The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE Two STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


County After Looting ia Man
Chloroformed and Robbed While
Asleep on a Train-Jug Tavern's
New Oh Mil and Guano Factory.
GEORGIA.
The fruit crop in Taylor county promises to
be a large one.
A new dry goods store has been opened at
Albany by Norton & Crawford
The bicyclists of Columbus ara soon to have
qaarter-rnile track on North Highlands
John Sooes, a gardener who worked on the
farm of W L. Gibbons IN vans Neuey' near
Rome, died very suddenly Monday morning.
The eighth annual convention OF the Georgia
Woman Christian Temperance UnlOn viii D.
gin at Macon next Monday, and some OF the
most notable ana brainiest women OF the state
will be 10 attendance.
Dennis 1Iangnam (colo7ed), who has bern
living on the farm of Wesley hi, on Cedar
creek. in Taylor county was RdJudEed by
competent jury as being 81 an uhSound mind
and will be sent to the asylum at dllirdgeVlue,
A little grandchild o. A. J. Rodgers who lives
a few miles west of Butler, was item on the
left arm lust above the wrist soint ny large
rattlesuGke on Tuesday, pril II, and died IN
great agony a few minutes alterwagd before any
relief could be given.
The Millen Artesian Ice ami Electric Company
has been reorganizsd. g. r. Lombard, OF the
firm OF Lombard & Co. Of Augusta, IS the resi-
dent and treasurer. The directors are: r. O..
Daniel, c. Parker, q. k. Lombard, J. b. Moore.
Thomas WEIGH q. H. Reid, secretary.
MiaSo Glaze. who was sent up from Samter
coGnsy some seven or eight wears ago for burg
larry. has, it Is said, been granted pardon, al
though he has not yet served ans full sen ence OF
ten years. AlinEo went to tue pen fer burglar
izing French Hamissto-c, on Cotton avenue,
at Americus, in 1879 or 80.
Saturday night near StRtbam. in Clarke
county, James M1b'y, who lives IN that v.cin-
ity, got into a diIouty with a drunken and
obstreperous negro aud the difficulty ended
rather badly for Dir. MObly. The negro knocked
him in the head with u heavy stick and beat
him up badly. The negro escaped.
Thomas Henderson, a young white man.
charged WITH murder was tried in Newton
peroT court last week The murder was the
killing of ii negro near Newborn, about two
weeks ago, and 10 was indicted by tho grand
Jury on the first day Of the present term Of the
court The case was strong one. and the jury
returned verdict Of voluntary manslaughter.
On Saturday Judge Clark sentenced him to the
penitentiarY TOR fifteen years.
Those who compose the list of subscribers for
the jug Tavern oil mil and guano factory met
Lest FIid ay and or an zed temporarily. r l..
c RrtheTs OF JuE vern was elected president,
and Col. r. B. Russell Vice president The fol
lowing gentlemen are the directors: John D.
Msisby of Atlanta, W. r.. DeLaperriere OF
Hoschton. n j. Kelly, .o1n s smith, A A.
Camp, J. Ske' j. c. DeLapeTriere Of jug
Tavern. TIE building will be located cOnve-
ni-nt to the Gainesville, Jefferson aud Southern
and eOrsia, Carolina and Northern railroads
Saturday Eight shooting occurred in q negro
cabin at shady Dale. eight miles from MOnti-
cello. crowd met Gt a negro wouRn's house
which wss used as a blind tiger and in a dispute
a negro by the name OF Tuk THOMPSON became
angry and began % shoot one negro was shot
ia the head aud instantly killed. Another waB
shot 10 the shoulder anu he is in dangerous
condition The party who did the shooting is
in jail, and the woman who run the house was
trJed Tuesday, and, on being found guilty. was
sentenced to the chail q. ,onS for twelve months.
Monday morning D ". Williams went down
to Capt NcrAlon's store Mt Athens and went
frar ffor B., had .Fr a
maze much noise ana as ne stepped out the
back door he ran uoon negro who gaze his
name as George Cooper. He sad he hadn't
been doing anything wrong. bit Nc Williams
thought lie had AMI consequently had him run
80 ana locked 40 at Jpe police headquarters.
