The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS


A Boy OF Macon Killed by a Stray Bull
let Fired by q Christmas Reveller.
Thrilling Story of B4loonist's Terri
BILE Fabian Electric Organ for an
Atlanta Church.
GEORGIA.
The Xmas ladder at the Presbyterian
church at Adel Saturday night was al IN
usually pretty ceremony.
Last Sunday morning Carter Smith the II
year-Qld son Of A. s. Smith, living few
miles from Statesboro was thrown from a
road cart by runaway horse, frscturing
his skull. He died in a short while.
The firm Of A L. Callwell q Co., saw
millers located nine miles below Dublin,
near Grimsey postoffice, are reported as
having trouble with their hands aud other
creditors. Some forty suits have been COM
menced, though largely in the jurisdiction
OF the Justice court
William Arnold, q colored boy, received
bullet in his brain Monday through the
carelessness of John Holomsn, also colored.
The tragedy occurred just outside the city
limits of Macon in the neighborhood Of
Boundary street. Holoman was arrested
and is held to await the results of the in
jury.
Ed Roe shot Will Brooks in the neck at
Atlanta Sunday. The shooting occurred at
the corner Of Fair street and Bereen ave
nue. The young men were fest friends.
They were out on O tear and engaged in a
quarrel. Roe ended the quarrel by pulling
out pistol and shooting Brooks. The ball
went several inches deep. 1t is thought that
Brooks will die.
LaGrange Female College has suspended
for Christmas. Some Of the young ladies,
before leaving for home, out Of their pin
money, subscribed $ll5 TO help secure the
Witham loan fund William S. WithAm Of
Admission, Ala, has promised to give $1O,-
600 TO the college for the education OF poor
girls. on condition that the friends of the
college shall raise $1,000 by Jan. l, 1893
The North Georgia conference has prom
ised to raise So 900 additional il the friends
of the college will contribute the S., 600 re-
quired 20 secure Mr.. Williams gift. Three
thousand has been subscribed, and only
$4,000 more will be needed to secure the
SIS 900 promised by Mr.. Witham and the
conference This amount must be raised
this week.
Sibley Harrington, the 12-year son of
John K. Harrington, who resides in South
Macon, met his death Monday from a stray
bullet, supposed to have been fired from
some reckless Christmas oelebraut The
boy was standing on Wood street, near
Fourth, in company with his elder brother,
facing Third street. Numerous fireworks
and firearms were being discharged in the
naighbor hood, and one Of these stray bullets
Is the cause Of young Herrington's death.
The first intimation had of anything
wrong was when the boy gave yell of
pain and sank to the ground His
brother rushed to him and picked him
up and carried him to his home, which was
about 100 wards distant. In twenty min
utes the boy was dead. Examination Of
his person showed that he had received
wound in the abdomen. There was no
physician present, as none could be secured
before death ensued. There is no evidence
as to who fred the shot.
Atlanta Journal: There Is one mother
In the. city of Atlanta whose heart is sad.
There is a father whose hair has turned
prematurely gray. They are Mr. and Mrs
GeofRe'P, Jordan, who live at No. 100 Ira
street Two years ago, when they lived at
No. W Mcdaniel street, this boy, who stood
very high In his class at Ira Street school,
disappeared. He was IL years old in April
OF that year and was a general favorite be-
cause Of bis brightness and sprightliuess.
he had been accustomed to call for a blind
boy and carry him to school. His mother
had bought him new suit Of clothes
she day previous, and he seemed
perfectly contented. On that fated morn
ing OF Nov. II he kissed her good-by and
started with his little sister to school AT
Richardson street he left his little sister and
started, as was his custom, to the home Of
the. blind boy. He never returned. His
mother was in tears yesterday and to-day
because Of the unaccountable absence of her
first-born-her well-beloved boy. Ii he is
living yet he ought to come home and let
has poor. heart-rended parents know of bis
whereabouts and what he is doing. He
would have hearty welcome from the
family II he would just come home once
more.
Atlanta Journal: AS the result of a Joke
w. L.. Delay, young man "a years old
spent Christmas in the station house and
had to be content with the wretched fare
furnished the prisoners and endure the
awful smells permeatins every crevioe Of
che foul den. Delay lives at a boarding
house on Marietta street with a crowd OF
young fellows who seem to be practical
Jokers. A week ago some OF them decided
80 play joke on Delay. They cudgelled
snelr brains Tor q scheme and finally
adopted one. One of the young fellows
who. II Is said, Is a stenographer with little
moro than thimble full Of brains, wrote q
note on typewriter giving description
OF Delay AND marked it so that it would
appear that Delay was wanted by the
police Ia Nashville. This note was taken to
the boarding house and all the boarders
read 1t. Some OF them were not onto the
joke and they believed that Delay was
really criminal. The story reached the
ears OF Detectives Bone and Harris and
Saturday afternoon they arrested the
young man and locked him up. He begged
for an immediate investigation, but NASH
vile 10 far from Atlanta, and police officials
are not In the habit of rushing matters, SO
that no conclusion was reached until last
night, and be was released. In the mean
time Delay had been imprisoned with lot
of drunken men, and his Christmas was
made most miserable.
There s now building in Detroit, Mich,
$4,000 organ for the new Second Baptist
church in Atlanta, which will be the only
ONE OF the kind ever brought to the south.
10 will be gen 1ine novelty in these parts
and viii astonish the natives when the new
church is ready. This remarkable instru-
ment Ii in the nature. of two organs in one.
The tubular pneumatic organ play ed strictly
on the principle of compressed air, and
without any Of the chemical contrivances
OF the ordinary organs Of the day, will start
as one SIDE OF the pulpit, and what is called
the echo organ will be across The church
ir the opposite corner, yelled from
view. The two organs will be connected
by an bic electric wire and when the
orgaDist strikes up "Old Hundredn for in
stance on the pneumatic instrumenG by
simply touching button the music on the
instrument a hand ceases but an electrical