The morning news., 1890-11-10
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT N TYPE.

kufnOr T1at DIRECTION W aS DNGllSO II
Engy-The Military Feature at the
State University.
GEORGIA.
The claaper to tae college bell at Athens
has not been found yet
The Baldwin Blues of Minedgeville have
received a new set Of three-click bronz5C
guns.
There are now 346 students il the N. @,
NJ. and A. College in Milledgsville, 1S4
female and 1872 male
In Worth county last week. Lewis Wat
son. charged with murder, was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged on Dec. 5
Three more good male teachers can get
schools at reasonable salaries by applying
to r. J. Guinn, school commissioner OF
Rockdale county.
The temperance society at Cairo is
steadily increasing. 1t is scarcely four
months since it was organized, and it now
has membership Of nearly one hundred
MIR. Williamsonsof Cairo has in his poses
sion and use a set of chairs and an oven
which are more than hundred years old.
They were the property Of his great grand
father.
J. r. Shipman, a white man, has been
locked UP at Atlanta, charged with killing
his wife. Il is said that he gave her ter
rible beating about week ago, which, II Is
thought, caused her death Friday.
The steward of the insane asylum at
Milledgeyille is now ready to receive bids
for supplying the asylum with from l,00C
to IL 100 hounds of choice beef daily for the
year 1891. Bids will be received up 70
Dec. /.
Mr.. Cheney has presented the exhibit Of
the Athens Manufacturing Company, at
TrH. kv-ia al EIr,r,aa cd
the Farmers' Club, to be sold and an equal
division of the money made. This will
amount to about $40.
At Atlanta few nights ago VIII VIII
hams and Harvey Wyatt, two negro prls-
oners, engaged in a fight at the Jail, in
which Wyatt inflicted wound upon Will
linrns with knife: which resulted in the
latter's death Friday.
The residence of Mr.. Sills at Cairo came
near being consumed by fire on
Wednesday morning. By prompt action
on the part of friends who were near, no
serious damage was done. The cause was
a defective stove tiue.
On Wednesday last Willie Wiggins, aged
between Is and is years, son Of L. D. Wig
gins, who lives near Edison, fell under the
wheels Of a wagon and was almost instantly
killed. The wagon passed across his chest
and crushed his breastbone. He lived about
an hour.
Pulaski Recorder: The honorable jus
tices Of the 3S6th district, 6. NJ, Cochran's
district. are clamoring for a courthouse.
Sometimes court sits in Thomps0n's ware
house, sometimes in Hester g. Gardner's
blacksmith shop sometimes in one place and
then in another, becoming, as it were, q
nisi prius on small scale.
There are number of prisoners in the
Gwinnett county jail charged with felonies
who cannot be tried at the December ad-
journed term because there are no bills
against them. Judge Hutchins has been con-
sidering the. question Of drawing a grand
jury for the adjourned term to save the
county the expense OF keeping these
prisoners inlail until next March.
Bills will be read in full in the legislature
on their first reading, as prescribed in the
constitution. Attorney General Anderson
arrived in Atlanta Friday, and his official
decision, as the legal adviser of the governor,
was formally given. II was against the
amendment. The attorney generals opinion
is 10 be incorporated in the proclamation,
issued by the governor, declaring that the
amendment failed Of adoption.
At Seneca, s. c., few days ago X. w.
Alexander Of Toccoa was putting coup
ling link of freight car in place at time
when the engineer had been signaled co go
ahead. Some green hand signaled to back
the train, when, unknown and unexpected
by Mr.. Alexander, it came back and
mashed his arm between the dead blocks.
DIR. Doyle found ampuration necessary at O
point between the shoulder and elbow.
Robert T. Clayton, recently retired
United States consul to Para, Brazil, who
has been spending some weeks with his
mother, Mrs. L. Clayton, and family, in
Greensboro, leaves to-day for New York,
and will shortly embark for South America
Mr.. Clayton has been secured as resident
agent in Pare for one Of the largest steam
ship lines between the United States aud
South America, and will continue to make
that country his home.
Charlie Locke. aged 10, and Charlie
Grant. aged about 81, got into difficulty
az corn-shucking In Hart county Thurs
day night. Their differences were ap-
parently adjusted, but on their way home
the quarrel was renewed and terminated in
q fight, in which Lackie received a blow in
the face, and in turn stabbed Grant in the
shoulder and in the abdomen, the latter
cut, 1t is said, penetrating the hollow and
being exceedingly dangerous. Lackie was
arrested.
The military feature of..the'state univer-
sity at Athens Is now under good headway.
Col G. NJ. SnelliRg, the commandant, has
divided the students into two companies of
about fifty each, and assigned officers to
each. Capt. Dudley Youngblood of At
lanta, handles Company A in an excellent
manner while Capt. Marion Hull of Athens.
does the same by Company B. There is
splendid material in the university for two
as fine companies as can be found any where.
But there is sad need in the line Of proper
accoutrements for the companies.
Mr. Cherry, northern gentleman who is
now in Thomasville visiting the scenes of
other days when he was an escaped prisoner
of war, ran across an interesting curiosity
in an old negro's hut The relic is an old
handmade chair which was constructed by
some soldier during an idle hour. The
following inscription is carved in rough but
plain letters on the back: wv. D. Summers,
Company B, Fla. St. Artillery, 1864" The
old negro from whom Mr. Cherry secured
this antique piece of furniture, if it can be
called such. says the chair has been in her
possession for the past twenty-five years.
The students of the University of Georgia
are democratic to the core, and when the
news spread that the democrats had made a
clean sweep all over the union and were ad-
vancing steadily to supremacy in the ma
ton, their joy got the best of them, and
they made raid on boxes, barrels and
everything Of an infammable nature to be
found around the center of Atheus. A big
pile was made and the torch applied. One
hundred of the boys danced the war dance
around the burning heap and gave the col
lege yell with zest that betokeped demo-
cratic zeal that will last in years to coma