The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
edE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

GEORGIA
Numerous winter visitors are arriving at
Thomasville.
Forest fires are raging in portions of
Thomas county.
o. II. McWIlliams was elected mayor OF
East Rome Monday.
Drunken negroes came near causing
riot at Leesburg Saturday.
J.. l. Queen Of Clayton shot his foot off
with his gun while serenading.
The Merceridn, university annual, will
be issued by students at Mercer.
Work on the Middle Georgia and Atlantic
railroad is progressing most rapidly.
Athens is lighted by electricity. The
lights were turned on at 9 O'Clock p. m. Mon
day.
Work on the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION building at Athens is nearly colh-
pieted.
Brunswick is to have a large rice mill A
convenient site on the bay front has been
selected.
One hundred and twenty-five marriage
licenses were issued in Baldwin county,
during 1889.
Several residences in Milledgeville we're
raided by burglars last week. Not much
pillage was taken.
Lula Ray, who shot and killed a man
near Dawson, Friday, has been arrested at
Montgomery, Ala.
The congressional campaign in the Fourth
district is beginning TO open. Judge $. w.
Harris is spoken of as a certain candidate.
Monday night thief stole out of Mr..
Haines' lot, on Second street, Macon, two
ponies belonging to Letter Carrier Dew
berry.
The machinery for manufacturing fertil
izers Will be in position at the Milledgeville
Oil Mill this week. A high grade Of fertil-
Tiers will be made.
At GAINESVILLE last week well caved in
on a well digger. rock piling up high around
him. He was rescued, after hours Of work,
without scratch, his escape being mirac.
ulous.
Ben Reynolds was robbed Monday night,
at his home near Cassville, of $195 in cash,
and $500 note and about $50 or $50 worth
of other things. His family was in the
house at the time.
A personal encounter between Charles D.
Wood and John w. Fain at Rome, Sunday,
came very near TO ending in a duel, but the
intervention of mutual friends settled the
matter without hostile meeting.
Oscar Holmes, fine looking white man,
was arrested in Milton county on Saturday,
charged with counterfeitng. He was said
to have had sack full Of silver dollars
which were counterfeit, q number Of which
were passed.
The machinery for the distillery of Block
Bros. in Vineville has arrived, and distilling
will be commenced within a couple of
weeks. The capacity will be twenty barrels
per day, which makes it the largest dis
tillery IN Georgia.
Noah and Riley Garland had a difficulty
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Curtis, and a man named Long at Clayton
last week The Garland boys received
twenty-five knife cuts between them, and
are seriously hurt.
A Texas mule belonging to Mr.. William
Drew of the 7th district of Thomas county,
fell into a well thirty-five feet deep one day
the latter part of last week. Although he
remained in the well three hours before he
was taken out, he was found to be unin-
jured, and is now at work as usual.
Saturday night last, while a negro dance
was in progress on II. w. Prices plantation
near High Shoals, in Oconee county, a ne
gro named Scott Long from Monroe, Wal
ton county, was shot and instantly killed by
Percy Jones, negro boy about 10 or 20
years old. The difficulty was about a
woman.
Lewis Flaige, a farmer living about
twelve miles west of Brunswick. was
assaulted Saturday by Charles Trainer. a
farm hand whom he had discharged
Trainer attacked Flaige with q club and
gave him terrible beating, only desisting
when aneighboring farmer came to Flaige's
assistance.
Robert Hamilton. colored farmer Of
Camden county, has gathered and marketed
his rice crop of forty-one acres, which
yielded him eighty-six bushels per acre.
He also gathered 100 bushels of corn, raised
his own meat for this year, and more than
enough sweet potatoes, sugar cane, and
vegetables
Tuesday morning, as Miss Susie Dukes of
East Macon was driving to her home, the
horse became frightened at the raising and
lowering of the gates at the East Tennessee
railroad crossing, and threw the young lady
from the buggy. She was knocked sense
less, and her head and face received several
very painful bruises.
Monday, at Rocky Ford station, on the
Central railroad, Frank Washington, a
negro boy of about IA years of age, cut an
old negro named Moflit with razor across
the neck, making serious wound. The
boy was arrested and brought to Sylvania
Monday night by Sheriff Mills and lodged
in Jail to await his trial.
There is great excitement in a neighbor.
hood about five miles west of Palmetto
over an outrage committed on a white lady
by negro named Kit Bustian. 1t took
place Monday morning about or O'Clock,
while the husband of the woman was In
town. When he returned home and found
out about it he swore out a warrant anC
had Bustian arrested. 1t is feared he will
be lynched.
When DR.. c. J. Toole opened the door Of
his office on Cotton avenue, Macon, Oh
Monday morning he found to his great
amazement large pool of blood on the
foor near window. He then noticed that
pane in tue window had been broken. and
an examination of the window sill showed
numerous blood stains. 1t did not take the
doctor long to arrive at the following con.
clusion, which is evidently a correct one. A
thief broke the pane of glass and thrust hi
arm through in order to undo the inside fas
tening of the window. He was in such {
hurry that he cut his arm with the sharI
edges of the window glass. From the guam
tlty OF blood on the floor it is supposed tina
he must have opened an artery. There i
no clue as to who the burglar was.
FLORIDA.
The new signs for the streets in st. Angus
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