The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

New Buildings Going Up at Qultman.
Hartwelrs Fine Health Record.
GEORGIA
The Baptiscs of Jackson have Just COM
pleted their new church.
The fund toward building a hospital at
Macon now amounts 20 S3,2l5.
A. B. Graves will probably succeed Miss
Cora Davenport as postmaster at Ty Ty.
The subscriptions to the Grady m0nu-
. ment fund a. Atlanta now aggregate
S2O0S6.
Stats Lecturer Beck will be in Macon on
next Thursday to address the alliance men
of Blb0 county.
During the past week students were en-
rolled at Mercer University at Macon. from
Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, AID Texas
1t is reported that Cosby Smith of New
nan has leased the old brewery property at
Macon from w. II. Mansfield and will
operate a large distillery.
Work will soon be commenced in earnest
in the gold fields of Newton county. Live
men have taken charge Of this matter, and
will push things right along.
At Reynolds, Friday mig hit, the store Of
J. n. Bryal 81 Co. was brok en- open and
quantity of goods, consisting Of cloth, to-
bacco, shoes and knives. was carried of.
A. McLouth, the general agent OF the
Missouri valley bridge and iron works,
has been awarded the cont act for building
the new iron bridge over the Chattahoochee
river at Atlanta at SIS, 400.
Athens is to have a new paper. 1t will
make its appearance about Feb. ID. and will
be known as the Athens EUeniRg Ledger.
The new paper will be owned by Hon.
Richard B. Russell and d L. Crawford.
Mrs Josephine Anthony, wife of the Rev.
James I'D. Anthony, a Methodist divine
of Spring Hill, died Friday from nervous
prostration. She had been sufferer from
complicated chronic Affections for twenty
years.
There will be a cooking main in Ham
burg. opposite Augusta, Feb. IL, between
Mr.. Addison of South Carolina and Mr..
Holt of North Caroliaa. Mr.. Anderson
won last years main, but Mr.. II 1t is beat
on victory this year. Eacl side is to SHOW
twenty-one cocks The match will be S25
fight, with $3.50 to the odd.
L. Dubois, a French nan spending the
winter with friends near cambridge, was
severely cut while in fox chase, his horse
running against a wire fence. Eugene
Bruton, besides being painfully bruised in
the same way, had mis- horse seriously in
jured. Mr.. Dub is is doing we'll, but can
not use his limb for some time.
At Bowdon, Friday morning at about 8
o'clock, bold craftsman entered Adsmson
& Smiths store, aud blew opsn the safe,
taking therefrom 800 or $500, together
with bank check book and other papers
belonging to them, and S35. with some
receipts, etc, in a pocxstb0o left there on
deposit by j. R1berso1. There is no clue
to the burglars identity.
Hartwell claims TO be able to show the
best health record of any town o. city in
the state. There are Jnsiderably more
than 1000 inhabitants, ald there has not
been a single death among the white popu-
lation in nearly two years. The fact is
more remarkable when it is stated that
there have been over 30 cases of measles in
town within the last month.
jackson is soon to have a dummy line,
built from the Z ist Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia depot TO town. Il will run COM
pletely around the business part of town,
and deoosit freight imme lately at the rear
door of every store. This is an enterprise
of tho ALLAN e, which has run its own ware
house this season, handled all its cotton,
and realized handsome saving from it.
After several Intellectual attempts new
uniform division Knights of Pythias is now
being organized in Macon. A drill team
may be sent to Milwaukee in June, when
the supreme lodge meets, to try for the
SIduO PtlItS 1aIiOuB buOoc sDOheH OF LOT
the capt iincY of the new cOmpa Y are Capt
Rolf Sims, Capt. o. I. Kenon and Lieut.
Joseph Wells. The new company will ex-
pend about 81, 200 in uniforms and armory
expenses, an expense to each member of
about $50.
Quitman is booming. A three-story hotel,
beautiful in architectural design, is in process
OF erection and viii be compile ed at an
early date. DR.. E. A. Jelks has j lst COM
pleted his two-story brick building, con-
tanning rec storerooms. Hopson & Bro.
are building two two-story brick store
rooms K n. Williams is building a mag
nificent dwelling. john Tillman is putting
an iron aud glass front to his two-story
brick dwellings. Dwellings are going up in
all sections Of the town.
The license tax ordinance recently passed
by the city council of Dalton was published
Saturday. 1t begins by taxing architects,
and passes on down the alphabet, taking in
every occupation,s trade or profession the
fertile. brain Of its author could find, end
ing with this comprehensive enactment,
that "all other occupations not enumerated
above, SO or less in the discretion of the
mayor" Drummers are taxed and required
to wear little badge having engraved on
it the words, "Street Drummer 1t in
cludes dancing masters, fortl 10 tellers,
organ grinders, astrologers, street must
clans, ''yelocipede rinks," etc.
After taking two degrees of the Knights
of Pythias Macon man was turned out
into the hall and stairway, whence he had
come, while preparations were, being made
for the closing of the degree in the lodge
room. When the guides returned to the
hall, the candidate s missing. With his
shoes in his hand and his coat over his arm
he had escaped to he street and had disap-
peared around the corner. The next day
the gentleman was found at his place OF
business. He was chuckling over his luck
escape, and now vows that nothing car
tempt him to take an jther degree. He has
nothing to say, but persists in his BELIEF
that he narrowly missed death. The it'll,
incident furnished considerable fun for the
members of the lodge.
Macon telegraph: Few of the many
friends of Lieut. Edward Huguenin of this
city are aware of the big scheme that thai
gentleman has been at work Oh for some
time. His plantation at or near Albany il
being gradually converted in a great nu
grove and the gentleman has lately been de
voting almost his entire time to the growing
OF the finest nuts. A few days ago DR.. w.
c. Gibson of this city shipped him 200 large
flbert or hazel nut trees, which have been
planted on one part of the farm. In an
other part are planted 10000 pecan trees
many Of which are bearing anc
bringing in neat revenue. English wal
nuts and other nuts are also being grown.
The ferm will be one of the largest in the
southern states, if not the largest of it.
II S.,A er,I l.