The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-26
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

1OLO IN FAhAGNAEhos
A Lively Row in the Court Room 81
Monroe-A Tussel With q Chicken
Thief at Marietta Countrymau
Drives OF With a Friends New
Buggy-Terrell County's New Bonds
Sold to a Columbus Bank.
GEORGIA
W. P. Stephens of Marietta died Monday.
Macon dealers in real estate are TO
organize an exchange.
A thrifty house wife Of Dawson has made
and sold, within the last three months, S24
worth Of milk and butter.
Mrs. 7. Z. Massengsle, wife Of ex-senator
Massengale OF Nor wood, died Monday night
AT the home Of her husband
Work on the new hotel and Commercial
College at Vienna is progressing rapidly
and both will be finished before long.
B.L WilIingham's handsome new build
ing now in course Of erection on Triangular
block, at Macon, is being rapidly pushed to
completion.
hard TO beat. II is made up in good style,
and its local news is as full aud well Sc
lected as any could ask.
Henry Lloyd, the l7-yeor-o' Of Con.
ductor Lloyd Of the East Te.-.. see road,
broke his leg by jumping from freight
train Wednesday, near STATIONS brick yard.
swo miles from Macon.
In the Dalton district prohibition election
Tuesday. prohibition carried the day by 81
majority out OF total vote OF 667. The
county will vote over the district March ~.
The prohibitionists..c claim they will get ma
jority Of 400.
The Columbus Guards are now being
measured for their new uniforms. and they
expect TO appear In them in the parade
which will take place on Memorial day.
The new uniforms consist Of jeans pants and
leggins, With fatigue caps.
A country man who visited Marietta the
other day became little absent minded
when he got ready to go home. He hitshed
his horse to a friends new buggy and left
his old one ia its place. He didn't discover
his mistake until the real owner followed
on and called his attention TO the matter.
Seventy-five or 100 persons from along
the Marietta and North Georgia railroad
and the mountain Businesses, have left that
section In the last two weeks and gone to
Texas and Arkansas. About thirty-five IN
a gang took the train at Marietta last week.
Almost all the men were armed with bottles
of whisky and pistols.
John Broadnax Ccolore6), 9 or 10 years
old, climbed through the trausom over the
back door Of Manning Bros. store at Mari
eta, Saturday night, and purloined about
81 in change from the money drawer and
carried of a pocket knife. Owing to his
tender age, be was given a good whipping
by his parents on Monday and turned loose.
AT Marietta few mornings ago, when
Mr.. Keeter opened up Charles Melrs beef
bat he nd N fv,o -
the market. The little fellow Immediately
ran out the door. The little black burglar
had removed the wooden shutter 20 one Of
the back windows, cut out pane OF glass
and crawled in through the opening. He
had not been in there long enough to steal
anything.
s, Sternberg, dry goods merchant of
Augusta, reports the mysterious disappear
ance Of j. Kitai, a Russian, whom he started
out on the road last December to peddle
goods. Katsi was last heard from Dec
"a, when he wrote from Wards, S. c., for
more goods. Sternberg believes Katai has
been foully murdered and his body secretly
buried. He does not believe the man has
acted wrong.
Abe Fry. the well-known Peachtree Jew.
eler OF Atlanta, received telegram Tues
day from his brother in New York announc-
ing the sudden death of his venerable
father, Nathan Fry. Mr.. Fry's father was
50 years of age, and for several months past
has been growing feeble, but his death was
wholly unexpected. He was one of the old
residents of New York, and was q success
full and careful business man,
The Farmers Cooperative Manufacture
ing Company Of Griffin virtually won an
important suit in the United States court In
Atlanta Wednesday. The case was that of
the Smith Vale Company VS.. the Co-opera-
tive Manufacturing Company for 5000.
The company recovered less than Col
Searcy had offered in settlement, wherein
he offered to pay freight on the reshipped
machinery and some interest, amounting to
q small sum.
Terrell county's $4,000 issue of per
cent bonds, for the purpose of building a
new court house, has been sold. The county
commissioners met In special session Nom
day and closed their sale by accepting the
offer of Columbus bank. The purchaser
is the Columbus Savings Bank, and the
Price to be paid is 80 cents. One Of the con-
ditions OF the sale is that the commissioners
deposit the sinking fund with the purchas-
ers, who agree to pay per cent. interest on
1t.
Augustus city council has forbidden the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company
20 drive piles In the Savannah river. be-
cause it will obstruct the channel. and in
time OF high water cause serious damage.
This action on the part of the city was
brought about by the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railroad driving piles under
meath its bridge across the river, which was
done for the purpose Of strengthening the
bridge so as to allow heavier locomotives
to pass over in safety. Agent Mclaughlin
does not know whether the piles are put
there permanently or not, but has forwarded
the mayors letter 20 Supt. Dodson at Co
lumbia.
Augusta Erentng NetUs: At last Augusta
Is going TO have new union depot 1t will
be the handsomest, the finest and the most
costly railroad station south Of Washington
city. not excepting the Birmingham depot.
The deal was contaminated last afternoon
and the new depot is an assured improve
ment for Augusta. 1t will be built by a
syndicate of FIVE Boston capitalists as an
investment. The trade was closed last af-
ternoon by j. W. Ryckman and E. NJ. Pine,
who have been here several days making
the negotiations for the Boston syndicate.
The new depot will be 10 Gated on the Harri-
son block, opposite the present site of the
union depot.
At Homer one evening last week colored
man in the employ of DR.. Lockhart was
sitting in bis room enjoying a quiet smoke
when the flavor of his cigar became 50 ex-
tremely nauseous that it almost made him
sick. The cigar. too, burned with some
difficulty. On making examination he
found hard substance in the end of the ci.
gar, which he drew out and TO his utter sur
prise found long piece OF bone He at
once became alarmed and. taking the bone,
proceeded to hrve 1t examined by doctor,
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