Subsequently lia o q Conway found that they
We're short ia their cash drawer about Sl5. The
negro was searched aui in his right snoe was
found two silver dolRrs In his lett shoe very
NEATLY tied w was 5 0 bill.
Neariy dozen sets of harness, saddles
buggy umbrellas. etc. have beeu stolen from
citizens OF Sandarsylle within o few weeks.
The hier is evidently posted as TO whore such
articles are kept and under the cover OF night
sueaks 70 the stables and bGrns and gets off
with the booty. 1t is the opinion of some of tue
victims That tue THIEF carries MS plunder TO
some OF the towns in adjoining counties and
disposes of it to innocent purchasers. He seems
10 have gone INTO the busin IS in wholesa
fashion and efforts are being made to appre-
bend the guilty party. IL il ev.deUJ that the
the Is are made by some one who has a horse
at his disposal
On Wednesday evening last the body of a
while man was discovered on the railroad track
near Waynesyil- and wit iil e short distance of
the residence of +. d. Boone The body was
found by negro named Starkes, who notified
MI. Boone. a cor0Rer's inquest was held and
verdict of accidental killing was rendered
There WAS nothing found on the person of the
dead mau by which he could be identified. He
was apparently man OF middle age, about
fcet inches high, dark curled mustache aud
full growth Of beard under his chin On his
81 az IA of in Tu4fa falr
In his pocket was a beer cap, with tGe name
myers. Brunswick it. Two holes were
found ia his forehead, and he was otherwise
bruised.
J. F. Clarke, living near the line of Macon and
Taylor county, was at Butler Monday collect
ing contributions for Madison Crook who lost
his residence and its entire contents by fire on
saturday night last. MIR. Crook lives on tie
farm Of Tom Dwight, AMI he and his wife had
gone to spend the night With neighb r, leav
ing no one on tie premises. Late in the night
tie house was discovered to DO on fire and be-
yOnd all human effort to save it. Mr. Crook
lost everything he had in his house. including
ayear's supply Of -four, sugar, coffes, etc His
corn aod bacon we're saved by being in the crib
and smoke house OF EIr. Dwight Every indi-
cation goes to prove that the house was first
robbed and then set on fire, but no clew has been
obtained as TO the perpetrAtor OF the crime.
On last Monday night. William " Morrow o.
lngleside, a small station the outskirts OF
Atlanta. on tie Georgia TailrC ad, board - tn q
train 20 20 home. IL was warm ana on eutee-
lnS the cOaCn ne ralSeI the WINDOW, after
which he laid back on the seat and began to
doze. Just as Tie train pulling out he
awoEe and raised hiulse elf in a sitting posture
He felt dizzy and the fumes Of chlcroform con
fused his senses. Almost stiied, he turned to
the window and noticed that il w0s down and
the blinds, too, had been drawn. Suspectiug
something wrong had O. Cured during hs short
nap. he began to search his pockets, and to his
surprise found that his valuable gold watch
among other valHables. was gone Fortunately
Mr. Morrow had but !ittle change in his pocket
II was li;l5 o clock when ne discovered that he
had been robbed aud the train was pulling out,
therefore he could nos report the case TO police
headquarters.
Columbus Enq,tirer-Si.a: Gus Smith is in
trouble because OF weakness for wives. Gus
runs on the railroad and plies between ColuIn
bus and Albany. OF course he is in Columbus
only part on the time while he is in Albany
the other portion hone ten years ago ne took
unto himself a wife in Columbus, with whom be
has lived pleasantly ever since lie liked mar.
ried life ia Columbus well that he decided
tat he should enjoy the same bliss in Albany,
ana acc rdInEly wOosd an won olushing lass
in that little city. She trusted him implicitly,
and last September the two were made one.
Bot unfortunately for Gus, he wasn't what is
sometimes called slick lie allowed wife No.
10 come 10 Columbus in November to see the
sights Of the exposition. and while here she
learned sights" more than he banked on.
for the secret commenced to leak