The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Big Fight Over Land on in the
United States Court at Mscor-An
Aged Couple Of Villa RIGA Robbed
Of the Savings of Their Life Time.
GEORGIA.
June 10 the cotton men OF the state will
meet in Brunswick, Ga, for the purpose Of
discussing matters pertaining to their par
ticalar business
Work in Secretary tensions Office in the
way Of preparation for the coming state
fair at Macon is still going on rapidly and
is increasing in volume daily.
During the month Of May thirty marriage
licenses were issued in Muscogee county.
The records show that ten were for white
couples aud twenty for colored.
At Swanoochee J. H. Cannon made ia
barrels of spirits last week, and the cooper,
A E. McIver made seventy rosin barrels in
one day by himself. They are shipping
over 100 barrels Of spirits turpentine every
week.
Gambler can boast of having one Of the
youngest plow boys anywhere in the coun-
try. He is the son of j. W. Simmons, only
years old, and does about as much work
of any kind as l6.year-old boy can do on
farm.
Terrell superior court was adjourned Sat
urday till the first Tuesday in July next, at
which time the criminal docket will be re-
sumed and young Homer Willis will be
tried on the charge Of having murdered his
cousin, George Outlaw.
William Echols who says that his home
is somewhere near Brunswick, made dispar-
aging remarks about Miss Minnie Robinson
of Montgomery county. Her brother, Ed
/. Robinson heard of the talk and will COM
pei Echols to marry her.
City Clerk and Treasurer Nelson of Bruns-
wick collected between $15, 900 and SIT 900
in taxes Saturday. He issued receipts for
So, 600 between tea time and IL o'clock at
night. The rush was caused by tbs fact that
Saturday was the last day on which the 10
per cent discount was allowed. About one
half Of the taxes have been collected up to
date.
Hon. L. Q. @. Lamar, associate Justice of
the supreme court of the United States,
with Judge w. T. Newman. paid a visit
70 the venerable and venerated Judge
Erskine, at his residence, on RRwson street,
at Atlanta Saturday. Justice Lamar is "A
warm adnirer of Judge Erskine, and re
ferred to his visit as one of the pleasantes
features of his visit 10 Atlanta.
A case in justice court at Douglasville
was settled in peculiar but satisfactory
manner the other day. A merchant who
had bought a lot OF tobacco from an At
lanta house resisted payment on the ground
that the goods were damaged. The Justice
presiding chewed some Of the tobacco and
decided that it was damaged to the amount
OF ID cents on the pound, and gave plaintiff
judgment accordingly.
The mortgage of the Eagle aud Phenix
Manufacturing Company, with the Ameri-
can Trust and Banking Company of
Atlanta, as trustee, upon les entire belong
ings for Sl,000. 900, has been filed in Mus
cogee county, Georgia, and Lee and Russell
counties, Alabama, in which the property Of
the company lies. This was done to make
the purchasers Of the company's bonds per-
fectly safe. One thousand bonds of 81, 900
each have been issued by the company to
raise money to replace the deposits in the
savings bank, which were laying up draw
ing no interest until they were Invested in
the plant Of the company.
W. a. Patrick, sheriff rof Spalding
county, arrived at Americas Saturday
night to identify w. B. Speer. the man
whom Lieut.. Wheeler arrested Friday on
suspicion that he was the party who shot
aud dangerously wounded member of the
Griffin police force about year ago. Lieut..
Wheeler had Gagged the right man. and
Sheriff Patrick left with Speer on the Iarly
train Sunday morning for Griffin, where tie
prisoner will be made to suffer the penalty
of bis crime. When he was arrested Speer
had valise containing some clothes and
two pistols, which have since been levied on
to satisfy G aboard bill which remained
unpaid.
Robert Reagin and wife are old people and
live one mile from Powder Springs, on the
Vile RIGA road have worked hard all their
lives and had laid up their savings which
they kept in the house. Saturday night
some one came when they slept, entered the
house and took 81 200 in gold and SIG in sill
yer from him, some Of it the very first
money he ever made He had with the
other money $50 in the leaves Of a book
which they overlooked. He says there were
two OF the burglars. as he could see one
helped the other in the window, and that
they had horse with them. 1t is evident
1t is some one who knew all about the old
mans habits and surroundings.
Caroline Perry, negro woman living
near Doles, Ia worth county. had sudden
and tragic death Friday at noon. At that
hour Caroline, with her husband and
several other negro men and women, had
gone short distance from home to a mill
pond to cut down bee tree they had found.
In the pond short distance from the bank
Upon the arrival OF the party at the pond,
the men with their axes and thu women
with the pans aud baskets, preparations
were made Immediately TO rob the bees of
their busy labor. They rolled Up their
pants and waded la to where the tree stood.
and soon under the well-directed blows OF
their keen blades, the tree cracked and be-
gan to fall in the direction where the we-
men were standing. The men yelled to the
women to get out Of the way, and all Of
them did so with the exception of Caroline,
who, seeming TO become dazed by excite
rent, ran under the tree as it fell, and was
crushed TO death in the twinkling OF an eve.
After the wonans dead body had been ex-
tricated from the tree, IL was found that a
large amount of honey was stored away in
the top, but none OF the negroes would
touch 1t on account Of the woman's death.
The application Of G. Walker Jordan. Jr..
as next friend to the minor children OF w
B. and Annie T. Tarver, for an injunction
restraining the Union Real Estate Trust
Company, Benjamin w. Hitchcock and the
New England Mortgage Company from
eJecting them from the possession of 1000
acres of land known as the Tarvsrsville
place in Twiggs county, and upon which
the old Tar yer home is located, came up be-
fore Judge Speer in the United States cir
cult cours at Macon, Saturday. Complain
ants alleged in their bill that homestead
was set apart for w. B. Tarver to these two
thousand acres by the ordinary Of Twiggs
county, in the year 1882, and that the title
thereto has never passed out OF the
benefciaries, the minor children
of Tarver. 1t appeared from the