The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Effort of the Wholesale Merchants tc
Secure 5000 Nile Tlckets-The Trav
cling Expenses of the Military Ad
visory Board-A White Mother o
Negro Children Driven Out by Hell
Outraged Relatives.
GEORGIA.
The cornerstone of the new court hous
at Dalton will be laid to-day.
Alderman A. R. Winship of Macon ha
given $500 to the Jefferson Davis monumen
fund.
The penitentiary committee of the Hous
has begun tour 70 inspect the convict
camps.
The taxable property of LaGrange, rea
and personal, foots up in round number:
81, 900.
Miss Lamar Rutherford of Athens will be
married in September TO Andrew LIDS
comb of Washington, D. G.
Mrs. H. NJ. Mcintosh OF Albany has a
night blooming cereus on which two blooms
opel on Sunday night and fifteen Mon
day.
Lewis Miller (colored) is wanted at Am9rl-
Gus on a charge Of feloni0usly assau.tns
oolored girl named Meta Henderson, aged
10 years.
1t is rumored that a clerk in the employ
of James DAILY & Co. of Augusta mas lalleu
heir to a fortune estimated at S3O'VOO' me
money was left him by an unc.e' VINO uled
at Leadville, Col
The Athens telephone exchange IS now 10
high state of prosperity, with ~ bona
f1de subscribers on the books, and with
bright prospects OF soon IlcIeaslHs 'uH'
number at a rapid rate.
on of,tocL Monday MIC ht the Tpsjdanca
of DR.. Z. G. Ferguson on Huguenin Heights,
Macon. caught fire and was burned to the
ground The house was insured to its full
value. but there will be loss on tue furniture
OF something like $500.
There has been considerable talk about
the expense incurred by the military advis-
ory board on their trip around the state for
the purpose Of selecting a permanent en-
campment. The fact Of the matter Is that
the total expenses Of the advisory board Of
eight men making one week trip amounted
to 1916.
Susie johnson, colored girl living in the
outskirts Of Augusta, bad an encounter
Tuesday with a large hawk. The bird was
after chickens in the back yard, and the
girl attempted to drive him away with
broom when the Infatuated hawk turned
savagely on her, and it was after long
and bard fight that she succeeded in killing
it. 1t measured four feet from tip to tip.
The application of J. j. and }. E. Mad
dox, asking that a permanent receiver be
appointed for the stock of J. F. McClain,
VINO occupies q store at the corner of Eads
and Ira streets, of Atlanta. was heard before
Judge Richard II. Clark. Tuesday. The
application was contested by Miner Bros,
who held u mortgage on the stock. They
claimed thai the mortgage was more than
the stock was worth. The application was
granted. and Boykin Truman was appointed
permanent receiver.
The evidences of an inevitable prohibition
contest in Floyd county are becoming more
and more perceptible at Rome Rev. Sam
z. Jones will preach at the First Methodist
church next Sunday. He has arranged to
conduct series of meetings, commencing
Sent. 6, and il is thought that his intention
in preaching there next Sunday is to get the
people thoroughly aroused by the time no
comes in September. Leaders on both sides
Of the whisky question are laying low, but
a considerable amount of quiet work is
being done. One Of the most heated contests
ever known i'll Floyd county is expected.
The wholesale merchants of Macon re-
ceived a circular letter Monday from
Charles I. Cochran, chairman of the rail-
road committee If the Atlanta branch Of
the Southern Travellers Association. This
letter impressed upon them the necessity Of
raising means to secure the issue Of 5, 00O-
mile tickets at 500 each, to be good on all
railroads throughout the country. Con
tributions of $25 to 500 were made by sew
eral merchants yesterday, who say that the
issuing of these tickets will save them a
great deal of money. 1t would effect a
saving Of at least So, 900 a year in the OK
penseS Of Macon's travelling men, and is
considered worth working for.
United States Marshal w. p. Corbett ar
rived at Oglethorps Tuesday 10 answer to
summons by wire from Marshal j. A. Bush
who had two employees of the CentrRrs
bridge gang spotted for having made and
passed counterfeit money. Upon his arli-
val and after a little investigation he or
dered their arrest, which was made without
resistance, both prisoners being asleep when
approached. Mr.. Corbett left for Macon
with his game and will have several mer-
chants to 60 up as witnesses of their guilt
Only six al pieces were distributed betw cen
four merchants, who candidly acknowledge
themselves dupes, 80 good was the imitation.
The prisoners are J. w. Garrett (whiteD
and Morgan Harrison (colored).
A young white woman, accompanied by
two negro children. passed through Tweed
Monday. One was clasped TO her breast
while the other was Juggling at her dress.
1t was learned that she was from Mont
her mother. Becoming SO obstreperous and
inclined to her bad ways, the parent ordered
her to leave the parental roof forever She
called on her brother, but he peremptorily
refused her admittance. She endesvored TO
enter the house by force The brother
seemed determined. You and your child
rem must go among the negroes, said he
'You've disgraced yourself and family, and
/ can't shelter any such people, She is
about 20 years old and seems to be an I'M
beetle. Monday night she remained with a
colored family. Her name is Conner
Americas Times Recorder: At c. M.
Wheatley's place a negro had gone into the
corncrib to get provender for the COWS,
and had just gathered up an armful Of
shucks, when peculiar sound caused him
to stop and look about him. Seeing nothing,
he started fer the door with the shucks
when the noise again caused him to stop
and look about A movement in the shucks
caused him to look downward. where he
saw a full-grown rattlesnake sQuirming
among the shuc1s in his arms, trying to get
away, and at the same time springinQ his
rettles furiously under the darxy's nose.
The effect of the discovery was truly
wonderful With a yell which any
Cemanche Indian would proudly have
acknowledged as his own, the darby
dropped his wrigghng burden, and after
executing several intricate figures in the
terpsichorean art, he went head first
through the Misunderstanding of the barn
like grape-shot. He hit terra frmd on "a
perpendicular, and those who witnessed his
unseemly haste in leaving the spot say that
the mud from his heels hit the shingles at
every jump. The snake still holds the