The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

triloquist-Ihs Eosiery Mills e.
Macon Tell to Bring Anything Like
Their Value-The Death Rate o.
Athens-Ingalls Coming to Georgia
GEORGIA.
A Baptist church and new depot are &C
b built at Elko.
There is prospect of an oil mill being
started in Marietta before the year is out.
Mrs R. C. Eve, widow Of the late DR..
r. c. Eve Of Augusta, died a day or two
ago.
Marlin g. Edwards have retired from the
Dawson Journal and ". o. johnson
assumes control.
Atlant@is to have a new afternoon paper.
1t is TO be run by the prohibitionlsts upon the
sole idea of prohibition.
Commencement exercises in the high
schools Of Macon will take place June 10,
which is next Wednesday.
An Atlanta negress is crazy about teie-
phones. and spends most of her time talk
ing through an imaginary phone.
DIR. Hunter P. Cooper, surgeon Of the
Atlanta Artillery, has resigned because his
professional duties require all his time.
After Mercer commencement is over Rev.
DR.. g. A. Nunnally, president, will take
the field in the interests Of the university.
The big well at the South Macon cotton
mill is now sixty feet deep, aud still the
flow is not as layge as is desired. A yield OF
800 900 gallons per day is required.
Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary
Jones says that charges will be formulated
against Col Livingston, president Of the
state alliance, before the August meeting.
The proportion of deaths in Athens for
che year 1890 was fourteen TO every one
thousand inhabitants. The proportion Of
nv fuvo irHs avA
one-third whites.
Prof. Alfredo Barih left Atlanta for New
York Tuesday. Yesterday he sailed for
Liverpool on his way to Wales, where be
viii be for some months the guest of his
aunt, Nine Patti-Nicolini
One Of Grifin's new enterprises is the
Griffin Brick Company. In the application
for charter appear the names Of N. B., T.
=. and Joseph Fl. Drewry and Charles H.
Westbrook, with a capital stock of ESQ, 900.
Five bullets were fred at chicken thief
at Augusta before day Wednesday morn
ing. Three hit him but did not penetrate.
He is the worst chicken thief in Georgia,
The chief OF police says he will swear the
negro has stolen at least 10000 He is now
in Jail
At Alpharetts few days ago Mrs. A. w.
Devore was passing through the yard and
found a hen egg almost as large as a goose
egg. When ready 10 cook il she broke the
shell, and inside was the white and yellow
usually found in an egg, and also another
egg Of full size. shell and ALL
That hyena which Is said 10 be feastine
on dogs or sheep or anything else that
happens in its way down about Sum er
City, is said to be on the rampage again
Several dogs have been conspicuous because
OF their absence of late, and it is thought
they feb prey to the hyena, which is lurking
In the woods.
Last Wednesday night Irwin Brooks. a
young negro man, broke into a chicken
house at Dawson and carried of twenty
rrying-size chickens. Brooks sold the chick
ems tae same night TO Coils Parks and Howl.
de was arrested Thursday, and on Friday
was tried in the superior court and sem
fenced to five years Ia the penitentiary.
Butler Herald: P. C. Watson, living a
few miles south of Howard, is not only a
good farmer but Is making a success at
sheep raising. Mr.. Watson shipped 10
Columbus few days ago $50 pounds Of
clear wool of this seasons clipping. for
which he realized % cents. Mr.. Watson
also shipped like amount to Columbus last
year, for which he received q cents.
A strange disease has affected the mules
on the place OF l.. j. Boswell near Penfield.
Ihey are taken sick and not able to get up.
yet they will eat until they die. Mr. Bos.
one place. Mr.. Cook, the veterinary sur
geon from Atlanta, examined one sick now.
he was unable to tell what was the matter
with the mule. Some think they are being
poisoned.
1t is claimed that ex-senator Ingalls, has
accepted an invitation extended by J. w.
Heidi, manager of the Georgia Chantauoua.
70 deliver an address at Lithia Springs some
time IN July. Mrs. Mary E. Lease of
Kansas, the famous lady alliance leader
who contributed largely to defeat Ingalls,
and elect PETER, has also decided to visit
the Chautauqua and address the people
Efforts to secure Hon. William X. Morri-
son and Hon. Ben Butterworth are now on
foot
Gus Hammond was drowned in Muckalee
creek, In Lee county, Monday afternoon,
Hammond was member Of good family
and about 81 years of age Hs was know,
TO be splendid swimmer, and the supposi-
ton is that while he was in bathing he was
seized oy oramp aud was drowned before
he could make any effort to save himself.
negro, who was working in field near
by heard Hammond cry for help. and,
rushing to the creek, saw him sink for the
last time. The body was recovered.
The Georgia Hosiery Mills property at
macon was put up at auction Tuesday. NJ
Lipman bought the machinery at 81 ESQ.
whereas IL had cost originally s14, 1854. The
building and lot sold for s.. coo, whereas
they had originally cost $1,000. Judge
Miller did not care TO have the property
sold et any such sacrifice, and ne refused TO
affirm the sale. 1t is probable that the
property will not again be offered at public
cutlery until next fall, when it is expected
that money will be easier and the property
will bring better prices.
A committee Of citizens including Mavor
8. B. Price and two aldermen, waited on
Capt. Rolf Sims Of the Southern Cadets of
Macon, Wednesday, to use their influence to
persuade him to take his drill team to In
dianapolis for the great drill. A committee
guaranteed to raise sufficient funds to de-
fray expenses, and already long list has
been subscribed. Capt Sims is still unde-
cided. but says that if sufficient money is
raised, and all employers agree to allow his
team release for both Chickamauga and 10.
dianapoiis, he will probably go.
On Saturday last the negroes had a p;c-
mic at Thurmond's mill, three miles south
of Forsyth. Trouble arose between James
Thurmond, colored, and Ernest Howard
white. Nose Solomon, a. highly respected
and honored negro, asked Thurman not Ia
have any difficulty, when Thurman. in a
fit of anger, drew his pistol and shot Solo
mon through the head, killing him in
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