The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-28

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GEORGIA.
A movement is on foot TO establish bank
at Lithonia.
Maj Livingston Minis is once more presi-
dent Of the Capital City Club of Atlanta
The citizens Of Thomson are taking steps TO
secure the establishment OF % canning factory
at that place
The state Episcopal convention meets in
Marietta on Wednesday May Il and Will be in
session two days
The dead body OF a negro baby was found in
the woods near Hendersons store on Pryor
street at Atlanta Wednesday.
J. B. Scarrett Of Atlanta has presented the
police department with set Of handsomely
bound volumes for the police library.
State School Commissioner Bradwcu has
called a teachers institute for Pulaski county
for next week. Ii viii be held in Hawkins
vile.
At the regular weekly meeting at Atlanta
Tuesday night the members of the IHbernian
Rifles elected w. d. Ellis captain of their
company.
The ordinance adopted by the city council
of brownsville some weeks ago imposing a
tax of S25 per day on non resident life IN
surance agents has been repealed.
D. B. Parks. Jr of Marietta has bought the
old William Root residence and rear part of
the lot for 500 and will proceed at once to re-
move the old house and build new one.
W. k Dennis of TalbOtton has ten acres
planted in tomatoes and q large area in olIra
and cabbage. He Will have tomato cannery
in operation when the season arrives. Mr.
Dennis has heretofore been a large cotton
al. 10 '1' '
A statistical statement Just issued by the
Florida Phosphate Exchange and Export
Company Of Brunswick shows that the largest
single shipment of phosphate rock ever made
from this country was through the port of
Brunswick.
Charles A. Appel, manager of the southern
lf Chi
Chief Connolly Of Atlanta for the police Ii
brary. an entire case OF books. The collcc-
ton consists OF many choice and standard
works OF literature.
Application for a new trial in the case of
Jim Courtney, the negro who killed Jake
Smith, and who was sentenced TO be hanged
at the last term of Ware superior court, has
been made. Judge Smith viii hear the appli-
cation at Hawkinsville on May 10.
Price who shot Wardlaw at Mccormick 6.
C., on April 81, and fed, was arrested near
Leverett in Lincoln county Tuesday. 1t is
reported that Wardlaw is dead. The arrest
ing parties left Immediately with the prisoner
for Abbevllle, 5. c., where he will be placed
in Jail.
Matte Cody attempted suicide at Waycross
Tuesday morning by taking three walls of
married for some time and Monday night
was the time set for the marriage to take
place She sat up in her bridal dress waiting
for her lover to come, but he failed TO do so.
Tuesday morning she bought four Walls of
laudanum and drank the contents of three
and was in the act Of emptying the fourth
when friends interfered and her life was
saved.
Nathan Smith (coIored) is to he hanged at
Roberta to-day. Smith has made final con
fession to the sheriff, in which he duplicates
himself and Owen Howe alias Howard, in the
killing Of Dow Walker. and he says that owen
did all the shooting. He says that certain
prominent white men OF Epson county hired
him and owen Howe to commit the crime
and he received $40 for his share and Owen
the same. Smith has told so many stories
that the people hardly know which to be-
lieve
While on a visit to some friends in the up-
per part Of Terrell county last Saturday Mrs
F. NJ Jennings had a number of accidents In
the morning she sprained her ankle severely,
and the horse she was driving got sick and
died. In the afternoon some OF her children
with other playmates, were playing in
buggy, when they accidentally upset il near a
bluff upon Kennedys mill pond and the
children through providential interposition
escaped being precipitated into the water and
drowned.
Henry J. Schoenthal has finished the school
census of Marietta. and Prof Stewart fur
nlshes the following statement White
males between the ages Of + and Is years of
age 246; white females DDS; total AL. Mum
Der of white children. not able to read and
write 10 years OF age and over, 10; not in
school 8. Colored males. 22i; colOred females
273; total 497 Number Of colored children
not able to read and write, 95; not in school.
white and coored children 900.
Mai. William 4. Gary arrived in Macon
wednesday morning to assume the duties of
his position as United States district attOr-
ney. For the past month he has been in Au-
gusta winding up his affairs there. Monday
the spring term of the district court will open
and the work in connection with il has taken
Maj.Gary to Macon During the morning he was
engaged in routine business and in making
preparations for the taking up of the docket
next week But little work has accumulated
Tor him during his absence. The district at
torney Will not move his family TO Macon, but
Will Tor the present, at least. continue his
residence al Augusta.
On July next Atlanta will have among her
commercial institutions three new thread
houses. me three greatest thread manufaCt-
urers in the world have decided to establish
headquarters in Atlanta. and have already
rented stores, and will be ready for business
on July l. This will run up Atlantas sales
several million dollars a year. for all the
thread bought in Georgia, North Carolina
South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and
Florida Will be supplied from the headduar-
ters in Atlanta. The three companies that
are coming to Atlanta are George A. Clark
g Bro; me coats Thread Company and John
Clark, Jr., the Mile-End thread maker.
Young Campbell, a white boy about IL years
Of age and son Of Rev r. L. Campbell was
snatched from a watery grave at the locks at
Augusta Wednesday by the brave actions of
Robert Harper, cOlored boy. Young Camp
bell was playing on the platform of the lock
house when his foot slipped and he fell into
the rushing water, some twenty feet below
Harper, who was in a pleasure boat tied at the
landing, saw the fall and sprang into the
water and saved the boy as the current was
carrying him to his death. There was picnic
given by the Fifth ward grammar school to
the children, and Campbell was one of the
party. Harper was in charge of the boat that
took them up.
Early in May the fruit growers, shippers
and railroad men will have another meeting
at Fort Valley TO try and arrange tranSporta-
ton satisfactorily. This they think can be
done, but the question of refrigeration is
what is agitating them now. In the past re-
frlgerator car companies have been the most
unreliable and worthless things that they had
to deal with. So far all the companies have
proved "shysters,' and in many instances
they would allow cars to 20 through from
Fort Valley to markets without adding any
ice at all after they left the shippers ewes
This the fruit men will not stand this season
They say they will allow their peaches to rot
on the trees before they will give their ship
meuts TO any more worthless, unreliable re
1rlgerator car companies. Refrigerator car
companies Will have TO put upa cash bonus to
show that they Will comply with their agree
ments to the letter
Capt. J. B. James. who has charge of sev-
eral large orchards at Fort Valley owned by
northern capitalists has just received orders
toclose deal for between 800 and 3O1d
acres OF Houston county lands which he did
promptly. This means an investment of fully
SlOJ UDO OF foreign money in Houston county
~ course this land will be planted out In