The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Capture of a Thief After Thirteen
Years Absence-Mac on's Mysterious
Kicker The Heavy Rains In Weber
County-Ex-Presiden Clevelend's La
Schools.
GEORGIA.
Sumter county has new postoflce-
Savah.
Col Livingston speaks at Camilla
Wednesday, Sept 9.
At Dublin the Macon and Dublin railroad
is erecting a freight wharf at the foot of
Marion street
Friday. Gwinnett county voted on the |
liquor question. The result was the "drys" |
won on vote Of l,047 to $40.
The young men of Balm bridge between
the years of l6 and % have formed mill
tary company. The roster shows twenty
seven names.
On Sept 10 Moultrie will entertain !
gathering OF alliancemen, who will be adj
dressed by Col Livingston and Congress
man Thomas E. Watson.
Cotton throughout Cherokee county Is
fine and quite promising. 1t 10 probable
there will be larger yield than last year; |
the average is probably larger.
The Lagrange Reporter says Larkin g. |
Cleveland is q second cousin of ex-President |
Cleveland. his grandfather, Jacob Cleve-
land, having been brother of Wiley Cleve-
land, the exP Presidents father.
Thursday the barbecue season Of the
Americas barbecue club will be wound up.
The porkers will DO furnished by the rail-
road boys This is the original and only
purely swine barbecue club Of the south.
The Sparta Ishmaelite is informed that
the managers Of the Hancock Fair Associa-
ton have been offered S400 for the privilege
of pool selling and other deadfalis at the
coming county fair, and that the offer was
refused.
On Friday night the safe of E. s. Fergu.
son Of DeSoto was hauled Off half
mile, broken open and its contents carried
of. Some very valuable papers and S225
in money are missing. There is no clew TO
the thieves
Col. Ebb p Upshaw left Athens yeSter-
day for Atlanta, where he swings his shin
gle to the breeZes and will practice his pro-
fession. He goes to Atlanta as assistant at
torney of the Atlantic aud Florida Rail-
road Company.
Sparta will issue 5000 in bonds for the
purpose Of building and equipping Two
new schoolhouses. There were only seven
votes against the proposition and 1876 for it.
The bonds will run thirty years and bear
g per cent. interest.
A. Z. Wimberly of Hayneville, Houston
county. had very fine mule killed by
lightning a few days ago. The lightning
struck tree near awire fence, followed
the fence several feet and struck the mule,
which had his head over the wire.
Judge Charles F. Crisp returned homo
Friday night from his western trip. He is
we'll and reports pleasant trip. His Amer
Gus friends gladly welcomed him home, and
are proud Of the many honors conferred
on their distinguished congressman.
Mrs Merely, wife OF Officer Warren
Merely Of Macon, has two continental bills
one for $50 and the other for 81. They
were issued 10 177S aud 1777, respectively,
by the state of Georgia for the support Of
the troops of the continental army.
At Dublin, a. A. Zachry, more Familiarity
known as "Ninety-iive," met with a very
painful accident on Wednesday. He was |
sitting in buggy, when the horse became
frightened, jumped forward and threw him
out, dislocating his left arm at tho elbow.
Saturday the FIRST bale of cotton raised in
Floyd county this season was received by
Coker d Dunehoo, from 8. Strickland II
weighed $40 pounds, was long staple aud
bought for SO cents. II was afterward
sold to the Howell Cotton Company for So
cents.
The spot where JEFF Davis was captured,
near lrwinville, on the Abbeyille and Ir-
winVille read, is now marked by two
which Mr.. Davis stood when the capture
was made. The spot is visited by many
people, who cut the shrubbery as memorials
OF the place.
The rain of last Tuesday night did consid-
cradle damage 10 the growing crops through
the Crawfordville section. Besides this
other property along the water courses were
heavily damaged. Hendricks mill sus-
telned the heaviest loss of any having
the dam and water wheel completely
washed away.
The Brunswick police commissioners have
suspended Assistant Marshal i. ID. Oldham
for thirty days The charge upon which
Mr.. Oldham was tried was conduct unbe-
coming an officer to a citizen. Ii was pre-
ferred by X. N. Squires, who alleged that
he had been insulted and assaulted by AS
sistant Marshal Oldham without provoca-
ton.
The executive committee Of the Macon
Fair and Exposition Company suggest to
the board OF directors that a fair be held
commencing Oct 26 and running to Oct. 81
With the following features: \ trades display
ana fireworks. IrottinR and running races.
Military and fireman tournament display
Merchant displays at park. Stock and
poultry show.
Lumpkin Independent: The railway
bridge across the ChattAhoochee river will
probably be completed for the crossing OF
trains during the month Of September.
About four miles Of grading on the west
side of the river will complete the road
through to Montgomery Trains NAV be
expected to run through to that city between
this time and Christmas.
Sheriff Holder has arrested and taken 70
Lumpkin Neil Salter or Thornton, On iudi-
vidual OF color. Neil was charged with
stealing cotton in 1875 the grand Jury find.
ing an indct ent against him. He skipped
and enjoyed freedom for thirteen years. but
justice at last overlook him. He was Iv-
ing 10 Russell county, Alabama, when the
sheriff learned Of his whereabouts and
scooped him in.
At Washington Tuesday night eighteen
drummers reached the Foreman house
through the rain. Three came from the
country in hack. and they reported that
they had been turned over in gullies three
times. They said they had no light TO get
s. out of the gullies and right their hack but
what came from lightning flashes. They
reached Washington covered with mud and
soaked with rain.
Harvey Stuart, the negro who was sho
by Jim Day at Macon Friday night, is still
in a serious condition. but will probably re-
cover. The negro who shot him is still at
large, although a determined effort TO
capture him has been made. There seems
to be bad blood in the Day family. LasIyear
Aleck Day, brother of Jim. frightfully
l.