The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

OneF N Murray county Re4ehsSu "
his Friends-Augusts to Have a
Soap Fsctory-A Negroes Corpse 70
be Embalmed SO That It Can be Kept
as Mummy.
GEORGIA
Augusta is TO have q soap factory. The CAPT
tai stock viii he about $4,000.
Il is reported that West Rome is soon 70 have
two churches, a Methodist sud e Baptist
Atthe session Of the quarterly conference OF
the First Methodist cnurch al Athens MohuaF
night, John J. McNally was licensed 70 pTeach
the gospel. Mr. McNally 10 city editor OF the
Athens Bdnue}.
A movement is on foot in East Athens to sep
arate from the city ana form Hunlcipal gov
ernmenL OF their own. A meeting VAL Dc neId
tomorrow night liz asst Athens 90 discuss the
feasibility OF this plan.
T. G Hackney OF Rome old on honda his
entire stlcS q +. 4. Annlnnltt, or cave
Spring, Mr. Minhinuitt Ia, been running the
distilerv near Cave Spring, but Will make
Rome his head quarters 10 the future
A weli-knowu voUng man in Augusta Dor
rowed a coat from q friend and then pa~ned it
for % cents. When arrested he paid the
amount and vas released. lie also borrowed an
oveTcoa. from the same friend and gave 1t
away.
Louis Lewis. the condemned murderer of his
wife sentenced to haug March 81 in Bib coun-
~ jail. has given up ell hope OF escaping the
gsllOws and spends great deal OF ms time
"a Of the White school Lewis stu insists that
The killing OF his wife was accidental and de
clsres that he viii remain firm on that point to
the d.
Some unknown and liberal spirit has papered
the walls Of the Baptist church Ia NIneVilie.
Last Thursday the special services at this
church ended and before dlsmIssug the con
gregation Rev. Mr.. HallOry stated that he had
received an anonymous letter asking If there
would be any objection to the paperlnR or the
church. There none aud the walls were
soon handsomely paperei.
Col James VI. Smith, the successful farmer
OF OEi thorpe county, whose friends in his
county are aiming him FOR governor next time,
reports the wheat and ats crops good and says
tie outlook for more prosperous times for tne
planters better than since the war. Col
Smita is one Of the most practical and sensible
farmers ia Georgia, and bis opinions Will give
great pleasure 10 aid who read them. Col.
Smith viii plant for $3.50 bales Of cotton the
present year.
Rome Tribune: /. J. Wagner returned Sat
urday from Carter,vlle, where he went t. make
q huel report on tue water works plant. In his
report he said the works entire and complete
cost IN 1857 the sum OF S42uOU. Inc Carriers
Vile Light aud Nat,r Company estimated them
al SpU 600 but after hearing the itemized report
OF Mr. wagner proposed to take Si5,OOJ or
Gainesville bonds Oearing5 per cent. interest
Tor the entire plant, and there IS no doubt that
Lhe Oler will be accepted.
Athens Banner: woman's screams at
tracted tie attention Of people down near the
AFeOIEla QepOJ SuQ4Ay. 0ue was laNeuuuR
over the disappearance Of her little enid. II
seems that her husband didn't want her TO 90
70 church sunday morning, but she went.
While she Was gone her husband took his little
cAIn and went down to the Georgia railroad
and locked il ~ IN q box car. So when his
wife came home she was frantic It'll grief, not
knowing where her child had gone. After he
Lad worried his wife considerably the man went
down to the car and gOy his child and brought
it back.
Another prisoner was taken from the officials
OF the law in Murray county Monday night.
telon Nining was detained by Marshal Sid
kelster of Springplace, having committed som e
trivial OffeRse against the town ordinances. He
had been tried, convicted and fined Sl5 and
costs. he was held at the marshal's house. be-
ing guarded by Deputy MARSHAL Harry Peoples,
who was sleeping in the same room with him.
About l. o CLOCK p.m.ten masked men appeared
IN the room and with cooked pistols demanded
bis release. Cf course Peoples did not resist,
ana NlninS was taken away by his friends.
Peoples says the men could have been easily
arrested If the town had turned out to his as
slstance.
At the electric light plant at Brunswick Tues
DAY night William Lucree, the ensineeT of the
electric plant, received sock which came near
ending his life. He was alone 10 the motor room
busy with an oil can Olln5 the motors, when tie
can came ID contact with some live wire, it is
though the ground wire, as the main wire was
charged with 1850 volts, which would have
meant instant dea-h. Nothing was known Of
tbs shock until Mr. Lucree started into the en-
u
and was cauEat by Electrician lyerson " allaca.
he al once became unconscious. Dr.. Burford
went TO the electric plant and found Mr. Lucree
uncOncious he rendered medical aid and be-
fore midni hit he began 10 rally and Dr. Bur.
ford announced that tn shock would not prove
fatal though lt was very severe.
Augusta EUsHiug Net1s: There Is mummy
~ Augusta; or, at least, dead mao that viii
soon b. one. He IS AZ the undertaking esteb-
lsnmeut OF Mr. Platt and is being mummihe
BY hr- Platt aud his assistant Mr.. jenkins, the
emURimer. The neRrO's name was George
Brown, and be died some days ago at the Freed
mans hospital OF al inCuraO.e disease. Mr..
flatt obtained the body 10 WORK on an ex
pertinent, has been quite successful. He
has teen at work on the body for about eight
days now, aud the fluid is Gst taking effect In
about three or four weeks the body will have
hardened and will en- keep always, Just as the
luummles OF ancient Egypt have done. The
art OF mummiryiug was lost to the world for
thousands OF years, and 1t was only recently
that a way 70 preserve dead bodies from disin-
tegration was discovered. What the
crst But S 70 less fact s9aT saa. It c sS
b done, We will now be able to have our
bodies fixed so as our great grandchildren
greRt-RraBdchLirsl can see how their ancestors
a. the cody this morning, but Mr. Plett will not
permit any one else to enter the cold room
The man Is stretched, nude, on marble slab
and strange odors pervade the halt lit apart
ment. There are sits here and there in the
flesh where every once and awhile the fluid is
Injected IN q day or two there will be enough
Of the fuid put Ia and then the body will be put
in a dry closet and the crystalizing OF the fluid
will preserve and harden the flesh so that il will
become hard and dry when IL will keep like
herring OF Goldfish. Mr.. Platt will. when he has
finished, dress the body and keep it as relic.
FLORIDA.
The moss receipts at Gainesville have been
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