the corner of Hill and
Poplar streets.
The Baptists of Dawson have decided to
go ahead with the erection of their new
church at once. 1t will be located on the
northwest corner of their present lot, and
will cost $4,000.
The Moaroe Baptist church met In con-
ference Sunday night and unanimously
called Rev. w. s. McCarty of jackson
county to ffl their pulpit for another year.
MIR. McCarty will move 70 Monroe at once.
John Bennett and his wife, of Walton
county, are the parents of fifteen living
children. They never lost a child. All the
children are blessed with sound minds and
sound bodies. There are six boys and nine
girls Only three are married.
Amanda Waters was found dead in her
house near Irwinton few da 8 ago.
Finger prints indicating that she been
checked tn death were found on h"l throat.
The coroner's jury brought in a verdict to
that effect. There is no clew 10 the muir
derer.
Walter Manor, residing inkthe lower part
of Douglas county, lost his dwelling and
kitchen and entire contents by fire last
Thursday night The kitchen was almost
consumed before he and family were
reused. Mr.. Manor has had the misfortune
to lose two of his children, his horse, and a
good wife, and bis home and contents dur
ing the present year.
Monroe RetUs: Last Sunday Mark GaeS-
ham (colored), who was speaking of buying
a horse from Mr.. Mat Nunnally asked to
be allowed to drive the horse. He hitched
the horse to his own buggy, and hit him a
hard cut with the whip, which caused the
horse to run into a fence, tearing up the
negroes buggy. This so enraged him that
he took stick and with it and heavy kicks
In the stomach, actually beat the horse to
death. Mr.. Nunnally had him arrested,
but dismissed the warrant when the negro
paid him for the horse.
A few days since a young woman with
two children arrived in Americas looking
for work She was ragged and without a
cent in the world. A few months since she
was happy, with a good home and an APP
parently good husband. But one day the
villain left her and the children, and since
look out for herself. She came to Ameri-
Gus looking for work, could not get it, and
with her children was without a cent. The
officers found it out, reported the case at
headquarters, and the mayor and police
men Immediately raised enough to send her
to relatives in Columbus.
Athens Bonner: At the last session of
the legislature there were passed a great
many bills which made a no-fence law for
Of
passed by the legislature without any ex-
preston OF opinion on the part of the peo-
pie. The result is that m any counties were
given a no-feace law that didn't want it,
and which was a ruinous expense to the
farmers. This was the case In nearly all
of the counties in Southern Georgia, where
sheep and cattle grazing il the chief indus
try. Owners or cattle had to fence in their
stock, which transferred no-fence law
into fence law. The supreme court came
TO the rescue Of these counties, and declared
that the law is unconstitutional in every
county III which it had not been submitted
TO the people, but had been passed
by the legislature without any action on
the part of the voters It ia claimed by
some that this decision also destroys every
special law passed to prevent the sale of
Intoxicating liquors within certain dis
lance OF churches etc. However this may
be, the fence law Is agitating the farmers
very much, and there will be several bills
before the present session TO remedy the
defective legislation. A bill Is being pre-
pared and will be offered at the first oppor-
tunlty, to make the no-fence law a general
law, so that any county that wants it can
adopt it by popular vote. This would place
it in the same class of laws as the local
option bill.
A special from Newman to the Atlanta
Journal says: A strange and sensational
story comes from the plantation of John
Goodwin, IN this county. Four negroes
living on the place have suddenly gone
crazy, and no cause can be assigned for the
strange attack of insanity. On Monday
night Aggie Curtis, a middle-aged negro
woman, began singing and screaming at the
top of her voice, and ran about quoting
scripture and acting in wild manner. II
any one ATTEMPTED TO approach her she
would apparently become fTenzied and
would scream and dash at them with fierce
gestures. She continued in this terrible
condition until the following Thursday
night, when she became positively uucon-
trollable. She was going on in one of
her worst fits, when suddenly SIZE was
Joined by her two daughters and her son-in-
law, who commenced singing ard praying
and screaming in the widest manner Oc-
casionally they would all quiet down for a
minute o. so, except the mother, who con-
tlnued TO grow even more desperate. The
sheriff was summoned to The house, and he
brought the crazy negroes TO Newman,
where two of them were adjudged lunatics
and sent to the asylum. The negro man
escaped to the woods, and it is thought that
he is hiding in the creek swamp near by.
The other woman was carried back to her
home by the father. He SAYS he believes
that she will ,ceover when her mother is
not with her No cause can be assigned by
any one 70, the sudden and dreadful attack
of insanity.
FLORIDA
The strike in V. Nj. Ybor &c Co.'s factory
at Tampa has not been settled yet
The Florida Central and Peninsula road
have sold all their lands lying in township
29 of range 81 east.
Capt. Field, in charge of the dredges aud
dredging at Port Tampa bar, says that
within three weeks he will have channel
through the bar of twentv-one feet clear