The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
Tho News Of the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.

rio Land Suit over the Title to
-,rd In Harlem, Richmond County.
Georgia Liliputian Returns Home.
transparent Attempt to 5windIe
Engineer on a Claim That he Had
rauen Heir to Valuable Jewelry In
Mexico.
GEORGIA.
-t,so7 cane is getting to be a popular crop
me sections Of OglethOrpe county.
u T w. Wilsox, of Fort Valley, has in
-'CIt5eI and patented gravity settling water
tssu ami filter
15ef- OF bail eleven of the Psychological
II .o515I at Atlanta may play at Augusta on
s. THANKSGIVING oay'
WIN hathaway, who lives near Button. in
n c,ov comfy lost his new barn and contents
~ ~ Ere Monday night. The less is 5000 with
no Insurance.
T, is said that f. W. Bigham and W E.
4 .+n9Id of Madison, will apply to North Geo
h = difference for licenses to preach, when
tto+ bo8v meets at Gainesville next month.
luther and William Mayheld. the men who
ebo+ and killed a man named Karnaghal, at
TIbsrton a few days since, were taken to
. stbpus Thursday and put in Clarke county
JAIL
SAN Booth of johnson county, who was ar
b res-ed on Wednesday by Deputy United
N States Marshal Powell. OF Barlow, was given
Il q Treljm nary hearing before Commissioner
HI M Irwin Thursday at Macon, and bound
n over in the sum of $500 for his appearance
n before the United States court, on the charge
nj making and passing counterfeit money.
F A. Williams, walking tourist. is the way
Il n man registered at Folsoms European hotel
y at Atlanta Friday night. Williams is walk
+ mo On a wager Of 81 800 from New York to
q New orleans. and is incidentally advertising
y the Police Gazette. He left New York on
E Oct e. and had seventy days, with three days
"a Law over in which to accomplish the distance
he Is now five days ahead OF time and has
:. laid over seven days.
William + card is in Augusta. Mr.. Heard
II commonly known as Buck" is one of the
cunosi rs that Geoig a has produced He
was orn n Hancock county, and for MANY
wears ran as newsboy on he Geor IN rail
4 road. But X although full grown. a dimin-
utiva speCi IN of humanity being only as
4 large IS an 6-year-Old child. His Quaint man
nel ald ready repartee won many friends,
a and as ewsboy he was success. The at
. ira tons of the dime m lseum proved too
much for him. however, and about two years
since Buck left his former busin SIS and came
forth as the smallest man on earth. He has
Just returned from the world fair.
Madison MadisOnian: In Paterson, n. J.,
live Mrs c. A. Bishop and her son, A. w.
Bishop. whom many OF our people remember
most pleasantly as having resided for several
wears Immediately after the war in the old
Campbell hotel lot in our city, the vacant part
of which is still owned by them, O. n. Dexter.
Sr is their agent here and has control of
this lot. a private letter from them to him
has been seen by the MadisOnian and we eX-
pect Mr.. Dexter will get a scolding for show
Ing If 10 US when they find an extract from
the letter published in this paper. 1t seems
Mr.. Dexter has been renting this property
lately to DR.. Blue Mountain Joe, and reported
the sum of $40 collected for rent, asking them
how TO remit. They answered, sending him
$50 - to pay taxes on the property. and di-
reCted him after paying yourself for in
cidentals. use the money to help along the
declining years Of some Of the boys that wore
the gray. and further requested him to use
every dollar he might hereafter get off the lot
for the same purpose.
Rome Tribune: Cooley Pearce is an engi-
neer on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad. and is well known in Rome
A few DAYS ago he received a letter from
Mexico purpOrting to be from the United
States consul at that place. 1t was signed
Sh lffner, and told Mr.. PearCe of the death Of
a friend of his When the friend died, the
letter stated, he left his effects to Pearce.
Among the articles were two gold mounted
pistols, q lot Of clothing. diamond studs and
other leNclry and some money. The letter
contained a newspaper clipping telling of the
man death, and also IN an incidental way of
the effects left to Pearce. The cOmmunica-
ton also contained bill for funeral expenses,
so much Tor ,off1n, so much for carriage and
on through the list. On this, it was stated,
was due S23, which Pearce was asked to for
ward When this w9s done the jewelry and
standing the matter, Air. Pearce telegraphed
to Washington asking for information about
the consul anu the letter Importing to be
from him. Friday he received a reply saying
the whole affair was fraud: that the letter
was not from the American consul and that
1t was simply an attempt to swindle him,
A gus,a Herald: During the past week
the us a qUietude of Har lem has been some
what disturbed. IL is Il case in which posi-
bly, so ne twenty or more of the prop erty
Owne' in Harlem are quite likely to he in
volyed The case which has eel the chief
to bic for several da comes about in tbs
way. IL see rs tnat nee the death OF M IS.
harriet lham, which occurred few weeks
ago, an examination of the records al the
co rthOuse has cen made. which sclo sc s
the TACT that dover was left her many years
ago from the es ate o. A. V. Denham. to
some Ian /. O cut or eight acres of which
is situated in Harlem, properly that has
from time t. line during the last de ade or
TWO z gone in the hands Of sOne twenty or
more, and which has Oeen improved to sucn
an extent that some OF II Is very valuable.
1t further appears that several vet ago
Mrs. Denh1 m, as admin stratril OF her hus-
bands e>ta.e, sold her dover. together
Win WIN olhsr land by order o. the
court: ana everything passed smoothly along
until since her death and the examination OF
the records. disclosed the fact that the above
mentioned land had formed a part Of the
dover As a matter of course, those now own
ing property feel considerably interested in
the recent developments. and have set to
work examining matters 10 some extent and
1t is claimed that while this land formed a
part of Mrs. Denham dover, she obtained
an order from curt to sell the same together
WIN other property, as administrators. and
mat Whel the sale was made, the proceeds
We're distributed among the heirs to the es
tate. and, consequently those now owning the
property are -teduE alarmed, although a
regal hight over the final settlement of the
matter seems to be among one of the strong
PROBABILITIES
FLORIDA.
Zacharias, a clothier of Ocala, made a bill
of 60 Ia Wi o,- 70 l. ,,F