The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Banks Organize Clearance Assocls-
tion-A Boy Smothered to Death IN
Cotton.
GEORGIA.
Five thousand people were at Covington
Thursday in attendance on the reunion or
the Third Georgia Regiment
Congressman Livingston and VIM and
Hon. Thomas Lyons addressed an alliance
rally at Acworth Wednesday.
Jacob Harvey, son Of Prof. j. J. Harvey
of Fort Gaines while handling pistol acct
dentally shot off his thumb, ana came very
near shooting brother.
C. B. Irwin Of Conyers, younger brother
of N. D. Irwin, has leased the Social Circle
Sentry. He took charge last Monday. His
brother, NJ D. irwin will help HIM
]. B. Hayward has sold bis one-haf inter !
est in the Gainesville Courant-America1 |
newspaper and job printing establishment, /
together with the subscription books and |
good will, to H. A. Chapmao.
Counterfeit dollars bearing the date Of |
1889, are circulating pretty freely around |
Greenville The imitation IS perfect, but |
the counterfeit is lighter than the genuine, |
and presents a furnished appearance.
The public schools of Americas opened |
last Monday with an enrolment of 1,4l2 |
pupils, against about ! ,225 last year, and
the SUPERINTENDENT feels confident of total
enrolment Of ], 600 before the end OF the
season.
The young democrats Of Rome and Floyd
county are az axe and fully realize the i'm
portance of organization. They will hold
meeting ct the city hall next Saturday
morning, Oct. 8, and form a young meas
democratic league.
Capt. D. ]. Bailey and Lieut.. Semmes
Kell have sent in their designations as off,
cars of the Spalding Greys of Griffin, and
the company will probably be disbanded by
Lieut.. Satterlee in October, when be makes
his tour Of inspection.
At Columbia on Tuesday afternoon last.
little Jerry Paschal, son OF DR.. T. II. Pas
chal while playing on the cotton in the cot
ton house near the residence fell asleep. BY
some means the cotton tumbled down on
him smothering him to death.
A little son OF John Evans OF Dalton fell
from chestnut tree few days ago, while
gathering nuts, and broke both arms and
sustained other injuries. He fell about
twenty-five feet. A boy named Jess Pope,
while climbing for ches nu IS, fell from the
tree and, il is said, broke his jawbone.
Fairburn Standard: A gentleman and
his wife in Fairburn made a strange wager
the other day. One took the position that
not single young lady in town under 20
land of course none Of them are older had
was willing to stake anYthing that no
young lady in town could make a pot of
soap.
Hustler-of Rome: Walter s. Beresford
has received the Allgood ring from New
York and has turned it over to Walter w.
Vsndiver, to be carried to Mrs. King nee
Miss AlIgood. Mrs. King is at her home in
Atlanta. Col. VsndIver will probably go
to Atlanta to-day to carry the ring to her
The ripn 70
has kept his word
Fire destroyed six houses at Columbus
Wednesday. They were on Eighth avenue,
between Eighth and Ninth streets. Four
of them were the property of 4. V. Boatrite
and the other two belonged to Frederick.
The fire started from defective flue. The
houses burned were occupied principally by
colored people, and were valued at $3.50
each. The total loss is estimated at from
81, 800 to 81, 400. and the insurance on tAe
houses averaged Sls5 EACH or nearly enough
to cover the loss
The site selected for the second pumping
station and reservoir for the new water
works at Atlanta is the plat Of thirty-one
acres known as the Baptist orphans home
site, and the cost will be some n here near
$4,000. Several sites were offered for the
consideration Of the board OF water COM
ers, but this was the cheapest. Be-
sides the Baptist orphans home tract, for
which $4,000 Is asked, small plats owned
BYE Van Wrinkle & Co, Henry Porter
and some others will be purchased.
Griffin Call: There is young lady living
IN Akin district who will be prize for some
clever, industrious young farmer. This
young lady is just II years old, and can pick
go pounds of cotton daily, besides assist in
preparing the meals and looking after the
household duties. After this she can enter
kaHw. Nk..H l. l. i L
sweet girl graduate" After performing
her multitudinous duties during the week
she attends Sabbath school and can repeat
more verses of the Bible from memory than
any teacher or pupil in the school.
j. NJ. Daniels Of Offerman lost his gin
house. gins, grist mill and from nine to
eleven bales Of cotton by fire on Tuesday
last Mr.. Daniels was in Blackshear during
Tuesday and did not return home till late
at night only IN time to see his hard earn
ings go down in ashes. His boys and another
young man ran the gins and had ouly
ginned and packed three bales
of cotton. About or O'clock
the same evening, the boys saw post under
the shelter burning and went and put 1t out,
and watched it for sometime to be sure it
was safe, but again late at night they saw
IL burning, but it was too far advanced for
them to put it out as they had before The
loss is estimated at 1850. There Is no in
surance.
Jesup Sentinel: A Georgia hand press
that really saw George Washington will be
exhibited at the great worlds fair. 1t is at
present in the Office of the Lee Count1t
Netcs, and is In a remarkable state of pres
ervation. Curious hieroglyphics are carved
upon its iron frame. Among them. sc. W
his mark" can be plainly seen. There is
not an older or more curiously constructed
hand press in the country. 1t was used as
q batterlng ram during the revolutionary
war, put together afterward and made TO
corn shelter, and still later it served its time
as a cane grinding machine. 1t has a per-
sopal acquaintance with every editor in
Georgia, and with many generations Of
them gone before.
Blackshear Times: We never saw as much
drunkenness in Blackshear before as we did
on last Saturday-it was hogs. Early in the
morning Joe Harper emptied several
large barrels of grape hulls, from which be
had made wine, out in the rear of his store
It wasn't long till the swine began to gather
to it like bees to bait, ond the consequences
were, late in the afternoon, almost every
hog in town was drunk. They would and
about upon the streets with their snout
down on the ground, their legs standing out
on either SIDE like bench legs. and sleep. OF
course this furnished good deal of amuse-
ment for the boys Of the town at the expense
of the dumb brute. The boys would punch
hoggie on one side and be woul1 say,
whee e-e, punch on the other side and he'd
say whee g.
George Goolsby tcolored(, who lives near