The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-22
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
The News Of the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.

A Valuable Invention by the Man
ager of Rone's Telephone Exchange.
A Nsgress Fatally Burned in
Dougherty County.
GEORGIA.
The building Of q uew factory at Princeton,
q suburb Of Athens viii begin soon.
The Improvements on the Warwick mills.
at Augusta. a e now nearly completed and
the capacity OF the mill is doubled
Monday gat the large disrllery Of J. a.
Fowler. neaE Athens was burned down The
origin OF the hre IS unknown. The loss was
pretty heavy one.
General NaIater s. F. PARROT Of the
Columbus SoatLe railway. is in Claxton
buving timber. AM eX 9 t. 10 locate large
saw mill there to ut cross ties. -s.-
Dogs are Killing sheep at fearful rate IN
the woods between Au gGsta and Pine City.
R. n. sy1geus reports finding four killed IN
sight OF his hose n the la 81 ten days
Gov and Mrs No then cele Grated the SD
anniversary OF their marriage tuesday. ] he
governor was at his ONCE all the morning, but
in the afternoon had family gathering at
the mansion.
At Macon Wednesday Mrs. Joe Skinner
baby was horribly bitten by pet coon be-
longing 10 Mrs. Tisserau, 1t is said that the
nose OF tAe haby was bitten entirely OF by the
coon. II is thought that the child may die.
R E. Butler has bought the Swank farm.
near Marietta, id viii build nic3 house
thereon and otherwise improve the farm. 5.
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near Marietta, and will build an eight room
house thereon.
On the auL LEGATION OF W. W. bennett. John
Silvey and oJner creditors, Coke Stewart has
been appointed reoeil er for the business OF
Brown Brothers s Co, clio hing manuiactur-
eTs OF Atlanta. The eSta llshment, accord
ing to the pplicatiOn is conducted by D. d.
Wheeler un1er the style and firm name
given.
Lawrenceviue Herald: A cheese and butter
factory for Lewren .eyllle. How does that
strike you: Mr.. ;. K Williams, Of Nashville.
Tenn, mas writ en- TO Nc. L. h. Powell 70 as
cert in whether or not this section is suited
for that business and to kaow II the milk Of
e0J or 800 COWS could be secured should he
open such an enterprise here. Mr.. Powell
has replied in the Affirmative, and he will
PROBABLY be over soon TO open up the business,
W. NJ. MsKenzie's residence at Marietta
was robbed on thursday night Of last week.
The family was on a visit 70 Atlanta at the
time, consequently the burglars had full
freedom. Trunks were broken open and
clothing taken, while iewelry silverware and
other articles were carried on. Inc thieves
sat down a. the tanle and male meal OF
cake and wine and carried away a nice fruit
cake. They left the pack door open when
they departed. There is no cleS 50 far.
A few DAYS since a negro from the Satilla
river Visited the lumber lamp OF Hilton &
Dodge / 4 Camden county. aad was taLen in
and given supper. led for the night and
breakfast in the morning. when the men left
for their work. On returning TO camp they
missed considera le bedding and royisions.
Suspicion pointed 70 the strange negro. re
was searl he'd for and found with tn is in
his possession. when the irate tie ms ers
stripped him 70 the waist and gave him iuO
lashes vi b q strap prepared for the ocoa sion.
w. Fl. ADKINS manager Of the Postal 1ele-
graph Corapany at Rcm3, has inveate1 an
electrical FesOrdeF for regtsterln E.saltomat-
ieally, various signals and lalls. a he present
mode OF receiving is on slip OF paper The
new machine Is sim pier, marking its signals
on revolving plate in.dO and dashes. some
what similar to tho Morse aiphabet 1t keeps
record OF thec.aims and MES them away
for future geleren Q. 4 he. machine is very
simple IN ITS me. hanisua ana caa be used for
a cost much less tn Va The pre- sent mode OF re-
ceiFing calls. Mr.. Atkins has applied Tor
patent.
