The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


ening the Melon Crop-A Hanging
at Fort Gaines Atheaisns B!sted
over an Electrical Device.
GEORGIA
The Memorial day exercises at Thomaston
have been postponed from April 20 70 May
I6 on account Of the scarcity of flowers
The Georgia Chemical Company has Just
made a contract at Augusta for !, 500, 00O
bricks to be used in the cree ion Of fertil-
izsr plant near Charleston, s c.
The Mothodists Of Dawson will stretch
their tent next wednesday, and services
will bsgin next Sunday. The first sermon
viii be preached by Presiding Elder Nc
Gehse.
Last Saturday DR.. Goueke Of Dawson
was exhibiting on the streets en- egg that
was the exact shape Of a young chicken.
The body, head and bill Of young chicken
were well defined
The insolvent taxes Of Terrell county for
1890 amount to SS64 20. The states part Of
this is 500 ~, and the countys SPA Il
The insolvent poll tax, which is Included Ia
the above, is S4S7 90.
4 petition is being industriously circu-
lated at Cordele by the snti-prohioitionists
70 get the ordinary Of the county where
local option exists to order al election on
the prohibition question.
The old Haley plsce. probably better
known as Forest Hail. containing CSC
acres Of splendid land and located six miles
from Augusta, on the Central railroad, has
been sold 10 Dr. j. H. Baker and J. Evans
Martin.
About II o'clock Friday night the resi-
dence Of G. < Roberts at Dawson. with its
entire contents, was destroyed By fire. The
fire Is supposed 70 have originated in the
stove room. There was no Insurance, and
Mr.. Roberts loss is about 81 600.
L R. Mnlford, alias Lieut.. Colvell Of the
7 nlted States navy, alias A. R. WilRus, is
badly wanted in Atlanta. Macon, Fort
Valley, aud probably half hundred other
cities He has been cutting a big swell on
money obtained by taking advantage Of
the credulity Of his fellow-men.
Some Athens young men think they have
struck It rich in securing an interest In one
OF the latest electrical devices. The con-
trivance Is for the benefit OF railroads,
When train passes a station great light
Is thrown upon the higher atmosphere,
and at the next station toward which the
train is heading at the same time. ~The
cost Of keeping the thing in repair is about
$40 per annum for each mile of road.
A negro woman from hazlehurst brought
her baby to Abbeville Wednesday for Dr.
Roberts TO examine. II was a strange
freak Of nature. Its head would weigh at
least thirty pounds while its body would
not weigh ten pounds 1t was years old
and could neither walk or talk. All Of the
back Of its head was perfectly soft 1t was
crying, and its mother said it had been cry
ing for eight months almost incessantly.
T. A. Roberts, superintendent of the
electric railway system Of Augusta, is to be
married next week. He will wed a hand
some and accomplished girl of Kansas City.
Mr.. Roberts has recently been made super
ineendent OF the street railway, and, owing
TO circumstances, cannot go back for his
bride. She, accompanied by her sister,
however, will meet him in Atlanta on
April ~, when the marriage win take place.
Griffin Call: There was full meeting OF
directors of Alliance warehouse held
wednesday at the court house for the pur-
pose Of closing up the years business, declar-
ing dividend, etc. The books of the
warehouse were found correct and showed
large increase in business over any pre-
vious year, and the years business was
entirely satisfactory After deduoting all
costs OF storage, weighing, ETC., the direct
ors awarded each alliance patron dividend
OF 40 cents per bale as profits on the bust
ness.
Rena Turner was hanged at Fort Gaines
Tuesday for murder. The hanging was
without any unusual features On the
evenlng Of Oct. 20, 1890, in Fort Gaines,
about dark, Rena Turner having filled him
self with mean whisky and armed with a
cheap pistol, started out for arrow, Ap-
preaching Tom Glenn (colored) who was
seated in chair on the sidewalk, he began
curslng him. Glenn, rising from his chair.
retorUed somewhat uartIy, when Turner i'm.
mediately fired on him, the ball passing
through bis brain and killing him instantly.
The annual meeting of Stockholders Of
the Klucaid Manufacturing COMPANY of
Griffin was held Wednesday. The 6 per
cent. dividend recently declared by the
directors was ratified by the stockholders.
President Kincaid made an elaborate re-
port OF the operations of the mill for the
year, aud urged the issuing of
$4,000 OF preferred stock for the
purpose OF placing $500 additional
spindles in the mill The president
stated that this additional number of spin
dies could be operated prohtably and with
out the expense Of enlarging the building
ms recommendation was adopted by the
stockholders, with the amendment that such
bonds be issued to present stockholders II
they desired toem and that they be made
to mature 5000 annually. beginning with
the year 1898
A new danger threatens the melon crop
OF Southwest Georgia d. B. Hill Of Amer
leus has nearly 100 acres planted in melons
IN Lee county, averaging 800 bills to the
acre, and so advanced are the small vines
That In week or two they will be large
enough to run. There will be millions Of
melons. Strange as it may seem, mice are
said TO be one OF the greatest pests of the
melon raisers, and every night, Mr.. Hill
says, hundreds of these little pests NAV he
seen scampering over the field and burrow-
ing into the melon hills for the seed, which
they devour with avidity. Last season Mr..
hlIi to rid his fields Of mice, put out sew
eral buckets Of poisoned dough one night
and early next morning he and the planta-
ton overseer hauled off twenty-seven coon
dogs that had come TO the feast, the prom
erty of the neighbors and farm hands Bit
1t cornered the rat business for awhile.
G. Thomas Carey is in Jail at Gainesville
charged with murder. He is a young man,
and was born and reared in the neigbbor.
hood where the murder he is charged with
committing was done. The bill charges
Carey, Rebecca Jordan, Emma Jordan and
Joe Jordan with numbering w. G. Manlev
on Sept. ID, 1880. Carey is principal in the
first degree. Retecca Jordan. Emma Jor-
dan and joe Jordan are accessories after the
fact of murder. He denies bis guilt. Tho
other parties to the murder have not been
arrested and are said to be at home. several
miles south of Gainesville. All the acces
series are related to the deceased, and Joe is
a small boy some IA or 10 years old. Mr.
Carey has employed no counsel as vet, and
seems to think the state will not make n
case against him, as he is Innocent and ha