The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Negroes Head Split Open with an AK
in a Quarrel Over q Game of Base
Bau-An Insane Man Vents his
Wrath on q Church-A Negro Couple
Who Saw George Washington.
GEORGIA.
W. A. Cherry of Macon died Tuesday.
Ex-Congressman d. ]. Bailey of Griffin is
dangerously i'll with inflammatory rheuma-
tism.
The veterans of the Third Georgia regi-
ment will hold a reunion at lrwinton July
80 aud 81.
Mrs. Miriam Armstrong Glenn of At
lanta. a singer of considerable reputation,
is going on the stage.
Joseph B. Alexander Of Marietta died a
day or two ago at the residence of his father
at Marietta. He was a lawyer.
Capt. W. w. Dews of Cuthbert sent
confederate flag to be used at Richmond
during the unwilling ceremonies.
Last Friday Stephen T. Perry of Ben
Smiths district of Gwinnett county lost his
residence and nearly all Of his furniture by
fire
Mrs. Anne Williamson, daughter Of Hon.
T. E. Williams of Monroe county, and wife
of j. w. Williams. dropped dead at her
home, near GAINESVILLE, Tuesday.
A firemanic tournament will be held at
Marietta June % and 20. The prizes viii
aggregate $500 or more. Companies from
several other towns nave been invited.
The cornerstone of the new Baptist
church at Americas will be laid on Tuesday
afternoon, June 3. The address will be
made by DR.. Nunnally, president of Mercer
university.
William G. Little, son Of ex-Speaker w.
A. Little of the legislature, died at his
fathers residence at Wynton, suburb of
Columbus, Tuesday. He was % years old,
and had been sick with typhoid fever for
stwenty-four days.
A convention of the representative mer-
chants of the state will meet at Atlanta
this summer for the purpose of organizing
state merchants association, and also to
memorabilia the law-making powers with
regard to having some laws enacted for the
protection Of those who feed and clothe the
people.
Mrs. N r. Simmons, wife of Supreme
Court Justice T. J. Simmons, formerly of
Macon, has filed a 1900 damage suit
against the city Of Atlanta for leaving the
rear of her premises, No. 1872 Peachtree,
high and dry by cutting down Cedar street.
on which the PLAINTIFFS lot abuts. Mrs. L.
Winter, a next door neighbor, files SINH
tar suit Oh ike SrOuuOS.
A novel device for sprinkling flowers is
used by Macon matron. She fills a keg
with water and places it on the front porch
She then fills rubber tube with water and
inserts one end of it in the keg, while the
other is lowered TO line below the bottom
of the keg over the balusters. This forms
syphon and the water flows from this
unique reservoir TO the flower beds.
Near Florence, Stewart county, last Sat
urday, a number of negroes were playing
ball on one Of the plantations. Gaz Lee
became involved in quarrel with William
Epps. Lee picked up Ratchet and struck
partially evaded it, but the weapon split
open his head. At last accounts he was
alive, but expected to die. Lee was ar
rested.
r. L..Davis. who is Just q years of age,
and son of |. M. Davis of Rock Bridge
district Of Gwinnett county, was declared
insane two weeks ago. He borrowed
his brothers coat, saying he was going to
buy one to preach in. On the following
Sunday he went to Zoar church, as he had
previously announced, TO preach, and, find
ing no one present, he became enraged
and kicked the doors down and broke the
windows out.
Burnley Davis, anegro living near Spring
Place, claims that his house was attacked a
night or two ago by White Caps, bent on
on whipping his daughter on ac-
count of trouble she had had with a
white woman. Davis, he claims, emptied
the contents of a shotgun and a revolver at
the mob, but failed to hit any of them.
Subsequently. as they assaulted the house,
he beat them back with an ak. He thinks
he killed one Of the crowd by splitting the
mans head open. Davis was shot in the
back and will probably die 1t is probable
that the identity of the members of the
mob can be discovered if an effort is
made.
Stephens Cox and bis sister, a negro
couple living at Turnerville, Clarke county,
claim to have seen George Washington in
Augusta. A correspondent of the A thens
Banner says: sold Uncle Stephens tells us
that he and Patience were born near
Augusta, and that when he was boy there
came to Augusta noted man they called
George Washington, and he stopped at a
mans house near Augusta, by the name of
Anthony, for several days. He says Augusta
then was a little place like his boss negro
quarters. II George Washington, the father
of his country, ever visited that section this
old negro must have seen him, as he and his
sister both relate the same circumstances
They say their father set Washington over
the river in canoe, and then went back
and swan his horse over These two old
negroes are almost blind and helpless, and
are in very destitute circumstances.
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