On the Central railroad, near Oeonee sta
q n. on the main line, wednesday, Henry La
nier, bra EN- 20 On one OF the freight trains.
fell from the tor OF one OF the cars and was
kno4lel lnseus. be In "a ling he strusk the
cut anu hen rolled back mis- head reclining
on one of the rails. lie remained in this dan
zero pos ton for folly three hours, and was
only dis. overed by an old negro man In time
TO be draggt from the track as the fast train
came dashlns by Mr.. Lalier right shoulder
was badly dislOsated aud his left ankle
fractured. The physician ia at .endauoe states
that his recoyery is DOUBTFUL.
Americas Times Recorder: Marcus SNYDER
who r. sides at POI jackson street. reported at
pol headquarters Wednesda morning that
his use had been entered aud rob ed the
night tefore. The thief made clean sweep,
even taking the salt cellars from the supper
table. OniDers Smith and o ID were detailed
to work up the case and in less than an hour
the stolen pro- erty was re oveTed and the
thief landed in The county Jail The officers sus-
peCted Mary Mer er. q me- 70 woman living in
mel h oring a as the guilty party and
when her house was searched all the stolen
property and much more that had never
been missed was recovered.
Hattie Brown, young negro woman, was
engaged In burning away some grass in her
yard In Dougherty county Monday. when her
Clothing became accidentally ignited. The
woman lost presence of mind and began
screaming and running around the yard and
through the house, he bed in the house also
caught fire, and when help finally arrived the
flames from the woman clothing were leap.
ing far ABOVE her head. he bedding was
easily exttnguished. but before anything
could be done for the woman. every thread OF
her clothing had been q en- away 10y the fire
and she was terribly burned. Portions of her
body were burned TO a crisp.
The depot OF the Georgia railroad at Sparta
was burned Wednesday morning Just before
dawn. All the freight IN the building. besides
three cars of cotton N a mum er OF empty
and loaded cars on the side tracks were con.
sumed. he agent was a le TO save oaly his
books. The oog n OF the ire is unknown
but II is thought 10 have been the work OF in
cendiaries. II is thought that burglars got
into the express otfite and set fire to the
building TO cover any clew they might have
left. IL Is estimated that the losses will reach
between - 900 and 50 900 and the railroad had
no insurance at all on its property The
losses Of the southern Express Company can,
Ayt W asst Etd4utu
Dawson News: When s. Alesler opened
his store early Monday morning he found
fastened to the bRcs door bundle OF
letters. They proved to ue from / Mfnder
the little German tailor. and among them
was long letter addressed to his brother aud
dated l. e. z the letter tells of the little
tailor harashipl in this country and. his
struggle with a thirst Tor whisky and beer
and says that unless he Oould conquer 1t he
would die by his own hands. On another
sheet was request that Mr. AleskeT
send has tody either TO Albany OF
Macon, while several more shee Is
were used in dire ting the dispo
siuon TO he ma Of his efe IS. he requested
that each pie,e Of unfinished work be re.
tUrned TO itS owner, and directed that his
goods te sold and the r1ceeds used to pay
MS deetS. glvlng the amount due ca credi.
tor. After search Minder was fouuI in the
swamp near Pace 5 mill ia an.ias snstbe con
dltlon, ana IN Ter the lnduen of drug he
had evidently taken with lal intent lie
was carried to the Barnes house and given
medical attention. lie win get we'll.
Ameri cus Times Recorder: Not 'ong since
the CorD1n ranking Company. Of eE York
took possession Of one OF the largest anC
richest Is ates Ia Arkansas embra ing 400
acres or the nnest river bottom lands in thai
state. Tne plantations are most Valuable
ana this ear o. plows were ope .ated thereon
BSslies. the estate operates two large stores
me, OF boats on the river and
a railroad running therefrom Il
the nearest town. The value of the
entire JrODeFtV into