The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

fly In Houston County-story OF a
Steel Trap-Fire Near Dawson-A
Murderer Run Down at Fort Gaines.
GEORGIA
Rochelle has eighteen stores.
Rochelle Is to have another saw-mill.
A Baptist revival is in progress at Ameri-
Gus.
Eugene D. Wilson, bright young man
of Atlanta, is dead
A canning factory will be established at
Hawkinsville this summer.
The work of building the Methodist
church at Rochelle has begun.
Walker county boasts of one Of the largest
sewer pipe works in the south.
The confederate veterans Of Telfair
county have just organized an association.
The Order of Railroad Conductors will
give picnic at Pearl Springs, near New
nan, on May ].
The Sunday schools of the Douglas circuit
are TO have picnic at Williams chapel in
Coffee county, May and 4.
The sons of confederate veterans are to
organize an association at Atlanta. They
will turn out Memorial day.
One hundred drummers from Macon will
attend the coming convention Of the South
ern Travellers Association at Atlanta.
Duplin's Sunday schools will picnic beside
Hunger and Hardship creek. Hunger and
hardship won't figure in the festivities, how
ever.
Mrs. Sarah Ladder, wife of Dr. John
Ladder, died at the home Of her husband in
the southern part Of Houston county last
Tuesday.
Rev. George T. Goetchius has recovered
from his recent severe illness, and occupied
his .,Y,lDff y1aornfpo and ayaninp on Sunday
IN Rome.
The F. McC. Brown Drug Company of
Brunswick has sold out to DR.. NJ. Ia. Currie,
who recently went TO Brunswick from
Mount Vernon.
Daniel Zeigler coloredl escaped from the
Jail at Statesboro last Tuesday, after a
tussle with the jailer and despite fusilade
from the lstter's revolver.
The building committee of the Americas
Improvement Company has decided to pull
down the old court house, which stands
upon the site of the proposed hotel.
The Baptist, Methodist and Episcopal
Sunday schools of Hawkinsyille have de-
cided to have their annual union picnic in
the grove at Old Hartford on Friday, Maya.
T. T. Martin has been chosen superin-
tendent Of the Perry Manufacturing CON-
pany, and currycombs and tin ware will be
manufactured in large quantities for the
trade.
The students of the state university, who
have been always regarded as the champions
of the southern college circles of base ball,
are preparing to get their team in excellent
shape for the coming summer.
Col Thurman having been confirmed
postmaster of Griffin is organizing mis-
forces. His son, T. b. Thurman, and
nephew of w. Ii. Boyles will be employed
In the office. Col Thurman will enter upon
his duties about May /.
Il is understood that the children Of the
late Mrs. Thomas Willingham, Jr., Of
Macon, who died at Washington, d. c.,
day or two ago, inherit about S12, 900 by
the death of their mother This property
consists of real estate in Macon and At
lanta.
The storehouse of Cogart &c johnson. ten
miles east of Dawson, was burned Tuesday
morning between and 2 o'clock, together
with thu entire stock of merchandise and
their books and accounts. Their loss is be-
tween 81 500 and 81, 900, with no insurance.
The origin of the fire is not known.
Alderman Woodward introduced resolu-
ton at the last meeting Of the city council
of Atlanta, which was adopted, for the APP
pointment Of committee to investigate
the question of selling the city stockade
property with view to using less expensive
real estate and giving the city the use of the
money thus saved.
at a recent meeting Of r. f. Lee Camp
Confederate Veterans, Alexandria, Va,
the committee to whom the duty had
been assigned reported that they had placed
a slab at the grave of the confederate SOL
der who had died at the Mansion House
hospital, j. q. jolly, Co. H., sixtieth Geor-
gia infantry, died Sept. IL. 1862.
Last Friday night, at Whiteheads
grocery. about five miles west of Abbeville,
Ala, Henry Stanley (colored) stabbed and
killed Bud Kirkland, a white man.
Wednesday it was ascertained that the
murderer, Henry Stanley, was in Fort
Gaines, Ca, and Sheriff j. T. McAllister
attempted to arrest him, but the negro
MADE dash and escaped. He was finally
run down by posse and jailed.
The fifteenth annual picnic of the Houser
family took place at the Houston factory
last Tuesday. Seventy people, young and
old. attended. OF these fifty were members
of Houser families and their immediate
relatives-none further removed in rela.
tionship than first cousin. This was not an
exceptionally large crowd of Housers, as
there are four Houser families in Perry and
near vicinity that embrace thirty men,
bers. The Housers in Houston are more
numerous than any other people Of one
name.
Besides the original donation of $40, OO0
and subsequent donations by Mr.. Appleton
of New York to the Appleton Church Home
in Macon, he has willed it $4,000, to be
given at his death. In the meantime, how
ever, he pays yearly to the home 6 per cent
interest on this sum, exactly $780, which
goes to the annual expenses of the home
There are now twenty-five children at the
home, and the yearly income of the insttu-
ton is about 81, 500. The home is destined
jim the near future to be greatly enlarged
and its endowment considerably increased.
Gibson Enterprise: The county authori-
ties Of this county will lend Warren county
the gallows upon which Moses Allen was
hanged in 1878, for the killing of Ben
1vey, for them to use in the execution of
Bob Hill for the killing of A. S. Rog-
ers at Camak in February last. 1t Will
save Warren county the expense of build
ing a gallows, and as Bob Hill did some
damage to some of the citizens in town, we
think it nothing but right that this
county should furnish the gaIlows,
and Warren should do the hanging.
Dublin Post. Several weeks ago Mr.. w.
G. Webb, of Buckeye district, set steel
trap on bank of creek on the Guyton
plantation for the purpose of catching
beavers. Next day a negro woman with
three or four children and dog went down
on the creek fishing They had been there
h.,to cko