The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF The TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


wife's lead Open With an AKA
Ring Lost Years Ago Dug Up in a
Gerden- Barrel Making at Balm
bridge-A Row Over the Theft OF a
Ring.
GEORGIA.
Not more than $50 acres OF melons will
be planted In Clay county this year.
Woody Richter has been elected mayor
of the recently incorporated city of Boiling
broke
The Baptists of Trion contemplate the
erection, at an early date, of house OF
worship.
Bateman 81 Colbert's mill dam and gin
house. 10 Taylor county, was washed away
last Saturday. Loss $1,000 to 200.
During the past two weeks about twenty
five dogs have died in GAINESVILLE from be-
ing poisoned 1t has caused excitement, es-
pecially among the colored population.
There are only twenty-three widows and
daughters of revolutionary soldiers draV1ng
pensions In the country, one OF whom tArs.
Meriddy Smith resides in Coweta county.
A negro living on John Leonards place,
near Talbotton, got into row with his
wife Wednesday and deliberately split her
head open with an ak and then decamped.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Athens has Invited Mrs. w. &.
Sibley of Augusta TO go to Athens and
deliver q lecture in the interest of the cause
of temperance.
The store of J. B. Fryer, the principal
merchant in Hephzibah. was burglarized
Thursday night. The safe was blown open
with dynamite and robbed OF about $50 and
other valuables
The residence Of Charley Snider. in the
West End, about half a mile from Ameri-
Gus, was destroyed by fire Thursday night.
The building, which was valued at about
$500 was insured.
The residence of B. F. Brown, situated on
Rome street at Carrollton, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday night The house
was a new Groom residence built last year,
costing about 81 ,000 There was an insur-
ance upon 1t for 5000.
At Montezuma the river is down again In
the banks and an alligator probably the
largest one ever seen in Georgia. being over
twelve feet long and large in proportion,
has been left high and dry in deep hole
near the railroad bridge.
At Talbotton Wednesday Mr.. Wheatly,
the insurance adjuster, and Rev. G. H.
Hyde came to an agreement as to a fair adj
justment of the court house insurance, and
Talbot county gets 81 900 and the brick.
making about S. 900 on an insurance of
$4,000.
Near Toccoa Thursday, while A. W.
Rothel was chopping wood with another
party, an ak few Off the helve, the keen
edge striking Mr.. Rothel in the temple,
making very serious wound. Dr.. Nc
jenkins thinks, with close attention, MIR.
Rothei may recover.
The losses on cotton contained in Bran
mons warehouse, at Newman, were settled
by the insurance adjusters Thursday as
follows: W. A. Brannon, S1,S04; Newman
cotton mills, SO, $50. Mr.. Brannon also had
Insurance on his warehouse TO the amount
5000, which is now in process Of ADJUST
ment.
On the road between Hampton and Fay
etteville lives james Stanfeld, who owns a
COW that has been giving milk twelve years
in succession. and has not given birth TO a
calf during that time. He keeps the COW
we'll stabbed and blsnketed and highly fed
ell the time, and the flow Of milk has never
ceased.
Silas Robinson of Walton county took
a load OF cotton 20 Madison last Tuesday,
the first he had sold there since 1852 He
sold for 6 cents per pound. In 1852 he only
received 8 cents, and went home riding an
Indiep pony, happy and contented. He has
been selling at Monroe and High Shoals
ever since.
jeff Epps, a freight conductor on the
Central, was badly hurt at Wadley last
Monday morning. In trying to couple an
engine TO car which had no bumper he
was caught and badly mashed. He had been
given the way freight between Wadley and
Macon. and while preparing to make his
first trip the accident occurred.
The Montgomery Cooperage Company
has leased one-haf of the compress build
ing at cambridge and will move in force
of hands at once and begin the manutact-
ure Of barrels, They expect to make a
speciality Of turpentine barrels. They will
make not less than &C, 900 barrels a year at
81 so each, this will turn loose 100000 per
annum.
At an early hour last Sunday morning
james o. Brooke, who has charge of the
Main street store of John Orr at Madison,
was informed that the back door of his
store was open. On investigation nothing
seemed to have been disturbed except the
money drawer. which was left slightly open,
and the few dimes nickels and coppers that
had been left for making change had been
taken out.
A few years ago Mrs. Vickers Of Wash
ington lost from her finger highly priced
gold ring which Mr.. Vickers had given her
A thorough search was made, but the ring
was not found. A day or TWO ago Mrs.
Barksdale put her man to work IN Mrs.
Vickers' garden. He dug up ring which
Mrs. Barksdale recognized as the one lost
1t was broken, and possibly broken of
Mrs. Victs-s' hand while working the gar
den.
Detective Joe Win Dish of Montezuma
has caught Carter FELTON,. who burned Henry
Tsylor's barn and horses In Marshallvilie
last January. and his accomplish In the
crime, Frank Gammage. Carter owed
Taylor a store account and Taylor levied on
amule belonging to Carter. In order to get
revenge Carter intended to burn up the
mule. He confessed that he once thought
of burning Taylor's residence and store but
decided not TO burn the store, as it would
also burn the warehouse of Burke Baldwin
Gammage planned the affair and thai is
how he got into It.
Pink McWhorter. negro boy OF years
was caught by Oliver Hollis In his store al
Madison last Tuesday night while attempt
ing to burglariEe. For several nights
Oliver had missed articles from his store
and on investigation found that some one
had entered by pricing off a board which
took the place of an absent window pane
He closed bis store early Tuesday night and
aecreted himself inside. The bold young
thief soou came in, and Oliver grabbed him
and turned him over to the police. The
boy admitted having stolen from John Orr
also, but was turned loose on account of hii
age, as the law could do nothing with him
The body OF Henry Herndon, a white
man living a few miles from Blackshear