The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
AN Augusta Woman squanders $4,000
on Her Husband and Nan for
Whom She Deserted Eim-A Negro
Lyncsed Near Thomastoa-Whi:e
Caps in Dooly County.
GEORGIA
a lodge Of Odd Fellows has been organ
Szed at ValdOsta
Mrs. Wood Cox's home, in Attapulgus,
was burglarized Tuesday night and $S4
stolen.
In several sections of Oglethorpe county
farmers are very much discouraged by the
appearance Of rust in their grain.
Clarke county pays twenty white teachers
1861 for teaching 5ll white pupils and she
pays twenty-five cOlored teachers g., l5S for
teaching 1915 colOred children.
1t is proposed to build the new hotel at
Bellevue, Macon's charming suburban RS
sort. 1t is to cost 100000 and will be
modern in all Of its appointments.
While Mr.. Mathews, an employe at An
drews q Woodin's variety works at Albany.
was at work Thursday, all the fingers on
his right hand were cut off by saw.
A man who sometimes appears perfectly
nude is providing around West End,
suburb of Atlanta, at night soaring women
and children. All efforts to capture him
have so far proved unavailing.
Millions Of bricks will be made in Gaines
willie this summer. Brick making is getting
to be one of the city's leading industries
There are five yards in active operation,
and the latest improved machinery is used
DR.. George Eberhart OF Hartwell bought
huge turtle, weighing twenty-eight
pounds, Saturday that was caught out of
the Savannah. When it was cut open 1t was
found to contain an eel and q large water
mocassin.
Madison is to have electric lights within
ninety days, the contract to that effect hav-
ing been signed with the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company. A new hotel to cost
$4,000 and a system Of water works are
also among the probabilities
William Collins, a white man, and Jim
Bell, a negro, got into difficulty last Sun
day, about twelve miles north OF Valdosta,
and the former cut the latter's abdomen
open, letting out about eight feet Of iutes-
tines. Report says they had been playing
cards. Collins disappeared, Of course, aud
Bell is in critical condition.
Thomson Journal: John NJ. Curtis of
this place has recently finished another
yacht, which he sent TO Savannah, and on
Tuesday evening himself and Aleck Curtis,
- a. FOEJSOn anu II. w loIL LOT
Savannah, where in company with T. D.
Curtis, they embark on the yacht for a sea
voyage to Brunswick, FernaudIna and per-
haps other points
Last week a colored man named Antony
james was engaged in rafting timber out OF
Spring creek, near cambridge, when he got
a rope twisted around his leg. The other
end Of the rope was fastened to a raft. The
raft was drifting down with the current,
and he was seriously bruised, and if the
timber had not caught against the bank it
is thought his leg would have been mutt
lated beyond hope.
Eastman Times: Friday afternoon last.
while W. II. Johnson, one of the proprie-
lrs at the Standard Manufacturing Com
pany's works, was looking after some Of
the machinery, the belt which runs the
matcber broke and struck him, knocking
him down, and proceeded to give him a
genteel hogging before he could extricate
himself from the coils He was laid up
day or two, but not seriously hurt.
Hartwell Sun: Thomas Hilley and sons,
Dozier and Robert, and Thomas Hunt and
Charlie Norman became involved in
difficulty near Oak Bower on Sunday after
noon, in which Mr.. Hilley was struck a
severe blow upon the forehead with a pair
of b. ass knucks, and Thomas Hunt received
q stab in the back under the sho Ilder blade
from a pocket-knife Charlie Norman also
received slight cut. None Of the wounds
were dangerous.
Thomasville Times Enterprise: On Tues
day night there was deposited on the piazza
of negro house on the Lester place, six or
seven miles from Cairo, in Decatur county,
a new born white infant, female, wrapped
up in a coarse handmade undergarment
and shawl, formerly red striped, but now
dyed black. A buggy, drawn by q mule,
shod, was tracked to the house and short
distance beyond, where it turned and took
the direction 1t came from toward Thomas
vile.
Rome is TO have another military COM
pany. Active steps are being taken toward
recognizing the Miller Rifles, a company
that fought during the entire civil war.
The Miller Rifles was originally organized
in 1861. and named after DR.. H. V. NJ.
Miller, prominent physician, who now re-
sides in Atlanta. This company left Rome
for Virginia in May, 1861, was in the first
battle of Manassas. and fought bravely in
that battle, as they did in the following
conflicts OF the war.
Augusta Herald: Some time ago a Mrs
Lavary, who kept a grocery store near the
orphan asylum, deserted her husband and
left the city with young German namel
Kaiser. She afterward came back, sold all
Sue pIOpcELf III WHICH sue was interested.
which Melted nearly $1,000, gave her hus-
band 5000, and left again to join Kaiser.
For this her husband brought SUIT for
divorce, which is now pending. They trav-
eled all through the we t, spending money
freely, sometimes 500 day, until finally
the funds began giving out. and to avoid
empty pockets Kaiser robbed her.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Work is pro-
crossing rapidly on the new City mills.
The elevator has been built to the top, and
only needs the tin roofing, flooring and
ather-boarding to be completed. Ii is
massive structure, capable of holding
5000 bushels Of grain in its bins, besides
10000 more on the capacious floor. The
office and store house, a large two-story
brick building, is also nearly completed,
and work on the building for the mills
proper has been commenced. The entire
plant will be completed in a few months.
and will be one Of the very largest institu-
lions of the kind in the whole south.
Thomaston Times: On Thursday of last
week Robert Bachelor, the section boss
on the III. & B. railroad at Hem
bricks, took his little girl Bessie.
aged years, out to where he was ar
work. After being there some time she
wished to go home, and her father told one
of the negro hands to carry her home, which
was only short distance, and bring back a
bucket OF water. The negro started with
the child to the house and on the way at