The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


A Thomas County Boy Saves Bridge
from Destruction by Fire-A Young
Man OF Tweed Charged With Arson.
Row Monkeys are Caught in Brazil
A Prisoners Escape from a Deputy
Marshal
GEORGIA
DIR. P. Heartwen and Joe Thorn died
at Albany Tuesday.
A son of Fashaw Long Of Hinesville fell
and broke his arm Sunday.
Nearly all the brick necessary for the new
city hall at Brunswick are on the ground.
A drum crops Is to be organized by
Leader Baumgartner of the Atlantic band
at Brunswick.
Benjamin ElwelI, one of the oldest and
best known citizens of Thomas county, died
at his home near Cairo last Saturday night.
John Hope, young white man from the
Twenty-fourth district Of Liberty county,
was committed to Jail Saturday night,
charged with horse stealing.
William Cowan, a fagman on mixed
train on the Rome and Decatur railroad,
was instantly killed while attempting to
couple cars at Rome, Monday.
At Dublin the race for the mayoralty is
getting warm, and much interest seems to
be NANTES ed by the friends of both aspir
ants, Capt. Stubs and Col. Griner.
Rev. W. D. McGregor has driven a well
at the parsonage at Hinesville, from which
he has obtained a splendid flow of sulphur
water, the same as the Hinesville mineral
spring.
Forest fires have been raging in Liberty
county. jackson Parker, in the "slash,"
had all his outbuildings destroyed, and his
dwelling cauga on fire several times, but
the flames were extinguished.
George T. Harris and r. M. Rogers, the
OcmulRee committee, have returned to
Macon from Washington. They are highly
satisfied with the encouragement givel
them by the river and harbor committee.
Rev. ". B. Jennings has left Macon for
South Carolina, his native state After
remaining a few days there he will leave
for a trip to Palestine. He will be absent
about three months, and will spend five
weeks in the Holy Land
In the Office of clerk Of the superior court
at Macon Monday a petition for charter
was filed by L. A. Mitchell of Dodge county
and 3. G. Harris of Macon tor the Star
Lumber Company. The paid in capital
will be $4,000. with privilege to increase to
100000. Lumber manufacturing will be
the main object Of the company.
r. G. King of Waycross was married
yesterday to Miss Della, eldest daughter of
Capt. Sam ID. Jones of Callahan, Fla, the
Rev. Mr.. Matthews officiating The bridal
couple left on the noon train for a tour of
Florida Mr.. King is the manager of the
clothing establishment of +. c. Owens of
Waycross. The bride is noted for her
many excellences Of head and heart.
Last Tuesday Master James, the 1l-year-
old son OF Joe Williams, saved the bridge
over Aucilla creek, five miles from Thomas
vile, from being burned. The woods were
burning and the flames were communicated
60 the bridge. The boy carried water in his
hat quite distance and put out the flames.
The board OF county commissioners paid
him a reward Of S. for the good work ne
did.
A. F. PARROT, a cotton buyer of Macon,
weighed and marked 355 bales of cotton re-
covered from the late Price warehouse fire
Tor X. g. Hit. manager for the insurance
companies. Mr.. PARROT charged 10 cents per
bale for the work, but the bill of $35 so was
refused payment on the ground that another
81 cents per bale. Legal proceedings re-
suited in the payment Of the bill.
Suit has been filed in Bibb superior court
by Hardeman g. Nottingham for So, 900
damages in the name Of Mrs. Maggie L.
George rs. the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida railroad, for killing her husband on Dec
%, 1889, near Macon. 1t is alleged that
George had ticket to Bonair, but was put
of the train near Macon for some cause, in
the night, in strange country, and while
wandering about was run over and killed
At Augusta, James U. Jackson, broker.
is suing William Graves, the New York
capitalist, for over $1,000 commissions on
the purchase of controlling amount of
stock in the Augusta, Gibson and Sanders
vile railway. When the securities were
offered Graves refused to stick to the trade,
and Mr. jackson brings suit 10 recover his
commissions. The suit is attracting much
attention. The action at law will be prese-
cuted in New York.
AT J. o. Garason's place, near Hinesville
on Saturday, Jan. 25, his son Osgood, a
bright lad of g. lost his life Little Ospood
and his brother, few years older, in COM
pany with negro boy, were running
rabbit, which took refuge in a hollow
cypress. The boys proposed to cut the tree
down, which was done. When it fell they
all ran, but little Osgood stumbled and fell.
and the falling tree came crushing upon
him, managing him fearfully. He lived for
three hours, when death relieved him of
his sufferings.
AT Atlanta, Tuesday night, the police
arrested an entire family named Sans for
being drunk. They were on their way, by
private conveyance, from Taylor county to
North Georgia, where they propose to
came inebriated and his wife, Georgia
Sans. getting hold Of his bottle, followed
suit. Their three children, the Oldest of
whom is years of age, next succumbed,
and when taken to the station house the s.
year-old was the drunkest Of the lot The
family is white
Immense quantities of fine cabinet woods.
as suitable for fancy inside carpentry as
walnut or mahogany, can be found within
five miles of Macon. The growing scarcity
of the two popular varieties of wood above
mentioned renders it desirable among cabi-
petmakers that the lack should be supplied
by some fitting substitute as soon as possible
The Central Railroad Company uses annu-
ally about As, 900 feet of these expensive
woods, the most of which comes from New
York state They come high, but
are considered indispensable.
Planters, merchants and mill men are
fighting fire in Wayne, Clinch, Pierce and
Coffee counties. Immense tracts of woods
are on fire. The flames are sweeping every-
thing before them, and it seems that there
is no getting them checked. Green pines
are being burned as completely and as
rapidly as fat lightwood stumps, and the
damage threatened is incalculable. Over
100 square miles of country has been covered
by the fire already, and the end is not vet.
The fire, which has been burning for more
than week, now seems uncomfortable. and
fhara Is no falljpur how rr-oot