The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
m PARAGRAPHa

The East Rome Land company "
Be Wound Up-Rome's Butter-maker
Returns and Sets Himself Right-A
Big Cut in the Salaries Of Atlanta
Dry Goods Clerks.
GEORGIA.
Mrs W. W. Boyd and Mrs. A. b. Akernen
died at atlanta Saturday,
The Southern Presbyterian assembly VIII De
IN session at Macon from May Is 10 may q
A move is about to take shape looking to the
organization of cooperative company LOT tue
purpose of building new cotton mn at oo'ulh-
bus.
Last Sunday afternoon two negroes, named
George Pryor and Frank Treadway, fought near
the New Rome furnace, at Rome, ana as result
one Of them died Saturday.
The East Rome Town Company, which has
been in existence for many years. has served It's
purpose and Is coming to and end. The charter
which was granted for twenty years, mas eA-
pred, and the stockholders being anxious to
have the affairs of the company wound up,
bill has been fled and John 81. Reynolds has
been made temporary receiver Of the company
The object of having receiver Is TO nave Lhe
property distributed aud all Of the matters
closed up equitably.
A report reached Griffin Saturday night Of a
double murder, committed near Lowry, in Fay
cite county. about twelve miles northwest OF
Griffin Saturday afternoon, about O'Clock.
a white man by the name of II. ?. Malone shot
and fatally wounded two negro men, named
almost instantly, while the other was not ex-
pected to live. Malone has fled and officers are
in pursuit and state that $50 reward is offered
for his apprehension.
A petition addressed to his Excellency Gov,
Northen is being circulated by the wife and
friends OF W. A. Jones. convicted In Sumter su-
perior court for the crime of seduction, asking
Tor his pardon from the penitentiary, where he
is now serving a six years sentence. Jones mad
two trials in the superior court at Americus,
and was sentenced to four and later to six years
in TIE peniten1ary for his crime, His case was
carried to the supreme court which afnrmed
the decision of the court below.
For eight years CoWeta county has been con-
trOlled by a prOhibItOry law, combining the sale
of liquors to druggists and in quantities not less
than one quart. That law has Just been declared
unconstitutional, when the autles reJoced eX-
ceednRly until the uncil of Newman met and
assessed a lie snse of $1,000 per year for selling
by the quart or larger package. The numerous
churches distributed over Coweta prevents the
opening of barrooms in the rural districts, and
il is evident the present council viii protect
Newman.
The Peoples Adu7cate, which was removed
from Greensboro to Crawfordvie couple OF
weeks ago, is In trouble. The trouble grew out
of q Misunderstanding between Paul Smith, the
editor, and Mr.. Boone. the manager of the
Taper the result of which was that Mr.. Boone
severed his connection with the ADVOCATE.
SpurgeOn Williams, an emplOye of the paper,
got out q labOrers lien upon the outfit, and
bRiliff Harris closed the doors of the office. The
paper owes Williams about $50 for wages earned
had despaired Of getting 1t in any other way
than the one he took. Later in the day VIII
Jams dropped the case and went back to work.
At Columbus Saturday morning two negro
women went into the Surprise store and were
looking at pair OF shoes one decided to buy
a pair and while the clerk hal turned his back
the other one, Nancy Fuller by name, stole
pair lying conveniently near. Then her com.
paniOn decided MOTTO buy the pair she had
ordered and they both walked out. In few
moments pair Of shoes we're discovered miss
1ng, AMI Mr. Andrews resolved himself into
detective ana started ont hunting the thief. 1t
did not take him long TO find her in the store Of
j. K. Harris & Co. He went Immediately to
Ter. found the shoes on her person, took them
and called policeman and had the woman
All public improvements will probably have
L be stopped in Atlanta for the remainder Of
is year. The city some time ago voted $3.50
COO worth Of water bonds, A few days ago
effort was made to float these bonds at e719 per
Cent VIII n It was discovered that they were
Nalueless, the legal requirements not having
been com plled with In calling the election. I'm
Ger the city charter the present council is uu-
able 10 rectfy the mistake, and in order that
the city may meet its payments due on the
water works it will be necessary for them to
draw on tie fund set aside for paving aud other
htre improvements, and in doing this they
viii entirely exhaust that fund, as it will be
-c7ssary to at once put a stop to all work
of this KIM.
All of the leading dry goods men Of Atlanta
except Steve Ryan have combined and will re
uuce the wages of all clerks 80 per cent. This
sweeping reduction will be made on April and
VIII continue throughout the summer and
longer, il trade does not improve. The mer-
chants declare that it is simply an imposslbilitY
for them TO continue paying the wages they
have as long as times are as bard With them as
now. CONSERVATION prevails among the clerks,
who say that IL will be impossible for them TO
live on the wages they will receive after the cut
is made on April / Their wages in the past
have been low enough to keep them hustling to
maze both ends meet, and now that they are TO
be cut even lower the poor clerks reel utterly
discouraged. They viii endeavOr to get their
employers 70 agree to a compromise and to
make the reduction less, but that they will be
IN any way successful is very doubtful.
Rome Tribune: The butter maker, j. W.
Jarrett for whom the warrant was sworn out
by John H. Eastman, returned TO the city Sat
urday night. He came down from Chattanooga
ana said he knew nothing about warrant being
issued for him. He appeared to be greatly sur
prised ami was greatly wrought up over the
publication of his butter making scheme in the
Iapers. He claimed most vehemently that he
could 10 lust what he had claimed to do and
asked a crowd to go with him to his boarding
house on Second avenue, where a test
would be made, Deputy Sheriff McCon-
nell, Jsiler Copeland and several others,
including three newspaper men, went
along. They went into the boarding house and
waite until the preparations were made for
the performance He took a quart of warm
milk which he had warmed on the stove and put
il in tin can. lie then put into the milk a
small quantity OF white powder and then a
lew drops OF red HQuld which ne had In a
small bottle and stirred it in the milk He then
put the can containing the milk and other stuff
in kettle of warm water on the stove. 1t stood
there for a few moments. Two pounds of butter
were then cut into small bits and put into the
churn. He then poured the milk and other
stuff into the Churn and proceeded to churn it
vigorously for a short time In a short time the
contents of the Churn had coaguated and be-
come a soft and oily substance like butter.
Several persons tasted of the substance and said
it tasted like real butter. The whole was
then poured into dish and weighed and after
deducting the estimated weight of the dish it
was found to weigh four pounds Garrett then
claimed that he had done all that he claimed to
do. But when some of those present suggested
that a chemical analysis be made to prove the
product real butter. he seemed reluctant, say
ing that be would do 50 at some future time.
II as asked that he put some OF it in sealed
bottle and turn it over to the sheriff to be sent
to Dr. II. c. White at Athens 10 be analysed,
but he declined to do so and refused to turn
over any of the butter to Deputy Sheriff Nc
Cornell He will remain here in custody unit
the warrant against him is disposed or
FLORIDA.
Ocala proposes to have another board o.