The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
GEORGIA And FLORIDA.
News Of The Two States Told in Para
graphs.

The Bobbin Mill at Athens to Be Made
a Big sucoess-A Big Enterprise on
Foot in Ebert County.
GEORGIA.
Work is about to be commenced on the
new electric lire al Columbus
The two Padgetts. charged with break
ing open "a car in Echols county, and
confined in Jail at Naldusta. were released
on bonds of $500 each MoTday.
A young married woman named Han
cock COmIaitted suicide in MOultrie
Wednesday by shooting herself three
times with a pistol Separation from her
husband is supposed to be the cause.
ReidsviIe journal: A tram road is be
ing built from Ohoopee river out thrOus h
this section by Giles & Dewitt and the
whistle Of the locomotive almost makes us
forget that we live in the back woods.
HiIlard ConnaIly, colored shot and
killed Matte Bonner. COlored, in Wood
bury last Monday night. Jealousy was the
cause of the homicide. Connaly fed from
the scene Of the crime and is still at large.
The farmers of Sumter are solid for an
other year. so far as provisions count.
Besides plenty of home-raised meat, corn
and potatoes the yield of syrup this fail
will be the largest in many years, perhaps
since the war.
Mrs. Georgia Vautrot of Cochran has
among her household effects a set Of sill
yer spoons which have been in constant
use in her family for more than one hum
dred years. She has also a pair of tongs
that have been in use seventy-fve years.
The carshed of the street railway COM
pany at Athens was set on fire this morn
ing at o'clock, but luckily the fire was
discovered before any great amount of
damage was done. No clue has been OBJ
tanned as to the person who fired the shed.
The two stills on the turpentine farm of
]. R. Shepard of Nameless, Dodge coun-
~, Of which Sol Herman is receiver,
were burned on last Saturday night. Only
about thirty barrels of rosin and spirits
We're consumed. The fire was thought to
have been that of an incendiary. The
loss will probably amount to 500.
The Gainesville railroad seems to be a
thing of life after slumbering for num-
Der of years. A Chicago capitalist win
soon visit Gainesville and make a per-
sonal inspection of the road and if it IS
found a field to suit his ideas for invest
ments the money is forthcoming to
grade and equip the road from Canton to
Gainesville
Judge Sweat has ordered a sale of the
brewery property at Brunswick on the
first Tuesday in January for the best
price that can be obtained subject to the
confirmation of the court. 1t is said that
this property can be made to pay, and IL
is not improbable that a company will be
formed at the north to buy il in and place
the plant in operation.
The bobbin mill at Athens under the
management of Dr.. II. II. Carlton, is being
rapidly improved. and promises to be-
come quite an important industry. Dr.
Carlton is now filling an order for 10000
bObbins for a large North Carolina fac
tory. This is the only bobbin mill in the
south, and DR.. Carlton is determined TO
make it great enterprise.
On Saturday night last about four
miles west of Eastman, an alteration
arose between Charles Horne and Tom
Davis, which resulted in Davis shooting
Horne in the leg. While the fight was GO
ing on Bryant Whitehead ran up, and Da-
Wis, thinking he was going to take part
in the melee, fired upon him, two of the
balls penetrating his arm between the
elbow and shoulder. Davis is still at
large
An accident that came near being a fatal
one occurred a the cotton mills at Elber-
ton last Sunday morning about 10 o'clock
Mr. Patterson, the Waterman at the mill,
while playing with some boys, accident
ally let his pistol drop from his pocket
1t fell on a rock and fired, the ball
taking effect in the hip joint of Glenn
Royal, one of the mill operators DR..
johnson was called in, but failed to find
the ball. Royal is getting on very well.
considering the severe wound.
Surprise has been caused at Dalton bv
the announcement that Hon. w. r. Ran
kin OF Gordon had espoused the congress
ional candidacy Of DIR. William H. Eel
ton. II was done in a speech delivered
in Calhoun Thursday, in which he is quo
ted as espousing DR.. FELTON,, pledging
him his support for congress, saying he
found bigger chunks of pure democracy
IN Or. Felton's record and the Peoples
party than anywhere in this COMPRESSION
al district"
James Schewen deliberately waded into
the Ocmulgee river at Athens Wednesday
afternoon and drowned himself fish
erman saw him commit the act Schewen
was a stone cutter. He fell in love with
young lady, but she refused him on &C
count of his drinking habits Wednesday
a wedding occurred at the Episcopal
church. The sight Of the bridal party
brought UP his own love affair and so he
went off and drowned his sorrows in the
river instead of the cup, as was his Gus
tom. 1t is said that Schewen has wealthy
parents living in Scotland.
Henry Clayton. colored, was shot in the
arm last Tuesday by Ike Hill a young
white boy. The shooting occurred on Mat
fetts pond near GreenVille. Hill was hunt
iA6 htAAo W me the negro was IN q DaLe1u
fishing with nets. The bateau glided noise
lessly up to a clumb of bushes and Clayton
began to take up his nets. Hin saw what
he thought to be a duck and fred both
charges of his gun at and toward the
same. Simultaneous with the report of the
gun was cry Of pain and the duck hunter
made the discovery that he had taken
Clayton's hands for a duck and filled
them with shot The negro was painfully
but not severely wounded.
Two charters were granted in the SUI
perior court at Brunswick Thursday one
for the Atlantic Investment Company, rep
resented by Attorney h. l.. Twitty. and
the other for the Bergen Improvement
Company, represented by Attorneys
Crovatt & Whitfield The purpose
of the investment company is to
do business on a plan similar
to the Building and Loan association. The
Bergen Improvement Company is con-
posed Of William O. Allls on, president of
the Brunswick company; Caroline G. ALI
son, w E Recknagle and A. II. Lane.
The purpose of their organization is to im-
prove, care for, and add TO their present
holdings in Brunswick.
After a passenger train on the Central
railroad its paN Augueto baI