The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Town site Sold to Man Who
Didn't Know He was scooping it In.
An Underground Railroad Unearthed
at Dslton-Cows Trample Each Other
60 Death in an Overcrowded Car.
GEORGIA
Half the cotton crop in Campbell county
has been picked out.
Cherry trees at Dalton are blooming for
the second time this year.
The sweet potato crop in Whitfield county
is going to be heavy one.
Barlow eounty's tax rate for the state
and county is SO IS on the 81 200, while the
rate in Floyd is SIS.
". A. Sims Of Jonesboro has variety of
cotton that yields forty pounds OF lint to
the 100 pounds OF seed.
On Friday morning last Mrs. Fannie
Neal, wife of Judge Mccormick Neal, died
at her hoEse, in Covington.
Lieut.. Keech has not received recruit for
the army since he has been in Albany. he
says thai he would like to get one before ne
leaves just to have him as souvenir.
The new guns for the cadet corps are on
the way, and will be at Athens next Mon
day. The guns ninety in number, are OF
excellent workmanship and of blue steel.
A negro man named Aoris on drunken
Stree shot and killed negro woman at
Nright's camp in the lower part of Gwin-
net county last Monday night. The woman
was shot through the heart and instantly
killed. The murderer escaped.
Claude Smith, a lad employed at the
Smith Bros gin in Gainesville, Wednes-
day, while at his work, was standing near
running belG that broke. and, tapping up, it
struck him on the left arm with terrible
force, breaking it near the elbow.
Col. William Cook, an old citizen OF Dial =
ton and veteran of the late war, died at
the hume of Mrs. Holland, in Dalton, last
week, after an illness of several weeks. Col
Cook was lieutenant colonel Of the Fourth
Georgia cavalry and made brave soldier
and good leader.
Mrs. Hammond, the venerable mother of
Mrs II. d. Watts of Americus, suffered a
serious and painful accident Tuesday morn
ing. Mrs. Hammond is 20 years of age,
quite feeble and entirely blind. and in going
up the steps to her home missed her footing
and 10 falling broke her shoulder.
Thirty cows and twenty hogs were
crowded and damned together in one car
by Marietta shipper a day or two ago.
When the car was unloaded two dead COWS,
three dying COWS, five dead hogs, and two
broken down hogs were taken out. They
were literally crushed TO death by one an
other.
Senoia Enterprise Gazette. Here is q
little fast cotton picking that was done by
three Coweta county boys this week. They
are the sons of B. Hutchinson, and picked
nearly 800 pounds in one day. Otto, aged
1G, picked over 400 pounds; Jim, aged IA
picked a little over 800, and Ector, q To-
year old, picked nearly 200
The merchants of Augusta are bitter in
their complaints against the present
schedule of the Central railroad. A gentle
man left Sylvania bound for Augusta to
purchase a stock of goods. He got here at
OF O'Clock in the afternoon, having been
en- route all day. oylvania is only about
tifIy-six miles from Augusta.
Two brothers the Sons of Robert Brown,
living near higgins ferry, in Meriwether
county, we're out one day last week in boat
on the river. A loaded gun which was in
the beat with them was by some accident
discharged, the load taking effect ia the
thigh OF one OF the boys, INJECTING a severe
wound, from which he died in few hours
The next session of the South Atlantic
district conference (Methodist) will be held
in jackson during next July 1t is a large
body OF Christians, similar in size TO the
Flint River Association that met there two
weeks ago. 1t will be remembered that the
the Butts county churches were transferred
from it to the South Atlantic district.
The negro who shot and killed Mr.. Lloyd
and seriously wounded Mr.. Edenfleld has at
last been caught. The murderer was
found by jesse Paulk 8 deputy sheriff of
Irwin county. Rewards aggregating S4OO
had been offered for the apprehension and
delivery of the murderer to the sheriff of
the county. TIE $l25 reward offered by the
Ia
Townsville Times Enterprise: The fol-
lowing was handed us last night by mer-
chant In whose store little boy is employed
The 10y, in his idle moments, wrote
1t: zone time there was little
hoy bis mother told him to 60 and wash his
feet aud be cried aud wouldn't do SO, no
went and sit ON the rail fencs and the rail
cracked and fell and cracked his head.
and that is what he got for not obeying his
mother
Tribune-of- Rome: Haynes Thomas, the
Broad street darkey who is famous for col
lecting curious animals. birds, etc. has now
collection which he will send to the Pied
mont exposition in Atlanta. Haynes has a
three-legged turkey. The third leg growing
out OF the right leg. He also has a snake
twenty inches in circumference and 81 feet
long. 1t is Mexican striper. An opossum
trained to do almost anything, is also in hi,
menagerie.
]. 7. Brooks, O carpenter lately from
Tennessee, who has been at work at Fay
lorsvilla for the past few months, is very
much distressed because of his Ignorance ol
the whereabouts of his better half He wen
to Cartersville on Sept. % and taking the
train for Atlanta left his wife at the South
land hotel until be should return. He wa
unexpectedly delayed in Atlanta a week
and his wife becoming uneasy after WAITING
four days left on Sept. % for Atlanta Il
find him If possible. She said Oh leaving
having but limited means, she would ge
work in the city OF some kind unit. she die
find him. On his return be was surprise,
TO find her gone, and bearing nothing frou
her is much concerned about her.
Judge Miner and Solicitor Fife have ha,
lively time of it in Dade the past week
In the superior court the chief figure
among the convicts in the bloody battl
With the guards at Cole City were on trial
Wilson Palmer. one of the instigators au,
eaders in the work, was sentenced TO ham
Nov. 6. he is a desperate fellow, and
urrently supposed to have been the partne
It Blinky Morgan in the famous Indian
aobbery some time back. Abe Wayman.
segro prominent in the work, was in tn
senitentiary at the time on a life sentence
de was also sentenced to hang on the sam
lay with Palmer. John Rutherford, an
pther negro concerned in the affair, wa
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Horace Holden of Crewfordville, JOSEPH
flyers, George I. Barnes and Patric
Walsh of Augusta, the committee of th
Stephens Monument Association. to selec
design. met in Augusta Wednesday