The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-31
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Peace-maker Stabbed to the Heart
A Suit for q Commission-The Baux-
ite Business Full of Promise - a
House Bomoarded With Rocks-A
Supreme Court Decision Relative to
Available Piece OF Land.
GEORGIA
There are four applicants for the Talbotton
postoffice.
The state agricultural society has decided in
favor of accepting Augustus prOpoS ton. so
the state fair viii be held there this taA.
Armand 6 George Of Lithonia sold thirty
acres of land Tuesday at S65 per acre which
they bought short time ago for $50 per acre.
The applicants for the postof1ce at Marietta
are taking on more steam and are nustlng TO
get up Inducements The salary Of the Office
Is $4,000. Two clerks are supplied by the gov
eminent
Twenty-Five years ago Uncle Lewis Nash of
Diam 0nds district in Dekalb county, loaned
man S25. The man went west 10 grow up with
the country On Saturday Mr.. Nash received
check tor S62.
The Patton Manufacturing Company of Rome
are working a full force Of hands on full time
finishing up e hardwood for the court house
and getting out material for the building for
the state at Griffin.
O. A Dunson was the only man in Troup
county injured by the recent cyclone who car
ried cyclone insurance. The top OF his barn
was damaged, and last week he received a
check for 1856. 20 cover the damage.
The firm Of T F. Gatewood & Co. of Ameri-
Gus has been dissolved by mutual consent T. F.
Gatewood having disposed OF his interest in
the business to his father, A. D. Gatewood
The new firm will be GatewOod & Galloway
The latest applicant for postmaster at
Lithonia is ". c. Vandergriff. There are now
in the race John ". Weekes, X. t. Baker, w.
7. Miner. L. L. Braswell, q. N. Smith ana W,
c. vandergrif. Several others are speaking Of
applying.
Robert simmons a colored youth Of Macon,
formerly OF Gordon, was run over by the Savhu-
Inbound passenger train near Gordon Tues
day night and received such injuries that he
died Wednesday. The suppositon is that he
was riding on the trucks.
Robert eagle one Of the oldest citizens OF De
kalb county, has a remarkable clock when it
comes TO keeping time. He bought it at a pub
lie sale on the second Mondayin October, 1896,
carried it home, started It and il has never
once stopped to this day. 1t is an ''old time
one, all the wheels being Of wood.
James NJ Dobbs Of Marietta is an applicant
for consul to Valparaiso, and his Endorsements
were presented TO Secretary Gresham this
week. His Inducements aretroin the governor
down to private citizens, aud are of the highest
character. Mr. DObbs for ten years was in
South America and speaks Spanish tiuently.
Deputy Sheriff J. P Mcconnell returned to
Rome Tuesday morning from Admission bring
ing with him little Myra Howell and delivering
her safely into the keeping OF her Oldest sister,
Miss Irene Barker. D. W. Mitchell the
gave her up rather reluctantly, but said he had
taken her only because his wife 50 wished
A petition was filed at Macon Wednesday by
H. F. Frederick OF Houston county against W
3. Sparks, receiver for the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad, for $3.50. The petition
alleges that May 30, 1892, sparks from de
PENDANTS engine, while passing his place in
Houston county, fourteen miles from Macon
did ignite aud burn his woods and large guam
tity of wood 10 The amount of $3.50.
Americas Recorder: An Americas bank
wrote to party in Atlanta q day or two ago
offering TO lend MIN $4,000 for a low rate of
inter st, but failed to place the loan. IL looks
like the good time is coming when the banks
beg the people to borrow money instead of
having the people beg them for a loan. The
The AmerlCus banks have more cash in their
vaults now than at any time in many
years.
Shortly after o'clock Tuesday night Mary
Brown (colored), living on Church street, near
the cemetery at Americas, closed the door Of
her house for a few minutes, leaving her child,
a little boy, alone in the ROOM During her
absence the child fell to the fire and was burned
nearly to death before the flames could be ex-
tinguished At a late hour Tuesday night he
was still alive, though there was but little hope
of his recovery.
In the cemetery at Marietta there ia an in.
FAINT grave that attracts attention Of visitors
TO that place. There is no headstone but rest
ing on top Of the grave Is a box with glass top
and glass sides, containing the playthings the
little one had before its departure. There are
dolls, rubber and china, rubber ball, rattler,
china cup, etc. On the sides OF the grave are
three bottles Of medicine, that which was in use,
probably. during its last sickness
At Rome Tuesday morning at negro dance
jim Young and another colo ed man got into a
row about women who were Quarreling and
fighting, wnereupOn John LaCkey iuCerfered
trying to restore peace and stop the row. This
interference for peace on the part of John
Lackey so enraged Jim Young that, leaving
the negro with whom the Difficulty had started,
he turned upon LacEey, aud, drawing a knife
plunged il into his heart, killing him instantly
The murderer escaped.
movement is on foot among the unmarried
young people Of McDOnough to form ''matri-
monial alliance" The object of the club will
be to help Cupid onward with his enterprises in
their midst. The club is 70 be composed of
fifty members who will be required to pay an
Initiation fee OF $40 This amount will be paid
to the first mem Der Of the club who gets mar
ried. One OF the conditions required of those
becoming members is that they be not en-
gagged at the time they become member.
An interesting petition was filed at Macon
Wednesday by L. j. Anderson against Harris
aud Mitchell, in which it is alleged that the de-
PENDANTS male application to him as a loan
agent for the loan Of 1000. and that after he
had neg tiated the loan with the Security and