The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
Toll D IN PARAGRAPHS.

Gavel Made Of Wood From Lookout
Mountain Carved in Peculiar Form.
GEORGIA.
The first quarterly meeting for Butler
circuit will be held at the camp ground
Saturday, Feb. %.
About 100 public schools in Washington
county are now open for the education OF
the children, white aud colored.
Sam Jones will preach in Augusta on
Jan. Is aud the sermon will be preached
In the Masonic hall for the benefit Of the
Broad Street Methodist church.
B. W. Brand OF Butler lost a valuable
mare last Sunday. He had just turned his
mare loose in the field 70 graze and by some
means she was severely snagged and died IN
a short while.
Work on the Freddie Ship Female Col
lege at Cordele was begun with the first OF
the new year. The contractors are pushing
ahead ss rapidly as possible. This building
will be sOxlOO feet and three stories high.
The water works contractors are getting
ready to begin work at LAGRANGE in about
three wesks, when they will put large
force of hands al work and have the en-
tire system completed as soon as possible
While enlarging the well on the new Jail
lot at Sandersville recently the workmen
found oyster shells at depth Of more than
forty feet. This is additional evidence that
that portion Of the globe was once the bed
of the sea.
There are two stock law districts In Dooly
county that have become so by the election
of the freeholders. These districts are the
Second and Ninth land districts. This will
drive stock law lower down in the county
before long.
S. G. Lang Of Sandersville has bought
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deuce and CONCENTRATES having fish pond
dug. A bold spring furnishes enough water
for this purpose, and all surrounding water
can be kept out
The New Rome Land Company, with all
of its properties, will probably pass into
other hands. sale Is being negotiated
with an English syndicate at $l,75O 900.
Col. s. H. Buck of Washington, the presi-
dent OF the company. will leave for London
next week to complete the sale.
1t is probable that considerable acreage
will be sown in spring oats in Washington
county this year. The fall oats have not
been killed by cold weather, but they are
growing very slowly. Some cotton is still
being held by farmers, but there is not as
much as there was at this season last year.
Sandersvile Progress: Last week we
mentioned the fact that Sandersville COOK
had prepared for her mistress a dish OF
baked ambrosia A gentleman reports a
parallel case where his cook served baked
crsnberries. Each berry stood to itself aud
1t looked like q collection of bullets. The
Sandersville cooks evidently need training.
SandersviIle Progress: Last Wednesday
W. 7. Askew, secretary of the Washington
county alliance, showed us the gavel pre-
sented TO the alliance by Hon. W. A. Sin
Quefleld Il is made from wood taken from
haffln Hald AT Lookout m mountain N lie
carved in the shape Of pitcher with handle
and spout. and has q mimic ball imbedded
in it.
Ben Lark, q negro man living about eight
miles from Augusta, was shot by Turner
Thomas Monday night. Mr.. Thomas bad
been missing wood from his place, and Mon
day night discovered Ben Lark and Will
Jones helping themselves. Lark attempted
TO escape and Mr.. Thomas fired on him, put
ting some bird shot in his back and neck.
The wound is not at all serious. Jones gave
himself up.
The rains last week hurt the Troup county
bridges to some extent, especially those on
Long Cane and Yellow Jacket creeks,
where the abutmentS were more or less
washed and injured. The water got very
high in some of the creeks, and it no doubt
would have taken some of the bridges
bodily away had they not been built in the
most substantial manner. The river bridges
were not hurt at all.
George Harmon, who was a substitute
on the police force during the Augusta ex-
position, has been arrested, ard Is charged
with larceny from the person. The police
say be escorted Ben Hall, country
man, who was intoxicated, to
the river bank Saturday evening.
After leaving the bank Mr.. Hall discovered
that he had been robbed of all his money
(S22) and he had Harmon arrested.
j. F. Strum, who removed to Augusta
ten days ago from Edgefeld, has lost his
mind and has been sent to jail for safe keep
ing. He has been predetermined for some
time, and was so insane that a short while
ago he had TO be sent to the South Carolina
asylum. He is rather desperate this time,
Mr. Thurman. one OF the King mill over
seers, and cut down that gentleman's fence
and threatened TO kill him.
Ashley Howell Is again confined in the
Augusta Jail, having returned from War
renton Monday night. Howell has already
been to Warrenton twice to stand trial and
each time was returned to jail through
technicaiities and will no have to remain
in confinement until at least the April term
of court. This time the cause of delay was
an illegalty in making mp the jury box.
The list had not BEEN authorized by the Off
cial signature Of the CHI airman of the jury
commission.
About two weeks ago a party of young
men living in the neighborhood of Roscoe,
Heard county, called on the trustees of
Alexander Stephens Academy, and asked
permission to have a dance in the school
building. For good and sufficient reasons
the trustees refused. Two or three nights
sfterward some person or persons went to
the academy and broke out nearly every
windowight in the building, about sixty in
all, and it is understood that threats have
since been made to burn the house.
There was curious and at the same time
q sudden death at Georgia factory, six miles
from Athens. Saturday evening. Mrs. Tom
Vincent was at her home, and the little
child Of neighbor was playing
in the room. The child fell in
the fire and Mrs. Vincent at the
Fame time dropped to the floor, Her mother
ran in the room, put out the little child's
burning clothes, and turned to her daughter
to find her dead. 1t is supposed that she
died of apoplexy brought on by fright.
day: 81 hope the farmers will not go wild
in planting tobacco this year. 1t is well
enough TO try little as an experiment On
my recent trip through South Georgia ]
found the people so discouraged on account
Of the low price of cotton that they are
liable to go 90 the other extreme in planting
tobacco. In Virginia the tobacco growers
are disheartened and wish their lands were
adapted to the growth of cotton" A farmer
who plants on large scale said, in speak
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