The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-27
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

insurance earned Dy the Late Alr.
Angood-The Insurance Profits In
the State.
GEORGIA
DR.. ]. E. Cook of Pike county is dead.
Montezuma is talking of putting in cleo
trio lights.
There is a scarcity of skilled labor in
Americas.
The new court house at Calhoun has been
completed.
G. W. Bass of Hancock county has lost
his home by fire.
Buena Vista wants a brick yard. One is
TO be established at Sparta
n. S. Alexander contemplates starting a
newspaper at Harmony Grove.
Catoosa county is out of debt, and has
$4,000 in bank drawing 4 per cent. interest.
Real estate is bringing fine prices at
Fort Valley, and the town is improving in
every respect.
Sandersville hes adopted an ordinance to
exempt manufacturing concerns from tax
for eight years.
Gov. Gordon spent yesterday on his plan
tation in Taylor county. He returned to
Atlanta to-day.
Another ice factory will probably be built
at Atlanta. A boiler works is also among
the possibilities.
There is more corn and meat in the hands
of farmers of Putnam of their own raising
than has been for many years.
A. K Stephen has issued circular letter
to the citizens Of Athens asking for subscrip-
tlons to the capital stock necessary for the
establishment Of a furniture factory at
Athens.
new postofiice has been established at
the old Wells place, on the star route
between Buena Vista and Geneva, which
will be known as Thorntonville, with J. L.
Benson as postmaster.
Mrs. S. NJ. Ball of Townsville gave
most enjoyable entertainment at her hos
hospitable home Friday night comph-
mentary to Mas Carrie Undertake of Fort
Valley, who is visiting there.
Little John Pritchard, the 13-year-old son
OF James Pritchard of Milledgevile while
playing with number of other small boys
at the opera house, Friday night of last
week, fell and broke his wrist.
Henry McClesky, colored chairman of the
Republican party of jackson county,
dropped dead last Wednesday evening. He
was one of the oldest men in Jackson
county, being about so years old
A new postoffice has been established at
Adams store in the southern part of Cal
houn county, with j. B. Adams post
master. The name Of the Office is Baden.
The mail for it is supplied at Humber.
The stove store of NJ. NJ Maddrey, at
Athens, was closed Friday, the entire stock
being placed into the hands of a receiver by
patition of the Excelsior Manufacturing
Company and Others. E. P. Upshaw is re-
ceiver.
During the month of December last.
1,0S6 tickets were sold over the Central
railroad at the Tennille office, and 663 over
the Wrightville and Tennille railroad. This
does not include the return trip passengers
to and from Tennille.
petition calling for an election on the
prohibition question has been circulated
through Milledgeville, and has been liber-
ally signed by the voters of the county. II
requires one-tenth of the legal voters at the
late county election to secure an election.
]. Estin Whelchel, who is now a member
of the sophomore class of the state univer-
slty at Athens, has through the influence
of Congressman Gambler, received an ap-
pointment to West Point He will leave in
few days to stand the entrance examina-
ton.
AT Leary on Tuesday last Dr. J. w.
Patterson amputated all the fingers Off one
hand of a colored woman. A few DAYS
before the woman had fit and fell into
the fire, burning one hand and arm severely.
The doctor thinks it will be necessary to
amputate the arm also
Mr.. Allgood, recently killed in Rome. at
the time of his death had policies on his life
In the Equitable for $4,000, in the Mu-
tual $4,000, and in the Northwestern
100000, and policies IN several other COM
panles Tor smaller amounts-which alto
gether will amount TO about $4,000.
An ex-engineer on the Richmond and Dan
vile Airline road tells thrilling story of
how he just missed a collision a few nights
ago. his name is H. j. Minis, aud he mis-
construed his orders. Fortunately, how
ever. he reached Gainesville just in time to
avoid crash with a passenger train.
A public meeting will shortly be held at
Ringgold TO find how much stock Catoosa
county will take in the dummy line from
Catoosa Springs and Ringgold to Chat
tanooga. There is clause in the charter
prohibiting the running of that road
parallel TO the Western and Atlantic rail
road
The Walcot chair factory at Griffin is
fully forty days behind on orders They
now have booked orders for 5000 chairs
They are turning out 400 chairs per day,
and yet, without any canvassing by drum
mers they are unable TO fill orders that
come in by mail. They will soon double
the plant.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Newman cotton mills on Wednesday morn
ing last the directors were authorized to
issue bonds TO the amount of $4,000 the
object being to acquire in this way ready
capital with which to purchase additional
machinery and TO provide a surplus fund
for operating expenses.
The Augusta cooperage, F. W. Pike pro-
prietor, 629 Kollock street, between G. +.
Lombard and George r. Lombard's iron
works, and opposite the Polar ice factory.
was entirely consumed by fire Saturday
morning between 3 and 4 o'clock. There
were 500 new barrels on hand, and the en-
tire loss would be covered by $4,000.
On Thursday last w. NJ. Peacock & Bro.
of TennilIe, turned over their stock of gem
eral merchandise to Mr.. j. II. Peacock, who
held a $4,000 mortgage. This was done on
account of the pressure made upon the firm
by one or two Macon creditors, It is
thought that the assets of the firm are suf-
ficiently large to satisfy the mortgage and
settle all Indebtedness.
Eatonton Messenger: About one hun
dred and forty carloads of cottonseed have
been shipped from the Eatonton depot dur
ing the season. Ten or fifteen carloads
more may reasonably be expected to be
shipped before the planting season arrives.
III the seed shipped is to be returned in cot.
tolseed meal for fertilizing purposes it is
well. II sold merely for the money value
tho county will lose immensely by their
sale: as the money received for the seed has
hardly Ee6n kept for Investment in fart;T