The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
TIE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

rare a White Woman - a Negro
Lynohed in Dodge County for At
tempted Rspe-Quail Plentiful Near
Alosny-An Escaped Criminal Re
captured IN Arkansas.
GEORGIA.
Macon has had only twenty-one cases Of
diphtheria.
The fall term OF the Rartwell Institute
opened on Monday morning last most
suspiciously.
Both the judges Of tie superior court Of
Fulton county are sick and there will hardly
be any conrt next week
The Middle Georgia Horticultural Society
viii meet at Willoughby Hill on Tuesday,
Sept. Is, at 8 O'Clock p. m.
An effort is making in Atlanta to have a
great carnival, and to have Nancy HANKS
at the races during the celebration.
A sorghum factory has been started in
the Shiloh district of Carroll county, and
sweetnin' will soon be the order Of the day.
Enthused with the prize ring mania a
tailor and a telegraph operator of Americus
bad setto, aud the operator was knocked
out in two rounds
Col. Seaton Grautland of Griffin, is cons
sidering the question of building a mag
nidcent residence on his property, known as
the johnson place !" on the Macon road.
The protracted meeting Of the Baptist
church in Carrollton closed Monday night.
There were in all twenty-nine accessions to
the church, twenty-three OF these being by
baptism.
Alfred D. Young, the confidential book
keeper OF John j. Falvey & Co. Of Atlanta,
who was located at Houston, Tex, on
Wednesday, was arrested there yesterday
on the charge Of embezzling
Rnhark r. FatIiUank a wall known and
prominent citizen Of Scriven, died at his
home near Halcyondale the first OF the
week. Mr.. Falligants death was very
sudden, being only sick few hours
Detective Billy Grim of the Atlanta police
force, over whose head hangs an Indictment
for kidnapping, has left the city. His de,
parture was a very quiet one and was made
ing into the case against him.
William D. Smith, car coupler on the
Atlanta and West Point, was crushed to
death in the Central railroad yards at
Atlanta Thursday night. His right leg was
severed from his body CLOSE to the thigh,
and his left one horribly torn. He was
married only three months ago.
Last Saturday afternoon while j. F,
Brown and Lawrence Blum we're returning
20 HArtwell from Anderson, s. c., the
mule ran away at Provost hill, Ave miles
from the city, and overturned the wagon.
Brown received injuries from which he
died that night. Blum had his shoulder
broken and was badly bruised.
Pegieg Williams. who is now in Atlanta,
II preparing to carry an even 5000 negroes
out of the Carolinas this fall He will move
them into Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas He says that the law, rope and
shotgun all combined can't scare him, and
that he proposes TO do business at the old
stand the same as in days Of old
One thousand determined men took Jesse
Williams, an ex-conviot. from the Dodge
county jail on Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, carried him three-Quarters Of a
mile above town, riddled his body with a |
thousand bullets aud left him hanging as a |
terrible warning to evtl-doers. The crime |
for which Williams paid the death penalty
was attempted rape upon the person Of a
white woman.
Asbury Gentry's case at Carrollton will
go TO the supreme court The public have
been kept posted ON his trial and conviction |
for the murder Of the old peddler, Richard
Byrnes. IN HARRISON superior court. Col,
u. W. Watkins Of Carrolton, and Hon. j.
M. Mcbride of Tallapooss, Gentry's law
yers, moved for a new rial aud the case
was heard at Cedartown. Judge James
overruled the motion for a new trial and
the case goes to the supreme court.
From what people living in the country
in the neighborhood Of Albany. Last year
they were not shot great deal and enough
were left over to raise plentiful stock dur
ing the summer aud the shooting this fall
and winter promises TO be unusually fine.
The season opens on Oct l, or in three
weeks, and hundreds of quail will fall vic-
Tins to the skill OF Albany's nimrods before
they are again protected by the advent of
April l.
tlaTEU Aua ~
Gainesville, went to Atlanta Thursday
to lind home aud work. She could find
neither and wandered aimlesslv about
the streets until she fell into the hands of
the authorities OF the Home for the Friend
less. She was carried there by Mrs. Britain
and given home until she can find a
permanent home for her The girl is about |
10, and is industrious and wel-mannered. |
sue worked in Gainesville for quite awhile. |
she has neither father nor mother.
On Monday evening last Sheriff Hornsby |
ana w. b. Roberts of Miller county left |
Colquitt, having in charge negro convict
TO turn over to the city authorities of Baiu-
bridge TO serve out sentence in the chain
gang, out before reachitng here the rascal
sprang from between the two men where
he was riding. and made his escape in a
swamp through which they were passing.
Inc snerlH was so taken by surprise that
MS prisoner was out Of sight before he could
get MS pistol He escaped with handouts
on and nothing has been heard OF him since.
The bills against Fulton county which
LelI due last month amount to $8,0e0 more
tnan there is money in the county treasury
20 meet them. This amount was swelled
considerably by the increase in the pay OF
Jurors from 81 Co 50, which includes back
pay for the entire year. To meet this
emergency Chairman Hunuicutt, of the
board Of commissioners, authorized C. A.
Collier, chairman Of the finance COMMITTEES.
to borrow $1,000 on sixty days time This
will meet the entire expense aud at the
end Of the sixty days there will be money
In the treasury to meet all the demands
against the county.
News was received In Macon Thursday OF
the burning OF the Normandale Eaw-mill.
which was probably the largest saw-miu on
the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad. The mill was owned nv
the Doages and was saiG to be valued at sew
eral hundred thousand dollars. The capao-
ity OF the mill was ten cars Of lumbar ner
day. for which it was necessary to employ
over 300 hands, all Of whom are thrown ont
of employment. The amount OF insurance
could not be learned from the rneager report
received In Macon, but it is known that the
insurance companies had placed at the mill
a plant costing $4,000 for the protection of