The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Killing OF Ordinary Lee OF Quit
man County.
GEORGIA.
DIR. Snead OF Nashville was killed Thurs
DAY night by his horse running away,
There will not be more than a half crop
Of potatoes made in ADplng county this
year.
There is gentleman in Appliug, living
mot far from Baxley, who has a gauder 90
years old.
John L. Harper, chief Of the Americas
fire department, has rendered bis resigna-
ton to the city council.
During the month Of October there was
shipped from Daren, coastwise and foreign,
6,236, 797 feet of hewn and sawn timber and
lumber.
George Barr, an Italian, became suddenly
insane at Atlanta Friday and attempted
suicide by butting his brains out. He Is in
custody.
The Georgia Chautauqua Company at
Albany are beginning to prepare Tor a
great session in the spring. J. s Davis has
been elected president, and Henry Nj. Nc
lntosh secretary.
Rev. G.. s. Turnlin administered the ordi-
nance of baptism at LaGrange on Wednes-
day night to nine Young ladies-all pupils
Of the Southern Female College. Two
more await baptism.
o. E. Fleming who has been employed in
Crawford Il Co.'S harness factory at Val
dosta, is under arrest, and lays in Jail
awaiting a trial for charges of obtaining
goods under false pretenses
Company Of the confederate veterans
Of Atlanta has disbanded but has not with
drawn from the Confederate Veterans As
ISOLATION. This was the only company Of
uniformed veterans i'll the state
DR.. A. L. Hand of Faceville, in Decatur
county, sustained fall on Monday last
which broke his collar bone and shocked
him severely. At last accounts he was do
ing well though still suffering considerable
pain.
Joe Chappell (colored) came to a sudden
death at the lots OF Williams Lumber Com
pany, in Dodge county Thursday morning.
He was a stock cutter, and while cutting
down tree alargeIimb fell on MIN, causing
instant death.
Cotton receipts at Americus up to date
show a very marked falling off from re-
ceipts at the same time last year. The total
number of bales received TO date Is 26,7l9,
and three-tourths OF the crop, it is thought,
has already been marketed.
The commissary store of Sinclair & Pop
pell in Mcintosh county was robbed and
destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last
The loss is about $1,000 with no insurance.
The robbers are colored men and are known,
and the officers are on track of them.
Pete Brown (colored) of Damascus neigh
borhood, was placed in the county Jail at
Blakely a short time since t. await trial
by the court of ordinary as TO her sanity.
When Sheriff Black carried her dinner to
her Friday she was to all appearance in
good health, but Saturday morning when he
opened her cell door she was found stretched
out IN death.
A young lady, who at one time was a res-
ident Of Madison, married a man Of Wat
kinsville. He became dissipated. She left
him and returned to her fathers house-to
be mistreated. She abandoned her fathers |
home and went to Forepaugh's circus. She |
took part in the Fall OF Ninsveh perform |
ance in Madison last Thursday, and was !
seen by one Of her former young lady |
friends.
A. P. Hays Of the Twenty-sixth district |
Early county, who lives near Cedar Springs, |
had the misfortune to lose his residence by |
fire one night last week. His store house |
adjoining was also destroyed. Almost the |
entire contents of both were total loss.
MIR. and Mrs. Hays we're both away from
home at the time of the fire, which is sup
posed to be Of incendiary origin. There was
$500 insurance on the properties.
1t is said that one of the disguised men in
the clan OF kuklux that visited Dalton re-
Gently, was injured in the disturbance at
Jack Wilson's house, and that he afterward
died and was spirited away by his con-
federates and secretly buried. 1t is reported
by some who saw the masked mob leave
Wilson's house that one of the number was
being half carried in the arms of two of his
comrades as though badly hurt in some way.
There was a lively row at the Capitol
Avenue Baptist mission at Atlanta a day
or two ago. The difficulty was between
Rev. K. A. Sublett and Deacon j. F. Kemp
ton, real estate dealer. 1t seems that MIR.
Sublett in the course of his Sunday SER
mon, referred to dance which had been
given at MIR. Kempton's house. After the
services concluded Mr.. Kempton went to
Mr.. Sublett and called him a black-hearted
liar and offered to whip the preacher If be
would come outside The matter Is now
being investigated by a committee consist.
ing Of A. D. Adler, Henry Hillyer, Judge
J. T. Pendleton, WEIGH and Richards.
r. M. Heron, one OF Dalton's largest dry
goods merchants, planted eight acres in to-
bscco on an old farm he took for debt aud
tried to sell for So per acre. He realized
nearly 81, GOO profit. He built a Snow
process curing barn with hot air fiues at a
cost of $500, TO demonstrate to farmers that
there was more money in tobacco than in
cotton, and he has done 80 successfully, and
the result is that such men as z. o. Trotter,
J. B. Maynard G. M. Phelps, Dr. HOFFMAN
and many others will plant largely this sea-
son. They contemplate erecting a warehouse
for ''breaks," the upper story Of which they
will convert into cheroot and cheap cigar
factory to work up the Tugs" and cheaper
grades.
Tom Brown, an oolored ex-oonvict, is &C.
cupying a cell in the Dodge county Jail.
Brown was released from Amoskeag camps
about six weeks ago, after serving a sem
tence of fifteen years for stealing a rope
with horse on the end OF it. He is now
charged with stealing six guns-two from
w. d. Wright, two from William Island
tcolored) one from l. n Perkerson and one
from A. g. Griffin. 1t would seem that
Brown was arranging to start a gun store.
but as suggested by Sheriff Hargroye he
sold as he stole" He disposed OF four OF
the guns at Chauncey, which have been re.
covered by the legal owners, but what he
did with the other two is not known, and
the negro refuses to tell
At the last term of Richmond superior
court Jasper Nations, white carpenter
was convicted of larceny after trust and
sent 60 the Dade county coal mines. The
crime be committed was very trivial one.
Nations has one besetting sin and that is he
VIII drink too much whisaey. 1t seems he
borrowed saw from one Of his brother
carpenters and after imbibing pretty freely
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