The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE Two STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Penitence-A Somnambul!st's Fall.
GEORGIA.
NV. Arnold of Monroe has failed. He
owes $1,000, with assets estimated at
SIS. 200.
The Young Mems Democratic League
was organized In Rome Saturday with the
greatest enthusiasm.
Cherokee Advance: Clever Sam Morley
showed US last Friday seven fine Brazilian
yams that weighed twenty pounds
Thomas Bennett of Augusta walked out
of a second-story window while asleep Sun
day night and fell on q pile or brlckoats
but escaped injury.
The Ebert Light Infantry held an cleo
ton last week to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Capt. p. NJ. Hawes. First
Lieut.. Willis B. Adams was elected.
Col w. J. Kincaid OF Griffin has just
shipped fifty stalks Of cotton in different
stages Of maturity to Mrs. G. II. Prem ISIS of
Brooklyn, n. Y, 10 be used in church dec
orations
The town council of Elberton has or
gained by electing Capt. 7. NJ. Halves
mayor pro tenn; W. b. Henry, clerk and
treasurer, aud p Il. Ham and w. II.
Irwin, marshals
s. N. Carpenter, editor and proprietor of
the ElDeFVOn GuzGtLe, udu d becOuQ otFoke
of paralysis last week, and is in critical
condition, though strong hopes are enter
tanned OF his recovery.
The grand lodge of Masons meets at Ma
con Oct. 20. A grand jubilee will be held
over the cancellation OF the debt which the
grand lodge incurred in the erection Of its
handsome building at Macon.
At Beeks, postofftce in Pike county.
Saturday, George l.. Coggins. a merchant,
was killed, and his brother, Burt Coggins,
was probably fatally stabbed by man
named Kenny. A quarrel over an account
was the cause Of the tragedy.
Hartwell sun: While digging the grave
of w. r. Cooley on last Saturday tho hands
struck a coffin. There WAS no sign of a
grave above ground. The coffin, which
must have been buried many years, was in
a good state Of preservation, the cloth with
which 1t was bound on the outside being
intact.
!. D. Smith of Dublin has not yet been
heard from, and no clue to his disappear
anee has yet been discovered. There is an
organizaed effort being made throughout
the county to raise money to employ de-
teetives to prosecute the search for the
missing man, and unearth the cause Of his
disappearance.
David N. King, who lives on John SUIT
tons place In Irwin county, five miles
northwest of Triton, has made this year on
one>horse farm thirteen heavy bales of
cotton and plenty Of food products. Ten
bales OF this cotton was picked, ginned and
s9ld during the mon b of September. The
land planted was ordinary pine land.
II will not be long before steamboats, can
run up to Macon. The iron for the draw
70 be put in the East Tennessee bridge has
arrived. Now the work will be pushed
10 4 rs,n H,,f1
completed. 1t is altogether probable that
the draw will be ready for use before the
close of another month. When that is
done Macon will have new territory opened
up to her, and the good will be most per-
ceptible.
The most important criminal cases for trial
at Carrollton this week are those of Bill
Hill and Grant Gilley, the former indicted
for the murder Of Byrd Perkins, about ten
miles south of Carrollton last March. Byrd
was boy OF about 20 years of age, and Bill
Hill man of 40. His trial will come of the
second week of court Grant Gilley is
charged with the murder of Martin, a
young druggist of Carrollton. There are
some forty or fifty ind ctments for violating
The prohibition laws of the county and state
TO be tried this term Of the court.
News reached Macon Monday Of the
doings of band of white caps at Bloods-
worth Friday night Henry Willis and
Charles Richardson, two white men. and
Frank johnson (colored) have been leading
lives that we're repulslve to the people II
that settlement. They we're warned of the
course they were pursuing. But they
seemed to care nothing for the warnings
and went on as before. Friday night q
band OF white caps visited them and gave
them sound thrashing at the same time
ordering them to leave the community
Fearing that they might be treated still
worse. the men departed.
The North Carolina woman, Mrs. Carlisle,
who ran away with one w. l.. Alley and
came to Fort Valley, full mention OF which
was made last week, has left for parts I'M
known. 1t will be remembered that she
left Fort Valley last week to keep from
meeting her husband, who came after their
1l-months-old girl babe. But just as soon
as her husband left Fort Valley she came
back, staying until last Tuesday morning,
when she left on the 515 O'Clock Macon
train. She said before she left that she
regretted having deserted her husband and
home, and that she would live the remain
ing days OF her life in seeking forgiveness
for her sin.
c. K. Ober, general secretury of the in
ternatlonal committee OF the Young
Mems Christian Association, has
removed his headquarters from New
1Ork 10 Atlanta. III ms Is the result of q
decision OF the internatIo nal committee to
create separate southern department Of
tine association. Atlanta becomes head
quarters for nearly the whole south, Mr..
Obers territory extending from Virginia to
Texas. Another important appointment of
the international committee is that of f. S.
Brockman Of Austell to have charge of
that department in the south called THE
Students Volunteer Movement This in
cludes the work in all the colleges il Mr..
Ober's territory.
Augusta NelCS: An Augusta inventor i.
doing some wonderful ana very promising
work just now, and oil he seems to need i:
capital and cooperation to make a fortune
for himself and some big improvements In
motive power and cooling apparatus. He
Is d. 3. Newlin, and be is constructing some
models of several inventions up at the War
wick machine works. Mr.. Newlin employ:
compressed air as his motive power, and ha.
introduced it in an invention for moving
trains, and as1 in another invention for
moving cotton congresses. He claims won.
derful improvements over present motiv,
power, and also greater economy. He saw
his contrivance for running a cotton com
press con be operated at one-fourth the
present expense, and without a spark of fire
on the premises.
The Davy Crockett Hook and Ladder
Company Of PoughkeepsIe, n. Y, reached
Atlanta yesterday afternoon. They will
remain In Atlanta for two DAYS and will b,
royalty entertained during their stay in thu
city. 1t Is the oldest volunteer fire com
pany in the United States, having beer
organized as far back as 1912. But tn,
growth Of Poughkeepsie has crowded thu
nav I'D / a.