The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF Tds TWO STATES
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A store Burned at TrIp-A Family
Dying of Starvation Near Atlanta.
A Verdict for S4,375 Secured
Against Railroad on Account OF
an Assault by g Conductor-Al-
bangs City Council Prohibits q
Show.
The Flint River Medical Association viii
meet at Woodbury. on next Friday.
The wife Of Beresford, the alleged lord
held a. Rome on charge of forgery Is
dangerously i'll.
The name Of the South Georgia Baptist
General Association has been changed 70
South Georgia convention.
Col T. Z. Niun left Lswrenceville Tues
day for Washington to begin his service as
congressman from the Ninth district
The city council Of Albany has prohibited
the female minstrel troop from performing
there tonight and ordered their paper torn
from the bill boards.
At Brunswick Wednesday while Willis
Webb was loading orossties on schooner
crosstie fell on him from the deck and broke
his left leg near the ankle.
Mr.. Tuck for mayor and Messrs. O'Far-
rell, Gerdine, Cohea and Smith for alder
men were the successful candidates in We'd
nesday's election at Athens.
man named English, working at
Haunson & Co. saw mill at Long View,
had his arm terribly lacerated by the break
ing Of a butting saw on Monday.
The Kinard Bros's fixtures and bar
effects, including billiard tables, sold at
Griffin Wednesday for 1879, the purchasers
! being firms holding accounts against the
/ firm.
David Westervelt, young man about 1S
years of age, was to have been taken before
Ordinary Calhoun at Atlanta on writ of
lunacy, but his brother, Edward Wester-
welt. has decided to take him to a private
asylum for the insane in Germantown, Pa.
his physical downfall is the result Of cigar
cite smoking.
AT LaGrange a few nights ago, A. s.
Ravenscroft, agent OF the Atlanta and
West Point railroad, while in his room at
the Hotel Andrews, was awakened during
the night by a suffocatlng experience. Upon
Investigation 1t was found that some one
had attempted to murder him by throwing
chioroform through the transom.
At Calhoun few days ago Judge Miner
heard the Application for the appointments
of a permanent receiver and auditor for the
Southern Crosstie Company, ant N. J.
Boaz, the temporary receiver wss mahe
psrmanept receiver, and Col. X J. Ne
Kamy 81 Dalton was appointed auditsr.
These gentlensR wit proceed at once 70
WAu0 up buc hAUtak U inc OouCefu.
Hon. Henry q. Turner Is serving his last
term in congress as the representative in
that body of the Second district OF Georgia.
Mr. Turner 10 TO be succeeded by some
representative man Ia the district, not that
the voters of the district are tired Of him.
bpt because he has been taken away aSh
put into the Eleventh district. Ta4 Worth
County Local hdvocatcs the selection of
Judge Q. =. Wooten Of Dougherty county
Atlanta Journal: A gentleman speaking
OF the success OF a farmer friend Of his,
said: HE has not planted a stalk Of cot
ton In four years, and during that time has
supported his family and laid aside on
an average OF 50, 100 year. He has only
I4D acres Of land, and not all Of that in cul-
tivation. He is diversif1er and intensi-
fer sort Of man. He diversiaes by raising
milk and butter. and intensifies by raising
chickens, eggs and pigs"
John R. Wood, an old gentleman who
lived with Robert Boswell, his son-in-law,
five miles below Homer. took his own life
Tuesday. He told the family he would 20
out and kill hawk he had seen near the
house, and took a gun and went short
distance into the woods. and, placing the
muzzle On the ground, pushed the trigger
with piece Of board. The load entered
his body near the heart and it is supposed
killed him Instantly. He had been suffer-
ing from mental arrangement lately which
resulted In his ending his life.
Big pond, in Baker county. Is said to be
dry for the first time in many years-or, at
least, there are only two or three small
pools Of water remaining in its bed. These
pools abound in fish, and the piscatorially
inclined have had picnic-time during the
past few weeks. A few days since trio Of
hunters stopped at the pond and had some
unexpected sport in discriminating a family
OF alligators found in one Of the pools. TIE
family consisted Of pair of old gators and
twenty five small ones, all of which were
killed. One of the old ones was 0 feet I
inches long.
Macon Evening Ne,Os: There passed
Through Macon night or two since one
around whom there fingers some public in
terest l refer to ex-Attorney General Bob
Ely. He has been in the lunatic asylum
for several months, aud was en- route home
TO Albany. Maj. Ely seems to be sound
man again, physically and mentally. He
was at one time one of the leading lawyers
OF the Albany circuit, and enjoyed iucra-
tive practice. He also held the high office of
attorney general OF Georgia. His financial
DOWNFALL and mental arrangement resulted
from q series of misfortunes and his con-
oitaon at the time his friends took steps to
have him committed to the asylum was due
10 such adversities as are liable to come upon
the strongest and best of men. His mauy
friends hope his recovery is permanent
Maj. Ely has a large circle of friends and
acquaintances IN Macon.
In the early part of 1880 w. N. Fleet
wood, DR., was passenger on the train Of
the Hawkinsville branch of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railway.
Capt. Fred Davis was the conductor In
charge of the train. There had been i'll
feeling between Capt Davis and Mr.. Fleet.
wood for some time. While the train was
running MIR. Fleetwood was assaulted by
Capt. Davis. Suit was brought by Fleetwood
against the railroad in claim for $40. 900
damages. The case came up for trial in
Pulaski superior court last week. Il came
out in the evidence that the conductor
slapped Fleetwood's jaws and spit ia his
face. The assault was not resisted by Fleet
wood, he claiming that he was unarmed
while his assailant held pistol in his hand.
The jury awarded damages to Fleetwood in
the sum OF 81, 375. A motion is pending for
O new trial of the case, aud it will probably
BIO carried to the supreme court for final
settlement.
Jason Flowers. the negro who was taken
from Bibb county Jail to Hawkinsville last
week to stand trial for the murder OF Mr..
Mitchell, attempted suicide Tuesday even
ing. The inmates confined with Flowers
were startled by the screams of a woman
confined in cell adjoining, who saw Flow
ers suspended by the neck from the grating
nff he call xufn He hoI l. "