The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
News Of. the Two States Told in Para
graphs.

A Man With Mania for Jumping Into
Wells While Under the influence of
Liquor - Further Echoes From the
Storm in FIorida-Two Boilers Ex-
plode at Kings Ferry.
GEORGIA.
Hon. Thomas Z. Watson will speak in
Tennille on the 10Th.
DR.. ]. B. Edge of Perry will be an ap-
plicant for the position of principal ply
stefan of the state penitentiary. under the
new democratic administration of Geor-
gia.
Since April last the county treasurer Of
Houston has received from the Georgia
Southern and Florida railroad $1,025.39,
and S1,494.33, taxes for the years 1892 and
1888.
w. Z. Hawkins will begin at once the
erection of a very handsome residence on
College street. near his fathers home ut
Americas. The house will be two sto-
ries, and will be among the handsomest
in the city.
The Augusta football team is not in as
encouraging condition as it was this time
last year. Many of the old club are anx-
ious for the team to be reorganlzed, but
the difficulty of securing a practice ground
is the main drawback to complete organ
ization. The ball park so the boys think, is
held at a price too high for them to pay.
Dalton Citizen: VIII Denton is in re-
ceipt of a letter from a merchant in Ala
bama inclosing a IS dill on the Merchants
and Mechanics Bank of Dalton, asking
him to collect, take out his commission,
and return balance. The bill is one of the
$4,000 worth forged on his bank 80 years
ago. James Morris vas the president and
suffered considerable loss by the forgery.
The indications are that Rev. Lansing
Burrows of Augusta will be called to the
pastorate of the First Baptist church of
Macon. Rev. George BraNton Taylor,
who has been in charge of the church for,
the past three years, has resigned, to
leave Macon, and his resignation has
been accepted by the congre cation. DIR.
Burrows is now in Macon, where he went
in response to an invitation to make an
address.
Judge Roney, in chambers at Augusta
Thursday, issued an order restraining
Mrs. kirkpatrick from disposing of any
of her property. The order also restraints
]. r. Lamar from disposing of any of his
property. Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mr.. La
mar are joint bondsmen for the admins
traitor of the Kirkpatrick estate, f. w.
Capers The restraining order is precp-
itated by a claim against the estate by
the administrator.
oliver Head, late foreman of the cot
ton factory at Gainesville on last Friday
evening, when under the influence of
whisky, jumped into an old, unused well,
nearly 100 feet deep, out on Athens street,
near what is known as Last Chance"
and came very near killing himself. Some
persons who were present, when he
jumped in, let down rope which they
persuaded him to tie around his body
and on drawing him up, when near the
surface in some way the rope slipped
and he fell to the bottom again. This
time he was hurt so badly that man had
to go down to tie the rope around him
When brought out, it was found that he
had one leg broken and few ugly bruises
and gashes. His leg was amputated be-
tween the knee and ankle last Saturday
1t seems that his is one Of those peculiar
cases of mental arrangement that puzzles
the most astute psychologist. This is the
NTH or six time that this man has
thrown himself into wells, while under
the influence of liquor. Once or twice in
North Carolina, from whence he came to
this state; once or twice in Atlanta from
whence he came to work as foreman of
the spindle department of the cotton fac
tory at Gainesville. 1t seems that when
ever he took on a little too much of the
ardent his impulse was to jump into
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