The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEws OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


False Report of Taxing Up Arms
Against the Alliance-A Painful In
jury Suffered by Lady of Americus
GEORGIA
A now Presbyterian church is going "
at Hartwell.
Two tramps who have been terrorizlng
women at Americas have been lodged IL
jail.
Felix Mason. a negro carpenter Of
Americas, had an arm broken by the col
lapse Of a scaffold on which he was work
ing.
Prof. T. E Hollingsworth, formerly su'
perintendent of the public school at Monte
yuma, has been elected superintendent OF
public schools at Carrollton.
Gordon county owes its new court house
to the effect of the cyclone on the old one.
1t left it a wreck. The new one would be a
handsome ornament to any town.
]. R Myers of Hartwell is the proud
owner of a slop bucket that has been in con-
slant use thirty-two years, has never lost
hoop and is good for many more years.
John Foster (colored) was shot and killed
while resisting arrest in Meriwether county
day or two ago by Louis A Edwards.
Foster had pistol in his hand when killed.
A report has gone TO the country that
there has been ordered for the purpose OF
defying the farmers alliance of Decatur
county l60 Winchester rifles. The report
is untrue.
FIN. Cobb of Carrollton slipped down
Sunday In his buggy house. and in the fall
one of his ribs was fractured and he re-
ceived other internal injuries. He Is up
again, however.
A new census count has been ordered for
the largest districts in Columbus. Two
districts have been recounted already, and
show a gain of 1909 for Muscogee county,
Others will be recounted-
At Lincolnton, on Tuesday night last,
while Robert A. Martin and family
were at church, his house was burned To the
ground with the loss of everything except
what clothing they had on.
A mammoth sturgeon was caught day
or two ago by J. T. Goorum and d. E.
Evans in the Towaliga river, about eight
miles from Forsyth. The fish was six feet
long and weighed ninety pounds.
News of the death of Mrs. William B.
Dodd, at the home of her son-in-law, III
New York, has been received at Macon,
Mrs Dodd, who was well known through
out the state, had many friends who will
regret to hear of her death.
Thursday as Dan Thomas and his wife
were going to Americus from Lee county in
q buggy, the mule became frightened and
ran away, throwing Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
out. Mrs. Thomas shoulder blade was dis
located and she was badly bruised.
The little 4-year-old daughter of D. W.
Browning, of Telfair county, was burned
to death on Tuesday The little girl was
playing around the fire. when her dress
caught No one discovered her until her
whole side was burned. She died in great
agony
Annie Boone who disappeared at Albany
day or two ago, leaving Eer hat and
handkerchief on the river bank to create
the impression that she had drowned her
self, has been found at the house Of Lila
Hudson in Sandy Bottom, on the outskirts
Of the town.
Frank Mathis, who was supposed to have
committed suicide by drowning himself in
the Etowah river, was seen yesterday
short distance up the Summerville road.
He had a hammer and a saw, and it is sup
posed that he has undertaken to build him
a canoe and go fishing.
w. W. Brooks, of Big Creek, caught
terrapin on Aug. 6, 1865, and inscribed
upon his back the date. Between Aug. l
and the same terrapin was caught ON w.
W. Brooks place a mile from where he was
in August, 1865, twenty-five years ago, with
the same inscription still on his back.
The steam saw-miil of Donaldson & Fain,
located four miles south of Faceville in
Decatur county, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire few days ago. Besides the
mill, engines, boilers, Single machinery
ETC., 100,0 900 shingles and 20, 600 feet of lum-
Der were burned. The less is over 1900,
with no insurance.
News has been received of a dreadful &C
eiHanT at Wnlfnan N Rortpyv Tuyp
boys, sons of William Byers, were playing
with some powder. by dropping it on a hot
stove. One of them dropped several grains,
an explosion followed, and in a second the
two boys had been blown to the opposite
side of the room. They are beyond all hope
of recovery.
A few days ago Lewis, the infant son of
Clarence ID. Brown of Cuthbert, was left
by his nurse sitting on a fence three feet
high, for an instant, when he fell off back
ward, his head and shoulders striking the
ground first. 1t was not known that the
child was seriously hurt till few hours
afterward, when lock jaw supervened, and
it died twenty four hours later.
Excitement ran pretty high last week in
that section of Oglethorpe county which has
been infested by band OF so-called white
caps, over a report that a comnaDy of
United States soldiers had been sent from
Washington, and that some of them had
been seen in the vicinity above referred to.
Though the rumor was, of course, false. it
kept things at fever heat for several DAYS.
H. Prayer of Brunswick found the follow
ing note Friday: 1.-THE finder of tnis will
please Dotify my father, a T. Holly of
Atlanta, Ga, that | have grown tired of
the life have teen living aud will drown
myself tonight. John Holly A little
further down appeared the following sent
ence: Look for my body somewhere near
the back landing No body has been
found.
The people Of Atlanta want fine drive
to Grant park. AT present there Is no good
approach to this delightful resort for pri-
vate vehicles, and the people are anxious to
secure one The Park Avenue Land and
Improvement Company have proffered the
city free strip of land sixty feet wide
from Capitol avenue to Grant park, touch
ing the park just below Lake ALBANIA. The
city council will in all probability, accept
the gift and provide for having the strip
worked out at an early time.
A single daughter of r. Fl. Swain, liv.
ing in the lower part Of the Ousley district
in Lowndes county, was assaulted by q
mulatto on Saturday last, and outraged.
She was cnoked down in the fie d, not far
from the house, and lay there in an insensi-
BILE condition until she was found by mem
bers of the family. It was la.e next day
before she could tell the story of the assault
upon her. As soon as a crowd could bt
gotten up a search for the villain was made
but at last repor be had not been found.
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