The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
The NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Heavy Rains in Warren aud Sur
rounding Counties-An Attempts q
Jail Delivery at Grif1n-A Tough
Prisoner-Horrible Death at Saw
mill-Georgie's Fruit Crop.
GEORGIA.
Talbotton received 9,953 bales of cottor
during the past year.
Triton is to have a SIS, 600 passenge
depot and freight house at an early day.
Some large hailstones are reported {,
have fallen in Oglethorpe county SUNDAY
and Monday evening last.
An application has been filed for a char
ter for the Rome Ice aud Cold Storage
Company, with capital of $4,000.
Greenville received her first bale of new
cotton Tuesday. Woodbury. and Lexington
are anxiously awaiting the arrival Of their
BALE
The Lexington Blue Granite Company
has secured a contract for 10000 paving
blocks and also for court house in Way
cross.
Glascock county claims the youngest
groom in the state Last week couple re-
siding in that county were married IN
Warren. The groom is IS and the bride 80,
with grown children.
Greenville has a great natural curiosity
in the shape of a four legged chicken.
Nature seems preparing to supply that por-
tion Of the feathered tribe with additional
aids to escape the fowl thief.
A prominsnt Americas grocer says apples
will bs very cheap in the market this win
ter An immense crop will be harvested
north and west, and prices will not be more
than half what they were last season.
Five bales of cotton belonging to Griffith
& Frederick burned in their new brick
warehouse, at Frickling, Taylor county,
last Saturday. 1t is supposed that the fire
and cotton came in together. A dirt floor
saved the house.
Capt r. A. Stanley defeated ]. b. Jones
aud j. A. Clark, alllancemeu, in the race
for ordinary to fill the unexpired term of
Hon John T. Duncan. deceased. The cap
tain received large majority over both OF
the other candidates.
1t is reported that the cotton pickers have
combined in Brooks county to establish a
uniform and advanced price for picking
cotton, The ginners in one of the Middle
Georgia counties have combined and ad-
vanced the price for ginning cotton.
On one street in Winterville, Oglethorpe
county-lt is short street, too-there are
forty-seven children, thirty-one OF whom
are boys. TIE number was re-enforced last
week by another boy. Town lots on this
street are ruling with an upward tendency.
A normal high school iR to be established
at Mount Vernon. At a citizens meeting,
held last Tuesday, a committee was an.
pointed to solicit subscriptions, and 81, 600
was raised toward the new building before
the meeting adjourned. There remains
$1,000 to be secured.
The heavy rains the past week have dam,
aged the cotton greatly in Oconee county
and ruined Thousands of pounds of fodder
The prospects for cotton crop are indeed
gloomy. Large Quantities of hay is being
ruined by the rains. Cotton is shedding its
fruit and the weed is growing very fast.
The cotton crop in that section will be short
this year.
G. f. Bennett and Henry Robinson, who
live few miles from Jesup, went out
hunting the other day. While gons they
killed rattlesnake AZ feet long and moo
casin containing thirty-six young ones.
Another gentleman in the same neighbor-
hood killed one the other day that con-
tained A. young ones. The little ones in
Doth cases were about six inches long
A negro boy about years of age died at
Monroe tuesday morning under peculiar
circumstances. He had been feeling badly,
out other wise was not sick. 1t Is Thought
that his death is the result of excessive use
OF whisky, and it Is charged that Charlie
Thomas, a negro man, gave il to him with
malicious intent. There will be an investi.
CATION Of the affair, and it may turn out to
be murder.
About two weeks ago Lee Couch, a coll
ored boy about II years old, broke into the
store OF A. l.. Green at Echols, and robbed
II OF IS 10 and several articles of merchau-
disc OF tminor value. He also broke into
Green's residence and obtained two or three
small articles. marked nickel led to his
arrest and on Tuesday he was tried, found
guilty and Judge Gober sentenced him to
ten years on the chain-gaug
Qultman Sun: There is a farmer in
Brooks county who has spent only 50 90 for
clothing for himself so far this year. He
says II money was as plentiful as it ought
to be he would spend now, $50 for cotton
goods TO supply his family, and he estimates
that every family In the county would
spend at least $40 for cotton goods, which
would make $50, 900 for the county This.
IL IL is true OF the other counties of the state.
accounts largely for the cotton surplus.
AT Atlanta, Friday morning. Officer
Henry Abbott arrested a negro who gave
his name as Allen Smith and said he came
from Newman. The officer thinks that
smith is an escaped convict from r. W.
Hendricks camp. Two convicts have es-
capped from Newnan-one named Allen
Smith, who goes under the assumed name
OF Tom johnson. and another named Allen
Norton, who goes under the name OF Allen
Smith Norton is wanted for murder.
Wednesday evening about s O'Clock. a
disguised man approached Mrs. Mullins.
VIE or Jaller Mullins, at Griffin, and de-
tnanded the keys to the Jail Mr.. Mullins
had gone on after supper and his wife was
sitting on the front porch Of the jail with a
pistol on her lap, and In answer to his de-
mand she presented the weapon and pulled
the trigger, but the pistol failed TO fire and
after some trouble in revolving the cvl,n-
der, she was successful in firing at the fast
retreating figure of the man. It Ia SIM
posed the object was to liherate some of the
prisoners confined in the Jail
at Buchanan Bailiff Davenport had "a
tough time with prisoner Tuesday even
Ing. be bad arrested him, and as they were
going toward Dugdown his prisoner leaDed
from the train, which was running at the
rate OF about twenty miles an hour. Rather
than 70 be outdone Mr.. Davenport leaned
out after him, and q spectator saya that he
struck head foremost against bank and he
thought he was killed, but before he could
reach the bell cord, Mr.. Davenport was up.
and says he never saw a man run so in his
HE The prisoner was overtaken, but he
had reached number OF friends who held
Mr. Davenport until he got away.
Columbus ERqutrer-Sun: Georgia's fruit
crop for this year is about exhausted, A
talk with the marketmen substan tiates this.
They say 1t is impossible to get any amount |
Of good fruit from home, and that that now |
being sold nearly all comes from the north.
Baltimore is sending some peaches here. |
They retail at SO so per bushel. The south |
srn pear crop is practically exhausted, and |