The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19

The News Of the Two States Told in
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the Downward Path-Rome's Crack
Military Company DIsbandeG
Watermelons at Americus.
GEORGIA.
Ed. Huguenin will probably be candidate
for mayor OF Macon.
There was a sharp frost in exposed local.
ties at ThomasvlIe Monday. Potato vines
were killed in some instances.
The Confederate Veterans Association 0 I
Atlanta will establish museum OF conteder-
ate relics at the Gate City Guard armory.
LAGRANGE Graphic: Sunday morning DR..
Cary s government thermometer registered
3Sl9o, and Monday morning IS. Ice was
noticed each morning.
The Hill City Cadets Of Rome, one OF the
crack military companies OF North Georgia
has been disbanded by the governor because
the enlistment sheets of the company do not
show the requisite number Of mem berS.
Americas Times-Recorder: A wagon load OF
watermelOns. was an object OF intense inter
est to the colored brother tuesday. Even the
over-ripe mullet was mOmentarllY forgotten
as he gazed with ecstatic delight upon the
luscious cholera bombs.
w. Fernberg, who has been carrying on
dry goods and clothing business on Broad
street at ThomasYille, for the past year. has
gone to the wall His creditors shut down on
him and he was forced TO go into the hands Of
a receiver. S. L. Hayes was appointed re-
ceiver.
In OglethOrpe county the cotton crop ~
about all gathered, with the exception OF some
late unmatured cotton The farmers are
housing this week fine corn crop. ana al
most every farmer has from two TO five hogs
in the pen. The preparations being made to
SOW small grain are encouraging
DR.. A S. Halves Of Americas was the reclp-
lent of many warm concentrations tuesday
upon his appointment as medical director OF
the Equitable Life Insurance Company OF
New York for the states OF North and south
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The position
carries with it the handsome salary OF $1,000
per annum and expenses
The Bank OF Sumter, Of Americas, which
suspended payment about July lst, resumed
payment Tuesday. Shortly after the sus
pension the bank S depOsitorS agreed to set
Element of four moushly payments, beginning
Oct. IS. Meantime the bank has been col
lecting its paper as it fell due, and Tuesday
was more than prepared to meet the first
payment of % per cent. Only six depositors
drew their money.
Floyd Williams, a negro from Marietta,
was fatally hurt in the yards Of the Western
and Atlantic railroad at Atlanta Tuesday.
driver for the firm of Black Mcintosh, the
Alabama street provision dealers, was load
ing a wagon from car A passing train
frightened the animal, and he asked Williams
to hold him He took the horse by the bri-
die, when he gave jump that knocked the
man down. He was badly crushed IN the
stomach and chest.
A sensational poisoning case occurred about
seven miles from Atlanta near Moore mill
last week which may result in the death Of
some of the members Of the family of prOmt-
nent farmer in that section. Last Wednesday
evening one Of the children of j. Il. Burke,
who lives near Moore S mill, and four Of the
negroes on the place, were taken violently i'll.
physician was called and, after an examin-
alton, stated that they had been poisoned. He
made an examination Of what the family had
been eating and found the poison in the meal.
Sunday night seven more we're poisoned.
They are all very i'll now and the physician is
still very apprehensive about them. So far
they have been unable to learn anything
about the party who did the poisoning.
Albany Herald: What came very near prov
ing a serious accident occurred at the four
story Lorch building on Washington street
Tuesday morning about clock. There is
huge elevator in this building, running from
the basement to the fourth story above and
1t was this that two inexperienced negroes
We're operating this morning in trans
porting goods from the basement
to the fourth story. After while they
had occasion to bring a load OF goods
down, and it seems that they over-esti-
mated the capacity of the elevator on this
trip. Anyhow, they let the thing go and it
went like rocket to the bottom, smashing
up things in general, having fallen at least
sixty feet. InVestiga ion proved that no one
had been injured, though negro on the first
floor only escaped by three or four inches.
The city council of Atlanta has ratified the
settlement between the city and the Atlanta
Gaslight Company by the representatives of
the city and the Gaslght Company. The
settlement was made on the following basis:
l. Ihe company IS en1oined from trying to
collect anything from the city on allotment of
dividends or sales of stock. 2 The company's
property is to be taxed at S175, 900 assessment
from 1890 to 1865, inclusive, additions to be
made only for new real estate purchased, or
new buildings erected. or enlargement Of ex-
listing buildings 3. The city not to object to
the purchase by the compa-
ny of the property of the
Gate City Gaslight Company, but the proper
" OF the latter company to be subject to full
assessment. The net results of this settle
ment TO the city will be the collection OF S10-
800 taxes this year for 1890 TO 1898. inclusive
and OF q 620 per annum hereafter on proper
ty heretofore treated as exempt.
Amercus Times Recorder: James Collum,
respectable farmer livin, six miles west Of
the city, was in deep distress Monday at the
conduct of his l6year-old daughter, who
without cause or provocation lett her rural
nome TO plunge into the vortex of wild life
In q city. Saturday evening the girl left the
home OF friends whom she had been visiting
here in Americas and went to a house OF iii
repute, where she spent the night. The in
mates OF the house tried hard to diSsuade her
from entering upon career like theirs but
she was deaf to all their entreaties. sun
day morning she boarded the train
for Macon, with the expressed intention
II is said, Of entering house OF i'll fame there
Toe unfortunate girl, frail and delicate and
unused to the ways of the cold cruel world
looked the picture of despair and desolation
as she started forth for her new home amid
strangers-people of whose life she as vet
knew nothing. Monday morning a writ of
habeas corpus was taken out by the grief
stricken father and, armed with this Chief
Lamar went to Macon for the purpose of
bringing her home. He returned last night
with the errlng girl and was met at the depot
by the tather, who. more than willing to for
gave all, Will take her to his heart and home
once more.