The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-19
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
rdE NEWS OF Tds TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

ing OF Browns at Dawson.
GEORGIA
Valdasta wants 3 board of trade.
Burglars entered the bank at Elberto
last week, but secured no booty.
The confederate veterans OF Rome vii
have a barbecue and reunion this summer
Mrs. N E Hammond, widow Of the lat,
DR.. D. W. Hammond, died at Macon Snn
day.
R. a. Cheney was badly hurt by being
thrown from wagon by runaway horst
at Macon Sunday.
Cecil Morgan, brother-in-law of Judg,
Emory Speer, has been admitted to practIc,
IN Bibb superior court.
Dahlonega will soon have a new paper,
published by Williams s. McNelly-the
Nugget. Mining operations are active.
Eighteen thousand Concord grape vines
and 600 Ives Seeding vines have just
been sent to Gov. Gordon's Taylor county
farm.
Incendiaries made an attempt to burn out
A. o. Best's photograph gallery at Macon
Sunday. Kerosene was used freely. The
total loss is $780,
At Butler, Saturday night. Peoples &
Co.'s safe was blown open by professional
safe cracks and about $500 in cash stolen
The robbers escaped.
Editor Christopher of the Montezuma
Record says tlat the young man who edu-
Gates himself for a manufacturer is bound
to be on top in the south.
Nellie Britain, daughter of Maj NJ. L.
Britain Of Jasper, although under 10 years
of age, has. by her own work, piecsd three
calico scrap quilts. aud is now engaged in
piecing six quilt of different pattern.
The new building for the Athens Banner,
IL is said, Will be ready for occupation in
about ten days Editor CAN'T will then
become a greater hustler than ever. It's
pity every town in the state CAN'T have O
CAN'T
Last Wednesday McDonough g. Wilson
of Naycross collected from the Bruins wick
and Western Railway Company 5000 dam
ages for injuries to the person of Annie
Demere, received in the accident which oc-
CURED near Willacoochee some time last
month.
Sunday morning when Mr.. and Mrs.
John Williams of Macon woke up they
were Mortified to find their 5-months-old
baby lying dead beside them in bed. When
the child went TO sleep it was perfectly well,
and the superstition is that it was smothered
to death in some manner.
At Athens land company Is organizing
with capital stock Of S4S, 900. The names
OF the corporators are A. H. Hodgson, K.
K. Lumpkin, j. I. Voss, w. 5. Hllman and
others. They will probably extend the
street car line to Rock College and establish
park Oh some fine land in that vicinity.
The day for the election on the bond
question at Milledgeyille, as to floating
S25,0 900 worth Of bonds to aid the Girls In
dustrial school, has bsen made March 10.
1t is doubtful if there was ever question
IN Mllledgevllle on which the people we're
go uni ed as on this, and it is safe to say
that the bonds will float with very little on
position.
John Mills, Gus Buck and Sol Veal of
Linton went hunting Saturday. They had
found no game until, coming to hollow
tree, Sol Veal cut long switch and pro-
posed to run squirrel out of the hollow.
On running the switch up the hollow out
ran ten squirrels instead of one. John
Mills killed nine of them on the spot, and
Gus Buck killed the other one.
lO-year-old son of Pat Burress (coloredD
was drowned near Flowery Branch last
Thursday, and was found on Friday. He
and his brother had been to the shop, and
as they were crossing the river he thought
ne would jump from the boat to the fat.
lie missed his aim and fell in and sank under
the hat, and did not rise until ten or fifteen
feet below the fiat, and was then dead.
II Primus Jones made will no one has
been able to find it yet. 1t is stated that
his property in Atlanta is worth. saw
SSO,OOO, In Baker county about $40, 900, and
II the statement that he had q bank deposit
or $5,OOO at Albany, and S4, 900 in Atlanta.
proves true, 1t will bring his property IN to
about S49,O0 Even this will prove a
goodly sum to the heir if the claimed miss
ing will can be found.
Mack Barker, member Of the Fulton
Eufprnrica Gr1ar IF nIl !.
Atlanta Sunday, and William Douglass
(colored) was sent to shave the corpse. He
was told that razor would be found in a
certain bureau drawer. Douglass went
alone, and opened the drawer He found
no razor, but the dead mau's pocketbook.
containing So. This he appropriated, and
walked off He was arrested.
Dublin Gazette: The Blackshear Guards
were organized in this county, and left for
the seat of war in July, 1861, with eighty
four members, rank and file, and vet there
was only one man in the company whose
name began with an A. The membership
OF this company was increased during the
war by recruits and conscription to 40
men. but still faithful Ben c. Atkinson
VINO still survives, retained the honor of
being "A No. II
j. w. Belcher died at A lbany. Sunday
from the injuries sustained in a wreck on
the Brunswick and Western railroad. FIR
weeks MIR. Belcher was Frustrated. His
right leg was bruised until il was one com
plete abscess of bruised blood AID imflam-
nation, and he gradually wasted away.
bis mother arrived Friday night, too la q.
however, to speak comforting words to him
IN his last hours, as his mind wandered in
dellrlum, 50 great was his agony At noon
Sunday Mrs. Belcher took the remains and
started on her return to her home in North
Carolina, where the body will be Inferred.
Rev. Lawson Smith of Abbeville has two
photographs which he received lately from
the federal soldier who made the coffee for
MIR. Smith while he was wounded on the
battlefield. They are nicely framed, and
hang side by side in Mr.. Smiths sitting
room. The one taken il 1862 shows a beard
less boy, though an officer, with sword AID
pistol buckled around him, and facs that
indicates that in his bosom beats a tender
and loving heart. The other one, taken in
1889, shows that the "hand of timen has
made many changes in the same person. 1t
Is tull-grown man, with a large mustache.
There is now living in Lumpkin county.
not far from Dahlonega. an old man named
Hampton, who, when the great exodus took
place from this section to California in 1S49
left for the FL Dorado of the west, with his
wife, on foot, with only wheelbarrow to
. transport all their earthly goods. He saws
they actually made the entire trip in this
way. After remaining few years he re-
turned mot on foot, however, with a snug
little fortune-fOr this part of the country
or between 81, coo and SIS, 900. Some time