The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Eastman Postponed-A safe Robbed
at Colquitt-A Painters Neck Broken
by Piece OF Timber.
GEORGIA.
Fort Gaines reports q case OF scarlet
fever.
in. Simpsons dwelling at Canton was
totally destroyed by fire last Monday.
II was so cool at Lexington several morn
ings last week that fires were not uncom-
Portable.
TIE Young Of Macon had his arm cut
off in q wreck on the Southwestern railroad
Thursday.
The national convention Of the WOman's
Christian Temperance Union meets at At
lanta in November.
A child years old, son of J. III Glass Of
Newman, fell into well at that place
Thursday and was drowned.
The opening of the public schools at
Athens shows an increase in the number OF
white pupils, but a falling of in the negroes.
Boss Kitchens of Montezums has caught
forty-four surgeons in two weeks, averag-
ing eighty pounds apiece, making $500
pounds of fish.
At Eastman Thursday the case of the
State vs. Joshua Coffee, charged with the
killing Of Murdoch Bryant in 1877. was con-
tinusd until next term
The old stone jail at Decatur, noted for
che number Of prisoners who have escaped
from IL, has been torn down. 1t will be
replaced by handsome new building of
modern pattern.
The geological survey Of Georgia is being
pushed right along. Assistants (. T. Whate-
" and O. c. Anderson have finished Heard
and Coweta counties and Troupe will be
the next scene Of operations.
At Eastman Thursday VIII Murphy, the
negro boy who knocked Frank Wooten
down on the night Of Aug. Is and robbed
him Of his gold watch, was tried, found
guilty and sentenced to twenty years in the
penitentiary.
A painter named Bellebon was accidently
killed at Colquitt one day last week while
carrying heavy piece Of timber on his
shoulder. While taking the piece from a
wagon he stumbled and fell, and the timber
falling upon his neck, broke it, producing
almost instant death.
On Saturday night last the safe of J. w.
Cowart, a leading merchant OF Colquitt,
was robbed of 81, S00in cash. The safe was
found unlocked on Monday as though It had
been unlocked by come Que acquainted with
the combination. The inner door, however,
had been broken open, the lock being broken
In pieces.
Ellijay Courier: A certain bachelor, the
rear bosom Of whose pants is slightly dis
figured, has for his motto this legend:
"Book forward not backward When
calling on the ladies, he always faces the
music and when he takes his leave, with
more than the politeness of o Chesterfield,
he walks backward, and bows and smiles,
and wishes for long tail coat
In the Rutland district, q few miles from
Macon, Thursday, negro boy, aged about
~ years, the son of Emanuel Anderson.
was shot by girl about the same age.
They had been picking cotton in a field,
and had stopped work. On reaching the
girls home she took her fathers gun and
fred at the boy. Shot struck him in the
right shoulder and side He died Thursday
night. 1t is presumed tie killing was accl-
dental
Cumming Clarion: Water courses fill
ing up. 1t is said that the beds of the Chat
tahoochee river, and other North Georgia
streams are gradually filling up. This is
notably the case at Stricklands ferr and they
Hutchins plantation AS the river is often
muddy in clear weather many believe that
its condition is caused by mining operations
in Hall and White. The creeks are
rapidly filling up with sand and
alluvium. Mill property and bottom
land, in a few years, will become worthless
If something is not done to arrest these
dispositions. The principal cause of all this
is undoubtedly the washing down of the soil
from our cleared up lands. There being no
obstruction, heavy rains are depositing the
best soil of the farmers in the creeks and
rivers. Two remedies may be used. Let
the land grow up in timber, or terrace 1t,
and plant the ridges made in blue grass, 80
that the soil cannot escape to the streams.
FLORIDA.
Col. W. D. Ch1pley and family of Pensa-
cola. have gone to West Point, N. Y.
H. ]. Minnioh OF Tampa has contracted
with the Leesburg Ice Company to take all
of their surplus ice.
A great many lines are being shipped
northward these days from the lower In
dian river and Lake Worth.
The Polk county NeOs is the name of a
handsome eight page weekly just star ted at
Barlow. 1t looks progressive.
The total value of real and personal prop
erty in the city of Gainesville is put down
by Assessor Besselieu at SS46,573.
s. w. league is making valuable I'm
provements on his big store at Lady Lake
Two new barns are being erected.
The United States government will make
a thorough geological survey of the state
of Florida, beginning within a very few
weeks.
Train service on the j. and L. w. railroad
was discontinued on Aug. 16 till further
orders, presumably for repairs to the loco
motive and other rolling stock.
s. j. Sigh of Lady Lake, has within the
past six weeks bought $4,000 boxes OF
oranges on the trees, and is still buying.
The prospect now is that the bulk OF the
crop will be sold in the state this year.
Several Italian gentlemen from New
Orleans are at Leesburg buying lemons and
oranges by wholesale. They have bought
several thousand boxes of oranges on Lake
Weir and will begin shipping this week.
City Clerk Jewett of Ocala was in receipt
of box of plants from Nashville Wednes-
day. In it was very small c. O. D. pack
age valued at $S5, and addressed to lady
in Birmingham, Ala. IL is evidently
jewelry.
Plans have been drawn and bids made
on two-story brick store at Tampa for
Thomas II. Wilhngham of Atlanta. 1t will
occupy the lot adjoining the Allen building.
on Franklin street, formerly known as the
Grillion lot.
Leesburg Leesburger: The disease called
blind staggers has broken out in this region
and is carrying off good many horses,
especially in the vicinity of Oxford. One
case occurred here on Monday. s. Ma
honey lost a valuable horse.
Mrs. Rebecca Barnett of Diston CITY the
widow of James Barnett a confederate
soldier, has received pension of $3.50 a wear
from the Stata nd the r,ana,s ,v-o..a