The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

In FAESAGhAE1o~
A Woman Writes to Athens for 500
That Was Left to Her Father Sixty
Ave Years Ago-A New Bank TO Be
Started at Atlanta by Pittsburg Capt..
talists-A Bold Attempt to Blow Up
a Store After the Removal of the
Goods.
GEORGIA.
Douglas, Coffee county. is thinking about
cigar factory.
The melon crop is decidedly shortI in
Houston county.
W. D. Day has resigned his position as an
alderman of Perry.
A veterans reunion and barbecue will en-
hven Perry next Thursday.
The Methodist district conference will be
held at Fort Valley next Thursday.
Coffee county has just purchased 1000
pound safe for the clerks Office. 1t cost
$500.
Georges. Folsom, a practical printer, has
leased the Brunswick Adrertiser, and Will
run it in the interest Of the city and democ-
racy.
Messrs. Cooper & Duncan have shipped
six carloads'of fine melons from Perry this
week. One carload Monday contained only
$50 melons, weighing from thirty-hve to
sixty pounds each.
J. c. Ellis reports the champion half
acre of corn In Houston county. He says
1t will yield at the rate of eighty bushels
per acre. Mr.. Ellis also has q pumpkin
vine that measures seventy-three feet IN
length.
1t is reported that W. E. Warren of
PowersvilIe, has sold the peaches on seven
acres Of trees for S2,450, the buyer taking
all risks and expense of gathering A sale
Of the peaches on 500 trees for $500 Ia also
reported.
A party of capitalists from Pittsburg,
who attended the Scotch-Irish Society held
there few months ago, have peTseoted ar
rangements to open bank in Atlanta by
Sept. l. The new enterprise will have a
capital of 100000.
Two distilleries are being erected in
Whitfield county-one near Hilton and the
other near Gordon Springs. Under the To-
cal option laws, however. no whisky, in
any quantity whatever, can be sold either
in the town or county.
Henry Ruoker, colored preacher from
Austell. arrived at Atlanta Thursday to
purchase Sunday school books for his CON-
gregation. An hour after his arrival, he
was arrested on Peters street for trying to
steal a mule from a wagon yard there.
The Oostanaula and Etowah rivers are
higher than they have been seen In mid
summer In a long time. Their muddy
waters have commenced to recede little,
however, and the farmers need have no APP
prehensions so far as a food is concerned.
The Oldest house in Perry was pulled down
last week. 1t was on Main street ad joining
the Perry hotel, and for many years after
the war was used as furniture store by
George Paul Mai M. L. Cooper will
probably replace it with a modern building.
Athens Banner: Capt. William Will
Jams, the obliging express agent, feels justly
proud OF his pedigree. which he can trace
back into the early centuries. 1t Is without
doubt the oldest in existence; and from the
year 300 down to the present time he can
locate the burial ground OF the head Of each
family.
Fred Odums, q young gentleman well
known In Tennille and Washington county,
met with serious and possibly fatal acct
dent Thursday. When the Western and
Atlantic train pulled out for Wrightsv1lle,
Odums was aboard with a crowd Of San.
dersville and Tennille young men. going
down to see a game Of base ball at Wrights-
Vile. When about three miles from Ten
nile, Odums fell or was knocked from the
train by stock gap, and received tract
ure OF the skull, and was also dangerously
wounded In the side. He was picked up by
the train crew and carried to Harrison,
where he received medical attention.
George Glenn and Squire Andy Longlsy
of Dalton went fishing out on Mill creek a
night or so ago. They were seated quietly
under a shelving bank waiting for some
venturesome fish TO bite, when large boot
owl, measuring at least four feet from tip
TO tip OF its outstretched wings came flying
across the creek just above the water. AS
1t neared the two fishermen, one OF the fish
ing lines, which had been set out, was
caught by its outstre!ched wing, the line
was jerked violently out of tho water, and
the hook buried itself in the birds wing,
securing it firmly. 1t was a very queer
catch, but the boys broug be the owl to town
the next day, with the hook still in It's wing,
to prove the truth Of their story.
Athens Banner: Clerk Of Superior Court
J. X. Kennedy received the following letter
Wednesday. He will be Obliged for any
will try and give the lady an Intelligent an
swer; "Hornhill, Tex, July s. 1892
County CLERK of Clarke County, Georgia:
Sr-About sixtY-flve years ago a man
named James Hendon, who was q county
clerk of your county. died and left 800 to
each one of his brothers and sisters and il
was left on deposit there for them, and my
father never sent for his part, and to my
certain knowledge he has never gotten his
part, and / would like to have it. am
very old now; am rs years old and the only
one Of my fathers family now living that 1
know anything Of. My fathers name was
Norres Hendon. Now if you can assist me
in getting this money I will return the
favor. Please answer by return mail and
let me know II it is yet there. My address
Is A. Pruitt, Hornhill, Limestone county,
Texas"