The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-27
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPH.

A Colored Woman Seeks lnforme Ilon
of Brothers Who Lsfe Her to Join
Sherman's Army-Columbus Men TO
Raise a Fund for a Woman Dis
charged from the Census Rureau-A
New Hotel for Atlanta.
GEORGIA
The Augusta cotton factory of Augusta
has declared dividend of per cent.
J. L. Griffin. q well-known citizen of
Madison, dropped dead while at breakfast
Wednesday morning. His death was caused
from heart failure.
Next Wednesday Athens will vote on the
prohibition question. The city is all ex-
element The wet or dry subject is the
sole topic of conversation aud interest
At Dalton day or two ago lightning
struck the new barn of Thomas Felker, on
Thornton avenue, tearing open one whole
side and scattering fragments OF lumber in
all directions.
The Eighteenth and Tgenty third Geor-
cia regiments will hold their annual re-
union at Acworth Aug. and 6. Gen. A.
H Colquitt and James Longstrest are
expected 70 be present.
Many pear groves in Lowndes county are
suffering from blight, which threatens the
present crop and the destruction of the
groves eventually. There has been no
cause Of alarm on this score until this
year.
The Central Georgia Bank OF Macon will
pay out about S60, 900 on July l in the
shape OF dividends on the Southwestern
railroad and other securities, which will
materially assist in relieving the financial
stringency.
President W. C. Bass of Wesleyan
Female College is still suffering from ILL
ness, and is able to be out less than half the
time. DIR. Bass has a strong, vigorous con-
sUitution, however, which will carry him
safely through.
Frank Faucet, Robert L. Willis and
others of Macon are preparing to build a
pleasure boat to run on the Ocmulges river
It will have capacity for carrying fifteen
or twenty passengers, and Is to be put up in
frst-class style.
The Middle Georgia Wine Company, with
q paid up capital of $50, 900. has been organ
lied at Griffin. 1t is proposed to convert
the surplus grape crop into wine and hold
it until it is sufficiently old to be of greater
value than the growers can afford to hold
tito get
A number of gentlemen Of Columbus
have voluntarily stated that they are will
ing to subscribe TO fund for the Kentucky
girl who was discharged from the census
department at Washington for saying the
devil got his dues when Sherman died. it
is probable that 9 popular subscription fund
In amounts of 81 will be started.
Wash Collier is now building hotel on
the corner of Peachtree and Ellis streets,
Atlanta, 1t will be four stories high and
will also contain a basement 1t will front
104 feet on Peachtree street and will extend
back 100 feet along West Ellis street. On
the ground floor will be the ladies' entrance,
the Office, rotunda, parlors and three excel
lent stores.
Walter B. Hill Of Macon does not deny
that he is candidate for a judgeship Of
the new United States appellate court. The
name Of Judge Emory Speer OF the United
States circuit and district courts has been
mentioned as candidate for the appellate
court he emphntically asserts, however,
that he is not an applicant or aspirant for
the position.
1t is reported that the hotels at Cumber-
land island and st. Simon's island are doing
a fiourishing business. Last week there
were 200 people at st. Simon aud about 800
at Cumberland, mostly Georgia people, and
some came from as far north as Chatta-
NIGGA. THE Wigwams' at Indian Spring,
near Flovilla, has also got boom about 800
people being there Sunday
At Tweed Sunday Doll McLendon cut his
mother-in-law in the breast, infiioting
palnfnl but not dangerous wound. The
stabbing grew out OF a quarrel between
Doll and his wife. which caused separa-
ton. Aunt Calline, the wife's mother,
chided Doll for unjust treatment of her
daughter, which eliminated in the row.
All are of the colored persuasion.
Lucindy Millsap, colored woman near
Conyers, wishes information of Der two
brothers, London aud Anderson Bass, who
ran away with Gen. Sherman's army in
1864. London Bass was totally blind and
was led Otto Atlanta during the the Siege
OF that place by his brother Anderson, max
ing the remarkable trip through the woods
and swamps alone, going in the direction of
the union artillery.
A freight train was wrecked on the
Georgia southern road Wednesday near
James station, about eighty mics from
Macon. The train was going in direc-
ton OF Valdosta when it jumped tae track.
Several cars we're derailed and considerably
smashed up. A negro named Henry Tim
mons and another named Jordan Thomas
were slightly injured by falling from the
cars when the train jumped the track.
AT Macon, Wednesday night a negro
woman named Lizzie Ray, aged about ~
years, being taken with a severe case Of
cramp collie, sent her niece, little girl of
about years, to Mr.. Connell's drug store
with a note and dime The girl returned
with the medicine, which happened to be
morphine, and gave it to her aunt, who i'm
mediately took the dose. At about 1890
o'clock she died from the effects of the
drug.
The coroner held an inquest at Dalton q
day or two ago over the infant child OF
Gatsey Burnet, a colored woman who lives
in the south end, which met its death in
some mysterious manner. The woman in
her testimony says that the child was killed
by some one throwing rock through the
window. The investigation Of the coroner,
jury revealed nothing definite, aud YER
dict of death from some unknown caus,
was rendered.
Peach and plum trees in Hancock are
dying from the ravages of a small beetle
termed the scolytus Though not more
than half as largo as an average sized graiI
OF wheat, these beetles are more destruct.
i've of fruit trees than any Others and as
yet no preventive of their ravages has beer
discovered. When they attack tree it il
doomed. AID the only thing to be done Is :,
cut it down and burn it. They attack tn,
tree in myraids.
At Fairburn John Hudgens' little boy wa!
scalded on Saturday last and died Wednes
day. One OF the children at his home wa
sick, and wanted some hot coffee. Mrs
Hudgens went into the kitchen and mad,
the coffee. and poured out a cupful, and Sc
1t on the table. A little boy years old wa
walking around the table, and i'll trying L
reach it be pulled the saucer, and turned tn,