The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-12
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

Revived - Convention of the Den
tists-Talk OF Turning the Confed-
crate Veterans Homo at Atlanta
oyer to the State.
GEORGIA.
Rev. ]. NJ. Britain of Augusta has been
called to the Central Baptist church at At
lanta.
Frank May. a white man employed at q
saw mill at Nillaco0chee, had his right foot
so badly injured Thursday that amputation
was necessary.
The belgian block cutters at Venable q
Company's Stone Mountain quarry have
struck because Mr. Venable insisted in
helping count the blocks.
At Cuthbert Wednesday, Samuel Shell
ing (colored) was convicted Of murder and
sentenced to he hanged Aug. p. An effort
to secure a new trial viii be made
T. T. Adams, who inflicted the wound on
Dan Minis at Albany Wednesday after
noon and who suffered serious wound in
the head, was doing well Thursday.
A negro in the neighborhood Of Hollon-
vile, suburb of Gritfil, went TO town
Tuesday and spent all his money for Win
chester rife, and at night while showing the
little negroes how it worked shot his left
hand completely off.
Carolina, has been arrested and placed in
Jail at Statesboro on the charge of bigamY.
he married young lady of Bulloch county
not long ago, and is accused Of having
wife in South Carolina.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Bender Brown,
who was badly hurt some time ago by a
fall, is yet seriously ILL., Drs. Bell, Sam
pies, Bowie and Samples, DR., were called
in TO perform surgical operation on him
i0b rNaipfnl
Rev. Hargrave, rector of St Georges
church at Griffin, has been granted leave
of absence, beginning the last week in
this month and lasting until September lst.
He will use the time in visiting his parents,
who live in the state Of New York.
Statesboro Eagle: Our lands are not as
rich as the soil of Judge Hooks Texas
friend, who planted cucumber seed, and
before he got out of the garden the vine
from the seed circled about him and Gu
cumber went to seed in his pocket.
Negroes are going to school at Meanwhile
at ali ages. One old negro woman, IS years
old, goes and carries her Children. and an
old negro man, S. years old, attends school
and is in his A, b, Cs. They are determin ed
to have a little "book larnin' to pass over
the river with them"
While Hon. A. J. Snelson of Meriwether
county was away from home Wednesday
the grading force of the Macon and Biz
mingham railroad cut right of way
through 100 acres of his woodland. Col.
Snelson has had thirty five of the offenders
arrested aud the case will go through the
courts He had refused to give tho road a
right of way.
Rev. Frederick, Of the Third avenue
colored church of Augusta was arrested
Thursday, charged with forgery. 1t was
alleged that he forged check and secured
some $50 of funds belonging to a colored
benevolent association from the Georgia
Railroad bank. The president of the So
cietY, however refused to push the suit and
he was released.
1t is said the colored will exceed the white
population in Marietta by the new census
Those who have been taking the census in
the country say that they came across but
few colored folk In one district only
twelve colored families and in another ONLY
four were found, The colore1 people are
focking to the towns and the white people
are running the farms.
The Baptists of Marietta are thinking of
buying the house and lot on Church street
now occupied by Mrs. Walker, with a view
of putting the church edifice on the north
side of the present dwelling, fronting the
street, and removing the residence further
la k and use it for a parsonage, and sell
their present parsonage and church. II
they conclude to build, they will construct
a $4,000 edifice.
Statesboro Eagle: Mrs. Mikell, wife Of
J. 7. Mikell, died on Saturday last She
had been in bad health for some time. and
about II o'clock Saturday she was going up
the steps of her home when heavy peal of
thunder came, and she fell to the floor in a
faint. She was carried to bed, but she only
gasped few times and life was gone. il
is supposed that she became frightened at
the approaching cloud, which caused heart
failure.
Albany NelOS: Judge J. j. Beck of Nor
gan, Calhoun county. has been presiding as
auditor in case in this county that has
been on the docket for nearly quarter of
century. 1t is the case Of Keaton VS..
Mayo, in which B. O. Keaton and Crawford
Mayo sought to settle the differences arising
out of partnership farming contract. B.
y. keaton has been dead for many years,
and his son, j. K p. Keaton, is now the
party to the suit. Judge Beck will not rem
der his decision before the fall term of the
superior court.
Two white men, cousins, by the name of
Bull, engaged at Russells camp. on the
Macon and Atlantic railroad, near Macon
had difficulty Wednesday which resulted
in the death Of one of them. The Bull
killed came out of his tent where John and
w III Dun were UOBeUneT, ana TOT some cause
struck WIN Bull with a stick. It is said
that John Bull picked up a piece of iron
and struck Bull three times-once across
the legs, once on the back and once on the
head. The man was carried to his home
and died from the effects Of the blow on his
head.
The confederate veterans home at Atlanta
is almost completed, and the trustees have
serious question to consider. 1t is how to
maintain the institution now that it has been
built. AT the next regular meeting of the
trustees this question will come up. The
sense Of the trustees seems to be that the
institution should be completed and turned
over to the state free of encumbrance, on
condition that it will be maintained like
the other state institutions. Georgia now
spends $4,000 year on the lunatic asy-
lum, $4,000 on the asylum for the blind
and $4,000 on the asylum for the deaf and
dumb. All Of these institutions she has
built and kept in repair-the lunatic asylum
at a cost of about $780, 900. 1t is estim ted
that 200 old soldiers could be maintained on
an appropriation of $4,000 per annum
The home will be completed in September.
Six hundred and eight criminal cases and
many more civil suits is the record OF
the federal court of the Atlanta district for
the year ending June 80, 1890 OF the GRIM
inal cases 557 were internal revenue cases,
including charges of Illicit distiliing anC
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