The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Row Among Atlsntas Artillery
,,ar-The Failure of J. W. Arnold OF
0Sonroe-A Lunar Rainbow Seen in
walton County-The Late Albert
samar's Resemblance to Secretary
Blaine.
GEORGIA
Col Charles n. Phinizy Of Augusta made
over / 500 bushels Of fine oats on less than
f;ftaen acres Of land on his suburbs farm.
ass tribute 10 the memry Of his late
wife. q. F. Ponder of Fair Play has ordered
a marble shaft costing $, 500 70 be placed
at her grave.
meeting of the Cobb county farmers
alliance will be held at Marietta on Tues
day- Nov. next. The delegates TO ths last
cCinty meeting will be delegates to this.
Ike Seay. the negro arrested and brought
hack from Fort Valley for cutting Tom
Maxwell 1colored) was tried before Judge
CnrIev last Saturday and bound over on a
ST5 bond He gave bond. Maxwell has
about recovered
nenuis Walton, a young negro about
grown. had his right hand badly mangied
in tFiisey Hinton's gin near WllkeTson in
Talbot county Tuesday. DR.. Bardweh
amuutated the arm just above the wrist
and left the negro doing very well
Thedry weather has caused many wells
used at the various steam ginneries in Tai
bot county TO fail, and much inconvenienoe
is the result. A wagon was kept constantly
busy last week hauling water in barrels to
the Talbotton steam mills from Dozier's
pond.
When ". F. Quick, the Pike county
murderer, was sentenced to hang on Mon
day, Dec. IA, Judges Boynton tsid him
that be might apply for a new trial. but
even if it was granted the result would be
the same under the evidence that was pre-
fsented in the case.
There is a man in Atlanta who is the very
image OF old Horace Greeley. This Is
"Uncle Zion Bird well In the comp sing
room of the Constitution. To complete the
resemblance, Uncle ziun trims bis whiskers
Just as Horace Greeley did, and affects u
mighty interest in national politics.
Capt. W. R. Moore Of Columbus, whose
term as alderman from the Fifth ward does
mot expire until December. 1892, proposes to
put In his resignation at the next meeting of
council His business duties, he says, takes
up all OF his time, and he cannot give the
attention 10 the Office that IL requires.
( Robert and William Kellum of Flint
Hi, in Talbot county, lost their barn by
Nfire Thursday morning. together with its
contents, which consisted OK their entire
crop OF corn and fodder. A horss and a
smuie were also seriously burned. and the
khorse has died. There was no insurance.
The barn contained 900 bushels Of corn,
gathered only the day before the burning.
Incendlarism is suspected
James Barmore of Marietta was robbed
) of SITS few days ago. He is q young man
and for several years has been working fol-
the bruuby chair factory. From his hard
earnings he had saved the above amount
which he had locked up in a drawer al
home. When he went home Friday even
ing he found some one had broken thu
fastenings and carried of his sack Of money
consisting Of gold. silver and greenbacks.
C. Lewis, negro man, had a miraculoul
escape from breaking his neck Wednesday
on the Mallory steamship Rio Grande. al
Brunswick. de was drunk and standing
over hatch No. 1. when in some manner hi
foot slipped and he fell headlong TO a pil,
of cotton bsgging at the bottom of the
steps, depth of about thirty-flve feet
without getting hurt. 1t is said that haC
there been anything else to fall on he would
have been killed or seriously injured.
The late Albert Lamar, formerly of th,
Macon Telegraph, so nearly resemblec
Blaine that their photographs were fire
ouertly mistaken one for the other. In the
Atlanta office of the Telegraph, up or
Broad street, there are now two life sized
photographs one Of Blaine and the other Of
Lamar. Both faces are strong and intel.
lectual, with something of the masterful
and leonine in them. Ire expression of the
eyes and poise of the head are similar. Both
have the large nose proverbially indicative
of originality and force of mind, and even
the head and beard are alike.
Walton Nelos: A very peculiar phenom.
enon was witnessed by parties travelling
last Friday afternoon shortly after sunset
Distinct warm waves we're encountered In
the cool atmosphere Of the October after.
noon. In walking in southerly direction
about half a mile from the court house
some three or four warm currents wers
noticeable, each lasting the distance Of tive
or three ordinary PAGES. The sensation
was so marked as to remind one of the toucl
of warm water after being In cold air, anC
IN emerging from the warm current tntS
the normal temperature was like the touct
OF ice.
Bright G. Moore of Milton county wen
to Marietta and sold his cotton and started
home on Wednesday morning Of last week
going ont Canton and Cumming road
Near Mrs. Timothy Stephens, as he wa
driving along, he pulled out his larg,
leather pocketbook and counted the money
he had received for his cotton. He had
500 all in $40 bills. He put bis pocketbool
back into bis pocket and when be got neal
Sandy Plains he felt for it and it was gone
1t was not in his wagon and he wal xed bacl
to Marietta, making inquiry of every persol
he met, but no one had found it and peithe
did he.
W. II. Harris, a son of B. J. Harris o.
Walnut Grove. was tried before Judg
Cook under commission of lunacy, ant
was adjudsed by the jury fit subject 70
the asylum for the insane. Harris went {,
Texas some years since, and there con
tracted disease and nervous trouble, ant
since his return home has never been him
self again. But the climax in the unsound
ness Of his mind was reached at a protracte
meeting at Walnut Grove, when he be
came strongly impressed and excited H
was brought to Monroe Saturday perfectl,
wild, and since then has been in the keep
ing Of the sheriff.
Unpreferred creditors of J. W. Arnold
Jr., Of Monroe. among them Moore, MarsI
& Co., P. g. G.. T. Dodd g. Co, Arnold
Carlton & McCord, and the Oglesby 8
Meador Grocery Company Of Atlanta, ant
s. NJ. Whitney Of Augusta, filed bill 70
injunction and receiver. On Saturda,
Judge Hutchins appointed r. L. Cox re-
ceiver and stock is now being taken by him
The bill alleges an Indebtedness of $17, 900
The creditors named have claims amountin,
TO over $4,000, the mortgages amount 4
81, 500, and outside creditors, attorneys say
have claims aggregating at least $4,000
Mr.. Cox thinks the invoice OF the good
will amount 20 about $4,000.
w. E. Moss of Oakdale, Cobb county, ha