The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-25
/ RGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Z ner-Cas5Vtll9 Negroes ENclteu
: PORTS that q Wild Man IL at
q on Grifin's new passenger depot is
>19Efn at once.
,i-&<8sd and willowWare is now manufac-
7 u'k at Atlanta.
,<a3@ursns superior court convenes at
~ 3lin next Monday.
Hi1 f. Crawford is in training for assist
Inn postnns ster Of Calhoun.
Names W. Cook, aged 12 years, Of Carroll
xo11nty, is preaching at Atlanta.
4 The furniture factories Of Rome are
,s4ceiving more orders than they can fill.
Rev. Robert o. Holton died at his home
sevtn miles below Hawkinsville on Sunday
wklkar Aksrmsn formally took charge
of TN postofiice at Gainesville last Mon
An Mort will be made TO establish at At
lanta a. factory for turning out railroad
cars.
Thelvolunteer fremen Of Athens think
it is 1me they should be paid for their
sarvicss
"A GREAT quantity Of timber is now upon
tM banks Of the Oconee, ready to be drifted
down to Darien.
Parties in E'berton are talking Of organ
sizing a company for the manufacture OF
shoes, leather, etc.
There are said to be ten negroes in Car
tersville who pay taxes on more than LOO
worth Of property.
St. Paul's Episcopal church at Macon will
be enlarged, and improvements made to the
amount of $1,000.
A negro boy named win Clark, from
Warrenton, fell from q train at Social Cir
Gle Thursday and was killed.
Work has been discontinued on the Young
Mems Christian Association building at
Athens. The cause is not stated.
At the fair Of the Griffin Greys, at Grit
flip, Wednesday night, some one maliciously
cut to pieces fno dress for doll
<Sheriff Thomas closed the store Of Wool
1Dhry & Posner at Atlanta, Thursday, TO
n1atisfy an execution in favor Of Moore,
Marsh e. Co. for $l45.
The work on the new court house at CAL
houn has been completed, except a few
minor changes, and it will soon be ready
for the county officers.
Prof. A. L. Franklin, adjunct professor
of Latin and Greek at the state university
at Athens, will probably practice law after
the present scholastic year.
The deeds to the land on which the East
and West railroad shops are to be located at
Cartersvile have all been made out and are
ready to be delivered TO the railroad people.
Tonev williams was killed near Rochelle
Sunday by the discharge of pistol in the
hands of John Harrell Both men were
colored. The coroner's jury has declared
it case Of murder
Moonshiners and revenue officers ex-
changed shots in Lumpkin county few
nights ago. No one was hurt Christopher
Clark, a moonshiner, was captured and
lodged in Jail at Atlanta.
A brief investigation, Thursday, shows
that the people of Griffin are well fed. II
was ascertained that 3,700 pounds of fresh
fish, AZ gallons of oysters, 1200 dozen eggs
$50 chickens and 5000 pounds Of fresh meal
are retailed there weekly.
The Georgia Hay Press Company OF
Dalton has increased its capital stock &c
$1,000, and has filed petition for incor-
poration. The company will manufacture
In addition to their hay press, several kinds
of agricultural implements.
The st. Augustine and North Beach rail
road at ST. Augustine, Fla, being built by
Macon men, is about finished, and next Fri
day week the officers and stockholders will
leave Macon for st. Augustine, and maxi
an official inspection trip over the new
line.
ers' Protective Fraternity of Rome tool
place in the editorial rooms of the Tribun
Office last Sunday afternoon with eigh
charter members present. The organization
was christened Mountain City Fraternity
No. 30.n
Walter Virgins was shot by Lon Gray a
the state line one mile from Etna Furnac
last Monday afternoon. Gray fed, but i
is thought he will be captured Wiggin
W ettfF
pain before death came. The cause Of tn
shooting was row about liquor.
The negro population around Cassvill
has been in a state of excitement during tn
past eight or ten days They viii not stil
from their houses at night Many of tn
negroes have taken their children ava
from the schools. The cause of the excite
ment is a report that a wild man is in tina
vicinity.
At Macon, Thursday, the citizens held
meeting TO discuss organizing a land i'm
provement company, with $500, 600 capital
M. Nussbaum was elected chairman. Man,
shares at 500 each were taken. Messrs
Horne, Dannenberg, Solomon, Whitehead
and Duncan were appointed a committee t
solicit subscriptions
Deputy Marshal Forester had livel
little experiences with a burglar at Carriers
vile last Sunday morning, about daybreak
III WAS d5 OlCkSOna STORE. In
burglar escaped by going through from
show window, breaking the glass into
thousand fragments. Five members of
regular organized gang of black burglar
are now under arrest.
Thursday old "Aunt Betty q well-know
old negro woman. who for many years he
been living about Marietta, but for som
time has been an inmate of the Cobb count
poorhouse, was burning corn stalks, brushes
ETC., on the farm connected with the poor
house. and while thus engaged her clothin
accidentally caught fire. and before assist
ance could be rendered the old negro sh
was burned to death.
The usual Sabbath services at Fiv
Springs church, few miles below Dalton
were interrupted in a peculiar manner las
Sunday. Upon assembling at their place c
worship, the minister and his congregatio
found that some wretch, without honor en-
the fear of the Lord, had invaded til
sanctity of the church and stolen the Bible
water service, and other pulpit parapher
MALTA belonging thereto.
Cato BAldwin's wife, a negro woman VIII
lives in East Athens, was recently shot il
the head by some unknown party Will
among a crowd of negroes. The crow,
was walking along one of the streets owe
the river, when some one fired a piytol inf
their midst and ran away. The bullet too
effect in the negro woman's head, and in
fiicted serious though not nscessaril
fatal wound Tha xwor,ou EN-