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


Dawson is TO have new military com.
pany.
Brunswick's tax rate has been fixed at 1
per cent.
There were twelve deaths at Griffin dur
ing March.
The teachers of Terrell county have or
ganized a county teachers association.
Jesse Dean had his hand cut off in the
saw-mil at Redwood, Dolly county, Fri
day.
Ed Hanlan, the oarsman, is in Atlana.
He will give an exhibition of rowing in
Grant park.
The 4-year-old son of J. r. Ray was
fatally burned while playing around fire
at Talona Tuesday.
Mark Whitehead, a prosperous citizen of
Covington, fell dead from a chair Tuesday.
Heart disease was the cause.
The house of j. L. Jewett. formerly Of
Macon, was blown down by the tornado at
Jeffersonville, Ind, last week.
There will be a reunion of the Knights of
Honor in Atlanta an April 10, when Su-
preme Dictator Savage visits the city.
j. w. Brown is probably the largest
farmer in Pike county. He weighs over 800
pounds. He and two brothers weigh over
900.
DR.. E. H. L. Keister, one of the Oldest
and most prominent physicians of north
Georgia, died at his home at Spring Place
Tuesday.
1t has been decided to have a spelling bee
for the benefit of the Brunswick Library
Association Ten ladies will be matched
against ten gentlemen.
petition was circulated at Albany
Wednesday, asking the mayor and council
to donate $500 to the Albany Guards, TO aid
them in buying fatigue uniform.
The residence of George W. Webb, eight
miles east of Forsyth, was completely de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday. The house
caught from the stove while Mrs. Webb
was preparing dinner. The loss is about
81, $50, with $500 insurance.
Miss May Mcmillan of Talbotton has
been awarded, over twenty-five competitors,
prize of 500 offered some time ago by
the Old Homestead, a monthly magazine
published in Savannah, as IA premium for
the best story written by any southern
writer.
Alexander Ems was nearly killed by the
bursting of an emery wheel at the planning
mills of Valentine e. Brown at Brunswick
Wednesday Mr.. Ems face was mashed from
between his eyes down to his chin in most
horrible manner, and q number of teeth
loosened.
Mrs. e. Verdery Battey, who is one of
the best known newspaper women of New
York, is in Atlanta, visiting her sister, Mrs.
John S. Prather She is now on the staff of
the New York sun. In her early life Mrs.
Battey taught school in Augusta, Ca,
where she was born.
The trial Of George King for the killing
of Alexander Kinchey last Christmas has
just been concluded at the superior court at
Macon. The jury came in with verdict
of involuntary manslaughter. Judge Miller
gave Kinchey the full extent of the law
three years in the penitentiary.
Hon. Frank O'Brien of Atlanta has a
valuable relic. 1t is the canteen which Gen.
Mcpherson had on his person when he was
killed, and which bears the imprint of tne
bullet, SO it is supposed, that killed him.
The identity of the canteen is abundantly
vouched for Mr.. O'9rien will present it to
the Mcpherson Society of New York.
The record of the Atlanta police depart
ment for the month of March is the largest
on record. There were 800 city cases and
135 state cases, making total of ,044 cases
made by the police during the month. A
large percentage OF these we're convicted,
and the result has been I'D still remains an
unusual quietude among the criminal classes
of the city.
AT LawreucevilIe Hattie Martin, q col
ored girl living with j. T. Byrd, came very
near being burned to death the other night
She left burning candle standing on the
floor near her pallet and went to sleep. Tue
candle burned down and fell over, setting
the bedclothes on fire. Mr.. Byrd discovered
the fire, rushed in the room to rescue the
girl and succeeded in extinguished the fire,
but in SO doing got his arms and hands
badly burned.
The state board of dental examiners con-
vened in special session at Atlanta Wedues-
day. Sixteen applicants for examination
were present. The law now requires all
graduates of dental colleges TO go before the
board for examination in order to secure O
license to practice dentistry. The examina-
ton is very thorough aud complete, and
embraces anatomy, physiology, chemistry,
materia medica, and operative and mechan-
ical dentistry.
Gen. Cook, the secretary of state, received
Wednesday from Philadelphia, New York
and Minneapolis letters stating three big
tracts of Georgia land held under grants
dated 1744 and 1895 were being placed on
the market, and requesting information as
to the validity of the titles. Gen. Cook
found, on investigation, that although Geor-
gia did in her early history offer a thousand
acres of land to every settler, the titles now
in existence are worthless, and he 50 in
formed his correspondents.
The work of digging we'll on Capt. J.
w. Lees premises, in Emanuel county, was
commenced several months ago, during the
dry spell. The workmen worked faithfully,
and after reaching depth of sixty odd
feet, without any sign of water, they tenn
porarily abandoned work. few DAYS
thereafter slight rain fell, when the well
rapidly filed with water, the LIQUID reach
ing within twenty feet of the surface. and
at that hight it has since remained. Capt.
Lee further says that in the west side of the
well the water boils up aud bubbles as if in
heated vessel. and this has been kept up
increasingly.
Dawson Netos: The Smithsonian Institute
of Washington IS now making researches as
to the course taken by the mailed Spanish
warriors of De Soto in their march through
Georgia. A gentleman was in the city
few days ago who has been sent out to trace
this line of march. 1t is a generally ac-
cepted fact that De Soto's warriors passed
near where Dawson now is, on their march
northward from Appalachee bay, Florida.
Unmistakable signs point to earthworks,
still in an ordinary state of preservation
not far from the city, that to-day would
resist the pounding of cannon balls, and in
front of these works long and deep ditch
exists which no doubt served De Soto as a
part of his defense
Willacoochee NeiCS: We have been in
formed that the whites and negroes have
been having some trouble at Douglas. It
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