The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Measles Puts Down Perry's School
Attendance One-half-A PIKE County
Boys Rise to Prominence in Alabs ma
A Suit to Recover a Valuable Resi-
dence at Macon.
GEORGIA.
Elm trees in Perry are blooming.
During the year 1890 there were ga
couples married in Houston county.
The Sunday train on the Perry branch
railroad was discontinued last Sunday.
The prevalence of measles IL Perry has
curtailed the school attendance fully one
half
Col. c. NJ. Wiley, late colonel command
ing the Second Georgia battalion, has just
received his commission as colonel OF the
Second Georgia regiment.
There is only one widow in Perry who
will receive a pension from the state
There are two confederate soldiers who re-
ceive pensions, B. F. Avant and r J.
Smith.
The cigarette law is being vigorously en-
forced in Gainesville. Quite a number OF
small boys have been brought up before the
city council during the week, and, II IL can
be learned from whom they bought their
cigarettes, the merchants will be pun
ished.
1t is likely that the vestry of St Paul's
church at Macon will decide at their meet
ing next Sunday afternoon upon a rector TO
succeed the Rev w. Dudley Powers. All
the indications point TO the selection of the
w. A. Query Of Florence, s. c., as the next
rector.
Spencer McKillen of Butts county, a
clever old negro lost a valuable mule at
Griffin wednesday. He had left his team
In one OF the wagon yards, but by some
means they became entangled in the gear,
and before they were released one of the
mules broke his neck.
Albany NsloS and Advertiser: An Italian
with his monkey struck the town yesterday.
Lee County NetOs. It 10 . little difficult
TO decipher Editor Clark's ambiguity in the
above sentence. But he must know what
he is writing about, and IL, as be says,
Smtthville has been struck by an Italian
with his monkey, or has been struck with q
monkey by an Italian, the thriving little
town must present dilapidstsd appearance
1t must look as IL it had been monkeyed
with. Most any town would hate to be
struck by monkey, whether it was welded
by an Italian or not. We trust the NeDs
has not suffered from the blow.
GAINESVILLE Gazette: John T. Miner. n
native of Pike county is a prominent man
IN the Alabama Senate, and just at this
time he is receiving great deal Of attention
from the people of his state He was the
author Of the resolution 10 withhold the
appropriation of Alabama from the worlds
fair 10 the event Of the passage of the force
Dill. 1t was popular stroke for him, and
since that time it is said the Alabama
papers and people have congratulated him
from every corner, and it will doubtless
bear him on to higher honor. or course,
flke county feels great pride in Mr.
Miner, aad Barnesville is doubly interested
IN him, for, besides being a native of Pike
county, it is said that he was the first baby
ever born IN GAINESVILLE.
One of the handsomest private residences
IN the state is the Coleman mansion on
Bond hill, at the head of Mulberry street. in
Macon. Suit for the recovery OF the prop
erty has been instituted in Bib superior
court, and the case was called Wednesday.
1t stands Mrs. Sarah Cushman VS.. Mrs. A,
A Coleman. The plaintiff is the daughter
OF the late Jerry Cowles. The defendant is
the widow OF the late s T. Coleman. The
property Is worth fully 10000. The par
ticulars OF the slit, in part, are rs follows:
The city OF Macon sold the land on which
now stands the mansion to the late Charles
Collins, who in turn sold 1t to the late
Jerry Cowles. Cowles erected the beauti-
full house that is upon 1t. He died, and the
property was left to Mrs. Cowles
aud children, SO the plaintiff says.
Ia oinle mrs Cowles got an order OF court
to sell the property, 1t being represented
that this was the family's chief means of
sustendnce. The late Hon. Eugenius A.
Nisbet was appointed commissioner by the
court to sell the property. 1t was sold and
Mrs. Cowles and family lived on the pro-
ceeds. and her children were educated with
the money. The late Joseph Bond bought
the property, and, after living there some
years, be died. His heirs sold ii to the late
"a l.. AIN
II. Plaintiff claims that Mrs. Cowles had
no right to sell the property, aud that the
court erred IN granting an order OF sale.