The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


A Romantic Marriage at Cedertown.
A College student at Athens Breaks
His ankle - Homicide in Carroll
County-Rev. woodrow Dismissed
70 the Charleston Prssbytery by
the Augusta Fresbytery.
GEORGIA
FORSYTH has no public school system.
Joseph Crawford Of Pike county IS dead.
The rectory fund at Griffin aggregates
$500.
A petriffsd deer horn was found near Syl-
vania day or two ago.
The guns for the Americas military com
pany will arrive in twenty days.
J. A. Borum, a clerk at P. {. Clegg &,
Co. S store at Americas. had his right wrist
dislocated by falling from a dray fues lay.
Eugene Black, a popular member of the
sophomore class at Athens, had the misfOrt-
une TO fall while leaping over a fence Sat
urday and broke his ankle. The injury,
while painful is not dangerous.
Judge Richard Clark of Atlanta has re-
leased Jessie Bone on her own recognizance.
She is charged with being implicated in the
killing of Jim Woodward, for which crime
her father has been sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for life.
The sixty-eighth annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the Diocese
of Georgia will convene Ia st. Stephens
church, Milledgeville, Wednesday, May :.
About seventy-five delegates, clerical and
lay, will be in attendance. Bishop BeckwIth
will preside. The sermon will be preached
by Rev. R. s. Barrett of st. Lukes catne-
dral, Atlanta.
The following officers of the Mcintosh
Light Dragons were commissioned by
Gov. Gordon Tuesday: r. H. Knox, cap
tain; b. I. st. Clair, first lieutenant; Liv-
ingston Cannon, second lieutenant; r. ID.
Wiley, junior second lieutenant. Dr.. New
ton A league of Augusta was commits
stoned second lieutenant of the Oglethorpe
Light Infantry, to succeed Lieut.. T. G.
Vason, who resigned.
An alteration took place near Pine Log,
in Barlow county, on last Saturday night,
between Mike GOode, Jr.. and Benjamin
Collins. in which the latter received injuries
from which he died on Sunday evening.
Both men were drinking and got into dis
pute over woman of ill-repute. Goode
got Collins down. and while on top of him
broke his skull with rock. GoOde claims
10 have acted in selt-defense.
The funeral of Fletcher Hurt, son Of DR..
G. d. Hurt of Columbus, took place Mon
day and was largely attended. He was one
of the most popular young men in Column
bus, and was highly connected throughout
the state. During the Christmas holidays
he was injured by the falling of a box at
the store of l. L. Collard & Co., where he
was employed. At first his injury was not
thought to be serious, but he gradually
grew worse until Saturday. when it was
deemed necessary TO perform a surgical
operation, from the effects of which the
young man failed to rally. He was ~
years old.
Prof. c. f. Toenninges, a musician and
newly acquired citizen of Cedartown, was
critically Ill, and expressed a desire that his
true love, Miss Kate Elliott of Lincoln,
Neb, be informed of his condition, and of
his earnest wishes that she come to his side
at once, and that they DO married before he
took his departure for the beyond. Miss
Katie set out without delay, arriving in
Cedartown Saturday night, having made
the trip alone in twenty-four hours. She
was met by friends OF her lover, and con.
Quoted to his sick couch at the Flow house,
where Rev. J. b. Robins united them in
marriage, after most atfectionate greeting
The bride is only 16.
Rev. James Woodrow, d. D., whose evo-
luton views created such stir in church
circles for several years was dismissed by
the Augusta presbytery in session at Mill
edgeville Monday TO the Charleston presby-
terry. Arrangements were made by the
presbytery for the installation of DIR. Punk
EFT and Rev. Mr.. Britt, pastors elect of the
First Augusta and Sparta churches respect
lively. These interesting ceremonies will &C.
cur early in May. The presbytery agreed
TO the proposed change In the directory of
worship. The first breeze of the session oc-
Cured over the matter of voluntary associ-
ations in the church. The question was
finally settled by compromise, the presby-
terry asserting TO the formation of presby-
terial unions, provided these be under the
supervision of the presbytery, aud report
all their doings to that body. Some were
opposed to these societies in toto. The next
meeting will be held with the South Lib
erty church at Sharon on Friday evening
before the third Sunday in September.