The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-04
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Death Of a Successful Farmer Of Nor
gan County-The South Georgia Col
lese at AIcRae and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Rake In $500 Near DAVIS
towns Postmaster Making Things
Lively.
GEORGIA.
Macon is to have an artillery company.
John w. Tarver, a prominent planter of
Burke county. died day or two ago.
Reuben Hembree of Pickens county, who
was lO2 years old May /, was in Jasper last
Monday. He looked hale and hearty and
said he felt WELL
Bishop o. P. Fitzgerald OF the Methodist
church, now living at Nashville Tenn,
who has decided to come to Atlanta to i've,
will arrive some time during the present
month.
The residence Of K. McNeill, an old man,
living near Dawson, was burglarized Friday
night and trunk conta ming S40O was car
ried out and rihed of its contents Three
negroes are under arrest on suspicion.
Rev Thomas K. Postell, Baptist divine
who went from Lumpkin county to the
Indian Territory some twenty years ago. Is
on a visit to his old home aud is preaching
series Of sermons throughout the county.
At Lithonia, Sunday, two negroes,
in drunken row, which eliminated in the
killing of the former. Perndon escaped,
and it is supposed that he went to Augusta.
Montezuma, for its size, IS one Of the
wealthiest towns in the state. This is true.
There are quite number OF clerks here
who ara worth from $1,000 to S25, 900. These
clerks are generally country boys. Quite
young they came here, but they saved their
wages and made small investments until
they were weIl-to-do.
AtAtIanta Monday the jury In the case
of Tom Lily, charged with the murder of
Lancy Window brought in verdict Of
involuntary manslaughter, and the prisoner
was sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary. On the night OF Jan. Is last Lilly
shot and killed Window in a fight in Hof-
mans barroom on Peters street.
At Atlanta Monday DR.. II. L. Wilson
sold the house and lot at No. SO South
Pryor street at auction. 1t is near the
corner Of Hunter street, fronts 45 feet
on Pryor and runs back 80 feet. Joseph
Kingsberry bought the property for $525
per front foot, or 1923, 625' for the whole
property. The house is a 1-story brick.
Lem Palmer, a young man of Murray
county, shot and killed himself near Dalton
Sunday. he was drinking, and while
mimicking the Rube Burrows act with
other boys, an old pistol he had been snaps
ping at them was taken from him, when he
drew another from his hip pocket and
cooked it, The boys ran, and he, pointing
the muzzle at himself, fired. 1t went off.
shooting him through the right lung.
Postmaster Thomas jefferson George
Washington McMeekin Of Cedartown has
an abusive notice posted on the postoffice
door concerning Possoffice Inspector Baird,
the Cedartown Standard, B. F. Carter and
others. 1t is rumored that he IS to be re-
moved for incompetency, and this is the
cause Of his notice. He calls them devils
without principle, and closes his notice by
saying: Report this to the inspector If you
dare
A monument to the memory of the con-
federste dead will be unveiled at Dalton
May 10. The occasion will be notable
one. There will be large attendance of
veterans aud military, and the ceremony of
unwilling will be attended with due pomp
and solemnity. Col 1. W. Avery Of
Atlanta has been invited to be the orator
of the day aud has accepted. Col. Avery
raised his regiment in and about Dalton
and at one time practiced law there.
The old Southern Medical College and
the Providence inhrmary buildings at At
Ianta, with the land on which they stand ,
have been sold. The transaction was closed
Saturday morning. ana the old college
which has turned out so many young ply
siciaus, and the Providence infrmary.
which has been haven for the afflicted SO
long, go into new hands, and " i'll be used
for other purposes. The East Atlanta Land
Company gets the property. They paid for
it $4,000.
For the South Georgia College at McRae
ana Helena there Is a beautiful site given by
Maj. d. NJ. McRae and the Americus In
Testment Company OF ten acres On the
ground there are 23O, 600 brick and sand
enough to Law half OF the brick. They have
plans and specifications costing 5000 and
have money and available subscriptions
enough to put up the first section of the
building, 81, 100. They need in rough and
dressed lumber $500, to buy lime $3.50 for
nails $40, for shingles $685. to buy door and
window frames and sash and doors and
blinds 5000.
The Gentry brothers, who are badly
wanted In HARRISON county on q number of
ugly charges, were arrested between Cave
Spring and Cedartown Saturday by Bailiff
Pennington and posse. The immediate
or stealing horse and buggy in Alabama
few days before. They were arrested
while asleep, without any trouble. They
are the men charged with killing a peddler.
blowing up tie hotel at Buchanan and ter
roriZlng the people generally. They were
taken to Cedartown and placed in jail.
They will probably be carried back to Ala
bama.
The news of horrible case of depravity
comes from the Lowell district Carroll
county. John Rice and Ed Oby, two
negroes, lived close together, and their
wives visited often. 1t seems that Ed
Oby's children were mad at Victoria Vir-
gtnia, the 23-months-old infant OF John
Rice. Sunday John Rice's wife visited Ed
Oby's and while she was in the house con-
versing with Oby's wife, it Is said that Fish
ObY 10 wears old and her vouuOer hrothar
and sister took the child and threw it in the
well, where 1t was fished out half an hour
later dead. The little negro girl. Fish Oby
is under arrest for the murder of the baby.
T. j. Atkinson. better known as Jep At
hnson, farmer of Morgan county, about
70 years old, died Saturday of pneumonia
He was an excellent citizen, and had &C
cumulated much property, Including ovel
5000 acres of land. About two months ago
his wife. with whom he had lived fifty years
died, and about two weeks ago his youngest
child, Mrs. T. A. Gibbs, died, while a day
or two ago. the old negro cook who haC
uursed Mrs. Gibbs in the oldeD time, alst
died. Mr.. Atkinson, though old, was wei
preserved. He was very reckless, however
of his health, and it Is said that day O
sleep on the ground In his field caused hi
death.
At Atlanta on Saturday the children helt
some kind of picnic out at Grant park
They crowded two cars on the dummy lin,
running past the Jail. They were as thicl
on those two cars as roses in June, and the,