The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09

bow down, and it was thought tnAt smpu'
tatlon was niece. sary. 50 the arm was taken
of last Wednesday by DIR. Kendrick.
I Among the Candidates for the speaker
snip OF the next House OF Representatives.,
so rumOr has il, is Hon. c. H. Ellington
= He served the state in the last Senate with
Tnarkef ability. Under the rotation sys-
TEN MS county will lose the right TO name
= the senator, and it is said that be VIII run
for the House Mr. Ellington is one OF
, the leading alliancemen in the state. IL IS
also said that DIR. Ellington will succeed
lei Livingston as president Of the state
alliance. col Livingston 20 take the plaza
now held BY Col. Polk as the president OF
the national alliance.
The public gin owned and operated by X.
/ j. Walker in Ihs Second district or Coweta
county was destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning about l o'clock, together with
eleven bales of cotton and several thousand
bushels OF cotton seed. The following par
ties had cotton stored in the gin hodse: j.
d. Arnold. bales X. r. Hunter, 3 bales;
/ W. s. Mcdonald, bale; w. l.. Robinson,
bales: Lewis Tench coloredl, bale. The
| gin was run by water power, aud as there
had been no fire about the building during
! the day it was unquestionably the work of
an iucendiSry There was no insurance upon
the property.
Tbs examination, by the state board OF
pharmacy, at Atlanta Friday. OF ten young
applicants for pharmscistS' license. resulted
in eight Of them passing satisfactorily.
| The lucky ones are: j. l.. Brooks, Z. T.
Virgins and E. G. Brown of Atlanta; J. j.
Wooien. d. S. Carrington and s. T. Bayne
of Milledgeville; W. T. knight of Savan-
nah: II. 4. Davies of Butler, and +. B.
Nes5itt. Jr., of Eatonton. The
best examination was that OF J. l..
Brooks Of Atlanta. The next best was that
of Z. b. Nesbitt, Jr., Of Eatonton
Both Of them were creditable in the
highest degree. and all were notably good.
SenoIs Gazette: Hon. William s. With
am OF Montgomery, Ala, will be in Senoia
on Tuesday next to confer with our citi-
zens concerning the establishing OF a bank.
/ Mr.. Witham Is gentleman widely and ia
vorably known in the south aud tbs fact that
he is interested in the enterprise is sufficient
| evidence for saying the undertaking
will be a success. Mr.. Witham is a
dealer in southern securities and bank
stocks at Montgomery. and president OF the
following banks aud banking Companies:
Security Bank Of Alabama, Admission, Ala.
jackson Banking Company, Jackson Ga.
Merchants and Farmers Bank, Hogans
vile. Ga. Thomson Bank. Thomson, Ga
and vice president OF Elberton Loan and
Savings Bank, Elberton, Ga. Mr.. Witham
is well aud favorably known by three OF
the leading banks of New York city.
Rome Tribune: G. j. Bryant, the scot
ton king OF Floyd county, was in Rome
Thursday. Following his neat little buggy
were twenty-eight Of his farm wagons,
loaded with eighty-one bales Of cotton from
his four Magnificent farms up the Etowah
river He sold the cotton at the highest
market price, to the VanDyke a. Henley
warehouse. Itwas the largest lot Of cotton
brought into Rome this season, and all OF
splendid staple. Mr.. Bryant reports the
loss Of q gin house on one of his farms,
known as the Henry Bass place. The gin
burned Wednesday night and eight bales OF
cotton belonging 70 one of his tenants, A
Il. Marlborough, was consumed with it.
There was no insurance on either cotton or
gin house. Mr.. Bryant states that nearly
all the cotton has been picked out, and the
crop is falling far short OF last year, which,
in bis opinion, 10 largely due to the connn-
ued drought
Waynesboro True Citizen: Sim Coleman
and Wash Goode. two colored tramps, were
stealing ride on the early morning psssen-
ger train OF this branch of the Central
Thursday morning. They we're discovered
near Munnerlyn and Sim Coleman jumped
from the train, breaking bis arm and re-
| ceiving several severe bruises. Wash
Goode was found dead on the track at the
upper switch with his skull burst
open and his brains knocked
into the frog OF the switch.
| Appearances indicated that he had
| been caught in some manner and dragged
several feet The tramps hailed from South
Carolina and were making their way home
ward. Notary Public T. D. Oliver Of this
| city held an inquest over tie remains aud
| the jury empaneled returned the following
verdict That the deceased came to his
death by being killed by the o'clock a. N.
| up passenger train IN an unknown manner.
! Whether at the fault or negligence Of any
| one it is unknown"
Rome Tribune: The tables are turned In
| the we'll known Dodson case and W. ID.
| Brown and his wife Minnie Brown occupy
a cell near LORD Beresford 8 in the Floyd
county jail. They we're sent there Friday
| Afternoon by Tom Dodson. who swore out
| warrants against them charging both with
perjury. 1t was Brown who has greatly
prosecuted Dodsol the last six months, and
now tue latter is enjoying sweet revenge
with serious charges against his prose-
cutors ana strong cases to back thetn
One night last week w. d. Brown reported
a case TO the police charging that Will and
Tom Dodson had been around to bis house
drunk and had stood on the porch and
cursed himself and wife, and even went so
far as to threaten his life if he opened the
door and came out on the porch, which
they asked him to do. Upon this informa-
1
Dodson Tom was at home sober
and quiet while Will was drunk
and in the street Will was
convicted and hnsd. Tom was acquitted.
When Mrs. Minnie Brown arose to give in
her testimony a funny incident occurred.
Dodson objected to her testifying, and when
Recorder Wright asked him if she was his
wife, he replied that she had married him,
and without getting divorces was married
70 Brown, whose name she bears, but
whstber she was Browns wife. he said be
didn't know. Recorder Wright overruled
the objection and allowed Mrs. Brown, or
Mrs. Dodson No. 2, to testify. Her evidences
was about the same as Browns
Z fter the trial the Browns were arresteJ
for false swearing as already stated.
FLORIDA.
Wild ducks are swarming on Indian river.
John NJ. Foster, an old citizen of BrevarC
county, is dead.
Many oranges are stolen from the groves
around st. Augustine.
The cigarmaking bust 1ess in Key West
is looking up considerably.
Tamna had ONLY two DEATHS last month