The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
News Of The Two States Told in Para
graphs.


The New Major Of the First Battalion of
CavaIry-A Legal Fight Over the
Stock of Goods of q Macon Company.
A New Summer Resort Near Macon.
Murder Near Conner.
GEORGIA
The question of q federal court for Rome
IS again being asitated.
A. Grub an East Macon grocery man,
was arrested Tuesday for selling goods
on Sunday.
Great quantities of hay have been sold
in Sandersville. the average price being
SO cents per 100 pounds, or 81 per ton.
At Covington Monday John Anderson
was shot and killed by Reuben Bass, both
negroes, in W. d. Boggans barroom.
Tuesday afternoon two little negro boys
killed a horned snake on Prince avenue
at Athens 1t was bought by a member
of the Banner force. The owner will send
it to the Smithsonian Institute at Wash
ington-
An election for major Of the First
Georgia battalion of cavalry was held
at Atlanta Monday. Capt Barnard of
the LAGRANGE troop was elected to the
position. The officers of the Governors
Horse Guard voted for him.
Near Adairsville. last week, Jink Young,
while riding a vehicle, let his team get
away from him. and he was thrown out
and dragged for some distance in some
way by the horse. Wounds that proved
fatal were inflicted on his head. He was
about 20 years old.
The firm of Beverly Brothers & Har-
grave, proprietors of the Townsville Va
riety works, has changed. John c. Bev-
erly has sold his interest to Joseph L.
Beverly, and hereafter the firm name will
be Beverly d Hargrave. J. G. Beverly
will devote his time to looking after his
farm.
At Adairsvile Sunday, Misses Jessie
Coombs, Lily Davis and Bertha Fulton
were out driving when the bolt that at
taches the shafts to the buggy came out
and allowed the shafts to drop down, the
momentum of which caused it to run off
in fill and the young ladies were thrown
violently to the ground. They were all
painfully injured, but not seriously.
The Clarke county dispensary commits
sioners have decided to sell whisky by the
half pint hereafter. This change was
made after a careful consideration of the
question, believing that it would lessen
consumption of whisky. The new COM
misioners have decided to sell some high
grade WHISTLES at the dispensary and also
10 fix up the premises in better style.
On Saturday night at williamson the
residence of VIII Blake was destroyed by
fire together with most of its contents.
When discovered the fire had made such
Roadway that it was with difficulty that
the family got out safely. The fire is
supposed to have been caused by rats and
matches, as it caught high up in one
of the walls. His loss was 81 200 or 81, 800
on which he had an insurance of 5000.
The compress hands at Rome have
struck again. 1t will be remembered that
they quit two weeks ago on account of
the reduction of their wages from 81 to so
cents a day in some cases, and from $3.50
TO S1.25 a day in others. They went back
to work, but Monday morning when the
whistle blew failed to show up. They
claim that they were paid Saturday night
at the cut rate, and that they viii not
work for that.
A man who gives his name as Jim San
fords was arrested near Royston Friday
morning for attempting to burglarize
Brown Bros store Thursday night. When
arrested he had fun set of burglars
tools, and on his person was found about
S55, mostly gold. He is about 81 years old,
weighs l45 pounds and about five feet five
inches high. He was carrying railroad
maps of Georgia and Alabama. He says
his home is in Canada, but, from papers
found on his person, he is doubtless from
Nebraska.
Inc SCIOOl CnllufGn OF macon ana blDD
county viii see the Dixie fair and they
will have three whole days in which to
take iii the big exposition. This matter
was decided at a meeting of the board of
education held Monday night, the reso-
luton as adopted being to close the public
schools on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 1
and ?. Supt. Abbott reported to the board
the exact number of children enrolled in
the Macon and suburban public schools
up to date which is just AIS This is an
increase of 300 over same date last year.
Speaker Crisp addressed one Of the
largest gatherings of democrats at Ella
Ville Monday ever assembled in that
county. Judge Fish adjourned the Su-
perior court that all might hear the dis
tinguished speaker, and soon the court
house was filled to it's utmost capacity,
while scores of others stood outside, un-
able to gain admission. Judge Crlsp's
speech abounded in genuine democratic
doctrine and created a fine impression.
1t was declared by many the best speech
ever made in Southwest Georgia, and one
calculated to do great good.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The case OF
Ed Walker. the negro who shot and killed
woman on the Kyle plantation about a
month ago and was acquitted upon the
grounds Of it having been accidental is as.
Stunning new color. Tuesday it was in
Yestigated by Justice Leonard, who decf.
der, is sufficient to obligate further in.
quiry and the negro was accordinly com.
mitted to jail TO await investigation by
the grand jury. This case wakes decided
ly interesting. AS will be remembered
there were no eye witnesses to the shoot
ing. and the coroner's jury returned q
verdict of accidental homicide Now
however. it looks as if he may be indicted
for murder.
A station called Crest has been estab
lished on top of Pine mountain, ovei
which the Macon and Birmingham passes
The point at which the station is located
Is sMty-hYe miles from Macon, and tn,
elevation is 700 feet above sea level
There are five springs on the mountain
The gin, ginhouse, cotton press and ma
chinery OF T. J. Warren, Jr.. and abou
thirty bales Of cotton belonging to War
rens customers were totally dcstroye,
by fire Saturday night about seven mile,
from Eiberton. 1t was the work Of an in
cendiary George Crawford a youn,
white man, WIS arrested and placed a.
Jail by Sheriff Joseph ]. Chandler Sunday