The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Town With Two Names and Lying
In Two Counties-Mr. Dunsn's Lost
Diamonds Apt to Be Recoverable
Negroes Head Crushed to Jelly By q
Falling Derrick
GEORGIA.
The Georgia Chautauqua now in session
at Albany is drawing crowds OF people.
The Peoples party Of Forsyth county or
gained last Saturday and arranged for q
big rally at Sharon Saturday, March 20.
Editor F. H. Richardson, OF the Atlanta
Journal. expects 20 be a candidate for
delegate at large TO the democratic national
convention
At GEORGETOWN Monday Town Marshal
Edwards shot and perhaps mortally wound
co a negro named John Robert Query
The bullet entered the right breast and
passed through the lungs. The negro drew
a knife to resist arrest.
Controller General Wright has returned
TO Atlanta from trip through Southwest
Georgia, and he reports the farmers in that
section in q prosperous condition-their
lands ready for planting, and everything
presents a cheerful and hopeful appearance.
Among those gentlemen prominently
mentioned as delegates to the Chicago con-
vention are Col. Alexander NJ. Erwin OF
Athens, Hon. Thomas W. Grimes Of Co
lumbus, Col. George A. Mercer of Savan-
nah, Mai. j. G. c. Black and Tom Gibson
of Augusta.
P. P. Dunan Of Baltimore places his loss
of diamonds, money and valuables by the
Mcintosh house fire at Townsville ct
$1,000. The police, however, are on the track
of the diamonds and some of the jewelry.
The valuables were found by negroes and
some white people who picked over the
debris.
There Is considerable petty meanness go~
ing on in Townsville during the late hours.
About | o'clock Sunday morning while a
young man was going for doctor he came
upon some one, whom he failed to recognize
So the darkness, engaged in the peculiar oc-
cupation of throwing bricks on top Of
handsome residence on Jefferson street.
The rascal ran when the gentleman ap-
preached.
Charlie Payne. negro, was killed by the
breaking of derrick &C the corner Of Cain
aud Lnckie streets Mt Atlanta Tuesday.
Alex IGibson, another negro, was fatally
injured at the same time. Both negroes
we're employed laying the new water mains.
They were hosting one of the huge pipes
when q piece of the derrick broke and the
whole machinery tumbled down upon them.
Payne's head was mashed TO jelly.
Acree is a little town with two names.
The railroad calls il "Davis, - but the post
Office authorities have put it down "Aoree."
and 1t answers to both names. And not
only has il two names, but il is situated in
two counties, the boundary between Worth
and Dougherty being marked at that point
by the eastern wall of q drinking saloon.
Prohibition, or liquor license that is so
high as to amount to that, prevails in every
county from Glynn TO Dougherty, and this
is the first place in l40 miles starting from
the west boundary Of Glynu) where intoxi-
eating liquors are sold. The citizens Of
Davis are quiet, industrious people. how
ever, among whom there is comparatively
little drinking. There are not more than a
dozen families in AGREE at present, but
Others are coming, and the place is slowly
building up.
John Veal, feeble-minded white man,
who lives in the Twenty-eightn district of
Sumter county, while returning from a
place where he had been at work, near
home, last Monday night, was waylaid by
three men and badly beaten with q heavy
stick. The persons who assaulted him with
such fierceness. after dragging him about
200 yards. told him that unless he ran he
would be killed. As a matter Of course he
preferred fight TO death, and began run
order to quicken his speed, fred several
bullets after his retreating form. Veal's
father is investigating the matter. II be
can discover the parties who assaulted his
son be states that he will prosecute them TO
the full extent of the law. No reason can
be assigned for the assault, unless it was CO.
casioned by malicious mischief. Veal is
said to have been q harmless, easy-going
kind of man.