The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Three Children Burned to Death in 4
Cabin-A Big Order Received by al
Augusta Cotton Afiu-Cain Succeeds
in Killing Himself-High License il
Lsurens County.
GEORGIA.
Brunswick's brewery is now turning oui
rice beer.
Micajah Owens of Seville, Wilcox county
is 10l years old.
A branch Of the Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans viii be organized In Brunswick next
May.
Hon Noah Smith, a prominent jefferson
county farmer, died Sunday at his resi-
dence near Noah.
Work on the two bridges at Dublin has
been practically suspended for the present,
rs the river is now too high for the work to
60 on.
An Atlanta drummer has the strangest
thing yet in rutabaga turnips. The turnip
Is most perfect bust of q woman, with
two arms, a neck and a head
The plant Of the Church Cart Manufac-
turing Company Of St Paul. MINI. may
be moved to Georgia II any town offers
sufficient Inducements The managers Of
the company are nov in correspondence
with citizens Of Roma
United States Senator II. e. Butler OF
South Carolina was in Augusta Sunday on
his way home in Edgefield from a visit to
his plantation in upper Carolina He de-
MED the report that be had been thrown
from spirited horse and injured his leg.
Dahlenega Nugget: Between now and
the 5th inst one of the wealthisst men in
the United States will visit Dahloneza with
an expert TO look into the mineral resources
of Lumpkin county. He is a member of the
Uulted States Senate and controls millions
Of money seeking investment.
John F. n Cain Of Gwinnett county, who
attempted suicide last week bv taxing four
walls OF laudanum, but was brought back
70 life, succeeded in killing himself Sunday.
As soon as he was able to stir he took his
gun down from the rack, shot himself and
was found lying in pool of blood dead.
Municipal officers were elected at
Franklin Monday, and assumed their Off
cial roles Tuesday. They are: Mayor, w.
A. Ware; recorder, p H Whitaker Jr ::
councilman, j. Z. g. Carter, w. Il. Wright
w. NJ. Paschal, A. G.. Hendrick, e. w
Satterwblte. c. T. Davis was elected mar
shal.
The Enterprise cotton mill of Augusta
has just taken an order for million bolts
of their brown goods. The cost will run
into hundreds Of thousands Of dollars The
mills employs about 500 hands and runs 900
looms. 1t will take three months or more
to I'LL the order. A big jobbing concern in
the north placed the order.
The distillery business of G.. NJ, McKfn-
non OF Gilmore Station, Cobb county. has
been placed in the hands Of a receiver
Judge George F. Gober appointed Capt. r.
w. Boone, president Of the FirTt National
bank OF Marietta, temporary rA,eiver. The
liabilities foot up about sl2, 500. The assets
are thought TO be about 50, 500.
Poland jackson and Henry Lowe (coI-
ored) are employed on the Williams place
near Everett station. Sunday night they
both agreed to lock their three children up
IN one OF their houses, and 20 visiting
When they returned they found that the
house had been burned and the three child
rem with il. One of them was 10 years old.
The grand jury Of Laurens county, In
their general presentments last week, recon-
mended that the county's representative
nave bill passed placing the whisky
license in the county at $40, 900, which would
practically amount to prohibition, and also
recommended that the ordinary levy a tax
Tor the purpose, and build brick jail with
Steel cells, to cost about 5000.
ID. B. Pitts, an immigrant agent. has
oeen at work IN Worth county fer some
weeks past, and has at last succeeded in in
oucahg large number Of negro laborers to
u.
were carried to work in the turpentins bust
ness. There has been a scarcity of labor in
Tue county for some time, and the work of
the immigrant agents will have a tendency
to put labor at premium.
There is no doubt that efforts are being
made 70 burn the jail at Sparta Wednes.
day morning Sheriff Pinkstou was awak-
ened at o'clock by cries and shouts coming
from the direction OF the Jail Hastily
On oil l. Il
ne found the prisoner, Downs in the hall
almost suffocated with smoke, while within
the room all the bedding was in a blaze.
ma nearly consumed No further iucendi-
airy attempts have been discovered, but il ia
thought that some of the prisoners are
planning the destruction of the jail by fire
as means OF escape. A strict watch is
being kept on them.
A negro passenger on a Brunswick and
western train got bis leg broken in a rather
peculiar manner Saturday night The negro
boarded the train at a station near the 18th
mile post, where is situated a water rank
which is supplied from a small creek over
"nich the track runs over a pretty high
treetle. When the train stopped, the negro
decided to leave the train AID return TO
the station, and, suiting the action to
sne thought; ne stepped of. not on the
ground as be expected, but through the
trestle, distance of twelve feet, with the
result of badly fracturinD one of his laos
and other wise shaking him up. The acct
dent was discovered by some of the trains
crew, and the wounded man was placed on
the train and taken to Albany. where DR.
Hiisman attended to his wounds.
Atlanta jour- al: The movement among
southern drummers to have the RAILROADS
ISSUE 5,OOO-mile tickets at 2 cents a mile is
being vigorously pushed. The tickets now
issued by the railroads are !, O00-mile ticLe.s
az "a cents mile. When the drummers
have asked through their association or in
olviduaIly to have 5,000-mile tickets issued
the roads would reply that the interstate
commerce. laws prevented them from issn-
ing ticket at the rate of cents a mile
They also insisted that it was impracticable
70 issue such ticket over southern roads
as they could not collect coupons and
would be mixed up considerably. Mr. w
Jones, who lives in Atlanta, and who trav-
els Tor stove company of Baltimore has
been very energetic in endeavoring to So
cure the 5000 mile ticket for southern tray-
eiers. He now has in his possession s. 900
mile ticket issued by the Lake Shore and
michigan Southern for cents q mile The
ticket is the same width as tho 1000 mile
ticket issued by southern railroads. and inst
little longer. 1t is of neat shape and has
photograph of the owner pasted in the
back OF the cover, SO that il cannot possi-
bly be 'scalped." The book is good over
thirty-one northern and western railroads.