The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-20
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
The News Of The Two States Told
in Paragraphs.


toin of His Approaching Death "A
Suit over a valuable Tract of Land
in Fulton County.
GEORGIA.
The bicycle races at Augusta have been
postponed until Aug. 10 and II.
w B. Faiu has become associated with
J. B Fain In the lutter's grocery business
at Brunswick,
Hon. Robert s. Traylor member of the
legislature for Iroup county. died at
Pleasant Grove Sunday, aged "a years.
Charles Stetsou. son of !. D. Stetson.
vice prcsidcntof the American National
bank of Macon, died at Hawkinsville
Tuesday
Warren Dean, the negro who was sup
posed To- have been lyuChed in TWigCs
county for an assault on "a white woman,
has been lodged in Jail at Macon.
Isham Rhodes colored, was drowned at
PAGES ferry, in Fulton county, at ]
O'Clock Sunday afternoon while trying to
swim arross the Chattah0ochee river.
Mrs. Anna Hudgius. of Athens, former
" Miss Anna Billups, is totally blind.
She lost her eyC-sight some months ago,
and the doctors thought it could be re
stored but now the best eye doctors say
it will not come back again.
A bold and adroit thief on an excursion
train from Athens a day or two ago rob
bed Rich Ebcrheart. The pocket was cut
out, the pocket book taken out and the
So distracted, and the pocket book re-
placed as though nothing had happened.
Washinhton Chronicle: Hon. Thos T.
Watson will speak mere next Thursday
From all we can learn his toIr through
Georgia is in the interest of his paper, on
which he has lost a great deal of money.
He whOOps up subscribers wherever he
goes.
j. B. Whitley. who lives over in Anti
och district TrOIp county from a frac-
ton less than one and thrcefOurths acres
of land, harvested this year 500 bushels
of wheat. He spent only - for fertilizers,
and he is one of the men of that section
who believe wheat to be a profitable crop.
n. T. Il T. A Hammond fled suit in
the superior court ~ Atlanta Tuesday
for VIII Il. Mahcr against the city for
Sl5 1868. which Mr. Mahcr saws is due him
for work done on the Forsyth street
bridge The declaration alleges that the
amount is due him for extra work done
on the masonry of the bridge.
Colonel Fred w Wimbcrly Of Twiggs
county died Sunday night Colonel Vim
berly was one of tho most prominent citi-
= a
estimable gentleman. He was the father
of Mrs. Dick Campbell of Atlanta. nee
Miss Halle Wimbcrly, and Of Winter
.Wimherly, an attorney of Macon.
4 few days ago out on Mr. Brewer
Pope's plantation, i'm Wilkes county, q
negro named William Thomas shot an
other negro named Chris Heard in the
back. Heard was blowing at the time
and the shooting was unprovOked. The
pistol was owned by the man who was
shot. Thomas ran away, going over into
Taliaferro county, but determined effort
is being made TO catch him.
Gov. Northen has requested George r.
DeSaussure, vice-president of the Ex-
change bank, of Atlanta, to prepare "a
paper on the history of banking in Geor-
gia and an account Of the existing bank
ing laws, TO make part of the records of
the congress of bankers and financiers
held in Chicago in June Mr.. DeSaussure
now has this paper in course of prepsra-
ton and will soon be ready to submit it,
Gov. Northen has just received from
DevillO A. White, of kTcdonia, New York,
an Old faded deed, signed by James
Shorter, surveyor of MONTGOMERY county,
given to Charles Mcdonald of Hancock
county. The deed was made in Septem-
her, 1885. to $4,000 acres lying between
the HOPPE and Canoochee rivers in Han
cock county Mr.. White says he got the
deed from Union soldier after the war
The governor says the deed is one of the
numerous fraudulent ones now tlOatiug
around the country.
4 big law suit has been brought by
Mrs Joseph Graham Of Augusta against
John Ryan of Atlanta in Fulton county
superior court. Mrs. Graham and Mr..
Ryan are sister and brother-in-law, Mr..
Ryan having married Mrs Graham's sis
ter Mrs. Graham claims that in 1888
when she was Mrs Ellen O'Halloran, she
owned 100 acres of land located near what
IS now known as lnmau Park, that she
borrowed $500 from Mr. Ryan and gave
him a mortgage on the property. Mrs
Graham now claims chat instead of Civ
ing Ryan mortgage, he got her to sign
deed TO the property. She now wants to
redeem the property, but Ryan claims he
owns it, having bought it, so Mrs. era
ham has instituted suit for the recovery
Of the land which is valued at 81 900 an
acre, amounting to 100000.
Augusta Herald: 4 negro man pulling
bullets from cartridges with his teeth,
with the liability of the cartridge eXplod-
ing and tearing away his head at any mo-
ment, caused a small-siled stampede at
Mr.. Tom MeCarthy's store, on Campbell
street, Monday night. The negro didn t
seem 10 mind it. The cartridge was for a
3S-calibfe. He wished TO secure a blank
cartridge of that size, for what purpose
he did not state, and could not purchase
any He deliberately placed the leaden
bullet between his teeth and began gnaW-
ing and Jerking The crowd about him
scattered and he kept on pulling. In a
few moments he had accomplished his
purpose. He said he had often done this
before. There is great danger of a cart
ridge exploding when the bullet is pulled
from it, If this one had gone off, the
negro would have been blown into the
great hereafter.
Mrs. Barton, has been postmistress al
Center, Clarke county, for some years,
and John Gordon has ofticiated as rail
road agent for the Northeastern road at
the same place. Under the new admin
tstration Mr.. Gordon applied for the post
mastership and, through the influence OF
Congressman Carter Tate, received the
appointment. This aroused the autagOn-
ism of Mrs Barton's friends to the rail
road Official and they set to work TO play
a game Of even. They succeeded and Sc
cured the appointment of Mrs Barton as
railroad agent, shutting out her success
full rival for the pOstOfticc. This nOtNonly
left Mr. Gordon with but one ofice in
stead of two, but the one he lost paid
exactly twice the amount as the one be
gained. Even this did not satisfy Mrs
Barton's friends, and as the postmaster's
remuneration is governed by the canCella-
tion of stamps, they are still diminish-
ing his salary by sending their letters to
Athens to be DOSteQ. so the StamDS will