The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPH

Atlanta's Insurance on Her Firemen
Divides the City Council.
GEORGIA
A Masonic temple is to be built at At
lanta.
A Masonic temple Is to be built at At
Iaata.
Covington now he's four hourishing Sab
bath schools.
Grifiu's new Presbyterian church was
dedicated Sunday.
There is talk OF building an oil mill at
Covington this year.
There is considerable talk Of establishing
another bank in Sparta.
The wild panther is still having a picnic
il Stanselps district, Newton county.
The prospects are good for a large amount
OF building In Ccvington this season.
Fetzer s. Pharr, clothiers Of Atlanta, who
have lately met with legal troubles, have
been closed by the sheriff on a mortgage.
J. c. Matthews. who paid $40 p an acre
for land four miles from Americas, has cut
enough wood from it 10 more than pay
for it.
Two thousand negro children were sup
ported IN the public schools in Decatur
county last year at the expense of the tax
payers.
At Athens, Sunday, wags draped the post
office in mourning, symbolic of the sorrow
felt at the possible appointment Of a negro
postmaster.
The firm of Tondee, Carter & Co. Of
Americas has been dissolved. W. D. Bailey
has gone into the gentlemen'5 furnishing
business in the same city.
Hundreds of dollars have gone out Of
Hancock in recent years to pay for brick.
That money leak is going to be stopped,
brlck company having been organized.
The entire stock Of stoves, and tin ware
belonging to NJ NJ. Maddrey at Athens.
has just been sold by E. p Upshaw, re-
ceiver, to Dornblatt & Co., for s., POO.
Capt. A. Dart was knocked down by a
tenn driven by negro at Brunswick Mon
DAY, and narrowly escaped serious in Jury.
AS it was, two Of his teeth were loossned.
Hon. D. H. Walker of Forsyth. judge of
the Monroe county court, was stricken
with paralysis Saturday. He is improving.
and hopes are entertained of his recovery.
P. NJ. Arthur and wife, of Cleveland, O..
arrived at Townsville Sunday, and are
guests of the Mitchell. Mr.. Arthur is grand
chief Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Of the United States.
The grip has become SO prevalent that
forty OF the operators at the Athens cotton
factory are confined to their beds, and it is
probable that the mills will have to be
closed until the disease takes leave.
Quitman real estate is daily changing
hands The latest transfer is w. T. Gold
ing's sale to W. NJ Hunter of two brick
stores Tor S1,5JO. A year and a half ago
these stores cost MIR. Golding S. 900.
The lessees of the Chattahoochee Brick
Company have agreed to start broom fac
tory at Bolton, into which all their female
prisoners will be put. They now have
thirty-tve, and others will soon be added.
Mrs. Mary A. Cohen and John Pacetti.
ST., two aged citizens of st. Mary's. died in
that city Monday morning; Mrs Cohen at
o'clock a m. and Mr.. Pacetti at 10 o'clock
a. m. Thev were nearly OF the same age
"A and IS.
1t is claimed that the Central railroad
having permanently settled it thar the
Offices OF the Southwestern division will go
10 Smithville, will erect a 81, 500 hotel for
the accommodation of the employees who
have to lay over there.
Two little negro boys, aged IL and 10
years, were sentenced to six months each in
the changing in the city court at Atlanta
Monday. Tney were charged with stealing
grain sacks from the elevator, valued at
81. Both pleaded guilty.
W. j. Coolby and T. c. HAYS, two farm
ers near Gainesville, have recently found
very rich Manganese mines on their farms
develop them. 1t is said that the whole of
that section is rich in mineral deposits.
The work of manufacturing cotton chop
pers began at the Ammons cotton chopper
factory In South Macon Monday When
everything is in regular running order. IL
Is expected that the factory will be able to
turn out fifty complete choppers per day.
W. b. Dickinson Of cambridge. owner
OF the Newfoundland dog that drew ''the
the whites, has been flooded with letters
and postal cards from all parts of the coun-
try asking for puppies of that dogs
paternity.
The investigation into the death of the
little Mllllrons infant at Macon brought
out the fact that the child had been nursing
Saturday night, and, its mouth filling with
milk, the. nose had also become filled. This
caused the little one to strangle and partially
suffocate.
The negro church at White Oak. in
Campbell county, was destroyed by fire
Sunday night. 1t was almost new and a
good frame house, with a good Sunday
school library and many song books, to-
gether with a nice pulpit Bible The fire
was incendiary.
>. 8. Past, representing the Atlanta Home
and the Savannah Fire and Marine insur-
ance companies. who has been in Americus
Ior several DAYS past adjusting the losses of
Brown 81 French at their recent fire
has completed his work. The amount of
insurance was IS, 900
AT Griffin, Sunday night, after the close
OF the services at the negro Baptist church.
and the congregation were vending their
way home, some one in the crowd fired a
pistol, the ball striking Jennie rilleman. a
mulatto girl, in the right shoulder, making
painful flesh wound.
Whsn the Hatcher wagon works on the
outskirts Of Macon were burned recently
Fire Chief Jones refused to direct the fire
departments to put out the flames, because
the building was out Of the city. Now the
insurance companies threaten to sue the
city TO recoTer the amount of their 10 ,ses.
AtAthsns Sunday night an insane woman
wandered from hons and had not been
found up to TIes,isy morning. She is about
rs years Of ago, fAlr complexion, medium
night, brown hair. She wore a bingham
dreas With feather fur at the bottom.
and plaok sioAk with white fur on
The Inside.
IL schoa, near cambridge the professor
the other day ras trying TO teach young
grammar claSs TO parse. The sentence was:
Mary MIXED the COW. "A little girl parsed
COW as aou1 in the objective case stand
Ing Ter Mary. The professor said: Cow
stand Tor Nary.' The little girl replied: