The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-10

vance in Twelve Years in Tract Of
Land in Fulton County-A Man Ar
rested Charged With Murder Com
rnitted at Lula Two Years Ago.
GEORGIA
RI Gamble CT Louisville died day or two
ago.
The bicyclsts of Macon have organized a
club.
The Donald Fraser Institute at Decatur has
been completed.
J. J. Jones Of Columbus has bought out the
stock of merchandise of J. S. Wall at Geneva.
J. G. Geiger manager Of the Hotel Toomer
has turned the business Of tho hotel over to its
owner, J. B. Toomer.
John J. Nunnally of Monroe has bought an
interest in the Lithonia Granite Company. Z.
w Joung has retired from the company.
Tom Seize of Marietta died Monday. His
death was caused by internal injuries which he
received by being thrown from bicycle about
two months ago.
One of the most readable columns in the state
press is that headed Tea Table Topics" in the
Atlanta Journal. The Journal is a first-class
paper all through and has no dead news in any
of its columns.
Louisville has organized bank with a CAPT
tai of $2b, 600. W. S. Witham of Admission,
Ala was chosen president. He is also presi-
dent Of thirteen banks in Georgia and Ala
Dama. L. r. Farmer will be cashier.
A negro named Bill Randolph went to the
home of Henry Jones at Lula a day or two ago
ana Without prOVOCatlOu severely beat Mf.
Jones and his wife and knocked down his
daughter with the butt end Of a shotgun.
Arrangements have been made TO enlarge the
Lucy Cobb Institute at Athens by the ad ition
Of an L to the domitOry, increasing tho al
ready large capacity Of the institute by nearly
fifty rooms. Toe i'm provemenus will be COM
pleted within two months
At Louisville Monday Coroner r. A Delhi
was called upon TO hol1 inquest over the
body Of negro named Joe Brown, who was
killed with an iron poker in the hands of Henry
Lyons Sunday evening. They both quarreled,
when Lyons struck Brown on the left side Of
the head, cutting OF his err and killing him.
Wednesday farmer from one of Floyd's dis.
tricts brought to Rome and sold
to one Of the merchants III
cents per dozen, and brought Sl7 10. Only two
of the eggs we're broken and one Of them was
broken by the merchant as he was counting
them.
William Hawkins was arrested on a train
near Gainesvi IL Wednesday night charged with
the assassination Of Larkin Smith of Lula on
Feb. %, 1891. The shot that killed Smith was
fired through a window while he sat In his house
talking to a friend Hawkins moved to the
west after the shooting and had been home on
a visit when arrested,
A settlement was reached in the Falvey-
Fugazzi case at Atlanta Wednesday. Mr.
Falvey turned over all the stocks belonging to
Fugazzi, receipt was taken, and the contro-
versy ceases to the satisfaction of both parties.
FugazZ signed statement declaring that he
had msinterpreted Mr.. Falveys motives in the
transactions, and all is peace between the two
litiRants.
Twelve years ago the commissioners of Fulton
county bought 800 acres on the Peachtree road,
about five miles from the city, and paid only
Sc an acre. Chairman Hunnicutt of the board
Of commissioners says he thinks he can now
sell the track for $500 an acre. Only twelve
years ago $4,000 was paid out for site for an
alms house, and now the county can sell the
place for Sl20,0OO
A bomb was exploded in the camps Of the
aNrafars t~ua 90
announcement tnat the city council had. at the
regular meeting the night before, passed an
ordinance requiring saloons in future to close
their doors at 10 O'Clock .. IN. sharp But as il
this was not enough to demoralizs the liquor
men, the further Information that all screens,
blind doors or other devices used to obstruct a
plain view from the street were TO be removed
also, was more than sufficient 20 cause utter
CONSERVATION among them.
Hnesvlle Herald: Some two years ago Miss
Elizabeth Baggs of Johnston Station was
thrown from buggy and had her arm broken.
The arm was properly reset, but it never gave
the unfortunate lady any relief. During the
last two years it has been rebroken twice and
again reset each time, but the pain never
ceased. Last week she gained the consent of
her mind and her relatives to have the arm am
putated and on last Wednesday Drs. Layton,
Hendry and VIM made a successful operation.
The lady is doing as we'll as could be expected
under the circumstances.
Capt. Z. 2. Chamberlin of Atlanta is rsspon-
sibe for queer little narrative. A few morn
q
veranda Of his home at the corner of Whitehall
street and Trinity avenue, he saw a negro
woman openI with much difficulty. the iron gate
IN front OF Trinity church and enter the church
yard. She walked up the steps and Knocked
deliberately upon the big double doorway
What DO you want, auntief" called Capt.
Chamberlin to her. Il wants ter see de lady err
de house. " There is no one there, " he shouted
back. And she left in wonderment.
Some enc has been digging for buried treas
ure In Augusta The supposed place of the
ia In I'd =
vacant house belonging to Mrs. Goldsmith
Sunday the woman occupying the house saw
TWO white men knocking around the place and
heard one OF them make remark about $45 =
OOO being buried on the property. Monday
night q colored man was seen in the yard and
when questioned by the woman said he was
waiting for mRu. He afterward went of and
The woman thought no more of the matter until
Wednesday morning when the yard IN the rear
OF the kitchen was found TO have been dug up.
During the intermission between the acts at n
last Saturday matinee at DeGive's opera house
at Atlanta, a charnlngly and daintily dressed
little miss or about 4, with long golden curls
walked calmly away from her parents and
perched herself upon the stool In front of the
orchestra piano. No one disturbed her and she
lightly and fateringly touched the keys one
after another. The audience caught sight OF
her and appRuded loudly. The plaudits seemed
60 stimulate the courage Of the little miss and
she attempted chord after chord to the delight
OF every one IN the house Finally, when she
gracefully resigned the seat TO the leader OF
the orchestra she was enthusiastically cheered
The Griffin water works plant was sold at re-
ceiver's sale Tuesday and WAS BID in by Col
Lloyd Cleveland for tue creditors for S24, 900
The citizens of Griffin had authorized the CITY
council to buy the plant at that price and float
bonds TO make the purchase, but the council re-
fused to bid over $4,000. The city is under
contract with the company for water at a cost
OF $1,000 per annum, and the contract has
eighteen years yet TO run Ii was argued when
the question of bonds was before the taxpayers
that moneyed arrangements could be made
whereby the city could purchase and pay for
the plant for what her water privileges would
cost. IL will be seen that during the eighteen
years yet 20 run Of the contract the city will pay
70 the water works $50, 800.
Within the past twelve months there have
been erected within the incorporate limits OF
Lithonia, which extend only half a mile each
way from the depot, 80 residences at an average
cost OF about 1890 EACH between 20 ana Z.
tenant houses at probable cost Of from $50 Il
sou each, brick mercantile houses on Main
street which are an ornament TO the town /.
frame mercantile houses and livery stable
Within the last year also the Lithonia Granite
company, the youngest Of our strong granite
companies, and which is composed almost en-