The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
The News Of tht Two States Told
in Paragraphs.

Teachers Voting on the Holding Of
County Institutes.
GEORGIA.
Crops are reported TO be clean Of grass
IN nearly all portions Of Washington
county.
Macon's superintendent of public
schools, B. NJ Zethler, has been re
elected.
At Townsville melon shipments are
dropping of The bulk of the crop has
been shipped.
Washington countys colt exhibit viii
be held in the courthouse yard at Sanders
vile on the first Tuesday in August
There will be a reunion of Company B.,
59th Regiment Georgia Volunteers at
Bethlehem church in Washington county
on Friday, Aug. f.
Al meeting of the county board of
education held last Wednesday il was de-
termined to have a new census taken of
the school population Of Washington
county.
Ed Hardin, the only son of Hon. Mark
Hardin, is quite i'll at the home of Hon. J.
H. Mecaslin at Atlanta. Mr. Hardin is con-
fned to his home with typhoid pneumo-
MIA and the chances are against his re-
covery.
Sergeant Cicero of the Macon police
force has had hard luck with his chick
ems lately. Out of several broods, num-
bering in all about one hundred, Just
good frying size, he has lost every one
BY the countless thieves that are now
overruning the city.
All the counties of the state are now
being polled with a view to obtaining an
expression of the sentiments of the people
of the state in regard to county institutes.
The teachers Of Taliaferro county oppose
county institutes and do not favor the
movement to adopt a single standard of
text books.
George c. Hogan of Amity in Lincoln
county, who some time ago bought the
corner near the depot at Washington,
formerly owned by J. NJ Callan, will in
the next few weeks begin the erection of
a two-story brick store 30x90 feet; and
will begin the mercantile business there
as, soon as the building is completed
Frank Morgan one Of the most popular
trainmen on the Georgia Pacific railroad,
lost a leg Monday near Muscadine,
station about sixty miles from Atlanta.
Morgan's left foot was caught in the frog
Of a switch and before he could extract it
the train was upon him and he was
crushed under the wheels. The limb was
terribly mangied from the knee down,
and amputatiOn was found necessary.
Crops are said, to be spotted in Wash
ington county, which means that in some
portions they are rood and in others very
poor. Rains have been partial, and the
reports are to the effect that crops have
suffered considerably on this account in a
few localities, while in others there has
been an abundance. The corn crop is
said to be below an average, and the cot
ton crop, as a general thing, is small.
II nj ~ & ifalr nd -no
lives on the Callaw pace at Long Cane,
in Troup county, saw some one in his
melon patch at the witching hour of 2
O'Clock, and having a trusty Winchester
with him, blazed away in the dark in the
direction of the intruder. The ball struck
b negro by the name of viii Smith, going
through the right lung and producing a
very serious wound, which may yet prove
fatal
J. NJ. Bird, one of Sumter's solid and
prosperous farmers, was in Americas
Monday for the purpose of disposing of
q portion of his last years corn crop.
MIR. Bird has more than 1000 bushels
over and above what will be needed to
supply his plantation the balance of the
year, and found no trouble in selling all
offered at good prices. His corn crop
this year is most promising, as is also his
cotton and other crops.
Last Thursday afternoon Sol Kelley
was blowing corn on j. G. Whiddon's
place, about five miles from Sandersville,
when he was overcome by sunstroke.
DR.. j. b. Roberts was called to attend
him and reports that he is getting along
as well as could be expected. Sunstrokes
rarely prove fatal in the south Mr.. Kel-
ley was blowing very tall corn which ex-
cluded the air, and this caused him TO
auccumb to the intense heat
Barney Hill, a negro Is years of age,
was shot at Atlanta, Tuesday, by another
negro, Ben Watts. The men were en-
gagged in game of ball and the entire
crowd began fighting. Watts fired his
pistol and the ball went into Hills stom-
ach. He refused to be taken to the hos
pital, and was carried to his home back
Of Grant park His injuries are serious
and he will not allow the ball to be ex-
tracted. Watts has not been arrested.
A peculiar accident happened TO Joseph
McCready, an employee of the Consolida-
ted Street railway at Atlanta, Monday
afternoon, at the corner of Line street
and Edgewood avenue. He was on one
of the company's cars with his right foot
hanging off the platform when some
thing struck him Just above the ankle,
causing a painful fracture. No one on the
car can say exactly how the accident oc-
CURED and the injured man himself does
not know.
- Notwithstanding the intense heat Sun
day, fully 1000 people filed the colored
hardshell church at Americas, where ser
vices were held throughout the day. AT
noon, Rev. Henry McLendon, of Schley
county, began a discourse which lasted
nearly three hours, at the end of which
he fell from the pulpit completely ex-
hausted. He was carried out and restora-
tiVes applied and he soon recovered. In
the meantime another preacher had taken
his place in the pulpit, preaching power
full sermon nearly three hours in length.
There is perhaps no happier home in
the south than that of Speaker Charles f.
Crisp, of the national house of represen-
tatiVes. Judge Crisp has recently moved
into his new house on one of the prettiest
residence streets of Americas, and there
he and his interesting family are at home
tQ'their friends until the extra session calls
the speaker back to Washington. Judge
Crisp has been at home in Americas
most all summer, not leaving there until
the Fourth of July speech before Tamma-
ny called him off to New York and then he
hurried right back 10 get ready for the
extra session. No man loves home better
tan Judge Crisp.
In April, 1892, the Clubhouse on the
Rawlings plantation, about two or three
miles west of Sandersville, was burned
Information has been brought to light fix
ing the burning on Lewis and William
Johnston, colored. father and son. A
commitment trial was held before JUS