The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
The News OF the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.

For the Napier Estate at Macon.
The Oglethorpe Hotel at Brunswick
Again Ordered Sold.
GEORGIA.
Over 900 mules and horses have been sold
81 Valdosta this year
The boats are bringing large quantities Of
Florida syrup to olumbus.
John Chenault's cotton GIN in Wilkes
county was burned a few days ago.
Reason Lynes, aged IL. and John Mapp,
both colored, are in jail at Crawfordville for
burglary.
The dwelling of Hon. H. A. Paris. at Rey-
nolds was burned Wednesday morning. No
Insurance.
The store of L. ]. Boswell, at Penfeld, and
contents were burned Monday night. Loss
5000 No insurance.
D. C. Brake, living near Powel's creek, IN
Rliaferro county, lost on Monday night last,
is dwelling house with nearly all its con-
ents.
Mrs Sarah Duncan, white woman Of ad-
vanced age, committed suicide at Tallapoosa
by hanging herself. No cause could be as
certained except that she was simply weary
Of life
postoffce has been established at the
residence Ct A. ]. Beck, halfway between
Clinton and Walesca, with Mrs. Ida Beck as
postmaster The office has been christened
osgood.
Dr. L. A. Fielder will leave Perry on or be-
fore Jan. l. and locate in Atlanta. He has
sold his drug business at Perry, and at his
new home will enter actively into the prac-
tice of medicine.
The nominees for officers at Cochran for the
incoming year are as follows: For mayor,
w b. Watts; for aldermen J. @. Durham
G. P. Stubs, ]. H. Mullis, Jr., X. A. Thomp-
son, W. j. Woods and ]. E. Reeves.
B. w Crosby, Of Bailey, has grown some
large turnips this year. The largest one
measures tWenty-nine inches in circumfer-
and iS. nina and half inches
the center, and two weighed sixteen pounds
William Rainey, son of Seaborn Rainey,
wooed and married Mrs. Martha Clark of
Lowndes county. near the line of ,Montgom-
cry, recently. The welded lady was q widow
As years Of age, while the groom is said to be
but 81.
negro man on Tube Swindle's plantation,
in Berrien county committed suicide few
days ago. He had been sick several weeks,
and while lying in bed he got hold of pistol
and shot himself through the head, killing
himself instantly.
A little before shutdown Monday, Hiram
Mosely, colored while driving two horses to
wagon across the railroad at the county
poor farm, near Blakely, was run into by a
special train. The wagon was demolished,
both horses killed and he knocked insensible,
though not seriously hurt.
negro man named Alfred Kicks was killed
at Albert Walton's g1nhouse on the suburbs
of Madison on Wednesday morning. He was
in the lower room by himself. The big wheel,
IL IS supposed, SUEuCk MIN on GQe DaCk. lie
was found in PROSTATE and unconscious
condition, and died from internal injuries tif-
teen minutes later.
President J. o. Wadden, of the Georgia Ag-
rlcultural Society, was in Macon Friday, en-
route to Atlanta, from Southwest Georgia.
He says that the state fair next year will GER
tainly be held in Macon, at accordance with
the contract between the city of Macon and
the society, which stipulates that the fair
shall be held here every alternate year.
Athens Banner: There is a feline curiosity
in this city in the shape of cat with eight
feet. She belongs to little Ed Franklin,
who lives on Jackson street This old cat
has four legs and at the extremity OF each leg
is two distinct feet, perfectly formed in every
particular and one as large as the other. The
old cat has q kitten that has eight feet also
Both are as black as night.
Rome Tribune: Collections are good"
said j. H. Reynolds Friday, but l am still
at a loss to account for the enormous amount
of money paid out in Rome for cotton since
Sept. 1. l believe the farmers are holding it
for future use. They are afraid to turn il
loose, and are now capitalists in a small way,
who are keeping the ir money out of circula-
ton, Take 100 farmers with 800, each, and
there is $4,000
In Burke county negro was bound over for
stealing and J. Hogan went on his bond
When the time for trial drew near the negro
fed, and Mr.. Hogan. not wishing to pay the
surety, went after the negro and arrested him
AS he was carrying him to jail Wednesday
night he was fired on from ambush by two
Hogan held to his man, however, and whip
ping up his horse was soon out of danger.
At Macon, Friday, Judge Speer passed an
order, directing that the Oglethorpe hotel
at Brunswick be sold at public sale to the
highest bidder on the second Tuesday In Feb
ruary. The property is in the hands of re-
Ceiver. Alexander Proudfit and j. N Tally,
Of Macon, are the commissioners to make
the sale. The Oglethorpe was sold several
months ago for S25,0 )), but the court refused
to confirm the sale. The property cost
Sl5OO00
At cambridge Thursday morning young
man named Ed King, a son OF Henry King, of
Attapulgus, who was en- route home from
Montgomery, where he had been employed
on the bridge force of the Alabama Midland
railway, While suffering from temporary aber-
alton of mind, caused by la grippe,
jumped from a 2-story window Of Helton's
restaurant and came very near killing him
sell MS conuitlon Is pronounced Nely crlt-
cal, his hip and arm being broken, and he
being seriously injured internally.
S H. Brooks. one of the best known negro
men in Atlanta, has just received letter
from John w. Payne, of Monrovia. In the
letter Payne says that the people in that sec
ton Of Africa know nothing about GaSton's
movements, and that he is not working with
the knowledge and consent of the Liberian
government. The letter declares that the
Congo free states are worse for the colored
man than his home in America, but ad-
VlSes all negroes to come to Liberia, where
they are sure of home if they want TO work
the soil.
At Buford Wednesday some little children
were out playing near the depot, when one of
the children set fire to the grass on which
tney were playing, and the clothing of Babe
Vance, 5-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. F.
vance, caught fire, and before assistance
could reach the child he was badly
burned DR.. Power managed to keep the
flames out of its face while the rest tore the
burning clothes from the childs body. The
little fellow is fearfully burned though it is
thought 1t will recover and as its face and
hands we're not burned there will be no vist-
bic signs left.
Blakely News: Simon Hutchins, well-todo
and highly respected colored man, living
seven miles from Blakely on the Glen Springs
road was so badly cut by his gin last Friday
afternoon that he died from loss of blood and
eAock early Saturday morning. While at
lending the gin his right hand was caught in
lhe saws, which literally minced the bones
ana flesh of his arm half way up to his elbow
When, with one desperate effort, he jerked
away tearing his arm in two, leaving part
VI u and the hand in the breast of the gin In
thls horrible condition he walked to his resi-
gence 200 or 800 yards distant. He lost a great
veal OF blood during the night and when the
bIakely doctors arrived at his house Saturday
morning he was beyond all hope of recovery
and soon died
Perry Home Journal: Awholesale slaughter
Vi mules occurred on the Georgia Southern
ana Florida railroad near Grovania. last Sat
pEruay night. Six mules belonging to John G.
brown and horse belonging to one of his
ttsnants, were killed by the passenger train
s4dt passes Grovania about IL o'clock at
LLisnt. The stock had been turned out of the