The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-22
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


GEORGIA
Timber brings fiue prices in Darien-
T. A. Ianier and K. N. Malone of Louis
VILE have dissolved partnership.
The capacity Of the Roush spoke and
wheel works at Macon is to be doubled.
Mcintosh county rice planters will not
plant as large an acreage this year as last.
Catching fish and shipping them is get
ting TO be an addition to BrunsWlcks busl-
ness.
At Conyers, Friday, while Mrs. Omelia
Hollingsworth was sweeping the floor she
fell aud broke her arm.
The man found drowned at Atlanta has
been identified as Frank C. Armstead, who
left his home before Christmas.
Rev. F. F. Reese, of Portsmouth, Va,
has been selected by the yestry to succeed
DR.. Winchester as pastor Of Christ church
at Macon.
1t is understood that Rev. E. B. Carroll,
pastor of the Baptist church at Camilla, will
accept the cal to the First Baptist church
at Albany.
Maggie Ellis, the 1O-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. V. A. n. Ellis, Of Brunswick, had
narrow escape from being drowned Sunday
afternoon.
c. J. Gordon, member of a prominent
furniture firm Of Savannah, viii remove to
large business there.
The Griffin Nclvs prints a picture suspi
ciously like the new Madison square garden
at New York, and says it represents
structure in contemplation for Griffin.
The oyster canning establishment at
Brunswick Is operating on full time now,
and many persons who own small boats are
turning them to profit by catching oysters
to be put up by the canning works.
A detachment of United States regular
army troops was among the passengers who
arrived at Brunswick on the State Of Texas
from New York Monday. These troops
are en- route to Fort Barrsncas. Fla.
The Macon Hussars are now in fine trim,
and their accoutrements are all complete
except the carbines. They have recently
been provided with good saddles and brides
and are well mounted. They now drill
once week to keep themselves in practice.
Col. A. B. Triplet of New York, Prof. j.
D. Calvacs, and Col W. NJ. Scott of At
lanta are at Hiawassee viewing the situa-
ton and testing some mineral property
which they propose to buy. They have
found manganese in abundance, and it is
about settled fact that they will buy. The
same property was sold about year ago
for $4,000. Col. Triplet says if they buy
he will put a railroad from Murphy, n c.,
to Hiawassee in a short time.
Since Tuesday morning st. Luke's cathe-
dral at Atlanta has been without a choir
master, and the haunts which once knew
PROF. Walter Fl. Russell" know MIN no
more. The professor has gone. He gave
up his position at st. Luke's at the very
pointed request of the board of curators of
the cathedral, and he left Atlanta because
be thought such action advisable in his
case. He was recognized as Prof. Carl
Summers, who once lived at Winchester.
and has lir~1rl a.,
a rather sensational story. he thought it
best that departure should follow closely
upon the heels of discovery. He is said to
have married Miss Dorning of that place
aud then deserted her.
d. J. Miscally, engineer of the freight
train on the Central which leaves Macon
for Savannah at $3.50 o'clock a. m, fell
from his engine at o'clock Monday mora
iDg, breaking leg and otherwise injuring
himself. When the engine was about the
middle of the bridge over Walnut street,
Engineer Miscally stopped it and went to
step of 10 see the conductor and compare
watches with him in order to set them both
alike. 1t was 50 DARK that the engineer
could not see the track at all, and when he re-
leased his hold on the engine and proceeded,
as ne thought, to step down on the ties, he
fell to the ground, a distance of about fif-
teen feet, striking on the hard, beaten clay
OF the street. He was rendered unconscious
by the fall
In Schley county, few miles from
Amerlcus, man bought COW from q
neighbor paying part of the purchase money
cash. Failing for some time to pay the bal
ance due, the creditor became inpatient
and threatened to take the cow back The
purchaser not having the money to pay the
balance, and not wanting to lose the pay
ment he had made on the COW, went K
another nelghbor, mutual friend, to get
him to arrange, in a friendly way,
fair settlement Of the dual interests
which seemed SO badly mixed in tbt
COW. The purchaser took the place ofsstht
mutual friend, who was at work in his fielc
when his services were sought, while he wen
over to visit the creditor to try and Arrange
satisfactory settlement. The result show
how well he succeeded. The creditor agreet
that if the purchaser would kill the COW anC
send him one quarter Of the beef he woulC
accept 1t In full settlement of his unpaid in
terest. The mutual friend then returned {.
the other party and readily got him to agre
TO take one quarter of beef for the payInen
he had made on the COW. 1t is unnecessar'
10 state who got the other half of the beef
There are only five vacant lots on At
iantas Fifth avenue-Peachtree street. TIL
property bordering the thoroughfare i
valued at $l.500,000. Peachtree street de
r1ves Its name from the creek by the sam
name, few miles north of the city. TIL
creek was called Peachtree on account of
peach orchard that hourished on its bank
where it empties into the Chattahooche
river at Montgomery's ferry. The orchar
was owned by the Cherokee Indians, who's
village. known as Standing Peachtree
stood close at hand. One of those curiou
piles Of dirt known as an Indian mound, o.
rather portion of it, is still to be seen nea
where the aboriginees jabbered unde
their blooming peachtrees sixty years age
Peachtree street is but the continuation
OF what was known as the old Federal road
sold Hickory" Gen. Andy jackson, Gu
it out from Tennessee in 1912 or 1914, whel
he went to fight the Florida Indians. |
was used for years as a road for traveller
and traders going from Tennessee to Au
gusta and Macon. Near Shallow
Ford, on thu Chattahoochee, abov
Roswell, the road branched, tn
left fork going through jug Tavern to Al
gusta and the rignt coming on acros
Peaehtree street, through what was the
Whitehall to Macon. There was
branch road running from th
Indian village into the road nea
Peachtree creek and hence the old settler
began calling the road from the village t
whitehall, Peachtree road.
FLORIDA.