The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

lanta's Houses of m-Fame-The Act
ing Marshal of Parrot Shot Dead by
Negro.
GEORGIA.
Bolivar d. Ray has purchased $50 acres
OF land in Roberta and will start peach
orchard.
The National Association of Stationary
Engineers will hold its annual convention
at Atlanta beginning on Sept. 6.
The Dalton roller mills and the Cherokee
Manufacturing Company, two leading Dali
ton industries, are crowded with orders and
are working on extra time.
The Bank OF the State Of Georgia Of At
lanta will discontinue the keeping Of active
mercantile accounts and toe making Of COL
lections. All other branches of the banking
business will be continued.
Gen. William Phillips has written to Mrs
M. Mob. Cobb, the widow Of Gen. T.. r. r.
Cobb, inviting her to be present at the re-
union of Phillips Legion, which will en-
certain Cobb's Legion at Canton to-day
Gen. Phillips is himself to euloglze the gal
liant Cobb, and T. R. r. Cobb Of At
lanta il to respond. 1t Is the earnest desire
of the veterans of both legions that Mrs,
Cobb be present.
The case of the state VS. Joe Nlmmo,
charged with murder, was taken up at Fair
burn Monday. Nimmo killed his father,
st. John Nimmo, on Oct. 8 last year. The
plea is insanity. Many witnesses are being
introduced by the defense. Joe Nimmo no.
tees nothing whatever. He sits with his
head hung down and his hands claspsd to-
gether. He is pale and thin. He has spoken
only few words since he came into court.
His mother ats by him. with her infant in
her arms
At the meeting OF the military advisory
board OF the state at Atlanta Monday Lieut..
Satterlee read his report on the condition
Of the troops during the encampment The
report was complete in every detail. The
report recommended that eight companies
be disbanded for various reasons, and the
board decided to serve each of these comps-
MES with notice to appear before them and
show good and sufficient reasons az to why
they should not be disbanded. II Is under
stood that as soon as these companies were
disbanded the Hibernian Rifles would be
equipped. The Capital City Guards also
want 90 be admitted
Atlanta Journal: had a few words
with John Parnell, brother Of the late la
mented Irish leader In the Kimball house
rotunda Saturday night. He was looking
remarkably well and had just come up
from his fruit farm near West Point for a
day or two. He reports magnificent fruit
crop this year. About a year ago" said
he. II discovered the best grounds for fruit
growing have yet seen in the south. They
are JUST across the river IN Alabama. The
soil is pebbly and could not possibly be bet
ter adapted TO the raising Of fine peaches.
tried to get number Of people to go in
with me in peach raising over there, but
most Of them were shy. and could not be
convinced that there was money in it, l
got enough to 60 In, however, to help me
out and the result is q young but splendid
orchard. which has given forth q rich yield
and will do even better next year II the
season shall be favorable TO fruit"
The crusade inaugurated by Rev. Virgil
NorcrcsS against the houses Of ill-repute In
Atlanta has taken definite shape and has
been taken up by the board OF police COM
missioners at their regular meeting. The
matter was presented in the form OF a
petition that DIR. Norcross has been oircu-
lating for few weeks. The petition asks
that the police commissioners have the law
regarding houses Of bad repute enforced to
such an extent as to entirely exterminate
them. The petition has Just sixty-four
names signed to 1t and one Of the first ON
the list is that Of DIR. Norcross himself
While no one doubts the honesty of DR..
Norcross' purpose in this movement, some
OF the commissioners do not think 1t at all
practical. From the position now taken
by the police commissioners, there will be
no change made In the present police regu-
iations and as long as these places are kept
within the restrictions Of the law they will
not be molested,
Albany Herald: Lee Hun was shot and
instantly killed by a Degro at Parrot, on the
Columbus Southern road, Saturday night.
Mr.. HUFF was acting marshal, by appoint
ment, during the absence of the regular
marshal OF the town, and it was while dis
charging his official duty that be was killed.
When the excursion train that came to
Albany over the Columbus Southern on
Saturday afternoon reached Parrot on the
return trip at about $50 O'Clock one of the
negro excursionists ran into Shippy s.
Dun's bar and called for bottle OF whisky.
The whisky was handed to him and he gave
check or ticket Of some kind on an At
lanta bakery in payment for il and
started back to the train. Mr.. Shippy
ran after him and caught him. when
q scufiie ensued In which Shippy
over the negroes head. The Negroes head
was cut, and one of Mr.. Shippy's fingers
was cut almost entirely of by the broken
glass of the bottle. The marshal was called
and Acting Marshal Huff responded and
arrested the negro. The pegro was not sub
missive and the officer called another man
70 his assistance. The two men started on
20 the guard house with the negro, and Just
before they reached the lookup the pris-
oner asked them to release his hands SO he
could wipe the blood from his face. The
unsuspecting young marshal and his dep
uty readily complied with this request,
but when the negroes hand went into his
pocket it came out with a pistol instead OF
q handkerchief, and he shot Marshal Huff
killing him instantly. The deputy who was
with Huff was unarmed, and let the negro
get away. But a crowd OF determined men
has been searching for the murderer, and
the Herald heard it intimated to-day that
he had been located near Weston, and that
telegram had been sent to Huff's friends
at Parrot to-day inviting them over to
little "sociable" Tonight. The inference
that has been drawn from this is that the
murderer has been caught, and that be will
be lynched.
People living on the line of the Chicka-
manga river are somewhat excited over a
number OF strange and enormous frogs that
tnfest the neighborhood. These froSs-for
they greatly resemble frogs-were brought
TO this country from the Mississippi swamp
In A. d. 1886 and put in the Chickamauga
river near this place They are said to be
OF enormous size when grown. These be-
ing very small when brought are lust now
beginning to show what they eau do. They
are doing some mischief now, One has
been catching chickens and is thought to
have been driven to the mountains for
refuge during the high waters: and while
on his way back to the river being very