The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-11
GEORGIA AID FLORIDA,
TIE News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs,


The Boston World, one Of the leading
papers of the wireEraas belt, comes out
strongly for Robert G.. Mitchell for gov
ernor.
Fermor Barrett. OF Washington, VIII in
a few weeks commence the publication Of
a new paper to be called theNilkeS News.
1t win be a semi-weeklE
Pryor & Wilson saw mill in Sumter
county was burned last week. The nre
originated from spark from the engine.
The loss was about $500.
A new, patented safety pin that knocks
the shine of all others can be manufuc-
tured in Atlanta, and it wont take more
than 81, 800 70 buy the plant,
The Macon wheelmeu are now pleas
antly chartered in their new club rooms
on Mulberry street The membership OF
the club is gradually increasing.
Up TO date there have been shipped 42j
carloads of watermelOns over the Fast
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road About 80 per cent. of the melons
so far shipped over. the East Tennessee
road have been consigned to eastern
markets, and yet il is estimated that the
demand in that market has not fairly be-
gun.
The merchandise brokers of Atlanta
are kicking against the action Of the city
council in changing the city license. They
are now Obliged to pay an annual license
of $50 for doing a brokerage business
This must be paid in advance. If a broker
does any buying on his own account he
must pay an additional license of 500
They claim that this is unjust ana will
take some action in the matter.
Frank Griner was drowned while fish
ing in Dry branch in 1wigPs county sat
urday. He had gone out early in the
morning to fish, and while crossing
footlog fell into hole of water about
eight feet deep, and not being able 10
swim, was drowned His body lay in
the water till nearly noon, when
parties passing over noticed 1t lodged in
a pile Of driftwOod near the bank,
The Central railroad has put gate keep
ers at the iron gates just under the train
shed at the Union depot at Macon. All
parties not having tickets or who are not
employed at the depot or on the trains
are now forced 10 keep out. The gates
are a great paOtectiOn to the railroad,
but cause a great deal of hardship and
annoyance TO people who go to the depot
to meet relatives and friends coming in
on the trains.
Three thousand people were out at
Smyrna Thursday to hear Tom Watson.
He spoke for two hours and half the
same speech in substance that he doliv-
cred at Douglasville There was no dis
turbance of any kind and everything
passed Off quietly. WatsOn's was the
only speech that was made. A kind of
picnic or social meeting was held in the
afternoon. Watson was not feeling well,
and left on the 40 O'Clock train for
home.
The governor has appointed !. I. John
son, =. w Hale and I. j. Lumpkin. all of
Dade county, to act with a commission
from Tennessee and fix the boundary line
between That state and tins. A law prOvi-
ding for the appointment OF such a com
mission was passed several years ago.
Tennessee has a like law and Governor
Tmney will appoint commissioners to
meet with the Georgia men in the near
future and fix the line for all time to
come.
L. Solomon and John Sanders were be-
fore the recorder at Macon Friday morn
ing charged with cruelty TO animals. The
evidence before the recorder brought out
the fact that the men had tied the feet Of
= half dozen calves together and put their
heads in a corn sack, which was also tied.
In unloading the calves from uray
rope was put around their necks and they
were pulled from the draY to the ground.
The recorder fined them so each or six
ty days on the gang.
For several days it has been rumored
around Augusta that number Of officers
of the Georgia Chemical Works have been
asked to resign, Several of the officers
have been seen and they refuse to say
anything about the matter, but do say as
far as they know that none of the officers
elected by the board Of directors have re-
ceived any such communication, as the
annual meeting has been pos tpOned 1t is
al
be held in Augusta, and that there is
some probability Of its being very inter
esting one. RumOr says that the entire
force of minor officers, as they may be
termed, will more than likely retire from
the employ of the concern.
Saturday afternoon while a party of
young men and boys We're standing in
front of Buffers store, three miles east
of ZebulOn, directly under the telephone
wire that connects GAINESVILLE and Zebu-
Ion, thunder cloud came up. Light
ming struck and instantly killed Walter
Weaver, an industrious young man just
twenty-One years old shocked Frank
Buchanan and tore his shoes from his
feet; scorched the pantaloons of two Of
Mr.. Buffers little boys, and passing along
the wire two or three hundred yards to
Ridley's store, shocked ring from the
finger of Win Ridley, which before that
NlllGCf was 81 lAAlb Jliiu MI. lNlNllGA Ahulu
hardly force it off. None of those shocked
are seriously hurt.
Atlanta Herald: Mrs c. G. Post, who
might be called the mother of the third
party in Georgia, is doing a queer bust
ness, under the name of Mrs. Helen VIII
mans, at 296 Crew street, in Atlanta. She
is treating patients by mail, protesting to
cure all sorts of disease, at so much per
week, by system called mental science.
Mrs. Post furnishes the will power; the
patient furnishes the faith. It's the sim
plest thing on earth. It's profitable, too.
"My regular rates. she said Friday
night, "are S. u week. l am now
treating sixty patients" She has
no patients in Atlanta and wants
none, so long as she remains here,
giving only 'absent treatments
Mrs Posts system requires an extraor-
binary amount of faith in the patient, who
must believe: l. That Mrs. Post,
though hundreds of miles away, can
cure any Imaginable disease by means of
Thought transmission. " ,. That Mrs.
Postis actually trying to do what she
was paid to 90. Twice day, at arbi-
traFily fixed hours, the patient, following
printed directions, puts himself or her
self into a state Of complete mental re
taxation. Like trance. At these fixed
hours, twice a day, Mrs. Post is snip
posed TO establish a sort of magnetic
connection with the receptive mind of
the patient. The current is On-that ex-
presses 1t roughly-iifteen minutes at
each sitting. viii power flows from the
mind of Mrs Post into the mind of the