The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

cons Street Car System-Fsther and
Son Badly Injured by Runaway
Mule Near Jasper "A Womsn Sues
a Railroad for $4,000.
GEORGIA.
A number of young men in Griffin have
organized a rife team.
A half million increase in taxable prop
erty Is what Dolly will probably gain this
year.
Theeoufederate veterans of Macon will
raise money for the Jefferson Davis mon
ment.
A movement is on foot looking to the or
Eanization of a tribe of Red Men on Rose
Hill, q suburb of Columbus.
There are 500, 900 acres of land in Dooly
county. This is twenty-five acres 20 every
man, woman and child living in the county.
The total tax returns for Clarke county
will reach upward OF $1,000. 900. and that
will be an increase Of over s60O, 900 over
last year.
The man arrested in North Carolina on
the superstition that he was Rich Lowry
murderer Of Cap. Forsythe, proves not to
be the man wanted.
Clerk Penny OF Dooly county recorded a
deed few days ago that had twelve sig
natures to it as makers of the deed and
nineteen signatures as witnesses.
George Geiss of Dawson has what he calls
two poor little heifers-ole weighs ,675
pounds, 5 years old; the other $50, years
old. They we're raised at the oil mills, and
suhsisted solely on cotton seed bulls.
the number of bows cared for during the
year 1890 at the Catholic orphanege at
Washington was seventy-nine. Sixteen
were admitted and fifteen were withdrawn
or placed in positions, so that the present
number is eighty.
Mr.. Wardell, the Waterman at the steam
boat dock at Abbsville. killed an alligator
last Wednesday that measured 10 feet in
length. The saurian made his appearance
in the. river near the wharf, when Mr..
Werdell dispatched him with a Winchester
rifle.
The Macon Hardware Company, which
has capital stock of 500, 600. organized
under its new charter Tuesday, with the
following officers: President, II. G. Tindall;
vice president, John G. Van Syckel; treas
urer, w. Ross White; secretary, Howard
White.
The annual celebration OF the Henry
County Sunday School Association came off
at Shingle Roof camp ground, three miles
north of McDonough, Saturday. T. Z.
Nolan delivered the welcome address Gov
Northen was present and delivered a fine
address
a reward Of s4O0 has been offered for the
arrest and delivery 10 the mayor Of Seville
of the negro Tom Harden, who brutally
murdered H. d. Lloyd in that town on May
8. This reward, no doubt, will be supple>
mented very soon by a reward offered by
the governor.
The governor has received letter from
f. q. Sewer of Nashville asking if any in
formation could be had of James or Henry
Carter. who was once a large slave owner
and cotton planter in Georgia. The letter
stated that any one who would give such
information would be rewarded.
Capt Il. II. Tiff has now q, 900 grape
vines in his vineyard, about two miles north
OF Triton, which are now two years old and
will begin bearing this year. These vines
required II 900 posts, which are now being
placed in position, while nearly two car
loads OF wire will be required TO train the
vines upon.
The Electric City Cadets, Augustus fifth
infantry company, were organized Monday
night with l03 members. Capt. William
Bryson, an old war veteran, a popular and
prominent citizen, was elected captain
Other officers will be elected next Monday.
Application will be made to the governor
for arms at once.
There is a possibility Of a company being
formed in Philadelphia TO purchase toe
Macon street car system. Last week Will
"
Philadelphia were in Macon looking over
matters connected with the system. These
gentlemen represent the receiver of the
American Life Insurance. Company of
Philadelphia, who holds S133, 600 Of general
mortgage bonds of the system.
DR.. Wooddall of Jasper and his son
Nelson are in a critical condition. DR..
Wooddail was out driving and his mule took
fright and ran away, and the doctor was
dangerously hurt. His SOD, James Wood
dali, caught the mule and started to drive
him TO summon a physician to dress the
wounds Of his father, and the mule ran
away with him. He was thrown from the
buggy, his teeth knocked out and his skull
fractured. 1t is thought that young Wood
dall will not recover.
Abbeville Times: Last Friday morning
Willis Wilcox, negro raftman while
standing on the platform of the Sam depot,
met with a painful accident A freight
train IN drilling or backing Into the depot,
struck skid that projected froIn the plat
form, with suca violence that it was hurled
into space In its passage it cleared every
thing Including Wilcox aud a negro
woman of the platform. The woman was
not badly hurt, but the man was badly
bruised from point above the knee to the
feet, and tie ankle was fractured.
Mrs. Eliza Gjnter has filed a suit at At
lanta for $4,000 against the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company. She claims
that on Nov. 8, 1889. she was passenger on
the train from Atlanta to Roswell On her
arrival there there was no light on the plat
form, and the distance from the car TO the
platform was too great for her to step
easily, and being 70 years old and rather
feeble, she fell to the ground. By the fall
her thigh was broken, and since that time
she has suffered continuously, with no pros
pect of her ever recovering the use of her
broken limb. On those facts she bases the
suit against the company. whose negligence,
she claims, was the cause of her misfort-
une.
James Padgett of Columbus received a
telegram from Atlanta Sunday morning
stating that his wife, who was in Atlantis
under treatment, was not expected to live.
He went to the depot Sunday morning &c
take the / O'Clock train for that city. On
arriving at the depot he discovered q caxke,
in the depot which had arrived at IS
o'clock via the Georgia Midland, labeled
Miss A. M. Padgett. Thinking something
was wrong, he had the coffin opened. Hs
did not RECOGNIZE the body, aud proceeded
on TO Atlanta. His mother, hearing of the
corpse at the depot, went down, and al
once recognized her, and telegraphed hin
at Griffin, and he returned on the next
train.
The county commissioners have provided