The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-31
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TEE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

TIE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Body OF the Drowned Mate Of the
Steamer Apa!achee Rscovered.
Ticket scalpers to Make q Big Fight
Against the Prohibition L.csnse I'M
posed at Angusta-Red Cotton Grown
In Middle Georgia
GEORGIA.
The story that F. H. Richardson OF the
Atlanta Journal is to become editor OF the
Augusta Herald is erroneous.
A. @. Bullock, marshal Of Rockmart,
went to the house OF 7. Z. Weston to arrest
him on q warrant. Weston shot and killed
the marshal and fed to the woods.
The Athens EUening Ledger will resume
publication to-day. R b. Russell, the
main proprietor, will again take charge OF
the paper and will put some competent
Journalist at the editorial helm.
Cotton of a red color is being grown In
Middle Georgia, it is said, where an acre OF
cotton plants have stalks leaves and hoTetT,
every stalk of which is q deep red color.
This crop is the product of seed taken
three years ago from two stalks OF red cot
ton found in a cotton field.
81. A. A. writing to the Americas Re
corder on the election OF Representative
Crisp as speaker, says: "It indicates sgain
Crisp for the Senate, or in the event OF
democratic President a position in the cab
met; in which event q vacancy In congress
for this district, and in that event there
would be quite an interesting struggle"
The officers of the Columbus Savings
Bank, in carrying out the resolution of the
stockholders, Offering the increased capital
of $50, 600 new stock to the old stockholders
of record, have received replies from very
large portion Of the stockholders. All Of
them heard from have taken the amount
allotted TO them. and several have applied
for any unallotted stock.
WI Thomas, president Of the LeVert
Female College of Talbotton, came in last
night on the train from Atlanta, and on 60
ing to his room at tie Brown house discov-
cred that he had lost q check for $26I 40
made payable to him by Edward Elder,
county school commissioner of Pike county,
on the GAINESVILLE Savings Bank. 1t was
probably lost upon the train.
Marietta Journal: j. Wheeler Dobbs and
wife we're out gathering hickory nuts on
their farm the other day, on the old Noon
day battlefield. and Mrs Dobbs found a A
caliber cap and ball pistol. Every chamber
was loaded and capped. The handle was
partly decayed, but otherwise it was in fair
condition. Near by is an unknown grave
This pistol had been there probably twenty
seven years, ard the unknown soldier killed
in battle may have been its owner.
The body of First Mate James Sloan of
the Chattahoochee river steamer Apalachee
has been found. After having been in the
bottom Of the river for twenty-five days it
came to the surface Sunday. On Dec. s.,
while Mate Sloan was at work on the
bumper of the steamer, he accidentally fell
and went overheard. He was never seen
again. This was seven miles above Eufaula,
Ala, about $50 miles from Columbus. The
body came to the surface near the same
spot.
A big fight is expected in Augusta be-
tween the city and the ticket scalpers. The
city has placed the license of ticket brokers
at $1,000, in order to get the railroads 70
offer low rates for the carnival and other
festivals during the year. George Petty
john, the ticket scalper at the Arlington
hotel, says that high license will not stop his
business. He says he proposes to sell tickets
at cut rates right along that the lawyers
say that the law making the license s., 900
is prohibitory, and, therefore, illegal. II
arrested for doing business without a license,
Mr.. Pettyjo says he will give bond and
fight the case in courts. The Ticket Brokers'
Association Is backing him up in his fight,
and will try to put down the high license
Rome Tribune: Train wreckers were at
work on the East Tennessee railroad be-
tween Atlanta and Rome Sunday night.
They tried to cause a wreck by leaving the
switch sidetrack at Rockmart open. The
veStibule Florida special, north-bound,
come near being the Inflated train. Suns
day night this train came through Rock.
mart. where it doesn't stop, at a high rate
of speed, although it had slightly Stacked
up, l. was about IL 80 O'clock and tbs
passengers in the elegant coaches and
sleepers were all asleep. but were roughly
awakened by humping. and they at once
realized that the wheels were running on
the crossties. Engineer Tracy stopped his
engine as soon as possible, or as soon as be
saw the open switch before him. In going
into the sidetrack. the tender of the engine
was thrown off, and this was almost saliva
ton. it causing the train to stop quicker
than it would have done and probably saved
bad smash-up. The switch vas closed
when other trains, only few hours befor,
passed over. and the party that turned thI
switch did it with an awful purpose.