The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
The News Of the Two States Told
in Paragraphs.


Freeze-A Man Suspected Of Inform
ing on 1Ioonshiners Narrowly Es-
capes Assassination-A Plant 20
Manufacture Plovv Handles 70 be To-
Gated At Columbus.
GEORGIA
Rome's public schools are attended ny !. s.,
scholars
Moultrie is agiJatiaE the question o. s IRE
department.
There are plenty Of Cea-1c~ or t-c ,ac.,-s- "a
Southern from Corce-o >o-tE.
The Columbus ana .7-lf Nar5zar.o1 C.-1-
pany has declared 8 G-v-st5-- r- sa-- ec-t
1t is now believed the-e w-l- es q ea-- --,9
Of apples in Houston, a-1 a Fs-< t5F sa--e>
and pears
Near Valdos:s We1-e~zsv. E.--ee- as
Call was thrown by -1-aear ----s e--
fearfuIy bruised a1o-- z-- --s>- 4-- z5a-
j. b. Sanders q uew cc=z- -c ts-sr>-a-
has purchased q Loo on @. -z-S-- >E---- ----
J, F. Lewis and Is p-s-4---E 70 s-s,- s. -l-
house thereon.
Rev w. 3. Jennings ras-,r % ->s E1-~-
Pres bvterfan church Ia Naccr haS zac -e-
6yteriau church
Fish are reported un-S1a--y r-s1sts-- az The
canal locks GA the savannah river. la sls
vicinity OF Augusta winch Is l-Gr- .l-5- Co the
strict enforce ueru Of the state laws
It is generally conceded By the farmers @,
Telfalr that the Fruit crop Is entirely de.
apples, of hen there uAT &c few
on Tuesday r. =. N0oley, OF Mississippi,
and Miss jamie MJ~Eau-. OF woodstock. were
married. Their cour-slip began through IN
advertisement inserted 0E the 5rl4e-rO0n In
matrimonial paper. seeking wife.
Clyde Shropshire. vice consel general at
Paris. will be at home on vacation In June.
and Or. Battle president Of shorter college.
at Rome, has invited him 20 deliver tue an
nual address. Mr shropshire has accepted.
Boss Armstrong and John Johnson, colored,
are now resting ehiud-ihe Ears OF the Doug
herty county jail. charged with having muir
dered Gus Motion. also Co.o.ed. The murder
was committed on the ]. j.. Grassland planta-
ton, in East DOugherty.
The Methodist parsonage at Valdosta,
has neen sold TO Gordon Crawford for 81 55l.
Rev. Mr. An houy will rent a house in the
city. AS soon as the new church is complete,
the Methodilsts intend building new parsQl
age on the loJ where the church now stands
L. A. Morgan, recently OF the Vienna PROG
ress, for the past few months O merchant up
at Perry, was notified by Hon. Charles +.
Crisp last week that he had Sc ,ured for him
position in the government printing once at
Washington. Mr.. Morgan is investigating the
matter, and has not decided yet whether he
will accept the position or not
Thursday night the prisoners in the jail at
Louisville broke out and escaped. They
were evidently assisted by some one from the
outside for they were locked up in the cells
and could not have broken the locks to The
cage and the cells. Every lock was brokeu
and the doors open wide There is no clue as
to who rendered the assistance.
At Columbus Wednesday. James Judson. o
young son of w +. Hudson was very badly
injured, and Andrew TOmblin, little fellow
about years OF age, was painfully hurt by
being run over by runaway horse The
Hudson boy right thigh was broken, while
his body and head were considerably bruised
and lacerated. he Tomblin child was only
painfully bruised.
Sheriff Hunt and Deputy English Of
Pulaski county, went down into the IJarreu
settlement on Saturday night with war ants
for the arrest OF several nero gam oilers
They ran atoul Of their game about o clock
Sunday morning, and arrested four OF thu
gang, and when Deputy English went in to
arrest the NTH one, the negro drew musk
ana in self-defense Mr.. English shot m.
The result OF the wound was in DOUBT a last
accounts.
J. A. spain has returned to Columbus from
western trip where he visited one OF Two
cities that had made propositions for his
plow-haudle factory. Mr.. Spain states that
he and Peter j. Herman, who is associated
with him, have decided to locate the estab-
nshment IN Columbus, and Mr. spain has re-
turned to look after the erection of the plant,
Elch will cost about $1,000 In come stion
with the pillow handles they Will also manu-
facture sngletrees, wagon rims and wire plow
lines.
Lafayette Messenger: Saturday night,
about ! O'Clock, Wash Lowry, who lives
e on the he o als9a Ia9 road was awqk
or fifteen disguised men They wanted 10
know where Jud GOodsOn lived. When told
s., e.
quarter OF mile away, he was forced to go
there and call him out. When Goodson, In
answer to his question, Who Is theres' was
told that il was Wash Lowry, he
of the men he was told to
throw up his hands. Instead Of doing it, lac
broke into a run. AS he did so ten or fifteen
shots were fired at him. He escaped unhur;
The men, seeing that their man had gotten
away, left, going down the Alabama road.
Goodson is said TO be accused OF reporting
stills to the department. When Mr. Smith
examined the house next day il showed that
the crowd had shot to Kill. There were bull
let marks from squirrel rifles. Wnchesters
and pistols, as we'll as shot from shot guns,
Rome Tribune: The case of Mrs. Matte
Barnett vs. the Rome Railroad Company has
just been finally decided by the supreng
court The history Of this case is an inter
esIlng one. several years ago Mr.. Barnett
quite young m IN. was employed by the Pat
ton Manufacturing Company One day he
was sorting lumber in the Rome railroad
yard, when switch engine came along and
struck the pile Of lumber, scattering il in all
directions, and fatally injurng young Bar
nett, who shortly after died. The widow
brought suit against the railroad company
alleging carelesSness and negligence on the
part OF the engineer, and claiming damages
from the company. The case was tried and
the Jury returned verdict for the plantid
Tor S-2bL The company carried the case to
the supreme court, which granted q new
Trial On the second trial the jury returned
pany again carried the case
10 the supreme court, and at this time the
Judgment of the lower court was affirmed So
the verdict stands A peculiar fact in
connection with the case is that the principal
witness for the plaintiff was Joe Herrick who
was afterwards sentenced TO the penitentiary
Tor manslaughter and has since been par
doned. The railroad company claimed that
Herrlck committed perjury in this case
while the plaintln claims that his testimony
was fully corrobOrated by other evidence he
supreme court in its decision. saws that mn
less Herrick swore the truth the verdict
would be an outrage; but as the jury believed
him and the presiding Judge refused a new
trial the court felt constrained to affirm the
judgment The railroad company is now
threatening TO hunt up Herrick and prosecute
him for perjury.
FLORIDA
There is talk Of establishing government
Station a Fort Cliugh