The morning news., 1892-02-22
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

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Mails-A Girl Burned to Death ii
Thomes County.
GEORGIA.
John Hughes Of Rome died Saturday.
Mcintosh county is overwhelmingly f.
favor of Cleveland for President.
About 500. 900 in hard cash will be pai'
out for timber in Darien this month.
The farmers Of Lee county are now in
more thriving condition than ever before.
A young lady Of Thomasville killed sever
out Of nine quail on the wing the other Gay.
The trouble between the postofflce author
ities and the Augusta hotel has been ar
ranged.
Mcintosh county is asked to contribute
something over 5000 toward the Georgis
exhibit at Chicago.
Capt. Baruwell has leased Buffers Island
near Darien, and will plant 1t this summer
He also plants Champney.
Athens has stood remarkably well the
financial stringency OF the times, and hei
business interests are In very stable con
dition.
Will Benson OF Buena Vista was out
hunting the other day and bis companion
buried half dozen shot in his flesh from
the rear.
The oyster companies 10 Savannah and
Brunswick have about bought up all the
oysters on the coast Of Mcintosh at 21s cents
per bushel.
Madame Metals. teacher OF French at
Lucy Cobb Institute at Athens, who had
been i'll for some time, passed quietly away
Friday morning.
brewery building In the suburbs OF Au-
Ha will start an antarnrise Of aOma
kind there, but has not announced what II
will be.
Twenty-seven years ago Saturday the
battle of Ocean Pond was fought by Col
quits brigade against twice the number OF
federals. led by Gen. Seymour, and a great
victory was won.
The war in the Atlanta Traction Company
grows serious. Mr. Mountain threatens To
shoot somebody with a shotgun. and the op-
position retaliates by saying that they will
make a ''mole hill out OF a mountain"
Judge George c. Thomas of Athens may
enter the race for congress in the Eighth
district. Messrs. CAN'T, Lawson, Carlton.
Mattox, Brown and Thomas Is q pretty
good string of names from which to select
the winner.
Saturday native of Scandinavia was in
Macon looking for a suitable place on which
20 locate colony Of his people. They are
now living in the north, bus there are
twenty-five families who are anxious 20
come to the south to live.
Editor A. w. Wimberly of the Methodist
Union, who is also mailing clerk at Lhe
postofflce at Augusta, is out with card
In his paper, announcing his withdrawal
from the race as candidate for dele
gate to the republican national convention.
At Sparta. Saturday, Willie Birdsong
was attacked in his lot and badly gored by
his Jersey bull. He would have been killed
had not negro man, armed with plank,
come to his assistance The bull was killed
with an ak, after having been Intellectually
shot seventeen times.
Columbus Franks Of Hancock county
suffered what he estimates a $4,000 loss
from fire Tuesday night. His mill, gin
house, cotton press, 2 bales Of cotton, ], 800
bushels cotton seed and 400 bushels Of corn
were destroyed. The fire is thought to have
been OF incendiary origin.
The members of the Kansas Editorial AS
sociation are on their way to Atlanta In a
special car. They will reach Atlanta to-
morrow morning via the Georgia Pacific
road. They will remain there until We'd
Iesday afternoon. They will leave then via
the Central road for Savannah and Florida
points
The stockholders Of the Macon Georgia
Fair and Exposition Company held a meet
ing Friday night before deciding whether
or not to have an independent fair next fall,
No decisive action was taken, as q Quorum
was not present. The committee which
went to Cuthbert to consult with the state
fair committee rendered report.
Mrs B. T. Ellison, who resided in the
6Sth district of Burke county, with her
father John Mears, went into the field
Ios IUadnnaIaxr !,
hedge row was being burned off. BY some
means her dress caught fire and before
1t could be extiuguished, che was SO badly
burued that she died the following night.
While working the roads in the Union
vile district of Monroe county Monday.
two negro men got into a difficulty and
Bob Blessett was killed by blow on the
head inflicted by Henry Collier, using a
hoe. Bob had struck Henry several times,
and Henry was acting in self-defense. The
coroner's jury rendered verdict Of tustih-
able homicide.
Macon just at this time is overrun with
printers. Some time ago the telegraph
ordered a new dress and as soon as the news
of the order had gone forth printers took il
as an indication that the paper was pros
pering and so they flccked to the Central
City and the consequence is that more OF
the craft are in Macon now than have been
there for many years.
J. P. Jones, constable of the 18th district
of Burke county. had narrow escape from,
serious injury last Monday. While riding
along the public road, just beyond Chew 5
mill his mule stepped into q deep hole
washed in the road by the recent rains
injuring the mule and giving MIR. Jones .
head foremost plunge into deep puddle OF
remarkably cold water.
1t is very probable that ex-Supreme Court
Judge Mark Blandford will represent Mus,
cogee in the Senate next time. Judge
Blandford is not seeking the office, but il Is
Muscogees time to name the senator. and
his friends there desire him to serve. II he
declines to serve, 1t may be that Louis Gar
rard or ex-senator johnson may run. L.
NJ. Foley will be one Of the members sent &c
the lower house and Bob Black may make
the race for the other member.
The detective force of Atlanta has been
on the lookout for A West, an upholsterer,
for several days. Several of Vests wives
are also anxious to find him. West was
married in Macon about a year ago to his
last wife. She now lives at Al Scott street
About three weeks ago he started to hi:
work, since then he has not been heard of.
West has wife in Chillicothe, O., and
another in Indiana. The police say he Ii
wanted in Chillicothe for stealing a gun.
Buchanan Messenger: Monday. Clint
Morgan was running on the through freight
that passes through this place about day
every morning as brakeman, and as his
train was passing out of the cut Just be.
yond Hitchcock's saw mill he fell off and
the train passed on, not knowing what had