The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Legal Proceedings over the Delivery
of STOCK of the Company Which
owns Gsorg.a's Big Swamp - The
President of the Wor DIS Columbian
Exposition in Conference With Gov
Northen.
GEORGIA
Burglars entered r. 7. Wilkerson's mea
market at Rome early Saturday morning
and robbed his safe Of $3.50 and valuabi,
papers.
The Conyers Volunteers propose 20 in.
augurs te new feature at their FRIDAY
night drills They will have the floor prop
erly prepared and will have a free skat
ing rink before and after the evening
drills.
An attempt was made to wreck the In
bound passenger train on the Atlanta and
West Point road between s and 4 O'Clock
Friday afternoon about one mile south OF
Whitfield Junction. A log had been placed
across the track.
Sims & Pharr's general merchandise es
Enlistment at Washington was entered by
burglars Friday night, and large guam
tity of goods, consisting OF meat, -four, to-
bacco, cigars and dry goods stolen. Negroes
were the culprits and are under arrest
Houston county claims to have the largest
woman in the state, Annie Brown, colored.
She is IS years old, has eight children, is 5
feet inc1es high, feet inches around
the bust, 4 feet inches around the waist,
80 inches around the arm, and weighs 500
pounds.
Taxpayers owning more than 30 per cent.
of the property at Washington have Pc
titioned the mayor and council that the
streets shall be lighted with electricity.
There is already an electric light company
which lights the mills, and the petition will
probably be granted.
A bill to abolish the city court Of Floyd
county is being talked Of. The court holds
four sessions annually and q session gener-
ally lasts two weeks. The city court has
unlimited jurisdiction, except whsre, by the
constitution Of the state, the superior court
alone has jurisdiction over felopiee.
There is strong probability that the New
Rome furnace will be changed 80 as to make
ferro-msnganese iron instead of the ordi-
nary pig iron. The immense deposits Of
manganese ore in the vicinity of Rome and
the high prices received for the iron manu-
featured from it have caused the change to
be taken into serious consideration.
Owing to sickness, Col. William II. Ross
has resigned the presidency of the new
American National bank OF Macon, aud w.
II. Burden has been elected to the vacancy.
James ID. Stetson, lately of Hawkinsville, is
vice president; L. p. Hillyer, cashier, and
Edgar Msgness Of the Chattanooga Fourth
National bank will be assistant to Cashier
Hillyer.
Ex-United States Senator T. Palmer.
president Of the worlds fair commission.
was in Atlanta Saturday. He came to
confer with Gov. Northen with reference
to Georgia being represented at the fair
The governor had quite a long conference,
with him, which ended In Mr.. Palmer's
promising to be in Atlanta at the conven~
tion on May 6. This convention wns called
by the governor about a week ago to decide
and inaugurate plan for having Georgia
make an exhibit at the fair.
Brunswick Times: In going his rounds
Saturday Times reporter happened to
drop into Michelson's building, at the rear
of his new structure on Gloucester street.
and visited Prof. Kirby's studio, where he
IS daily engaged IL putting on the flush
ing touches on the great "Pre-historic
World" painting. On March 81 he put the
last stroke Of the brush on one of his finest
sections, representing a superb ideal
landscape Of the Miocene or Tertiary
period, exhibiting many of the extinct
mammals of that period, including the mas
todon, dlnotherium and hairy rhinoceros.
Also an abundance Of the plauts, ferns,
age Prof. Kirby says there remain only
twelve more important paintings yet to be
finished to complete the largest oil paint
ing on earth, being one full mile in length.
de now has about $1,000 worth of the
paintings finished
bill in equity was filed in the superior
court OF Fulton county court by Frank
Cox ct al TO compel Henry Little Of New
Jersey to refund them $4,000, which they
claim to have paid to the state of Georgia
on account Of the purchase money for a half
interest IN the -Okefnokee swamp, claimed
by Mr Little. Capt. Harry jackson, the
president Of the Suwanee Canal Company.
states that all Of the surveys have been
completed, and that the company is pre-
pared TO issue certificates cf stock to those
desiring TO subscribe for the same. Mr.
Cox, Gen. P. u. B. Young and himself
were unwilling that certificates of stock
should be issued by the company to Mr..
Little uutil he had paid in full for his half
interest, and therefore the bill above re-
ferred to was filed to enjoin the company
from delivering the certificates to him, and
TO en1oin him from transferring any inter-
est therein. The entire purchase money has
been paid to the state, and everything Is
prepared for further DEVELOPMENT