The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
SHE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

a Big Real Estate Sale at Augusta
Appointments for the Commence
ment at Wesleyan - Indian Gold
Mining.
The Artesian Ice Company of Montezuma
Is manufacturing fine ice from artesian
water.
The Church Cart Manufacturing Com
pany will move from 81. Paul, Nina, TO
Rome.
The Americas baseball nine played against
TIE Montezuma nine Friday. MolJsZuma
was victorious, two TO one.
The Governors Horse Gusrds OF Atlanta
went to Lagrange Yesterday to attend the
Memorial day exercises there.
Cedart'wn will soon have an oil mill and
p guauo factory. twenty-five thousand dol
lars worth Of stock has already been taken.
Augusta is taking great interest in the
location Of the proposed Pres yterlaD u MI
versity, sad will probably make a bid
for it.
The firm Of Shepherd & MoLane, who
were burned out recently at Seneca, has
been dissolved, and the two partners will
hereafter run separate stores.
Kinder Hutchinson, in the northwest
part of Harris county. had his grist and
saw mill destroyed by fire on Wednesday
night April Is. The fire was started by
lightning. The loss is g., 900.
The residence belonging to Mrs. w. A.
GhamblesS at Cedartown, was consumed by
fire Saturday morning. The loss is tn ought
to be something over 81 900. The fire dam
aged ]. K. Barron's residence considerably.
Complaints have been made of crooked
ness in the mails between Glade and Har~
monY Grove IL is believed that letters
have be opened, the contents read, then
rescealed aud forwarded to their destination.
John Knox, marshal Of Lexington, re-
Gently arrested three men and took them to
the calaboose-one under each arm, their
legs dangling IN the air. and drove the other
in front of him. He is the strongest man
in the county.
Gov. Northern has issued an order in
structing the tax collectors OF Chattahoo-
chez, Harris. Marion, Stewart, Muscogee,
Talbot and Taylor counties to pay all tax
collections In the Third National Bank Of
Columbus, which has been made state de-
pository.
J. E. Reynolds, agent of the Southern
Express Company at Thomasville bias re-
signed his position. Mr.. Reynolds resigna-
ton was caused by failing health, the con-
hnement and heavy work Of the past season
proving too much for him. W. W. Craft,
late Of Jacksonville, Fla, succeeds him.
The Murray Hill Company Of Augusta
he's just sold less than one-half Of its
valuable property, containing 754 acres,
just above Summervills, to the Southern
Investment Company OF Washington, D.
c., for 100000. The Butler properly on
Broad street, extending through to Ellis
Street, has been bought by the Murray Hill
Company. The price for the property is
not given, but it Is said TO be $4,000
The following appointments have been
made at Wesleyan Female College at Macon
for the next commencement: Valedictory
address, Miss Sallie B. Corner; second
honor, salutatory address, Miss Daisy Hall;
junior readers, Misses Alfriend, Allied,
Brown, Daniels, Hill, Holmes, Linn, Link,
Moore, Muse, Ross, Sykes; sophomore read
ers, Misses Evans, Glenn, Hays, Head,
Little, Marshall, Merritt, Napier, Rogers,
Schofeld, Turner and Wade.
]. w. Brown of Prattshurg cut down a
red oak in MS yard a few days since and
in sp lifting 1t up found part of horseshoe
imbedded near its center. The tree was
three feet in diameter and fully twelve
inches of wood had grown over the shoe
The tree was dead when cut down, and the
Oldest citizens say 1t was fully grown as far
back as their memory goes. The shoe con-
tanned nail, and both shoe and nail were
the old-feshioned, homemade kind.
In the city court Of Atlanta, A W. Fur
Tough sues Theodore F. Hall for s..
damages for false Imprisonment and
malicious prosecution. He alleges that Hall,
on Feb. 10, 1891, without probable cause,
swore out a state warrant against him,
charging him with being q common cheat
and swindler, upon which he was arrested
by an officer and detained and deprived Of
his liberty for several hours until he could
procure bond" Petitioner further saws
that the warrant was dismissed for want OF
prosecution, and the acts Of the defendant
were malicious and with the intent to in
Jure plaintiff.
Waycross Reporter: A representative Of
the Reporter witnessed novel marriage last
Saturday afternoon. 1t occurred directly
in front of the Methodist church, in the
middle Of the street. while the contracting
parties sat IN the buggy. The bride was
Miss NJ. M. Carpenter, the groom H. B.
Shaw, both Of WaycroSs, and the ceremony
was performed by Rev. w. H. Thomas
The young people had left home ostensiby
for drive, but lost no time in calling on
the preacher. Miss Carpenters friends OBJ
jected to the marriage, but the young folks
outwitted the older heads, and were mar
ried in spite Of all opposition.
Crawford Herald: Prof. z. NJ. Cheney
of Bairdstown spent night in Crawford
this week. A few months ago a little no.
tice got into the papers that the professor
was paying IS per hundred for confederate
money. IL was % per nunureQ pounds that
was offered, but the eager public took it the
other way, and thought it was $5 for 500.
The professor says that he received letters
at the rate of thirty per day, and they came
from Canada to Florida and from Maine t
California. Some were very touching let
ters, while others were very ridiculous
Many contained confederate bills amount
ing TO $500 and $4,000. There was bis
proof in this little erroneous notice that /
pays to advertise.
Hartwell Sun: Elder Nixon administers
an effective and rather humorous rebuk,
to some parties who were misbehaving il
the house Of worship during the quarterly
meeting at Cokesbury Sunday. He paused
in the midst of his discourse and reprovet
the young men after this style. He sal,
that such conduct in church reminded hin
of an Indians account OF the creatio
of man: The Lord made two pair
out OF mud and set them in tn
sun to dry, and after they hal
dried be split the heads Of one pair an
poured some brains in them, and they aroe
and walked off. The other pair did nc
wait for any brains, but Immediately fol
lowed the first pair. The preacher the
said that wherever you saw persons misbe
having in church you might safely put |
down that they were lineal descendants c
she pair that did not wait for their braini
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